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Hi. This is an artblog that's almost 100% fanart of whatever long fixation I'm currently at ;) Please do NOT repost my art! Also author of #petvengers silliness :B
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Eridian kindergartners may be strong and VERY enthusiastic but they don't have that much stamina

and oh nooooo Rocky in a ball. Rocky can not help at aaaaaall ~~~~

previous instances of adventures of babysitter Grace [first comic] [second comic]

leave me suggestions and there might be a 4th installment in this series ;)

in this little bonus comic Grace levelled up from little science lapdog to full sized sled dog ;)

Eridian kindergartners may be strong and VERY enthusiastic but they don't have that much stamina

and oh nooooo Rocky in a ball. Rocky can not help at aaaaaall ~~~~

previous instances of adventures of babysitter Grace [first comic] [second comic]

leave me suggestions and there might be a 4th installment in this series ;)

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So while Project Hail Mary was super secret the secrecy only could possibly last until they started assembling her in orbit next to ISS. Especially the movie! Mary which is gigantic compared to the book one. Probably roughly ISS size sans solar panels? idk

Anyway with that the jig would be up because the whole thing would be visible from the earth surface. Not super easy because it's moving fast but doable.

So knowing that they would have to inform the people in advance. and they clearly did because we can see some cameras and world flags in the room they ask Grace to go. Regular press conferences or most likely just official statements were probably quite frequent by the end.

but just informing the public about the wild and very pricey shit they are about to pull is a baaaaad idea without explaining why and how it will totally work in detail

luckily they have a professional science educator on site ;)

except sticking Grace in a very official role in front of cameras is baaaaad idea. dude is charming and good at his work but also probably would

  • a freak out at the official ness of the role
  • the PR department would not be happy
  • he is busy with so many other thigs
  • the PR department would NOT be happy
  • not sure if he remembers just which level of top secretness what parts of the project actually are
  • the PR department would be on fire

so the solution was to send documents to proffesional-proffesional science educators that are proffesional at being in front of camera

but also ask Grace to record some quick videos explaining everything, giving some ideas etc because it's easier to digest for proffesional-proffesional science educators than heavily redacted files and it's also easier to redact

so what I'm trying to say here is that there is a series of educational video sketches that Grace recorded late nights within like a week where he definiatey

  • used handmade sock puppets
  • declared he wants to be muppet fox
  • generalny explains everything assuming it will be a puppet show or animation makeig his own props from scraps
  • used Stratt's "What is Project Hail Mary" PowerPoint while badly acting her no-nonsense approach
  • at least 1/3 of the unedited videos is him falling asleep in front of his laptop camera
  • pulled so much mad-scirntist-that-havent-slept-in-48-hours rizz

Most of the videos would be released to public after launch as PR campaign. Because they had whole PR campaign on the astronauts and the backups.

And those silly videos were the only way Stratt could trick Grace into doing his own promo materials without him realizing. The same way she did with his astronaut training.

Hey op what the FUCK are these tags-

look me in the eye and tell me Grace isn't the nicest and sweetest and most helpful little sacrificial lamb to ever sacrifice

mostly by the power of Grace's own denial xD

ok sorry you summoned the babble now but seriously I've read the book after seeing the movie and while in the movie you can get a bit of the impression Grace is just some guy that got there by poor chance of bad luck of eh will do without training

but the book. oh the book has a space and subtlety of a steel pipe to the face to show in detail that had he ever volunteered he would be 1 choice from the get go. it kinda reads like a horror story in a way with the noose getting slowly tighter around his neck while he is all happy to help all these wonderful smarter people solve the proplems

like one of those characters you want to grab by the shoulders and shake like stop being even more useful and perfect for the role

and the astronaut training I meant there is the pool thing. movie!Grace is adamant he haven't even done it while book! Grace had a sudden paragraph apropos of nothing of not only doing the pool thing

that denial master was stoked he was doing the pool thing in an actual NASA pool with the 1:1 scale ISS behind him where actual real astronauts trained

(you are actually just now learning how to be actual real astronaut you dumbass!)

but that's not all. oh no. in that scene he is testing and perfecting the equipment so later he can teach Dubois and Shapiro how to use it

oh yeah master that shit and be the #1 expert in another thing. sure. +1 to actual invaluableness. sure that won't come back and bite you in the ass

so yeah. I've got feels about this scene

and also this scene goes fluently to Dubois and Shapiro failing at inviting him to threesome

and I was like uhuh. everybody is right. that man is so aroace. and I have a lot of feels about that also

So while Project Hail Mary was super secret the secrecy only could possibly last until they started assembling her in orbit next to ISS. Especially the movie! Mary which is gigantic compared to the book one. Probably roughly ISS size sans solar panels? idk

Anyway with that the jig would be up because the whole thing would be visible from the earth surface. Not super easy because it's moving fast but doable.

