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Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.
farcille isn't "toxic yuri." nothing remotely toxic about them, they both treat each other with a great deal of care and affection and respect. just because marcille is willing to do forbidden necromancy and arguably cannibalism for her wife doesn't make her toxic that's just what you do for a woman with broad shoulders
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
Source (non Aboriginal)
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.
God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.
I think he would be very cute and very supportive of anything his students wanted to do in their future
That's how the nicknames came about
He accidentally called one student a "starling" when they got excited over the prospect of being an astronaut. "Good idea, starling!" or maybe "Have a good weekend in the mountains, starling!"
He was embarrassed at first. What kind of teacher was he, assigning special nicknames to his students? But then another asked for the nickname. But they weren't an aspiring astronaut, they wanted to be a botanist. So, "plantling" came about.
By the end of the school year, he had many, many nicknames for the many professions his students wants to go into. Starling, plantling, paintling, lightling were a few of them. His favourite was fishling for the kid who wanted to be a marine biologist. He loved giving them out, and the students liked receiving them just as much
Angst potential:
Grace clinging desperately to the nicknames during the first few months on the Hail Mary alone. He would call anything the nickname to make it seem more human, make him seem less alone. Plantling for the plants, glassling for the test tubes, prettyling for his mop companion
Fluff potential:
Grace letting the nickname slip around Rocky. He calls him "metalling" because of his engineering job. Rocky is confused at first to why Grace would call him metal! But after the explanation, he chirps happily. Friend Grace like him enough for a nickname! He thinks for a moment before chirping out "Friend Grace is braveling! Brave brave brave human!"
Cue Grace's ugly crying
And for my BloodyMary truthers:
He doesn't exactly know what nickname to assign Simon. He debated "wireling" for a while, but that didn't exactly fit. His job wasn't electrical work. So, he surprises himself when his mouth provides the answer for him.
Headcanon that those are also the in-universe opinions about his sexuality.
- They already thought of him as Eva Stratt's boytoy.
- I'm sure some people would joke around that Ryland Grace didn't come back when he could because he fell in love with a space rock.
- Queerplatonic or not eridians always assume in fics that they must be dating when they're in friendly terms.
- from the 2 fics I've read I'm sure people on staff shipped Ryder and Colt, so when the less pissy twin brother comes along just lightly more cordial rumors awake.
In other words: Grace is cursed to be seen like he could get passed around like a blunt.
And it's so much funnier to me if he is decidedly not.
The funniest version of bloodymary, to me, is where Adrian finds Simon entirely separately and has to go through their own ordeal of bonding with a sad traumatized squishy wet human while wondering how their partner's going to react. And then when Rocky gets back theyre both nervously llike. Hey babe. So there's something I have to show u,,,,, also you're gonna have to get cool about a lot of things real fast. Meanwhile simon and Grace are sniffing at each other like two cats being introduced through a bathroom door
just to reiterate, this is NOT canon to the comic. or to either movie probably lol.
just love the idea that the reason simon didn't listen to the written stuff was because it sucked to read (and not, like, either defiance or a purposeful disregard for the sake of survival)
i feel like you can tell through how little i fuck with grace's glasses in the usual comic that i wear glasses IRL. if my glasses aren't perfectly aligned on my face i am SHOVING them back in place. ryan gosling obviously does not wear glasses regularly
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