#the ryland and the rocky

[imawriternotamagican]

Another! *Smashes taumeoba box instead of mug*

Thanks to @peaceloveartsnart and @meeks-just-wants-to-scroll !

[shelbyshaper-art]

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

[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 )

[mechieonu]

the BEST part of PHM is that you will never know what to expect next. like NEVER. the main character has memory loss. he knows nothing he's supposed to know and everything he shouldn't. love and community is a construct and it's a spaceship with robotic nurse-maid arms. boring old physics is all you need to save the world. aliens are 1.) real 2). frankly fucking baffled that humans breathe fire fuel 3). either single-celled amoeba or 5-legged rock spiders and only one of them is detrimental to the entire solar system. you can't go home again. no, seriously. bitches will literally be staring down the barrel of imminent extinction and still talk abt the Beatles. the secret to political success is to say fuck bureaucracy. einstein was terrifyingly right & More At 11. "What if we accelerated climate change to offset the planet freezing?" -statements dreamed up by the Utterly Deranged. you weren't a star but you can still be the hero. no matter how alone you might be in the universe, you are surrounded by the composite knowledge and hope of your entire species & everyone who has ever lived before you, and this is good good good. the goldilocks zone really WAS for idiots. the avg rectal temperature of a healthy goat is 103.4°F / 39.7°C. and the space ship is a fucking yo-yo.

[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.

[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.

[thewinterken]

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

[candy-jail]

☀️Project Hail Mary ☀️

[theartisttoyourmuse]

Ryland Grace is the pinnacle of Do It Scared

[imawriternotamagican]

Flowers from Rocky in case u don't have a Valentine 💘

@m4rk-n-b1rbs and @nota1eks

[shelbyshaper-art]

��This is happy!

Your face opening is in sad mode.

Why, question?”

[grazinginthefield]

I have just finished this a couple days ago but I can't get over this friendship T T

"No understand." "Uh..." I pull myself over to his pile of bags. "You're alive. And you're here. And you haven't given up." But his voice remains low. "I try so many times. Fail so many times. Not good at science." "I am," I say. "I'm a science human. You're good at making and fixing things. Together we'll figure this out." He raises his carapace a bit. "Yes. Together."

They're so preciouuuus

[foxprints]

He bounces back and forth some more. "🎶Erid will live! Earth will live! Everyone live!🎶" He curls the claws of one hand into a ball and presses it against the xenonite. "🎶Fist me!🎶"

I push my knuckles against the xenonite. "It's 'fist-bump,' but yeah."

[bucksboobs]

Posting the uncropped version because Rocky Lynch deserves more love and I'm sure Riker and Ryland do it for someone out there too