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the funniest thing about those 'movie!Rocky is a nudist' jokes isn't that he has to tell Grace he's been naked the whole time.

the funniest thing is the video logs Grace sent back to Earth. he nakey.

which means there's an entire planet that doesn't know Eridians wear clothes at all because their only exposure to this species is a nudist.

Humans and Eridians meet again one day, and all the Eridians are wearing clothes, and sweaters, and accessories like normal people and the humans have a brief huddle about this before one of them walks up to Rocky (probably much older now) and says, "so, uh. those video logs. you, um, you wear clothes?"

And Rocky swears on his life he can hear Grace laughing at him from the afterlife because they've both just realized that Rocky flashed an entire planet.

werkwerkelizaaa

abyssalaerlocke

#to be fair to us we also have naked statues of humans?? if that’ll make the Eridians feel any better???

yeah, it's just a thing we do

eridian: *points at statue of Grace* why isn't he naked, then?

human: uhhhh *observes Grace statue appreciatively* 🤔 Why isn't he naked...

biteyfae

Protect him...at all costs 🥺❤️🍎🎂 look how excited he is!!!

someonestopsoren

HE IS SO ADORABLE OMMHHH i love seeing him happy!! (watch infold drop the main story and its pure angst)

Thank you. I hope everybody thinks this

rylandgraces

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

secondlina

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write-on-world

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

12b6

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers

johanna-swann

Me: My writing is so bad. :(

Meanwhile at Disney: Somehow, Palpatine has returned.

autumngracy

dyke-parade

fyi to those of you who still haven't read the phm book, you're missing out on some pretty hardcore Yearning after grace & rocky part ways. there's whole chapters of grace like, staring sadly after rocky's departing ship in the petrovascope every single day while thinking mournfully about how great his best friend is and how much he wishes rocky was there, before doing an insane amount of complicated relativistic math to calculate the exact moment when he'll no longer be able to see the blip-a's light in the distance bc he already misses rocky so much. it's great stuff

hi-its-the-blackmold

As both a science and English nerd, I love the idea that since Eridians are cosexual (am I using that term right? Let me know), they don’t have pronouns indicative of sex or gender but rather state of relation. Like how Rocky says, “friend Grace”, he is stating the relation of the subject to him. And taking it further, pronouns of possession, like Rocky talking to another Eridian would refer to Adrian as, “my Adrian”, and the other Eridian would refer to Adrian as “your Adrian” throughout the conversation. Because the state of relation is that Adrian and Rocky are mates. And that shifts based on who’s in the conversation when the state of relation to who is present changes. Say Rocky isn’t there. Same Eridian, who works with Adrian, talking to another Eridian who works with Adrian. Now it’s, “coworker Adrian” or “<job> Adrian”. Same Eridian talking to another Eridian who doesn’t know Adrian at all, and now it’s dependent on the context of the conversation. It could be, “Rocky’s Adrian” or “coworker Adrian”. If two states share the individual equally, you get “our Rocky” for Adrian speaking to Grace.

Now that we have discussed this: I would like you to imagine the first time after Rocky left for Tau Ceti that somebody has the gall to speak of Adrian and Not refer to them as “Rocky’s Adrian” when the context would make that the appropriate way to refer to them. Implying they’re available now.

I would now like you to imagine Adrien crushing them into a smoldering gritty smear on the ground.

aveloka-draws

So five apples tall uh

laurelchell

i love blocking money hungry sims 4 modders charging for paralives mods

stackslip

but if we were gonna lean into the goofy side of mass effect we should have had a thing in the citadel dlc where all translators get disconnected for comedy reasons. all the humans suddenly have much more pronounced accents or even flat out other languages. kaidan speaks tagalog just to annoy others who havent bothered to learn anything other than english in the 22nd century. tali can actually speak other alien languages because quarians rarely have fully properly translated VIs courtesy of the galaxy sucking. krogans sound twice as intimidating and wrex enjoys it. turians sound like somewhere between a cat and a bird clicking and squawking and everyone laughs about it. asari inexplicably sound a thousand times more beautiful but also none of them can speak a single word in another language except liara t'soni nerd extraordinaire but she's only fluent in mandarin considering it's the most populous language on earth. the whole incident lasts five minutes but it's enough to be the sole conversation topic during the party afterwards

blueumbriel

Choose your fighter looking ahhh

mx-monster

Monster fuckers are so creative cuz it’s like you’ll look at a monster and go “how the fuck would one go about fucking that?” And then a monster fucker will slither from the shadows and give a demonstration of human ingenuity