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The thing about collecting creepy porcelain dolls is that, yes, they're scary, but, also, I know them. That's Violet and her head flops around weird when you move her, she's been my roommate for 3 years. That's Gretchen, she's definitely possessed, I found her on the bottom shelf at the thrift store. Tibby looks down at me every night with her dead eyes and watches over my sleep. They are my babies, my friends, I know them, don't worry about it.

If I had a nickel for every particular friendship in the Karasuno VBC between a light-haired character who's name starts with an 's' sound and is 4 syllables but is often shortened to just the first 2 syllables, and a dark-haired player in their same year who is generally called by the longer of their 2 names in the manga and the shorter of the 2 in the anime and is captain in their 3rd year, and one of the characters has a short simple hairstyle while the other has shaggier hair with a little cowlick in the back, and their jersey numbers are sequential including a 1 and then a 2 I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

I like to imagine that anytime a player is sitting out because of an injury or whatever and they have a towel over their head, it's kind of like blinders on a horse, so they can't see the action and get worked up and injure themselves more, y'know?

So in the book there are a few days that Grace spends locked up in a room before the hail mary leaves, this is of course devastatingly tragic, to sit and stew and know that no one is coming to save you. However, I can't stop thinking about the movie, where Grace takes a couple of hours and says no and then is immediately drugged and put on the ship. Because. Stratt must have already had his stuff packed up. She must have already gathered his things, had his uniforms prepped, had his information and identification uploaded to the ship, she had to have removed all traces of DuBois and replaced it all with Grace. The moment DuBois and Shapiro were declared dead she already had a plan to put Grace on the ship. Hell, she had the plan in place even before anything happened to the science officers, just as a contingency. Grace was getting on that ship and Stratt gave him as much time as possible to convince himself that it was his choice, but she always knew that it wasn't. And I don't know if that makes her more sympathetic or more cruel, but, god, does it make me sad.

Reading manga is great because it's funny and entertaining and heart-wrenching and awesome, but it's not so great because I'm scrolling tumblr trying to read various fan comics and reading them in the wrong direction and confusing myself

Oh, wow! I've never actually met, like, a real gay couple before, that's soooo crazy! So, like, which one of you is the beta male and which is the invertebrate creature?

Sorry guys, don't mind me as I make 15 million posts about Project Hail Mary. It's totally fine, don't worry about it.

My recommendation for anyone wanting to watch/read Project Hail Mary is to watch the movie first. You get the overall vibes of the story, plus the exceptional pacing and characterization. Then read the book, you'll get a lot more details about the science of it all. There's so much detail and in-depth exploration of the world. The entire book is basically Grace's stream-of-consciousness, so you also get a closer look at his internal thought process as well. Then, go rewatch the movie. You can pick out more details and notice all the little things that reference the book but are not fully explored. Then just rewatch and reread the book over and over in perpetuity.

I would just like to take a moment to appreciate how beautiful Project Hail Mary is. The visuals are absolutely stunning, the effects are gorgeous, the soundtrack is a work of art, the whole thing is just so beautiful. I definitely feel as though we've been backsliding when it comes to effects and cgi in movies lately, but phm is just genuinely so beautiful and well done. There's so much more to it than just the aesthetics, but goddamn the aesthetics do a good job.