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We all have to make sacrifices. If I have to be the world's whipping boy to secure our salvation, then that's my sacrifice to make.

I haven’t seen this comparison made yet—we talk about Ryland walking toward himself on the beach as a type of foreshadowing—BUT LOOK the figure Rocky makes of Grace in the beginning of the movie is the EXACT POSE Grace makes when he comes back to save Rocky in the end and is banging on the glass!!!!

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

god this is dumb (original)

Anyone care for a me-burger?

(Close-ups under the cut)

grace burning up one of his arms putting rocky back in his atmosphere to save his life (book) and rocky burning himself to save grace's life (both)

the plaques on both their ships that show their people looking to the hail mary and the blip-a and hoping, and waiting (movie)

ryland erasing the 'who am i' board to make the calculations to find rocky, because he knows who he is now (movie)

grace being the first thing to give rocky hope in 46 years (book)

the way grace and rocky find a middle ground between their languages and slowly adopt eachothers grammar and ways of talking (book)

the track where grace goes to save rocky being called 'believe in the hail mary' + the track where grace finds the plaques being called 'humanity' - because its such an inherently human thing. (movie)

grace finding his way home, back to where he always wanted to be, even if he is changed and he is brave, still always remaining a teacher. succeeding because he is a teacher. never really losing who he is, not in the slightest (both)

grace never even for a second considering leaving or even celebrating when he had taumobea that could survive venus, because threeworld still needed taumobea too, no matter how anxious grace always was to work so fast (book)

grace knowing that he would die when he turned around to save rocky and still doing it anyway because he wasn't afraid of dying anymore (book)

"you just need to find someone to be brave for" (movie)

every single parallel or shot that shows how far grace has come (movie)

eva really was the only one to truly believe in grace as a person. she trusted him to find out what was going on with astrophage, she trusted him on the taskforce to talk to the astronauts, and she trusted him to save everyone. (book)

the hail mary serving almost as a time capsule, for if the mission didn't work. something to say "we were here, despite it all, and we tried." (both, but especially the movie) - rylands quilt being made up of different patches presumably made by so many different people, a reminder of earth he still carries with him, and the drawings done by kids of the world and its people. the reminders of earth aboard the hail mary

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.