[kwinter123]

sun

[aphractal2]

my cat passed away this year.

i looked down today and realized the scar he gave me (from slipping off my lap) hasn’t faded yet and i hope it never does.

[artist-owl]

So I ofc adore all of the art and fics about Grocky exploring each other’s bodies in the name of science while road tripping to Erid. That said, one thing that’s always in the back of my mind is that Rocky is an engineer, not a scientist. I feel like while he is extremely curious, he’s more likely to want to know just enough to know how something works, and then once he's reached that point he wants to move onto something new. Adrian, however, I do hc as a scientist, specifically a biologist (specifically specifically an ecologist but still).

What I'm saying is that I think Rocky learned exactly enough about Grace’s digestive system to understand how to keep Grace healthy and not a whit more (ew eating gross gross gross) and then one day he walks into Grace’s house in the biodome and Adrian has their claws fully in Grace’s mouth

[givenmyheart-achangeofmood]

one must imagine rocky happy sauntering around erid with his problematically older silver fox mate and problematically younger trophy human

[bugblast]

ok this is just my swap au now i guess.

[s0lanums]

i think the first time grace loses a tooth from scurvy, once they get past the initial panic (“no, i won’t die from losing one tooth” and “yeah, it hurts, but it’s not that bad” and “i can still eat just fine, i promise”), rocky tentatively asks if he can hear it more closely.

“yeah, sure.” grace holds up the tooth to the xenonite barrier.

“no, closer,” rocky says, claws clicking nervously. “want to hold.”

grace considers that. if rocky were to, say, lose a chunk of carapace, he’d ask to have it without a second thought. he’d probably make an excuse about wanting to point a spectrometer at it or test its properties, and he’d obviously do those things, but he’d mainly just want to touch it. to hold a piece of rocky without fear of either of them being harmed.

he drops the tooth into the exchange drawer and rocky lunges to retrieve it. grace has a thousand self-hating, existential thoughts about losing it — his health is declining so quickly, his smile is changed forever, he can guess which tooth he’ll lose next — but they all quiet as he watches rocky pick it up with trembling claws. rocky cradles the tooth in the palm of his hand like a delicate treasure, warbling a wordless tune of delight, and grace thinks that, if he makes it through this, everything might just be okay.

[tlirsgender]

"You know what's harder than Getting Better? Living Like That" is just the thesis for my whole shit going on right now honestly. You know what's harder than doing my physical therapy? Hurting All The Time. You know what's harder than addressing my gender dysphoria? Hurting All The Time

[tlirsgender]

I'm Doing The Hard Thing and it's *easier* than how I was living before. If you make yourself feel better you will have more energy to spend on Getting Better. Nice inch nails - the upward spiral. Crawl out of your grave Thursday

[kentodreaming]

have never given even a passing glance to the predator/prey dynamic like it was never my thing. but let me tell you something. those comics exploring persistence hunter grace slowly trailing after rocky changed something in me,,,, rockys confidence that slowly becomes more and more strained,, huffing and puffing heat out of his vents,,, grace unintentionally scaring the shit out of rocky without even realizing it and being like Haha thats what you get for talking big. meanwhile rocky is like wwhat. Wwwhhatttt the fuuuuck was that

[cepn-archive]

it’s too early for this

[budaiproli]

oks

[dukeofedinburgh]

[budaiproli]

me and the boys, felsírtam

[sztupy]

tegnapról

[edgar-allan-possum]

Flags Mashup Bot is really out here trying to start World War III

[mccoppinscrapyard]

UPDATES

[pancoleon]

My fav part is that it is genuinely just a bot. All it does is take two countries, puts the 2nd country's colours on the 1st country's flag and mixes their names together.

Literally the only other thing behind it is that the bot weights picking the second country based on how close they are to the first, and basic geography + history means that's also where you're going to get the most aggressive relations. This isn't some guy trolling by making things specifically to piss people off, it's some guy who likes flags going "wouldn't it be fun to mix flags together, let's write a bot for that" and accidentally creating a whole meme culture of "days since flag mashup bot last tried to start WW3 = 0" and the like.

[kilovanity]

Controversially young boyfriend: Ryland Grace (age: ~35+)

[soccialcreature]

That episode of clone wars where anakin and ahsoka dipped oit on their mission to go grab lunch at some normal-ass lookin diner. Like these bitches sat in a booth n everything. And then anakins like “i sense that something bad is about to happen” and ahsokas like “what?” N hes just “idk” and then they do absolutely nothing about it

[gizkalord]

anakin: senses a sith lord

anakin:

ahsoka:

them: burger n fry

[vaders-georg]

let us not forget that like a week before savage opress was also in that diner. at the exact same booth. while looking for maul. ahsoka was sitting in savage’s massive assprint while he was getting screamed at by his long-lost brother and a talking snake in a landfill

[luukeskywalker]

i am so sorry to reblog and add commentary outside of the tags but i just watched that episode (twice) yesterday (don’t ask why) and anakin and ahsoka walk into that diner to enjoy a nice outer rim lunch MERE MINUTES after savage assaulted that poor minimum wage david bowie looking waitress working there. and they try to figure out what happened but the owner (and the cop bots) were all like “yeah this happens all the time out here, this is a real shithole planet” and anakin and ahsoka are just like. uh. well. okay then! what’s on the menu? 

not fifteen minutes later anakin and ahsoka are sitting at a booth and anakin is like “i think i am having… a panic attack…. and i don’t know why…… it feels……familiarrrr….” and ahsoka is just like well thats weird. you gonna eat those fries master?

