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You chuckle fucks realize Rocky doesnāt say āstatementā
Thatās not a pattern of speech that he uses. Ever
He does it in the movie because Grace does it Eridians wouldnāt say statement get your fucking head in the game
They say question because question is different from statement if theyāre saying question then itās implied that if theyāre not saying question itās a statement
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guess whoās reworking red string??
yeah so after ranting about all of my issues in bloodymary fics and re-consuming both iron lung and project hail mary, i realized that i was being a bit of a hypocrite with my own fic, so i decided to change things up!
i will be keeping the original up, of course, but will definitely recommend yāall read this one instead because itāll be a lot better. trust.
n e ways, go check this out! i love gay people in space š«¶
this is specifically a reference for my fic red string! yāall should read it itās really corny but i love it anyways
i promise iām getting to the chapter art that i said i would make. i promise i am. i simply wanted to place the men into the white void first to learn what they look like yknow
also i did not look up what healed scars look like. i am on a roll with the whole no research thing
hereās some design notes:
on the hail mary:
- ryland is 38 and simon is 33 :)
- in my fic, simon gets teleported into the petrova line of tau ceti right before the eel gets him, and after rocky wakes up from their fishing trip mishap. they pick him up and work on healing together!
- if iām remembering right, in the book ryland says that he got second-degree burns from the ammonia of rockyās atmosphere when sticking him back in his tunnels. i way overshot the healing time, but thatās kinda how second-degree burns look i think. the one from rockyās claw is from the movie and would definitely be a lot more than second-degree but i think i did an okay job differentiating them
- both of the shirts i gave ryland are ones i own irl and wear regularly! my āsay no to potā shirt is from connecticut, not maine, but i didnāt feel like correcting the google image. also since i posted a tiktok about the ābe greater than averageā shirt and got a few comments asking where i got it, itās from kennedy space center! they do still sell it as far as i know :)
- everything else about his appearance is entirely movie-based. i really like how they designed him, especially the dumb t-shirts lol. also i really like the jumpsuit-as-pants thing he has going on so here he is
- simonās are a bit different. i kinda figured that the corrosionās effect would resemble burns a bit but itās 100% more severe than rylandās so. also darker red because blood? i suppose? i feel really dumb not having done any research now BUT i can just use the excuse that at this point, the blood is doing just about everything it can to keep him alive kinda like it does in the movie, so this guy is effectively immortal and heals decently fast. i can do whatever i want i love my blorbos
- none of simonās clothes survived the blood, so heās wearing rylandās, though they are entirely too small for him despite ryland being the closest crew member to him in size. the tshirt design is one i remember my sixth grade english teacher having so i gave it to ryland and then simon by proxy because why not. ryland does get his jeans back eventually as you can see so the clothing exchange is fine for now! the shoes are yaoās, however, because they just happen to share a shoe size.
on erid (actual headcanon territory):
- ryland is 47 and simon is 42 :)
- in the book ryland mentions having a cane, but i gave him a modified forearm crutch instead since itād help with the increased gravity. the end bit looks like an eridian claw and has a mechanism to grab onto rough terrain, as well as grab objects from low heights when he canāt bend over because of his arthritis!
- he continues to wear the clothes he brought with him from earth even after all this time, because theyāre comfy to him. obviously during his malnutrition and recovery his weight fluctuates a lot, but it eventually settles back into his normal range so he can wear his dumb t-shirts again!
- he wears the jewelry rocky made for him every day. itās a common eridian tradition to give others a piece of your exoskeleton when youāre close to them (supported by the bit of adrianās in rockyās arm in the movie) so the necklace has bits of rocky, adrian, and several other eridians heās friends with. his earrings are extra bits of rocky and adrian! his students also like to make him jewelry so he wears those a lot too.
