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Welcome to the madness. Icon is a wizard over non-binary colored clouds. Blog: multifandom/nonfandom/chaos. Mostly described. Me: AmVi, adult, they/them LOTR/Hobbit Sideblog: an-unexpected-sideblog

[brilliantpines]

my toxic codependent relationship with my car

[brilliantpines]

she has this really intense findom kink that i'm clearly not into but if i try to tell her i dont like it she threatens not to take me to work :/

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind

[cloudabserk]

i know adrian is widely headcanoned as green. but they could really be any color

[icyblueroses]

Something that gnaws at my brain is how when Grace sacrifices returning to Earth and turns around to save Rocky, the scene isn’t even the slightest bit somber.

He’s effectively flying toward his own death and Two of Us is playing, he’s chilling with a coffee while wrapped in a cozy quilt, he’s playing with the xenonite figures and counting down the days on a calendar. On Earth he was taken away fighting and screaming and crying, but with Rocky not only did he find someone worth dying for, he found someone he’d die for with a smile on his face.

[coredrill]

something that i DO find fascinating abt both phm and interpretations of it is when folks say things along the lines of “the point of grace’s lack of attachments isn’t that he’s aroace, the point of grace’s lack of attachments is that he’s refused to open himself up enough to form ANY close bonds because he’s a coward” because like. not only is it very possible for both to be true, i think that reading both as being the case continues to enhance the story AND speaks a very honest truth about how being aroace might have affected his life?

like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.

so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.

which is why, imo, the very careful portrayal of grace and rocky’s friendship in the phm film reads as extremely aroace-coded. because it’s not “rocky specifically is Special and Likable in a way which fixes all of grace’s hangups and allows him to open up” - it’s “rocky has a partner to go home to, but on multiple occasions, puts grace Above and Before that in a way which grace is unused to, because grace comes from a society which culturally and legally devalues the types of relationships he wants and holds most dear.” and once rocky shows that he is willing to reciprocate friendship and care to a degree grace could never expect from anyone on earth, grace no longer needs to maintain the kind of emotional defenses he always has. grace likes rocky and wants to be friends from the moment they meet, of course, but only lets himself form SUCH a close bond after rocky demonstrates that he, too, does not place an earth-society-style limit on the strength of their friendship. and they’re both better off for it!

[doctorryland]

no one can convince me that ryland grace did not program rocky’s speech device with curse words if that’s what rocky expressed in his speech. that would be depriving rocky of language and WE KNOW, WE KNOW that grace would never do that to rocky. even though grace DID NOT WANT TO SAY BRAVE out loud, he STILL programmed it into rocky’s speech device because rocky deserves to have access to the word and feelings he is trying to express. so DO NOT TELL ME that grace deprived rocky of curse words just because he himself does not curse.

[jheselbraum]

I like the headcanon that Rocky thinks Grace curses like a sailor because most of his censored swears are food related, and Grace thinks Rocky doesn't swear all that often because most of the worst Eridian swears you can imagine are food related

[wiiwheel]

In the gay sex dungeon doing my crossword with a coffee, occasionally looking up with mild interest

[blckgirlacid]

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

[zombee]

merle highchurch is character of all time. chooses to be a priest like some people choose to be accountants but becomes his god's favorite anyway. fucks plants. absentee father who makes it right but knows the hurt will never go away. jealous of a ten year old. relentlessly pesters man who cuts his arm off to save his life simply because he swung the axe. doesn't hesitate to say no when he's offered a fix for that. plays chess with the embodiment of cosmic horror homicidal nihilism. chooses joy. chooses joy. CHOOSES JOY!!!!!

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

[angrychicagoan24]

NO. THIS CANT HAVE FUCKING HAPPENED TO ME NO

[partywithponies]

I don't think adult humans get enough cuddles and I am so serious.

You look at almost any other species of mammal and they give each other physical affection all the time, but for some reason we've decided that physical affection when you're an adult should be exclusively romantic and to want frequent physical affection from your friends or family is strange or sus or a sign you actually view them romantically, and this can't be good for us I don't think.

[leveragecentral]

every leverage dynamic ⮎ alec hardison & eliot spencer & parker

you scared? you're damn right. i'm not. i got the best thief and the smartest guy i know chasing this guy.

[moonlightingcurse]

mark watney vs. ryland grace

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott // Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[amethystviolist]

[ID: First, a gif of Watney sitting down and looking at a screen in disbelief, captioned “What the fuck? What the (caps) FUCK?!?!” Second, a gif of Grace clumsily floating upside down, captioned (caps) “WHAT THE FUDGING FUDGER?!?!?!” End ID.]

[animatedjen]

someone to be brave for 🌠

[desmolbean404]

QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 REAL or FAKE Pokemon

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

What Was Your Score?

0%-20%

20%-40%

40%-50%

50%-60%

60%-70%

70%-80%

80%-99%

100%! (You're one smart cookie!)

Voting ended onJul 24

[thegroundhogdidit]

polyamory was invented in 1969 by kirk, spock, and mccoy, and their only true successors are the leverage ot3 and whatever the fuck psych had going on

[harpertheidiot]

I saw a post like this recently so I'm making a classics version

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

Are you surviving?

100% no, my corpse is desecrated

100% no, but I am given a proper burial

Yes, but with major injuries

Yes, but with minor injuries

100% yes, not a scratch on me

Other (explain in tags)

Voting ended onJul 21