∀ things PHM-related

they/she/he PhM in Strattistics

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[palesweetdeeer]

I drew it

[amphibian-enthusiast]

WHO WANTS TO HEAR ME TALK ABOUT RYLAND GRACE??????

(yet another aroace character that i am somehow unhealthily attracted to)

[blog-of-my-interests]

[minart-was-taken]

On earth most animals aim to be symmetrical and so have an even amount of limbs. Reading that Rocky had five left me puzzled, obviously he's an alien, but was there precedent in nature for such a phenomenon? What was the point of five rather than 4 or 6? ...Then, I looked at my own hands and felt silly. Still, that connection made me happy.

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (2/?)

Part 1

[yellowceiling]

yaos cake: a phm comic

this was definitely set in a universe where they had the Time to have shenanigans

[nedlittle]

heart-shaped best friend necklaces that say "you said i killed you" and "haunt me then"

[artsy-moonwalker]

zero gravity

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

[anattmar]

Fly, Mary

[itsoverfeeling]

I love my femslash mutuals. they can watch the most guy centric shows ever and you would never even know it based on the posts they reblog of them

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[mumblesplash]

not nearly enough people talking about the way grace betrayed stratt too if you ask me. and tbf i get it, bc the implication is less overt (at least in the movie? still haven't read the book) but it's sooo much more interesting to me than the way she betrayed him.

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

stratt wasn't asking for his consent, she knew it never mattered anyway. she was asking him to take some of the weight of his own death off her conscience, and he said no. no, i won't make the hard call for you just this once, not even with the whole world on the line. no, i won't acknowledge that you never had a choice either. no, i will not absolve you of the one sin it's in my power to forgive. that's gotta sting, even if she wasn't really expecting him to say yes, or even to recognize those 3 hours for what they were. she probably wasn't. she knows a long shot when she takes one.

[darkestbrook]

[autisticlittleguy]

So Rocky has a bunch of permanent carvings along his carapace like family crest, rulers and protractors, marriage symbol, etc. I assume thats normal for Eridians, but the possibility that it's socially equivalent to getting full body tattoos for humans is funny. Imagine seeing this super inked out dude, but you look closer and its just a bunch of tattoos like.

"I LOVE MY HUSBAND," "FAMILY MAN," "ENGINEERING4LYFE."

[rovermcfly]

been mulling over why the eridians get the hail mary prepared for a trip back to earth even though it really seems like grace doesn't want to do that anyway and I think it's because rocky suffers a little bit from the same thing grace suffers from- the inability to conceive that someone could love him that much. I think rocky still believes deep down that grace wants to go back to earth, that grace will always love earth above anything else, that grace is only saying he's happy on erid but clearly his health is suffering and rocky knows how badly he wanted to go back home. I don't think rocky can really believe that he himself is grace's home and that grace really did choose him above earth and would always do it again. he had the eridians fix the hail mary up because he assumes it's what grace really wants and that grace would one day pack up and leave. but of course he won't. he found his home now.

[gremlin-pattie]

@vonlipvig @ecobanshee what if i cried

[therandomfandomme]

to be fair to Rocky, his experience of watching Grace eat was entirely auditory and a lot of humans would agree that food noises are disgusting

[autisticlittleguy]

Its worse than that. Rocky sees a 3D map of his entire environment all at once in every direction through walls---including inside your mouth. He can literally see the food you ingest get chewed and turned into wet mush then get digested into shit.