nico

enough about the horrors. let's hear it for the wonders outside of human comprehension

being in the project hail mary fandom is taking me back to og tumblr days in the best ways while also being one of the most wholesome fandoms i’ve been in (i personally haven’t seen a lot of arguing)

our mom said that “adding romance to phm wouldve ruined it “ and yes!! if ryland had a love interest it would’ve cheeped him not wanting to go. he didn’t need to have someone waiting for him, he didn’t need to have a person who he never confessed his feelings for, it mattered that he didn’t want to go because he is a human being who loved being on earth. thats it, full stop.

“project hail mary (2026) using an orange-yellow-blue color palette in the majority of its lighting, set design, and wardrobe (except for the detour to the green planet with a purple aurora) is an intentional choice potentially based on the colors of the aroace (and aro and ace) flag(s) which may have been made in part because someone on the production staff realized that a story about a guy whose life is considered lesser explicitly because his relationships do not follow an amatonormative hierarchy, structured specifically to show that it is NOT romance which brings out the best in him but the love of/for a friend who similarly forgoes amatonormative expectations, and who is shown to be happy and fulfilled at the end for that very reason might be extremely resonant with aroaces” is a sentence which makes you sound like an insane person until you realize that project hail mary (2026) is a lord & miller production and those are the same guys who did this