and ANOTHER thing. everyone in the coltland world claiming that the glucose scene was grace’s influence STOP IT. you know what stuntment know? their diet. their whole job is their body they know how to take care of themselves. colt isn’t stupid, just an adrenaline junkie and a physical guy. i’m not saying its not a fun little headcanon you can have but im seeing it so much that im like. you’ve himboed him. and not even in the fun way.
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i do think we need to detach hygiene from value as a person. as someone who has dealt with not being able to shower or brush my teeth due to depression and executive dysfunction, it usually is not a choice. sometimes there are situations in which you CANNOT care for yourself properly and that shouldn’t mean you can now be stripped of your worth. physically disabled people who have trouble with hygiene i love you, mentally ill people who have trouble with hygiene i love you, neurodivergent people who struggle with hygiene i love you, people without access to adequate hygiene products i love you. it’s going to be ok
Yk what fucks me up, that scene where Grace was playing the lava game w his students.... bc it literally foreshadows Grace’s entire character arc. His students hand him the 🌍 toy, asked about the Petrova line, and when he tries to pass, they were like “nope!🤚 you can’t pass” like it’s just a joke.
Ff to the actual plot where the entire planet basically hands him the actual Petrova problem and suddenly he genuinely can't pass that responsibility to anyone else. UGH. the movie really said “btw this silly classroom moment is the whole plot” and hid it in plain sight. 🧍
One thing I really like about movie!Stratt is her leadership style. Which, I think, is pretty distinct from her book counterpart.
Because, basically, I'm not sure I find it realistic that a woman (or man) appointed to this role would last long if she was terribly abrasive or confrontational. It would be counterproductive and distracting for everyone involved. (It serves a purpose in the book, but I prefer how the movie did it.)
Movie!Stratt creates the appearance of being very consensus-oriented. She doesn't even acknowledge the concept of power games or sexism for that matter. Authority doesn't live in confrontation or visible status markers but in the visible support and deference of everyone around her, because she made sure they are all pulling in the same direction to begin with.
She's absolutely has a lot of power but she's keeping it understated. Nothing flashy. Business casual, always moving, flat shoes, calm voice, always questions, honest answers. She's consulting the room (while leading the conversation), she is to the point but reasonably polite, she works in tandem with others, creates a sense of shared experience. "Applause!" Carl knows exactly when to jump into the conversation while deferring to her authority, "Talk to her", "Just answer the question", "I would take the three". He clearly really knows her and can pick up his end of that game. The "We don't know" chorus. The "What's the alternative" centrifuge discussion. "Thank you so much" to the underling with the coffees. Seemingly flat hierarchies.
She lets people talk and then gleans what she needs. She gives credit.
Her job is to make the decisions and take responsibility, to keep the momentum going. People are unsurprisingly okay with handing it off. She points, they march.
No one considers opposing her because they all trust her. Because they feel involved in the process. It's not hard to ask, after all, when everyone knows what it's for.
Even in the end, she has the entire team on her side when confronting Grace with his choice. Because none of it is about power or ego. Only about the mission.
The lack of future international cooperation gets her most emotional utterance out of the entire film. "Which they won't."
At every point she is pulling for a team effort. And it works. (Except one time.)
rocky should be naked: an anthropological treatise
something maybe controversial that has been driving me BONKERS since the project hail mary book first came out that i finally just had to dig into my anthropology MA to bitch about:
it's fucking batshit that andy weir wrote the eridians as wearing clothes. there is no reason that eridians would ever develop something akin to human clothing.
like. do you know how long humans (not just hairy early hominin relatives of our, but straight-up anatomically modern homo sapiens) were rocking nothing but our birthday suits? LIKE NINETY THOUSAND FUCKING YEARS. HUMANS HAVE BEEN NAKED ALMOST THE WHOLE TIME WE'VE BEEN HUMANS, and we're famously leaky hairless apes, not hard-carapaced crab spiders with piston joints who live in boiling ammonia.
