I love all mah spiky sons

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

Its actually so important to me that Ryland Grace is a teacher. Not a professor, not someone at the top of their field teaching the smartest people, but a middle school science teacher. Of course he figured out how to communicate with an alien in under a day. His main expertise is explaining complex subjects to a group that doesnt have the vocabulary or context to fully understand them. He knows exactly how to simplify things down to its core principles without sacrificing any of the scientific logic. And he knows how to do it without having to throw around hyperspecific terminology.

Eva Stratt really did bring a nervous shaking dog into a room full of wolves and said everybody clap for him or I’ll blow this whole building up. Absolutely nobody is doing it like her. Captain of the Pathetic Little Guy Club.