garlicbender

IF YOU KNOW ME IRL GTFO!!!!! INFP (allegedly)/ Catholic cat-holic/ 22/Polish🇵🇱/ she/her | ona/jej /blocking blank blogs\ I AM stupid and I WILL act like it 😤 also btw I don't tag any spoilers ever

[xenalous]

Wyjątkowa zbiórka! Walka z czasem nigdy jeszcze nie była tak dramatyczna! Diagnoza przyszła zbyt późno, dlatego jesteśmy przerażeni! Nasza c

[xenalous]

Decided to pin this somehow anyway.

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

I haven't seen anyone do this yet and I think it is a painful void in the Project Hail Mary fandom. Guys. Put Grace in a space ball on Erid and have him break down Rocky's door and roll around knocking things over. Cmon guys.

"Wow Rock you live like this? Junk all over the floor and parts everywhere? Very messy."

"Rocky is not enjoying Grace's games, Statement."

[paksthestoic]

thinking about eva stratt crafting a coffin for her friends. the very best coffin, full of every piece of pirated media the entire world has to offer. crafted for maximum comfort, this coffin, with every bit of authority available to her, which is all of it.

and then thinking about all the people who call her cold or uncaring or clinical about what she has to do to save earth. eva stratt, who had silly t-shirts and vodka and favorite meals stored in the Hail Mary and treated with the same level of importance as the finely tuned equipment and the centrifuge the entire planet relies on for salvation.

and then thinking about eva stratt nodding and saying, “yeah, I’m pretty awful. that’s why i’m in charge” with a neutral expression and even believing it. as if crafting the most beautiful coffin and homage to her soon-to-be dead friends won’t haunt her always.

thinking about eva stratt being the first person on the “eva stratt is a monster” train, welcoming ryland grace aboard and knowing she believed in him more than anyone else.

it’s fine, really it’s fine and normal and eva stratt makes beautiful coffins for the people and things she cares about.

[thehmn]

Listening to Andy Weir talk about eridians is so funny because fans are always talking about Rocky and Adrian as these “soft” adorable aliens but Weir won’t ever let us forget that their species are apex predators on their planet. Not like humans who became apex predators by inventing weapons, but natural top of the foodchain like lions or polar bears. So far I haven’t found an interview where Weir explains who ate eridians in the ancient past that caused them to watch over each other while they slept; another predator species or rivaling eridians.

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.

[starrose17]

[parakeet]

got the bus back home today and it was my fav bus driver, he let me on for free. went to tap my card but he just said 'beep!' and was like on you go. lol. then he nearly ran a red light and slammed on the breaks, almost sending the gaggle of older ladies at the front careening to the ground. he had to slam on the breaks and jolt the whole bus a second time later in the route because of a rogue lollypop man who'd come out because of roadworks. one of the old ladies said 'am glad ave nae got any eggs! ha ha!' and everyone on the bus laughed jovially. kind of a sitcomesque bus journey

[aislinceivun]

farewell, but return again to your loved one, weeping here

[kolega9]

[coldswarkids]

when I’m checking out at the register and the cashier is clearly having a horrible day, I feel like I am under so much pressure to speak soooo gently and pleasantly. like I am handling a skittish and traumatized horse. here I am offering my credit card so efficiently. here is an apple from my palm

[guardianspirits13]

When a typeface you've banned for use on middle school science projects follows you lightyears away to an alien planet 🤦🏼‍♂️

Papyrus comes for us all, in the end.

[gaynaegis]

Its MY turn with the rockitz/swap au!!!

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[termagax]

when people specify that theyre sayibg guys or man or dude in a gender neutral way it makes it both more annoying and less neutral at the same time

[termagax]

like we are typing. you typed "guys" with your hands. paused. and went "this might seem exclusionary to the women following me." and instead of using a different word just decided to appened "(gender neutral)" to it?

[gawronka]

this ship can go two wildly different ways and i love both of them dearly

[hailed-marys]

could you imagine how excited both grace and rocky would be if grace needed his wisdom teeth removed on the ride back to erid and they could both just watch him take out his wisdom teeth. rocky asks to keep the teeth for chemical analysis and grace wholeheartedly agrees

[apeiron33]

Another one

[daedjaybird]

Oh the topic of Rocky being amazed at the human power for sight I love the thought of how human sight is so linked to movement.

Like- on the ship as Rocky’s waking up after sleeping he hasn’t moved yet and twitches one finger and Grace’s head is snapping up to look at him.

Or- Rocky will think Grace’s head is completely turned away and will try to sneak up on him but the smallest movement in Grace’s periphery will give him away.