-also his watch is a modified eridian clock! he uses the same watchband that he wears in the movie because itās comfy for him even after the face itself breaks, so rocky fixes it for him so he remembers to go to class and eat and other important stuff that his audhd brain wouldnāt remember otherwise lol
- after being on erid for a while ryland decides to grow his hair out a bit, and since simon gets a proper prosthetic arm theyāre able to help each other with haircare! itās self-indulgent for me but idc iāll draw all the long hair men i want. also he greys more than simon for reasons iāll mention in a second
- on that topic, simonās hair is properly long. he keeps it for a few reasons: it reminds him of how his mom used to care for it for him when he was a kid, he likes having ryland help him with it (ryland loves it too), and it looks awesome on him and everyone agrees. he keeps it in a braid like this most of the time, though he tries different styles very regularly, often with rylandās help. he has bits of adrian and rocky tied into it as well!
- he greys a lot slower, not just because heās younger but also because it takes a while for the bits of the blood in him to let him age, and it only happens after he finally accepts that heās safe and isnāt letting his carnal desire for survival overtake every other emotion he has. yippee trauma
- xenonite arm!! i was kinda going off of how rockyās inventions looked in the movie for the design, including how a lot of the base shapes are hexagonal, so he has joints that kinda look like d12 dice. it works though! the bits in his toolbelt attach to his fingers so he can do just about anything with it. and it does attach to his nerves (think fullmetal alchemist) so he can move it properly and somewhat feel with his fingertips. he can remove it and does sometimes, but after they really perfect the design he just keeps it on most of the time. theres also a silicone cover he can put on over it when heās doing more domestic things, because the joints do still get caught on stuff, and also itās softer for fluff purposes iykwim
- he also keeps his garden shears on him because of course he does. this guy LOVES plants, so whenever heās not with rockyās engineering team or with ryland, heās in his garden or tending to his trees. he has tool attachments for that too, which he designed himself since the eridians arenāt used to having trees around.
- since simon doesnāt have anything that fits him, the eridians make him a bunch of clothes using designs from the endless amount of information on humanity the hail mary has. he prefers much looser clothing (sensory issues. autism) and tends to be better at putting outfits together than ryland, who just cares about comfort. he likes looking nicer but doesnāt like attracting attention to himself, so he usually wears simple button-ups and the equivalent of loose dress pants.
- there is a point later where they have a proper eridian mating ceremony, andāiām gonna need yāall to get cool with a lot of things real quickāthey exchange a bit of the skin on their forearms like eridians do! itās only the top few layers and they have to do a lot of testing on both of their cells to confirm that theyāre biologically compatible after simonās mutations, but it works because i say so. also they do have a version of a traditional earth wedding as well, and simon takes rylandās last name because he doesnāt have one :)
aaaaand thatās about it!
hereās some closeups:
have a wonderful day and enjoy the sci-fi yaoi :D
p.s. happy pride month! in my fic ryland is pan-demiromantic asexual and simon is homoromantic asexual, though neither of them care about labels whatsoever other than rylandās previous awkward āiām asexualā conversations on earth lol
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People got so fixated on those few statement givers calling Gerry a goth they forgot the only canonical thing about his music taste is that he listens to metal. What about mag 4 what about his mastodon tshirt
let me preface this by saying that i love this fandom, fandoms in general, and fandom culture, despite all of the problems inherent to them. iām aware that mob mentality is a thing and thereās definitely a lot of that, especially confined within a tumblr tag, which can very easily turn into an echo chamber, so a lot of people will end up saying similar things. however, everything i say here is a gross generalization. when i say āyāallā or āyou guysā i do not mean everyone. again, iām cool with most things i see here and scroll through this tag at least five times a day atp.
that being saidā¦
hereās some issues i have with the bloodymary fandom.
my credentials: iāve seen phm five times and read the book twice. iāve seen iron lung twice and consumed a shit ton of lore videos about the game. i wrote a fic about them specifically because i saw a bunch of mischaracterization and wanted to fight against it (and also write fluff about them cause why not).
anyways:
1. people love to mischaracterize. i know thatās just a fandom thing in general but itās more prevalent here than usual in my opinion and it bothers me. more specifics:
- simon is not only aggressive and angry. sure he was not having a good time while he was actively dying, but afterwards, when he realizes heās not dying? yeah itād take him a bit to warm up to ryland but he wouldnāt want to kill him yknow. this is the same guy who was guilty about giving cancer to the people who were literally sending him to his death, and later had a tentative camaraderie with the lady that decided to send him there in the first place! cmon yāall
- ryland is not only soft and kind. yeah heās a teacher so heās gonna be very careful towards simon at first but heās also a sassy bitch who will fight for what he wants and one of the smartest people in his field. not only that but heās a bit selfish, incredibly resourceful, and a major risk taker. heās going to want to solve the mystery of simon asap, just like he does with rocky at first, even if he hides it behind being supportive.
