salutations

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

“you don’t even have a dog” vs grace willingly staying on erid (despite never seeing a human again aka no wife kid or dog) because he’s fulfilled in the ways that matter to HIM. community that supports him despite him being an “outsider”, teaching younger minds about science, and a best friend who loves him enough to get to his house early every morning so they have time to sit on the beach

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

I keep hearing “grace wears science pun shirts to break the ice with his students” “aww grace wears those shirts to make science more interesting to kids”. Bullshit dude, in all of the classroom scenes he’s wearing business casual. His dumbass science shirts are for the love of the game and nothing else

White Boy Summer

fucked up in the club asking the dj to play flight of the bumblebee

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

project hail mary really surprised me in the latter half of the book by completely subverting my expectations about what kind of person ryland grace was. so many scifi books with similar plots have very noble, heroic, and selfless protagonists who love humanity and derive a sense of purpose and accomplishment from their mission to save it, and they usually are this way from the beginning. which isn't a bad thing to be clear, i love those characters too. but ryland grace is not noble or heroic or selfless at first. he's selfish and cowardly and frightened and he doesn't WANT to save earth and he doesn't WANT to sacrifice himself, and he literally has to be dragged kicking & screaming into it. but he rises to the occasion anyway because he is fundamentally good at heart even if he's also fundamentally human. he's a weak-willed coward who makes all the right choices when it matters most. ryland grace the man that you are