[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

[samreich]

for whatever reason im not so sure

[thecraftgremlin]

Where’s that one post that’s like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.

[stargirl-and-potts]

Reasons my human has cried:

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

* Told him to think long time, stay with me as long as he can.

[joodlesofdoodles]

Happy Mother's Day to these two

[shrimpmilf]

hi my name is destiel nevada putin elec’tion covid way and i have long ebony black hair

[ferriswheelaccident]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame idk if you've done this yet

[isabelopaque]

Dont unfollow me I can post about something you care even less about wait

[onlyplatonicirl]

Oh man I haven’t had a new interest in a while. It’s always been the same three things on repeat. I wonder when I’ll st-

Ok.

[chalroe]

grace doodles!

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

thinking about that one reference document about eridians and the fact that eridians as a whole live in almost total darkness. hence their echolocation and lack of eyes. it's pitch black outside of the biodome in the movie.

but the eridians made an artificial sun for grace in his biodome. something that never would have occurred to them otherwise. because why would you even conceive of sunlight when your entire species evolved to survive and thrive without it

but ryland grace would have died without it. long, slow, and painful, far from his first home

ryland grace, who saved two suns. two solar systems. two civilizations. who found someone to be brave for, so brave that his second home went above and beyond for him. he brought the sun to them twice

[raythefairy]

I see so many posts like “imagine being adrian and” and i haven’t seen ONE PERSON SAY imagine you’re adrian and your husband goes on a mission to save the world and comes back 50ish earth years later with an alien and they saved the world. Your husband tells you all about this planet they went to that had the microorganisms needed to save the world. And your husband named it after you. Oh my god that’s- oh. Oh you named it after what the alien called me? Ok. I guess. Still sweet, i wasn’t involved and you weren’t sure you were ever gonna see me again so i guess- the fuck do you mean THE ALIEN NAMED IT AFTER ME. IT WASN’T EVEN YOUR IDEA? YOU WANTED TO GO WITH MEDIUM ROUGH TEXTURE CIRCLE PLANET??? THE ALIEN WAS THE ONE WHO THOUGHT OF NAMING IT AFTER ME?????

[colorfulcuttlefish]

Okay, but you have to consider the cultural differences. Adrian going "you named the planet after me? Why."

[raythefairy]

A couple people have given this take and i find it SO FUNNY adrian being like “why would you name it after me i had nothing to do with it. Like if you’re gonna name it after someone why not ‘medium rough texture circle planet named by rocky and grace’ much more scientific” and rocky being like YES THANK YOU

[lutheban]

Im sorry but Ryland Grace is the type of person who does math to try and figure out his sexuality and concludes he must be bisexual because his level of atraction to any gender is the same (zero. the level of atraction is zero. he's aroace)

[citationneededbutimright]

"i asked chatgpt!" yeah well i asked rocky and he said ♪♫♩♫♪♩ ♫♩♩♫♪ ♫♪♩ ♩♪♫♩♫ ♪♫♪

[starsandscars81]

A list of things that happened in the book/movie that made me headcanon Ryland Grace as aroace:

The entire interaction he had with DuBois and Shapiro. “You guys are having sex? Ew. I didn’t need to know that. Anyway, the astrophage krebs cycle… Wait, you call her DOCTOR while having sex?? Weird. Forget I asked. Anyway, the krebs cycle…”

The only time I remember him mentioning he had a partner in the book was when he compared Rocky’s messiness to his ex’s.

“I had a mate, but she thought my head was in the clouds.” Bro was fighting those allonormality demons

“You guys think I’m sleeping with Stratt??? nonononono please no”

Just the whole speech that Stratt gives about Grace’s life not having meaning on Earth because he doesn’t have a partner, kids, family, or a dog. Just. Damn.

Expanding on that past bullet point, Grace does not have a single love interest that impacts his character arc. He’s happy without any romantic relationship. Just him, Rocky, and other eridians he’s met. He’s fulfilled and content without being in a romantic relationship. It’s just so different from what I’ve always seen and been told, and it’s wonderful.

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

I love watching PHM in an aroace lens. I love how Grace is a main character with no romantic partner and no real desire to find one. I love how the story doesn't present Grace as lacking something fundamental bc he doesn’t want a romantic partner. I love how this makes him seem expendable to Stratt bc he has no connections, and thus no one to mourn him. (And here, I could argue that Stratt was looking for any justification for herself, and that she knew she had to make him go, and that she had to ignore that maybe she would be the one to mourn him.)

I love how the story still presents it as an injustice that Grace was forced against his will to die on a suicide mission, even without these strong relationships. I love how the story presents this as an evil that still must be done to save humanity. I love how Grace finds his courage not in a lover but in a friend. I love how he turns back from safety and certainty to make sure his friend lives. I love how the story ends. I love how Grace finds fulfillment not in romantic partnership but in friends.

[supernaturalist1234]

do I headcanon grace as aroace? yes

do I find the idea of shipping ryan gosling and markiplier incredibly funny? also yes

[kreechurthecrazykat]

Im probably aroace but im being sent into space to die alone so idrc about that rn

[saucefunk]

dirty dirty dirty