Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
book!grace and movie!rocky had to be separated because their freak levels are so ungodly high that being in a spaceship together for four years would cause the universe to collapse upon itself. like, movie!grace and book!rocky are freaks within their own rights but unfortunately it’s pretty hard to top (ha) a nerd who’s suspiciously into medplay and a nudist that eats in front of people
What if the general population of earth never finds out that Grace was forced onto the mission? Not until 50 years later when all the phm files are declassified and suddenly youtube is plastered with clips of Grace waking from his coma, stumbling around the mary, alone and confused and scared and overwhelmed (the public was only ever given the footage of Grace doing big science, being the selfless hero that the petrova task force needed him ((forced him)) to be).
After half a century of lauding Ryland Grace as possibly the most courageous human ever to have lived, there are now hundreds of biographies, textbooks, and wiki articles that require a rather solemn revised edition.
when she showed up at the school, he was already her solution. she'd talked to everyone in his specific field, and they all told her if he hadn't crashed his career, he would have been leading it by now.
he's the best and she needs the best.
i think she considered putting him as the first choice for science officer, but after being around him for even just a few hours, she realized that nope, oh no, definitely not. he is not an astronaut, he'd never go willingly.
so she found dubois and shapiro, two more of the best of the best, thinking it's enough. grace is her third choice because she went soft on him the moment she met him. logically, it should have been him. he is the leading scientist on astrophage research.
he attended every important meeting, followed her around the world, and his pure talent and skill is not something that could ever be taught.
grace was her solution — but she did not want him to be. so he wasn't.
(he was hers and she was his, and she has to justify her choices to no one except herself.)
stratt tried everything and anything to keep him off that list, and maybe she should have felt guilty for treating him differently, for putting him on a pedestal with a sign that says 'do not touch', but she didn't.
selfishly stupid, she thought she could get away with it and cling to the one thing that makes her human.
"i don't care who wants to go. i care who's most qualified."
but that isn't quite true, is it?
because he was always the most qualified, the best of herself, the best of humanity, the best chance. yet she took him off the list entirely until fate forced her to confront what she had been avoiding all this time: there is nothing sacred left for her.
the one thing that corrupted her (that made her smile and laugh, that made her soft and strong and someone, a real person) was going to break apart in her hands.
did she wonder if she could have prepared him better? if he would have gone willingly had she not hidden him away? if she had been less selfish, less fascinated, less enamoured by him and just put him first on the damn list?
you are my solution.
(i'm sorry i never told you, i should have.
i hope you hate me even half as much as i hate myself.
i hope you forget about me, i hope you never remember me.
i hope you breathe without guilt and die without shame, and i hope it's all mine to carry.)
maybe there's a sense to it all, in the end, or maybe they both lie awake at night thinking, what if i had been brave?
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
#i’m gonna miss ilyukina what an icon #enjoy your heroin girl thanks for all the unhinged interviews 🫡 #so sad to hear about dubois and shapiro
3 notes
🖼️ potat-oh-sh1t reblogged
🩻 foucaussy Follow
Okay so I did some research into the new science specialist (Ryland Grace) and he wrote the most insane dissertation possibly ever???
🩻 foucaussy
Some of my favourite parts:
#HELP #ryland grace #project hail mary #space
2,097 notes
🪩 astrofaggot69 reblogged
🎹 jazz-onthemoon Follow
hey remember when they tried to sue eva stratt for breaking every single copyright law and she walked out mid-trial? i’m obsessed with her
🌆 matrixhamlet Follow
OP is obsessed with a dictator who destroyed the ecology of Northern Africa by hiring a murderer to pave the Sahara desert and who literally blew up Antarctica btw
🎹 jazz-onthemoon
god forbid women do anything
🌇 matrixhamlet
STOP calling Stratt a girlboss. People will excuse anything she does under the guise of “feminism” while completely ignoring that she’s a white German woman causing extensive ecological damage that will disproportionately affect people of color. Fuck you and fuck Eva Stratt I hope she goes to prison for life after all this
📜 girl-pentheus Follow
While stratt’s definitely caused environmental damage, both projects you mentioned were in earth’s best interest: the paving of the sahara was to get enough astrophage for the mission that’s literally our last hope for survival (and the countries get to keep the infrastructure afterwards), and antactica was to minimize climate cooling. There’s a lot to question ethically but it’s not as straightforward as you’re making it sound. And yeah this will most heavily impact third world countries but the astrophage crisis was going to do that already??? I just don’t think you can blame the racist structures of the global economy on one woman and frankly people’s tendency to pin everything on her is a bit misogynistic.
