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It did not escape my notice that, of the two Black male characters in Project Hail Mary, one was in a pseudo-antagonistic role [if only briefly], and the other didn't have a speaking role at all and died.
The only Black woman that I'd noticed had maybe 3 lines, if I'm being generous.
Like, imagine if Grace was cast as a Black character.
The beloved middle school teacher that goes above and beyond in teaching his students, and his students reciprocate his love in turn.
He's dorky, awkward, can't make it two steps without stumbling over something. So earnest about everything he does and considers, but still finds this divide between himself and others that he doesn't know how to cross.
Him being signed on to the project, with them making it just as clear that he's expendable. They want him for his knowledge and will take as much from him as they can, up to and including his own life.
"For the good of humanity".
Grace, who declines the opportunity to go into space because he may be socially isolated, but he still wants to live.
And is then forced to go anyway. A one-way trip orchestrated by someone he thought was his friend, who betrayed him- who is willingly sending him off to his death.
Like, this one change and suddenly we're talking about medical racism and the ownership of Black bodies and how they're used and discarded afterwards.
The film could have Meant something more. It just feels like a wasted opportunity to me, especially with the ending. Grace could be more.
this post is inspired in part by this one by @cheshirepirouette and sponsored in part by convos w @asteriis and @indouscurse here’s to y’all!! this post also goes out to my brothers, who are pale as hell for reasons unbeknownst to all of us (this is a joke).
like any good headcanon, this started as a joke because i thought to myself: Ryland sounds like the type of name that somebody’s Black child would have and only use on church sundays. nobody actually has ever called him that in his whole entire life, except maybe his mama SOMETIMES and that’s why he doesn’t remember it right away. i feel like every Black person knows somebody who is called literally anything except their god given name. people call him lil r, lil grace, gracie, ry, ryry, riri, RG, lando, mr. grace, dr. grace, but nobody calls him Ryland, which is part of why he Can’t Remember for so long.
so of course i went back to the source material to see if he ever actually mentioned being white anywhere and unfortunately it is very much at the beginning of the book. so THEN i started to think about how i could get around that while remaining at least largely canon compliant (as a little treat for myself). what i came up with is what i have affectionately dubbed my “litebrite baby” headcanon.
grace was not particularly dark skinned to begin with, and then spent years in a coma with literally no sunlight. he is downright vampiric by the time that he wakes up, and upon seeing his white ass skin, assumes that he is in his own words, a Caucasian male.
unfortunately for him, this fits in really well with his theme of lack of identity and lack of connection. i think for most Black people it would be extremely hard to forget that we’re Black regardless of how light or dark our skin tone is. but throughout the book, even when Grace is thinking about his old, slowly resurfacing memories, he never thinks about family, he never thinks about friends. except for his students and Project Hail Mary, he is completely unmoored.
i’ve seen a few different headcanons for why this might be: he was an only child whose single parent died young, he was cut off by his parents for some reason or another, he just isn’t ever triggered to remember. but no matter the reason, grace is disconnected from crucial aspects of himself. i think that by making him Black, and his Blackness something he can’t remember, it add an extra heartbreaking layer to his characterization. Blackness is such a communal experience, and when it’s not, it leaves behind an ache. growing up Black in White Suburbia i know well both the experience of clinging to one’s own in a hostile world AND the hurt that comes with being severed from one’s community. grace loses so much of himself with the amnesia, unable to recall who he is at the deepest of levels, and i think if he could remember to grieve it, it would devastate him.
i do think he would remember eventually, either when his hair starts growing out (because in the book Armando shaves him iirc), or when he can finally catch a glimpse of his reflection clearly, or when he has a memory of someone in his family. my personal belief is he has a memory beamed directly into his brain of asking “Mama, am I white?” and his poor, long-suffering mom saying, “Now who the hell told you that?”
and then it still never becomes relevant because he has negative desire to explain the nuances of human racial categories to an alien who quite literally cannot see color.
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allow me to complain for a moment - i saw someone say about TSHD that while they like media that makes romance not the focus, they get frustrated at the fact that that seems to only happen with same-sex pairings. (and seemingly wished yoshikaru were romantic as a result)
i understand that feeling in a broader sense and i would be willing to agree if yoshikaru were just strictly platonic friends. BUT THEY'RE NOT! it has been EXPLICITLY STATED, WITHIN THE TEXT AND OUTSIDE OF IT, that their relationship is NOT platonic!
their relationship has been explicitly stated to not be platonic OR romantic, and yet people constantly want to force them into either box. (as if this story isnt literally about not having to be normal or do what other people expect of you...)
it's doing a HUGE disservice to TSHD in my opinion to act like it just waved away yoshikaru as platonic normal friends, and also to wish that it was an explicit romance. and that's not even mentioning the fact that 'hikaru' is canonically aroace!
what nobody seems to care about (other than us aroace fans 😭) is that media like TSHD that explores a relationship outside the labels of "romantic" and "platonic" is EXTREMELY FUCKING RARE. yes, it'd be nice for there to be more romantic gay stories out there. but this kind of story is NOT the same as just a strictly platonic "two dudes being friends" story WHATSOEVER, and there should be more stories like it out there too!!!
getting into tshd and phm relatively back-to-back is awesome bcuz i got characters to see myself in both as an aroace inhuman creature thing who finds connection in a human, and an aroace human who finds connection in an inhuman creature thing
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Instead of supporting the Toba Aquarium - please support other ones instead such as Cornish Seal Sanctuary, and Marine Mammal Center. Please visit sealsignal.org for information on better places !! ❤️🩹❤️🩹
no matter how much you love niko, please be aware that toba aquarium (and actually most japanese aquariums in general) treat their animals like shit! toba aquarium is especially terrible to their seals. be wary!
people are going to annoy you and that’s not a reason to burn bridges or blow up relationships
some people will even annoy you often! some people aren’t good at social cues and will therefore be frequently annoying! still not a reason to blow everything up!
Out of all the possible trans headcanons to have in mp100, my favorite is Shou. There’s a few reasons, but mostly I like that there is no interpretation of his father’s reaction that isn’t hilarious.
A few off the top of my head, in descending order of comedy.
“Daughter, we must speak.”
“Dad, I’m actually… a boy.”
“I see. So you’re transgender.”
“Wait, you know what-”
“Of course. I might not be a part of your generation, but I am still ‘hip with the kids’. World domination has nothing to do with how ‘woke’ you are.”
“Never talk like that again.”
“Daughter, we must speak.”
“Dad, I’m actually… a boy.”
“Hmmm, I see. You must have used your psychic powers to change your gender.”
“…Yep.”
“Our power puts us on top of the world. It only makes sense that the circumstances of our birth hold no power over us. This control over fate is an important step for you. I am proud of you… Son.”
Shou, who expected to come out to a deranged megalomaniac, and is instead having the first positive interaction with his father in eight years, and is thus experiencing physical whiplash: “Awesome. Thanks. I’m gonna go throw up.”
“Daughter, we must speak.”
“Dad, I’m actually… a boy.”
“…”
“…”
Touichirou, internally: Shit. Dammit. I was sure my kid was a girl. Surely I didn’t misremember. It’s only been, what, how long? Four years since my last visit? Okay that is a while. Crap. Maybe, it’s a joke? Like, a joke that kids do? No, she’s not lying. Or I guess, he’s not lying? Oh hell. How could-
Shou, who is close to shaking with fear because his father has been silent for five minutes straight since he came out: “…”
“………..”
“…Uh, Da-”
“I knew that.”
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