(also unrelated but I will keep on bringing it up because I am confused - I do not and will never understand why they treat Buck as the immature reckless baby of the team when not only is Ravi younger than him so is Eddie! Buck is canonically Eddie's elder despite what they said back in s2, being a veteran and a dad doesn't fix your immaturity!)

YEAH

its fucked honestly

I'm rereading the series right now (to see if they deserve the space they're taking up on my bookshelf) and while I'm only up to book 4 they're so much worse than I remember them being?!

Like even if you somehow miss the anti-indigenousness (I don't know how you could, it's pretty blatant!), they're absolutely packed full of racism, homophobia, SA, and so much other ick that I'm surprised I used to like them so much!

I will admit that I was also obsessed with the crowboy though - what can I say, I'm a sucker for a mysterious part-animal antagonist (pointed look at Janus Sanders)!

well the way you dont notice in my case was 'not knowing anything about indigenous americans at age 14 and assuming the book was giving me accurate information' which is actually! worse maybe.

for the unfamiliar, house of night is a fantasy alternate history series where teenage humans sometimes randomly become vampires at puberty, this is public knowledge and these children are taken to vampire boarding school about it

the reason i enjoyed it was, in hindsight, that the central theme is really compelling and not terrible - vampirism has always been associated with 'dangerous' sexuality, and by tying that directly to puberty and it immediately giving the vampire teens a lot more agency (sexual, legal, religious, and otherwise - becoming a vampire instantly emancipates you, among other things) in-universe, thats an appealing plot to a teenager! especially teens like me, who grew up in very conservative homes

the problem is if you grew up in a repressive conservative home hating it and read house of night, it will appeal to you but you wont have any of the context necessary to avoid absorbing racist set dressing. its like its designed to feed desperate repressed exvangelicals racism with a peanutbutter Freedom From Your Repressive Parents fantasy coating

Author: Have_Courage_And_Be_Kind/@dandelioncasey (yours truly)

Fandom: Project Hail Mary

Rating: General

Length: 585

Status: Complete, archive-locked

Pairing: None

Main tropes and warnings: amnesia, grief, tissue warning, film spoilers

Link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83816181

Summary:

A message in a bottle beetle, from almost twelve light-years away.

"The Chiropterous Hoarder, you discover, possesses an exceptionally acrobatic tongue. Its length and its prehensility, coupled with your bedmate's fascination with your physique, make for transcendent explorations.

True to character, the Chiropterous Hoarder is voracious. What surprises is how eager it is to supply pleasure, how excited it is to savour and tease until exhaustion claims you from its attentions."

I just...😳😳😳 I will be in my bunk!

Therefore, have we considered Buck being convinced that he told everyone when he and Tommy got engaged but actually he just intended to and forgot, leading to a scenario where someone hits on Buck at a scene, one of the team says that he's got a bf, Buck absentmindedly corrects them with 'fiancé, actually' (because he thinks they know and he told them but he 100% didn't lmao)

Cue the team being very confused and then Buck being very confused because 'no I definitely told you!' Only to find the unsent text still in the draft message bit of the team GC that they definitely have (definitely not a thing I have done multiple times 😇😂)

Like I said I don't know that it would work in canon because Buck doesn't seem to have the same exact ADHD traits as me but it's a very funny mental image that I wanted to share

honestly, i see it. maybe not the draft message in the group chat way (bc i assume that's a busy busy group chat and he'd see his unsent text sooner or later)

Violet.gpt how do I make the brain words become page words?

(Plz halp it's like 2am local time and I am drowning in plot bunnies XD)