Ain't that a thing...

Daily musings. Writing prompts. Funny things. What of it? Avatar by bowlersandtophats

[andthepeople]

what if they get back to erid only for grace to discover that rocky has like. a crazy rap sheet. extensive eridian criminal record. he's stolen everything it's possible to steal. there was a huge brouhaha when he got elected to the petrova line mission because it's basically like if danny ocean had been really really good at fixing shit and so they decided to send him to the moon. he's been arrested approximately 12,000 times for public indecency. grace is like (still not over the clothes thing) so i'm NOT the only guy you like to be fully naked around. i see how it is. and rocky has to reform his image and only do his nudist thing around grace to save his bug marriage. the fact that he came back from space married to a bug is somehow entirely unsurprising to the entire planet, who mostly assumed he'd stolen the blip-A and made off with it and that was why no one came back for 50 years. grand theft spaceship. grace visiting rocky's cave like wow cool jewel artwork or whatever and rocky's like yes yes. if anyone asks you've never seen it.

[bakedbananners]

arada is an #ally

[queenaegon]

is that song actually character-coded or is your brain a character-shaped hammer looking for lyrics to nail down somewhere

[verittean]

[bulkhummus]

someone sent me an anon ask about rocky meeting eva and i tried to post it not once but twice and tumblr ate it both times so now im just regular posting it here

i think ryland would grow to understand stratt’s choice with time, and even thank her logic of it because it led to his meeting of rocky, but i dont think he’d ever really forgive her for what she did to him

(Ryland had to prep rocky before they touched down to meet Stratt so he wouldnt charge her at first sight)

thank you for the request :o)

[masao-micchi]

i love your human!rocky and grace, it's so cool!! can you draw more of them?

WOOPSS i forgot to post this here HAHAHAH

swap au,,, going back to earth

rocky has 0 trust in humans akakjskdjakd

My other PHM art here

i still gotta think of a tag for the swap stuff HAHA

[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.

[theshippirate22]

ryland grace is so important to me because he’s representation for people that Just Don’t Want To Fucking Do It. he’s not a reluctant hero- he makes no effort to embark on his hero’s journey. he doesn’t just refuse the call, he doesn’t even just go running and screaming and kicking- the call literally has to sedate him into a comatose state and launch him off the face of the Earth. He doesn’t want his life to be harder than it is. He wants to stay where he is, doing what he loves and he’s okay with not going through dramatic personality changes because he’s aware of his imperfections and prefers comfort to flawlessness, and that’s NOT a flaw! He does not want to be the most important person at work, he does not want to be put into a life threatening situation. BUT when he wakes up in space and realizes he’s the only fucking person that can do it, he heaves a great sigh and rolls his eyes and yeah okay, fine. he’ll do it. what other choice does he have.

[crysaaa]

#he’s so oldest daughter core to me#like i do not want to be the person yall rely on#i don’t want you guys to expect me to solve your problems#I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE#GET ME OUT OF HERE#but if no one else is gonna fucking do it#and someone has to#i guess i will

These tags really hit the nail on the head of one of the reasons why I relate to Grace so much (way more than I ever could to any typical "hero" in any story). I am a runner too. My first knee-jerk reaction to all kinds of problems is to flee and I am very adamant about avoiding danger in my life. But I am also the oldest daughter! People always expect me to be THE reasonable reliable one who goes and solves the all the issues. So "if no one else is gonna do it I guess that means I am doing it" became a basic habit of my life. This also ties way better than you may think into being a loner with socialization issues while at the same time finding your purpose in a job that is all about having responsibility and connecting with people (like teacher or doctor)

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

[howling-wizard2]

who am I to not heed to the siren allure of a reverse!au

[thefakerachelray]

Any sci-fi media: the spaceship is a character

Me: OMG THE SPACESHIP IS A CHARACTER

[sgkg]

[jacobtheloofah]

Visit Original Link

side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[jacobtheloofah]

hey so uh next year will be a decade of dobonhonkeros. how about that shit huh.

[obstinatecondolement]

Happy ten year anniversary of this post.

[pillowspace]

ALERT: the character-thinker has a character to think about!

[kentodreaming]

unraveling at the seams thinking about how graces reaction to remembering that he was drugged and forced onto the mission was to come to the conclusion that he was a coward. like on some level sure he was angry at stratt but he was far angrier with himself. he built up this story in his head that somewhere somehow along the way he developed the courage and bravery to choose to sacrifice himself for earths sake. he clung to this story when he didnt have anything else. and it wasnt real. not only was he a vicious coward but he threatened to sabotage a mission to save the entire world because his desire to live was so overpowering. there was nothing that couldve convinced him otherwise. not his kids, not the rest of humanity, nothing. and he tears himself APARTTTTT for this. if you want rocky to get this secret out of grace youre gonna need twelve hours, some elbow grease, and industrial grade lube thats how deep the shame lies. i think grace is incredibly angry about how it all went down and i also think that if you told him he didnt deserve it he'd probably bite your head off

[kosmogrl]

stop being nosy

[beabubb]

ryland grace in my style !! what a pookie pie loser boy (open for more doodles)

[ink-ami]

I love Rocktiz, but I can't draw him with human Grace because I'm just too attached to the interspecie bond between Grace and Rocky. It's the soul of the movie and its so beautiful.

The human Rocky AU and eridian Grace AU down there, since i really liked the linearts its a shame they're so hidden