- iāve also noticed people doing the reverse, where simon is super sad and traumatized 100% of the time and grace does nothing but protect him. like guys, theyāre both grown men with agency of their own.
- yeah simon was in a cult but he makes it clear that he didnāt choose it and doesnāt believe what they do, and yea heād probably have a bit of a āthis guy saved me so i have to repay himā thing, but not to the crazy extent some people make it. also iāve seen some people have him thinking he deserves to die after all heās done? what?? he knows filament station wasnāt meant to happen the way it did and even if he did blame himself for it he still wants to live no matter what! even after he realized he wasnāt getting out he still decided to die fighting and save the black box!! why the hell would he suddenly decide to give up after he realizes heās not dying anymore??
- yeah grace is supportive but heās got plenty of trauma to work through and has been through a hell of his own, and despite how much he cares about simon he still has his own purpose of saving earth and erid, and later teaching his kids and helping the other eridians with science. he wouldnāt dedicate his entire life to simon like iāve seen some people have him do, or completely forget about rocky and the eridians. he fully decided to give up his life for them!! he loves rocky enough to stop being a coward and do something for someone at his own detriment for once in his life! he doesnāt only care about the other human around!!
- a lot of it seems weirdly white savior-esque too. like cmon, the poc is aggressive and violent until the caring white guy breaks down his walls and saves him?? and the poc suddenly sees him as his literal guardian angel??? dawg what are we doing (iām white so i canāt speak too much on this issue but itās so glaringly obvious that i canāt just not say anything at all)
- speaking of which. SIMON IS A POC!! i see so many people drawing him pale as fuck and while yes he hasnāt had access to the sun so heād be washed out, he would not be the same skin shade as ryland, who not only hasnāt seen the sun in a long time but is also white as hell.
- also, rocky. iām not gonna get into book canon here because i know not everyone has read it, but there are still plenty of ways people get him wrong, especially from rylandās perspective toward him. he is not ājust a little guyā!! heās his own autonomous being with agency! stop making him super cutesy and not doing anything with him other than making him an annoyance or a cockblocker (chillax gang the most heād do is be like ācan i watch for science?ā and if he was told to leave he would). also he cares so much about his planet and his mate, he wouldnāt just be obsessed with ryland like so many people make him out to be, though he does care about him immensely.
- also stop having ryland say āwhoa itās been so long since iāve talked to a person!ā HE SEES ROCKY AS A PERSON!! that man sees that alien as his best friend, so why the fuck would he ignore his autonomy and shove him to the wayside for the sake of this random guy they picked up?? if you say something like that and donāt immediately specify āwhile yes rocky is a person, human connection and touch is really important and ryland has missed that specificallyā, iām gonna assume you see rocky as rylandās pet or something which is an immediate no from me no thank you thatās fucking disgusting to me give him back his independence please
2. moving on from characterization. iām not usually one to be a stickler about canon but hereās what iāve seen people get wrong a lot (these are all just pet peeves btw, i donāt actually care that much. i wonāt get into book/game exclusive stuff either):
- simon explicitly states that he did not choose to be involved with edenās cult. stop making it seem like he believes in their shit when he specifically says he doesnāt! yeah heās definitely got religious trauma but not to the extent yāall are making it out to be.
- adrianās occupation. itās not said in the book what they do, but the movie explicitly states they control what happens in rylandās dome (at least the water temperature), therefore theyāre likely an ecologist or something similar.
- timelines! there are specific distances between earth and tau ceti, tau ceti and 40 eridani, etc. stop saying itād only take a year for them to get from one to another. even with constant acceleration and time dilation, itād take three to four years to get from tau ceti to 40 eridani, which would equate to about twelve years on earth or erid.
