A Dream That's Worth Keeping

a day used to be 24hrs and cost $5 but nowadays a day only lasts 5hrs and they charge ya $20 just to live it. and you have to pay with an app

We are very Cleavage this season.

It's like all their backless dresses are on the wrong way. Everyone is showing off their epigastric regions this year.

a project hail mary sequel is only allowed if benoit blanc is on erid helping solve an eridian murder mystery. and no it is never explained how he got there

the irony of the betrayal scene is that grace has actually managed to have about half of his character arc by that point and the very fact that he's saying "no" demonstrates that he's getting closer to being the brave person stratt needs on her side, just not quite close enough. he's being firm to say he's not just gonna do whatever people ask of him and he's exhibiting vulnerability and trust in a personal relationship by believing that stratt will hear and respect his answer. let us not forget that this is the man who did Try to resist getting put in the argon death cube but ultimately rolled his eyes and went "ugh kinda bossy but whatever this is okay I guess" about it. his experiences on the petrova taskforce have made him an iota stronger, and I think that's part of what makes stratt so frustrated in that scene. the book "I don't want to die" and movie "you just can’t talk me into it" lines, representing taking ownership of his desires and an unwillingness to be passive to others' wants, are both breakthroughs for him and things he would have been too cowardly to say earlier in the timeline, and she definitely knows him well enough to be able to see that. I think there's a part of her that's thinking "if you'd only done this faster and been the person who learned how to say no two years ago then maybe by now you'd be the person who's learned how to say yes."

#YEPPPPPPPPP#if i may also throw my hat into the ring#i think it's an argument that works more for movie grace. if only because the movie was made with actual character focused writing in mind#book grace has the “you are either lying or insane. this seems optional. byeee” and “this isn't about my ego. it's about my kids” scenes#he's able to both articulate and argue in favor of his desires pretty well. movie grace... can't!#movie grace genuinely seems to struggle with his sense of self worth and needs outside validation and encouragement#which is why his relationship with stratt is so much more intimate and friendly than in the book#she's just. genuinely being an uplifting figure in his life and valuing his contribution which is something he deeply needs#book Grace's contentment with his life for contrast is much more methodical and studied. he “decided to leave”#(or i guess that's how his brain filed the whole academia fiasco retroactively)#he's a loud complainer he's blunt he WILL start a petty fight over scientific theories if he smells disrespect in the air#his much needed arc is Acknowledging his responsibility in other people's lives and what that entails the moment the price needs to be paid#“you just can't talk me into it” -> i finally have the confidence to say no / “I don't want to die” FINE. i know exactly how important i am#I'm selfish. it's selfishness and i have always been selfish and i am CHOOSING to be selfish on purpose#compared to how he didn't even consider himself a “real scientist” at the start of the book... yeah. he's grown as well#just not enough#phm#ryland grace#eva stratt#🎬#📖#meta

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices

truly anything can be good if you do enough textual analysis

fandom at its core is about asking the age old question “what if they were doing that shit on purpose” and then they weren’t