my world's on fire, how 'bout yours?
(x)

No title available
Not today Justin
styofa doing anything
No title available
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Sade Olutola
wallacepolsom
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

tannertan36
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

Janaina Medeiros
DEAR READER

titsay
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Mike Driver
Monterey Bay Aquarium

seen from Germany
seen from United States

seen from Poland
seen from T1

seen from United States

seen from Germany
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from South Korea

seen from Malaysia
seen from Ireland
seen from Japan
seen from Iraq

seen from Belgium

seen from United States

seen from Italy

seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom

seen from Italy

seen from Malaysia
@vimvoid
my world's on fire, how 'bout yours?
(x)
Grace can’t remember the word skillet because of the coma
A continuation of Bloodymary as [REDACTED]
I’ll finish whole thing tomorrow
BloodyMary where Simon wakes up on the Hail Mary before Grace.
Like, the universe blinks and some space/time phenomenon runs afoul of Simon's elder god moment and the next thing he knows, he's waking up inside some kind of space ship(?) that appears to be running on autopilot.
It's weird and the tech looks both dated and brand new, expensive and advanced but also extremely retro, like someone using a diamond-encrusted rotary phone to check their emails. Luckily it's all mostly in language that Simon can comprehend, unluckily a lot of the equipment still seems like it would require several degrees of expertise to operate. But eventually Simon figures out enough to find the ship's crew, and... it's not looking good for them.
Two of them are dead. Have been for a while. Whatever stasis system(?) they have has preserved the corpses pretty well, but it's past the point of being able to try and revive them. The other is still alive, but Simon's not sure how to safely wake him up or what to do if that starts to change. He decides to just keep an eye on the situation, presumably there's a system that will wake the guy up whenever the ship reaches its destination, and if he starts to look bad before that point then Simon can always try to manually revive him and hope for the best.
Anyway, the ship has medicine and supplies, which he desperately needs. He figures the other two crewmen weren't planning on dying, so they can probably spare enough of said supplies for him. He figures out the AI well enough to start asking questions and eventually puts together that he's time traveled(?) or crossed into another dimension, that this ship is on a mission to figure out why the stars are going dim, or rather why there's one star that isn't, and he's not sure what to make of it but it seems he's also landed on another one-way trip.
When Grace wakes up, confused and without his memories, Simon panics and because Grace assumes he must've been part of the crew he just... goes with that. Grace thinks that he woke up from stasis early and that his weirdness is a result of isolation. He's a little surprised that there's an amputee aboard but it would be insensitive to ask, right? Not that a one-armed guy can't be an astronaut, yeah? Although Simon is also weirdly cagey about what his specialty is supposed to be and seems vague on the mission too, Grace assumes his memory also suffered some kind of an issue from being in stasis, he's just glad he's not alone.
Then they run into Blip-A and they're even more not alone, Rocky moves in, everyone does science, Simon still doesn't really seem to have an area of expertise per se, Grace keeps waiting to remember the part where Simon joined the mission (he's sure he'd remember him), Simon's kind of sweating bullets still wondering how he's supposed to explain anything, and then the whole fishing trip on Adrian goes pear-shaped and Simon uses like. Eldritch blood magic...?
Grace is having trouble computing that but he definitely saw it. So. Guess that explains why he's on the mission, if someone found a literal space wizard they would want them on the Mankind-saving mission, if ever there was a time for some kind of secret cult society of wizards living under the radar to come out in the open it would be now, yeah. But Grace can also see where explaining that to an amnesiac would be awkward and seem too hard to believe.
He has connected the dots!
Anyway he doesn't really notice that his Simon Joins the Mission and Reveals Wizards memories never arrive, he's too distracted by the revelation that Stratt forced him to go on the mission and he didn't volunteer, and then there's the whole issue with the taumoeba breaking containment and turning back to rescue Rocky and save Erid, which they both agree to do. By that point Simon has established himself as a presence in Grace's mind and Grace no longer considers him that much of a mystery to be solved (Simon's abilities are, Simon himself is not), whenever Simon lets slip something about like, competing for food or being in prison or in a cult, Grace just assumes he himself was pretty sheltered from how bad the situation on Earth was getting due to being in the Project Hail Mary bubble, and is like yeah okay Stratt double fair play to you, I didn't realize it was getting quite so Mad Max out there.
