May 2
Congratulations! The alien you befriended is a Stone Femme!
#project hail mary#project hail mary spoilers#ryland grace#rocky#First order of business; technically the punchline should be ‘femme butch’.#Stone femme means something different. However the average person rapidly scrolling a timeline will not notice.#Second order of business. We gotta talk about Ryland Grace and his relationship to gender.#The guy who woke up with amnesia so bad he couldn’t be certain if he was straight/gay/divorced/had children or not -#But heavily focuses on the absense of ‘anything feminine in my apartment’.#So he canonically has this innate sense of femininity. So deep it surpasses his *OWN NAME* in memory priority.#Another detail I really love is how Rocky and Grace love to swap informatiom about their cultures.#The endless curiosity is what makes their bond so deep and genuine!#Alien Gender doesn’t have any synonoms when you both have vastly different reproduction systems.#They must have talked about it at some point - and Grave absolutely just used wikipedia to make his presentation.#He does not know a god damn thing. Despite being incredibly Aroace (and dare I say…Agender) coded.#Rocky on the other hand…Okay so we only use he/him because Grace was biased.#But realistically we know nothing about eridian gender.#Gender is often coded in clothing though - and we do see Rocky in a rather fancy (noted to his detriment) outfit.#All in all I think Rocky deserves to be a little femme leaning. As a treat for us not using their name nor pronouns.
