It cat. It yum.

i don't care if we 'don't have a description of adrian in the book' or 'don't see adrian in the movie' they ARE Cool Toned and Pointy and Tall and bad as hell, statement.

aand grace sitting there in the bar alone while everyone is lauhhing and talkjng and then his only friend was rocky and the way he tried so hard to keep the mission up even after he thought that rocky died and he was so happy to show rocky his findings im so sick im crying big fat tears

I find it so strange that Stratt's "yeah, after the launch I'll end up in prison until the end of my life, no big deal" wasn't included in the movie. Like, Grace does ask her what her plans are for the next twenty years. Why isn't the answer there. It's great that she has a prison tattoo when she gets the beatles, it's great that we have the director's confirmation that she was in prison and escaped (?), but. a) it's very much Not Obvious if you just watch the movie and don't know what prison tattoos look like. b) I feel like this is such a significant part of her character? her being absolutely ready to sacrifice it all and knowing from the start what the price of saving the world will be? it hits so hard in the book, along with the "oh, I will [go to hell]. you three are going to Tau Ceti, the rest of us are going to hell". Why wasn't it there. Give me the woman who is readily and willingly tying herself to those trolley tracks and refuses to see that as a big sacrifice or be pitied about it. I love her so much.

Grace getting anemia due to the lack of human food in Erid and that stresses Rocky the fuck out. "Why Grace sit down again, question?" "Ah, sorry buddy, I just got a little dizzy." "Grace tired so soon, question? Humans weak." "Why Grace out of breath?! Is Grace dying, question?! Bad bad bad!!!"

Book!Rocky seems to be pretty insecure, considering his "I'm not smart science eridian" and general inability to accept a compliment; I'd argue he internalized his failures to catch/study astrophage as "I'm a faliure" (and also probably had impostor syndrome to begin with). So... do we think he ever had a moment (or more than a moment) of "oh shit, this human might decide I'm not smart enough for this, he'll totally ditch me when he finds out and I'll be all alone again"?..

Grace shows Rocky “the history of the entire world i guess” to teach him about earth history

Eva Stratt and Ryland Grace are the epitome of “I made you stronger.” – “But I didn't want to be.”

underrated bit from phm is rocky saying "fist me" and "fist my bump" whenever they do a fist bump through the xenonite barrier. 10/10 word play, and a good chance rocky keeps doing it on purpose because it loves the expression grace makes every time

just saw a tag that said ryland grace is First Contact Georg and I'm cackling

every time i see an edit captioned with an aggressive “NOT A SHIP” i ship it even harder