what's been eating at you?

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #896

*Hits the petrova taskforce with the beam that turns them into rocks*

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(Details under the cut!)

Girls! Girls! Watch out! Watch out! There's a two-legged animal running about...

Thinking about Stratt--who has such a unique blend of optimism and cynicism, willing to place Earth's hopes in an interstellar mission but approaching making it happen in such a ruthlessly pragmatic way--growing up as a kid in East Germany and living through die Wende and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc is just really politically fascinating. Partly because Stratt herself is so politically fascinating, but there's also something else there, something that speaks to growing up watching protests and upheaval on one side of the Iron Curtain, only to end up working for the extremely international European Space Agency as an adult (and then transition into leading the even more international Petrova Taskforce). In that context, movie!Stratt has seen both human conflict and human cooperation in spades, and I could see it hugely informing her perspective on the Hail Mary mission.

He would probably feel Grace calm down while doing it and go "I am now a hugging kinda person"

Come on, he gets RIGHT IN THERE when he wakes up and Grace sees he's fine for the first time

That clingy little crab-rock wouldn't think twice