- IT! IS NOT CALLED!! THE DONāT GO CRAZY ROOM!!! where the fuck did yāall even get that. in the movie the computer specifically calls it the āmental health nodeā. stop saying that ādonāt go crazy roomā is its official name because itās not.
3. last but not least, my biggest issue with this fandom:
STOP TRYING TO BOTHER MARK AND RYAN ABOUT THIS SHIT.
have we not learned from any of the other fandoms who did stuff like this?? involving creators in fandom spaces when they donāt want to be involved is bad. we know this.
also, why are we surprised that mark learned about this fandom?? his job is literally internet. heās dealt with this shit before. obviously heās gonna know!!!
i keep seeing people say āmark approves of bloodymary! itās canon!! simon is the little spoon because mark said so!!!ā dude. he was joking. i donāt know enough about markās personality to confirm this, but i interpreted the whole āiāll get to curl up in ryan goslingās arms and finally be safeā thing as a joke about how people characterize simon as this traumatized wet cat guy who just needs love to be happy. iām all for traumatized wet cat guys (iām a tma fan, ofc i am) but thatās not all he is!!
okay yeah iām done ranting now. iāll probably make a separate headcanon post because i canāt stop thinking about these guys ever but iāll stop yapping for the moment
btw go read my fic i linked earlier!! i know it sucks but at least the blorbos are happye in it :D
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in the movie, rylandās decision to save rocky is revealed to us by him telling stratt that she was right about him on the video he put in the beetles, then launching them.
however, in the book, it goes something like this (slightly edited for brevity):
ā¦the other option: launch the beetlesāall four of them. Each with their own Taumoeba mini-farm and a USB stick full of data and findings.
So thatās what iām left with. Option 1: Go home a hero and save all of humanity. Option 2: Go to Erid, save an alien species, and starve to death shortly after.
I sob into my hands. All I see when I close my eyes is Rockyās dumb carapace and his little arms always fidgeting with something.
Itās been six weeks since I made my decision. It wasnāt easy, but iām sticking with it.
āSorry, Rocky,ā I say.
I spot a tiny speck of Petrova light. I zoom in and search that area. A total of four little dots, barely visible, are on the monitor.
āI know youād love a beetle to take apart, but I couldnāt spare one.ā
The beetles, with much smaller spin drives, wonāt be visible for much longer. Especially with them zooming off toward Earth and me headed the opposite direction toward the Blip-A.
peak, peak, peak, and peak!! absolute peak!!!
idk i just like how itās more rocky-centric than stratt-centric. at this point he cares more about saving rocky than he does about what stratt did to him. also i like the little subvert in there, makes the heart drop a bit lol
sometimes, when i ask a weird question, iāll add the words āquestion markā to the end of the sentence because why not. my high school english teacher did it, so i picked it up.
since seeing project hail mary four times, iāve subconsciously shortened it to āquestionā, so now i sound like rocky. i did not notice until my friend (who i dragged to see it with me on watch #3) pointed it out just now.
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they put ryland in so many layers in the flashbacks to hide ryan goslingās muscles. he did NOT have those on earth. the only way dr ryland āeats ramen noodles from a thermosā grace could EVER be that buff is with electric muscle stimulation during a coma, which is exactly what happened. normally that mf is scrawny send post
so people are shipping simon from iron lung with officer kd6-3.7 from blade runner 2049 nowā¦
ā¦this is a fantastic idea and i am obsessed!! br49 is my favorite movie and now that my bloodymary fic is finished i will be writing something for these two.
howeverā¦
why tf is the ship name not bloodrunner??
no offense to the person who came up with replicantlung, but like. iām not a fan. iāve also seen ironblade suggested, which is cool but i feel like it has a fantasy vibe to it which does not fit either of them.
bloodrunner sounds so sick, guys. why are we not using it. thereās no way iām the first person to come up with it.
whenever i do post about them iām gonna call them that, but iāll tag replicantlung so my posts still get seen by people who use that name. however just know i am petitioning to use bloodrunner as the main ship name :)
i love this pair so much i love crackships i love sci-fi iām going insane please help
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