I guess im a musical nerd now

hey! I'm Raven, she/they! i'm a nerd who does nerd stuff, mostly reblogs honestly. I take fic requests for Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill, and Heathers. Requests: OPEN Header from @bombboi profile pic from @ariciii

[cookie-nom-nom]

okay but imagine how inconvenient the streets of Central City, Amestris, is. Like yeah yeah country wide alchemy circle aside- can you IMAGINE the traffic? Like for the Love of Truth can we add another lane on this road?? The cars are backed up for miles! The urban planning board must be the sorriest people in the world. They got no clue what an alchemist circle looks like BUT the Fuhrer keeps showing up for an ominous visit every time they try to get a modicum of reasonable city layout. The zoning laws have got to be pure evil.

[okiedoketm]

how many accidents do you think there are on the Central Command Roundabout in an average day

[darkaviarymc]

The crest of blood in the center was carved over the course of multiple years via traffic fatalities

[cookie-nom-nom]

At that point who even needs a genocide.

[idgabuck]

Streamer Simon headcanons because I know you all love it (I do too)

- Simon 100% loves all the fanart of him and he will make streams where he reacts to it.

- before Grace shows his face on camera for the first time, people make fanart of what they think he looks like and him and Simon scroll looking through them all in bed and they panic at one fanart because holy shit that’s actually so close to what Grace looks like it’s a little scary. Grace assumes that it’s one of his students who created it (it wasn’t.)

- The day Grace finally reveals his face in camera in a video he does with Simon, that artist freaks the fuck out and goes viral because “WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WAS CLOSE?!”

- Simon 1000% reads fanfiction about himself because in chat one day, someone asks him if he’s seen the fanfiction people have written about him and his husband. It started off as a joke to see if they got Grace accurate but some of the stuff he reads actually has him sobbing because it’s so sweet but also “yes that is 100% something you do, Star! Don’t deny it!”

- Simon jokes that his husband is taller than him one stream and his chat 100% types “isn’t everybody though?” Simon swears he can hear Grace laugh from the other room.

- Grace in this AU does have an account he uses to watch Simon stream on and when he comments in the chat (his username is The_Papa_Star_27) everyone goes crazy. Especially when Simon reads the flirty chats Grace sends his way and Simon goes absolutely feral.

- sometimes grace mods his streams for Simon when he’s not busy doing paperwork, if not, someone else does it.

- Simon one day whilst streaming, hears Grace coming into the house and says “chat hang on a second.” And he rushes to go see Grace who’s holding a makeup bag and Grace tells him shyly and a little nervously that he wanted to try some lipstick. He puts it on and Simon volunteers happily for him to test it out on him. Needless to say, Simon strolls back into his streaming room with lipstick marks all over his face with a dazed look and saying “my husband brought this lipstick. It works.”

- speaking of, in my mind Grace AND Simon test out makeup for fun because fuck gender ok?!

- Simon has been banned from rage games. Don’t ask.

[foralittlewile]

According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.

[for-those-who-wait]

Strategy to avoid thinking about the fact that you're completely by yourself again for the first time in months and you have four years of this left to go: find a label maker

AKA I was watching King of the Hill and thought this frame from the episode Keeping Up With Our Joneses would fit Grace pretty well

[sleepdeprivedcinnamonbun]

Book Rocky: I make room now. Room and device keep me alive in you ship. Want to see human technology. Is allowed, question?

Movie Rocky: HELLO MY ALIEN BESTIE CAN WE BE ROOMMATES PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE WOW YOUR ROOM MESSY

[cloudy-skyscape]

coltland twins au where colt near solely refers to ryland as grace (started as a way to be annoying, turned into a habit) and it causes a huge misunderstanding on the set of a movie he's working. he rarely talks about ryland to other people, but when he does he somehow manages to avoid pronouns entirely and no one is able to get him to elaborate on whatever he just said about grace. he'll mention him in conversation, then quickly move on or straight up leave. for a while people are convinced grace is a dog ("yeah, grace loves going to the beach", "grace is a little awkward around people sometimes", "oh you have kids? thats cool. yknow grace is great with kids.") then it becomes clear that grace is a human person ("sorry i gotta take this call, its from grace"). so the theory switches to grace being his "girlfriend" who probably just has social anxiety. the cast & crew have 'evidence' to support this. colt says "love you" when he hangs up calls with 'her', he complained that grace loves someone named rocky more than him, most recently he was overheard asking grace what they were having for dinner that night. so everyone is fucking gobsmacked when one day colt says that grace is coming to set (mysterious gf reveal?!), only for an identical copy of colt to show up and introduce himself as ryland grace, colt's brother.

[atrenchcoatfilledwithbees]

Amazing dashboard pull today

[kakastravakaianapoda]

If Grace could not fully get out of teacher mode even after being in a coma for years (the Rocky my hand is up scene), I can not even think how much worse it would get after he actually takes up teaching again at Erid.

I can imagine Grace, still in that "has been teaching for five hours" haze, trying to have a conversation with Rocky like:

"That's a great answer, buddy, you have earned yourself a sticker... Oh shoot Rocky I'm so so..."

"Yes, yes, Grace very sorry for speaking to Rocky like child, Grace brain thinks Grace still in classroom, apology accepted now where is my sticker question"

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stratt: i can’t bare to watch these videos. he’s suffering because of me. i guess i’ll bring myself to open one. for the world.

Grace, like a youtuber: WHATSUP ME AND MY BOY ROCKY HERE FOR ANOTHER VIDEO; TODAY WE’RE TEACHING YOU HOW TO BREED TOAMOEBA! ROCKY, ANY WORDS?

