Small raccoon

[narutothoughts]

ANBU itachi / ROOT Naruto my beloved

[narutothoughts]

#itachi: too stressed to sleep #naruto: not allowed to sleep. not because of bijuu reasons like gaara but just because danzo realized that he doesn't technically need it #to live & he's more obedient when he's sleep deprived #they can stay up together and discuss how they'd prefer to kill themselves for the sake of the village #in their ideal world

Itachi realizing Kakashi pulled Tenzo from root and that that was an option this whole time: 🔴-🔴

[valersus]

When Nico comes to Percy and sees that ✨️Percy cooked something✨️, catches the smell of home-made food, he immediately gets "I haven't eaten for a month I'm starving please feed me" look on his face.

Percy thinks it is ridiculous ("you can just ask using your words, Neeks") as much as it is adorable, sighs and gives Nico all the food he has.

(They share a meal in peaceful silent companionship, then bring snacks to the couch to snicker at each other's disturbingly dark jokes while watching horror movies.)

[g0thnico]

Nico: WILLIAM

Percy: first name, it's okay

Nico: ANDREW

Will: Middle name, this isn't going to go well

Nico: SOLACE

Percy: You're screwed

Nico: YOU TOO PERSEUS JACKSON

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

Hera intentionally left Annabeth's name in Percy's head when she took his memories but she COULDN'T fully remove Luke and Nico from Percy's memory and I think that's beautiful.

[wineinthewind]

nico finding out he can talk to hellhounds in the same way percy can talk to sea creatures/horses.

he listens to mrs o'leary except its just mrs o'leary praising percy and how much she loves him and hes like. yeah fair enough. me too buddy.

[devils-little-sistaaa]

Percico happens because Percy hands down a bunch of his slightly too small clothes to Nico cause he’s the perfect size for them. Percy cannot describe the feelings he gets when Nico wears his clothes because he thinks Nico looks so much more attractive in his own clothes than he ever did. Sometimes he thinks it’s jealousy thinking he wishes he looked that good in those clothes. and sometimes he just thinks Nic is hotter than him in every way. And then he wonders why he’s thinking Nico is hot all of a sudden. And then winter rolls around and he sees Nico bundled up in his old hoodies and can’t think of any other word to describe him other than cute and adorable. And then Percy Realizes.

[g0thnico]

Percy: I love you

Nico: Me and how many others?

Percy: It depends on how many children we're going to have

[frostyblustar]

Nico, sitting down at a cafeteria table with his friends: Random question, would you guys fuck a merman?

Secret Merman Percy: …

Nico, staring directly at him: I would.

[incorrectpercicoquotes]

Percy: Nico, you do remember when we agreed we were better off as friends, right? Nico, naked in Percy's bed: No, I absolutely do not. Percy, already taking off their clothes: Fuck... Me neither.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[lavendertarot]

> go to an online space

> ask the people there whether their resources are international or just for americans

> they laugh and say "they're good resources sir"

> they're for americans

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[lovelylogans]

is there such a thing as a beta but instead of reading for line edits or plot notes, they just read my work and recommend what tags to put on ao3 outside of like. warnings.

[centrumlumina]

Lulu's Totally Unofficial Guide to the Top 10 Freeform Tags to Add to Your Fanfic

Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.

AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?

Parts of canon - If it's not an AU, what part of canon is it about? Is it set before, during or after a particular episode?

Themes - Are there any topics or ideas which you are trying to explore, or which come up repeatedly?

Minor Warnings - Is there anything you think you should warn for that isn't included in the archive warnings?

Format & Length - Is your work art, video, podfic, etc? Does it use a particular format like a Drabble or 5+1?

Characters - What is going on with each of your major characters? If you had to describe them with one or two adjectives, what would you pick? (Format as [Adjective] [Character Name].)

Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?

Tropes - Are there any tropes or common story elements in your story that haven't been tagged yet? If your work was on TV tropes, what are the first things you would add?

Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?

Remember: you can always look at the drop-down menu for suggestions. But! If you want to tag something that doesn't appear on the drop-down menu, you can & should write in a new tag!

[mikkeneko]

This is a good guide!

[businesstiramisu]

This is one of the things r/ao3 is actually pretty helpful for, in fact I think centrumlumina's guide is almost word-for-word match for advice that i see posted regularly on there. Its also great for "here's a thing that happens in my story/i want to warn readers about, is there a tag for that?" (Or even "this tag i already know about doesn't suit my purposes for xyz reasons. What can i do instead?")

[nevertheless-moving]

so when i was a kid a read this story where a boy gets turned into a mouse by evil witches. at the end (spoilers) him and his beloved grandmother manage to slaughter all the witches but they do NOT manage to turn him back to a human child. he stays a mouse. the grandmother rebuilds her home to be mouse accessible. and they discuss the fact that he's aging like a mouse, so he probably only has a few years to live; but it's ok, because the grandmother confesses that she ALSO only has a few years to live and they both agree that they wouldn't want to live without the other. So everything is alright then, and they're happy, and that's the end of the story. it's probably been over two decades since i read it and quite frankly i am still processing the intertwining concepts of love and mortality but anyway that's not my point. my point is that Rocky did not die of acute radiation sickness because he spent enough time shielded by astrophage that his body was able to handle the damage, but holy shit does he have every type of cancer. he didn't die entering grace's atmosphere but all of his organs caught fire. I repeat — his internal organs caught fire. he spent several decades in a low gravity environment. Do you know what human bodies do in low gravity? it's not good man. 20% muscle loss in two weeks. 1% bone density loss every month. Maybe carapaces and low organic matter would handle the change better, but idk, it might actually be worse.

anyway my point is, actually, i do think that Rocky and Grace would get to grow old together.

