I'm Not Bruce

Em. She/They. Bi. 25 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Fuck ICE I can't like something a normal amount.

[em-not-bruce]

Welcome

This blog may contain some reblogged 18+ NSFW content. MDNI

If you aren't in support of LGBTQIA2S+, Black and POC's Rights, Women's rights, Trans Rights, Free Palestine, etc; Go away. Fuck Trump.

I have too many interests, and I switch between fixations of them semi frequently, I understand if you follow me for that fandom/interest only.

I love to have genuine connections and conversations with (respectful) people. If we share an interest, feel free to send me a (not gross, respectful) DM or anon with your thoughts. My tag for posts I make em-not-bruce

Interests that I love and/or that have taken over my life before:

Project Hail Mary

A Court of Thorns and Roses series

K-Pop Demon Hunters

Throne of Glass series

Miraculous Ladybug

Hunger Games

Many other books/ series. I read quite a bit.

Steven Universe

Youtube (Brittany Broski, Drew Afualo, Caleb Hearon, Kurtis Conner, Danny Gonzalez, Drew Gooden, ChadChad, Drew Afualo, UNHhhh)

Climate change, space

Writing and character/world design

Much much more.

I haven't made much content on tumblr before so if things look lackluster, that's why lol.

[fic-dumpster]

[rylandgraceisace]

I’m gender envying over ryland grace aaagain oh to be him

[donabene]

i really love a lot of the comments on the phm subreddit

(canon typical discussion of suicide methods at the link)

[silmarienthequeen]

I think this really speaks to the kind of story Project Hail Mary is. We’re expecting the gun to be used. There are aliens, and most sci fi stories involve fighting aliens. You even have the gun for it. But that’s not the kind of story it is. It rejects violence. What is used instead is the nitrogen- for the sake of using science to save the world. God I love this book

[donabene]

You Get It

[wildminti]

Rocky was going to say "fans of PHM" but Grace panicked! 🏳️‍🌈

[palesweetdeeer]

Based off a conversation with oomf about Grace teaching his class about Earth animals but he really fucking sucks at drawing so most Eridians’ perspective of Earth animals is shit

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[bulkhummus]

i know for a fact you have to sign in to enter any school if you do not work there, and especially if you are not a parent, so at some point Eva Stratt had Carl hold up his badge so she could march past a retired cop who acts as a security guard for the school and everyone watches, mouth agape, as the woman walked into Grace's classroom

it was end of day - teachers stay late. kids have afterschool activities. Stratt and Carl are not familiar faces, which would have every adults head on a swivel who worked in a school. people would notice.

and i just know the rumors in the faculty room went fucking HARD the next day when Grace didn't show up to work

[bulkhummus]

thinking more about grace as a teacher

Avoids the faculty room like the plague

His classroom is NOT organized, there is shit everywhere - but he knows exactly where everything is

Goes out for lunch every day to eat his sad little sandwich on a bench in the sun

his prep is a lunch period so kids are ALWAYS in his room while hes trying to like grace and do other shit

Gets to work pretty early to prep for the day but leaves the moment the EOD bell rings which gets looks from other teachers

will speak up at faculty meetings - he never has a problem being an informative bitch at a faculty meeting and everyone loves and hates him for it

will always raise his hand to go on stage when they ask for teacher volunteers at an assembly

his do nows all have to do with relevant and contemporary research that he himself is interested in and keeps tabs on

he always 'forgets' to take attendance so he can have kids who need a break from sitting to bring it down to the office

his coworkers are convinced he's gay because he doesn't talk about his personal life and has no kids and teachers are gossip junkies

he only makes administrators who come in and have no idea how schools actually run use his Dr. title, everyone else can call him Mr.

He gets stuck with teaching health so he treats the human body and all that it does like its alien and the kids go nuts for it

all tests are open book because he firmly believes in utilizing resources

[cricketandmouse]

They’re passive aggressively cleaning each others faces in the banana bed rn

[cricketandmouse]

peace and love on planet earth….

[eclipseofthemoonnn]

warm n sleepy with friemd in banana bed.

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[jaybejaybenotsstuff]

Le petit prince (and his rock) I loveeed working on this one! It will be available as print in July

[mayasaura]

Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.

[good-old-lover-girl]

Fun fact: Illyrian women so far have a 100% success rate for reaching Carnythian in the blood rite 👏

[sharrrrknight]

I love the fics where Rocky is described as an asocial outcast who's only got his job (and Adrian) going for him because it puts into perspective that no, not all Eridians are that rude, it's just Rocky being Rocky.

And then it's really funny to think of like Eridian scientists getting mad and embarrassed as hellll that it was ROCKY of all people to make first contact.

In contrast to everyone saying how perfect it is that Grace, a teacher, is the one to make first contact. Meanwhile the people who knew Rocky are doing damage control for how badly he may have fucked up Erid's representation 😭

[babyyodagirl]

the erid version of NASA: I'm sorry, he did WHAT?

Ryland: yeah, it kinda reminded me of my ex, Linda-

The Erid version of NASA: oh my god, oh my god. ROCKY, GET THE FUCK IN HERE!

[flowerbleedme]

My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

[flowerbleedme]

I asked for a pastry at the coffee shop. When I raised my card up to pay, he simply said "you're good." and waved it away. I wondered why. I wondered what made him think I deserved to have my order be free. Sparing me those two dollars.

Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.

The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.

It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.

Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.

But it doesn't really matter. He'd deserve a tip anyway. Because it's never just us hurting.

[alexxuun]

Grace think fondly of his scar if you even care.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.