going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room
i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me
I think my brain was playing some word association game with this one but subnautica au anyone??
Grace is a scientist working with Alterra (unfortunately) and the only survivor of the Aurora crash, but finds Rocky who also crashed here while trying to investigate a distress call coming from the planet :)
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technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
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When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses."
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okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
it's well and obvious Adrian would be utterly overwhelmed with relief, confusion, grief, and many other such emotions when Rocky finally returned home to Erid alive and with the answers to save their star. so Rocky would absolutely be (constantly) ruminating on their reunion and hoping beyond all hope that Adrian hasn't moved on and is still patiently expecting him, and that he (despite knowing the lack of control he had over his experience and fate) would desperately want to apologize and make it up to his distraught mate for being lost in space (and probably presumed dead).
now I also adore the idea that because Adrian is in charge of Grace's biodome to some extent once that's constructed, one interpretation of their occupation is that they're a zoologist/potential xenobiologist.
so consider.
rocky, arriving on Erid, already riding on 4 years of anticipation nerves at returning home, decades of yearning/sorrow, terrified over Grace's poor condition, and absolutely overjoyed to be returning to his mate, immediately upon reuniting with them just blurts out smth like: "Rocky sorry sorry sorry for nearly dying. brought Adrian a present! is an alien for them to study!"
and while Grace is too 'nearly-dead' to call him out on it, Rocky is immediately mortified and internally reprimanding himself for it anyway. because he just called his best friend a potential zoo animal/pet.
Stratt is so straightforward I really do think she spends the whole time after launching Grace just being like “he was the right man for the mission and I stand by that” (she didn’t build the ironclad consensus to send him out of nothing/she was grounded in it firmly enough to pull off sending him, it’ll still stand afterwards!). And then after the taumoeba are sent back she’s still just like “he was the right man for the mission and I stand by that” and to everyone else her affect is identical but if Grace were there to see her say it he’d stop dead and stare until she smiiiled.
Y'all be freaking out about Markiplier knowing about BloodyMary MY PEOPLE IN TUMBLR he's been in the know about ships I think that man's grateful and overjoyed he's not being shipped with a close friend for once
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