By The Moonlight, All That Is Lost Is Revealed

She/Her | 30s | Always tired ⋆｡°✩ Depression is my profession ⋆｡°✩

[cappucosmic]

Worshiping A Cruel God

[awakenedtinystars]

Do you think Stratt feared for a bit that Grace had lost his mind and sent back idk vaseline when she first started watching the logs and saw him eating dry ramen with mustard

[x-chaotic-echo-x]

Idea: Both Grace and Rocky get annoyed that the other cannot experience the world like they can and try to come up with ways to compensate for the other’s lacking senses.

For instance Grace desperately wants Rocky to be able to experience color so as not to think so many motionless sights are boring. To reveal the hidden beauty afforded by human sight. So he starts working on a higher definition version of Rocky’s flat image to textured surface visualizer. He devises to use micro-textures to stand in for color, interviewing Eridians to come up with pleasing patterns to simulate colors based on the emotional associations those patterns evoke, like synesthesia in humans. For instance how red is “warm/passionate/exciting” blue is “calm/cold/deep” and so on. Gathering enough patterns to make a beginner palette and then finding ways to interpolate and blend between them to come up with enough colors to fill the entire spectrum. It takes several tries and misses but when Grace gets it nailed down and the Eridians can “see” they are THRILLED by it. The whole world takes on hidden depths. They would all immediately want to know what colors they are. They would probably extrapolate off the existing microtextures to start coming up with new “colors” all their own. Adding patterns to see in the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums. Incorporate them into fashion and entertainment media. Have a field day with the new way of experiencing the world.

Meanwhile Rocky is stricken by Grace having such a narrow pinhole view of the world compared to what his echolocation awareness affords. Grace can’t feel the expanse of everything. Or see the tiny microfine details. Grace’s sense of sound and of his surroundings is so FLAT. So Rocky brainstorms to find some way to express the volume of it all and arrives at Haptics to let touch make up the difference. Before Grace knows it he’s got pads strapped to his chest, his shoulders, arms, head, back of the neck, belly, groin, all the places. Wherever he has sensitive clusters of nerve endings that will help him feel the topography of the noise against his skin. The first time Grace gets the full effect of it it’s like WAY too much and he has to quickly escape and convince Rocky to dial it back majorly before he can go again. It takes some time to work up to, but when he manages, Grace marvels at how different soundscapes FEEL different ways, some perceived more across his back or his scalp or in his chest and others better distributed across the whole of him in ways that elicit anxiety or calm. Neutrality. Intensity. Joy or sorrow.

But ESPECIALLY it would give him a newfound appreciation for the Eridian’s musical language. How different intonations elicit unexpected emotions and certain words and names just FEEL good across your skin or carapace. How unexpectedly powerful and even intimate speech can be when you feel it so pervasively.

[zoinyoi]

[bluemuffin-draws]

Ambush hunters

Part 3 of the comic

||Part 2 ||

[alemanriq]

The amazing @leskuh surprised me by inking my last shortakiss drawing and I'll never be over it 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I keep looking back at it!

The overall softness is ❤️‍🔥AAA

She's so talented 🫶🏽 thank you again!!

[antivancorvo]

"not all eridians willing to die for others."

"not all humans either."

"you and me are good people."

"yeah, I suppose we are."

[inknose]

urgent questions

[nomaumona]

My favorite arcs. She is bound to be miserable huh

[tequila-sunsett]

she was a history major

[nocek]

the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)

[verlierer-is-lost]

Mr Grace and his little ducklings

[murrrchq]

you are my solution

[tenowls]

wretched beginning, wretched end

[atomikats]

curiouser and curiouser

[bulkhummus]

its a long journey to erid

[shiphappen-s]

I bet Grace's ejection from earth would become like an Eridian horror story. They forced him to sleep. They held him down and made him go to sleep so he would stop fighting. They kept him vulnerable and put him into a dangerous situation with other sleeping, vulnerable humans with no one to watch over them.

And 2 of them DIED! While they were asleep with no one to watch over them!!

Like they probably already thought Rocky's journey was the stuff of nightmares (alone for decades with no one to watch him sleep) but Grace's story would probably be so terrifying to them. Coupled by the relative ease with which he talks of it. He accidentally mentions it to his class and gets several concerned and angry messages from Eridian parents about him telling horror stories to their children instead of teaching Human Science lol