Delphinus

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

i do think the one thing the project hail mary novel has over the film adaptation is that when rocky boils himself alive in grace's atmosphere to save his life rather than be left alone again book grace is like "man what the hell was that for" and goes and boils himself right back for the exact same reasons. i just think it would settle a lot of discussions about their codependency and whether or not they're each other's equals to be reminded that they would literally light themselves on fire before being prepared to lose each other.

leaving a comment on a fic last updated more than a decade ago is always so hauntingly melancholic. like--they gave you this beautiful piece of writing that you chose to spend your time reading, and you're thankful for it. you go to tell them in their comments, even though it's likely they haven't opened their inbox in years. and they're probably never going to open it again, and no one but you and the others in the comments will ever know how long their writing has been and will be appreciated. you're never going to know if this person died or simply grew up, because the effect is the same.

I recently got kudos for a fic published in 2010. The email notifications work.

living in the project hail mary universe would suck but also lowkey i wish i could've been on twitter the day stratt nuked antarctica

I love that Stratt's line about Grace having no immediate family has now inspired the Ryan Gosling Cinematic Universe (rgcu). It started with Colt as Ry's twin, then added Six as their older brother, and then Driver was thrown in as another brother, and then Holland March as the uncle, Lars as a cousin. The family just keeps growing. And the funny thing is even if this was all canon, even if Ryland had this entire big family, Eva still would send him up in the Hail Mary.