sorrowful milk

public retaliation against my friend @//seasilvers who made the abomination below you're probably getting tired of me putting the same caption everywhere sorry (all my brain power has rotted away)

When You Look at Dr. Grace

When You Look at Dr. Grace

searching for a memory

His raincoat was never packed, because obviously he wouldn't need it in space—I wonder sometimes if Stratt held onto it for any amount of time.

Just the mental image of Carl watching Grace get transported after being sedated. A man, who prior to that moment, his most vivid memory consists of them finding world changing discoveries with plywood, duck tape, and copious amounts of sour skittles. A man who he associates with the exhilarating feeling of wonder and life. A teacher teaching, a scientist finding, a man living.

But suddenly, that's not his most vivid memory. Suddenly, what first comes to mind when he thinks of Dr. Ryland Grace is the image of him running away, of chasing him through the compound, of the look on his face when they do inevitably catch up to him. He can't hear the excited laughter of the previous memories without them eliciting the desperate pleas for life.

I wonder if he ever gets to see the videos. How would he feel if he knew that his name was the first one that Grace remembers. Foggy like the thing he misses most about earth.

can't take these two anywhere

base under the cut snip snip

Scientific contributions and discoveries made by people of color, women, and non-advanced degree holders so often get swept under the rug or erased entirely and Grace made sure Carl was recognized.

It’s one of the first things we see in the movie that shows us as an audience that, at his core, Grace is a good person who isn’t driven by ego. A lot of scientists wouldn’t have thought to credit Carl or would have intentionally downplayed his contribution.