Invisible Pretty Birdies Singing in the Dark

Carrousel on fire in Bergamo, November 22, 2017 Photographer: Oli Freuler

“You sleep, I observe,” I said quietly feeling content and suspiciously happy when Rocky nuzzled closer and made himself comfortable before drifting to sleep. I am going to cuddle him as soon as I finish working on my notes about Eridian’s regeneration process. Learned from bitter experience, oxygen is bad bad bad for Eridians. If Rocky has any complaints about waking up with me hugging him like a lanky four limbed octopus, he keeps those complains to himself. Which isn’t usually a case, quite the opposite, Rocky is very vocal about his complains. So it stands to reason he enjoys cuddling as much as I do.

“You sleep, I observe” is their unbreakable promise to each other. You are safe, I am here, I protect you - if I think about them being so soft to each other too much, I start sobbing again

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

I noticed this right off at first viewing and the second time it was just a delight to watch again: Ryland Grace has this almost immediate effect on people: he causes them to loosen up and just play. People immediately love him and thaw around him. Of course his students love him. But also, Carl melts into someone who is willing to play bowling for foil in the aisle of a hardware store and buy about 50 packs of skittles. The PHM team goes from a team of hardnose professionals who just met a weirdo, to bantering back at him after only a minute or two. Stratt, too, is affected by the warmth of his sun. But tragically, she can't let herself get too close to him (or anyone on this project) because of the kinds of decisions she was hired to make. The movie did this REALLY well, by the way. You can see how heartbreaking it is for her throughout the whole piece.

one way trips

its one thing for grace to see the stars and rocky can't, its another thing for grace to see an explosion before feeling the shockwave

When Rocky, defeated, gives up and asks, Grace admits that he organized them by color, he says it is too explain better how color works to his students, associating certain frequencies or textures with certain colors, but the true is that Grace just wanted to organize his classrroom as a rainbow.

So here it is on its own.

i feel like they would get along SO well plus ms. frizzle could solve the petrova problem in one episode easy

More silly Rocky tries coffee for the first time sketches, since I wanted to draw some lil Eridians.

this movie is like crack to me idk

dr ryland "bad lab practice" grace

I'm here, buddy.

I adore this movie so so much, it hurts.