listen to me. the first hairless hominin was homo erectus, about 1.6mya. naked. anatomically modern humans like us evolved 350-270,000 years ago. also naked. when do we first have solid evidence for consistent human use of clothing (bc it's when the clothing lice genome evolves to diverge from the head lice genome lol)? only 170,000-83,000 years ago. before that? BUCKASS NAKED. and even when we did start using clothing? well, as we know from excellent textile archeologists such as elizabeth wayland barber, a LOT of early human clothing was likely more decorative than functional – i.e. the string skirts that you see on some of the 'venus figures' from the upper paleolithic, which were solely decorative but would NOT do anything for warmth.
now consider eridians, whose bodies are functionally impenetrable unless they're actively eating (which is a private activity anyhow), who are carnivores (thus having no need to cultivate plants – aka the source of most textiles – like humans do), who live on a planet with no sun exposure (so probably nothing like earth plants anyways) and no fucking seasons (no need for rain/snow protection!), who evolved to exist ONLY in very specific & stable temperature ranges (like most life on erid, per andy weir), who have five fucking hands to hold things, are famously so good at multitasking that doing just one activity sucks for them, and CANNOT FUCKING SEE!!!
so where the FUCK is eridians' evolutionary or social impetus to develop ANYTHING akin to clothing supposedly coming from? N O W H E R E. you heard me.
decoration like the celebration jewelry, absolutely – though notice that was clearly designed for its auditory qualities and ability to show up on sonar, not anything approaching the level of coverage that human clothing has. rocky's engineering lederhosen (leather! bc again, carnivores!) as a (evolutionarily speaking) modern development to help hold tools, yeah, totally. carapace carvings, 100%.
BUT THERE IS NO FUCKING REASON FOR THAT ROCK TO WEAR A SHIRT. in fact, it's way the fuck weirder that he DOES wear a shirt in the book! the movie was completely right to have a buckass naked rocky, there is no goddamn reason eridians would ever develop clothing, and the idea of a five-legged spider rock trying to put on a sleeved shirt makes me want to have a stroke. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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there was a really beautiful moment in last nights episode, during bolaire’s breakdown over his sisters’ return. he was spiralling and argumentative and thaisha just…took it all in, cocked her head to the side and asked a devastatingly insightful question point blank. bolaire. are you angry? or scared? and of course bolaire bursts out as though it’s the most obvious thing in the world that it’s both. bolaire is terrified.
and there was this dawning expression of understanding on thaisha’s face. because up until this point all of bolaire’s issues with thaz, all of his snide comments or outright hostility has been seen by the group as the attitude of someone who is angry and bitter and tbh maybe just sort of petty. but i think in this moment thaisha was re contextualizing all of her previous interactions with bolaire and really seeing him for the first time
and her expression softened. she spoke to him with a gentleness that hadn’t been there before. a relatively quiet moment but one that hit me hard and i havent been able to stop thinking about it.
Still thinking about “I’m Bolaire!” “I’M Bolaire.” “Then I’m not alone!” *crying sparkly tears*
That desire for connection is so fundamental to Bolaire that it made its way into the stylized personality of the miniature mask doodle he made in a few seconds on a whim.
Not enough people are talking about the fact that Occtis was one CON save away from being completely destroyed after the Stone of Nightsong was smashed. Once more, we praise Alex's warlockian dice luck for the high roll BUT HE WAS ONE BAD ROLL AWAY FROM DYING INSTANTLY.
I am going to be fiending for the new tension that exists between him and Vaelus now going forward.
Having no empathy for what Thjazi did to Bolaire is so strange to me because we have no idea what Thjazi did to Bolaire. That part of the story has yet to be told. Usually you want to know the context and the details of something before you make a determination about how you feel about it, yes?
"He kills people!" Yes, and so do all the other people in this campaign. There are very few saints in an adventuring party.
"But this is different!" Yes, it is. Because Bolaire was a tool given sentience by people who never gave any thought to what would happen to him or his siblings once they served their purpose. Maybe they were all supposed to be destroyed in the same play that destroyed the halfling shaper? Maybe the people doing the crafting were so desperate that they had neither time nor energy to give a thought to what happened after the death of a god? Maybe they couldn't spend any time considering or discussing it for fear of being discovered? We don't know and we may never know for certain, but that lack of consideration definitely impacts who and what Bolaire is now.
