Seen a lot of ‘Simon is not only angry and violent’ posts going around and I completely agree.
So consider: Simon being wary of Grace’s frequent crash outs:
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Ryland chucked the scanner into the air, and it clattered against the floor with a loud crack. Simon flinched.
“One thing!” Ryland shouted, “I just want one thing to make sense!”
Every muscle in Simon’s body tensed, watching Ryland’s every move-
as he put his hands to his face and groaned into them. It was stupid, it was so stupid, but the sudden burst of anger surprised Simon. Violence wasn't something Simon was a stranger to. Anyone could be violent, Simon just knew better than to be in the line of fire. Ryland had been so gentle, but his anger was explosive as it was brief.
In less than a second, Ryland’s anger dissipated and he was sulking. His face barely changed from the sudden outburst, there was no warning, no build up. Even after it was clear Ryland’s anger had passed, Simon couldn’t banish the way his eyes tracked Ryland’s pacing, expecting Ryland to throw the item at Simon next, at the other Eridians. To hit a wall, the nearest person. It was so unexpected from a person like Ryland, but Simon should know better. Everyone was violent, anyone who survived or clawed their way to the top in this universe used their anger as their fuel. Simon was no different.
“Grace!” Rocky scolded, “No breaking equipment!”
The Eridians barely moved at Ryland’s outburst. Had they seen the same thing Simon did? Why was no one reacting?
Ryland turned to them with his hands on his hips. “Both the temperatures are the same.”
His anger wasn’t directed at anyone at least, and Ryland wasn’t taking it out on the Eridians despite how close they stood to him. Even if they were ‘family’, that meant little when it came to emotional outbursts. But Simon knew the signs of his brother's anger. He could read when something he said was going to trigger a fight, when frustration or annoyance would boil over into an explosion. Besides Gabriel, Simon wasn’t afraid of fighting any of his brothers or being in their line of fire. It was cathartic, even, sometimes, to take out their anger on each other. To funnel their fists into tough skin instead of breaking down screaming or crying at their unfair and cruel circumstances. Fucking Ezekiel had it out for Simon most, the scrappy shithead.
Then again, Ryland had barely reacted to Rocky’s outbursts, not doing much more than holding him back from attacking Simon. Simon was just being ridiculous. Afraid of the man currently hitting his forehead over the desk. He needed to get a fucking grip.
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The concept of the Red-Eyed God simply wishing to cherish Simon as some kind of sick and twisted belonging its in own domain, but it had to strip him of his flesh in order to do so, fucks me up so bad.
Because, what do you mean, it wanted help him, turn him into a creature worthy of surviving such terrible conditions at the bottom of a trench, but it had to strip Simon of everything he was to do so? What do you mean a God's love is also agony and that they are one and the same? Mark? Hello???
It wanted him to be more like it. To be remade in its image into something it deemed glorious. It saw a monster by human standards and believed Simon to be more like it than them, and thus made it so. Made him god-like. Remade him into the only God it ever saw humans worship. The Tree.
The way it couldn't stop tasting a new mind on its tongue like he was a prized possession to keep. How he was another body to put on display among bones.
The Red-Eyed God meaning, "I see you. I love you. I know you. You will live, but I cannot save you unchanged." Because he couldn't be saved by the God of Monsters and remain human.
i love annie shapiro and her not having any filter "sorry i had to go use the restroom, i was peeing myself" and her nerdy excitment to get to learn from grace
i love olesya ilyukhina, her bravery and childlike innocense, hugging the earth's dicatator like nothing, taking her teddy bear to a suicide mission, and literally sacrificing her life for humanity without a second thought
i loved dr. lokken's pride and her beef with grace about his theory
i love eva stratt and her love for humaity being so big that she had to destroy herself to give humanity a real chance to have a future
Modern BloodyMary au except they both keep their tragic pasts. Simon escaped from a violent cult and almost died and Grace got onto a research project that ended up almost killing him, wound up being illegal and was administered that amnesiac French drug and kidnapped where he met Rocky and they both escaped together.
They are all trying to live a normal life and Simon and Grace are both trying to fool the other into thinking they are sooooo normal. They’re like the most normal guy. And terrified the other will find out their sketchy past and get freaked out.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
can nonbinary lesbian silco exist. pls. i need tjis. pls. pleade. i need this. i need this. i need tjis. pls. someone. cure me. what abt lesbian silco and vander. pls. genderbends are good yes. give me lesbians pls. pls. pls. pls.
kinda arcane spoilers behind cut i think its s1 idk
this image would be 1000x better if they were women. lesbian women. and they kissed. yes.
the biggest reason grace and rocky need to come to earth one day is because there’s never been a better guest star for sesame street than ryland grace or guest star for the muppets show than rocky
this makes me so happy as a fat hairy guy who likes skirts and dresses i never get to see guys like me in dresses it’s always skinny twinks this makes me so happy 🥺🥺
obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.
first it was the klingons—they’re originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed people—and then tng comes along and it’s like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.
hey these are the ferengi and they’re supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; they’re greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that they’re PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.
this is the borg, they’re a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and they’re incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we can’t commit genocide we’re woke and communists and in space.
hey these are the cardassians, they’re part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, they’re a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and they’re known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassians…….. except, here’s a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, and……. fuck. he’s a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actually……. bad.
this is the jem’hadar, they’re genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. they’re all born addicted to a synthetic drug that’s manufactured by the state and administered by their masters—this is how they’re kept subservient. they’re ruthless and powerful and they’re incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCK….. what if they’re actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.
hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting
(answering the phone) yes? (pause) right. okay. (pause) I see. (deadpanning the camera) we have to find māui. we have to get māui to beat up the sun again we have to slow that fucker right down