Derby

this is a website full of SINNERS, SICKOS, and HOMOS!!!!!

So tell me .... what sins of the past still haunt you?

Did you do hamilton discourse? Become the most popular jonas brothers rpf writer on AO3 when you were 13? Did you make a fake post on tumblr about owning the homophobes? Did you spend 2 years roleplaying as a middle aged mom who writes letters to serial killers in the true crime community before eventually deleting the 10,000 follower blog in shame? Did you do hamilton discourse?

Father Strange is here to offer a comforting ear and absolve you of your guilt. You many now unburden yourself anonymously in my inbox.

Iron Lung × Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)*

Lots of parallels

- being the expendable tool of exploration in an unknown world

/ Simons world being the blocean

/ Piranesi’s world being the house

Notable differences in this theme being that Piranesi’s pontius is one man driven by selfishness & simons is the head of an organization simply trying to continue the survival of humanity.

-reinstatement of a golden age

/piranesi seeking old knowledge

/simon seeking prosperity

The information Piranesi is looking for may not even exsist, while prosperity is a goal the could be reached in many plausible ways.

- rebirth

/simon changing the world through apotheosis

/piranesi changing himself; taking his power back through rebirth

-the universe expiriencing itself

/“god loves you, but cannot keep you without breaking you”

/“the beauty of the house is immeasurable; its kindness is infinite”

-surviving with nothing

/simon making himself sick with his already limited supplies

/piranesi learning the tides and carving a niche

-environment

/claustrophic submarine in a hostile blood ocean

/open air and neutral tides

-role of protagonist

/simon doing grunt work of collecting information

/Piranesi perceiving himself as the scientist studying his own data

And you know all those jokes and headcanons about Rocky swearing every other word like any self-respecting engineer would, right? And Grace most likely did enter all those words into the translator, but replaced them with softer censored equivalents because he himself doesn’t really swear so the idea that someone might be talking to him in profanity every other sentence probably never even crossed his mind.

Now imagine this. They finally arrive to Erid. Grace desperately wants to make a good first impression, so he spends days hunched over his laptop, painstakingly assembling a greeting speech out of fragments from Rocky’s recordings.

And the resulting first contact speech sounds… bad. Like really bad. He turns the laptop toward the delegation looking unbelievably proud of himself. Presses play. And the computer proceeds to unleash a magnificent torrent of multilayered alien profanity stitched together from fragments of Rocky’s voice. Grace has absolutely no idea.

Rocky watched all of these preparations in silence the entire time, making those sly whistling noises that could absolutely be interpreted as laughter. Rocky's proud.

Ops tag collection alt:

[#maybe the human equivalent would be like

#if an alien walked up to the president of a country spat in its hand and held it out for a handshake

#like you haven't declared war or anything and it's recognisable as a friendly gesture

#but all the whole delegation is standing there like "broooooo oh my god" and struggling not to laugh

#(stealing my thoughts from elsewhere and plonking it in here)

~ #project hail mary

#im so so fond of Ryland "i have. MEAN THINGS. to tell stratt." Grace and Rocky "every third word's a cunt" #they complement each other so well]

[#sol sol this is sending me stratospheric

#grace spending such a long time carefully crafting his first message to erid and making sure it's as respectful and formal as possible #the eridian equivalent of 'sincerest and warmest greetings to all of erid. i am captain dr ryalnd grace of earth'

#i am forever indebted to the kindest you have extended - and are continuing to extend - me. i wish to show that gratitude however you wish'