The Pineappletree

Just me posting random stuff about whatever my current hyperfixation is because non of my friends are my level of nerd and i need somewhere to release my thoughts

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Inspired by @ctrl-shift-alt-9 's headcanon about Simon mining asteroids as a convict I decided to headcanon a design for a four convict mining unit. I'm not the most comfortable in photobash but it really felt like the perfect medium for this one.

Portable mining units

As I envision it this MS's would be a small part of C.O.I's mining operation. Leaving prisoners inside mostly on their own for better or for worse, with not much guard oversight in terms of rationing or behaviour, the shittiness of the circumstance would depend mostly on who you are stuck with. And considering the relative autonomy, being considered for MS work would be the kind of thing you get for good behaviour.

Otherwise you just get to work in the bigger supervised mine or the refineries (which I might also concept out later).

(Also I would consider it funny that the C.O.I owns both an SM and an MS 13 and both had the same unlucky convict inside at some point.)

More headcanons

- The mining stations are all equipped with a radio that is supposed to only serve as communication with nearby tow ships, but there is a way to jail break/jerry rig them into taking external signals. The convicts that can do that are valuable in prison society. The jail broken communicators are mostly used to listine in on passing vessels, or sometimes even far away eden scavenger transmissions or something like it. If a mining operation is all made out of previous eden brothers, that is most likely what they do in their free time.

- a sub headcanon to this is an actual pirate radio station in the iron lung universe, but I think I'll make a separate post for that.

-All the mining suits are numbered, and since Korean culture might have survived in space I think number 4 is still considered unlucky. Simon always gets the number 4 suit

-The crews are usually chosen at random but you can cash in favours to be with the same people twice in a row, I wouldn't say it's common, but there are reoccurring crews that are somehow bonded on these missions (I don't think a cosmic misery universe is complete without a little bit of hope)

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I made a little crochet Rocky.

He's gray because I had some grey yarn i wanted to use up, except it was not enough and I had to buy more, so now I have more yarn than I started with.

Pattern is from amourfou_crochet on insta (slightly modified because I'm not that good at crocheting.

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Got an idea for a bloodymary au that starts out like a normal modern au from Grces perspective. Grace just works as a teacher and meets Simon by chance. They start hanging out together, but Grace quickly realises that Simon was clearly hiding something. Something he was struggling with a lot.

Then, one day, Grace goes to sleep and suddenly wakes up on the Hail Mary, with no memory on how he got there. He only remembers his life up to the point where he went to sleep and nothing more. But when he eventually goes back to sleep on the hail mary he just wakes up in his old life. At first he thinks it was just a dream, but than it keeps happening. Every time he goes to sleep in one world, he wakes up in the other. And he also slowly starts remembering the petrova task force, even though in his normal life on earth astrophage doesn't exist.

So he pretty much starts playing out the plot of PHM in one universe while he tries to keep a normal life in the other and tries not to lose his growing relationship with Simon, even though he feels like he is going insane.

Eventually it becomes too much (probably right after they went fishing and he didn't know if Rocky will survive) and he tells Simon everything.

Simon tells Grace that the exact same thing has been happening to him since he was a teenager, only that his second life is in a much crueler universe, where he's currently sitting in the COI prison. Because of how hard his life in the second universe is, he's really messed up, even in the normal one, and struggles a lot, not wanting to go to sleep and go back there.

They learn how to help each other in the normal universe and grow even closer.

Shortly after that the events from Iron Lung happen and after he has died, Simon wakes up in the normal universe completely messed up from what he just went through. He completly refuses to sleep, knowing that he has just died in the other universe and convinced he will die for good if he ever went back there. Grace stays by his side the entire time, bit eventually they both fall asleep due to exhaustion.

Grace wakes up on the hail mary, wanting to go back to help Simon. Except now there is a strange looking ship right next to Mary that he and Rocky take a closer look at. And when they finally manage to get inside, he finds Simone in it, who wakes up shortly after being rescued.

From there on they just life a double life on earth and first the hail mary and later erid.

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Simon amd Grace are the definition of Street smart vs. Book smart

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Finally watched Remarkably Bright Creatures and I'm not okay. I thought this was just a cute movie. I'm in tears

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giving simon wormhole-opening powers so grace can send an instant probe once they're on erid and inflict more psychic damage on the og petrova task force

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I didn't understand why people disliked the 'Simon sees Grace as an angel' trope and think it is close to being like a 'white savior' thing. Then I realised all fics I've red were Simon thinks Grace is an angel are of the type of 'he's an angel and he will judge me and throw me into hell if I'm deemed unworthy' which is probably a completely different side of this trope.

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I thought I just suddenly saw more Stratt content. Turns out she's actually trending. As she should be.

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I love that the fandom usually does not ship Stratt and Grace, as opposite to in universe, where the entirety of Startt's vat thought they were fucking.

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Watching Iron Lung under the open night sky, the stars above me and trees around me, is kinda ironic. I have literally evverything Simon could ever dream of.

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Everyone needs to listen to The River by The Family Crest and think of Eva Stratt right now. This song is literally her

There's a heart here, cast in stone

And there's a past, dear, I must atone

Oh, there were moments I thrust away

Now there's a keeper that I must pay

So, here's the sight now, and here's the soil

And here's the sea dear, that I must toil

To heal the orchard from the cold, dead earth

Well I'm sorry, love, for all I haven't done

And I'm sorry, dear, for what I have become

Do I need to say more?

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Love that in the movie Grace specifically says he hasn't done the pool thing while in the book there was a whole ass scene about him in the pool testing equipment.

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Just remembered i hve a shirt that says 'Trust me I'm an engineer' amd i think both Rocky and especially Ilyukhina would love it.

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Bloodymary got me watching tutorials on how to tie your hair with only one hand. I have both my hands and I don't even havr long hair.

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Average Rygoverse family reunion.

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Bloodymary has completly taken over my brain. I'm just rewatching PHM and was genuinely surprised to see the I had potential shirt on Grace because I'm just so used to Simon wearing it.

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a visitor on the biodome!!