Rocky: Will be lit, statement.

GRACE: HELL YEAHHH!

Stratt: . . .

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stratt: Oh no.

Stratt: I don’t have the time or emotional capacity to be sad or stressed about this.

Stratt: GRACE!

Grace: On it!

Grace: *starts sobbing and going into a full panic attack*

[mary-laib]

I've seen a lot of people talking about how autistic-coded Grace is in the movie, but I have yet to see anybody mention how much deeper that autism runs in the book? Like the first two chapters are maybe like a page or two of Grace waking up and then the rest is just him calculating shit for no real reason.

Like he immediately is like "I need to figure out how much gravity I'm experiencing right now because it's really annoying me. Also I would like to know how big of a centrifuge I would have to be in in order to experience this level of gravity, and before you ask, yes, I showed my work. Let me explain, in way more detail than anyone could possibly want or need, my calculations." He literally admits he doesn't need to be doing all this math, he just really, really wants to.

And then when he tries to start communicating with Rocky, the first two things he brings are a clock and tape measure. So he can teach him about numbers. No hi, hello, how are you? I don't think they even got to 'yes' and 'no' before he pulled up trying to teach the alien how to count. This man is so obsessed with numbers, he cannot possibly conceive of an intelligent species that isn't just as obsessed with numbers.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Okay, so there's a scene in Project Hail Mary (book) not long after Grace and Rocky meet when Grace leaves to sleep while Rocky is absent from their tunnel and leaves the amount of time he'll be gone taped to the wall between them in popsicle sticks. Grace then oversleeps and is gone more than two hours longer than he said he would be. He wakes up and Rocky is tapping on their divider wall loud enough to be heard in the crew quarters and he's very upset when Grace reappears, hitting the wall and the numbers and pointing to his clock and shaking his fist. And the first time I heard that I went "lil guy why are you so impatient" but after hearing the rest of his story it hit me:

Rocky lost his entire crew to an unknown illness and has been alone in space for forty six years. Lil guy wasn't impatient he was freaking frantic that something had happened to the only other being he'd met in the past fifty years and relieved and understandably worked up when Grace reappeared and was just fine but oh my word, can you imagine? You've been alone for so long and you don't even know what killed your crew or why you survived and you finally, finally meet another person and they leave you a note for when they're gonna be back AND THEN THEY DON'T SHOW UP ON TIME?! where are they question?! are they okay question?!

And all you can do to ask, "hey are you okay over there question?!" is bang on the wall between your two ships and HOPE that this person you met didn't just die or have a horrible accident. FOR TWO HOURS. Headcanon that those two hours were when Rocky came up with the idea for the zenonite ball so he could come into the Hail Mary because he HAD to be able to make sure Grace was okay, even before they were friends, he could not lose anybody else, even this weird alien he just met, this is the first time he's had HOPE in almost FIFTY YEARS. It's no wonder he insists on watching Grace sleep as soon as they have the words for it. ;-;

[picklesinabottle]

I think the ways grace and rocky go about saying "hey don't be sad we are competent" are 1 really sweet and 2 sososo funny because grace, ever the teacher, will be like "hey don't be sad, I'm a science human, we'll figure it out together" and rocky will be like "oh my god stop crying you dumbass, I figured out how to solve the problem twenty minutes ago. lack of sleep is making you stupid. idiot." And they're both like, wow this is exactly what I needed to hear <3

[aknowwhatyouare]

When he found out about what happened to Grace, Rocky was reasonably horrified and livid. On their way to Erid, Grace hears the most beautiful tune he cannot seem to understand. It doesn’t sound Eridian, it just sounds like regular music. He sees Rocky on his laptop messing with Garage Band. Grace asks what’s up, very amused. Rocky tells him,

Rocky made Stratt diss track.

[cloudabserk]

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

[kokica1]

Do you think that, if the ship wasn't always recording at all times, when Stratt got those videos twenty years later, it slowly dawned on her that it was only Grace in recordings?

Do you think she felt a pitching, gut-wrenching horror when she realized that he was alone?

Do you think she thought back to that day that she forced him to go, soothing herself with the reminder that he at least wouldn't be alone, and realized that, no, she not only sent him to his death but she sent him utterly alone with two corpses?

Do you think that she remembered the fact that Grace had always been forcibly alone: ostracized from his communities, humiliated into silence, and realized she was only compounding on that?

Do you think that, upon hearing about Rocky for the first time, she felt a wash of relief rather than wonder or awe or surprise?

Do you think that, upon seeing Rocky in the ship for the first time, she felt pure joy not at the fact that she was looking at an alien but knowing that Grace wasn't alone anymore?

[idgabuck]

Actor Simon who came back from a long break and injury in set where he lost his arm having to work on this movie project where he meets Ryland Grace. He’s there to visit his brother Colt who is a friend of Simon’s and reached out after he got injured because “I know what it’s like to get an injury and I isolated myself for the longest time and I don’t want you to do the same.”

Tom Ryder, who’s Simon’s co-star, keeps flirting with Grace who’s on set but Grace is polite about it. (I’m also thinking Simon was a child actor and Grace was a fan of his and he was his childhood crush.) Colt introducing Grace to Simon and they get on well. Grace still has a massive crush on Simon and he tries really hard not to make a fool of himself but it’s Grace.

Rocky and Adrian also work on set too. Rocky is a set designer and Adrian is a manager for Simon.

(That’s all I have so far)

(Wrote something )