“This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”
“My.”
“Correct. But only for names.”
“So you’re calling me…?”
Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.”
“Are there other Graces? Why do you need to specify?”
Rocky considers this, tapping his xenonite-encased claws idly against the floor.
“No other Grace,” Rocky says. “We just do this.”
“Like an honorific,” Grace guesses. “It goes before everyone’s name? Everyone you know?”
Rocky whirs in surprise. “No, no, no. Not at all.”
“Okay, then who? What makes me qualify?”
Rocky is silent for a moment.
“...Does this offend Grace?” he asks, voice lower.
Grace blinks. “No! I don’t think so. Is there a reason to be offended?”
“Good,” Rocky says, relieved. Grace is starting to recognize what Eridian relief sounds like. “No, no reason.”
“Who else do you call that?”
“You don’t have this on Earth?”
Grace considers. What for, friends? He couldn’t call Marissa “my Marissa.” That would be weird.
“I still don’t know what it means,” he settles on. “So I couldn’t tell you.”
Rocky groans in frustration. He’s a very impatient tutor. “We just say it.”
“Are you my Rocky?” Grace asks. He hits the two keys to make the my note.
“I don’t know!” Rocky says. “You decide this.”
“I decide? Who do you use it for?”
“You. Adrian. I will use it for my pebbles.”
Grace blinks. “So few?”
Rocky shifts. “I am… you do not have the word yet. Eridian who works alone often, not close to many other Eridians.”
“What, mechanical engineer?”
Rocky chitters with amusement. “Acceptable.”
“Is Adrian your only friend?”
Rocky draws back, like he’s taken offense. “I have friends. Coworkers. But different.”
So just Adrian. And him.
“This worries you,” Rocky says.
“Adrian is your mate,” Grace points out. “I’m not your mate.”
“Correct. You are not. You do not like to be a mate.”
Grace isn’t sure how to respond to that, so he ignores it.
“I’m your friend,” Grace says.
Rocky hesitates, for a second. “...Correct.”
“Like your coworkers.”
“No.”
Grace sighs, rubbing his hand across his face. Okay, maybe that’s fair. It’s not like he felt about any of his coworkers like he feels about Rocky.
“Best friend,” Grace amends. “You’re my best friend, too.”
Rocky hums. “Acceptable.”
“Just acceptable? Now you are offending me. Can you just explain?”
This makes Rocky fall silent for a minute longer than usual. Grace is half-ready to apologize and to say let’s move on and to retype his own name without the superfluous my.
“The Earth ‘best friend’ is not strong enough,” Rocky says finally. “It does not translate this way.”
Grace runs his fingers through his hair, a little nervous, for some reason. “Okay.”
“It is…” Rocky pauses. He has to pause more often, now that they’re not using the translator, to simplify his language. “It means that I am not Rocky without my Grace. You are part of… of the whole. When I wake up, I think of you. When I work. When I eat. When I think I am going to die.”
Rocky speaks slowly, but it’s still a lot of Eridian for Grace to grasp all at once. Even as he works out the sentences in his head, he can feel hot tears rising in his eyes.
“It means that when you are sick, I am sick,” Rocky continues. “And it means I will take care of you, because taking care of you is taking care of myself.”
Grace bunches up his sleeve, wiping it across his face, blinking furiously.
Rocky’s voice is soft. “So Grace is part of Rocky. Grace is like a cell. You see? My Grace.”
Grace is quiet, for a moment, trying to get himself together. When he speaks, his voice is shaky.
“...Oh.”
Rocky hums, pressing his carapace gently against Grace’s arm. “You are leaking. Does this make you sad?”
Grace shakes his head, sniffing, crossing his arms across his knees and resting his chin on his sleeves. “Not at all.”
“Good, good.”
“I feel like that,” Grace mumbles. “Just like that. Just exactly—exactly like that.”
“About your old mate?”
“Don’t act stupid. You know I’m talking about you.”
Rocky hums, burrowing closer. Grace curls one arm around his carapace. That’s not enough, so he leans over, dropping his head down so his forehead presses against the xenonite.
