Everyone calls me Aloy of the Nora

Thinking about Eva after the Hail Mary launch. Of course she will spend the rest of her life haunted by Grace, but beyond that, she will spend the rest of her life preserving the legacy of Ryland Grace. She didn’t even really respect him, she had to drag him kicking and screaming into space, she murdered him, and she will do everything in her power to prevent the world from knowing that when the world needed him, he tried to run. From that point forward, she will always be asked about him, from people who want to know what he was like, to answering questions about his last minute swap in during the tribunal, to squashing rumors that he ran. Stratt will never be free of what she did to him.

Sometimes I think about how Bungo Baggins built this wonderful expansive hobbit-hole for him and Belladonna with all these rooms and everything but then they only ever had Bilbo, and then Bilbo inherited it but he never married and only ever had Frodo, and then Frodo inherited it but he lived alone and then it passed into the hands of the Sackville-Bagginses and through Lotho to Saruman and was defiled--but THEN! Frodo takes it back and brings Sam and Rosie and their family in, and then he leaves it to them and they FILL Bag End with all their thirteen children and it becomes the Ancestral Family Home for an entirely new family!! And that's just enriched by all the inheriting that happened to pass it through these generations of people who loved each other to GET it to Sam!

#ALSO WAIT#thirteen kids plus sam and rosie ... thirteen dwarves plus bilbo and gandalf ...#An Unexpected Party but permanent???????? (@kayliebooks)

Humans are pretty prone to mimicking noises. like even subconsciously. sometimes we even unintentionally pick up entirely different accents. and you literally can't tell me you've never meowed or woofed or chirped back at a cat/dog/bird at least once in your life (unless you are physically/audibly unable to do so).

I was rewatching wondering how Grace came to love Rocky. What were the steps from “maybe he won’t kill me” to “I could live with him” to “I will die for him”?

“She is astonishing - dizzy and wounded and graceful and with a sort of shocked tenderness all directed towards him - and he the same, but always that fierce direct quality - it’s hard to look at him without quailing. If anyone makes the slightest movement towards either of them the other moves at once to protect - they spend every second together - what are they going to do? What are they going to do?”

Do you think that, if the ship wasn't always recording at all times, when Stratt got those videos twenty years later, it slowly dawned on her that it was only Grace in recordings?