Kylie (or Merry) | She/Her | 30s | Survivor of Many Fandoms | I like to draw gay pirates kissing 🌈♥️🏴☠️ ✨OFMD, LotR, Star Trek TOS, Project Hail Mary ✨
"rocky would hate stratt" "rocky would never hate stratt" well i hate to come in swinging the nuance club but i think perhaps its more complicated than that. perhaps a sentient rock can have more than one emotion at a time, and perhaps these emotions may even be complex or at odds with one another.
Started watching Our Flag Means Death and oh my god I love the concept of gay pirates. I love it SO MUCH🥹🥹🥹. Bonnet my baby nothing will ever make me hate you.
I can sense the emotional turmoil this show is gonna put me through for months. I mean gay pirates for the win lol
Okay... so this is right up my alley.
More weird whimsy and quirk in the romance genre... and more jaded suffer-no-fools women, instead of the creepy age-gaps, please and thank you
just FYI it's based on a short story called The Wicker Husband which I read here despite the small print because I could only find the opening elsewhere (the place it was originally published online is gone, but the author, Ursula Wills-Jones, says she hopes to see it in print soon!)
i really really really love the idea of eridians hearing absolutely everything in a human body and being able to predict an episode of something, similarly to how medical alert service dogs can
"Grace feel okay, question?" Rocky asked, soothing a hand along Grace's forehead to fix the hair that had gotten stuck to his temple while he was seizing.
He cleared his throat. "Not a hundred percent, but I'm alright."
Rocky hummed softly. He works with Armando to give the man a full checkup before even considering letting him up.
But Grace knows Rocky by now. He gives him that look that he knows works very effectively against the Eridian. "What's bothering you?"
"...Rocky feels useless when Grace seize. Count, make sure you no hit head, no choke, no bite..."
He smiled, a lopsided thing. "Well, you've never let my worst case scenario happen. Haven't even gotten close since I met you."
"Worst case, question?"
He nodded, returning the petting gesture subconsciously. "My absolute worst incident happened just after I got my doctorate. We were at a party, I was...honestly I don't remember. Maybe karaoke? Doesn't matter."
Grace took a moment. "The way my friends tell it, I just...collapsed. Knocked over the projector screen. It was so loud I alerted the staff. Which was good, because my friends didn't know what to do. Or, they did...but they froze. First time seeing one can be really hard for people."
Rocky sounds horrified.
"Thankfully one of the workers was the daughter of a nurse. She got me on my side, told them to stop staring and go use the office to call 911- cellphones weren't as common back then...or very useful. And got me recovering when I came to."
He pulled back the slight mop of his hair. "This scar was from me hitting something during it. Bled everywhere."
"Thinking machine say head wounds bleed big time."
Grace chuckled. "Yeah. But hey, I've never fallen once you recognized what was happening. Even with gravity. And you're the best recovery buddy I could ever ask for. So it might not feel like you're doing anything, but you're doing a whole awful lot for me."
Rocky trilled gently. "...Rocky do best can."
"And you don't take pictures like one of my old roommates did."
"...Name."
That, dear reader, was the tone Rocky's song gained when he was threatening someone. Best not to tell, just in case he finds a way back to Earth and takes vengeance on his ancestors.
(irl experience under the cut)
based on the first time I ever saw someone seize in person. We were doing a crit in art school, he went down next to me, knocked over his easel. Thankfully myself and another classmate were actually able to stay calm, especially with her being a long time lifeguard. We actually did have to chastise our classmates for not immediately calling 911.
Not included, having to try and beg our professor to give us her chair pillow to give a barrier between him and the floor. (She refused, I think we used a jacket eventually) Also that building had no elevator so they had to strap him to a body board to go to the hospital to get checked out and carry him down two flights of stairs.