A Study In Whatever

and come to think of it it’s pretty hilarious that all it took for me to understand the appeal of ryan gosling was to take away all his love interests and shoot him into outer space. like i’m still not gonna watch any of that other stuff but seeing him break his nose against the control panel of a burning spaceship really opened my eyes

woah this ryan gosling guy is kinda cute. has anyone else thought of this

there are many reasons one might choose to let grace swear. however. i think the idea. of having a guy who represses some of his instincts to the point the effort is largely subconscious AND doesnt even un-repress them once hes free to basically do whatever he wants. well. i just think that idea has a certain appeal.

Rocky assuming from his research that Grace is going to get space madness on the way to Erid but his friend keeps being fine, Rocky is doing a great job with his enrichment schedule and Grace doesn’t like the food (omg who caresssssssss) but is otherwise just, doing okay. Gets dressed every waking cycle like always, jokes about keeping it professional. Rocky’s efforts—and he’s making a lot of efforts—are fixing it. The Blip-A was a much bigger vessel with a lot more constantly going wrong with it, and the maintenance tasks here are so much easier to keep on top of, and nothing is slipping out of acceptable margins, and Grace looks to and smiles at him all of the time and won’t admit to anything being wrong with him and then Rocky of the 22 crewmembers all trying to absolve each other as they died is the one who gets the space madness.

actually i think andy weir's boldest writing choice in project hail mary isn't the twist that "grace was a coward & had to be forced onto the mission" which then makes his decision to potentially die to save rocky & erid so beautiful. no, the BOLDEST choice is that what triggers grace's first memory of the petrova line & astrophage at the very beginning of the book (thus kicking off the entire plot) is seeing a line of his dick blood on the floor after yanking out a still-inflated catheter

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

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in the automobile. straight up “wreaking it.” And by “it,” haha, well. let’s justr say. my hooter.

no no, I realise it, I’m just still driving despite the check engine light being on