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Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch, Marvel, The Great Gatsby, BTTF, and a few other things

[ooooooh]

You know that period of development where toddlers know words but aren’t able to pronounce them correctly, so it still sounds like just noises to most people? That’s what Grace sounds like when he attempts to speak Eridian because humans don’t have a body that’s evolved to speak it correctly. Only Rocky and Adrian can understand him, like the toddler’s parents who are able to translate “ajsjdlasjsjhssajjsj-fish!” into “I want some goldfish!”.

They spend a lot of time translating Grace’s “nonsense” into understandable words for the other Eridians on the team in charge of his biodome. To those Eridians, Grace babbles like a pebble and then Rocky or Adrian pipes up with “Grace said it wants to know if we can add another tree to the enclosure.” and the others are half-convinced they are being pranked. Like, surely there is no way Rocky and Adrian understood THAT? But, the human nods along to their explanation happily, so that must be what it meant?

[stixy]

Bro is cooking

[tallowandport]

Humans are pretty prone to mimicking noises. like even subconsciously. sometimes we even unintentionally pick up entirely different accents. and you literally can't tell me you've never meowed or woofed or chirped back at a cat/dog/bird at least once in your life (unless you are physically/audibly unable to do so).

So Grace 1000% starts picking up and mimicking Eridian noises.

One day, Rocky will be working on something, only to freeze as he hears Grace behind him suddenly exclaim in fluent Eridian "SHIT!"

Turns out Eridian swear words are usually expressed in the same decibel that humans can whistle in.

[babybirbb]

why tHE FUCK is there only 27?!?!? fics of carl/grace???

yet there’s over 350 fics of grace aND FUCKING MARKIPLIER !!!

[skelerangart]

"I'm Slowly Forgetting Your Face"

Flowers:

Roses - Love

Forget Me Nots - Memory

Purple Hyacinth - Asking for Forgiveness

[domidominic]

Space guys

[userlem0nl1me]

The Coltland brain worms have infested me. Ryland just needs a nice hug. Why are you doing that to him Colt??? :(

[chromaticrainarts]

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

[lunalovesangst]

Big fan of the idea that, from Erid's perspective, Grace is probably kinda scary, at first.

Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

This is probably a stretch but I don't care. I like to imagine eridians and humans have some very similar fears, and the uncanny valley potential is just too good to ignore.

[webheadmenace]

grace, starving: hypothetically, eridians have soft insides like crabs, right?

grace: and, again totally hypothetically, your crewmates are all still on your ship, right?

grace: so, hypothetically...

rocky: rocky not like where grace going with this, statement

[dailycatsblog]

[aknowwhatyouare]

When he found out about what happened to Grace, Rocky was reasonably horrified and livid. On their way to Erid, Grace hears the most beautiful tune he cannot seem to understand. It doesn’t sound Eridian, it just sounds like regular music. He sees Rocky on his laptop messing with Garage Band. Grace asks what’s up, very amused. Rocky tells him,

Rocky made Stratt diss track.

[kiapet2]

My explanation for the book v. film difference on Eridian eating customs is that movie!Rocky was full-on bluffing.

Like he was just calling human eating disgusting, what was he going to do, say "okay actually the way Eridians eat is so incredibly gross we do it in private sound-proofed rooms"? And cede the conversational high-ground and sense of species superiority to Grace??? Nah, it looks beautiful, definitely.

Then Grace says "show me" and Rocky is stuck now, he's committed. So he just bucks up and goes all-in. It's not like he'll see the human after this is all done, he can pretend it's totally normal just this once.

Eventually before they reach Erid Rocky is gonna have to come clean, and Grace will laugh at him for an hour straight.

[thepaperbagdemon]

Rocky find super awesome music

[snnttgbsn]

Clip from an animatic I’m making of the PHM book. I still have a minute and a half to go🧍

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stratt: Oh no.

Stratt: I don’t have the time or emotional capacity to be sad or stressed about this.

Stratt: GRACE!

Grace: On it!

Grace: *starts sobbing and going into a full panic attack*

[afterthelambs]

It's frying me how both Project Hail Mary and the Fall Guy have karaoke scenes where the main female lead sings a song that is so obviously in reference to Ryan Gosling's character, while the camera cuts back and forth to aforementioned Ryan Gosling character (who is their employee in both scenarios). Nearly identical framing.

Meanwhile Gray Man has a scene where the main female character plays a song on a record player while the camera cuts back and forth to Rygos. Similar but not identical, which is actually fitting considering how Coltland are the twins while Court deliberately made himself an outlier