Asexual, Panromantic, Cassgender (all pronouns are acceptable) I'm a multi-fandom blog who occasionally posts some of my art. I am also the author of Hanzo Is A Dog Person and If I Only Had A Heart. Feel free to chat me up. I'll talk about anything.
Can we be nicer to people who are on the aro/ace spectrum who aren’t aroace please? Aroallos and alloaces and aplatonic folk and cupioromantics and those who want queerplatonic relationships and those who don’t and aros who date and aces who have sex and people who don’t fall on the “sex-favourable to sex-repulsed” line because they feel like it doesn’t describe them well enough and greyromantics and demisexuals and those in polycules and selfshipping communities and those who fight for aro/ace visibility and those who don’t and those who haven’t fully come to terms with their identity yet and this community is such a beautiful place can we see it beyond “uwu innocent aroace doesn’t know what sex is” please god I am begging you
I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.
Backup Leaky Spaceblob AU has snatched my attention! I must know more! Pleeeeeeease!!
"Jody, you're sure the doctors can't figure out how to take this thing off? They're saying it's made out of what? Neon? How'd I wake up with a weird back brace made of solid neon?!"
Thank you! I'm planning on more little comics, but the general gist is this:
Grace is getting older, and with the double gravity + gravity and a half + the zero gravity that he experienced for a long time in space his heart in particular is fucked up. The Eridians want to clone his heart to do a heart replacement-
But Grace has a fucked up heart, they can't clone that one. Not really. So they need to find a new heart for Grace to use. How do they do that?
Well, if they just use Grace's DNA to search through universes that are close by, they'll hopefully find a guy with a good enough heart to clone and use- FUCK. OH GOD THIS ONEs BROKEN? THEY BROKE HIS BACK?! FIX NOT-GRACE! THEY HAVE TO FIX NOT-GRACE RIGHT NOW-
How strong do you think Driver is? He’s not a bulky guy, most of his skill set is coordination and reaction time. He’s FAR from being bulky.
He definitely can tap into some adrenaline-fueled power. He can get angry and get pretty strong, but I doubt he’s going out and pumping iron. Guy’s skinny. Lean. Wiry.
I don’t think that negates what power he has, but I’ve read some fics and seen some art that make Driver this powerhouse and it just feels weird. Driver isn’t some macho, domineering man.
I’m mostly thinking aloud. Feel free to ramble at me!
Seen a bunch of fics where they had a huge fight and stopped talking, or Grace got pushed away after Colt’s accident.
Allow me to suggest insanely stubborn Ryland who REFUSES to let Colt toss him away. Maybe they DID get into a fight around the UNESCO fiasco, but made up. I dunno. But Ryland is stubborn and opinionated and now has experience handling moody middle schoolers. Colt doesn’t stand a chance.
Colt has his fall and pushes everyone away, but Ryland just won’t leave. Refuses. Not happening. Oh, they argue, and Colt says some truly heinous things, but Ryland only gets spiteful like “oh? Oh you WANT me to go?!? Well now I’m gonna support you even harder!!”
Ryland tells Colt that every single time Colt says something out of pocket or cruel, he has to do more PT exercises. No excuse. He got energy to be a b-word? He got energy to work out! Once Colt is a bit better, Ryland brings him to San Fran so he can keep working as a teacher while looking after Colt. Ryland’s apartment is a mess and Colt ends up cleaning it up, getting his bonsai trees, making friends with the neighbors.
Colt, once he’s feeling better, works as a valet, but also helps drive the school bus during the day. The kids love it when Ryland is the teacher on duty during dismissal because he and Colt sass each other the whole time. Ryland always knows when Colt is making dumb faces at him behind his back because he can hear all the kids giggling. One time Colt drove for a field trip for Ryland’s class to the Academy of Science and the other chaperones had to tell THEM to behave. Oops.
Colt’s heart slowly heals along with his body. He misses the high octane life and he’ll return to it one day, but for now he’s happy being with his twin brother again.
(And then Colt gets called to Sydney and it’s a holiday break so he drags Ryland with him)
Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.
Can we have more feral, angry Ryland Grace please???
So many fics, especially where he’s shipped with someone tough or powerful or mean, make Grace out to be this sunshine boy capable of no wrong. Fuck that! Man’s bettered himself, sure, but he’s got anger issues! He breaks things! When spooked, he goes on defensive FIRST, runs second. He was ready to fight an alien with a wrench!
Ryland Grace has been alone most his life. He values his own life, and that can make him cowardly. But the second he has someone he cares about? Man is ready to GO!
Canon: Have a Grace that is willing to throw down with another eridian before realizing it’s a bad idea. Have him verbally eviscerate some jerk politician or fellow scientist, human or eridian. Have him ready to leap to Rocky and Adrian’s defenses without a second thought. Have him be Stratt’s secret attack dog that can tear someone to metaphorical pieces with a barrage of insults.
Canon (or not) still a teacher: This man would fistfight someone if he thought they were abusing any of his kids. He has access to chemistry equipment and he WILL use that in the case of an attack. He has definitely chewed out parents during parent-teacher conferences, especially in his early years.
Bloodymary: Have him kick or tackle Simon if he tries to get violent right off the bat. Simon freezes when he’s spooked, but have Grace already on the move either to attack or to get them out of there. Simon only wants to be home, tend to his plants, and be cozy. Grace wants that too, but he’ll fuck you up if you try and stop Simon from getting it. If he could give Ava a piece of his mind, she’d be screwed.
