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imagine Rocky getting jealous of other Eridians because apparently their carapaces have really pretty colors and patterns so to Grace he’s always like “remember when I saved your life. remember when I gave you enough astrophage to go home. remember all the times i watched you sleep. remember. do you remember Grace.”

7-inches-of-satanic-panic

what I think would make this funnier is if Rocky was actually attractive by Eridian standards (how attractive is up for you to decide) but by Earth standards would be just… regular.

Like, he’s decorated in etchings that show off status & achievement, sound bounces very nicely off his carapace, and he has a lot of texture compared to most Eridians which adds to his uniqueness. His vent shapes and placements also add an ugly-hot quality to him as well.

Maybe it’s not the peak of attractiveness but that combined with other aspects of him like his intelligence, bravery, and loyalty puts him pretty high up there.

But by Earth standards… he’d just be average. He’s a very regular looking rock alien. And we don’t hear as many frequencies as Eridians nor process sound the same way they do.

In his defense it’s not his fault he doesn’t match the beauty standards of an alien planet light years away. Grace sure as fuck probably doesn’t either.

But at the very least he still has his personality and the aforementioned things like bravery and such that keep him from being just a mobile rock.

atomikats

my personal take on the matter

ecobanshee

I'm never getting over how, in the book, Stratt's first priority after being thrown around inside her portable by a (potentially literally) world ending explosion is to yell for Grace and make sure that he's okay.

He's not the most important person on the project at that point. She only checks on the primary and secondary crews after getting a grasp on what happened. i am not normal about them.

cowardsexual

stratt and grace and the rest of the phm science team running on 4 cumulative hours of sleep at an unscheduled conference. dimitri and lokken are trying to explain a new complication in the hail mary's fueling system and the resources necessary to iron it out but they keep getting interrupted by government officials butting in until grace (who doesn't even look up from his laptop and checked out of the conversation two days ago) snaps "we raise our hands to speak"

complete silence for like 3 seconds. the french prime minister sheepishly raises his hand and stratt smiles for the first time that week (grace buries his entire head behind his laptop screen for wont of a better option, like jumping straight into the sea)

occudo

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

inkcapcreature

Made a little comic about my eridian Oc :-]

manyblinkinglights

The idea of them adding rain and Dr Grace immediately disliking it and going inside is just so tasty. On an animal level the biodome team are simply not pleased that he displays an aversive response!! AND YET this is precisely the whole deal with rain... even if they know that and the experience coordinator appreciates the extra tool to encourage him to move through different areas and spend his time in different places... it's just inarguably annoying to see Dr Grace squint and hunch in your PRECIOUS RAIN.

wenevergotusedtoegypt

Do you think it's immoral to use chatgpt for college assignments? I think it's unfortunately unavoidable.

It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.

As for unavoidable….you understand that the vast majority of people who have ever graduated college throughout history did so without ever once using AI, right? You understand that?

wenevergotusedtoegypt

You understand that the point of writing papers isn’t just to have a paper with words on it, right? You understand that the entire point is to do the mental work necessary to put your learning into organized words, such that you actually learn it? And that if you outsource that to AI you are not learning?

distinguishedenthusiastcatt

In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

duckdotcom

wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god

ancient-debris

Iron breastplate to ward off fairies, Fishnet leggings to ward off cod.

frightfullytreeish

solarchaotica

static-mutt-left-deactivated202

You're evil and you know it

communismlives

good thing they're hidden from god and the devil

ineed-to-sleep

I can make another mean looking woman with dark eyeshadow. As a treat

vampyyprincess

”spam like = block” yeah ok buddy. when i wake up to tumblr notifs of someone spam liking my stuff i start giggling and kicking my feet

necromycologist

if there was any justice at all in the world “every helen has her troy” would be an idiom (“every beautiful woman leaves a disaster in her wake”) and misogynistic renaissance authors would use it to describe hot women they didn’t like but, of course, inadvertently making her sound insanely awesome in the process. and then in modern times instead of talking about things being their hill to die on women could say “this is my troy to burn” and people on tumblr would be kind of horny about the whole thing and it would get incorporated into the whole “can yuo put that out on me” genre of posts. anyway just a glimpse into my beautiful mind tonight

renard-rogue

I 100% am going to start using this and spreading it as if it IS a common idiom. I am so excited!!

pangur-and-grim

it’s funny bc I think I have a lot to learn, with blindspots that I’m still trying to fill in by reading more and talking to people etc, but when I’m hanging around certain family members I suddenly become The Wokest Person Alive just by merit of having made some attempt to not be shitty. and this isn’t level 3 discourse like “conflating submissiveness with a preference for bottoming is misogynistic”, it’s basic shit like “no, health is not a state of mind, and sick people are sick for reasons beyond bad attitude,” and “no, you should not loudly talk about how shocked you were that a Nigerian man was at grandma’s funeral,” and “please don’t say that about Jewish people,” and so on.

and usually they are willing to listen when I talk about this stuff, so there is a benefit to me being there, but holy crap is it a tonal shift going from online to real life.

pangur-and-grim

sawnik

foenixed

"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.

kiragecko

My Very Little Sister had to move out of 3 living situations because her friends/cousins found romantic partners and didn't need a roommate anymore. She started getting really grouchy whenever a friend mentioned romance after a while.

My cousin lost his best friend of 20+ years because the friend's girlfriend decided he shouldn't see anyone else. For years my cousin was leery about anyone else starting romantic relationships, and acted kinda jealous and resentful.

I had to make clear boundaries with my now-husband, explaining that I was NOT going to be investing all of my limited emotional energy into our relationship, he had to be willing to share. And my emotional energy is VERY limited, so he struggled! If I hadn't been so very very aromantic, and had spent as much time with him as he wanted, my other relationships would have suffered greatly. As it was, people had to get used to a changed dynamic with me - he came everywhere, because it was easier to get out of the house when he was dragging me.

People in platonic relationships have very real reasons to be jealous!