Dr. Ryland Grace

Currently on a three year road-trip with my alien best friend. Totally normal stuff.

[rygrace-in-space]

Hello and welcome to my Ryland Grace roleplay blog! 👋👎

info and tags under the cut

About Me

My name is Ayns, I'm an artist, I use all pronouns, and I'm 24

This is my main account, where I post art and other silly stuff

About This Blog

I don't really have any rules for this blog, so go wild!

I love answering asks and messages, either from other characters or just from you!! Anonymous asks are fine too

The way I play Grace is inspired by both the movie and the book. I'll try my best to keep all the lore consistent. Just know that it takes place sometime during their journey to Erid.

I love best friend/queer-platonic Grace and Rocky, and I ship Bloodymary

This blog may eventually include darker or suggestive themes from time to time. Not that I'm planning anything in particular, but I'd like to put this warning out there anyway

If you see me post things on here that should be on my main, or vice versa, no you didn't

Common Tags

#the beanbag is lava - asks

#observations - random thoughts

#patchwork - fanart

[rygrace-in-space]

Sometimes, I sit in the pilot's seat, and I look at all of the buttons and switches, and I imagine how satisfying it would be to push and flip every single one of them. And then I remember that doing that would probably kill me.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace stupid, que—. Hm. Grace stupid, statement.

Wait, not never mind, but Rocky read about this.

Grace need stimulation toy like fake lever, fake button, to keep brain activity up, question?

[rygrace-in-space]

Hey! I said I wasn't gonna do it!

Ohh, like a fidget toy? Yeah, actually, that might help.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace say that many many time, then do it anyway. Rocky does not trust that sentence.

Rocky will see what can do for Grace!

[rygrace-in-space]

Ok, yeah, maybe I do that sometimes. But that's with small stuff, I really don't wanna mess with the ship. The fear of killing us in space completely overrides the temptation of the buttons, I promise.

[eridian-named-rocky]

…Okay! Rocky believe Grace now.

Still, Rocky make fake button-levers for Grace.

[rygrace-in-space]

Good. Thanks, Rock :)

[rygrace-in-space]

Sometimes, I sit in the pilot's seat, and I look at all of the buttons and switches, and I imagine how satisfying it would be to push and flip every single one of them. And then I remember that doing that would probably kill me.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace stupid, que—. Hm. Grace stupid, statement.

Wait, not never mind, but Rocky read about this.

Grace need stimulation toy like fake lever, fake button, to keep brain activity up, question?

[rygrace-in-space]

Hey! I said I wasn't gonna do it!

Ohh, like a fidget toy? Yeah, actually, that might help.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace say that many many time, then do it anyway. Rocky does not trust that sentence.

Rocky will see what can do for Grace!

[rygrace-in-space]

Ok, yeah, maybe I do that sometimes. But that's with small stuff, I really don't wanna mess with the ship. The fear of killing us in space completely overrides the temptation of the buttons, I promise.

[rygrace-in-space]

Sometimes, I sit in the pilot's seat, and I look at all of the buttons and switches, and I imagine how satisfying it would be to push and flip every single one of them. And then I remember that doing that would probably kill me.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace stupid, que—. Hm. Grace stupid, statement.

Wait, not never mind, but Rocky read about this.

Grace need stimulation toy like fake lever, fake button, to keep brain activity up, question?

[rygrace-in-space]

Hey! I said I wasn't gonna do it!

Ohh, like a fidget toy? Yeah, actually, that might help.

[rygrace-in-space]

Sometimes, I sit in the pilot's seat, and I look at all of the buttons and switches, and I imagine how satisfying it would be to push and flip every single one of them. And then I remember that doing that would probably kill me.

[rygrace-in-space]

Have you introduced Rocky to the concept of persistence predators yet?

Aka Tag.

This one got lost in my inbox, but uh- kind of? I mentioned it briefly, but I don't think he understood what it was. He called it lazy. But nothing hunts like that on Erid, so he doesn't get just how persistent it is.

One day, I'll show him how we do it. Maybe we can make a game out of it.

[rygrace-in-space]

Do you like apple juice?

I love apple juice! Sometimes, when the cafeteria had extra juice boxes, they would put a few in the staff room fridge, and I would snag one every time.

[rygrace-in-space]

you could always learn how to hum and whistle two different notes at the same time AND play a kazoo. or get a theremin. assistive vocalization tools ftw!!

Hum and whistle at the same time? Is that a thing? I'll try that. Rocky's gonna get sick of me trying to learn that fast.

[rygrace-in-space]

I propose a kazoo to get around the vocal capability barrier

Not unless I can somehow hum into the kazoo at one pitch and out of my nose in another. The problem is that polyphonic singing isn't very easy. Maybe an instrument is the right direction though.

[rygrace-in-space]

Happy 57th moon landing anniversary, Grace!

Shoot, I didn't see this! Happy belated 57th moon landing anniversary! I hope you all had a good day! I make sure to show Rocky some footage of the landing yesterday

[rygrace-in-space]

I decided I'm going to start learning how to speak Eridian. I can't bring the stereotype of a white man going somewhere and expecting them to understand English all the way to another planet.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Grace has proper speaking instrument inside mouth hole to produce Eridian chords, question?

[rygrace-in-space]

Uh, no. But I'll figure it out somehow.

[rygrace-in-space]

I decided I'm going to start learning how to speak Eridian. I can't bring the stereotype of a white man going somewhere and expecting them to understand English all the way to another planet.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

NASA lapel pin.

[rygrace-in-space]

Unfortunately, I didn't get to check because I was asleep. So my verdict is inconclusive.

[eridian-named-rocky]

Big big big mistakes made.

Rocky never looking up contortionist again.

[rygrace-in-space]

I feel you, Rocky. Even I'm freaked out by contortionists. How do they move like that...

[rygrace-in-space]

DOCTOR GRACE!! DO!! YOU! HAVE! A FAVORITE! POKEMON?!?!?!? THE WORLD MUST KNOW THIS VERY IMPORTANT ANSWER!!!!

Rowlet is my favorite!! I'm also just a sucker for grass types in general lol

My very round guy!

Rowlet is a great pick! My favorite is Porygon!

I feel like it's underrated. Sure, it doesn't do much on a team, but it's cute. And it gets better when it evolves. Plus, it is the only pokemon with potential to explore space, which I'm a little biased towards.

[rygrace-in-space]

You might have some sugar in the lab if they gave you stuff to make different agar plates. YEPD plates have glucose. But before the lab ran out of money and booted me out pretty sure that was mostly for yeast growing. So idk what all media they gave you stuff to grow!

Yes, I found that stuff a while ago. Maybe I'll try to do something with that. The taumeoba already have a very slight sweet taste to them, so I'll dig through what else they gave us and keep experimenting with it.

[rygrace-in-space]

Consider using the liquid nitrogen to make taumeoba dippin dots, the original space ice cream

This worked well. Unfortunately, it didn't help with the flavor, but it really elevated the eating experience!

I can't say I'd do this again, but it was fun to try.