Me Myself and I

Yáo Li-Jie & Olesya Ilyukhina

I love this ask, thank you so much for this!!

It was incredibly selfish of Grace to refuse. Yes, consent is important, and not wanting to die is a basic human need, but he was the best option. It was what, nine days to launch? Two weeks, maximum? That’s not enough time for someone to become an expert in Astrophage, and Grace was probably the only expert!!!

Stratt was weighing and mitigating every single risk. The risk of putting people in a coma vs keeping them awake, the risk of designing zero gravity technology vs creating gravity, the risk of throwing the planet into global warming to buy some time. She is not going to gamble the fate of the planet on a stranger!!

In the book, Stratt does not tell Grace he “doesn’t even have a dog.” She doesn’t imply your life is worthless because you aren’t married with kids. No, she says “you are a coward.” She says do not lie to me and say it’s about the kids, if you cared about those kids you would get on that ship.

I love Grace. I love Grace dearly. But I think because he is the main character and everyone’s tragic blorbo we villainize Stratt far too much.

Yes, one woman should not be able to decide the fate of one man.

Immediately after the attack, he felt as though part of his self had been killed in it. He doesn't get why he feels that way. He's alive. He's survived it. Whatever that animal was—if it even was an animal—had bit down on his side hard. Spared him the mercy of being maimed to death. He should be feeling relieved. He had been granted the chance to tell the tale.

His head spins, his body hurts, and all he's feeling is that a part of him is bleeding out along with the blood coming out from the bite wound.

and california never felt like home to me, california never felt like home california never felt like home to me, until i had you on the open road — drive, halsey

I did another Grace in digital, I don't know, thre is something in his design that makes me want to draw him.

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.