stupid freak vampire

eva stratt's finally trending thank GOD. everyone be not normal about her posthaste

I'M JUST NOW REALIZING "STRATTLAND" IS THE SHIP NAME OF EVA STRATT AND RYLAND GRACE. I THOUGHT YALL WERE JUST SO HYPED ABOUT HER THAT YOU DEEMED THE FANDOM "STRATTLAND" LIKE IT WAS A VILLAGE LMAO

I'M JUST NOW REALIZING "STRATTLAND" IS THE SHIP NAME OF EVA STRATT AND RYLAND GRACE. I THOUGHT YALL WERE JUST SO HYPED ABOUT HER THAT YOU DEEMED THE FANDOM "STRATTLAND" LIKE IT WAS A VILLAGE LMAO

cause here's the thing, even if movie!stratt didn't exist you couldn't pay me to hate book!stratt. maybe andy weir wrote her to be this cold, heartless character but still you can't make me hate her. she was a woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders and the leader to a seemingly impossible mission so i genuinely do not care if she's mean. in fact i hope she gets meaner and more ruthless. did you guys know she carried a taser with her.

What doesn’t get talked about enough is that, all those 40-something years, Rocky had all the supplies he needed to go back home. He had the fuel, he had the food. But he didn’t. He tried and tried and tried. He kept going. He took measurements, gathered data, built new Astrophage samplers but could never get it right. He maintained the Blip-A, a ship that was built in a hurry and just kept breaking, for over FORTY YEARS. When Grace found him, Rocky wasn’t just sitting idle in orbit. He was still working, still trying, he hadn’t given up. He was tracking the stars, probably to watch for a potential second mission from Erid, when he spotted the Hail Mary in reverse-thrust. Rocky calls Grace brave. Truly, Grace is. But I’d compare Rocky more to Stratt. How much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice to save your planet? Rocky was willing to stay at Tau Ceti for the rest of his life until he either found a solution, or died.

i think the core of why aroace grace is so important to me is because so many aroace people are deemed “less than human” for lacking something categorized as “inherently human,” or ostracized for straying from the expectations of an amatonormative society. but grace basically goes fuck (well, fudge) all of that my best friend is an alien and i’m going to live out a beautiful and fulfilling life in a terrarium on his alien planet and eat cannibalism burgers for the rest of my life and it’s going to be so completely worth it because i don’t need a partner or a dog to make my life meaningful and i don’t have to adhere to anyone’s expectations anymore. i think part of why his relationship with rocky is so special to him is that it’s his first taste of how it really feels to be put first, to be truly valued without any expectations of romance, or anything for that matter. yes he loved earth, yes he had meaningful relationships with his students and friends, but on erid with rocky was the first time the constant pressure of an alloromantic society was totally gone. and he proves that you can live a completely bizarre life that most people would be utterly baffled by and be perfectly happy. you can never get married and your kids can be pebbles and your roommates can be robots and literally no one can do anything about it.