Ryland Grace the Aroace of All Time

Riley, Ryland, or Rocky, he/him | I still love Star Trek I promise

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Hi!

I go by Riley, Ryland, and Rocky (for now)!

My pronouns are he/him

My art blog is @agender-ryland-grace, and my Ao3 is AroaceRylandGrace.

If anyone wants them, here's my Project Hail Mary-related library with a bunch of resources for the story as well as the source material, and my smaller Martian-related library as well. I've also posted a bunch of references for various costumes and props for the movie that can all be found in my reference tag along with some other reblogged posts. And the pattern, instructions, and some photos of the book Rocky plush I made are all here!

I have a Deaf Ryland Grace AU! All my posts about it are under #deaf grace au, this is the masterpost, and all the fics are here!

My personal tag is #riley's record and all my fandom-ish posts are under #ryland's rambles.

I post a lot of random thoughts, but I also reblog a bunch of stuff.

Ask me anything you want!

A little list of medias I like is under the cut

These are in a vague order in the sense that I like the second listed media more than the tenth, but I don't inherently like the third more than the fourth.

I really like:

- Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, AOS, and Lower Decks)

- Project Hail Mary (Book and 2026 movie)

- The X-Files (1993-2018)

- The Martian (Book and 2015 movie)

- The Outsiders (Book, 1983 movie, and stage musical)

- The Magnus Archives

- The Nice Guys (2016)

- Murderbot (All Systems Red and Artificial Condition so far!)

- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Book and stage musical) & The Glass Scientists

- Barbie (2023)

- Les Misérables (Book, 1978 movie, and stage musical)

- Doctor Who (2005-)

- Newsies (Stage musical)

- Cabaret (Stage musical)

- BBC Ghosts (2019-2023)

- Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

- Legally Blonde (2001 movie, stage musical)

- Dirty Dancing (1987)

- Dead Poets Society (1989)

- The Sound of Music (1965)

- Ted Lasso (2020-)

- The Interview with the Vampire (movie and TV show)

- The Fifth Element (1997)

- Eragon (Book series)

- Little Shop of Horrors (Stage musical)

[bleachersgirl]

[july-19th-club]

it's a historic townhouse! new orleans famously floods and its gravesites suffer all kinds of turbulence! they literally did a whole documentary about this; they carbon dated the remains and they'd been there since at least the nineteen twenties, if not earlier. the running theory was that the neighborhood was built on an existing unmarked gravesite, or perhaps that the original owner ran a mortuary (because of the cremation oven). the vampire thing is a shtick. you don't have to like him or his music or his annoying habit of roping respected journalists into his over-the-top antics (although personally i think it's all delicious and his cover of concrete blonde's 'bloodletting' that they used in the doc is a must listen) but...you really think a man born in 1986 did this? be serious

[eisenkrahe]

[katswenski]

[plume]

OMG everyone I know the ACTUAL story behind the gif this time! Yes, it’s in Australia– that’s a big angry goanna that wandered into a popular restaurant. All the Australians in the vicinity went OH FUCK NO and cleared off, because goannas are mean. The waitress you see there is a French exchange student, who was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I thought it was a weird ugly dog” and had no idea it was a reptile that wanted to rip her arms off. She’s been hailed as a hero who saved diners.

[mousathe14]

It’s amazing what power “not knowing” has.

[zarekthelordofthefries]

The thing I especially love about this is this is a pretty dangerous animal, except she managed to defeat it by just fucking grabbing it by the tail and walking too quickly for it to turn around. Once again the animal kingdom is thwarted because we evolved opposable thumbs, long limbs, and reckless bravery.

[orjustbecauseyoucould]

weird, ugly dog thwarted by foreign exchange student and polished floors 

[idiopathicsmile]

my take-home lesson here is that nobody in france has ever first-hand seen a dog

[deathcomes4u]

no no, french dogs just be like that

[professional-egg-layer]

They should make it easier for trans women

[aroace-ryland-grace]

SAGUQUGA SATHI BEGA NANTSI PATA PA!!!!

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

[agender-ryland-grace]

adrian doodles!

[agender-ryland-grace]

Some notes of details and things for fun!:

Based off the dimensions of the average Eridian we have from Andy Weir's info doc and the dimensions of Rocky specifically we get from Grace in the book, Rocky is on the smaller side for his species. Lord and Miller confirmed in the director's commentary that the two green overlapping circles on Rocky's arm are his wedding band, so I thought it would be fun if the size of those circles also reflected both his and Adrian's physicalities, hence the size difference.

I thought it would be fun to make Adrian's markings red since it's opposite from green on the colour wheel and Adrian is Rocky's other half. Grace realises this while trying to plan a lesson to teach his Eridian students about human sight and colours. He thinks it's very endearing and tells Rocky and Adrian even though they can't see the colours and don't entirely understand the meaning of colour pairings on Earth. Nonetheless, they're very happy about it.

Grace mentions in the book that Rocky has a craggly bit sticking out from one of his hands, which isn't part of Rocky's design in the movie, so I gave Adrian a craggly bit that sticks out on their arm instead. Sometimes Rocky interlocks the smaller piece of his split forearm with it. I like to think Grace eventually teaches Rocky about human jewelry and charm customs, and they work together to make a sort of mini charm bracelet with some very nice auditory qualities for Adrian to attach to it. They're rarely ever heard without it.

Growing up, my family declared that any time one of us found a rock with a white line circling the entire thing, it could be wished upon. I thought it would be sweet to give Adrian those wish rings so all the wishes Rocky made to return home to them while he was at Tau Ceti would come true, even if he didn't know it. The rings are textile and can be heard by other Eridians, some are indented and some protrude. They remind Grace of guitar and violin strings.

[imjunebitch]

we SHOULD have more shipping content with arospec and acespec characters actually because almost none of the shit we have now is actually that, its writing them as allo and then saying "whaaaat nooooo they can be in relationships tooooo" why dont you try writing the aro character in a romantic partnership as actually being aromantic but partnering that is way more fucking interesting

[catcrumb]

[aroace-ryland-grace]

thinking about her again

[aroace-ryland-grace]

I used to be a lesbian and I think that part of me comes out every time I look at her. she's actually the most beautiful and gorgeous woman on the planet. I'm blushing. I'm gonna throw up.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

teen dyke me is gnawing at the bars of her enclosure trying to escape right now

[aroace-ryland-grace]

oh my god.

[quasi-normalcy]

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

[quasi-normalcy]

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

[aroace-ryland-grace]

my little space dude earrings....jumps with joys

[angelbabyspice]

I think more people should just be ok with being single

[angelbabyspice]

I love this site

[sheherlockholmes]

HAATEEEE hate actually. that overweight is considered a more pc nice term than fat. like i need the word fat to become destigmatized right now because im tired of people talking circles around trying to say chubby or big or plus size as catchalls because fat is a fine word. its fine. i know its been deemed derogatory by our culture but thats because being fat is deemed bad anyways but i think its a better word than calling people overweight like over what weight hm? what weight are you saying they are over. normal?? fuck you

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[evstratt]

RYAN GOSLING AS RYLAND GRACE & LIONEL BOYCE AS CARL | PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)