Back On My Bullshit

New Month, New Hyperfixation

[nugbrownies]

[ravmycupine]

Grace makes a shocking discovery

[nugbrownies]

[minart-was-taken]

On earth most animals aim to be symmetrical and so have an even amount of limbs. Reading that Rocky had five left me puzzled, obviously he's an alien, but was there precedent in nature for such a phenomenon? What was the point of five rather than 4 or 6? ...Then, I looked at my own hands and felt silly. Still, that connection made me happy.

[habken]

besties

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[shocklabrynth]

being attracted to bald or balding men is inherently pedophilic because it brings to mind the hairless head of a newborn baby

[kiodja]

whore members

[kiodja]

ortiz!rocky

[nikoisme]

i love drawing him with babies..

[teaboot]

One of my favorite things about Murderbot is how it canonically prefers to wear a helmet whenever possible because it hate s eye contact and frequently loses control of it's facial expressions so I keep imagining it like

[nhyhu]

Eva Stratt the woman that you are <333

For the first time ever, I can offer prints cuz some ppl asked for when i showed the wip off lol. You can get it here!

[whalesushi]

thinking about how grace was probably project hail mary's backup stratt before he was the backup backup science astronaut

because stratt says she has no reason to keep around a junior high science teacher when she says he's her backup science team, which is true, but also, if she really needed a third backup science astronaut imo she should've & would've trained one?? it can't have been that hard even if their third choice was vastly underqualified in comparison?? grace literally spent years teaching junior high after his phd & spent half the project doing physics which isn't his specialisation either?? and like, grace was stratt's #2. de facto number 2 on such a big project. he was there for everything, which means if stratt had an actual separate #2 he would've known?? if she needed an actual #2 she would've had one??

so yeah anyway i will die on the hill that grace was, primarily, the backup stratt because stratt definitely had a plan for what if she, rather than the astronauts died? she would need someone to take over, someone who knows enough about the project & who cares to save the world (unlike a lot of the other scientists, who were dragged in unwillingly, or that guy who was there to get out of prison, grace volunteered for his kids. not for himself, but for his /kids/) & someone who's involved AND well-liked by everyone (he's the astronauts' favourite, is on decent terms with the science staff)

so yeah i think it was just unfortunate that it ended up not being stratt but the science astronauts who needed a replacement, and being the backup stratt grace was ALSO able to serve the double function as a backup anything, which is how he ended up as a emergency astronaut

[uxio-web]

Nonono you don't understand, we HAVE to keep him. And build him a little enclosure. YES with the poisonous gas. He needs that to breathe.

[irradiatedsnakes]

my take on an eridian!grace design inspired by the concept of him getting uploaded to an eridian body in his old age (ie the fic "a momentary blip" by deitybird and this art post). his carapace is colored like one of the cliffs from his biodome, and he's got carvings based on the petrova line, the voyager golden record map to sol, and (not pictured) a gylph representing the hail mary, among others. he's a bit squatter than rocky and has more rounded/curved shapes, so youve got just a smidge of kiki and bouba going on between the two of them.

[taot-sketches]

My favorite couple and their queerplatonic alien third

[shrugsinchinese]

Adrian is Penelope from the Odyssey except nothing is stopping them from throwing hands at annoying suitors