Strider

Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

beaches yah yah yah...so the first mention of the beach in project hail mary is when grace is in the dont go crazy room and sees himself walking on the beach and then the waves are actually crashing on his shoes but the alarm for engine cutoff starts blaring. lord and miller confirmed that this was ryland seeing himself in the future, but his present self doesnt know what it means but there is comfort in the fact that he will be safe one day, he just doesnt know how he gets there. then he meets rocky, my little chud, and rocky changes his word view in so many ways. similar to how tides change the beach. there is a bigger force, i.e. the moon, that controls the tide. and there is a bigger force at play that brought rocky and grace together, the petrova line, their red string of fate. the tide shapes the beach every day, and the beach changes every day. which brings me to the quote i started this off with. ryland is right! you will always be looking at a different beach because of the tide, because of the moon, because of the people that visit the beach, because of the wind that moves the sand, because of the seagulls that fly overhead. even if the beach changes every day, there will still always be a beach no matter how much it changes. and i think there is something so special about the beach being the first thing that grace shows rocky, his first little peak of earth. ryland shows him trees, and new york, and the mountains, and even the movie rocky. he teaches him how to surf, how to fight, how to fish. but it always comes back to beaches. there is calm and there are waves crashing and there is the sound of seagulls squawking and there is sand between your fingers and there is fog to be surrounded by. in the end, grace chooses the beach. he could have asked the eridians to build him a city, a mansion, a replica of earth because they would have, they definitely would have, they love him. but he goes back to his roots, back to the beach. back to the fog and the trees and the sand. back to the crashing waves and back to teaching. back to himself.  

me: oh so you get it

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ga2BzR_YcrA&si=v9FWTeMsDJaRzmnp

fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*

Shinji Chair Kaladin

I don’t get how ppl still ship jyn and cassian after watching andor like….Cassian literally fought for bix. Because of her. Because she believed in him. He died for her. they had one of the most beautiful on screen romances I ever saw. I didn’t rly see jyn and cassian as a romantic relationship before andor but definitely not acter andor—it doesn’t even make sense like. It also bothers me that people can’t accept that a man and a woman can have a very deep and beautiful relationship without it being romantic!! Like yes jyn and cassian shared something so intense and beautiful and no that does not mean they were in love with each other.

And omg I love this edit - Purple Rain is perfect!