Skyland Grace

Sky | 33 | They/Them | Storyboard Artist & Character Designer | Cosplayer

[cakeandchaos]

Grace, can you lock the fuck in???

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[skywardkey]

Two little guys schmoovin and groovin

[skywardkey]

[ID in alt]

I Love This Leaky Space Blob and his Emotional Support Rock Alien

Dr. Captain Ryland Grace aka Emperor Comatose aka Great Philosopher Pendulus has the hallmarks of the saddest, wettest, cat of a man and i love that for him

The Bullet Points, combining book and movie:

Accidentally too good at his job and became too important

Cries regularly

Did frenzied math on his arm bc there was no paper while wearing a blanket toga

Most important relationship with a woman wasn’t romantic--She was the trolley operator who forcibly tied him to the tracks on a Hail Mary Suicide Misison with all of humanity on the other side of the tracks

Accidentally coded as on the aro, ace, or both spectrums (can be interpreted in any of these ways easily)

Middle school teacher who genuinely loves teaching his kids

Called someone in higher academia a staggering waste of carbon

Bred an alien micro-organism and his first call to his boss was to say he and his security detail (Carl) made a baby

To make said baby he asked Carl to take him to Lowes & they bought out all their aluminum foil, duct tape, plywood and sour skittles--Yes the sour skittles were vital

Almost every t-shirt he wears is a nerdy science pun shirt

Has a cute fox cardigan he wears often

Woke up alone and amnesiac from the forcibly induced coma with amnesia drugs from the trolley operator to find his two crewmates dead from their comas

Saw another ship and immediately Noped away from the shock

On seeing intelligent life he accidentally screamed at him then teared up from loneliness

On second contact he danced with alien before they could even understand one another

He has never worn his glasses correctly in the history of history

Has an alien best friend who speaks in music whom he nicknamed Rocky in English bc he cannot physically pronounce Rocky’s name

Is likely super codependent with Rocky

Quickly became fluent in Rocky’s language

Thought he was going to die and Rocky gave him enough fuel to go home and saved his life

Rocky saved his life again after collecting another alien micro-organism on another planet & the ship got damaged & almost died himself

Has burns on his arm, chest and face from 210 degree Celsius Ammonia (book)

Has a burn scar of Rocky’s hand on his right arm!!! (movie)

Successfully bred an alien micro-organism to be able to be resistant to up to 8.25% nitrogen in an atmosphere when any amount killed it dead

Sent probes back to earth and decided to save Rocky and Rocky’s planet at the cost of him going home and his life just to take Rocky back to his home planet when he realized Rocky would be stranded after an emergency

Lives on another planet in a terrarium/biodome made for him to survive and is still a teacher for the love of the game

Engages in autocannibalism via cloned muscle meat (no other available options)

Named a medical robot with arms ARMando

Named ship computer alert voice Mary bc Hail Mary

On road trip to Erid he faced starvation & Rocky said what about that other micro-organism & he survived off of something called Taumoeba but developed every malnutrition ailment ever at the same time-- scurvy, beriberi, you name it this pathetic man had it

Intelligent, pathetic, sad, leaky space blob wet cat of a man

did i mention the autocannibalism

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[autism-pro-max]

[c4ndyc41n]

thinking about a previously foul-mouthed grace having to completely overwrite his vocab once he started teaching

[skywardkey]

what if tenna senshi and grace all kissed question

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[chernozemm]

Love the soft, curious moments of them sharing about their own cultures, biology, etc. I do think Rocky would have a field day when Grace explains skin as a very sensitive and permeable organ with lots of stuff packed tight on the surface. Since goosebumps are very tactile, I thought Rocky would enjoy hearing those.

Also, bonus.

Because it is endlessly entertaining to me to consider how deep in the trenches Rocky is.

[chernozemm]

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I need humankind to unknowingly spawn xenophilia kinks across the universe. The energy I'm bringing to the table is the energy of the first human to enthusiastically shake hands with a Vulcan in front of the whole Vulcan delegation.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[saltwater-goldfishy]

ok I know everyone’s considered Ryland grace wearing an “I put the ace in space” t shirt but. have we considered the infinitely funnier option of putting this shirt on eva stratt

[raviolireptile]

I had to draw this

[edgebug]

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

[chekhovs-raygun]

grace is such an interesting bundle of contradictions! he breathes an incredibly flammable gas because he lives at such a cold temperature the gas can't ignite except he burns it very slowly inside the delicate gauzy cage of his body. his meat is basically a delicate water-and-protein foam because he lives in a very tiny fraction of normal atmospheric pressure. his planet has almost no air, no atmosphere. they're so gauzy, so frail, living underneath a whisker-fine sky, that to get to space in a couple seconds by exploding towards it. they can't build a space elevator because all their materials are just various attempts to do anything whatsoever with shitty frozen metals and various hydrocarbon meshes. their spaceship is a tiny refrigerator, the most expensive thing they ever built, and controled by a impossibly complex calculation engine they knitted out of silicates. it contains all human knowledge, if it doesn't catch on fire.

they knew that space was there because they can perceive it directly. it's literally right overhead all the time for their entire evolution. they know the faces of thousands, millions of stars, as soon as they tip their faces up. eridani is a name from two thousand years ago. all their stars have been named and known and watched and sung about for longer than any individual human civilization. they have always known the eridian star was there.

they live to be seventy.

[shastafirecracker]

eridian children in Grace’s class interested but slightly disappointed to learn that much earth life is bilaterally symmetrical with even numbers of limbs

Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

new eridian schoolchild trend of starfishing aka flopping flat down with all legs out and moving by wiggling and squirming around, giggling. parents hooting at Grace in despair. why did you teach them this

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[unreliable-bean]

duo i made up

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind