Nonverbal? Nah, Beholding

10 Years Since MAG1 and the special interest is still going strong

[cholvoq]

I feel like early in their friendship Rocky would be curious about Grace’s glasses (ft. Grace’s inability to wear them correctly)

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[drawoftheeye]

My aroaceness really screwed me over when it came to the theming surrounding the corruption. I had no idea it was toxic relationships but bruh that makes so much sense. The thing you love is literally eating you alive. Even the mold guy in MAG93 tracks given how the statement giver described the relationship between his girlfriend's parents and the correlation with cleaning compulsion and control in relationships. Statement giver really said "I can fix him" then saw as he got devoured by purple (bruise symbolism?) and as the house started smelling sickly sweet.

Honestly GG Jonny sims for the fantastic exploration of the mentality behind toxic relationships. I didn't see the romantic ones for a while but I do now

[drawoftheeye]

If there are any corruption avatars out there with a specific fascination with beetles hmu /gen

(I’m researching beetle physiology atm for a creature design and I want to check some details that I can’t find much about online)

[madame-snail-smooches]

I am once again NOT getting over how the Unknowing reveals each character's most core instincts by stripping away their rational understanding of context.

Strip away Tim's understanding of the situation, and you see that his anger is bone deep and insatiable. There is genuine hurt and righteous fury there, but he no longer cares where that fury is directed. There's a reason Elias called him a "rogue element."

Strip away Basira's understanding of the situation, and she immediately starts caculating how to function with little to no available info. She relies so heavily on her senses and her own judgement of simple *if x, then y* logic that she doesn't need to understand things in order to navigate them. And she knows this, which gives her the resolve to see it through without second-guessing herself, either.

Strip away Daisy's understanding of the situation, and she is left almost ferally defensive. She doesn't trust anything, and she is so accustomed to operating in situations wherein she has the undeniable upper hand that she is immediately set on the aggressive (akin to an animal attacking out of fear) when she is no longer certain of where she stands. You see a similar, if more subdued, version of this in her interview with Elias when she loses her advantage and starts making more and more desperate death threats the more certain she is that he has one over her.

Finally, Jon. Strip away Jon's understanding of the situation and you find underneath it all the same core that has been there since the beginning of s1: an insecure man who is frightened by the significance of the task placed on him. A man who is desperately searching for some guidance and help. A man who is so intrinsically willing to trust if only there isn't some exterior circumstance causing him to doubt.

this podcast genuinely haunts me

[yourlocalwhovian]

@ethan-elliott @eyesonjupiter you may appreciate this

[neru-girlkisserwhosalsoaroace]

I made an AroAce Lesbian flag

Dunno what to call it.

Definition: Little to no romantic or sexual attraction, if any attraction is felt, it is only felt for the female gender (includes MtF individuals)

Anyone can use it, but its unlikely anyone will.

If anyone's already made something like this, consider this an alt!

[drawoftheeye]

“It’s unlikely anyone will”. You fool, you accidentally made the perfect flag for me. I will take this please and thank you.

Any way you can post the hex codes of the colours?

[constant-brain-fog]

yeahhh, they can take care of each other out there ㅠㅅㅠ

my shaylas ( ˃ᯅ˂)

made a matching drawing to my Iron Lung fanart, because to me, they are two sides of the same coin (same side of the coin, imo) they go hand in hand 🤝 also the little kibty is named Felicette! she was the first cat to go to space and come back safely 🥹 she is often forgotten in the history of space travels, and for what she had to go through, i wanted to have her here as well because she deserves it 🧎

Iron Lung Matching Drawing

[drawoftheeye]

Things I find perplexing as an aroace person (btw this discusses my experiences with some sexual content so if you do not wish to read that or are a minor I ask you to stop here)

1. Enjoying being turned on as a state of existence

If I ever get the random horny, or even worse if someone sparks it by saying something related to one of my kinks then I find it entirely bothersome. I don’t find the physical sensation pleasant, nor do I enjoy having some of my mental real-estate spontaneously taken up with monkey brain activities. I hate it. So the fact that some people can not only tolerate it but actively enjoy it in the right circumstances is fascinating.

2. The complex social stuff around crushes

If someone has a crush it makes them act weird because of the weird brain chemicals, sure. But someone needing to remove themselves from a friendship because the other party doesn’t reciprocate is inherently strange. Or when the person without the attraction is incentivised to split ways with the person with the crush. Is it not possible to be friends with someone when that person has attraction for you? Is it uncomfortable? Does it feel inappropriate?

3. Crushes in general

Is it romantic attraction, sexual or both? How long do they last for? How does it affect your daily functioning? In that trope where someone lies awake at night thinking about their crush, what do you think about? Does that happen? I assume it does, it seems too specific to not have some factual basis.

4. Hooking up

The fact that there’s actually a market for people to meet with “hot singles in your area”. That it’s not just a weird thing on porn sites but something that people actually do. The fact that people can just think to themselves “I want to have sex tonight” and then find a partner to just have sex and then ig never speak to each other again? I assume that’s what happens I have no idea.

