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i’m fixing him [wet squelching noises]

project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

#Don’t forget ‘what if puppetry was treated as a serious artform’ (via @specialagentartemis)

i think grace teaching on erid was rocky babytrapping him. i think at one point grace was like the only thing i miss about earth is teaching my kids and rocky was like hmm...rocky make some calls.

and you know rocky is so proud of himself when he shows off the classroom he's like i made you all of this AND eridian young are soooooo much cuter than human young ❤️️

trying to write book grace, and the way I'm approaching him is that he's capable of feeling extremely sympathetic towards stratt on the rare occasion where she drops her professional façade and shows vulnerability around him (which seems to be more often than anyone else on the project, if we take the coma gene decision as an example). he's a fundamentally good guy at heart and he wants to help. the problem is that socio-academic death can do a number on a guy's ego, so he is mentally and emotionally hardwired towards self-preservation and building up elaborate narratives to protect himself. man loves his narratives #hisnarratives. and unfortunately the one he built for stratt cannot include weakness or remorse or her needing to rely on him in any way. which can make him flip flop between how he treats her very fast because seeing her in pain makes him instinctively go both "here, how can i help" and "huh. that's not right. What's wrong with you" at the same time. infuriating dynamic to be on the other end of, alas.

im not horny it’s something else entirely. really wish there was a word for it

i think i just want to run. Like i just want to run

the eternal question: is grace pov innately cringe inducing or am i bad at writing

i am deciding to blame it on grace. his fault 👍

also the gravity flips around from one way at the top, to zero, to the other way at the bottom. It’s a whole thing.

The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.

clenches fist. do you know what miska is not doing right now. Do you know what he is sitting and thinking about doing but not actually doing right now. Do you want to guess.