Cast-Iron Rubber Chicken

[mrsducky]

THE NICE GUYS (2016) dir. Shane Black

[sharkfiinn]

stop looking so cutieful youve got assignments to finish grading

[peglarpapers]

i can’t allow myself to think too much about sensory differences on the erid road trip or i throw up and die. grace can look out at the stars any time he wants. if he wants to fuck around with his telescope, grace can see erid and grace can see earth. grace has a sense of place. for rocky, however, the universe is four rooms wide and there are two people in it

[teashadephoenix]

imagine if grace has gone ahead and sent a radio message to earth right when he woke up

so like two decades after launch, stratt gets a call that's just grace being like

and then two months later the beetles arrive and he's fine

[aliosne]

[amazoogle]

tuesday status?

[cognitohazardous]

yup. its tuesday 👍

[amazoogle]

copy. tuesday confirmed ✅ engaging tuesday protocol

[doctorwhowatchesthewatchmen]

the circus is empty, all of the monkeys are here

[taumoebapartybus]

how am i meant to go for my silly little mental health walk when it's still 26 degrees at 8 o'clock in the evening?

[thisvegetabledoesntfallinlove]

there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward

[baddywronglegs]

Slow train journeys in rural England sure are an experience. You're going ten miles and it takes a day and a half because it stops at every lamp-post and the announcement says "The next station stop is Ferretley" or something and you think "I didn't know that was a place" and you get there and it isn't

[baddywronglegs]

Last stop was literally a picket fence, enough chopped wood to build another picket fence and, briefly, a train.

[baddywronglegs]

My guy Ferretby was barely builded here

[baddywronglegs]

Two clarifications:

Ferretby's name has been changed to protect the identities of it and its resident(s)

I specify slow trains to distinguish from the other two types of train in England: Delayed and Cancelled

[posts-written-by-murderbot]

[rosettyller]

ryland grace + text posts

[moomin-energy]

most unrealistic part of PHM is that there is no way that dr. ryland grace, PhD, would not have a flock of suitors following him everywhere he goes. that man is like catnip for academic shut-ins, alien enthusiasts, odd women, and gay people everywhere, as this site has clearly demonstrated

now I’m NOT saying he should have had a partner on earth or whatever because I do think it’s awesome that he’s (implicitly at least) aro/ace/both, but it would have been a great aside to see the cloud of yearning that follows him everywhere which he either has to deal with or has decided to be permanently ignorant of. like the comedy potential of objectively the most fuckable man any of these strange science geeks have ever met being like oh um :) thanks for the coffee and the flowers and stuff and you guys are all so nice to me it’s great to work with you all :)

the devastation he would leave in his wake. like some sort of benevolent aroace whale floating serenely through an ocean of allo heartbreak. feigning ignorance because can you guys lock in we have alien microbes to study

[stargirl-and-potts]

Book canon supports this!! Dr. Lokken is definitely crushing on him and he’s completely baffled by her behavior. All the moms want to talk to him about their kids after school. Steve the security guy starts helping him with stuff for no reason. He’s had a girl bestie since college who meets him for dinner every week, Dimitri the Russian scientist agrees to go out for drinks with him immediately after meeting him, and the entire Hail Mary prime team requests him to handle their death plans because they like and trust him more than anyone else in leadership, and he’s just very taken aback by this.

I don’t know how many of those people would have dated him, but people like him. I think he was pretty unintentionally abrasive when he was younger, argumentative and reactive, and teaching softened him up and gave him playfulness and people skills he didn’t used to have. But he didn’t actually notice the change because he’s always just been being himself. He does think of himself as being good with kids, now, but not with people generally. So he doesn’t expect people to enjoy his company and it takes him a good while to notice when they do.

[stargirl-and-potts]

Anyway the fact that Rocky loves arguing and complaining and bluntness generally is perfect for Grace. Rocky can match him not just in sweetness and sincerity and sentimentality, but in fond rudeness too, with so much joy. He’ll always tell Grace exactly what he needs from him, and thinks of him. That’s exactly the kind of guy Grace needs to spend the rest of his life with. Grace can be all of himself with Rocky.

[vahlance]

What kind of problems do you think that gun could create

[keikomivra]

#when people ask me how i deal with my problems

[stargirl-and-potts]

HEY when Grace nopes out of his first spacewalk and then accidentally snaps back and goes flailing out into space. That’s him doing the book cover thing!

It’s a tribute (˃̣̣̥ᯅ˂̣̣̥)

(gif from @emziess here!)

[polarity-disturbed]

Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

[polarity-disturbed]

Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

[polarity-disturbed]

And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

[thevastnessof]

it is still incredibly funny that the socially anxious guy who puts up emotional walls in his relationships was locked in an enclosed space with his best friend with zero privacy for years and is now going to be the center of attention for the rest of his life bc he is an Alien. I’m sorry grace but the universe refuses to let you have a comfort zone. it’s gonna be public speaking forever