MorningRadio

[ironychan]

Really enjoying the idea that Grace's angry outburst in Denmark became a meme. The Angry Scientist. It shows up in discussions of egregiously bad sci-fi movies and arguments with antivaxxers and astrophage deniers, in forms ranging from pristine screencap to super-crunchy jpeg. There's an animated parody in the style of Ace Attorney. His students use it without realizing it's him.

In his first week on the Gansu six different people asked him about it and four asked Stratt why she hired Angry Scientist Meme guy.

[mayday-guilt]

When Bilbo's first birthday in Erebor approaches, Thorin goes into a state of total, frantic preparation. Dwarves celebrate birthdays by giving massive, priceless gifts of gold and weapons, but Thorin remembers that Hobbits prefer giving gifts and eating seven meals a day. To honor his Hobbit, the stern King completely shuts down the royal smithies for a day and forces hundreds of gruff, bearded Dwarven warriors to learn how to bake delicate Shire seedcakes and tarts. The sight of hardened war veterans anxiously weighing sugar and nervously asking Bilbo if the crust is flaky enough is the best birthday present Bilbo could have ever asked for

[purr-in-ink]

🐈‍⬛🪲🐈‍⬛

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

imagine Rocky getting jealous of other Eridians because apparently their carapaces have really pretty colors and patterns so to Grace he’s always like “remember when I saved your life. remember when I gave you enough astrophage to go home. remember all the times i watched you sleep. remember. do you remember Grace.”

[glowbeam]

adrian: obviously grace and rocky have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being alone in space saving the universe

grace: obviously rocky and adrian have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being married for almost two centuries

rocky: hello eriddit. i (302M) have two mates (337X) (40M) who are both brilliant scientists. i love them both very much and was very excited when they started courting each other. however WIBTA if i thought they were too close? like i'm no slouch or anything, i'm an engineer, but you get these two talking about origin of life research and it starts going WAY over my carapace —

[intrusodamente]

ehc from @edenisquiet

ewc from @justcakethanks

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[tissa23]

Grace doesn’t like to be carried.

Of course he didn’t noticed that for a while, Rocky can’t pick him up and there is no another human …… Until Simon arrived.

Grace fall asleep in an unusual place and Simon wants to carry him and put him in bed. This brings flashback to Grace, about his last hours on earth, being launched for the Hail Mary. He panics and explains to Simon to please don’t do that again.

Of course Grace the next day fall asleep again and Simon doesn’t want him to freak out like last time and tries to wake him up but Grace is a very deep sleeper.

And now I want Simon to discover that the only very effective way to wake him up is by little kisses on the face and talk gently to him. Grace is groggy enough to not be afraid when Simon take him to bed but not fully awake to be embarrassed.

Grace is like yes my half mutant roommate future boyfriend the infamous butcher wakes me up by cuddles and kisses and now bring me to bed.

Grace you deserve your princess treatment

[forgetful-nerd]

Spelling mistakes? I guarantee neither of us saw those at 3:00 AM Monday Morning.

[wdarlingyap]

So. Real talk.

I have spent a significant portion of my life sick in bed. This means I have read... a lot of fanfiction. I do not want to run the numbers (for my own sanity) but there is a nonzero chance that I have read a greater volume of fanfiction than most of you will in a lifetime (yes, even in a tumblr crowd, where I have some real competition 😆).

For a number of years I was really embarrassed by this because for most of my life, I've fit best with the 'socially elitist nerd' set. You know - the ones who don't care if you make a little less eye contact, as long as your performance of intelligence can make them feel intelligent too. I "passed" there. So more than a decade of constant fluff and rom-com "junk" really felt like something I should be ashamed of.

But I've realized recently what fanfiction (or any free web fiction) really is. It's the author's hopes. It's the author's fears. It's all the things you wouldn't write to publish because they feel too sad, or sinful, or sacred.

Without really thinking about it, I've been drinking from the well of human desire - from fear, and love, and lust. I've been reading your precious wishes for family, or protection, or connection. I've been learning how you dream life could be.

