feeling very normal about phm

Filming at Portsmouth.

James Ortiz + the Rocketeers

While waiting for her mate to return Adrian spends her days studying the various soft flesh creatures on Erid. It's her job, her passion, and is almost enough to fill the emptiness that's been lurking inside her for over forty years. But during a normal day out in the field Erid government agents whisk her away to help solve a problem of theirs: A strange soft flesh being from another world that's missing an arm and clearly dying. What starts as what can best be described as a 'mild kidnapping' turns into so much more as Adrian decides that studying this strange alien creature also means befriending it. Assuming it wants to be befriended.

Chapter Thirty: In Which Adrian Returns to the Narrative Again

Good news! The new blood platelet creating medication hasn't caused the horrific side effects I was warned about! Well, cept for the full body aches. Good god, I feel like I ran a marathon and got run over by a truck at the same time. But hey, it's only for...a month...?

Decided to stick my leg into the Auguststellar art challenger for day one: patchwork.

N E way I really love graces quilt in the movie and it almost inspired me to learn how to quilt, so here, have a sketch of these guys having a nap under it (pretend rocky is wearing his xenonite suit because I didn't draw it (lazy)).

The chances of me following this challenge thing the whole month is like. So close to zero. Uni stars back up in a few days and I do have a job, but we'll see

*cue Stern Teacher Voice*

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Welcome to Day 1 of the Augustellar 2026: Project Hail Mary Creative Challenge! We will be posting the Prompt of the Day every morning at 8AM EST. You are allowed to start posting for that daily prompt at 12:01AM in your time zone!

Today's prompt is Patchwork! Is this in reference to Grace's quilt, or perhaps the patch jobs Rocky has to do to the Hail Mary on the trip back to Erid? Or does something else come to mind?

chapter 29!! I debated making this drawing the moment in the movie where Grace and Rocky reunite, but i thought that might be harder to do with the chapter text in the middle there, so i chose to do the leap of faith moment instead!!

hey i always said i dont care too much about spoilers in the illustrations!

Here's the first few pages! I'll link the zine down below, as I've published it on Zines Forever (which is a very cool website). It's like 26 pages long so I don't want to dump all that here. It includes stuff mostly from Andy Weir's Eridian doc, and also some interludes with observations and hypotheticals of my own. Enjoy!

Grace sends this off as a "fuck you" to Stratt and unintentionally eases 40+ years of horrific guilt.

(40+ factoring in the Hail Mary mission, then the time it would take to get back to Erid and the time it would take for the message to get to Earth. Probably closer to 50+ actually).

Stratt: "hmm what do you think dr grace?"

Grace: wow what a crazy plan that would take an absurd amount of power to accomplish and have far-reaching impacts "yeah it's feasible, i'd go with it"

Stratt: "alright, you heard him, do it"