So knowing that they would have to inform the people in advance. and they clearly did because we can see some cameras and world flags in the room they ask Grace to go. Regular press conferences or most likely just official statements were probably quite frequent by the end.

but just informing the public about the wild and very pricey shit they are about to pull is a baaaaad idea without explaining why and how it will totally work in detail

luckily they have a professional science educator on site ;)

except sticking Grace in a very official role in front of cameras is baaaaad idea. dude is charming and good at his work but also probably would

  • a freak out at the official ness of the role
  • the PR department would not be happy
  • he is busy with so many other thigs
  • the PR department would NOT be happy
  • not sure if he remembers just which level of top secretness what parts of the project actually are
  • the PR department would be on fire

so the solution was to send documents to proffesional-proffesional science educators that are proffesional at being in front of camera

but also ask Grace to record some quick videos explaining everything, giving some ideas etc because it's easier to digest for proffesional-proffesional science educators than heavily redacted files and it's also easier to redact

so what I'm trying to say here is that there is a series of educational video sketches that Grace recorded late nights within like a week where he definiatey

  • used handmade sock puppets
  • declared he wants to be muppet fox
  • generalny explains everything assuming it will be a puppet show or animation makeig his own props from scraps
  • used Stratt's "What is Project Hail Mary" PowerPoint while badly acting her no-nonsense approach
  • at least 1/3 of the unedited videos is him falling asleep in front of his laptop camera
  • pulled so much mad-scirntist-that-havent-slept-in-48-hours rizz

Most of the videos would be released to public after launch as PR campaign. Because they had whole PR campaign on the astronauts and the backups.

And those silly videos were the only way Stratt could trick Grace into doing his own promo materials without him realizing. The same way she did with his astronaut training.

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Imagine if Grace went full Elementary School Teacher and started to give out stickers to the pebbles. Rocky would have to help design them so the pebbles could see them but could you imagine the cacophony they'd make when they receive them?

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I'm so sorry I just got back to your message because oh my god! you are brilliant!

they can't have regular stickers but the raised puffy ones would work and I just have an idea for continuation of that comic :3

such a wonderful dumb as fuck idea you just gave me >:3

thank you! and you are now cursed to feel responsible for the next comic ;} (whenever that will happen because I'm still melting and generally draw super slow😣)

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so i planned this comic out

it's going to be great 😎

opinion on strawberries?

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🤤

though to give bit more of an answer I actually haven't bought strawberries in ages. hard to find ones that are actually tasting like actual non watery strawberries 😭😭😭

Imagine if Grace went full Elementary School Teacher and started to give out stickers to the pebbles. Rocky would have to help design them so the pebbles could see them but could you imagine the cacophony they'd make when they receive them?

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I'm so sorry I just got back to your message because oh my god! you are brilliant!

they can't have regular stickers but the raised puffy ones would work and I just have an idea for continuation of that comic :3

such a wonderful dumb as fuck idea you just gave me >:3

thank you! and you are now cursed to feel responsible for the next comic ;} (whenever that will happen because I'm still melting and generally draw super slow😣)

I love Gosling assigned fursona for Grace. We would have golden retrievered that man to heck otherwise ;)

Though I'm all for German Shepherd for Stratt. Not because rough police dog blahblah bullshit they are actually lovely dogs. But they are shepherds. So if they decide something is their responsibility then it's THEIR responsibility. and all of the world will be herded accordingly.

Also I just love that they made her from eastern Germany in the movie. That actually adds so many layers and I'd love have that explored more so much *grabby hands*

psst, hey, your art is the banner for the project hail mary tag!! well done!!! :D

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omg o. o

I mean I think those are randomized a bit but

buuuuut

you made me look o. o

I thought that after 2 days of migraine "fun" that I've been offline the fame would be long gone but nope. Nuh huh.

Jesus heckin Christ 😱😱😱🥹🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭😭😭

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the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)

I was curious about the math on this because... they're made from rocks and their atmosphere is way higher pressure than ours. But I think the math works out!!

oh my god thank you so much for doing the actual math about it 🥹🥹🥹🥹 it is so important for me to know the pebbles can actually float!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

like seriously I thought it was a silly little comic that won't get much attention so I decided to feel a little guilty and force myself to handwave the science for that cartoon cuteness sake. now that it got A LOT of attention I was seriously starting getting worried 😅

but now I can bask in the vision of Pebbles just being accidentally gifted the biggest bouncy castle on the planet xD (I know they won't be able to bounce like that either. best they would get is like reverse cannon ball? with the help of Grace but screw it lol) that poor Grace as the only bouyant guy in 16 light years radius has to fish them out of ;P

oh that's one hell of a jump scare O.O

thanks project hail Mary for trending for 2 months straight I guess o.o

now I'm already overwhelmed and kinda afraid to open the notes. I know they will be nice because this fandom is nice af

I'm just...

it took me way too much time to draw and I thought fandom will die down a bit by now and I like really had to fight myself because idk if the baby eridians would even float and I'm already fighting uphill battle to draw . I'm not doing math about a silly cute comic

and they wouldn't even really bounce it's just too tempting and cute to envision Grace accidentally giving them the biggest bouncy castle ever. and then having to fish them all out since he is the only bouyant idiot in 16 light years radius and pebbles don't have much traction on water in their hamster space balls

and idk if the science babble makes sense beyond mass and weight are not the same thing lol and probably 100 other science things wrong

and I was like rule of cute overrules the pesky little things like physics but now I'm getting overwhelmed

I guess the tactic to post very late at night to be done with it and then going to sleep so I won't check notes and stress myself out has weird side effects in edge cases xD

and then I got busy sooo

yeah

I'll go read through the notes and probably cry a little. thank you for enjoying my silliness this much 🥹🥹🥹🥹