Now up until this point, Simon has done a good job of staying out of Grace's logs. Grace has mentioned him but in such a way that everyone on Earth probably thinks he's hallucinated an imaginary friend in the isolation and stress, like well damn he's cracked but at least the science seems sound.
Yes sure Dr Ryland Grace, your good friend Simon the One-Armed Blood Wizard is up there with you and the aliens, and for that matter so are all of us in spirit. Godspeed and thank you for your noble sacrifice.
Grace himself thinks that Simon is making his own reports, but when they go to send the beetles he's like, no we should do one together to make it clear that we're both agreeing to this and have come to this decision as a team. At which point Simon is just like, well... okay? Still just kind of avoiding conflict by going with the path of least resistance. So he smiles and nods and waves at the camera, and is like Hello Earth, Simon the One-Armed Blood Wizard here. Um. Yeah I'm good with going back to save Rocky and Erid too. Best wishes, and all that.
Grace doesn't find out until they're on Erid and they get the first long distance transmission from Earth that essentially amounts to him discovering that not only did he make first contact with aliens, he also made first contact with interdimensional blood wizards.
According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.
Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"
Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.
Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.
I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny
so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.
it makes you a fruit.
I need to spread the propaganda GO MY PHM IRON LUNG GENLOSS CROSSOVER EDIT
furthest we've ever been
Me: "why don't I have the energy to write? Maybe I'm just a failure..."
The four hours of sleep and two packs of crackers that consist of all I've eaten of today:
FUCK THAT'S THE WRONG IMAGE
The secret to always having things go according to plan is to have multiple mutually exclusive plans which between them encompass the entire space of possible outcomes. That way, no matter what happens, it will be according to a plan.
When You Look at Dr. Grace
(part 1) part 2/2
When You Look at Dr. Grace
part 1/2 (part 2)
I'll finally be able to escape the blood ocean and curl up in Ryan Gosling's arms.
Okay but how fucking out of left field must that be for people who Don't Know. How many people are watching that video and going "I'm sorry Mr. Iplier can you repeat that?" Seriously I want to know--
explodes them with my mind
MORE TREE SIMON
It's really fun figuring out what he looks like and how all of it works. I'm just playing around but I am settling on a design I'm pretty happy with :D
Now the question is does he need blood or blood like stuff to survive or maintain a healthy hemostasis now that he's a sorta tree but also has the body horror aspect that the blood ocean gives thing? Hmmmm
I wonder how excited the Eridian scientists were to figure this stuff out and was it Simon that wanted to know? Grace? There's certainly a lot of things to think about... hehe
BloodyMary YouTube Stars AU
Grace and Simon are living in the bio dome.
Somehow Grace and the Eridians establish a connection to Earth. Like extream wifi lmao.
This started as a way to exchange information between Erid and Earth (science, culture, anything and everything)
Grace does a pen pal style video with his class on Erid with some of his former students from Earth. They're much older now, but they tell the eridian students about their favorite experiments and memories from their childhood.
Cue Grace doing Bill Nye style videos with his students to send back to Earth.
Teachers EVERYWHERE are playing Ryland Grace: Science from Space!
Rocky is in some of them, but its mainly Grace's students as his lab assistants ✨️
In the middle of all this, Earth sent a digital care package with movies, shows, and a few games. They send a few indie games because of the shitty bandwidth.
Grace plays a few of them with Simon and LOVES Simon's reactions. They end up sending a video back to Earth of them playing one of the horror games. (They were both babies very brave)
With encouragement from Grace, Simon started playing a few on his own. Recording his play throughs and sending the videos to Earth.
Eel Tree simon getting jumpscared by an animatronic bear goes viral.
Suddenly PHM has a whole department dedicated to just communication and distribution of Grace and Simon's videos. One person's job is just finding games to send to Simon lmao.
Marsiplire
They can see and interact to the comments on their respective videos :3 (heavily moderated by PHM)
They don't know about the people who thirst after them, nor the people who ship them (me to both)
Grace cries when he realizes he's able to shape young minds on two planets.
Simon likes horror because it's not real. He's scared in the moment, but knows when he steps away from the screen the horrors stop.
Still cuddles with grace after some more intense games tho 💖
How Bloodymary works in my head