i did not realize that cuteness aggression was a thing until i saw eridian children.
LIKE CMON LOOK AT THE LIL GUYS
iāve started doing this grabby-claw-hand thing towards anything i find cute and the small eridians are just. the peak of the feeling i get that makes me do it
alsoāi love rocky so much but i donāt find him very cute. though thatās just because i read the book and i know that heās much more intelligent than he seems at times so. i donāt want to look down on him. but the kids are adorable
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watching doctor who ten years after you first watched it is an insane feeling
because the same episode that gave me nightmares of my entire family morphing into monsters with gas masks for faces when i was 11 is now my favorite episode of all time because the doctor and rose dance to glenn miller and actually have a happy ending for once.
and also jack harkness is introduced and i love that man
in the movie, rylandās decision to save rocky is revealed to us by him telling stratt that she was right about him on the video he put in the beetles, then launching them.
however, in the book, it goes something like this (slightly edited for brevity):
ā¦the other option: launch the beetlesāall four of them. Each with their own Taumoeba mini-farm and a USB stick full of data and findings.
So thatās what iām left with. Option 1: Go home a hero and save all of humanity. Option 2: Go to Erid, save an alien species, and starve to death shortly after.
I sob into my hands. All I see when I close my eyes is Rockyās dumb carapace and his little arms always fidgeting with something.
Itās been six weeks since I made my decision. It wasnāt easy, but iām sticking with it.
āSorry, Rocky,ā I say.
I spot a tiny speck of Petrova light. I zoom in and search that area. A total of four little dots, barely visible, are on the monitor.
āI know youād love a beetle to take apart, but I couldnāt spare one.ā
The beetles, with much smaller spin drives, wonāt be visible for much longer. Especially with them zooming off toward Earth and me headed the opposite direction toward the Blip-A.
peak, peak, peak, and peak!! absolute peak!!!
idk i just like how itās more rocky-centric than stratt-centric. at this point he cares more about saving rocky than he does about what stratt did to him. also i like the little subvert in there, makes the heart drop a bit lol
they put ryland in so many layers in the flashbacks to hide ryan goslingās muscles. he did NOT have those on earth. the only way dr ryland āeats ramen noodles from a thermosā grace could EVER be that buff is with electric muscle stimulation during a coma, which is exactly what happened. normally that mf is scrawny send post
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t4t jmart, but jon is ftm and martin is mtf. jon has already transitioned as much as he wants to and fully passes (and therefore is comfortable with presenting feminine after he decides the dress code can go fuck itself), while martinās egg doesnāt even crack fully until sheās out of the lonely.
then, in the safehouse, this ensues:
āhey, jon? can i tell you something iāve been thinking about lately?ā
āof course, you can tell me anything. oh, and i promise i wonāt ask any questions.ā
āthank you. er, i think i might be a woman? yāknow, like, transgender?ā
āoh! yes, right, thank you so much for telling me!ā
āyouā¦ support me?ā
āiāll support you no matter what. i love you.ā
āi love you too! iā thank you so much, jon. it means the world.ā
āno, thank you for trusting me with this! i know how hard coming out can be. you should have seen my granās face when i told her.ā
āyeah, i guess coming out to your gran as bi isnāt the best experience in the world, is it?ā
āā¦oh god, i never told you.ā
ātold me what?ā
āiām also trans.ā
āwait, what? jesus, i guess i should have known, what with the hair and the skirtsāiām so sorry! do you use she/her, or she/theyāā
āāno, no. iām trans the other way āround! i was assigned female at birth.ā
āā¦ā
āā¦ā
āREALLY??ā
this then devolves into martin going on and on about how perfect of a man jon is and jon just watches her with heart eyes while thinking about how lucky he is to have such a wonderful girlfriend.
yeah this was inspired by me and my partner. what of it
thatās it. that is all. maybe iāll actually write this, who knows, but for now it shall stay as an incomplete musing of my fever-addled unmedicated psyche. gnight evrybody
let me preface this by saying that i love this fandom, fandoms in general, and fandom culture, despite all of the problems inherent to them. iām aware that mob mentality is a thing and thereās definitely a lot of that, especially confined within a tumblr tag, which can very easily turn into an echo chamber, so a lot of people will end up saying similar things. however, everything i say here is a gross generalization. when i say āyāallā or āyou guysā i do not mean everyone. again, iām cool with most things i see here and scroll through this tag at least five times a day atp.
that being saidā¦
hereās some issues i have with the bloodymary fandom.
my credentials: iāve seen phm five times and read the book twice. iāve seen iron lung twice and consumed a shit ton of lore videos about the game. i wrote a fic about them specifically because i saw a bunch of mischaracterization and wanted to fight against it (and also write fluff about them cause why not).
anyways:
1. people love to mischaracterize. i know thatās just a fandom thing in general but itās more prevalent here than usual in my opinion and it bothers me. more specifics:
- simon is not only aggressive and angry. sure he was not having a good time while he was actively dying, but afterwards, when he realizes heās not dying? yeah itād take him a bit to warm up to ryland but he wouldnāt want to kill him yknow. this is the same guy who was guilty about giving cancer to the people who were literally sending him to his death, and later had a tentative camaraderie with the lady that decided to send him there in the first place! cmon yāall
- ryland is not only soft and kind. yeah heās a teacher so heās gonna be very careful towards simon at first but heās also a sassy bitch who will fight for what he wants and one of the smartest people in his field. not only that but heās a bit selfish, incredibly resourceful, and a major risk taker. heās going to want to solve the mystery of simon asap, just like he does with rocky at first, even if he hides it behind being supportive.
