There is NO reason this should be so fucking funny
I’ve seen this before but I still like it so much that I held my phone in front of my dog so she could see it.
Pacific Coast Highway, May 1981
it’s so funny to me that the project hail mary fandom has seemed to collectively agree that rocky ends some of his statements with “statement” like he does with questions. it isn’t in canon anywhere as far as i can remember, book or movie. it’s explained in the book that adding “question” to the ends of questions is an eridian grammar rule, like how we have question marks. since it didn’t say anything about “statement,” i’d assume it adding “statement” to the end of a sentence would be incorrect eridian grammar. so why does rocky do it? this is what i imagine happened:
You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?
You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?
every emotional fandom post is written like this
oscar the grouch, who lived and loved in a trash can
oscar the grouch, who ate rotten bananas because he didn't have the self esteem to try for fresh ones
oscar the grouch, who pushed big bird away because his love burned as bright as the sun and oscar the grouch knew he was the moon
Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.