Stevi's Habitat

truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

book!grace who told stratt to go to hell.

Also this is the only time in the whole movie where he actually looks like Ryan Gosling.

gnashing my teeth at how if eridians live underground and also their sleep cycle is unpredictable it makes no sense for their primary measure of time to correlate to erid's day and if they only even learnt about space very recently it makes no sense for them to measure a year by erid's orbit of its sun. but i do not know enough about anything to work out what their calendars should be based on instead. like i cannot reinvent measuring time from base principles for my fic. but auuuugh the pedant nerd in me really really really WANTS to

basically all human timekeeping is rooted in visuals and i do not think andy weir really truly reckoned with that. the movement of the sun and the moon!! like yes okay we've all agreed on what a second Is but we did that. SO recently. seconds are actually really new!!! CLOCKS are really new!!!!!! i do think it makes sense for eridians to have an exact way of measuring time, but. the IMPLICATIONS. like okay DID they start with seconds actually because of sound. how well do they hear their own heartbeat?? is an eridian second an eridian heartbeat. i think it is now