Ryland Graceful

Insane about Project Hail Mary

[wirybug]

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[regonym]

Ryland Grace: 🐐

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[foralittlewile]

I really do think that to Eridians, the most alien thing about us is our obsession with space.

Space (and stars) are a much newer concept to Erid, at least relative to us. They cannot perceive stars. They can't even see their own sky.

And then here we are, utterly obsessed. The number of songs, movies, and TV shows that reference stars, the moon, our sun, it's light, astronauts, space — we can hardly go five minutes without bringing up at least one of those things. NONE of them are things Eridians have an established affinity for; to them, they're scientific concepts, and that's pretty much it.

And yet, stars are one of the first things our kids learn how to draw. We have a specific name for the connections we trace between them, and those constellations have been built into thousands of years of our history. We fought a proxy war based on who could get to them the fastest. I absolutely believe that, to Erid, this would be our defining characteristic above and beyond anything else.

It's almost cliché. How thematically on point it must be from their perspective, that an alien from a species so in love with the stars was the one to show up and save theirs.

[ryelandgrace]

Imagine for a second that you're an interstellar microorganism. I'm not doing that.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

[wirybug]

we printed grace and rocky!!

(grace model source / rocky model source)

[imadoctornotanescalator]

PHM Textposts pt -???

[thefloatingstone]

Long term injury

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Something about Rocky's enthusiasm to move in with Grace and be around Grace and his "I see Grace!! :D" makes me wanna bawl my eyes out a little

[ratta1l]

i am 100% reading too deep into a line that probably didn't mean this and i am ok with that

im so enthralled with the "i put the not in astronaut!" line because it means the exact opposite of what he's saying. because he's also saying "i put the naut in astronaut!"

"naut" means traveler. grace puts the travel in space travel. he puts the voyage in the mission. because instead of stopping at a dead end, he turns and he keeps going on and he finds a destination

out of every single person involved with the mission he IS the one who puts the naut in astronaut

[augustellar]

(Prompt submission) Grace's Eridian doctors are large animal veterinarians. There are some awkward adjustment periods.

THIS 🤣🤣 imagining the absolutely bonkers kinds of eridians that must have been yoinked from their jobs to suddenly be in charge of keeping the FIRST SAPIENT ALIEN EVER alive brings me cackling-maniacally levels of glee. yes, please tell me more about the eridian lab tech who does the boring, monotonous cataloguing of bacterial glycosyltransferase enzymes suddenly having their space phone BLOWING UP. random eridian who's job is just. feeding and wrestling the big terrestrial predators at the zoo into taking their meds is suddenly missing from work, later found to be kidnapped and taken to Eridian WHO headquarters with new job of putting pills in peanut butter for rocky's new alien pal. thank you thank you!

[normal-creature]

op your tags pass peer review

[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[somepomegranatetea]

glad to see we're all on the same page

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[ya-boi-haru]

Say what you want, but Grace adding, "people are hooking up" to the list of 'odd things to do at an already weird party' is the most Ace thing he could've said-

[nekmunnit]

Getting ready for a play date

[wirybug]

wondering about eridian death and funeral customs. with a predominantly inorganic body, a corpse won't externally decompose like a human. it's not clear whether eridians can perceive each other's internal functions or not, but they become so dormant when they sleep that it seems like it would at least be difficult to tell for sure the difference between sleeping and dead. so the corpse will continue to seem pretty much like a sleeping eridian, almost indefinitely.

do they put the body on display as its own memorial? do they give it a permanent place in the family home like they're still alive? maybe the carapace is broken up into parts and kept by the mourners as mementos?

or maybe the fact that a dead body appears indistinguishable from a live one means that they consider the remains worthless - the thing that changes at death is not perceptible, and so what's left behind has nothing to do with the person it used to be. still, a body that won't decompose has to be disposed of somehow and will take up space. maybe there are collective, utilitarian graves for efficiency, treated with no more significance than landfill sites? maybe the inorganic components are reclaimed for their uses in food, medicine, or manufacturing?

