Grace Rocky save stars!

fictionkin, therian, ect. prns depend on current fronter/host my current host are whatever character is the theme for my blog

[archivistreborn]

rent-lowering gunshots because apparently i need to do this??

-im transgender -im queer -im biFictoRose -im alterhuman and nonhuman -im youthlib -im pro-para -im pro-trans -im pro-queer -im pro-weirdqueer -im anti-abuse -im pro-consent -i want trump to get old yeller'd -im neurodivergent -im disabled -TERFs arent real feminists -im anti 'radical feminism' -im anti-misogyny -im anti-misandry -im plural -im a system -im mentally ill -i want to be an activist -i hate bigots ----and maybe more!

[silvaerial]

Patron Saints of One-Way Trips

[stiffyck]

Always muscles?

[glowing-beetle]

Has this been done yet?

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[fictionfolk-culture-is]

Fictionkin culture is missing your romantic partner from your source so bad your tempted to cuddle a kiss anyone who sits next to you and you have cuddle pillows to sleep

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[trxshm0uthz]

ohhhhh ryland is wearing ilyukhina’s dress 🥺

[archivistreborn]

This book is pretty cool

[lixel-5]

[robotrocky]

Nothing to see here. Just two bros discussing heart surgery 😳🫀

follow up to this

[archivistreborn]

Jesse Pinkman is so cool i wish trans people were real

[clunkyderp]

man, i need to relax. let me turn on my show where they all yell and fight and argue and shoot each other

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[loveridden1999]

[valtsv]

being a scavenger animal must be so fucking great. imagine if every time someone died a new restaurant opened up downtown.

[valtsv]

[radetzkymarch]

[bstrdr]

Eridian Grace, as in culturally Eridian, not the species Eridian, is so important to me.

Grace who does jazz hands and taps when he's asking a question and says some words three times like Rocky. Grace who makes chirps and trilling noises when he's happy.

Grace who starts thinking and dreaming in Eridian, who sometimes has dreams that are just sound, no visual. (Grace who, if he ever goes back to Earth for whatever reason after years on Erid, forgets some words in English and speaks in the sentence structure of Eridian because he has to translate from Eridian to English when he speaks outloud).

Grace who does scarification (even if Rocky protests at first) - I've read some fics where he does the Voyager pulsar map, or dots and lines showing his route from Sol, to Tau Ceti, turning around towards Sol, and then the line going all the way back to Erid. Even though he already has the scars from Rocky saving him, maybe Rocky's family crest. A scar showing his rank as Captain of the Hail Mary - maybe something to represent her, too.

Grace who wears Eridian gems, as earrings, in a chain for his glasses, in strings draped over him that clink together when he walks - the most important ones, like the earrings he wears all the time, the color of the blueish-green gems (or spots?) in/on Rocky's carapace.

Grace who wears a bracelet on each arm that have ribbed marks like on Rocky's arm so he can properly say goodbye (not something he had to do, but something that felt right to do, something that made him feel more like himself), sound included.

Grace who considers himself an Eridian!! Grace who IS an Eridian!!

[harvocel]

hmm