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[punz1l]

top three favorite scenes for me makes me giggle everytime cus you can hear mary giving conflict resolution instructions and also WHOLE HOUSE MAD!!!!!

also rocky slamming his head against the ball in anger Son. “how long since last sleep question.(⇀‸↼‶) “

[yellowceiling]

yaos cake: a phm comic

this was definitely set in a universe where they had the Time to have shenanigans

[hailed-marys]

how to get out of your own way

[wildminti]

Rocky was going to say "fans of PHM" but Grace panicked! 🏳️‍🌈

[meburgers]

adrian’s “mate of the week” ranking board

[frankenbirdz]

been enamored with the funky eridian ocs parade happening lately !! (am particularly obsessed with hardtack from @pineappical, tire from @kaiiaii, and dent from @idiotjae and @just-a-rand0m-human’s pencil) so i wanted to try making a funky guy:

my toof :]

[somepomegranatetea]

Grace tries copying the tones using the keyboard.

Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”

“Why? You always include that.”

“This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”

“My.”

“Correct. But only for names.”

“So you’re calling me…?”

Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.” 

“Are there other Graces? Why do you need to specify?”

Rocky considers this, tapping his xenonite-encased claws idly against the floor. 

“No other Grace,” Rocky says. “We just do this.”

“Like an honorific,” Grace guesses. “It goes before everyone’s name? Everyone you know?”

Rocky whirs in surprise. “No, no, no. Not at all.”

“Okay, then who? What makes me qualify?”

Rocky is silent for a moment.

“...Does this offend Grace?” he asks, voice lower. 

Grace blinks. “No! I don’t think so. Is there a reason to be offended?”

“Good,” Rocky says, relieved. Grace is starting to recognize what Eridian relief sounds like. “No, no reason.”

“Who else do you call that?”

“You don’t have this on Earth?”

Grace considers. What for, friends? He couldn’t call Marissa “my Marissa.” That would be weird.

“I still don’t know what it means,” he settles on. “So I couldn’t tell you.”

Rocky groans in frustration. He’s a very impatient tutor. “We just say it.”

“Are you my Rocky?” Grace asks. He hits the two keys to make the my note. 

“I don’t know!” Rocky says. “You decide this.” 

“I decide? Who do you use it for?” 

“You. Adrian. I will use it for my pebbles.” 

Grace blinks. “So few?”

Rocky shifts. “I am… you do not have the word yet. Eridian who works alone often, not close to many other Eridians.”

“What, mechanical engineer?”

Rocky chitters with amusement. “Acceptable.”

“Is Adrian your only friend?” 

Rocky draws back, like he’s taken offense. “I have friends. Coworkers. But different.”

So just Adrian. And him. 

“This worries you,” Rocky says.

“Adrian is your mate,” Grace points out. “I’m not your mate.”

“Correct. You are not. You do not like to be a mate.”

Grace isn’t sure how to respond to that, so he ignores it.

“I’m your friend,” Grace says. 

Rocky hesitates, for a second. “...Correct.”

“Like your coworkers.”

“No.”

Grace sighs, rubbing his hand across his face. Okay, maybe that’s fair. It’s not like he felt about any of his coworkers like he feels about Rocky.

“Best friend,” Grace amends. “You’re my best friend, too.”

Rocky hums. “Acceptable.”

“Just acceptable? Now you are offending me. Can you just explain?”

This makes Rocky fall silent for a minute longer than usual. Grace is half-ready to apologize and to say let’s move on and to retype his own name without the superfluous my. 

“The Earth ‘best friend’ is not strong enough,” Rocky says finally. “It does not translate this way.”

Grace runs his fingers through his hair, a little nervous, for some reason. “Okay.”

“It is…” Rocky pauses. He has to pause more often, now that they’re not using the translator, to simplify his language. “It means that I am not Rocky without my Grace. You are part of… of the whole. When I wake up, I think of you. When I work. When I eat. When I think I am going to die.”

Rocky speaks slowly, but it’s still a lot of Eridian for Grace to grasp all at once. Even as he works out the sentences in his head, he can feel hot tears rising in his eyes.

“It means that when you are sick, I am sick,” Rocky continues. “And it means I will take care of you, because taking care of you is taking care of myself.”

Grace bunches up his sleeve, wiping it across his face, blinking furiously.

Rocky’s voice is soft. “So Grace is part of Rocky. Grace is like a cell. You see? My Grace.” 

Grace is quiet, for a moment, trying to get himself together. When he speaks, his voice is shaky.

“...Oh.”

Rocky hums, pressing his carapace gently against Grace’s arm. “You are leaking. Does this make you sad?”

Grace shakes his head, sniffing, crossing his arms across his knees and resting his chin on his sleeves. “Not at all.”

“Good, good.”

“I feel like that,” Grace mumbles. “Just like that. Just exactly—exactly like that.”

“About your old mate?”

“Don’t act stupid. You know I’m talking about you.”

Rocky hums, burrowing closer. Grace curls one arm around his carapace. That’s not enough, so he leans over, dropping his head down so his forehead presses against the xenonite. 

“My Rocky,” Grace whispers in English. 

“My Grace,” Rocky echoes in Eridian. Grace can recognize the note at the start. He will add it when he plays Rocky’s name. 

“How long have you called me that?” Grace asks. “Must’ve been a while. I didn’t notice it change.”

“Long time,” Rocky agrees. “Long, long time.”

[wulfhalls]

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

[cumaeansibyl]

yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is "I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to"

[aromanticduck]

[mellowlovesyou]

Do you ever think about what rocky's thought process is as he watches grace age?

Eridians have a far far longer life span than humans so do you think he's aware of grace's changes or is it gradual?

Does he walk up to graces house one day and realize the man has a slightly harder time getting down his front steps than usual? But he brushes it off cause humans are indeed strange creatures to him.

Does Rocky ever run ahead excitedly blabbing about some new advancement eridians made for their beloved human only to turn around and see grace lagging behind at a slower pace then normal?

Do you think he notices how graces face grays with age? How his skin wrinkles? Or how his joints ache?

Or do you think he avoids acknowledging it cause doing the opposite means facing the truth?

Do you think one day rocky sits alone pressed against a rock with his best friend's name engraved on it?

Do you think it's only then that he's hit with the reality that for him grace was only but a second of his life time.

[ssopimir]

oh okay

[aroace-ryland-grace]

I took this video at like 3 am last night and I can't stop laughing at it...whatever. go my rocky

[heavymetalhazard]

idk how it is in the movie, but i really wish phm fic writers knew that in the book, at the end on erid after all that time has passed, rocky talks "normal" and not in the "baby talk" voice. i guess its because grace is able to understand rocky better now, and rocky doesnt have to simplify their grammar

it just really bothers me when in post canon fics, rocky (and other eridians) are still talking all simple style. i wish more ppl knew this

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

very funny to me how there's not that many characters in phm to play with so the fandom's just been stealing characters from other movies. like yeah grace has a twin brother who's ryan gosling from a different movie. hell why not andy weir crossover mark watney's here too. let's throw markiplier in while we're at it.

[laneofpennies]

I don’t know why but this picture is frying me so fucking bad. Hey girl. I mean they, statement.

[randyrage69]

(said with zero intent to start posting normally again). Hey girl. Ryland grace pony. Ok...?

[ravmycupine]

Grace makes a shocking discovery

[keemera-art]

Believe

I plan to sell this as a print and stickers on my Redbubble soon!!! Stay tuned!