katoj estas salikokoj!

hello! I'm Tilu, adult being who likes cats! saluton! mia nomo estas Tilu, kaj mi ŝatas katojn. mi skribos pli vortojn ĉi tie.

[eameschairs]

someday i'll get enough of drawing them cuddling but today is not that day!!

[raviolireptile]

Grace & Rocky the weird codependent queerplatonic rep I’ve been waiting for

Closeups:

[raviolireptile]

I redrew this meme cause i love it

[rtfics]

Actors are just big kids.

Sound on.

I love what actors will do to get the best performances from each other.

[deafvampyre]

to my wonderful fellow deafies out there: I listened to this and there's nothing in the sound that isn't in the captions

you don't need to turn your sound on, you're not missing anything ❤️

[stiffyck]

attempts at drawing eridians.

[anneemay]

[hydralunatic]

Rocky mate bad as hell!

My take on Adrian! Inspired by desert bloom variscite ( it’s very pretty go look it up)

[mynorthernattitude]

I'm shy at first and then im like donkey from shrek

[cholerascum]

"erm! actually! I'm not comfortable calling people it/its! it just makes me uncomfortable I feel dirty and icky and mean! why not just use they/them? sending love!" doesn't feel good reading once. reading it 12000 times on 4 different posts? fucking explode. leave it/it's users alone. you really don't have to share that someones chosen pronouns makes you uncomfortable. you sound like a transphobe.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[avi-mation]

More doodle for the PHM crew survives au! Alien roommate time!

[stargirl230]

all the luck in the world

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[lettucemakar]

Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?

You made a computer that can't COUNT?!

[cuttledreams-bugs]

I deliver a friend feel free to spread it as you please

[animentality]

[bobcatmoran]

I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.

[devondespresso]

i think one huge huge part of Grace choosing bravery more as the film goes on that (from what little ive seen on tumblr in 2026) not many people talk about when bringing up the "finding soneone to be brave for" parallels is that selflessness doesn't come out of just liking someone else enough. Grace seeks friendship and connection pretty consistently through the film, but aside from maybe his students, Grace doesn't get that connection back seriously until Rocky. He tries to connect deeply with Stratt, hell, tries to talk hard decisions and the toll the situation takes on everyone, but it doesn't work (not anti stratt btw, she basically *can't* connect the way hes wanting to because this world isnt his school or even a lab, its a military mission with planet-ending stakes). He had a great shallow connection with Carl, but it never veered deeper, it was a hanging-out connection more than a strong friendship, and thats proven when Carl stands and watches Grace get tackled to the ground (again not anti, its just a different environment). and i personally like to think that the whole reason he asks to think about it instead of just doubling down on his "no" is because of his students, because of their worry over the end of the world that we see in the beginning. he wanted to help, he *did* help so much, he just also didn't want to die, and to him he was not the only possible option on earth.

So when Grace makes decisions to be brave later, decisions where he actually has a choice, i think they didn't come from learning to toughen up or because he learned to like other people enough, but because someone finally cared about Grace as an individual. I don't think its a coincidence that Rocky's big feat to save Grace by risking his life comes before Grace decides to give up Earth for Rocky. I think its telling that the narrative frames Grace's risky decisions saving the sample from Adrian as more uncertain than it does when he's deciding if he'll give up Earth for Rocky. Hell in general just the fact that Rocky reaches out first, sends messages and adapts to Grace so much and so willingly helps Grace be so much braver that he felt on Earth, not because Grace was inheritly weaker or worse on Earth but because, ironically, in space with Rocky became a world he could get deeply connected to, and that deep reciprocated connection is what prompts bravery. Its very hard to be brave, to find bravery worth it, if you feel the majority of the people around you dont value your life. You cant afford to be selfless because your self is the only thing invested in keeping you alive. And if you wanna view it tragically, then really everyone around Grace on Earth refusing to get attached to the guy they're dooming so it hurts them less inadvertently offloads their pain onto him, making him feel alone and overpowered because even if we know or believe people cared and hated hurting him, what he experiences is mostly detachment, surface friendship, then his death sentence. Logic says they cared, they had little choice, they were stuck in a trolley problem and luck gave him the short stick, but feeling and experience struggle to take that into account.

So yeah, Grace is brave in space, so admirably brave Rocky struggles to understand why Grace thinks otherwise, but Rocky is the reason that bravery came out. He made Grace feel safe and loved enough that Grace didn't have to be the only person concerned about his wellbeing. He made it possible for Grace's big heart to leave self-preservation mode and sacrifice for others because he knew with certainty that it'd matter to someone if he was okay. That if someone else was given the choice to save him, they'd try their damnedest to keep him alive too.

[weepingwidar]

Anthony Hurd (American, 1975) - You Have This Hold Over Me (2025)