Also she’s dutch, not german.
🛤️ muppetmanimeanthey Follow
have we considered that all of the above can be true? stratt is first and foremost privileged as a white woman, but also falls into the “glass cliff” phenomenon — put in a temporary position of
View post
#reblogging this in honour of stratt’s immunity ending #god the notes are a nightmare lol #politics
10,243 notes
🌁 six-seven-of-nine
launch liveblog everybody strap in
🌁 six-seven-of-nine
wait where’s dubois why isnt he with the others
🌁 six-seven-of-nine
THEYRE SENDING MY SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE TEACHER TO SPACE?!?!?!?!?!
#lowkey doxxing myself with this but WHAT #i didnt even know he had a doctorate #i remember seeing his name in articles and thinking it looked familiar but i didnt clock it until they showed his photo just now #edit: he was a great science teacher for all the people asking
6,628 notes
🖼️ potat-oh-sh1t reblogged
🌠 lokkenandbarbie Follow
Okay updated version for the new crew
FMK: project Hail Mary astronaut edition
Fuck yao marry ilyukhina kill grace
Fuck yao marry grace kill ilyukhina
Fuck ilyukhina marry yao kill grace
Fuck ilyukhina marry grace kill yao
Fuck grace marry yao kill ilyukhina
Fuck grace marry ilyukhina kill yao
Bald
Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours
And don’t come after me with the “oh this is so disrespectful to their sacrifice” bs again, you know ilyukhina would have loved it
In retrospect, it's hilarious that Stratt made everybody on the vat speak English in deference to Grace being monolingual
Because with how quickly Grace was able to pick up Eridian, even with literally NOTHING about it being familiar the way a human language would be, they probably could have chosen Mandarin as the universal language on Stratt's Vat and he would have just. Learned it.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I am not sorry. People say I should be. But I am not.
I wish things had gone differently. I wish Shapiro and Dubois had not died. I wish you had not run. I wish you had been less of a coward.
Sometimes, in my weakest moments, I even wish I had loved humanity a little less. Because if I had loved them any less I might have chosen you. Might have let billions die to delay the launch. To train and send someone else.
But it is not who I am. And I knew who you were. Knew you would run. Knew you would save us all anyways.
You were my solution, and I was right. If it is any consolation, I was also right about spending my life in prison, now that I am no longer necessary.
I am not sorry. But you were my friend. And I do miss you.
…
And if you are gone… if you did not make it to Erid, and I am speaking to a room full of eridians,
Please know that I - that earth, did not betray Dr. Grace out of a lack of love for him. We did it because we loved him. Loved him so much we trusted him to save us.
As you must have loved your crew.
Goodbye Dr. Grace, savior of two worlds, and the only one who was ever truly by my side. I commend your body to the stars, for a second time.
- Eva stratt’s message to Erid, in a probe with taumeba (and a pack of sour skittles), just in case.
thinking about when simon was in the crawlspace trying to get the engine to start, and then he's startled by THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS WALKING IN THE SUB AND PUTTING TAPE ON THE BUTTON?!?!??! literally like an echoed soundbite of the scene right before he went into the crawlspace?? true eldritch fuckery. i love being right there with him in his delirium, not knowing what's real and what's not. simon's being fucked with and so are we, because we are him.
haven't seen anyone else talk about this. it took me a couple watches to notice, but you can literally hear the tape UNROLL.
I feel like this falls into the same category as simon seeing the bloody figure sitting at the controls, which I've seen people say is what he turns into by the end of the film, and I agree, with the mutations and the missing arm, YES.
there's this blending of past/present/future throughout the film that is done super well because simon is not only haunted by his past, but also his future; he just wants his freedom, he just wants to live... but not everyone gets to be saved. which then ties back into the whole concept of the quiet rapture, the massive, catastrophic event that killed almost the entire human population. nobody could save them. not even if they wanted to.
Okay, having watched the movie a second time, I was really paying attention to the flashbacks. Plus the sound was really crisp this time around. I have a few notes I can make. This is the full extent of what we actually get to learn about Simon in the movie. Full analysis and spoilers under the cut.
There are four main scenes I base this analysis on: the flashback during the concussion, the flashback when he falls asleep at the control panel, the storm of voices after he regains contact with Ava and she sents him to retrieve the black box, and finally, the ending sequence.
In what I perceive the order of events to go, Simon was born on a planet, not on Eden station. In the storm of voices, we hear his mother saying "c'mon, it has a tree! It'll be just like home. Simon, don't be like that." implying he moved to Eden at an early age.