“My Rocky,” Grace whispers in English.
“My Grace,” Rocky echoes in Eridian. Grace can recognize the note at the start. He will add it when he plays Rocky’s name.
“How long have you called me that?” Grace asks. “Must’ve been a while. I didn’t notice it change.”
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
I might be missing some stuff but, wait what's the deal with Valentine and Vidalia? They knew each other... were they friends? Exes??
Before I elaborate on this, I need to give some context.
Marry Me A Little and my own setting (@fizzysugarwater has been calling it "Milanverse") are different stories, set in different universes. Vidalia and Valentine do not know eachother in Marry Me a Little. It is strictly a story set in MC:MW.
Now, in Milanverse, Valentine and Vidalia were indeed friends... maybe situationship puts it best though haha. They met as young adults, Vidalia freshly promoted as vindicator, Valentine a common pillager. One day, he is rotated into her mansion and the two of them develop an intense and excilerating fling with eachother that falls apart as quickly as it formed.
The next day, Valentine is rotated back out with his patrol and the two would never directly talk with eachother again.
I'm back with a gift! My first-ever animatic, and I'm not going to get bogged down in self-criticism about it okay? I'm so grateful to those who waited for me, to my subscribers who inspired this journey, and to everyone who brightens my day with their kind comments🫶
Made in Procreate + CupCut
Special thanks to @brightgoat and their characters
Minecraft is 15 now!! That’s nuts!! I never thought Minecraft would gain such a foothold in my life again once I was out of high school, beyond the occasional “two week Minecraft phase”, but here I am, years later, still kicking! I’m making OCs for Minecraft now and it’s something I never thought I’d do!
And this, primarily, is due to the PHENOMENAL Minecraft OC and creative community that I’ve come to know and love. So I wanted to take the day to promote some folks! If you like what you find in these here blogs, please reblog this post and get it out there!! I want more people to know about my friends’ cool stories and characters! :3
First up, my dearest darlingest cowriter and friend Milan @corsomondo is cooking up some Fantastic stuff with their illager trio and everyone related. The story is genuinely extremely well written and I love how they write their antagonists especially. I won’t spoil anything, because it’s their story to tell, but I know a lot about it now from our talks and they make me so nuts /pos so go give em a look!!
RT @radioactivetoad (/art blog @vurm) has a fantastic array of pillage idiots drawn in such a unique and adorable style??? im obsessed. I am especially fond of her witches, Diana and Ghurrai. Such loveable freaklets I hope you know :3
Amy (who i’ve been calling Frogfire all this time bc of discord ashddjskskd) @jadeitepandaproductions is producing a DAILY WEBCOMIC (!!?) about the misadventures of her player/builder OC Nephri, in a modded world using the Homestead modpack. It’s genuinely really impressive on sheer numbers alone but it’s also oh-so-charming to read and now multi-medium. she’s in her second arc now so go give em a read!
Beemeat @bumblezone has a handful of delightful Minecraft ocs that I really enjoy! Victor, Pierce, and Wren are so so sick i love them a lot!! I ought to ask more about them!! I think Victor should bite somebody's hand off :3
putting Stamp @unrelatedcause and Bia @bia-lou together for their work on Jerry (we love jerry) and the Jerrylings as well as their own ocs that I simply adore, like Feather and Silas and Einya (shoutout to @sztefa001 as well for Jerry)
And I wouldn't know any of these guys if it weren't for Bright @brightgoat's epic Patreon server. Bright needs no introduction, but it bears saying that My World AU has kickstarted my creativity again and I couldn't be happier. You're an inspiration, Bright!
other creators of relevance i simply must tag include Seven @e40536, Snipsnap @snippitysnappednecc456, Raya @monkeysareable2fly, and many many more im not thinking of immediately! all of you do GREAT stuff in Minecraft and Beyond!
