Where The Dreamers Lay

Once made Adam Driver smile

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[dragoneyemysteries]

Grace being aroace, and Project Hail Mary's focus on platonic relationships, is so important to me, for so many reasons.

It's like. Project Hail Mary is a big, popular movie. It has fucking Ryan Gosling in it. And there's not a hint of a romance plotline anywhere! It's all entirely focused on platonic relationships. The friendship between Grace and Rocky is the focus of the movie, and it's so important to the story. They both found someone to be brave for, someone they were willing to die for. Without their friendship and collaboration, neither of them would have been able to save their home planets. Their bond is so close and special and above all their best friends, and it's beautiful.

There's also Grace's relationship with Stratt. Stratt is the main female supporting character. In any other story -- any other story -- I can almost guarantee she would've been the love interest. But she isn't and it's fucking wonderful. Just. Just think about it for a moment. Project Hail Mary is this big blockbuster movie -- and it looked at Eva Stratt and said, we're not going to make her the love interest, because she wasn't in the book and she doesn't need to be. Their dynamic is just as fucked up and wonderful and traumatic when they're friends. That's such an amazing thing to see in such a mainstream movie.

And, of course, it means so much to me that Grace is aroace and that the film (and the book) continuously point this out. He leaves the party when he sees people getting together. He's only had one girlfriend. Half the time he's wearing the colors of the aroace flag. (In the book, he's incredibly confused when people think he and Stratt are sleeping together).

Stratt uses his lack of romantic relationships as a justification for sending him to die, which is heartbreaking, and it felt so real. Because society is constantly telling aroace people that we're worth less because we won't date or get married or have sex, because we don't fit into societal norms. What Stratt said to Grace -- that's something the world is constantly telling us.

And then the movie flips that on its head. It says that it doesn't matter that Grace never had any of that, because he loved living and he loved his students and he was so full of love for everything around him. And he met his best friend in space and their friendship was what made them able to save their homes and each other.

It's just. In a world where there's hardly any aroace representation, having this much of it means so much to me.

[florealegiardini]

This wisteria drenched Manor House, outside Broadway, is the dream romantic Cotswolds getaway. ~ James Lloyd Cole

Broadway, Cotswolds, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

[oncillaphoenix]

i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."

[hudsonswilliams]

HUDCON WEEK 💜 DAY ONE, FAVORITE JOINT APPEARANCE

Vanity Fair Oscar Party

[connorstorriegifs]

Hudcon Week 2026 | Day 3: Favorite Outfit/Look | 🌈

[yonglixx]

cutie♡ Connor Storrie via Heated Rivalry Youtube.

[ilyrozanov]

Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams getting ready for the Met Gala 2026.

[mysillycomics]

[sobadbad]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.04

[dailyhudsonwilliams]

Hudson photographed by Bvlgari for the 2026 Met Gala (via bvlgari)

[experienceandobservation]

Connor Storrie | 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City | May 04, 2026

[sheisraging]

OH GOD?

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Hudcon At The Met Gala 2026

[connorhudsongifs]

the spirit of ilya rozanov etc etc

[dailyhudsonwilliams]

Hudson and Connor Met Gala bathroom selfie via Hudson on Threads

[xoruffitup]

The fact that this picture exists, that they both attended the Met Gala all of six months after their breakthrough roles, that they sought each other out so they could take this picture together JUST THEM. They didn't care to be crowded into a group selfie with a bunch of celebs--and you know plenty of people must have tried to grab them--they wanted this to be THEIR PRIVATE MOMENT JUST THE TWO OF THEM! Because they've come so far in such a dizzyingly short amount of time and THEY DID IT ALL TOGETHER <333 BRB CRYING IN HUDCON

[sheisraging]

Connor Storrie getting ready for the Met Gala (via GQ)