[nevertheless-moving]

i know i'm op but op the idea of Grace arriving at Erid on the verge of death, recovering, and then living a long and full (maybe not especially healthy) life, vs Rocky arriving home a trimphant hero, a miraculous survivor of a thousand calamaties only to at long last have to pay the toll, dying tragically young, I'm.

Rocky and Grace jokingly comparing the pros and cons of bipedal vs pentapedal joint pain. Rocky wearing the xenonite exo-suit because it actually helps keep his carapace from collapsing to the ground. Grace affectionately bumping his cane against it in morse code because of course their stupid ernglish pidgin isn't enough; now that everyone know english they also need a secret language that's just for them.

Grace in his motorized bubble scooter touring the city. Naturally, Rocky's going to keep him company by riding in the stupid sidecar, how would he explain everything if he was walking beside him? And of course Rocky's telling people to repeat things and his voice is weirdly pitchy, Grace is there and human hearing is awful. It would be rude to talk normally.

Rocky pulling out the old hamster ball and curling up inside. And he knows, he knows its bad posture, but right now it hurts less. Grace curled up around him, the exterior of the ball a carefully calibrated 39 C. They are both hiding from well meaning physical therapists. Whispering doesn't actually do anything in that regard, but Rocky finds whispering hilarious for some reason (Eridian equiv of helium infused squeaky voice).

Gravity as Erid's love for them, a painful embrace they wouldn't trade for anything.

They get to grow old together. It's not enough time, but its so much more than they thought they would have; it's surprisingly easy to be okay with it. It's a tragedy from every angle except perhaps the inside.

[ajhasmademistakes]

#whatever you do don't think about adrien ok#adrien got him back. They got to see him again. There's 23 other mates who can't say the same#i think there's a world with pebbles and an affectionate blobby uncle#but in this one the infertility is the first warning that he's maybe not okay#(of course rocky avoided mentioning the chronic pain - he'd been living with most of it for decades at this point)#(and for the first year or 2 he's dead serious about getting Every doctor to work on Grace. Like at first you think hes being hyperbolic#But theres a solid period where rocky is genuinely indignant at the concept of any doctor anywhere working on someone who isn't grace#Yes he knows other people need doctors too.#but also did you consider that they can fucking wait question???)#Anyway#In the end#In the end rocky falls asleep with grace watching. a few hours go by. and then a few more.#and then grace figures rocky won't mind if he rests his eyes for just a minute.#and neither of them have to mourn.

[happyk44]

Thinking about an AU where the Satan stuff doesn't happen when it does and Yukio comes home briefly during a break or a weekend and everyone's excitedly asking him about school and friends and how it's all going and Rin's just smiling along, so so happy and so so jealous and angry and upset and lonely and scared, because for so long it was just him and Yukio and now it's just him and Yukio seems to be fine without him, happy without him, healthy without him, and Rin doesn't know what to do about it.

He hates these feelings. He knows they're not fair and he knows Yukio deserves all the things he's achieved but he's still so angry and so upset and so scared because if Yukio doesn't need him, then why is Rin even still here?

[happyk44]

#au where rin spirals down down down and it's teetering on the edge of too tall building that his demonic nature makes itself known #but oh no it just proves the thing he fears (he's no good for his brother)

#i do so much love the idea of rin initially being resistant and despondent about yukio going to a school far away from him #and shiro having to firmly tell him that he cannot ask yukio to give up his dreams just to stick by his side #which rin ofc would never do but he'd be miserable and distressed very clearly #and yukio would start to wonder if maybe he should just stay local #after all he doesn't need to go to the fancy private school. lots of doctors didn't go to fancy private schools. it'll be fine. probably .#and shiro's just so very quick to nip that before it becomes anything real

[toasthaste]

there's also something about grace finally remembering he didn't come willingly, thinking to himself "Oh. I'm a coward. I didn't know I was a coward." that makes me think of like.... the inertia of identity? you have certain default behaviors so you think of those as What You're Like so then you're more prone to doing those behaviors, it's self reinforcing. He didn't know he was a coward, he didn't have that self-context, for a long time his fragmented memory told him he was the kind of person who'd made a really brave choice, so he acted brave instead.

[eva-strapp]

I really like the way Project Hail Mary presents controversial research. The main concept explored in Grace’s paper, that life does not need hydrogen/ water to evolve, is not proven to be correct based on what we see in the book. However, aspects of his paper are eventually proven to be true. Life can evolve outside of the Goldilocks zone, and water’s role in the development of life can be more complex than originally thought (how Rocky’s biology works and evolution of life on Erid).

It’s an interesting way of exploring the presentation scientific research, you may not be correct 100 percent of the time, but the research that you conduct can pave the way to expansive thinking. While the main hypothesis might be incorrect, if methods and procedures are utilized properly, the ideas and research that results from the experiment are not wasted! They can be repurposed for future research or be used as evidence to support the prevailing line of thought. This aspect of half truths felt like a tribute to the practice of academic writing, and added a lovely layer of realism.

It goes to show that Grace’s hypothesis really could have evolved to have some weight behind them if he had given it time. Stratt and the rest of his field at the beginning of his process were definitely barking up the right tree.