[digitalmyyth]

the patient needs grace in a skirt to live

[chimaerakitten]

Oh hey, all you Library-Loving Libby users out there. A piece of advice for you. Go to your search engine of choice and type in “[your local library] reciprocal agreements”.

Might pull up nothing, but chances are there are somewhere between two and seven other Library systems in your state that you can get a card at perfectly legitimately simply by applying for one with your current address and proof of having an active card at your local library. You can then log into Libby with these and use them even if you never manage to go to a physical building of that library. (Though you should take advantage of the physical library too if you can) Some of them might have significantly larger or at least different ebook/audiobook collections for you.

[mosylu]

Yes and!

There's a website (https://reciprocard.com/) that will pull up this info if you put in your hometown library, and gives you a link to apply to the different libraries. Sometimes you don't even need to apply. My library is in a consortium that just uses my card to cover all the other libraries. I use the same card number.

Your results page also lists some libraries that will let you get a non-resident card, usually for a yearly fee. (Frex, I decided it was a way better use of my precious dollars to get a Queens Public Library card for a year than to pay for that streamer I never watch anything on.)

[queenaegon]

i understand all that shit about honor and knighthood and solemn vows but “kingslayer” is simply a bad insult. it sounds cool as fuck. might as well call him the landlord annihilator or the billionaire’s bane.

[bookie-the-reading-junkie]

okay I've been thinking about this for a hot second but I'm only getting to it now. I just love the karaoke scene and the framing, and after listening to the director's commentary, I love the scene even more.

Whenever Grace is in the shot, he's literally in the spotlight and there is a lot of space around him. People are turned away from him.

Whenever it goes to Stratt, the screen is crowded with people and Ilyukhina is swaying back and forth, cutting off the line of sight.

Grace is open. Grace is also very alone. Both of them are even surrounded by people, but it's more prominent with Grace. Stratt even at her most vulnerable is still hiding.

Now, the directors talked about this scene and the previous scene as Grace asking whether Stratt is someone who he can have as a close friend and with Stratt responding with by singing a song, saying "maybe someday." She cares very deeply for these people, but she has to put that aside to do her job. The directors go on to say that Grace is sort of daring her, asking her if she's a full human being and she says she is, but she has to chose to not be.

I also love how the directors talk about Grace and Stratt's relationship. There's no jokey "well they might something more *wink wink*" but that they are friends that wish to be closer but due to circumstance can't. I also really like during the scene where they "ask" Grace to be put on the Hail Mary, Lord calls their relationship one of the most important ones in Grace's life.

[sufferingink]

things that I believe in my HEART are on the Beatles' message to Earth (Project Hail Mary)

taumoeba (obviously)

instructions on how to use taumoeba (obviously)

50+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace fucking up a bunch of stuff in the ship

so much info about Eridian language

1700+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace and Rocky fucking up a bunch of shit in the ship

Cannot emphasize how much info on the eridian sentence structure there is here

a weirdass knit sweater pattern that takes people weeks to realize is for Rocky

literally hundreds of pages of Grace just describing Eridian linguistic history which like honestly isn't even his field why should we even listen to this guy- (hes the only one to ever fucking met an intelligent alien Dave. we'll take him at his word)

Why the Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots Part 2: Biological Diversity all across the Petrova Line (subtitled "We haven't found them yet BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEY DONT FUDHING EXIST-")

what are essentially just those reaction videos "Alien watches Legally Blonde for the first time" "Alien gives thoughts on movie Cats (2019)" "You'll never believe what this Alien thinks of the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox"

Grace's modified cardigan charts because someone was asking for them on his Ravelry and he never actually got around to posting them

(people have already fully recreated this cardigan just months after his launch. but they appreciate it)

very respective, kind eulogies for everyone who died in this mission (Grace AND Rocky's crew)

a lace shawl pattern inspired by the petrova line with a beaded fringe. knitters everywhere weep in despair because those instructions are gOD AWFUL, the man had 0 (zero) test knitters AND THERES NO PICTURES FUCK

Rocky make Grace cringe compilation statement

Grace's final goodbye to Earth ig

[silkysong]

pretty sure this is what animals are in the poke mon world