#ryland grace

[chronicowboy]

i love that andy weir never kills his protagonists. it would be so easy to. at so many points. by all means they Should be dead. mark gets stranded on mars and the planet works against him at every turn. jazz's suit fails on the surface of the moon and she feels herself begin to die. ryland is sent on a suicide mission then gives up his chance at return for his friend. they should all have died. multiple times in some cases. but they don't!!! because weir isn't writing tragedies, he's writing stories of hope and humanity. they survive even when it should be impossible for them to because of connection. simple as that.

[omegas-reincarnation]

I will never get over the fact that project hail mary is a story about a guy who goes from having no one - no family, no close friends, no one he has to tell when he gets forced onto an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean for several years, no one to mourn him when he is forced into a suicide mission, and perhaps most significantly, no one he is prepared to die for, to having one person who he is prepared to die for again and again and again.

You had to go lightyears across space to a different solar system and learn a new language you can't even speak unaided to find the platonic love of your life but when you did you burnt and starved and hurt for them without hesitation. Ryland Grace saves the world, but more importantly, he finds something bigger than himself to believe in and it's loving a lil alien crab dude.

Wonderful.

[shelbyshaper-art]

“You’re not alone anymore, Buddy…neither of us are”

[phishphin]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥 this strain is called the “Astrophage” 😳 You’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: Dude I swear I saw the Petrova Line emitting some light

My buddy Ryland pacing: the sun is dying

[surfthestardust]

project hail mary fandom rise up there have to be SOME of us

[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

(They’re listening to Sweet Caroline. Requested by @imawriternotamagican )

[trapperskeeper]

So can we talk about Ryland Grace being ace coded? Like I know he had that one line about the Day one, Meal one tube being better than sex, but like... is that not a very asexual thing to say? When Martin and Annie are over sharing about their relationship he was kind of a combination of morbidly fascinated and squeamish/uncomfortable thinking about it. And then when the team thought he was in a sexual relationship with Stratt he was completely shocked that anyone would think that way. Bro goes into space and finds his platonic life partner in a rock spider alien music box, is prepared to die to save him, and then seemingly is completely fine living out the rest of his existence on Erid without ever needing sex again.

[captainhark]

Project Hail Mary spoilers

Okay I want to talk about how much I love the implication of plot twist.

Ryland's fears and stresses are never shamed in any scene other than Stratt's confrontation before she forces him on the mission, and that's so important, because all of his fears are so fucking human.

I wouldn't even consider him a coward, he's just a guy who was given five hours to decide if he wanted to die or not. And if you take into context his general bravery and determination throughout the his time on the Hail Mary, I wouldn't be surprised, if given more time, Ryland would have agreed to go.

But the fact that the plot twist is so late in the book made me feel so comforted by Ryland's general state of being. He get's stressed, excited, exhausted, conflicted. He considers giving up, he get's his ass up and keeps going, my man goes through every emotion under the sun. When the plot twist actually happens, you don't even care that he made a cowardly choice, because you know at his core he's a decent person.

Ryland Grace reminds you that it's okay to be scared, that it doesn't make you a bad person to sometimes do the cowardly thing.

[thiscoulddecay]

[dragons-in-spaceee]

Andy Weir is so so good at making a HUGE impact when a character cries or breaks down. The rest of the novels are usually pretty light hearted and suddenly BAM. TEARS. and it just really gets me. It suddenly reminds me of the massive impact those kinds of situations would actually have because these people are HUMAN. The reality of what they are going through. Amazing 10/10

[thecloneroom]

My friend made me read project hail mary and I'm so glad they did. It's like this book was written specifically to cater to all my interests.

[dimension-246]

Hark to the alien from the planet of the sun! For it has come from another star bearing new life it had created solely to save our world.

‘I am a teacher of children sent here in steed of any marksman in a mission of science, here to gift all knowledge from my world. All that I ask in return is that you heal the surrounding stars the same as I have tired to save mine.’

‘Amaze!’ says a scribe, without any forethought, ‘You have bones on your inside.’

‘I do,’ says the alien, elated for being welcomed with curiosity instead of fear. ‘They are made of element 20, you may have them to study once I die.’

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I started a drawing based on the Voyager 2 disk right after my first PHM stained glass art but it didn’t work out. Here’s a redraw I’m a lot happier with.

[catsafari25]

I find it hilarious that Mark Watney and Ryland Grace are fairly similar in some ways (affectionate) but that one started with "I am pretty much fucked" and the other is a guy who unironically goes "holy moly"

[shelbyshaper-art]

“This is happy!

Your face opening is in sad mode.

Why, question?”

[thewinterken]

no no, you don't understand, I would dIE for him

[imawriternotamagican]

My goal as a Project Hail Mary fan is to set up as much of a fandom for the movie-goers as possible.

Not only do we set the tone for the fandom after the movie, but profit from the new fics and art after supplying our own for so long.