Rhaenyra realizing that maybe all the hours her dad spent teaching her to paint his warhammer minis wasn’t analogous to what being king is like at all and maybe he just taught her how to be a high value GameStop employee
The entire dance is downstream from Viserys’ crimes which of course are downstream of Jaehaerys’ crimes which are downstream from—nothing, actually, I’m getting reports that Maegor was a feminist
Daemonomics: the state exists for purposes of aura farming and violent imperial conquest that contrary to popular belief is completely decoupled from the economy so you better not spend any fucking money. Except when I’m in town in which case the state exists to facilitate epic parties and I am running a supply-side bribe network of my jackbooted thugs so extensive one could call it Keynesian. 
Aegonomics: hide the money yall there’s WOMEN around. Usurping my his sisters birthright and claiming the throne did kickstart the largest and most effective jobs program for young men that humans have yet to come up with which is prolonged land war. Is there an opposite of supply side economics where you kill everyone in a certain profession and see what happens.
Rhaenyromics: the lowborn will be elevated when it is personally politically expedient and food and coin will be distributed among the masses. not really power though unless you’re my bastard cousin in which case have a nuke. Zero structural changes. Pay your taxes eat your rats. I’m sure trying to completely eliminate the middle tier of nobles will do nothing to threaten my position at the top. It’s just me and my peasants.
Marqsism-Mysarism: peasants of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains. Some of you will die while I create the material circumstances necessary to facilitate an uprising but I am in the room, telling the targaryens that you are important.
I lovelovelove the "Grace is a predator at heart and is built for speed and instincutal action, which scares the ever loving FUCK outta Rocky" posts, so I'm gonna expand upon it a bit.
- Eridian scientists and doctors doing their best to help him when they first get to Erid. A few weeks in, he's in and out of consciousness but doing better, a doctor (in a xenosuit obviously) comes in to check on him, sees he's asleep, so goes to examine him closely, because, you know, alien. Grace, who was only dozing, jerks away so fast it gives poor Dr Limestone a heart attack.
- the rest of the doctors make an agreement to give Grace plenty of warning before coming near him when he's half asleep again. Rocky explains that yes, Grace just is that quick, and he knows when things are going down.
- when the biodome is done, Grace and Rocky take a trip around it and explore. Rocky thinks it will be funny to throw a stone at Grace. Grace friend has no sound perception, silly. Grace can't view things when he's facing away, Grace will never see it coming. Grace hears Rocky scuffling around and gets the weird human sixth sense, so turns at the last second and catches the rock mid air, in one hand, then skims it across the water. Rocky is VERY unnerved, and also cant work out which bit is more impressive, the catch or the skim.
- later, when teaching the pebbles, they go on a heavily supervised trip into the biodome. One little pebble breaks off and hides in a rocky outcropping. Teacher Grace will never find them here. Cut to Grace stalking through the rocks like a true predator, all senses straining, and eventually snags the wayward rock and carries it back to the group. None of the other pebbles consider going AWOL again. Teacher Grace can find them.
- Grace deciding he needs more exercise, so going for runs around the biodome. He decides to go for endurance. Rocky comes to visit only to watch in horror as Grace runs for an hour pretty much straight. "How long can you do that for, question?" "With proper hydration and calorie intake, and rests, pretty much as long as I like." "What the fuck, question."
not team green not team black but a secret third thing (it is all a cycle of violence that will never be broken even two hundred years from now and there is not an single happy ending or “winner” for anyone in this story)
Even humans start to act super weird when isolated even for a month or so and Rocky was alone in Blip-A for 50 years and then alone with an alien for a while. His behaviour should be unhinged.
Things Rocky does when he got back from Adrien that weirds out other Eridians:
He (subconsciously) picked a facet of his body as his "face" and turns it sometimes to orient towards people or objects he's paying a lot of attention to or concentrating on.
That thing I've seen Chinese people on social media discuss where they use their own characters to reproduce an English word phonetically, with the actual meaning being a fun sidepoint. Rocky reproducing his closest approximation of words without existing Eridian equivalents (relativity, caffeine, all the colours) that sound like gibberish or odd mashes of existing Eridian terms.
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Making "random" components of structures transparent for no apparent reason (Grace can't be here, Grace will never be in this part of Erid, but if he were, he'd be able to see)
The Eridian word for "See" is probably something to do with detecting light. Rocky would use this odd, scientific phrase the way a human uses "Oh, I see!" to mean "Oh, I understand." Like someone saying "I've used a Geiger counter to verify the radioactivity of this abstract concept" when they mean, "I get it."
You need to be Silent when watching someone sleep because you could wake them up. A completely incomprehensible idea to Eridians.
You discovered it, you get to name it! No, actually you're Not allowed to call the new molecule "Low Friction, high thermal stability two-parts-carbon-to-four-parts-fluorine" try naming it after your pebble!
1, 2, 3, eyes on me! (Eyes being another phonetically assimilated word)
Odd, overly clear accent. To make sure the software translated his words properly, Rocky was probably taking special care to perfectly reproduce words in the exact same inflection every time, no slurring or mumbling his way through.
the trolley problem except the guy tied to one set of tracks is your friend and someone you trust and one of the few people in the world that you genuinely like and he's begging for his life and he's saying that you're murdering him and he's screaming and clawing and running like a wild animal. on the other set of tracks is every living thing on the planet. its a no brainer, obviously. but he will still scream. this happened to my good friend eva stratt
Not saying this about anyone in particular but I think there'd be a lot more discussion and a lot more controversy if Yoko Ono had gained possession of the Elf Stones instead of Ringo Starr :/
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