Somewhere in Between in Stars

Pastel Pride flags because my eyes hurt.

I recolored them all stripe by stripe on Photoshop because I'm a *perfectionist*. You can't just lighten a color, you need to adjust the saturation too.

I miss my blorbos, y'all. I miss them so much

Another snippet from Plastic Bag Time tm, and more pictures of the house now that I'm happier with the ground floor for y'all this WIP Wednesday!

Tagged by the lovely @blackbirdofasgard <3

Their eyes slip shut as they tune out the din of the bar patrons, listening to the low buzz that always seemed to come from Volt, akin the buzz of a neon. Nib tended to tune the noise out, but now it was just comforting. Eddie also emanated a constant low hum, the sound of current running through his wires, but they couldn't hear it at this distance. Volt's buzz was right in their ear, however, and they nuzzled a little closer, letting out a sigh of contentment.

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

OK LISTEN the first time I saw them I was like "oh my, I ship the ships" so I had to draw them a Transformers version✨

(Just want to do an AU with them ahhh) Click for better quality!

Extra Silly video I did for fun:

PHM??? HECK YEAH

END POEM? OMG

STUNNING ART???

it's really interesting looking back at both iterations of the story and how stratt and grace's rapport hinges on unrequitedness. there's obviously the karaoke scene in the movie acting as grace's bid for human connection vs stratt's necessary refusal in order to do her job. the book rarely if ever interrogates stratt's interpersonal relationships in the project and how her sense of duty and utilitarianism extends to them (well, aside from grace. more on that in a sec). She's a History major and an administrator and She Loves Humanity, but it's a characteristic that when analyzed deeper rings pretty hollow (possibly because the author thinks social analysis/critique in science fiction is stupid and thus doesn't exactly have much to say about People like someone in the humanities would. SAD!) so that's an addition to her character from the movie that i'm deeply pleased about. what i don't like as much is that the bid for connection starts from grace.

because book stratt and grace? the one sidedness of their rapport is the driving emotional conflict of the entire pre-launch plotline—and of grace's character development throughout the whole book.

like most scientists on the team, grace was brought onto the project by force, but he's the only one who fulfilled his purpose, was allowed to return to his own life, and then came back of his own volition, out of a sense of personal duty and responsibility. which is the reason stratt takes him back on! and why she begins to rely on him more and more, as an administrator, as a mediator, as a scientist, as an advisor. she has all the more reason to do that when she discovers he's coma resistant, but she was already doing all that baby!

grace spends the rest of their relationship half-assing that sense of responsibility. one thing i adore about book phm is how merciless it is with grace's "modesty" "insecurity" and "social anxiety". children are easy to dote on. they're not stupid, obviously, but on an interpersonal level they're not your equal, they have no way to actually demand accountability from you and call your ass out. he doesn't actually think he's a failure, he's not blind he should know damn well he's not like the other scientists. "science lapdog", "ooo i'm just a little guy cmonnnn i'm just a middle school teacher", he downplays his own importance because if he genuinely grappled with the level of responsibility she holds him to towards the people in the project he'd run like a fucking dog.

“… trying to get through to the glimpse of the man she saw that day, the one who barged into an FBI guarded facility, looked atlas in the eye and told her scoot over, i’m carrying this with you” 😭😭😭