5. Romantic love

From the descriptions I’ve received of it it seems to be a completely separate sensation from other forms of love. Honestly it sounds like the brain just malfunctions sometimes and gives you too much chemicals in response to certain people. And boy those chemicals make people very stupid sometimes.

6. Finding people’s body parts hot

I can find people attractive in what I think is a milder version of sexual desire. It’s the thought of “I’d tap that” but without the desire to actually do so, more just the recognition. Actually yeah it’s like “someone tap that for me”. But I get that for people holistically. I have no understanding of how people can get sexually attracted to specific body parts or features. Not just the genital organs but like.. boobs/pecs, butts, lips, etc.

Side note, I thought slapping the ass was a trope and not something people do to provoke arousal. I found that out the hard way when I slapped the butt of my best friend as a joke and found out soon after that the trope isn’t just a way to say that someone is attractive.

[alexxuun]

Exploring Eridian’s biology. Most of it are taken from the book, but I want to add to it :)

My headcanons:

-Rocky and Adrian had kids before Rocky went away. They are now in their (human equivalent) 20s.

-Adrian and Rocky used to be around the same age, now Adrian is MUCH older.

-Baby Eridians are called pebbles (like baby goats are called kids). Yes, this is all Grace doing.

-Eridan’s eggs are like geode.

-Eridian’s eggs (canonically) are laid together when mate and then merge. I however, also think that they would usually go for two at a time for protection (they can watch each other sleep as they get older).

-Rocky name his two new pebbles after Grace and the Hail Mary.

-I’m not a geologist and very much not knowledgeable about rock, but I believe that the green/blue we see Eridians have (movie ver) could be caused by the various level of metal element on their rock layer, like copper and bronze, interacting with the elements over time (Verdigris).

-Baby Eridians are smooth rock. As Eridians grow, they became sharper and more complex looking, caused both by natural aging and external elements.

-Most elder Eridians are green/blue since it’s a form of rusting, kind of like human with grey hair.

[drawoftheeye]

Glorious headcanons

[drawoftheeye]

Why do so many TMA fans also love Project Hail Mary? I’m not complaining at all I also love both the book and movie.

Is it the wet cat protagonist? The asexual representation? The autism?

Why is the Venn diagram of fandoms a circle? /hyperbole

[drawoftheeye]

Even though time and space don’t really exist in season 5 of TMA I can’t help but notice the order in which Jon and Martin encounter the characters we know. In MAG160 they briefly talk about how they’re worried they’re still being hunted by Not!Sasha and the Hunter duo (Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert). They went to the safe house explicitly to stay away from those pursuers (at least it sounds like that from how they phrase it).

When Jon accidentally fucks up the world, the relative position of each character we know likely stayed about where they were in space (even though the distances don’t make sense anymore). And for several of the characters this resulted in that location becoming their domain. Why move a fear monster to a more logical place when places don’t exist.

So the fact that Jon and Martin encounter Not!Sasha so soon after they set off for the institute post-change implies that she was maybe a few days to a week from catching up to them pre-change. If Jonah hadn’t tricked Jon into reading the apotheosis statement when he did then Jon and Martin would have had at most a month of domesticity before Jon would’ve been attacked by Not!Sasha. And given he was effectively shutting out the eye in as much as he could, it’s possible he may have just died from Not!Sasha’s attack. Or worse, Not!Sasha inserts herself into Jon and Martin’s new lives and feeds on their fear of knowing what she is and that she could attack.

[drawoftheeye]

I have been marked

[drawoftheeye]

I think my course coordinator is of the spiral. I’m often confused by her rubric even when it’s written to be explicit. I can’t get a straight answer out of her. The site we’re supposed to be able to get information from was given a visual “upgrade” by her and it’s now even harder to navigate than before. She feels both approachable and confrontational. And her course work makes me feel like I’m traversing endless corridors of paperwork and documentation.

What do you mean I have to research 15 different jobs to see what skills industry wants, when this industry is effectively reference only. Why can’t you provide clarification on what you want for the project documents? What the hell do I put as my “personal development goals”. And why do you want to know where I expect to be five years from now. I don’t know if I’ll even be alive????

[drawoftheeye]

Sometimes I’m hard pressed not to believe the fears are real. /hj

Mainly because I somehow seem to have the lower tier “archivist powers”. In the sense that people say I’m easy to talk to, and that people will often overshare with me. People also commonly answer my questions without much prompting or encouragement. I know it isn’t because of an eldritch fear God of knowledge, but I sorta wish it was? I’d sell my soul to get some of the later season abilities. I’m barely human anyway

[drawoftheeye]

Do I show the Magnus inspired tattoo when I get it in a week?

[drawoftheeye]

I wonder why neither Elias or Jon realised that the Unknowing would probably be happening in Madam Twoswords wax museum. It’s the place Not!Sasha was frequenting to see her “boyfriend” and we know she’s of the stranger. You hear wax museum and you don’t immediately think that it’s connected to the stranger entity that was hunting you for months? Skill issue Jon

[drawoftheeye]

Useless meetings really bring the slaughter out of me