Agent Rouka's Blog

If my friend sent me as her sacrificial lamb for something important, I sure hope she'd have the conviction to say she'd do it again, unquestioningly, every time.

whats awesome is everyone being like 'Eva Stratt deserves to be punished for what she did!' as if she doesn't actively know she is tied to this project for the rest of her natural life and has to spend the next 30 years living in a dying world full of terrified people looking for somebody to blame

something to be said about the ADWD winterfell-meereen parallel, where dany plays the role of roose bolton. 1) walled ancient structure 2) besieged from the outside by enemy forces where 3) the quarreling noble families trapped within are almost at each other's throats but are forced by circumstance to remain on the same side while 4) unsolved murders directed by some unknown killer (the hooded man, the harpy) precipitates finger pointing as the leader (roose, dany) tries to hold onto peace by orchestrating a 5) sham marriage for the sake of politics (ramsay-farya, dany-hizdahr) that 6) culminates in a climactic battle outside the walls which will be determined in TWOW (battle of ice, battle of fire)

The scene at the very beginning of Grace's involvement with the Project, before he even knows what Project Hail Mary IS, when Stratt's quietly guiding him into a meeting room to do a high-pressure task involving what he's learned about astrophage that he wasn't expecting to have to do? While she and three men are blocking his attempt to leave the room? And Grace is saying "I can't do this." and Stratt is gently trying to get him in there, "Come on. Yeah—" and Grace keeps repeating "I can't. I can't. I can't."? And Stratt doesn't let him go, the men don't allow him to escape, but she also doesn't stop reassuring him about his capability in a situation he desperately wants out of, because she doesn't doubt at all that if he gets in there and does the task he'll do it well? "You're doing great."