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if eva stratt tried to send me to space i would simply say fuck yes. rip to you all but im gonna get it

[tau-cecil]

phm (mostly gracerocky) sideblog because that stupid rock has bewitched my body and soul. main is @hedonia-hotline

tags:

#my art and #my text for original stuff, #gracerocky tag for shipping, #grace + rocky tag for when they're both there but it's not inherently ship-y, #grace tag, #rocky tag, #stratt tag and #adrian tag because they're the only characters that matter(/j), #rocktiz tag because rocky deserves two tags, and #art, #image, #video, #gif and #text, depending on the type of post. if this seems excessive that's because it is

[grockyfluids]

Grocky petplay but Rockys a pet rock

[vampirekoolaid]

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[asteronomical]

you guys ever think of how grace and rocky have slowly assimilated into each other in all the years theyve spent alone together. you guys ever think of grace becoming more and more eridian and rocky becoming more and more human.

grace picking up the habit of humming simple eridian words. grace tapping his foot twice when he's asking a question. grace instinctively hiding away when eating. grace being unable to sleep unless someone's watching him. grace saying hello and goodbye the way eridians do.

rocky tilting his carapace to convey emotions. rocky turning to "face" grace even when he has omnidirectional hearing. rocky attempting to emulate human gestures with his biology. rocky learning of hugs and kisses and wanting to give and receive them all the time.

they're both not quite human. they're both not quite eridian either. not quite on earth, and not quite on erid just yet. just grace and rocky, among the stars. like the hail mary is their own planet and the universe is the sun she orbits. just them. no one else.

[testingcheats0n]

I always think there's a period during the 5 year journey to Erid where Rocky had to learn how to touch Grace and I mean that in the most general, safety first, way possible. Even through the mesh, a wrong pinch of the claws could Shatter Grace's bones since Rocky comes from a double gravity and has no nerves on his carapace to gauge pressure with.

I imagine him practicing his gentle touch on a doll or a puppet he had made from frail materials because he needs a lot of finesse and motor control if he wants to come in contact with his favorite space oddity without tearing his skin off like the foil off a sandwitch.

Grace constantly covered in deep angry bruises because Rocky bumped into him too hard or reached to hold his hand too excitedly. Grace never telling Rocky because he was trying so hard to be controlled already.

Rocky deciding to keep himself as still as possible when Grace hugs him because a single wrong move could end up with Grace's delicate limbs under +300 kgs of solid mineral.

Physical touch being hard earned and the result of a surgeon's precision.

[pineappical]

eridian social media call that thrumblr

[mumblesplash]

‘project hail mary is about the power of friendship’ ‘project hail mary is about hope’ ‘project hail mary is about accidentally becoming too important at work’ wrong wrong wrong you’re all wrong. project hail mary is about what it would take for a single man in his 30s to own a fully paid off beachfront property in today’s economy

[annabelle--cane]

my real #serious thoughts on how rocky would feel about stratt after learning the whole Everything is that he really really wants to be the "my friend isn't mad enough at the person who hurt them so I make up for it by being 10x as mad as is reasonable" guy, and that's absolutely what he externally shows to grace, but internally he's eating himself alive because he does actually get it. he can only put so much of himself into the argument when grace gets into a weird mood and starts playing "devil's advocate" about his own kidnapping and attempted murder and he feels like absolutely the scum-of-the-earth worst friend ever. what's even worse is that while he can sympathize with grace's story, he can't quite empathize; he's watching grace sleep one night and thinks to himself "...but why wouldn't he just say yes?", followed two minutes later by grace visibly (audibly?) getting one of his regular nightmares about being tackled and restrained. torment nexus.

[wukyma]

Some experimental Rocktizes with some experimental brushes

Ryland Grace your fascination with all living critters is scaring the ho– ah wait no they seem to like it, go on

[grimark]

iffffff. he WANTED?????

[xxskycrystalxx]

RYAN GOSLING wearing a cardigan made by Tom Daley

[howling-wizard]

also also loveee the counting seconds as you sleep bit. insane behavior. rocky is So focused on grace he can't spare a moment from his new favorite activity of watching paint dry

[asteronomical]

evil gracerocky au where they're both pretending that they want to solve the astrophage problem bc they think the other wants to. grace sabotages his own experiments. rocky messes up his xenonite soldering under the excuse that it works different in sol atmospheric conditions.

for the most part im just combining the separate evil grace and evil rocky aus ive seen floating around cuz i want them to be evil and codependent and selfish forever. like lets all make gracerocky more unhealthy i think. for fun

grace who doesn't wake up with amnesia by some miracle so he follows through with his threats to sabotage the mission. rocky whos grown bitter and maybe a little insane in all his years of isolation. mmm

they know tau ceti's star system will be completely fine so they don't really care to do anything for their respective star systems. the only concern would be food, but maybe they both lock in on synthesizing food for each other and its like. hm. interesting!

cuz all their experiments for the astrophage problem mysteriously fail, but they lock the fuck in when it comes to increasing the longevity of their lives? the "clumsy" grace is oh so dextrous all of a sudden? xenonite is suddenly a lot more stable of a material than before?

"hey rocky did you make the chains yet" "no but i managed to make multivitamin supplements for you in case we stay here for a longer period of time" "lovely. thanks, bud"

i do think that eventually one of them figures out what the other is doing. but instead of confronting them about it, they like watching them Squirm and hide it. like rocky once heard grace poke holes into the breeder tanks and hes like oughh my human is so cute <3

[enbyogre]

Ryland Grace is Sandy from Spongebob

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[kilovanity]

Rocky clothing request!

[bluemuffin-draws]

Always muscles?

[not-equippedforthis]

thinking about a very specific scenario of a grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to earth as rocky comes back to erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. ten, twenty years go by, and grace is not malnourished nor does he look even half his age, but there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. about earth getting news of a ship coming down, whose atmosphere is fundamentally different now and causes trouble for that ship. damages sustained on that ship. a red light in the sky. suspected eridian contact as confirmed by dr ryland grace. thank you tom, anna temple here and we're live at nasa's makeshift landing pad, ready to receive, watching- oh, my- a row of officials that cannot pin down ryland grace this time as he, live on air, tears apart every country's anxiety of eridians by ripping from the crowd and jumping the fence into the launching area. a camera pan that judders from dr grace sprinting, the most energetic he's been in years, to a brown eridian careening towards him in a xenonite suit. prepared to catch ryland's tackle and embrace him properly, there on the green grass, for the very first time. first contact.