happy pride :)

Red, he/him. wahtsup? everything sucks but not everything sucks. so im just doing whatever. I post about formula one and one piece. Max verstappen nr 1. I love mcr. I play video games and i suck at it. ------------------------------------------------------------- if you are not on mobile rn check out my tumblr theme! its at www.tumblr.com/meet-again. I'm also on neocities although it's very much under construction, If you want to leave this hellsite for any reason check me out at https://meet-again.neocities.org/

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[stixy]

Bro is cooking

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[smilesrobotlover]

I am not immune to coltland twins propaganda

[starrose17]

So this is the comic that inspired me to follow it on with this gifset.

[deervsheadlights]

[kyoukorpse]

ref sheet explaining my Rocky and Adrian designs/headcanons + Adrian breaking down how they (possibly) create a breathable atmosphere for Grace's "enclosure". yippee.

(image IDs in alt text!)

[pawberri]

If youre a closeted person somewhere out there thinking "I want to transition but it would be less progressive/unique/countercultural for me to be that gender instead of this one" please know that you are a real person not a character in a narrative and cant live your life based on what is good media representation. You are real you can only be yourself and theres no moral weight to any identity over another

[kosmogrl]

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[alternis]

saw a post letting people know that your ao3 bookmarks are viewable on your account unless you make them private, which suggests that the median ao3 user does not use ao3 in what i will call 'the optimum fic-finding treadmill' where you find a fic author you like and look through their bookmarks to find more fics that are good and then look through that author's bookmarks for even more good fics. like a conga line of great but extremely specific tastes. or one of those chessboard rice doubling analogies and oh no that is a LOT of ao3 tabs.

[lunalovesangst]

I've read a lot of fics and posts about Rocky imitating some of Grace's body language or phrases, but I haven't seen nearly ENOUGH about Grace being the one to copy Rocky.

Grace tapping or stomping twice to signal a question.

Grace doing the jazz hands.

Grace doing that thing when Rocky is counting that he uses his fingers (even if Grace isn't actually counting with them, he picks up the gesture)

Give me Grace being a weirdo and walking on all fours like Rocky. Rocky thinks it's hilarious how slow he is like that.

Give me Grace subconsciously copying random noises Rocky makes (not the words, but his equivalents to "ooohhh"s and "ahhhh"s and "hmmmm"s) because if there's something I've noticed about humans, it's that if we spend long enough with someone, we start mimicking each other. Hell, even with animals it happens! You've ever noticed that cat owners have entire meow-ing conversations with their cats? With dogs it happens too. Or that when parrots do their bobbing dances, a lot of us start copying that? And their chirping too. I like that a lot. I'd like to see Grace doing that.

[milfsisyphus]

when the really good fic author only has 1 story for each of their 35 fandoms. see you in another life brother.

[animnightmare]

If youre writing a fic set on erid after Grace moved there, rocky should not be talking in broken english. In the epilogue rocky speaks casual and completely normal becayse Grace has been there for a long time and theyve become fully fluent in understanding eachothers language. Grace can even speak eiridian using an organ type instrument, with all the tonal complexities of a native speaker. The way rocky talks through most of the book and movie was because they only had a small vocabulary of words they both understood

[theoryofweirdness]

Literally the only reason they're not speaking each others' languages is because it's physically impossible. At least for Grace; the Eridian language is multitonal and human vocal chords can only produce one note at a time.

I was never clear on whether it's impossible for Eridians to speak human languages. We never see it happen or even get talked about, but can't think of any reason why they'd be incapable of making human phonemes if they wanted to.

But yes, this is something that often gets overlooked in fics. Rocky's pidgin voice throughout most of the book/movie is the result of limited vocabulary and limited translation software, but by the time of the epilogue, he and Grace understand each other perfectly well. That's why the book has Rocky speaking in normal sentences during that scene and the movie finally uses subtitles rather than the James Ortiz "computer" voice.

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[drivinmeinsane]

"Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy."

[ratbreadd]

lyrics from venus - sleeping at last :)

version with just adrian!