I don't even know

Stratt, standing in front of a room of Important People TM: What we are about to watch for the first time is recordings from the Project Hail Mary. These videos may very well save humanity. Press play.

Grace, on recording: I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT I’M DOING.

Voice from back of room: welp, we’re fucked, it was nice having life on Eath while it lasted.

Stratt: Please remain silent. I assure you he has this under control. He’s got this.

Grace, on recording: THE WAY IN WHICH I DON’T GOT THIS.

Grace, on recording: SO THERES THESE TWO DEAD BODIES IN HERE—

Stratt, who amnesticized him: Fuck.

I think people forget that Stratt amnesticized Grace with the goal that Ilyukina and Yao would be there to help him, y’know NOT DIE, and then THEY DIED before he woke up.

So like she gets the recordings and realizes Yao and Ilyukina are dead before he wakes up so he’s got no pilot, no engineer, and no memories.

And then you also have to remember that the EXISTENCE of these recordings and the fact they were accompanied by the Taumoeba means that an amnesticized Grace somehow managed to save earth without a pilot or engineer and shoddy memory that only vaguely gives him enough to work with as he works.

Like what the fuck man.

Grace sends this off as a "fuck you" to Stratt and unintentionally eases 40+ years of horrific guilt.

(40+ factoring in the Hail Mary mission, then the time it would take to get back to Erid and the time it would take for the message to get to Earth. Probably closer to 50+ actually).

(I do think Stratt felt bad. She did a lot of terrible things to save the planet, and obviously felt guilt for sending Grace off. I imagine the time waiting to hear back from the Hail Mary was torture for everyone, but she essentially sent three people off to their deaths, one unwillingly. Hearing that Grace made it out alive would be a huge weight off her shoulders.)

the project hail mary universe is one of the only ones out there where orpheus turning around actually saved eurydice btw

They make me sick btw

Some people on this website learnt the word “trope” and let it settle comfortably into the vocabulary space that should have been occupied by the word “cliché”.

“Trope” is a neutral word. If a particular trope is overused ad nauseam, it becomes a cliché. Saying you hate tropes does not make any sense.

“I hate recurring themes and motifs”

Well, good luck finding fictional content you can safely consume

"It's just so trope-y"

well I should hope so

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

tags by @yuanzhous

thinking about this bit from an article by Ann Druyan in 2003:

“i should take a walk for my mental health” boring, tired, i don’t even really wanna do it tbh

“i need to check the perimeter” i need to check the perimeter

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life

​fun fact: the way persistence predation typically ends is inducing hyperthermia in the prey. so its body begins to shut down and it physically cannot run away any more, but it doesn’t necessarily lose consciousness

and, i’m no biomechanics expert, but eridian locomotion seems incredibly thermally intensive. i expect prolonged physical effort would heat up rocky’s ACS until either it can’t create enough of a temperature differential to move his legs, or it starts to cook his worker cells. and this kills the eridian so there might be a biological mechanism to stop it, or maybe their body just tells their brain that they absolutely have to stop moving now.

so i don’t think rocky would fall asleep. i think either he would become physically unable to make his legs move, or his body would tell him “hey man, you need to stop moving or you will literally die”. either way, he’d probably be able to see (hear) grace approaching, and know that there’s no way for him to escape

opened my wip and didnt immediately write a thousand new beautiful and perfect words so i'm going to smash my laptop with a hammer

reblog this and put in the tags which capital cities you’ve been to

"But Tiz, Jason isn't wearing his helmet in the new com-" SSSHHHHhhhhh shut up I dont care he should wear it 🫵

my new unhinged biology fan theory comes from pondering made up sff fantasy swears in fic, bc fic doesn’t have to replace swears to get shown on tv or marketed to teenagers, and there is most definitely things like ‘shit’ and ‘fuck’ in every universe. but then i thought. no. let’s play this straight

there is no fucking in star wars

quigon: hey who was anakin’s father [partner you spent romantic time with in order to sop up exogenous DNA to produce genetically variable offspring]

shmi: oh I didn’t have one i just got pregnant one day

quigon: i see, accidental environmental acquisition. rare but not rare enough to be worth bringing up ever again

Figaro + 😾

Pinocchio (1940)