Ellie Simmer

this fanfic shit is easy

when the Project Hail Mary movie has Grace having the emotional crashout of the century passed out on the floor with a vodka IV when he realizes he’s completely alone in space and when it has Grace proudly announce that he and Carl are fathers when they figure out how the astrophage reproduce and when it has no greenscreens and real actual sets and an animation-augmented puppet rather than CGI and when it has an absolutely heart wrenching and touching funeral scene for Yao and Ilyukhina with greatly expanded eulogies and when it has Eva sing karaoke and when it shows how physically demanding the forces both inside and outside the ship are on the human body in space and when it has the touchdown pass of the galaxy and when it truly conveys the absolute fear and stress of making first contact particularly when you are just one human stranded so far from home and when it has Grace be able to really show Rocky what Earth is like inside the little environmental simulation orb room and when when it has multiple Rocky POV scenes so the audience can see how Eridians “see” with sound and when it has a gorgeous choral soundtrack and when it has Rocky wear BOTH outfits from the book and when it showed the absolute desperation and despair in Grace’s voice when he tries to run at the end and then gets sedated and put on the Hail Mary against his will and when it has Grace helping Rocky to heal after Rocky gets burned by the oxygenated atmosphere by building him a little heat lamp and when it has Eva see Rocky on the video they sent back to Earth on the beetles and she got Rocky’s little xenonite human sculpture gift and when it has Grace affectionately call the ship “Mary” and the nannybot “Armando” and when it has Grace get to actually visit Rocky’s ship by wearing a xenonite EVA suit and when it has not one but TWO hugs between Grace and Rocky and when it has Eridian voices singing in the outro/credits song and when it has all the emotional range of the book by being so funny and devastating and thrilling and hopeful

andy weir's first and third books make you feel hopeful and weirdly calm because they revolve around the deep truth of 'when you put intellectualism and empathy above all else you are capable of solving each impossible problem put in front of you over and over and over again until you're home."

imagine being rocky and grace and knowing your whole life that nobody quite Gets you in the way you wish they did. and then you meet this creature from outerspace and he's so different from you in every way but he somehow fills in every gap in your soul. he has the information you need, he has the sense of humor you didn't know you had in you, he's excited about you and everything about you because the differences are what MAKES it exciting, and you feel the same way back at him. imagine you're rocky and you have this precious laptop cradled in protective life support and you think, "well, this is it. this is all i have left of him." and imagine you're grace and you look at the xenonite habitat littered around your ship and you think, "well, this is it. this is all I have left of him." and you (rocky and grace both) watch the fading readout showing the distance growing between you, until it all goes wrong. and then you (rocky) asume you'll die here, alone and afraid and unsure anybody will ever save your planet. and you (grace) have to decide if this time you'll be brave enough to set off on a journey knowing there's no way home.