🌱 Adrian

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Project Hail Mary

Dragon Ball

The Stormight Archives

Dispatch

Disco Elysium

Hannibal

Vinland Saga

Send me asks or art/fic requests for any of the fandoms on the list!

Certainly :) Hope you like

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And maybe a Kineema stamp?:) (You don’t have to do all/any of them I’m just giving a few ideas!)

Sure! Thanks for the ask, anon. I decided to do the Disco Elysium ones. Hope you like them :)

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It surprised me, because when I watched the movie, I was just like, damn he was a coward at first, I didn't expect that. I also didn't even give thought to if Stratt was evil or not because to me it seemed like a clear cut "she doesn't want to do this but it's the only way to have a real chance of saving Earth" thing.

I expected Ryland's cowardice to come up again in the movie, like as guilt or a still existing problem to overcome, but it didn't.

The weird thing to me is that my initial reaction was to cringe at Grace's cowardice, but it seems the more common reaction is purely to feel bad for him and think it's acceptable to say no.

It'd make more sense to me to see Grace in a nuanced way, where he is both a victim in this situation and a coward for refusing to do the earth-saving mission. And with Eva, she decided to take away Grace's freedom/choice about the mission, and that's a horrible outcome, but it was absolutely the best thing to do, if saving Earth is the ultimate priority.

In that instance, Eva made the autonomy-violating but Earth-saving choice, and Ryland made the Earth-dooming but self-preserving choice.

So on that note, are there any blinkies y'all would like to see exist? Or stamps, I could try doing stamps. I'll tag some fandoms I'm in bellow, but if you have a any blinkie requests, send me an ask. I'm looking for ideas of what to make next :)

In the book he easily answers any questions he's asked without trepidation, whether it's a room full of students asking if the earth is gonna die or a room full of government officials asking if they can breed astrophage on a large scale.

I like that the movie made him a little cringefail and nervous instead of just quirky. It adds so much, to me.

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Things that are not explored at all in the movie:

Grace at the beginning of the movie was not brave. His bravery is an important character trait once he's in space, but before that, he decided that he'd rather 30% of the world die early than himself die early. The scene where he says no to the mission was surprising to me, cus in space, all we see him do is constantly face his fears for the sake of others. I was surprised that he started off deciding to doom a third of the planet for self preservation. He doesn't seem to struggle with whatever led him to that decision once he's in space. We don't see him grapple with guilt or cowardice or anything in space.

Stratt forced Grace into space because if the mission got postponed, it'd have to be postponed for thirty years for some reason? Okay, side tangent: Apparently Grace was the only back up they bothered to train? No other scientists dived into astrophage research since it's discovery? Anyways, Stratt forced Grace into space because (suspending my disbelief) it was the only way to save Earth. That deserved a bit of focus I think. Does she feel bad? Does Grace resent her for forcing him to go on the mission? Does Grace feel bad that his cowardice left her with only bad options?

I've been mulling over how to formulate my thoughts since I saw the movie. I love the movie, by the way, but these things stuck out to me as strange.

The way Grace got sent into space was wild and extreme and very morally dubious on all fronts, but it's not explored at all, it's just like yuuuup that happened.