#ztalks

grace's moment in the petrova line is so so good because it underscores a crucial aspect of the story: there are no bad guys. they could so easily make astrophage the bad guy: give it a minor leitmotif, make all the moments it appears tense and fearful. but instead they make it beautiful. the most profound, awe-filled moment of the film is him basking in astrophage. multiple characters in the book point out how, if not for the whole killing-the-sun thing, astrophage's energy-storage potential would make it the most incredible discovery in humanity's history. astrophage isn't evil, it's just life, doing what all life does.

Can I just say that while I hate working retail my leadership team is actually pretty great??? like my managers pay enough attention to me to know when something is off and they immediately do whatever they can to make it better up to and including forcing me to go to the break room to eat a granola bar and I just love them all (even if their authority scares me sometimes).

A bug has the same organs you do. A brain and lungs and a heart and a stomach. They’re the same, tucked into a bug-sized body at proportional dimensions.

realized another thing i love about the project hail mary score: the choral vocals are wordless but they’re not just sung on an “oo”—there’s a little bit of vowel distinction, the hint of consonants. just enough that your brain recognizes it as language and tries to make sense of it. so the experience of hearing it is one of straining so hard to make out the meaning in something that you can’t understand but you’re sure is intelligent communication

Miz Cracker smacking down her glass so she can speak is my ultimate mood.