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When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

#project hail mary #ryland grace #carl project hail mary #fanart #fan comic

A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

Also fun fact, while drawing Man of war by Radiohead started randomly playing which i think is very veru fitting for this

#ryland grace #project hail mary #phm

autisticlittleguy

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

autisticlittleguy

This isnt better from Grace's perspective btw. Eridians never developed computers, so all their ship systems are steered using basically the manual labor of 24 Eridians. Also theres no radiation shielding on their ship. Actually im pretty sure half the reason why Rocky is always busy fixing shit is because the radiation keeps frying all the onboard electronics, so hes always building and fixing and replacing components

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

Both of them thinks the other one is the completely ridiculous and absurd one and theyre both totally amazed at how far the other has come in spite of it

#project hail mary #rocky the eridian #rocky phm #ryland grace

teaboot

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

teaboot

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

teaboot

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

#theres a magnus archives episode about this

sophia42888

Surfaced!! Yippee!! 🩸✨️💀

Simon you are so fun to draw sorry you got put through the horrors again 💖💖

#simon iron lung #iron lung

I drew Simon

#iron lung #iron lung movie #iron lung fanart #simon iron lung #markiplier #i posted this on twitter but I'm posting here too #my art

catcrumb

processintegrated

abeedus

Late night reading.

#project hail mary #iron lung #ryland grace #simon the convict #simon the butcher #bloodymary

kidzbopdeathgrips

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

kidzbopdeathgrips

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

kidzbopdeathgrips

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

iamonlyperson

full explanation of the ripped arm for those who are interested

atxfx

#markiplier #iron lung movie #iron lung spoilers #iron lung behind #iron lung

i need fellow ao3 authors to remember that they can just orphan their fics. no one will know you wrote it, only those who read it before you orphaned it.

for the love of preservation, just orphan them!! ao3 is an archive. there are people out there who go back to reread your works because it sticks with them. and even if you don't think its good, there are plenty of people out there who love the damn thing. so again, please just orphan your fics if you don't want them tied to you anymore.

or alternatively, if you're worried about bot scraping, you could just set the fic to "registered users only" and that should prevent it from being scraped for ai bc as far as i know, you still need an invite to make an ao3 account.

#ao3 #archive of our own #i've been seeing so many works get taken down or mystery work-ed recently #idk what's going on but it's seriously starting to scare me

one of my favorite fallout ao3 fics just got mystery work-ed. if anyone has a pdf download of it, its called "Thy Faith Fail Not" by softmoth, and i think they nuked their account or something bc i can't find them on ao3 anymore.