Jelly_Min

Hi y'all, I'm just a random person who likes random shit and writes fanfiction

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Hey, you there, hi. I'm gonna post about whatever I want here, and whenever I want. Yeah, that's right, if I feel like it I'm going to post just three minutes after I posted the last thing. Ohhh, you don't like that? Well then, I guess you'll just have to deal with it. Hehe...hehehehehe...hhehehehehehahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA. Anyways, enjoy whatever I happen to post about! :3

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It’s okay to not want to have sex ever. It’s okay to never even try it.

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I was 23 before it even occurred to me that not starting with sex ever was an option. The feeling of relief was so great I actually cried. 

You don’t have to if you don’t want to. You can have a fine live without ever having sex, I promise you. 

[impostoradult]

Also, it’s okay to never date anyone ever. It’s okay to never even try it if you don’t want to. 

I wrote a master’s thesis on intentionally single people, and the number of them that said in various ways, “I didn’t know not dating people was even an option at first” was absolutely tragic. They honestly thought they had no choice and it never occurred to them that opting out was even a possibility available to them.  

People honestly believe these are life experience you are required to have AND THEY ARE NOT.

You can just not have sex. You can just not date people. You can completely by-pass one or both of those things. Neither of those things are required to be healthy, happy, normal, mature, fulfilled, or any of the other bullshit notions that get attached to these things. 

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Hmm, I think the word they're looking for is 'aroace'.

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Anyone else fully believe that while Earth is slowly devolving into chaos and ecosystems are dying, Stratt has a mini personal greenhouse with coffee plants growing in it? Cuz I absolutely think she does have one, and it's powered by astrophage somehow. Because if there's anything Stratt needs, it's her coffee. Two cups, to be exact.

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Okay, so, I saw a post by @seerya, and I'm obviously giving my own little take on it. Awful coping habits for aliens? Yes, yes I will spew them out. Also, probably go look at the original post first for context behind these.

Did you do it?

Good. Now, ON TO THE ACTUAL POST!! (there's a lot, be warned)

I fully believe that even when all of Rocky's crewmates were dead, he got all of their bodies and put them in a circle around him. And then he watched them until he couldn't stay awake, and before he would fall asleep, he would pretend that they were still alive and watching him sleep like he was watching them. He did just this for as long as he could before making himself be useful and get the ship to Tau Ceti. Idk how long he ended up just watching his crewmate's corpses, but it was absolutely at least a month.

He would absolutely keep working for as long as he possibly could until stumbling into his circle of crewmate bodies and having them 'watch' him. Because yes, he absolutely kept their bodies with the plan to bring them to Erid. But he couldn't get to Erid in his original ship, so all of their bodies are still in the ship. Rocky wanted to give them the fully proper Eridian death rites, but he couldn't make it back with any of them. And now they're all just floating in space.

While he was working on the ship, sometimes he would call out to other Eridians for advice or help. Then he would be sad again because he knew he would never get an answer.

Even though all of his crewmates were dead, he would still go as far away from all of them to eat so that they wouldn't hear him.

He would sometimes talk to the other Eridians just to have a reason to talk, and in his mind he would just hope that somehow they heard him.

Before he ended up pulling all of the bodies into the engine room (where he slept), Rocky blast dumb Eridian music he knew most of the people on the ship either liked or didn't like in hopes that it would somehow wake one of them up.

The rest of these are technically not for the time Rocky was alone, but I felt like adding them for funsies :)

Before Rocky left his ship in space forever with his dead crew inside, he grabbed some human culture and rearranged their bodies into a heart.

When Rocky was going back to Erid before things went wrong, he put Eridian celebration clothes/accessories on his crew's bodies so that they could celebrate Erid being saved too. He never took them off again.

When Rocky got back onto the Hail Mary again, leaving his crew behind forever, he did the equivalent of Eridian crying because he knew he would never see his crew again.

Years later after Grace's death, Rocky took Adrian (basically just his whole family) and a whole new crew out in a radiation proof ship to go get the crew after years. When they found the ship (somehow, don't ask me), Rocky came in to find the original crew all still arranged in a heart wearing celebration clothes/accessories and just started 'crying' again. Adrian was there to comfort him.

When they got the original ship, they towed it along behind them (using connectors Taumoeba can't get through) and gave everyone inside a proper funeral on Erid. There was much Eridian crying (Rocky I'm looking at you).

So anyways, there's my take on that time plus more! It's kinda long, but I DON'T CARE :D

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Man I forgot to add the stupid part to it. *sigh* That was the whole point of it, I'm remembering. :[ And I forgot it. *sighhhhh* I can add it, I guess.

