Crystal Clear

(anxious wifey in her 30s) I just post whatever- especially OTPs, fav bands, fandoms, etc. tagging is haphazard at best and half the time is just a rambling moment for ya girl

[garnetcapricorn]

bonus smut chapter for my tail kink fic

wheeeeee💫

[itsfishbish]

he'd 100% make his students high-vis vests

[hulk-janitor]

BloodyMary comic based on "It's Worth It" by HulkJanitor (me) on Ao3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85475771/chapters/227282216

[adoelhome]

Hi

I love them

Bye

[blackholesun321]

Baby eridians, for a good portion of their lives, are soft-shelled, as Erid likes to call it. It takes a few molts (more than a few, but for abbreviation's sake) for their shells to entirely harden, absorbing minerals from around them and through their food to develop the shell on their exterior. If you need a comparison, consider how human bones fuse and we become less flexible as we get older.

But for a few years (cough, decades, cough), a baby pebble is about as hard as a soft-shelled turtle—or a normal turtle, if they're a bit older. Disadvantages aside, there is an advantage to being able to see your offspring's internal functions. And until their vocal bladders form and they're capable of making multiple complex sounds, being able to see what is hurting is absolutely helpful.

It's a universal experience among parents to lament the day they can no longer hear their pebbles' heartbeats.

That is to say, Rocky knows Grace is an adult, okay? He isn't someone who anthropomorphizes, and he isn't going to start now. Statement.

But when he first heard Grace in all his squishy glory— heart pumping away, lungs filling and deflating, organs digesting food— his brain went full baby-fever mode. Frankly, he was white-knuckling the urge to find the nearest hypothetical cave, bundle him up into a proper nest, and wait for his skin to absorb the surrounding minerals and start hardening properly.

But because Rocky is sensible and proper and not going to infantilize his best friend (he swears to God, stupid fucking instincts, shut the fuck up!!), he won't.

But sometimes the urge to squish his best friend is overwhelming. He just pinches at him through the permeable mesh of his ball. And Grace will screw up his face (so soft) and go what’s up bud? I piss you off or something? (He learns what bruises are and sulks for half a day afterward.)

All of that aside, once again, Rocky has gotten used to Grace's heartbeat, his clumsiness, and his one-tone voice. That's his best friend, and he's smart and just as capable as any other adult. He is also the cutest fucking thing to Eridian hearing. Is he also disconcertingly alien, definitely— His size, the limbs, the head protrusion (and other protrusions), the leakiness detracted maybe. But his cluster-sibling once cooed at and brought home a pet sulphur slug because, oh my spirits, hear his squishy respiratory system and you tell me that's not the cutest thing on the planet! It blurbles, Rocky! It fucking blurbles!

So, as Erid draws closer and Rocky/Grace become more excited and stressed. (The food has yet to run out, and as good as Erid is, they need substantial help from the human side to figure out how to make proper human nutrition. And finding the right informational packs in all of human knowledge is a very big undertaking.)

Rocky dreads the ever-looming talk he’ll need to have with Grace about the fact that Erid may, in fact, possibly find him very, very adorable. And that this might hamper communication for a second while he explains no, that is not a tall baby and no you cannot squish it.

[pineappical]

cuteness aggression

[roguemetal]

Drawing every day for pride, day 2

I deep fried it ojjh

[hailed-marys]

i got maybe the most darling comic commission request from @castielrisingabove, who wanted to see grace failing to do pushups under the combined weight of some very enthusiastic pebbles! he's okay guys, don't worry, he's just... taking a break

[signed-ecazumi]

I'd imagine Grace had a professional linguist and/or translator take a look at Rocky and Grace's eridi-lish when making his organ thing he uses to communicate. And once Grace gets the hang of fluent eridian with a good enough vocabulary, it's interesting to hear the difference between Rocky and Adrian's speech.

Adrian: Friend Grace, is submerging oneself in bodies of water a regular human enrichment activity, question? Well, I suppose I can make an exception, statement.

and all that science shit. Adrian's not very talkative at all, but very elegant. Rocky on the other hand, talks like any well-meaning engineer or mechanic should.

Rock: Holy motherfucking dick, Adrian are you seeing this shit, statement. Grace is fucking floating in the fucking water how the shitballs is he doing that

[lavenderknight]

hello bloodymary nation, airing this out here too i suppose

[graves-yard]

Finished a pre-made chapter of my fucked up little bloodymary fic and I liked it enough I drew a scene from it. It’s gonna be a bit until you guys know the context tho, so just have fun with this for now.

[chokedqwerty]

simon and grace answer the question what would you do if you were the only two people on the planet

[ramsaybaggins]

Because I'm an absolute sucker for Grace becomes an Eridian (still human, but he belongs on Erid with Eridians):

We don't really know much about Eridian beliefs or religion, right?

What if they believe in soul reincarnation?

Panspermia has become proven at this point, and it's become very clear that Grace loves Erid, and he belongs there and fits there better than he ever did on earth.

What if the Eridians just sort of collectively decide that in a previous life he was an Eridian, but during reincarnation there was a bit of confusion and he ended up on the wrong planet. They have common ancestors after all, right?

And then after more thinking, they decide actually he was put there on purpose because he had to be the one to meet Rocky so they could save the planets together, and then he could finally come back to where his soul finally feels at home.

Grace would find a lot of comfort in that idea, I think, even if he doesn't necessarily believe it himself.

[smol-ghosts]

I’ve fallen victim to the crossover ship of a lifetime. (I’m writing a fic of them called Missing Piece by smol_ghosts. This was a thank you I drew for the support it’s gotten ❤️)

[verenakauer]

Grace knows that Rocky has PTSD after the, well, everything. They've been stuck together for four years. He knows.

He understands.

They arrive to Erid, and one of the first things Grace does is playing for Adrian a little speech he made in Eridian using his recordings of Rocky's voice. And it's just... instructions. Mostly.

"He has a lot of anxiety about people's health and will probably freak out about yours at some point, don't dismiss it and let him see that you are okay."

"He is terrified of being alone, please make sure someone is physically close to him at all times."

"He is scared of falling asleep and will delay it as long as he can, you need to pay attention to his sleep cycle or he'll be hurting himself."

"He downplays everything bad that is happening to him, mental and physical, please keep an eye on him or he'll be ignoring his health completely."

"He never gave up, but I might die very soon and I'm not sure how he will react to it. Please be with him, even when it's not easy. He loves you. He wanted to return to you so badly. Even though he probably has changed, this is still him. Please keep loving him. He needs it more than ever. He'll need it when I am gone."

...Adrian is very annoyed because a) the fuck do you mean by implying that I'll leave him, b) the fuck do you mean by implying you know him better than I do (Adrian does have to begrudgingly accept this one later: Grace is objectively more familiar with Rocky's trauma responses), and c) the fuck do you mean you're gonna die no one's letting you die shut up and get into the lab we have science to do. They become friends fast, bonding over worrying about Rocky together.

(Rocky is not sure he likes it, but has to admit he can finally feel safe with the both of them by his side.)

[animentality]

[kilovanity]

Bloodymary on the rocks cuddle pile <3