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Examining the state of aromantic and asexual representation at Marvel Comics.
So I wrote an essay, which got somewhat out of hand and ended up much longer than I thought it would be, about the state of aro/ace representation, using Marvel Comics as a case study.
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Ryland Grace medical trauma. Hello? Can anyone hear me? Is this thing on?
"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.
The amount of stories I've read under this post of people being abandoned by their friends and family when they get in relationships... I need a gun. You need a gun. We all need guns.
Hearing Phil Lord in the director's commentary say that he asked post production to time the scene of Grace and Stratt talking right before the astrophage explosion as romantic [shudder] at least Sandra HĂźller and Ryan Gosling didn't get the memo.
Truly an insane statement that most of the PHM fanfic on AO3 of all places is gen. When does this ever happen.
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Most of the translations of Project Hail Mary into other languages are so boring, they're all shit like "The Astronaut" or "Project End of the World", "Project Last Chance", "Escape from the Apocalypse", "Salvation Project" "Saviour", "Project Desperate Attempt", "Extreme Return". No fun at all.
There is however one great exception, Cantonese, which I have to give props for translating it as "Doomsday Mother Mary Ship". That shit rocks.
Genuinely love how the Project Hail Mary fandom is largely centered on non romantic relationships. Even the fanfic is mostly gen, it's unbelievable. I'm more surprised to see someone ship the main character and whoever than I am to see them not. This never happens.
Grace was Laika...
i love you friendship and qprs and best friends and friends with benefits and mentorships and roommates and found family and surrogate parents and chosen siblings and rivalries every single specifically and actively nonromantic dynamic that exists
I don't know how to explain this to people but when an actor or writer says their character isn't interested in a relationship because they're asexual, they're not misusing the term or failing to understand the spectrum or conflating asexuality with aromanticism, they are using it completely correctly and validly. If they said that their character isn't going to be in a straight relationship because they're homosexual and you responded to that by saying "Ugh, stop conflating homosexuality and homoromanticism, you can be homosexual and not homoromantic, you can still be in straight romantic relationships" you would be a pedant abusing the fact a word has two definitions to ignore the context which shows they're using the definition you don't like because it gets in the way of what you want.
All sexuality descriptions can both serve as descriptions of sexuality exclusively and describe entire orientations, both sexual and romantic, because not everyone uses the split attraction model. Use your brains, use context, stop trying to force anyone talking about asexuality to close every possible loophole you'll try to find to dismiss the issue because heavens forbid someone doesn't state that they are a sex repulsed romance repulsed asexual aromantic every single time.
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Can you imagine people in-universe posting shit like "When I haven't done any work and the deadline's tomorrow but I remember Ryland Grace chose to sacrifice himself for humanity with only three hours notice so I gotta lock in" only to find out 20 years later he literally got dragged screaming crying throwing up to space against his will. Like he had to be sedated.
Look I'm not sure about the logistics of space travel but if Grace can triangulate the position of Rocky's ship and we know Rocky is capable of easily capturing probes, surely, of he really wanted to, Grace could have sent a probe with an explanation and the supplies he'd need to stabilise the taumeba to Rocky and a backup straight to Erid incase it was too late for Rocky, but he used the excuse to turn around and threw away his chance to go home, risking being stranded in space with Rocky already dead and without enough fuel to reach home or Erid, just to see Rocky again.
it's less about the logistics of space travel itself and the fact that space is fucking huge and any calculation grace could make would still only be an *approximation* of the location of where rocky is. like it took over a month for grace to just to get to the approximate location of rocky's ship and even when he did get there he had to meticulously scan in a 360 degrees sphere around him sending out pings into the void in the hopes he would find rocky's ship (according to the book)
and if we do consider the possibility that grace could have reprogrammed a beetle to get to rocky's ship, there's no guarantee rocky would be awake or alive by then to catch it. and sending a foreign alien space probe to erid is equally unlikely just bc the eridians can't read any written instruction in what grace would send them since the beetles hold info via harddrives and eridians don't know what that is or how to access the info on them. and even if they could have, it's not like rocky would have made a dedicated instruction manual in eridian along with the research & taumeoba for anyone to listen to
like there quite literally was no other alternative for grace if he wanted to save rocky/erid except to physically go to rocky himself. and if he found rocky dead then i assume he would have still made the journey to erid and maybe reverse translate to the eridians using rocky's voice via translator to explain everything
which that possible scenario alone holds quite a lot of potential of angst and fucked-up-ness. like imagine being an eridian and having first contact with an intelligent alien species just for them to use the voice of their (come to learn) dead friend/family/comrade to communicate bc grace has literal no other way to speak with the eridians
but that's getting off topic
so tldr: space is huge and there is no way to do exact math to find rocky in its vastness other than to go to him physically
Yeah I know that it would be incredibly difficult to triangulate the ships position, but assumed that Rocky must be on a fixed course that Grace had some prior knowledge about because otherwise I assumed it would be unlikely to near impossible, even with Grace going there himself, to find Rocky because of all the possible variables.
Grace's confidence that he could reach Rocky if he turned around made me think he must be fairly confident of Rocky's position. I also assumed that he could translate all the necessary information into Eridian if he sent a probe to Erid and whatever basic startup instructions for the computer were needed could be engraved in Eridian markings. (I mean, couldn't Grace have set up the "Here's the explanation of how taumeba works, condolences about your crew" message to autoplay if the computer or what have you was turned on?). To me this all put sending a probe within the realm of possibility, not necessarily as the safest option for Rocky or Erid, but it would be the safest option for Grace and thus if he really wanted to go home and wasn't inclined to risk his life again, he could do it.
But any speculation relies on a lot of assumptions and I've never navigated in space so. I don't know. And I've only watched the movie so I don't know about any further explanations in the book. Also I focused on the saving Rocky and seeing him again angle and not the fate of Erid because the movie doesn't mention Erid as a concern for Grace at all when he turns around, probably not because Grace wasn't thinking about that part but because they wanted to focus on the Grace/Rocky connection.
Ryland Grace be like "I'm probably aroace but I've got a planet to save so I don't really care about that right now"
youre like those people who wont shut up about their iq except its about you being aro
i don't usually post "hate" that i get but i'm making an exception because this is so fucking funny. yeah motherfucker this is my blog about being aro where i talk about being aro. man that's crazy. i'm gonna go on someone's recipe blog and complain that they post so fucking much about recipes
the block button is right there buddy you don't have to follow aro blogs if you don't want to i promise đ
Look at my planet saving scientists dawg I'm going to die
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I'm crying Rocky made Grace an enclosure
Enjoy!
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Thankyou so much? It's such good quality? Amaze amaze amaze.
