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there’s another line that stood out to me in the book, where amnesiac grace initially finds his dead crewmates, and he goes “i hope they weren’t friends of mine!” which imo is a crazy thing to say upon finding two corpses

then he spends months on the ship with rocky, slowly coming to terms with the fact that yes, he did volunteer for a suicide mission to save the world. he may be deeply scared and clearly not the first choice for the job, but he chose to do it. for the first time in years, he allows himself to sit with the self-evident reality that he is a good person, someone who is brave, someone who can rise to the occasion. the way he blossoms into a happier person while aboard the hail mary is due to his meeting with his soulmate, but it's also because his self-image is gradually reshaping itself for the first time in years.

then, of course, he finds out he didn't volunteer after all. he was forced onto the ship crying and screaming, a coward until the end. and of course, that's devastating.

but he's already reshaped himself.

Earth has the golden records room that is meant to be a history of Earth and what they did to try and save the planet, so if any intelligent creature finds the ship but no one alive? They’ll know what happened and some part of Earth’s history will live on.

But Rocky’s ship had the same thing. Rocky shows Grace, right before he remembers how exactly he got recruited for this mission, his ship’s records of Erid. Erid, like Earth, planned for their ship to be a living record of their planet should the mission fail and their planet dies.

Here we have Grace, freshly woken up from the coma he didn't want to be put in in the spaceship he didn't want to be put in. The room is small. Dark. There's only one window and it's not even real. The light is cold and artificial. Everything looks rigid and sterile and boring.

Grace himself is pretty constrained, in that weird sleeping body bag thing. The way he's laid down is with his head towards the outside of the sleeping pod. It's a vulnerable position.

Then we have Grace, living on Erid after who knows how many years. The window is massive and you can see the ocean outside. The lighting is yellowish/warm. He's got his good luck blanket and several pillows. There are curtains but they are willowy and translucent. There is beauty in this photo. The atmosphere sings of happiness.

Grace is making the bed in this shot. He's taking his time and having fun with it. He smoothes out the blanket after laying it out and probably walked all around the bed to straighten it out. His bed is positioned with his head pointing to the wall if he laid down. It's safe.

Two blue marbles in the night sky

Happy Pride Y'all!!!

I think it's time to show a little bit from our recent Flare photoshoot here because!!!

It really was a dream-come-true!!!

And I'm very normal about it!!!

And I have so many pictures to share!!!

RAAAAAH

Nothing to see here. Just two bros discussing heart surgery 😳🫀

But the kazachok, he danced really wunderbar!

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME