Happy anniversary everyone!! In honor of 2 years of Dead Boy Detectives (??!!?!) I've made a little ask game! Send me an emoji and I'll answer about DBDA
🔍 Favorite episode?
👻 Favorite character?
💀 Headcanon that's been floating in your brain recently?
💋💍🔪 Kiss marry kill (*insert characters here*)
🤔 Would you rather (ex. would you rather: be chased by giant babydoll spider or giant snake?)
✍️ What are you currently working on?
📺 When did you first watch? What was your first impression?
✨️ How did you hear about the show?
💕 Favorite thing about the show?
🍝 Event you're most looking forward to?
🔮 Share a memory about the show/fandom
💣 What would you change about the show?
👁 Fic recs?
🏏 Use this as an excuse to gush/rant about anything you want
Tagging some people under the cut, but anyone who wants to participate feel free to reblog (or create your own version!)
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]
Went iceberg watching, stepped on a cool claystone and realized a love-letter to sedimentary rocks was long overdue. A continuation of geological eridian phenotypes!:) (I am not immune to behemoth Adrian propaganda. Rocky mate bad as hell, statement 😌)
Nerding out under the cut!
Adrian's phenotype design is inspired by a claystone very common in my area!
The weathering processes alter the outer portion of the stone and give it an off-white colour, while the inner core remains green-grey. The fresh green surface can be exposed by breaking the claystone apart or just chiseling a piece out (which is why Adrian's tattoos are green, it's the exposed fresh surface of their carapace:) (spy their Eridanus constellation tatoo, the star theme to their markings comes from my headcanon that Adrian is an astrophysicist hehe)
The red specks on their design are iron oxide impurities, often also visible on fresh surfaces, bleeding into them and giving them the rusty coloration. And, of course, honorary mention to quartz veins! Those often form when a crack in the rock is permeated by hot hydrothermal fluids which then deposit the quartz in a vein-like structure:)
(Some claystones I hoarded over the years v )
Rocky's carapace is inspired by a sandstone (specifically quartz arenite, which is just a mature variety of sandstone made up mostly of small quartz particles.)
Now, I gotta add some cross-bedding features to my boy: the lines visible on his shell are a common sedimentary feature that often forms in dunes and deserts - the wind carries sand particles in a particular pattern, forming these cascading lines of strata. (These can be used to look back on ancient climates and determine the predominant wind direction in the area btw!)
And finally, for the green inclusions on Rocky, those are also quartz veins, but this time, with chlorite inclusions, to give them the green tinge:)
Hope this was as interesting for you to read as it was for me to paint and write:) and if I fudged up a detail somewhere, do let me know!
I woke up thinking about how the Blip-A and the Hail Mary swapped places. The Blip-A was always meant to take her crew home but wound up having to be abandoned in space, whereas the Hail Mary was never supposed to leave Tau Ceti’s star system, but in the end she was the one who brought Grace and Rocky to Erid.
i think charles smiling really hard at edwin when they’re discussing the becky aspen case in the closet because he just knows edwin is going to cave in is the funniest and most wholesome thing ever and we don’t talk about it enough
I love Charles Rowland. He deserves people who love him unconditionally and who make him feel loved where he does not need to pretend to be fine and can cry and rage without fear of repercussion.
I would also love to see him all alone, feeling abandoned, and going on something of a rampage about it. Fully leaning into the violence that he has despised in himself and I truly think he should be doing more of that
These wishes and thoughts are not only not opposites but they are well connected
There was definitely something very weird about them, she decided.
Aziraphale bowed again. “So glad to have been of assistance,” he said.
“Thank you,” said Anathema, icily.
“Can we get on?” said Crowley. “Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel.“
Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.
@the-wine-dark-sea's tags 'cause they're too good:
#that brief moment in the 4th gif when Charles realises he gave smth away about his dad's character that he didn't intend to#and he looks away from Crystal for just a second before he starts backpedalling and insisting it's not a big deal
the whole trip back to erid rocky can hear grace's heartbeat and then suddenly he's required to go down to erid to discuss really important things like the taumoeba and grace biodome which are important and he and grace agree they're important and that he needs to go and they'll both be okay and neither of them will die if the other one can't see/hear them for five seconds
and then the second rocky can't hear grace's heartbeat anymore he has twelve consecutive panic attacks
The Eridians figure out how to safely dock the Hail Mary to the top of the space elevator structure. A greeting party of Eridians gathers to welcome Rocky back. Introductions to Grace are made (if this is a version of the story where Grace is in a state to introduce himself, health-wise). The Eridians escort Rocky further in and down, leaving Grace safe in the Hail Mary for the time being.
At the exact point where Grace's heartbeat starts to peter out of Rocky's constant spatial awareness, Rocky just. Stops walking. Completely stops dead in the middle of a hallway with no warning. The other Eridians keep going for a step or two before realizing he's stopped and also stopping, confused. They ask him what's wrong. He doesn't answer.
From the instant that the outer hull of the Hail Mary came between Rocky and Grace, Rocky has been fighting the impulse to sprint back into the ship and double-triple-quadruple-quintuple-check that Grace is still okay. That impulse has been growing stronger and stronger with every step he takes, until this moment, when one more step will carry Rocky out of the range where he can keep tabs on Grace without even consciously thinking about it. It feels like Rocky physically can't move his legs. What's happening to him? Is he going to sleep, and that's why he can't move? He can't be -- he just woke from sleep barely 1.5 Earth days ago.
Adrian steps toward Rocky with a croon of concern. Their carapace tilts away, in the direction the group had been headed. Aren't you coming?
Old instincts kick in and Rocky automatically moves toward his mate, one step, two steps, three--
anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??
Do you ever see a complicated meme that expresses a very specific feeling, and while you wouldn’t have said it that way, it instantly resonates with you?
