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People who love Project Hail Mary aren't just waiting for the next installment. They're digging into other Ryan Gosling movies they haven't seen yet (I ended up finally seeing The Fall Guy because I had both Tumblr friends and my husband's summer film class recommending it). They're reading, not just the book Project Hail Mary, but other Andy Weir books as well. Even as much as the BloodyMary ship makes me personally go Dear Lord Why, it means there is cross-pollination between hopeful hard sci-fi and low budget cosmic horror.

Alastor is asexual, but not canonically aromantic. He has been confirmed as ace by Vivziepop, and although Amir said he was aroace, he later corrected himself, stating he misunderstood and that Alastor was only ace.

patron saints of one way trips

they knew that space was there because they can perceive it directly. it's literally right overhead all the time for their entire evolution. they know the faces of thousands, millions of stars, as soon as they tip their faces up. eridani is a name from two thousand years ago. all their stars have been named and known and watched and sung about for longer than any individual human civilization. they have always known the eridian star was there.

Out of the near-infinite reasons of the past, present, and future, how many of them could have been caused by your actions? Every choice you make is less than a molecule in an ocean of cause and effect.

Yes, there was a reason for the earthquake, flood, or cancer. But it's not your fault. A bullet falling from the sky does not seek out someone who deserves to die. A drunk driver doesn't veer off the road to hit a teenager who just had sex for the first time. Glaucoma doesn't descend on sinful eyes.

Pain and tragedy is not sent to punish or bring glory to a higher power. It simply happens because somewhere in a line of collapsing dominoes, physics and biology tipped one over. There is no moral path that makes you too good for this world, nor too evil. The world simply is.

People have reasons to hurt each other. A dog will bite that hand that feeds if it is also the hand that beats. But then that dog will bite an innocent stranger because biting is all it knows.

Everything happens for a reason. Anything can be traced backward in time to an origin, and more often than not that origin is random, innocuous, and completely amoral.

A butterfly's wingbeat is a reason. There is no lesson to be learned, nor action to be taken. Tearing the wings off every one will not stop a hurricane. Terrible and beautiful things will continue to happen, as long as the world exists. The only thing we are destined to face is the indifference of the universe.