or maybe a corpse is even considered a trick or a lie, something pretending to be a person but without life. maybe the body is ritualistically destroyed or disfigured to make sure it can't possibly be mistaken for a sleeping eridian? maybe the very first thing that must be done when someone dies is to add specific carvings all over their carapace to identify them as dead?

life on erid originated in the upper atmosphere, maybe instead of cremation they pulverise bodies and eject the particulates back into the air where they came from? or maybe they're scattered into the sea, or mixed into construction materials for the family home?

maybe the decomposition of the organic organs causes so much pressure to build up in the closed internal systems that the carapace cracks or explodes shortly after death, like a beached whale carcass. maybe a dead body is actually a highly dangerous hazard that has to be immediately mechanically destroyed to protect anyone around it? maybe the eridian version of embalming means violently extracting the organic parts, and leaving behind the inert shell? maybe the mourners eat the organic parts in that process?

[wirybug]

I'm partial to a combination of these ideas. I really like the exploding carapace possibility because I think it provides a fascinating alternative to the reasons dead bodies are hazardous to humans. we have to dispose of the dead because of the risk of disease and scavengers - eridians have to dispose of the dead because of the risk of sudden massive structural damage and injury.

so I think in primitive history they would have simply had to move the dead far away from the colony as soon as possible (probably to collective waste sites for efficiency and convenience, much like ants). and then as their society developed they would have started embalming by mechanically cleaning out the organic parts, or at least breaching the caparace to relieve internal pressure.

and I think today there would be variation in preferences among different cultures, families, and individuals. some pulverise them to scatter, some keep them intact as memorials, some distribute parts among the mourners.

[wirybug]

wondering about eridian death and funeral customs. with a predominantly inorganic body, a corpse won't externally decompose like a human. it's not clear whether eridians can perceive each other's internal functions or not, but they become so dormant when they sleep that it seems like it would at least be difficult to tell for sure the difference between sleeping and dead. so the corpse will continue to seem pretty much like a sleeping eridian, almost indefinitely.

do they put the body on display as its own memorial? do they give it a permanent place in the family home like they're still alive? maybe the carapace is broken up into parts and kept by the mourners as mementos?

or maybe the fact that a dead body appears indistinguishable from a live one means that they consider the remains worthless - the thing that changes at death is not perceptible, and so what's left behind has nothing to do with the person it used to be. still, a body that won't decompose has to be disposed of somehow and will take up space. maybe there are collective, utilitarian graves for efficiency, treated with no more significance than landfill sites? maybe the inorganic components are reclaimed for their uses in food, medicine, or manufacturing?

or maybe a corpse is even considered a trick or a lie, something pretending to be a person but without life. maybe the body is ritualistically destroyed or disfigured to make sure it can't possibly be mistaken for a sleeping eridian? maybe the very first thing that must be done when someone dies is to add specific carvings all over their carapace to identify them as dead?

life on erid originated in the upper atmosphere, maybe instead of cremation they pulverise bodies and eject the particulates back into the air where they came from? or maybe they're scattered into the sea, or mixed into construction materials for the family home?

maybe the decomposition of the organic organs causes so much pressure to build up in the closed internal systems that the carapace cracks or explodes shortly after death, like a beached whale carcass. maybe a dead body is actually a highly dangerous hazard that has to be immediately mechanically destroyed to protect anyone around it? maybe the eridian version of embalming means violently extracting the organic parts, and leaving behind the inert shell? maybe the mourners eat the organic parts in that process?

[sandinthepipes]

I feel like the biome dome should end right at the edge of Grace's bedroom. You cannot tell me rocky watched grace sleep for years waiting for him to wake up, and then was like "yeah sure, here's you're private house where you'll sleep alone".

My rock baby would go fucking mental until Adrian caved and went "here's our new house, half eridian, half Dome, our bedrooms are adjacent so you can sleep with your head right next to grace"

[dualumina]

@fragments-and-fractals-reblogs this is just peak enrichment for a guy stuck in a dome okay

[manyblinkinglights]

#listen my headcanon is they legit did try the “Grace sleeps alone” thing#and that lasted up until Grace developed Double Gravity Sleep Apnea#and now there's completely no way Rocky will ever let him sleep unobserved again#“I tried one time and you stopped. breathing.”