[stargirl-and-potts]

The thing about sharing a spaceship with a guy in a hamster ball is you end up doing the grunt work. So here we are, en route to an alien planet, and I am once again hanging off the side of the dang ship. At least this time I’m securely fastened and not watching any approaching doom. Two hours ago we plowed through a molecular dust cloud and alarms went off, not of the “death imminent” variety. More of a “a bunch of exterior stuff just got scratched up like an angry cat went after it.” I am getting better at the piloting thing, which is not to say I am good. But I did get us safely slowed down and prepped for repairs. Hence my current hanging-off-the-ship situation: I am repairing the dings with an Eridian blowtorch, xenonite patches, and more blood, sweat and tears than I’d hoped to part with today.

“Wish I could help Grace,” says Rocky’s voice in my headset.

It’s slow going. I have never been accused of being nimble even without the lumbering Orlan. “Wish you could too, Rock. You’d be five times faster than my primitive human hands can manage. I’m giving this my whole ass and it looks half-assed at best.”

“Half. Assed. Grace referring to his posterior orifice, question?”

I giggle. It’s become a kind of competition, seeing how thoroughly we can confuse each other with our native idioms. “Hey, it’s like I always told my students, half a bum is better than none. What I wouldn’t give for an Eridian-sized Orlan,” I say wistfully. “You think you could fit into Ilyukhina’s?”

(I couldn’t stop thinking about the xenosuit, skin hunger, and the four year road trip to Erid. 3k, gen. Read the rest here on AO3.)

[artsy-cheesycake]

“So… I met an alien.”

[foralittlewile]

According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.

[chernozemm]

Here’s 5 hours in 30s (go, my rocky, go!)

[constantlysleepdeprived]

I don't know why I did this.

credits to @justcakethanks for the template and original idea

[wolfythewitch]

Trying to get used to painting again hehe,,, rusty,,

[kala-mies]

Scapegoat

[sweet-toooth]

i've turned my little rocky waving animation into a gif :)

[spaceguylewis]

PROJECT HAIL MARY ↳ Color Palettes VIII

[maggotmuncher0]

TUNA

[doyumacy]

MARVEL 

link // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUrAvKNF8s (collab w/ djcprod)

[magneticmummy]

Okay I’ll admit this the was really awesome and a really well matched to the song and edited

[strawberrypatty]

That’s fucking tight.

[ohifonlyx33]

ting ting TING TING TING! TING! *panting out of breath gasps in time to the beat* I LIVE FOR THIS STUFF

[wandrlust-stark]

fun fact a few months ago I showed this video to my 4 y/o brother and to this day he asks me to play the song (glitter and gold) because he is convinced it is “The Avengers Song™”

[mynameisagent12]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

A lot of fanvids either have the sound effects and speech lines overpower the actual music. This is one of the rare few when it’s actually properly edited to match the beat, and doesn’t rely on “oh, it’s that line you like! And that other line!”

[mikkeneko]

I’ve watched a lot of music videos, and I love  music videos as a genre, but I don’t think I have ever  seen a music video that’s so aware of its audio.

Like, most MV makers I’ve seen concentrate very narrowly on the video –  making sure that the movements and beats sync up, the masking, the motion, all of that. Which is very good! But this particular work pays an equal amount of detail to its audio – both the audio of the song, matching lyrics and meaning to visuals, but also the audio of the clips being incorporated. That’s actually rarely done, and even more rarely done to this extent – usually the video is sort of a silent dance to accompany the music.

Footsteps, impacts, hammer blows, breaths, words, grunts, screams – it takes it all and makes it part of the music.

[deehellcat]

another of those things that gets reblogged damn near every time it comes across my dash. <3

[gronknuts]

rocky hunting grace while hes working like heh. going to pull big prank on grace. stupid human hearing so bad very bad and only 'see' with light-sense organ in one direction at a time. eridian best hunter on all erid, evolved best hunting veeeery quiet. scare grace a lot. very funny.

rocky is HORRIFIED mid stalk when grace suddenly stiffens and turns around to stare directly at him. HOW GRACE DO THAT HOW GRACE KNOW HOW GRACE KNOW

[wolfythewitch]

Made this for me but I think you guys might like it

[wolfythewitch]

Eridian Grace to match my human Rocky hehe

[funkyyylizard]

eepy baby

[murd3rouscrow]

I just

[ergodic-and-erotic]

You know Grace's little "shake head then nod head" thing he does to Rocky?

I'm watching The Fall Guy for the first time and Jody does the same thing to Colt when he asks "you wanna do some donuts?"