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Elysium has always been about the pre apocalypse. Also the post apocalypse but we never got to see We Are Vapor.
Its first trailer introduces itself with a '27 years before the end of the world,' the bombing of Revachol is an event set in stone in canon and we learn more about it in Sacred And Terrible Air. Ignoring that intent from the creators and arbitrarily blaming 'dumb westerners' for engaging with a core ethos of the work (that world will die, but it doesn’t give you an excuse to give up on it) (defeatist reactionary nihilism vs. hope) is simply disingenuous. Also disrespectful to other fans.
In Dark Times Should The Stars Also Go Out? is not some random happy thought. As the violence and pale consumes the world and closes around it, Vaasa eliminates light pollution.
Nothing seems to stop future projects with an ecological conscience there either. In the very last months, when the pale is creeping across the ocean towards Vaasa, the big dream of lobby groups against light pollution will come true. Industrial and commercial buildings turn off artificial lighting at the end of the working day, street lamps are shielded with special filters. As the first and last big city in the world in history, Vaasa completely loses light pollution. This is not only a measure against bomb raids, it also saves birds who might otherwise get lost in the city's maze of lights, and harbor seals whose mating rhythms get messed up from too long a day. You may laugh at this, but in the evening, when the big world behind swells into a bloody maelstrom, in Vaasa families come out into the street and are insignificant together. Only distant explosions disturb the deep peace of the winter night, its flawless starry sky. Everyone is watching, heads tilted back.
I had a dream that people started using the 🪷 emoji as a reaction and it was universally understood to mean “kill [] and you will be reincarnated as a lotus blossom.” Like someone would talk about going to the White House and people would spam 🪷🪷🪷 in the replies, and everyone just knew without having to be told that that meant “hey you should assassinate the president.”
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the thing is like men and men really cant be friends because the sex part does always get in the way like thats true. and i mean that like im actually dead serious about that
like have you ever seen two straight men attempt to be friends with each other but the gay sex they arent having is literally preventing them from the transformative healing power of friendship. this is real
i dont even mean this in a "they want to fuck each other" way (although many of them do and will never know it) i mean that like the fact that gay sex is even hypothetically possible between them makes it loom over their friendship like it genuinely haunts them that they could be having it. gay sex is the elephant in the room every time they attempt to be emotionally vulnerable with one another, every time they let a hug linger too long. they cannot address its existence and so there is always something in their way, preventing true connection. and that something is the gay sex. that they are not having. the elephant of gay sex
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this post is inspired in part by this one by @cheshirepirouette and sponsored in part by convos w @asteriis and @indouscurse here’s to y’all!! this post also goes out to my brothers, who are pale as hell for reasons unbeknownst to all of us (this is a joke).
like any good headcanon, this started as a joke because i thought to myself: Ryland sounds like the type of name that somebody’s Black child would have and only use on church sundays. nobody actually has ever called him that in his whole entire life, except maybe his mama SOMETIMES and that’s why he doesn’t remember it right away. i feel like every Black person knows somebody who is called literally anything except their god given name. people call him lil r, lil grace, gracie, ry, ryry, riri, RG, lando, mr. grace, dr. grace, but nobody calls him Ryland, which is part of why he Can’t Remember for so long.
so of course i went back to the source material to see if he ever actually mentioned being white anywhere and unfortunately it is very much at the beginning of the book. so THEN i started to think about how i could get around that while remaining at least largely canon compliant (as a little treat for myself). what i came up with is what i have affectionately dubbed my “litebrite baby” headcanon.
grace was not particularly dark skinned to begin with, and then spent years in a coma with literally no sunlight. he is downright vampiric by the time that he wakes up, and upon seeing his white ass skin, assumes that he is in his own words, a Caucasian male.
unfortunately for him, this fits in really well with his theme of lack of identity and lack of connection. i think for most Black people it would be extremely hard to forget that we’re Black regardless of how light or dark our skin tone is. but throughout the book, even when Grace is thinking about his old, slowly resurfacing memories, he never thinks about family, he never thinks about friends. except for his students and Project Hail Mary, he is completely unmoored.
i’ve seen a few different headcanons for why this might be: he was an only child whose single parent died young, he was cut off by his parents for some reason or another, he just isn’t ever triggered to remember. but no matter the reason, grace is disconnected from crucial aspects of himself. i think that by making him Black, and his Blackness something he can’t remember, it add an extra heartbreaking layer to his characterization. Blackness is such a communal experience, and when it’s not, it leaves behind an ache. growing up Black in White Suburbia i know well both the experience of clinging to one’s own in a hostile world AND the hurt that comes with being severed from one’s community. grace loses so much of himself with the amnesia, unable to recall who he is at the deepest of levels, and i think if he could remember to grieve it, it would devastate him.
i do think he would remember eventually, either when his hair starts growing out (because in the book Armando shaves him iirc), or when he can finally catch a glimpse of his reflection clearly, or when he has a memory of someone in his family. my personal belief is he has a memory beamed directly into his brain of asking “Mama, am I white?” and his poor, long-suffering mom saying, “Now who the hell told you that?”
and then it still never becomes relevant because he has negative desire to explain the nuances of human racial categories to an alien who quite literally cannot see color.
I'm having a very niche but exciting experience. I saw a fic on a rec list with the basic pitch of "you get so swept along by the divergences of premise A that you don't notice any of the other weird stuff until you suddenly find out it's actually about the secret and hidden premise B," then I clicked the link and recognized the obscure lyric being used for the title, which I'm guessing is probably giving me a hint about the nature of premise B. oh ho ho.
I’m looking for a PHM text post and I was wondering if you’d seen it. Rough summary: “Considering how little we know about Grace’s personal/family life before the Hail Mary project because he never brings it up, I wonder if his early memories ever came back or if the kid named Ryland died that day Grace was tackled to the ground.” Thanks!
I know Exactly what post you mean and it's killing me that I don't remember it in clear enough detail to be able to find it. I neither remember the exact phrasing nor whose blog I saw it on I Am Going To Die.
the book scene where dubois and shapiro tell grace they’re having sex is really interesting. it’s not just that’s he’s uncomfortable talking about sex (although he very much is) it’s that he doesn’t understand why they would have sex if one of them is guaranteed to die in space soon. they kind of included this in the movie (when he asks stratt why everybody is partying and hooking up if they’re all gonna die)
there’s another line that stood out to me in the book, where amnesiac grace initially finds his dead crewmates, and he goes “i hope they weren’t friends of mine!” which imo is a crazy thing to say upon finding two corpses
it’s not just that grace avoids forming close relationships, it’s that he avoids it (in part) in order to avoid experiencing loss. really interesting character trait especially knowing he has no immediate family (did they die? is that why he’s like this?) not even a pet (is he scared the pet will die?)
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you may have noticed that my story is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my plot structure is weaker by the verse. this is commentary on the chaos of mortal existence under the yoke of the immortal gods