SO, anyways, where were we? Ah, yes, I'm doing the 'not angsty but stupid' headcanons now. I don't usually make dumb headcanons, so bare with me here. YAY!

Sometimes when Rocky was bored on his ship, he would pretend to play Eridian board games with the crew. And then he would swear profusely when they still managed to beat him in almost everything.

He danced with one of those rolling bucket things janitors use, but sealed on top and full of astrophage fuel.

While he was inside his circle of Eridians and trying to watch them 'sleep' for basically a month-ish, he was loafing like a cat the whole time. But with five legs.

Whenever Rocky listened to dumb Eridian music, he would always dance to it as well, but he didn't know any dances so it ended up looking something like the crabs in the Crab Rave music video.

When later asked what he did in his spare time while he was aboard the Blip-A, he stared at Grace for a minute straight before saying something like "Important stuff. Grace do not need know." and it was never brought up again. Grace certainly comes up with his own ideas of what happened there though.

TADAAA!!! I added the WHIMSY! And SILLYNESS!! Idk though, it might suck. Whatever, it was fun :]

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Guys I genuinely just woke up from a dream in which I got to meet everyone from the Integrity capsule, and they gave me a tour of the capsule or something (idk it's a dream man I forget these things), and I kid you not. I only usually dream of either the people around me or stuff I just hyperfixated on so hard it's part of my brain now. So, in that case, I think I might just love these guys. They're just part of my brain now I guess. I already think of them almost every waking moment, so I guess they just follow me in my sleep. I don't care, I love these guys. They're just so whimsical <3

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I'm on my way

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Guys I'm infected with Project Hail Mary genuinely, because I immediately thought of Rocky as the cat. But like it's a different situation. This might be a problem. Idk though.

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thinking about how radiation poisoning would affect eridians. they canonically have very little biological material so my best guess is that it would kill off their worker cells one by one, so they would start digesting their food less and less. thinking about feeling unbelievably hungry and never feeling full no matter what you eat. the horror of opening up your carapace for your next meal and having last week's food fall out untouched.

and since the worker cells are responsible for distributing the nutrients and minerals for an eridian's upkeep, the long term effect of this is just a slow degradation of body and mind.

thinking about rocky watching his friends eat and never feel full again. watching them slowly get clumsier and seeing how their brains slow. about how his responsibilities for watching the others sleep grow and grow because they start sleeping more until finally they stop waking up

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Found this. Got me thinking back on my post about Rocky making up eating being bad (this thing). This post fits with it, because if all of his crew was eating but never feeling full, and that eventually killed them, then I would say it makes sense to not like watching people eat anymore. Now whenever Grace eats, it reminds Rocky of his crew eating and slowly getting less and less of it actually digested, and then Rocky is uncomfortable on the outside to not overreact. And yet, on the inside, Rocky's mind is telling him that even though his squishy alien is eating, just like his crew, the squishy alien won't get the good from eating. The squishy human will not live, even though it's eating. And Rocky has to think of that whenever Grace eats, or any of the Eridians back on Erid at the end eat, so Rocky shuts out the thought of eating. It turns bad for him. I know it's not technically the same concept as my previous post, but I don't care. This makes sense too. Deal with it.

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Okay, so, I saw a post by @seerya, and I'm obviously giving my own little take on it. Awful coping habits for aliens? Yes, yes I will spew them out. Also, probably go look at the original post first for context behind these.

Did you do it?

Good. Now, ON TO THE ACTUAL POST!! (there's a lot, be warned)

I fully believe that even when all of Rocky's crewmates were dead, he got all of their bodies and put them in a circle around him. And then he watched them until he couldn't stay awake, and before he would fall asleep, he would pretend that they were still alive and watching him sleep like he was watching them. He did just this for as long as he could before making himself be useful and get the ship to Tau Ceti. Idk how long he ended up just watching his crewmate's corpses, but it was absolutely at least a month.

He would absolutely keep working for as long as he possibly could until stumbling into his circle of crewmate bodies and having them 'watch' him. Because yes, he absolutely kept their bodies with the plan to bring them to Erid. But he couldn't get to Erid in his original ship, so all of their bodies are still in the ship. Rocky wanted to give them the fully proper Eridian death rites, but he couldn't make it back with any of them. And now they're all just floating in space.

While he was working on the ship, sometimes he would call out to other Eridians for advice or help. Then he would be sad again because he knew he would never get an answer.

Even though all of his crewmates were dead, he would still go as far away from all of them to eat so that they wouldn't hear him.

He would sometimes talk to the other Eridians just to have a reason to talk, and in his mind he would just hope that somehow they heard him.

Before he ended up pulling all of the bodies into the engine room (where he slept), Rocky blast dumb Eridian music he knew most of the people on the ship either liked or didn't like in hopes that it would somehow wake one of them up.

