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[wavezies]

(rocky voice) human atmosphere too cold even through xenonite insulated suit! let rocky in grace skin! does grace want rocky to almost freeze to death again, question

[beansterpie]

ok so like. I keep seeing posts about how grace and rocky's relationships in phm is so lovely because it's not romantic-- people claiming that romance between the two would have been predictable and uninteresting, because a relationship like theirs ending in a romance is The Done Thing in movies and I-- really just have to laugh.

Uh no. A movie like this with a male, human protagonist who forms a friendship with an extremely non-humanoid alien who was basically assigned male by the narrative would not.... would not likely end in a romance between the two. Lol. Lmfao. If it DID end with a romance between the two, my mind would have been actually blown in the theater. And I guarantee that most people leaving said theater would have been weirded out by it. Because human characters forming romances with non-humanoid characters in fiction is usually used as an indicator that either the human character is a weirdo, that the relationship is unnatural and strange, or that we're supposed to laugh at the relationship. There are definitely exceptions, but by and large that's how that trope appears in fiction ime.

So grace and rocky's relationship ending at a deep friendship is vey literally the expected outcome. I'm not saying that as a bad thing, I love their friendship and how important they are to one another and I love this story, but a human and a non-humanoid aliens relationship staying within the bounds of 'friendship' isn't somehow more subversive and progressive than if it had included romance.

To be clear, I'm all for aro/ace headcanons for grace, and I totally get why this story in particular attracts those headcanons, but acting as though people who ship grocky (specifically eridian!rocky and human!grace) aren't in their own way participating in something subversive feels a little disingenuous.

And this is reflected in the numbers! On ao3, Grace & Rocky as a platonic relationship outnumbers Grace/Rocky by about three times. And even MORE telling, Grace/Simon (from Iron Lung) is over double the number of Grace/Rocky fics. If grace and rocky's relationship is so beautiful because of the absence of romance, then why does that not extend to the ship with two human dudes that doesn't involve the alien?

I'm 100% sure that tons of people who love aro/ace grace and platonic grocky are earnestly engaging with the fact that their friendship is framed as the most important relationship in, at least, grace's life, especially because the movie seems to pointedly subvert any romance between grace and stratt, which I would argue is the much more expected place for a romance to happen.

But I'm also 100% sure that the popularity of the aro/ace reading, or at the very least the popularity of platonic grocky, is due to rocky being a rock spider alien. because unfortunately, a lot of people just find the idea of shipping a human with an eridian off-putting because they're lame and boring.

[pinkdisaster06]

A pet peeve of mine is that Rocky almost never talks "properly" in any fanfic or comic I read. I understand that he dumbs down his speach for Grace, but at the end of the book Grace understands him so well that Rocky sounds almost uncanny. If there's a timeskip Rocky should be talking like that. Or at the very least if it's something from Rocky's pov, his internal monologue should sound normal instead of childlike.

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[xxthedeadgodxx]

if rocky and grace made out would it just essentially be grace eating him out instead.

[pinkdisaster06]

Is it just me or does the "Mr. Sandman" song fit Gracerocky like a glove

[pinkdisaster06]

Because like-

"Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream

Make him the cutest that I've ever seen

Give him the word that I'm not a rover

Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over

Sandman, I'm so alone

Don't have nobody to call my own

Please turn on your magic beam

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream"

AND

"it's like another life that you live where crazy stuff happens, but it all makes sense. Kind of like today"

Like ok lovebirds I see you

[pinkdisaster06]

Is it just me or does the "Mr. Sandman" song fit Gracerocky like a glove

[riddler-apologist]

begging people to learn that XENOphilia IS NOT ALIEN FUCKING!!!!! THAT IS A FETISH FOR OTHER RACES!!!!!!

EXOphila is alien fucking

[cowardsexual]

YEAH NO. SURE. ALIEN BUDDY ASKS HIM TO DEFINE DREAMING AND HE GIVES THE MOST ASS BACKWARDS DEFINITION POSSIBLE JUST SO HE CAN SAY "BASICALLY, MY LIFE SINCE MEETING YOU" AT THE END. RYLAND GRACE I NEED TO SHAKE YOU LIKE A CHEW TOY

[dyke-parade]

anyways ry(l)an(d) g(race)osling himself said "it's easy to fall in love with rocky" so it's literally canon now

[pinkdisaster06]

No wonder Eva Mendes (Ryan Gosling's wife) said that the only costar she ever felt jealous of was Rocky holy shit

[the-invisibility-bloke]

james’ comment was even wilder

[evstratt]

Grace looking at Rocky PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[pinkdisaster06]

No wonder Eva Mendes (Ryan Gosling's wife) said that the only costar she ever felt jealous of was Rocky holy shit

[grossavocados]

Gracerocky en tendencia en tumblr ganamos los gays

[fujoshijpeg]

grace making these faces at rocky. at rocky btw. looking just like a besotted fond fuck and for what. it's almost like he's. it almost looks like. it's almost like for the first time in his avoidant loser life he's feeling what it's like to ACTUALLY LOVE SOMEB

[pinkdisaster06]

How come in every fanfic I read Simon was completely innocent from what happend in Filament Station? Either he had no idea that many people were supposed to die or he thought it was just supposed to be a supply run.

Personally I think it's more interesting if he really was guilty and later came to regret his crimes during all the years he was in prison and decided to be a better person.

[bethammfetamxxne]

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