BoldlyGoingNowhere

Hey. How you doin'? I'm Boldly, aka Grahm. He/they pronouns. 32 years old and a Trekkie at heart. Team Fortress 2 is my life. Jason Voorhees is my bae. Fuzzy-bugs is my waifu.

[candygrahm]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Good day, everyone! I am super pleased to announce that mine and @queernessandnerdiness HOA fic now has a poster! It was made by the ever talented @araydre and I absolutely adore it. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect representation. Please give the artist some love and maybe give our fic a rip, it's excellent for spooky season.

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[tendebill]

grace & rocky hug in zero-g <3

(no-xenonite version under the cut!)

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[till-dawn-do-us-part]

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[sparrow-in-boots]

To all Bloodymary enjoyers: Simon IS NOT an engineer!

In fact he's not even a mechanic, so consider scrapping that headcanon unless you wanna give him a whole different backstory! Iron Lung spoilers under the read more but I bring some evidence

In the movie, Simon's first moment in the submarine (SM-13) involve him looking over the control console, and then going through some folios available to him. The very first one he picks, one with quite a few pages, is an instruction manual for operating the sub.

He looks at the cover for a whole two seconds before giving up. He doesn't even bother.

(yes the gif has a weird loop don't worry about it)

The only instruction he does bother with, is the next folio with One Page on it, and all it depicts is the panel at the back of the sub, and a single arrow going "CAMERA". He verifies it works and gets to piloting the sub. The controls are pretty simple, he just rawdogs it.

Later on when the sub's engine has gone offline due to some, err, rough ridin', he finds a crawl space under the floor of the sub and goes down to find some way to revive the engine. When he finds only the black box mechanism (at first), he gives us a lovely piece of his mind.

Not that we needed more proof that him and technical shit don't go together, but there you are. He went down there without even knowing if there would be anything to help or fix the issue. Dumbass extraordinaire <3

Now you may think, oh so he doesn't do hardware but he can do software! Wrooong, he cannot. Later in the movie the computer console is activated and is attempting to download files but the clearances have been rescinded, Simon can't access anything. This is what he tries.

He tries "HELLO" first, yes, and when the other three attempts that aren't even basic console commands fail, he tries asking nicely.

So nah, this man doesn't know much about machines or systems besides some very surface level stuff. He's very capable of learning in a pinch, but if he has a choice then he would very much rather not.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

I've said it and I'll say it again:

This would be about the equivalent of Simon's cable management.

It's not that he can't figure it out. He's more than capable.

It's that he genuinely cannot be fucked.

[sparrow-in-boots]

Simon patting the SM-13

Iron Lung (2026)

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

This gives off paranoid "maybe if I'm gentle with her, she'll let me live" behavior.

[str4wb3rry-newsboy]

no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[violets-and-cupcakes]

[bisexualshakespeare]

At least there’s one thing I can count on in this crazy mixed up world

[boxlunches]

oh there he is

[wordfather]

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

[victusinveritas]

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[aropride]

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

[sensitivesiren]

[warpedlamp]

Advertising peaked at the Discovery channel “Boom de Yada” commercials

[warpedlamp]

Absolutely classic

[wheeloffortune-design]

give yourself a gift and rewatch it :)

[brunhiddensmusings]

every now and then i want to bring this back, its just so pure of a sentiment as well as a mission statement about why educational programing is awesome i love the whole world and being part of it

[ghosthierophant]

Boom De Yada Supercut my beloved

[thatfunkyopossum]

[realmarysue]

Y'all.

I’d never seen the 2020 version!

[ktempestbradford]

One more addition: the live performance!

[8nin]

Perverted, horny *and* polite boys are the bestest boys.

[babylon-butterfly]