Thank you to every writer whose work I have read or will read someday. Thank you for sharing the most precious parts of your heart, even when you didn't realize what you were doing. To every writer out there - every middle schooler with dreams, every suburban mom wishing her life could be something more. You reached out into the oblivion with the piece of yourself you probably don't even share with those closest. And somewhere in this world, a person noticed. Your dreams and hopes and wishes became a piece of me too.

I am so lucky to be the person who heard you.

[writing-prompt-s]

You are a child of a great mage lineage, your eldest sister could turn forests into ash with her flames, your older brother capable of freezing oceans over, your younger sibling, a tamer of magical beasts, but for some reason, everyone fears you the most, and you have zero clue why.

[family-discord-server]

Grace playing “Sisyphus” with the pebbles during recess in his dome where he rolls them in their balls up the hill and then lets go so they roll all the way back down to the bottom before he rolls the next pebble back up the hill.

The pebbles love it, it’s like going sledding given how cold the dome is, but Rocky wants to know why Grace calls it Sisyphus and not sledding.

So Grace explains the myth and the punishment. Sisyphus still thinks he’ll be able to get the boulder to the top and that he’ll still outwit the Gods one final time. It’s only his hubris that is grander than his cleverness and frustration in believing he is capable of completing an impossible task. Trapped forever believing he will be successful in pushing his boulder up the hill.

Rocky watches as Grace, years after arriving on Erid, finally having regained some muscle mass, gently pushes another xenonite ball up the gentle sandy slope of their beach. Rocky can hear the laughing tones of the pebble urging teacher-Grace to push them higher because they want to roll further than student-Ruby. Rocky can hear Graces smile and thinks, one must imagine Sisyphus happy.

[melodicwriter]

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[morningradio]

headcanon that Grace grades the other scientists work only if he’s focusing on something else or he’s tired.

Like. Imagine one of the scientists studying Astrophage gives Grace a paper detailing their recent findings and Grace being locked in on something else, he just looks up, skims the paper, then pulls out a red pen from somewhere and marks it, “B+, you forgot to account for…” then after a 5 minute lecture on how to improve, he goes back to typing or smth. The scientist just standing there baffled thinking ‘B+? What are we in? A classroom?”, and kind of bum hurt that they only got a B+ (bc ofc they want an A) so they go back to researching with a new ferocity cuz dammit they’re going to get that A. Cue the science team being fueled by Dr.Grace’s grades, them just rubbing it into each others faces if they get A’s or A+’s. Headcanon 2 is that he just keeps gold star stickers in his pockets so for example: All of them are in a meeting, Dr. smth pipes up with a good suggestion and he goes, “Great job! You get a gold star.” And just puts it on their phone case or badge and moves on, everyone is flabbergasted and a bit jealous except for the scientist who is just vibrating with happiness and a bit of fear because the co-dictator of the world just gave them a gold star.

Extra: Grace also hits Stratt with the 1 2 punch of “A+! Here’s a gold star.” On one of her presentations after staying up for 36+ hours and slaps a gold star on her forehead before conking out on the desk. Carl is in the corner desperately trying not to laugh bc Grace just did this in front of the entire Petrova task force while Stratt is just staring at him in confused amusement. Extra-extra: The mess hall on Stratt’s Vat has a ‘Fridge-board” which is a magnetic board acting as a fridge for all of their papers with A’s on it. Grace just being mortified when he learns that he’s been grading and giving gold stars to the top minds of the world and Stratt having to assure him that is boosts morale and that it’s fine.

(Once he gets sent off to space, everyone in the task force keeps their stars to remember him, because he never said goodbye.)

(Eva looking at her star and throwing it away, because she couldn’t stand the thought of having a gold star from the man she killed.)

[shrugsinchinese]

hear me out cake

[sonja-cherno]

We've talked about Grace's rainbow symbolism in this scene, but I haven't seen anyone pointing out the detail of Stratt having a line of countries' flags behind her on her first appearance