hermits united

You send people to space to save the literal entire world and you still don't trust them to dispense their own drugs

I know we've talked about this whiteboard before but i'm obsessed with a couple things

the way ryland wrote "single" like he was POSITIVE and then changes markers and writes "carl... (foggy)" and then CIRCLES BACK to single and goes "single?" like the vision of carl fundamentally shook his confidence in that fact

between "single" and "ALWAYS MUSCLES??" he thought that he should try different fonts

apparently got tired of writing in his all caps and was like maybe I'm a cursive guy and wrote "good at cursive" in cursive and he was so disgusted by it he immediately crossed it out

also he misspelled "glasses" as "glasss" at first and even though he could have erased it he just wrote over it

Grace had a hard enough time waking up and finding his dead crew mates, and he only had to deal with that for a couple weeks before meeting Rocky. He didn’t remember who they were at first. He didn’t watch them die. Rocky basically survived a horrific space plague, watching helplessly as his crew mates - his FRIENDS - died around him, and then spent 50 years in silence. Rocky was the final girl of the Blip-A except after his horror movie was over he was just stuck there, in this huge ship that had become an empty mausoleum, for decades. With no one to watch him sleep.

Obviously Rocky gets his happy ending after he and his new best friend save the stars and return to Erid, but I can’t help thinking about the absolute genre whiplash Rocky received going from the events before meeting Grace into the events of the book. It’s honestly a miracle that he wasn’t a raving madman (madrock???) by the time Grace showed up at Tau Ceti. It’s easy to imagine another version of the story where Grace meets Rocky and finds a vicious, terrified, angry animal, with no idea that this violent beast used to be a person, that his mind has completely broken after nearly half a century of horror and grief and solitary confinement in space.