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Welcome one and all to yet another block men [and Dan and Phil] brainrot account

Things I mainly post about:

Hermitcraft

Life Series

Dan and Phil (main interest)

Things I also like:

DreamSMP

EmpiresSMP

The Magnus Archives

Welcome to Nightvale

Sanders Sides

Good Omens

Sherlock and Co

The Pitt

t00-many-eyes

I like to think that naturally Eridians are not really tactile: they don't hug, they don't kiss, they don't hold hands; so when Grace hugs Rocky for the first time, Rocky is genuinely surprised. What is he supposed to do? What's the purpose of this?

Grace tells him that for humans physical contact is very important. That their bodies were made to hold and be held, one's chin hidden in the curve of a shoulder, one's heart completing the other's empty side of the ribcage, hands intertwining perfectly. Rocky says he's not a human. Grace says one doesn't have to be a human to love and be loved.

And so, Rocky learns to adore physical touch. It turns out to be addicting. They wake up, spend the day and fall asleep curled up around each other, limbs tangled, Grace's warm breath fogging Rocky's xenonite suit. (Rocky desperately wishes there was no suit between them, so he could really touch Grace, feel his soft skin, leave marks proving he was here, he touched Grace, he loved him.)

And then they finally arrive on Erid, and Adrian sings: my love, you came back, and Grace settles slowly into his new life in the biodome, tired but happy, and his love shines on everything and everyone like the Sun Rocky has never seen.

Now pebbles fist-bump, chirping, teacher Grace taught us!, and Adrian pecks Rocky on his carapace, and some Eridian hugs Grace after he helps them with something insignificant.

Ryland Grace comes into Erid's life and brings light, one they don't need eyes to see and feel.

Years and years later, Grace is gone. There's a memorial dedicated to him in the city centre. Grace sits with his legs crossed, a soft smile on his forever frozen face, his arms folded as if he was holding a baby. When the time comes, Rocky crawls into his lap and settles in the infinite embrace of his arms, limbs curling around the body that was once warm and thrumming with life and now is silent and unmoving. Rocky leans into Grace's chest and pretends he can still hear his heartbeat, steady and familiar, that envelopes him like a blanket.

Falling asleep, Rocky thinks he can hear Grace calling him. He doesn't have the energy to sing, I'm coming, my star, just wait for me.

He dies, becoming a part of the memorial.

But even though they're gone forever, their love remains, like the light of a star that shines even after its death. Eridians pass down the culture of embrace through generations. And even centuries later, there are still tales told about a Man and an Eridian whose love saved the Universe.

#haunting the narrative of Erid with their love #project hail mary

tendebill

[part 1] [part 2]

rocky make sure grace not know a moment of peace. statement <3

#project hail mary

forsesam

and what if i'm projecting a lil bit? i'm right

#project hail mary #bloodymary

yautja-lair

Had an idea. I need to doodle someday, but for the moment, I yap about it in case I can't manage to draw it.

Yautja!Rocky and Grace are on their way to Erid and since in this Au they can touch without a barrier, Yautja!Rocky is always curious about the Earth dances he sees in the movies Grace shows him, so now Ryland is offering to teach him the human moves and they are "dancing" together in the Don't Go Crazy Room.

Grace is not an expert dancer by any means and Rocky is used to other types of movements and rhythms, but both are having fun, Rocky is following Grace's lead or viceversa, laughing and chirping.

AND STARS THEY ARE BOTH SO ADORABLE I CAN'T

Even better if Yautja!Eridians associate someone dedicating to the other music and as a dance a sign of courtship, so now you have Yautja!Rocky be like:

"Oh, Grace is flirting with me. He wants to be mates, I better produce sweet melodies as he dances to let him know I approve of him as mate"

Yet Ryland doesn't know what those songs Rocky's is making means, but they sound so clear and warm he loves them anyway. Because it's Rocky. How can he not love what Rocky makes?

