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[aroace-ryland-grace]

I think one of the things that really gets me is that yeah, Grace was doomed from the start in multiple different ways, but it was always out of love. He was doomed from the moment he was born because of the coma gene, out of love from his parents. He was doomed from the moment he started studying science and got his Ph.D., out of love for his field. He was doomed from the moment he asked Stratt to give him more Astrophage to study, out of love for his students. He was doomed from the moment he started working on the project, out of love for his planet. And then once he's in space, he almost dies trying to save Rocky from Earth's atmosphere, out of love for Rocky. Then he almost condemns himself to death to go back and save Rocky from the Taumoeba, thinking he will die for it, out of love for Rocky and also out of love for Erid.

And I think that also makes the aroace reading of Grace so much more impactful and important, because you have this person who doesn't love others in the conventional ways his planet expects, but despite that, the other kinds of "unconventional" love that he has, which he has so much of, not only saves him but saves two entire planets and countless lives. All the things and all the love that should have killed him are the reason why he, and also many others, live.

[fuckboyzuko]

Don't worry, mutual with a zero-note post. I've added your post to my queue. So, in 6-8 business weeks, we're going to do big numbers! Such as, 1.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[stromcuzewon]

this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"

[thatdisasterauthor]

My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.

[batmanego]

fuck this time loop im leaving (walks into a different, worse time loop)

[charlesoberonn]

[andhumanslovedstories]

Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.

[maandarinee]

[clodoveah]

Say what you want about Maul, at least he’s awkwardly honest to his prospective apprentices.

[chokedqwerty]

that au wehere ilyukhina and yao dont die and everyone is a bit more happymaybe? a bit sillier?

[trans-dwightschrute]

Okay but Norm is so fucking funny from Perry's perspective because you're introduced to this huge killer robot that was specifically programmed to kill you specifically as a platypus. Then you just kinda borrow it like you would a car and it's fine because you can control it. Then suddenly one day this robot actually has FEELINGS for some goddamn reason when it definitely didn't before. And hey maybe it's actually harmless, and he's mellow for awhile. And you think you have nothing to worry about until the robot decides to kill everyone to impress his creator and you in the processes. And you start to wonder if his platypus killing programming is kicking bacn in as he flings you around in the sky at mock speed like a fucking yo-yo.

Then he's chill again. Hopefully

[earhartsease]

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[dyke-eva-stratt]

you should be thinking about eva stratt right now also

[slyandthefamilybook]

I love Eva Stratt... that scene on the ship where Grace tells her she's mysterious and aloof and you can tell that kind of hurts her. she really does care about humanity, she's just not very good at showing it! she sings her one beautiful song to try to connect with everyone else, not to prove anything to them but so she can feel a moment of connection and camaraderie. and then she gets overwhelmed and goes "okay I'm done bye". I love my autistic friend Eva Stratt

[sacred-portal]

[aughtpunk]

Okay I know we all love "Rocky swears non-stop all the time" but have any of us considered that after four years of being shipmates with Grace and probably Grace somehow implementing a swear jar Rocky now only shouts grade school teacher level non-curses when pissed off.

Like he's working on a project with other Eridians and accidentally breaks something and shouts HORSEFEATHERS and now all of the other Eridians are losing their shit

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[breealtair]

We've all seen the Adrian designs and the #rocky mate bad as hell statement, both of which I adore. I love that we as a fandom have agreed that Adrian is an absolute catch, but, and stay with me for this, what if they weren't?

We've decided that Adrian is a big, pretty blue/green rock who Rocky is obsessed with, and Grace is intimidated by, but in the same way that we sometimes find hot people intimidating. The complex color, the way light reflects off of the geode structure, and the patterns you can see underneath. Absolutely beautiful, but would Eridians have the same society beauty conventions? They don't perceive color or light, and those inner patterns, depending on the geode, are often viewed as imperfections by collectors. Would Eridians also see those inner imperfections and view them as not attractive?

Much like we are supposed to look at Ryan freaking Gosling as Grace and interpret him as somewhat of a loser within the world of the movie, within the Eridian society, Adrian is considered a catch for many reasons, their size for one, but being attractive is not one of them. The uneven mineral deposits and the way their surfaces are angled affect the way sound bounces of them. It's not necessarily unpleasant, just not overly desirable. Adrian is just as typical as any other Eridian, but they are compared to impossible beauty standards that so few actually meet.

Of course, Rocky thinks Adrian is hot as hell, but he is in the minority, claims everyone else is stupid, so when Rocky brings home this leaky space blob, who seems transfixed by Adrian, Adrian thinks Grace is just being polite towards them for Rocky's sake, but the more time they spend around him, the more genuine they realize he is.

This alien can perceive things that none of their species can, and the blob says everything about them from their color, to the light reflections, to how their inner patterns seem to dance when they move, none of which Adrian can actually comprehend, makes them stunning to look at. Mesmerizing even. Yes, Rocky thinks Adrian is beautiful, but Adrian acknowledges a certain amount of bias there, but this foreign being, whose standards of what is attractive are just as incomprehensible as he is, says they are beautiful in ways that no one but he will ever be able to perceive. Adrian can't help but do whatever the Eridian equivalent of blushing is.