“alfred pennyworth: threat level absolute chaos”

I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'Trolley Operator' and 'Guy She Is Actively Tying To The Tracks'. What a dynamic. Movie of the year.

If Project Hail Mary taught us anything it's that forced romance subplots have ruined movies. Too many stories about guys sacrificing themselves to save girls and not enough movies about guys sacrificing themselves to save their cool rock alien friend.

i think rocky and grace should gleefully lie to each other. they're just making shit up all of the time. rocky has no idea which earth traditions are real and which are elaborate jokes for grace's personal amusement. grace is never sure if rocky is teaching him actual eridian gestures or random movements to make him seem insane. do eridians actually have 5 hearts. do humans actually see scary television shows in their sleep. there is NO trust in this relationship. they are fucking with each other constantly

#phm#project hail mary#ryland grace#rocky phm#rocky the eridian#i just keep seeing takes like “rocky can tell when grace is lying” No he can't . he can't . he has no clue . and vice versa#grace [stressed]: hey adrian do eridians all migrate to space for 7 days each year#adrian: stop listening to him. stop. stop it

the Martian vs project Hail Mary is so funny because you’ve got one where they’re very slowly making a spaceship to bring a guy home and another one where they make a spaceship really fast to send a guy into space forever

‘project hail mary is about the power of friendship’ ‘project hail mary is about hope’ ‘project hail mary is about accidentally becoming too important at work’ wrong wrong wrong you’re all wrong. project hail mary is about what it would take for a single man in his 30s to own a fully paid off beachfront property in today’s economy

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

I fit the category of an advanced reader who likes reading fantasy books, I distinctly remember reading ‘the magic treehouse’ a lot until a teacher said it was too low level