In the flashback scene with the tree, we see the planets disappearing in real time before their eyes. So, the young actor for Simon is how old he was when the Rapture happened. A fun detail is that in the game no one was actually looking at the planets and stars when they faded, so this is a divergence between the movie and the game, cementing what Szymanski said about them being different continuities.
Shortly after that, Eden Station festered a defeatist death cult, probably because they had the last trees and plants alive. Simon's mother joined in, so he joined in as well, he was just a kid after all, listening to the adults in his life. Then again, I find it interesting that the voices at the end say his mother wouldn't recognize him after he became a killer - then in the same breath say death was all she taught him.
We know Eden has a religious/spiritual motif going on, with that preaching Father, with how Simon calls other Eden people "brothers", how they all get a pendant with a germinating seed, and the tattoo and X/cross motifs that we see across the movie. Simon's tattoo was shaped like an X (you can see where it was burnt off in some parts of the movie), and when he finds the pendant in the terminal, there was a little paper or tape X attached to it and the message.
The tree died at some point, but they said it would live again, because when there is no more soil, their bodies would become the tree's soil. I don't know when the tree died, but it might have been before little Simon killed all those other kids (or adults? I think they were kids his age). A friend of mine pointed out they were trying to return the universe to nature in the absence of humans, preparing and making way for the plants to come. "Add a little ecofascism as a treat".
Simon, as a child, slaughtered a lot of people in the name of the cult, so much he had the highest body count and was nicknamed "Simon the Butcher". He received a knife and holster from his mother, and he still owns the holster. He keeps it in his vest/shirt, and can be seen rubbing it under his hands for comfort several times during the movie.
But as Simon grew up, he wanted to escape the cult. He still somewhat agreed with Eden that there was no point in humanity trying to stay alive - given his line to Ava that "Eden didn't delude themselves with hopes for survival if everyone believes enough". But he eventually grew up enough to disagree with the cult. He wanted to live, and he wanted others to live, in his own rebel way.
When Eden invaded Filament Station, he tried to stop it from being destroyed, and in doing so, took all the blame for it. 62 people from Filament died, not counting anyone from Eden. He surrendered, no questions asked. He appears as an adult in that flashback of watching the soldier die in fire, indicating it wasn't long ago. Ava was in charge of him as a convict, as we see in the storm of voices scene.
Another difference from the game is that the movie explicitly states Filament Station was destroyed, when in the game it was rendered uninhabitable due to a breach in the reactor core, which, wouldn't you guess it, leaked radiation everywhere.
Some lines he says later on to the Speaker, about everyone blaming him for Filament, give me the idea he still thinks that was his only guilt, or his only blame. He seems in denial of the blame of killing the other kids. Maybe he's repressing it, clinging to an idea of being innocent, or maybe he doesn't think he's to blame when he was manipulated into a cult as a kid. EDIT: analysis here.
I find it fascinating, to connect that little butcher to the Simon we know in the movie, someone who even apologized to the control panel of the submarine after he punched it. I like the way the movie humanizes killers, reminds us they are not monsters, but people like us.
"Simon the Butcher, lost his nerve" was told to him by that same brother from Eden, the guy who told him to cross the wires. He implied that after everyone Simon killed as a child, he lost his bravery and devotion to death once he was in Filament Station.
Simon probably had to kill some of his Brothers from Eden when trying to stop Filament's destruction. A voice in the flashback of voices say "You'll have to kill your own brothers to stop this!" To which he replies "you're not my brother."
At the end of the movie, Simon even needs to use the knife holster he still kept to tie the life-vest together around the blackbox. That holster follows Simon across the movie up until it can be seen in the last shot of the blackbox, clear as day. Yeah, and at the end there, he does say "oh please, keep this safe, okay mom? It's more than me." He directly mentions his mother.
And, that's about the extent I could gather of Simon's past and backstory in movie continuity. I hope it was useful!
Update: omg y'all thanks so much for the response to this post. I'm really glad I could contribute to you as a lore guide.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Jody being so obviously the only one for Colt that people shipped Tom Ryder with his twin Ryland Grace instead. Starstruck starting out as crack but is now the most popular crossover ship in phm after bloodymary, the fans work hard.
Aerospace Engineer Looks at SM-13 for the First Time
So, I'm friends with someone who makes airplanes for a living. They wish to remain anon. I tossed them some SM-13 renders to see if they could make anything of it (for wiki purposes), and got this in response...
theartofmadeline
gummygunk
