Tori is very normal about project hail mary🐛

I’m loving the concept of the Coltland twins not only bc it fundamentally Works but also it is so tumblr pilled at its core. Like what is the essence of this website if not mass-conspiring a silly little AU. I am kicking my feet and crying as if it were 2012 and I were reading some avengers tower fanfic or some shit equivalent. Like exactly Ryland and Colt get their bravery from each other because stunts are just science at the end of the day. Exactly they were born as two halves of one soul and ended up dying at opposite ends of the universe. Exactlyyyy

yes yes stratt is very scary and whatnot but i feel like we are overlooking how intimiadting grace made her too (largely in the book). because you expect the leader of the petrova task force to be cold and ruthless and scary, but then her... assistant? second officer? her guy walks in with her and he's very sweet, personable, and incredibly smart. and there's so much dissonance because you're talking with stratt about the biggest ethical decision of your lifetime and he's, like, annotating papers for her in the background. or you accuse her of being cold and calculated and this ray of sunshine just matter-of-factly goes "yep! she'll do whatever it takes!". and at the end of your meeting, probably the worst day of your life, the dictator of the world who has just calmly convinced you to do some atrocity or another stands up, gestures to him, and they casually walk out together chattering about something else like they've already forgotten you're there. that's so terrifying

I think it's genuinely insane that people only consume content of media where they relate to the character. Like, narcissist much? Relating to a character is a nice little bonus you get, when you enter a new world within a novel, where you get to spend time with different people and characters, to be a part of their journey and story. The whole point of it, is to get lost in something different from yourself and the world you're living in. When you relate to a character, it's again just another way of getting to live within that world, without actually living within it. Reading used to be entertainment and an escape. Now it feels like when I hear about people who talk about books like this, they do it out of obligation to look "smart, cool and nerdy". Don't touch a book if that's the attitude, I'm not even kidding. If you're not the type to read books, don't, it will change nothing and you still get to remain true to yourself.

Reading is actually better for you when you don't relate to the character. It is a large, varied world out there and if you insist that everything must look like you and act like you you close yourself off from the wonder of everything. Your mind should be expanded and challenged. That is a good thing. It is how you grow.

ughh. why does my head hurt

I really love the line "you have no immediate family. You don't even have a dog" because it is so devastating when paired with aroace Grace (my personal interpretation of his character lmao). But also. I do think Stratt was prepared to say Whatever it took for Grace to agree. Like if he had a partner and five children and ran an animal sanctuary on the side, she would've said something like "If you do not do this, you will be condemning your entire family to die" or some shit. That's just the Eva Stratt swag for ya. She was gonna get that man into space or so help her.