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Since time passes differently in space compared to on a planet, more time has passed on Erid than for Rocky.

So, when Rocky gets home and introduces Grace to Adrian he says something like “This is my partner of 190 earth years equals XY erid years.” And all eridians nearby stop and are like “That’s not right! It’s XYZ years!”

So, every one thinks Rocky had gone mad being alone in space and Grace has to give an impromptu lesson on relativity.

Anyway, Adrian now has bragging rights because they’ve been in that relationship longer than Rocky, which would be a winning argument for any disagreement between them if Rocky wasn’t already agreeing to everything Adrian wanted in the first place.

viralfrog

dragongirlbunny

mellowlovesyou

Reading the book and I can't help but think the ship bloodmary would be completely different depending on what grace is used for it lol. He's just so scientifically unhinged in the book.

(the inspo used for this is convo between me and a friend)

aexphr

i will not be explaining myself HAPPY IRON LUNG RELEASE DAY

hanniballecterkinnie

the angsty concept of simon finding logs of a man in the past trying to stop the planets and stars from disappearing… but failing….

blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

One detail from the book that didn't make it into the movie that I think is neat is that Eva Stratt did not just stumble across Ryland Grace. He was not the 'potentially disposable' option. She went to the top microbiologists in some of the best research labs in the world and was told multiple times "you know what? I think Dr. Grace might be your guy." When discussing the Petrova Problem. And this several years after his ejection from academia.

stereosonicanimatronic

ryland grace is aroace. however he is also stratt’s dead wife, rocky’s red string of fate starcrossed soulmate, & intensely violently homosexual for mark “simon iron lung” iplier. all things are true & all things can coexist. peace & love on planet erid

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I had a thought: At some point Grace lets Rocky listen to human music, and Rocky gets confused because some of the chord progressions and rhythms mean something in Eridianese. However they just mean straight gibberish with some human words in the background.

Rocky thinks Grace is a lunatic for listening to a song that is about “hydrogen monkey fire eating sound burger”

When Grace gets better at understanding Eridianese, he can no longer listen to some songs because of this.

mellosdrawings

Don't be mean, Simon. Ellie is an angel :(

beardedmrbean

Congratulations on the cat

lunalovesangst

I've read a lot of fics and posts about Rocky imitating some of Grace's body language or phrases, but I haven't seen nearly ENOUGH about Grace being the one to copy Rocky.

Grace tapping or stomping twice to signal a question.

Grace doing the jazz hands.

Grace doing that thing when Rocky is counting that he uses his fingers (even if Grace isn't actually counting with them, he picks up the gesture)

Give me Grace being a weirdo and walking on all fours like Rocky. Rocky thinks it's hilarious how slow he is like that.

Give me Grace subconsciously copying random noises Rocky makes (not the words, but his equivalents to "ooohhh"s and "ahhhh"s and "hmmmm"s) because if there's something I've noticed about humans, it's that if we spend long enough with someone, we start mimicking each other. Hell, even with animals it happens! You've ever noticed that cat owners have entire meow-ing conversations with their cats? With dogs it happens too. Or that when parrots do their bobbing dances, a lot of us start copying that? And their chirping too. I like that a lot. I'd like to see Grace doing that.

pangur-and-grim

can I make a confession that might get me in trouble

pangur-and-grim

I save scummed through every variation of this guy’s dialogue tree because I really, really wanted him to perform unethical surgery on me. like I’m still so angry about this. WHY have the gross knife hand doctor if he can’t pull out your appendix and laugh about it??? what is the POINT

pangur-and-grim

wait hang on I’ll post a pangur photo. don’t unfollow

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thatliznt

Thanks to my friend, Grace and Simon now write love letters to each other in my version

stealthetrees

What if human astronauts visit Erid one day and are doing diplomatic things and whatnot and they learn Ryland Grace is sstill alive and is in a terrarium. One of the astronauts jokingly says “you’re not experimenting on him are you” and the Eridians freeze cause yeah, they totally are. They experiment on him all the time. They’re experimenting on him right now in fact. They read about deep sea diving and are now testing the effects of replacing certain gases in Graces atmosphere. Right now they’re testing helium.

They send someone to stop the experiment but Grace refuses cause they’re so far in already and well that would just ruin the data.

The new humans think this is hilarious and insist on joining the experiment as Grace excitedly yaps about all the cool stuff he’s learned about aliens but he’s still got that high pitched helium voice.

kokica1

Mark knowing? Fine. It's his job to work and be online. I feel like I'm a bug and my rock was lifted off me but fine.

Now Ryan.

If Ryan, the chronically offline 45 year old girl dad of two, does anything to show acknowledgement of us, I'm going to fucking send myself into orbit with how loudly I'll shriek.