How does a disposable sentient object learn morals? Most creatures are taught that sort of thing in their childhood by their parents. Bolaire and his siblings had no parents and never had a childhood. They knew each other for a day before the play. What they knew of each other, the world, and their personalities was "programmed" into them for one purpose: to get a job done. For decades after that, Bolaire had no sense of self, he was simply a tool of war. He was used by mortals when they needed to destroy and kill, and put away whenever he wasn't needed for those roles. When he began achieving sentience, who were his first teachers about how to treat other beings? The very people who were using him to kill and destroy. Is it really shocking that he treats (some) people as disposable? As means to an end? The traveling play may have given him goals to strive for, but the people who wielded him for decades gave him the roadmap for how to achieve those goals.
How do we gauge how old Bolaire is? Do we date it by his creation or by when he gained sentience? How do you gauge a sentient object's intellectual or emotional age, their level of culpability for their actions? They have no life cycle, no developmental period. Is Bolaire an adult or a child, or do those designations even matter for an entity that never ages? For example, Azune probably killed people as a child soldier but do we give him as a child the same level of culpability for those actions that we expect of him as an adult? Both legally and ethically the answer is usually no.
If Bolaire isn't a person, how can he be culpable for his actions? We don't sentence cars to jail for hitting pedestrians. But unlike cars (as far as we know), Bolaire has thoughts and feelings, so he must be a person. So then why did/do so many people treat him as if he isn't? What is their role in making him what he is now vs his own responsibility for how he shaped himself once he found out he could?
These are delicious, complicated questions, most of which I have no answers for yet because we're still very early in Bolaire's story. Personally, all of these questions are far more interesting to me than deciding whether Bolaire is a good person or a bad person, because to be honest I don't think even Bolaire or Taliesin know that yet. I get people not liking Bolaire, like so many of Taliesin's characters he's abrasive, bitchy, judgemental, cruel, and generally difficult. For some people that's a feature, for others a bug and that's fine. What I don't get is being unwilling to engage with these interesting themes for...what end? To be morally right on the internet? These aren't real people, you're not going to publicly shame Bolaire into being a better person by putting him in the fandom version of stocks in the public square. So why not let the story tell itself before you decide how you feel about it and him?
*Bolaire, after going off and venting his frustrations to the party about how he's alone and has no family and his life is ruined, looking at the tiny painted version of himself.*
Panties Bolaire: I'm Bolaire
Bolaire: I'm bolaire
Painted Bolaire: *Gasps* I'm not alone!
Bolaire: *Puts his hand on the Mask and stops, seemingly trying not to have a breakdown.*
Me, alone watching the episode live at 4am because timezones are evil and this episode was 6 hours: I'm normal, I can be normal about this, I'm very normal actually, the most normal man alive you could say
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Can we talk about how absolutely adorable Occtis' obsession/admiration for all things wizardry is! Like how did I forget this it was so friggin CUTEEEEEE. I love how his interest reaches beyond just his family's necromantic magic.
Honestly kinda wish Kattigan was traveling with Thaisha. Would love to see Mr. Apple Pie with No Apples and Ms. Meeting of Druids, Druid Meeting, Meeting of Druids be each other's back up
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Now that we’ve had Vaelus for thirty-one episodes, it’s kinda hilarious just how different she is from her initial introduction. Like she came in all imposing and foreboding with this presence of undeniable power and the willingness to use it—and then thirty episodes later she’s joking and sarcastic, she’s so so soft and gentle, and she’s so kind. Not to say that she doesn’t also have the potential to act like she did in episode one—we’ve seen her step back into that role a few times—but it does sort of paint a picture of Vaelus walking up the street to Hal’s house just in her head going
“Okay, okay, okay—it’s bad bitch time. You got this, Vaelus, you got this, you got this!”
Thaisha in Aabria’s goth makeup wip because LET ME TELL YOU I COULD NOT GET MY EYES OF HER THE WHOLE EPISODE AND MONTHS LATER I AM STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS LOOK OH MY LORD @quiddie you are the most beautiful ever