Coltland Gentry: Ryland is the intellectual curious boy of the family, he doesn’t handle bullies great, his brothers try to protect him, but BOY! You say anything bad about any of his family?! He will scream, he will grapple, he will plot his revenge. Colt or Court already forgot someone said something mean to them? Not Ryland. Ryland remembers for years, plotting. Kid Ryland has ruined children’s grades and lives for picking on Colt. Ryland has to be held back by Colt is anyone ever calls Colt stupid. Court has had to yank a snarling, fully grown Ryland out of a fight before because someone called Court a psycho killer.
Starstruck: This man will verbally destroy Tom Ryder, I refuse to believe otherwise. Tom tries to flirt, Grace ain’t getting all owo giggly. He’s asking “sorry, I didn’t catch your name. What was it? Tim Reader? You with catering?” And Colt is wheezing from laughter in the background. Even when they get together, Grace doesn’t miss a single beat, teasing and being appropriate levels of mean. If he gets caught by Gail’s goons, yeah I think he tries to run first because he knows he can’t win, but that man will try to bite and claw if given the chance.
Drivinglessons: Driver doesn’t want to get Grace dirty? Thinks he’s too sweet for the world? Sure, sure, until someone tries to break into Grace’s apartment and Grace is already waiting with his self defense GOLF CLUB! Bro is living paycheck to paycheck. He knows about break ins. He has defenses! Bring back the chemistry equipment! You really think Mr. Funfacts over here doesn’t know the most insane ways to kill someone?!? I don’t know a scientist who DOESN’T know that!!
This is a grown ass man with crazy impressive muscles - which he ALREADY HAD before going into space!! This guy is strong!! - and some unchecked rage issues. He’s matured, he has whimsy, he knows he can’t win a brawl, he doesn’t curse, and he will 100% DEFEND HIMSELF AND HIS LOVED ONES. If anything, he’s way more feral for others than himself!
Make this man feral! Make this man fiercely protective! Make this man silly and happy and funny, but also completely ready to throw down when needed. He isn’t an angry man, but he is man with very intense anger. PLEASE!
A fish trying not to get eaten wouldn’t slow down when the “predator” slows down. It also wouldn’t constantly swim in a circle near the edge of the tank; It’d try hiding. Also a fish in a tank in a a public place that is constantly filled with people is not likely to see people as predators.
yeah that fish is absolutely playing with that kid, if it really wanted to escape it would just dive into the reef in the center of the tank!
(Moorish Idols are reef fish and naturally will seek shelter in the nearest nook or cranny if they get scared.)
many people don’t realize this, but fish aren’t stupid animals! most of them are on par with mammals like mice and squirrels in terms of intelligence, and they absolutely do play.
Hi! Professional marine biologist and aquarist here- fish absolutely play, and not only that, can be trained.
I accidentally trained a fish once through playing.
Let me explain.
The small-time aquarium I worked at about 4 years ago had a decent sized female Sheephead. Sheephead are bright red with the males sporting a black head, and get big. I’m talking almost 1m long at full maturity (and may or may not transition from female to male depending on the number of males present). Point is, even though not fully matured, this Sheephead was a bit of a heavyweight in her kelp forest tank with a length of about 1ft making her the resident Biggest Dog In The Yard. And she absolutely knew it. She would bully her tankmates if she wanted to steal their food.
The thing about this Sheephead- let’s call her Red- is that she had one heck of a ‘tude. Red was known to splash aquarists whenever they fed the tank, and at almost a foot long with a wide tail, her splashes had quite a bit of heft and would soak you from the torso down. We were advised to bring a towel or two to protect ourselves from most of the drenching. When it was my go-around to feed Red’s tank, I was fairly new to the little facility, but I had been warned in advance of Red’s penchant for food thievery. I noticed she would follow my hand movements, so I slowly moved to drop her food in a far corner, and fed her tankmates directly from my hands or by tong if they were too deep. I always made sure Red had plenty to eat, but I didn’t want her to associate the food with bad behavior, so I treated her to a bit extra food whenever she didn’t steal food. One day, she made a beeline to the surface so fast that she did a small jump, her entire head breaching the water. She wasn’t bothering her tankmates or doing anything remotely dangerous- and full disclosure, it was cute seeing a fish jump for joy- so I laughed and gave her another piece of food.
Naturally, positive reinforcement led to her connecting the dots that jumping at the surface, even the tiny jumps she was doing, meant she got more food.
This started to become an everyday occurrence, whenever I was assigned to feed Red’s tank. She would jump, just enough for her head to pop out, then she’d wait patiently for me to give her the treat she CLEARLY earned. It even got to the point that she’d open her mouth and I’d drop the food right into those massive jaws- this was preferable to her Kenghis Khan-ing her way through a shower of chopped squid like the Tasmanian Devil, as there was less risk of her accidentally (or purposefully) biting a tankmate that got too close. Red became a polite eater for the first time.
It wasn’t until I noticed she followed me around outside of feeding time that I realized Red was playing with me.
I never got splashed by Red even once. My coworkers, however, received quite the dunking whenever it was their turn to feed the kelp tank.
I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-
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