#i love when characters dance #project hail mary

phloodle

posting this for myself lol

#<3 #dan and phil

howling-wizard2

first run of the xenonite suit (grace naively thought he was going to be able to play it cool)

#<3 #project hail mary

elswhere

imagining rocky using his echolocation for EVIL purposes and edging the ever loving fuck out of grace, being able to tell the precise moment of orgasm and withholding all touch until he's on the brink again and again. the orgasm denial potential with them is *chefs kiss* immense

and if we're just going to hand wave away a lot of the possibilities of what rocky would or wouldn't see, he would become the ultimate lover so fast - know exactly where to touch, how to touch and how hard just going off the way grace's body responds. he would know him so intimately so quickly. heady sexual experience for both, god

#:O #gracerocky #project hail mary

clowndraws

yknow when you wake up in the middle of the night & anxiously check on the person next to you to make sure they didn't randomly die in their sleep

okay now crank that up to 1000

clowndraws

@cntrlaltdelete-what your tags are also making me unwell... their red string of faith bullshit keeps me up at night

#project hail mary

1300marshall

so hiccups are a human thing right?

#project hail mary

cheeseanonioncrisps

At some point on the journey back to Erid, Rocky gets around to asking Grace exactly why he was so mesmerised by seeing the astrophage in the Petrova line.

Grace describes it as best he can, but all he can really manage to get across to Rocky is that he was surrounded by small floating lights.

Later on, Grace is talking about the stars and how important they've been to human cultures for millennia. “What do the stars look like, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, y'know, they're a bunch of small floating lights.

There's a disco ball on the Hail Mary. Grace says it's there because it “makes me happy”. “How does it make Grace happy, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, it creates the illusion that he's surrounded by small floating lights.

Rocky begins to do some research.

Glitter: a substance invented by humans to make things look like they're covered in small lights.

Human jewellery: mostly involves gemstones or polished metals, designed to reflect small lights.

Christmas lights. Candles. Lanterns. Fireworks. Glowsticks. Glow in the dark paint. Rocky is beginning to notice a pattern here, statement.

It takes Grace a fucking while after getting to Erid to notice that a lot of the gifts he's receiving from grateful Eridians are either a) sparkly, b) incredibly shiny, or c) fitted with lights.

While the last one is obviously a concession for his human light sense, he's confused about the former two. Are Eridian materials usually this shiny? Is there some quality about sparkly or highly polished surfaces that makes them sound better? Or is there something about Eridian geology/metallurgy that makes their materials like this?

He asks Rocky about it.

“Simple. I tell people humans like lots of small lights. Humans are easy to make happy.”

Grace kind of wants to protest that humans are much more complicated than that.

But honestly… it fucking works. Like yeah the polished gemstones, shiny metals and glittery rocks are beautiful. Yes those Christmas lights you put up around the house did markedly improve my mental health, Rocky. Thank you, I hate it.

Grace spends a lot of time trying not to think about whether his species' urge to explore the cosmos (that saved their planet and nearly killed him several times) is tied to the same instinct that made his students like glitter gel pens.

#oh this is so cool and cute #project hail mary

shunnnnny

I think it will be interesting to see some kind of Odyssey x PHM fic where Grace takes Odysseus role and, while trying to return to Earth, he keeps ending up on the wrong planet.

lonelytaumoeba

So basically Mary turns into a Tardis.

#project hail mary

enthyrea

i too can make a twins au

lonelytaumoeba

Softspoken? Are we forgetting the Unesco incident? Grace can definitely channel Carmy levels of RAGE.

However, I'd read any rendition of this AU. 👌

lonelytaumoeba

Or.

Just a restaurant AU.

Grace is a nerdy chef who loved chemistry in school and now holds rambling speeches about the Maillard reaction or something. He likes yelling at his team and calling them staggering wastes of carbon.

Stratt is the no-nonsense franchise owner, who always keeps an eye on cost/profit and the social media engagement, but also makes everyone clap for Grace when he actually does something brilliant.

Rocky is an inspired chef-engineer who came up with a new pasta shape that holds onto the sauce perfectly. He takes minutes balancing a sprig of mint on an irregularly shaped filo pastry parcel. He ends up using the hot chili honey drizzle as glue instead. And don't get me started on using his hearing for cooking (yes, alien!Rocky, duh.)

Carl is... Marcus. Quietly making everything work. :)

#project hail mary