- iāve also noticed people doing the reverse, where simon is super sad and traumatized 100% of the time and grace does nothing but protect him. like guys, theyāre both grown men with agency of their own.
- yeah simon was in a cult but he makes it clear that he didnāt choose it and doesnāt believe what they do, and yea heād probably have a bit of a āthis guy saved me so i have to repay himā thing, but not to the crazy extent some people make it. also iāve seen some people have him thinking he deserves to die after all heās done? what?? he knows filament station wasnāt meant to happen the way it did and even if he did blame himself for it he still wants to live no matter what! even after he realized he wasnāt getting out he still decided to die fighting and save the black box!! why the hell would he suddenly decide to give up after he realizes heās not dying anymore??
- yeah grace is supportive but heās got plenty of trauma to work through and has been through a hell of his own, and despite how much he cares about simon he still has his own purpose of saving earth and erid, and later teaching his kids and helping the other eridians with science. he wouldnāt dedicate his entire life to simon like iāve seen some people have him do, or completely forget about rocky and the eridians. he fully decided to give up his life for them!! he loves rocky enough to stop being a coward and do something for someone at his own detriment for once in his life! he doesnāt only care about the other human around!!
- a lot of it seems weirdly white savior-esque too. like cmon, the poc is aggressive and violent until the caring white guy breaks down his walls and saves him?? and the poc suddenly sees him as his literal guardian angel??? dawg what are we doing (iām white so i canāt speak too much on this issue but itās so glaringly obvious that i canāt just not say anything at all)
- speaking of which. SIMON IS A POC!! i see so many people drawing him pale as fuck and while yes he hasnāt had access to the sun so heād be washed out, he would not be the same skin shade as ryland, who not only hasnāt seen the sun in a long time but is also white as hell.
- also, rocky. iām not gonna get into book canon here because i know not everyone has read it, but there are still plenty of ways people get him wrong, especially from rylandās perspective toward him. he is not ājust a little guyā!! heās his own autonomous being with agency! stop making him super cutesy and not doing anything with him other than making him an annoyance or a cockblocker (chillax gang the most heād do is be like ācan i watch for science?ā and if he was told to leave he would). also he cares so much about his planet and his mate, he wouldnāt just be obsessed with ryland like so many people make him out to be, though he does care about him immensely.
- also stop having ryland say āwhoa itās been so long since iāve talked to a person!ā HE SEES ROCKY AS A PERSON!! that man sees that alien as his best friend, so why the fuck would he ignore his autonomy and shove him to the wayside for the sake of this random guy they picked up?? if you say something like that and donāt immediately specify āwhile yes rocky is a person, human connection and touch is really important and ryland has missed that specificallyā, iām gonna assume you see rocky as rylandās pet or something which is an immediate no from me no thank you thatās fucking disgusting to me give him back his independence please
2. moving on from characterization. iām not usually one to be a stickler about canon but hereās what iāve seen people get wrong a lot (these are all just pet peeves btw, i donāt actually care that much. i wonāt get into book/game exclusive stuff either):
- simon explicitly states that he did not choose to be involved with edenās cult. stop making it seem like he believes in their shit when he specifically says he doesnāt! yeah heās definitely got religious trauma but not to the extent yāall are making it out to be.
- adrianās occupation. itās not said in the book what they do, but the movie explicitly states they control what happens in rylandās dome (at least the water temperature), therefore theyāre likely an ecologist or something similar.
- timelines! there are specific distances between earth and tau ceti, tau ceti and 40 eridani, etc. stop saying itād only take a year for them to get from one to another. even with constant acceleration and time dilation, itād take three to four years to get from tau ceti to 40 eridani, which would equate to about twelve years on earth or erid.
- IT! IS NOT CALLED!! THE DONāT GO CRAZY ROOM!!! where the fuck did yāall even get that. in the movie the computer specifically calls it the āmental health nodeā. stop saying that ādonāt go crazy roomā is its official name because itās not.
3. last but not least, my biggest issue with this fandom:
STOP TRYING TO BOTHER MARK AND RYAN ABOUT THIS SHIT.
have we not learned from any of the other fandoms who did stuff like this?? involving creators in fandom spaces when they donāt want to be involved is bad. we know this.
also, why are we surprised that mark learned about this fandom?? his job is literally internet. heās dealt with this shit before. obviously heās gonna know!!!
i keep seeing people say āmark approves of bloodymary! itās canon!! simon is the little spoon because mark said so!!!ā dude. he was joking. i donāt know enough about markās personality to confirm this, but i interpreted the whole āiāll get to curl up in ryan goslingās arms and finally be safeā thing as a joke about how people characterize simon as this traumatized wet cat guy who just needs love to be happy. iām all for traumatized wet cat guys (iām a tma fan, ofc i am) but thatās not all he is!!
okay yeah iām done ranting now. iāll probably make a separate headcanon post because i canāt stop thinking about these guys ever but iāll stop yapping for the moment
btw go read my fic i linked earlier!! i know it sucks but at least the blorbos are happye in it :D
sometimes, when i ask a weird question, iāll add the words āquestion markā to the end of the sentence because why not. my high school english teacher did it, so i picked it up.
since seeing project hail mary four times, iāve subconsciously shortened it to āquestionā, so now i sound like rocky. i did not notice until my friend (who i dragged to see it with me on watch #3) pointed it out just now.
