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[enthyrea]

it’s just a burning memory

[augustellar]

(Prompt submission) Grace's Eridian doctors are large animal veterinarians. There are some awkward adjustment periods.

THIS 🤣🤣 imagining the absolutely bonkers kinds of eridians that must have been yoinked from their jobs to suddenly be in charge of keeping the FIRST SAPIENT ALIEN EVER alive brings me cackling-maniacally levels of glee. yes, please tell me more about the eridian lab tech who does the boring, monotonous cataloguing of bacterial glycosyltransferase enzymes suddenly having their space phone BLOWING UP. random eridian who's job is just. feeding and wrestling the big terrestrial predators at the zoo into taking their meds is suddenly missing from work, later found to be kidnapped and taken to Eridian WHO headquarters with new job of putting pills in peanut butter for rocky's new alien pal. thank you thank you!

[normal-creature]

op your tags pass peer review

[goldenaltar]

concept: no astrophage au where eridians and humans still make first contact but like, properly. a whole diplomatic mission meeting in the middle of space to save travel time. stratt is humanity's greatest representation. the eridian equivalent is equally as scary and secretly soft. it's all very star trek.

but rocky and grace put the whole diplomacy thing in jeopardy by being too best buddy with it. like they're both really low level members of the mission. some engineer necessary for ship maintenance, and an obligatory molecular biologist they brought along in case they found more alien cells out in space. and these two guys like, somehow keep ending up hanging out essentially "at the back of the classroom." consistently left out of the actually important negotiations, and well, they're bored!

grace steals some laptops and starts jury-rigging his own personal translator for rocky, despite the fact that the official translation software is way quicker to learn and much more nuanced. rocky starts learning english, simplifies his eridian, and immediately starts mocking grace for needing the software. they start blabbing to each other about all the weird quirks of their respective cultures and advanced science their planets can do. the whole time they are ribbing each other about culture stuff. grace eats in front of rocky. rocky forces grace to sleep in a corridor somewhere so he can keep watch.

then stratt and the eridian leader find out and it's like

stratt: you. you've been meeting in private with a member of the eridian deligation?

grace: ... yyyes.

stratt: and you shared with them classified scientific documents?

grace: i... maybe gave him. a laptop. he's so smart! what was i supposed to do?

stratt: HIM? you've assigned male pronouns to a genderless species?

grace: he said he likes to match!

stratt: do you even know the name of this eridian?!

grace: i call him rocky :)

stratt: 😰

then on rocky's side of things it's like

eridian leader: sorry did you say you called the human after one of its digestive noises?

rocky: yeah :)

eridian leader: and. you've been telling it about how to make xenonite. one of our most vital trading resources.

rocky: yes yes, grace is very ignorant about basic chemistry 🙄

eridian leader: right. and you watch it sleep. despite the fact that all the human beings we have spoken to have described this as a cultural violation?

rocky: well he didn't like it at first but he came around!!

anyway both sides of the delegation are sweating profusely (metaphorically speaking) until they see rocky and grace in action and are like ohh! they're both freaks. we are not to blame for this. these two are just really bad at navigating cultural norms.

cut to grace curled up with rocky while he sleeps like a baby.

[annabelle--cane]

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

[pixxyofice]

make that trio polyamorous

[qvarr]

I wanted to do a comfort piece and thought to make it TOTK fanart since it has been a while since I last drew one.

[qvarr]

Last but not least, here is Farosh! I really wanted to draw her in stormy weather so I could draw her with lightning and play around with the colors! I am so happy with how she turned out and the the whole set as well. Hope you folks like it!

[qvarr]

Thank you everyone for all the love for my Dinraal piece! Really motivated me to work on the next dragon, so here is Naydra. Hope you folks like it!

I already have ideas for Farosh, just hoping I can execute the piece well.

[qvarr]

This piece has been rotting in my art folder for months now and I finally figured out how I Wanted to color/render Dinraal.

I want to make a piece for each of the dragons, so consider this part 1 of the set.

[seth-whumps]

give it up for voice breaks everyone. round of applause for shaky whimpers, pained cries, distressed whining, keening in the back of the throat, that moment when a character tries so hard to keep talking but their voice cracks into a fluttery, weak little plea for help

[hailed-marys]

grace in therapy part 2. part 1 here

[maggotsandcream]

Something I do find lovely about the first 4 Murderbot Diaries books (can’t yet speak on all of them) is:

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

Given its general lack of self awareness and unreliable narrator status, there’s no way in hell Murderbot is aware it’s doing this.

[silas-lehnsherr]

Murderbot: I just want to be left alone to watch my shows. I care nothing for these humans. I hate having clients.

Also Murderbot: *noticing unaccompanied humans that have nothing to do with it at all* Oh look, clients.

[refurbishedconstruct]

a rogue SecUnit will see a group of scientists and be like “is anyone going to protect them?” and not wait for an answer

[starlingabyss]

Time for Grace to sleep 😴💙💤

[ladywarlock03]

Just them being silly 💫

Here's to me trying to mix movie Rocky with book Rocky! He's a cutie hahahah

(Don't mind the missing paw prints in the sixth slide, the first person to mention it gets a brick to the face. I've proven I'm good at throwing bricks! 🫵🏻)

[sharkfiinn]

You're popular!

grace is THIS 🤏 close to unleashing a sequel to his unesco crashout. he's been trying to work on his anger lately. especially because he doesn't want to scare prism

i wanna see more angry grace can we all draw more angry grace ❤️

thank youuu to @spaghetti-steven93 (i cant seem to tag you?) @mentallyunstableducky @goodieprocter for sacrificing your eridians :]

[digitalmyyth]

use your bestie as a table #mytable

[thrillingsentience]

your scientist looks gnc as fuck