The rest of these are technically not for the time Rocky was alone, but I felt like adding them for funsies :)

Before Rocky left his ship in space forever with his dead crew inside, he grabbed some human culture and rearranged their bodies into a heart.

When Rocky was going back to Erid before things went wrong, he put Eridian celebration clothes/accessories on his crew's bodies so that they could celebrate Erid being saved too. He never took them off again.

When Rocky got back onto the Hail Mary again, leaving his crew behind forever, he did the equivalent of Eridian crying because he knew he would never see his crew again.

Years later after Grace's death, Rocky took Adrian (basically just his whole family) and a whole new crew out in a radiation proof ship to go get the crew after years. When they found the ship (somehow, don't ask me), Rocky came in to find the original crew all still arranged in a heart wearing celebration clothes/accessories and just started 'crying' again. Adrian was there to comfort him.

When they got the original ship, they towed it along behind them (using connectors Taumoeba can't get through) and gave everyone inside a proper funeral on Erid. There was much Eridian crying (Rocky I'm looking at you).

So anyways, there's my take on that time plus more! It's kinda long, but I DON'T CARE :D

[seerya]

I know we're all sort of picturing Rocky just hanging out fully depressed with 22 dead crewmates for 40+ years but I need you all to imagine, just for a second, Rocky holding 22 heart-wrenching space burials and then having the greatest post-burial crashout mirroring Ryland's vodka party. He was probably starfishing on the ground for 2 weeks straight, singing to himself before he got a grip again. I need more headcanons about Rocky doing stupid shit to cope with his grief. Movie!Ryland got to dance with a broom. Fandom, work your magic.

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Reblogging this before I go and spew things into another post. Boy is this going to be fun

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Guys I had a thought. We know that Rocky was left alone in space for years, right? Well, we also know he's just kind of special and funsies. Well, what if the whole eating in front of people is just a him thing? What if it's literally just him that looks at Eridian eating habits and goes "Eugh." And when they get back to Erid, Grace doesn't eat around anyone in fear of offending them, but then one day Adrian just comes up to him and says something like, "Grace eat, question? Adrian never seen Grace eat, think it is lie told by Rocky." Adrian then proceeds to excitedly ask Grace to eat because obviously Adrian is curious, and Grace just looks at Adrian confused like "What? I can eat around you?" And Adrian just sighs, because he (they?) just know from that alone that Rocky managed to convince this poor alien that eating around people is bad.

But also, if it is considered weird to eat in public around others, do you think that once Rocky and Grace get to Eridani and Rocky probably immediately asks for food to give to Grace, do you just maybe think that the scientists first reaction was "Eugh, this guy just wants food? Immediately?" And then Grace gets a meburger from some scientist after a while, and obviously immediately eats it if only to taste something that doesn't taste like painkillers, do you think the poor scientist was not informed of the human's habit of eating around people? I do. I think Grace traumatized that innocent little Eridian, who immediately ran away after "seeing" Grace eat and did the equivalent of Eridian screaming as he left. And I also think Grace was confused because of that, because Rocky doesn't run and scream. Then he remembers that they've been together for years now, Rocky is used to his eating habits. And now he feels bad. Poor Grace.

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Rocky and Adrian

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Gang we have the secret third thing rocks we love <3

[albinocrowe]

[credits to mermaid_mallory on tiktok]

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*actively crying* No, I'm not crying, shut up. *cries more*

[me-is-me]

My dad sent me this…

I’m not crying… no. Yeah. I am crying.

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*cries because WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN MAN*

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So what if I got charmed by a certain Ryland Grace? Why do you care?

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So. Ryland Grace and Rocky. Two alien best friends. One of which has a mate, Adrian. They go to Rocky's world, and Adrian is there. Now, how do we think Adrian reacted to their spouse coming home after MANY years, and alongside him is this little, wet cat alien. Except this alien knows how the universe was created. So, maybe not a wet cat. HOWEVER, this little big brain alien, though he is smart, he also cries at about 50 different things in a day. Like literally just food. So nevermind, he's definitely a wet cat. Anyways, your spouse has brought said alien home and OH SHIT THE ALIEN IS ALMOST DEAD. ROCKY DID YOU EVEN FEED THIS LITTLE ALIEN? HE'S SO YOUNG AND LITTLE ROCKY WHY DIDN'T YOU FEED HIM? Oh, you didn't have food and stuff? I see. HOLY MOTHER OF *insert Eridian god* THE ALIEN KNOWS MORE THAN LITERALLY EVERYONE HERE. ROCKY. WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS GUY?

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Okay, but am I tripping balls?

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I happi now :)