And last but not least, I'll toot my own horn a little. I've been working on a looooooong My World AU fanfiction (ten chaps and over 30k words now and Still Going!!) entitled Marry Me A Little, Love Me Just Enough on Ao3, alongside my cowriter Milan. For Minecraft Day, I'm dropping a new chapter, bringing us to 11!
Marry Me A Little is a fake marriage au/trope fic wherein Nil and Polly have to pretend to be lawfully wedded in order to stay in a village for a couple days, navigating all the social caveats and complicated feelings surrounding it. Shenanigans ensue! I'm really, really proud of the work we've done and the original characters we've made for this fic, so consider this kind of a soft-launch! Go read it! Thanks a ton to those of you who already have even though I don't advertise it on here!!
Happy Minecraft Day, everyone!!! Make it a good one! Mine some crafts!!
Minecraft is 15 now!! That’s nuts!! I never thought Minecraft would gain such a foothold in my life again once I was out of high school, beyond the occasional “two week Minecraft phase”, but here I am, years later, still kicking! I’m making OCs for Minecraft now and it’s something I never thought I’d do!
And this, primarily, is due to the PHENOMENAL Minecraft OC and creative community that I’ve come to know and love. So I wanted to take the day to promote some folks! If you like what you find in these here blogs, please reblog this post and get it out there!! I want more people to know about my friends’ cool stories and characters! :3
First up, my dearest darlingest cowriter and friend Milan @corsomondo is cooking up some Fantastic stuff with their illager trio and everyone related. The story is genuinely extremely well written and I love how they write their antagonists especially. I won’t spoil anything, because it’s their story to tell, but I know a lot about it now from our talks and they make me so nuts /pos so go give em a look!!
RT @radioactivetoad (/art blog @vurm) has a fantastic array of pillage idiots drawn in such a unique and adorable style??? im obsessed. I am especially fond of her witches, Diana and Ghurrai. Such loveable freaklets I hope you know :3
Amy (who i’ve been calling Frogfire all this time bc of discord ashddjskskd) @jadeitepandaproductions is producing a DAILY WEBCOMIC (!!?) about the misadventures of her player/builder OC Nephri, in a modded world using the Homestead modpack. It’s genuinely really impressive on sheer numbers alone but it’s also oh-so-charming to read and now multi-medium. she’s in her second arc now so go give em a read!
Beemeat @bumblezone has a handful of delightful Minecraft ocs that I really enjoy! Victor, Pierce, and Wren are so so sick i love them a lot!! I ought to ask more about them!! I think Victor should bite somebody's hand off :3
putting Stamp @unrelatedcause and Bia @bia-lou together for their work on Jerry (we love jerry) and the Jerrylings as well as their own ocs that I simply adore, like Feather and Silas and Einya (shoutout to @sztefa001 as well for Jerry)
And I wouldn't know any of these guys if it weren't for Bright @brightgoat's epic Patreon server. Bright needs no introduction, but it bears saying that My World AU has kickstarted my creativity again and I couldn't be happier. You're an inspiration, Bright!
other creators of relevance i simply must tag include Seven @e40536, Snipsnap @snippitysnappednecc456, Raya @monkeysareable2fly, and many many more im not thinking of immediately! all of you do GREAT stuff in Minecraft and Beyond!
And last but not least, I'll toot my own horn a little. I've been working on a looooooong My World AU fanfiction (ten chaps and over 30k words now and Still Going!!) entitled Marry Me A Little, Love Me Just Enough on Ao3, alongside my cowriter Milan. For Minecraft Day, I'm dropping a new chapter, bringing us to 11!
Marry Me A Little is a fake marriage au/trope fic wherein Nil and Polly have to pretend to be lawfully wedded in order to stay in a village for a couple days, navigating all the social caveats and complicated feelings surrounding it. Shenanigans ensue! I'm really, really proud of the work we've done and the original characters we've made for this fic, so consider this kind of a soft-launch! Go read it! Thanks a ton to those of you who already have even though I don't advertise it on here!!
Happy Minecraft Day, everyone!!! Make it a good one! Mine some crafts!!
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