I love all mah spiky sons

there's this ridiculously soulmatey line in the phm book when grace is just kinda idly wondering aloud about why human and eridian technology are at such similar phases of development, and without thinking about it much rocky responds "has to be, or you and I would not meet." which he goes on to explain as (paraphrasing here) "if either planet were less advanced then we couldn't have built interstellar ships, but if either were more advanced then we could have dealt with the astrophage problem from home, so we'd have to be at around the same level to both be here, that's the only way it would make sense." what it sounds like though is "oh, that's easy: the two of us had to meet so the history of both of our entire species lined up in preparation to make it possible." what kind of tau-ceti-crossed red-petrova-line-of-fate nonsense is this.

rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and grace's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.

OMG STFU WAIT EVERYBODY KNOWS RYLAND EATS TWIZZLERS AND ITS LIKE ONE OF HIS MAIN THINGS BUT HES LITERALLY EATING A PETROVA LINE. THE LEADING SCIENTIST IN ASTROPHAGE RESEARCH AND BREEDING IS EATING AN EDIBLE RED LINE LIKE THE PETROVA LINE ONG IF SOMEONE DOES NOT COME UP WITH THE FANART RN

rocky phm makes me unwell to even think about because what do you Mean he haunted that ship like a ghost clinging to its unfinished purpose for decades until another lonely ghost found him by following a trail of death spanning time and space and they loved each other back to life

I love the tapping scene so much. You just know Rocky is screaming at Grace to look behind him. Plus it’s the only time we see Rocky genuinely That Frustrated. Rocky lost his fucking shit, statement.

you’re going to love again, find a job again, create art again, do what you love again, feel powerful again. you’re going to be back on track. i don’t know when, but you are going to feel like yourself again, eventually. this isn’t the end. hang in there.