if i could do graces first person pov correct u know first thing i would write is ano/rexia memories coming back while hes starving. oh u knowwwwww that would fuck him up so bad. why is he good at this? why does starving and denying himself make him feel both v accomplished and horrifically scared? how do u self therapy memories of a restrictive eating disorder while in a v active starvation situation?
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once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business
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this might be a hot take (considering a lot of the posts on here i tend to see about grace re: leaving earth, anyway) but,
while obviously he didn’t deserve to have his consent disregarded and choice taken away, grace is selfish, not leaving earth. it’s not just cowardice at that point, it is him being a bad person. maybe it’s just because i’m very utilitarian in my philosophy, but grace gets given the world’s easiest trolly problem. your life to save the world. your death will be painless, any way you like, and (while admittedly this isn’t as clear in the movie) grace is literally the only option. there are only a million people with the coma gene. that’s nothing. absolutely nothing. grace was very possibly the only one who would’ve been able to carry out the mission and all his love of the fog and teaching and earth doesn’t make him less of a bad person for refusing to do that. he would’ve killed everyone on planet earth so he didn’t have to do the hard thing.
and while i really love aroace grace and the rep myself and many others see in that, i can’t help but feel like (personally, anyway) the line about him not even having a dog… it’s not meant to be saying ‘and therefore you’re worth less’. it’s not meant to be saying ‘we’re putting you on this ship because you have no one to miss you’. it’s manipulative, for sure, but i don’t think it’s meant to be a personal attack. i think if he had a family they would tell him to think of the millions of families like his he’d be dooming. the problem isn’t that his life is worth less because he has no partner, they know that his life is worth less than the entire world.
idk. i just wish i saw stuff like this explored more. i wanna see grace tell rocky he didn’t want to go and rocky be upset with him. i want grace to reckon with knowing he placed his fear above the lives of his entire planet. i wanna see grace addressed as a more morally grey character rather than a poor little guy who’s autonomy is more important than billions of lives because it’s not
men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers
There has to be a fic where Rocky doesn’t make it but he left Grace the instructions to get back so Grace has to go and try to save Rocky’s people before his body gives out since he doesn’t know if he’ll make it before synthesizing food, while trying to communicate without Rocky, I’m imagining he does make it and him and Adrian have to mourn together while waiting to see if it worked and if Rocky and Grace’s planets are saved
a lot has been said on the topic of "grace hiding that he was forced onto the hail mary so rocky doesn't think he's a coward" but i'd love for us to spend a moment meditating on grace hiding it so rocky doesn't think he's a bad person
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I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but I really do appreciate that Grace uses basic diy shit to solve complex problems despite having fancy tech/expensive equipment at his disposal the majority of the time (sans computer and biology equipment).
Going to Home Depot and using basic hardware tools to experiment with the astrophage despite having an internationally funded research lab. Bungee cords to navigate through the Mary in 0 g. Duct taping the shit out of individual bulbs for a flashlight despite there most likely being a better technical solution. Putting tape on the clock for Rocky's echolocation instead of using any initial tech.
There's a lot that can be analyzed from this alone, but what I love the most is its depiction of science. You don't need the biggest resources or fancy locations to solve problems and make discoveries: just curiosity, determination, and a lot of fuckin duct tape
Thinking about the deep secondhand embarrassment from the repetitive tapping scene and how it's caused by Rocky not understanding that Grace can't immediately tell there's an object in the room just by how the room sounds.
Thinking about how it’s almost immediately echoed in reverse by the tape measure scene, caused by Grace not understanding that Rocky can't tell the differences in how surfaces reflect light.
something im really enjoying about phm (novel) is how often grace coins new terms or phrases for things (taulight, xenonite, eridian even) and then follows up with something to the effect of “yeah that’s what i’m calling it. and you can’t do anything about it” hey man i wasnt gonna argue about it
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Okay, here's a vague book Rocky plush pattern and tutorial!
Please keep in mind that I know very very little about sewing, and the result I got came from me winging most of it and making a lot of mistakes. I don't at all suggest you follow this directly or use the exact same measurements as I did (which as you will notice, do not make any sense), so probably just use this to get a gist of what to do if you want it.
Also note that the carapace patterns were originally for a movie Rocky plush and they just came out wrong for me, so you may want to alter the carapace side panels when you make your own.
These are the wangjangled patterns I made, the excess paper outside the red shapes are the seam allowance which I gave myself a lot of to prepare for mistakes, but you can have as much or as little as you want. The red lines mark where I intended to sew, not where I cut the fabric (or really ended up sewing).
You can see how the measurements really don't make sense (the carapace top/bottom sides being different lengths, and different lengths than the top of the side panels and the suchlike), so for your own sanity, please make yours better than I did. Also, the arms are disproportionate to the carapace, if you're aiming to make it more book accurate maybe make them around 30cm long instead of 40.
Incoherent and vague tutorial with some simplified drawings under the cut:
You don't have to do this in the same order I did, and there are probably way better ways to do it, but this is vaguely how it went for me as I bullshitted my way through. I did a mix of machine sewing and hand sewing.
(Red lines indicate where to sew, please account for seam allowance.)
The radiator piece on top is just a smaller version of the carapace top pattern (hence why I didn't make it its own pattern) and the actual "vents" themselves are just lines of that 11 stitch on my sewing machine. There's a bunch of different ways you can emulate the vents, but if you have a sewing machine this is the easiest way I figured to do it.
Sew that onto the centre of the carapace piece. I also put a small stitch connecting it at the very middle to keep it centred.
Sew all the sides to the top. If you want to have the clean edges/seams, then make sure to sew the fabric like sides to like sides.
Then sew all the sides to the sides except one so he's vaguely shaped (and inside-out.)
Flip him upside down and sew the sides to the bottom carapace piece, except for one near the two sides that are still open.
Then sew those remaining side pieces together (keep the bottom open), and flip him right-side-in through the open hole at the bottom so the preferred side of the fabric is on the outside and the seams are hidden inside. You can stuff him now and sew up the bottom panel if you want, or you can do it after the arms are attached.
The arms are pretty simple, just fold the rectangle in half (on the blue line), sew up the open side and one end to make a tube, flip it right-side-in the so the seams are hidden, stuff it, and sew up the remaining open end. Do that 5 times.
For the hands, sew three finger panels to the three small edges of the hand panel. Do that 10 times.
Take 2 hands pieces and sew them together, leaving the side that will attach to the arm open. Flip it inside out, stuff it, and then sew up that final side. Do that 5 times.
Sew all 5 hands to all 5 arms.
And then sew the arms to the carapace! (And stuff the carapace and sew up that last hole if you didn't earlier.)
Book Rocky plush!
Again, I completely fenagled mine and if I had followed my patterns perfectly to a tee it probably would look very different. There's definitely different and better ways to do this, especially depending on what materials and tools you're using.
I'm not very good at explaining things, so feel free to ask any clarifying questions or shoot me an ask if anything doesn't make sense and I'll try my best to answer!