Ryland Grace in just his boxers, on the floor, white board marker in hand as he's labeling bones in his body and telling Rocky what they are and how fucked he'd be if they broke: ...yeah so this one is my femur and if that one breaks that's gonna take 4 - 6 months and I basically can't walk for most of it.
Rocky, texture reader in one hand, watching all this in horrified silence:
Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?
Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month
STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
The Lego Movie is something that only happens once in life because you cannot recreate the experience of being dragged to "stupid marketing ploy to sell plastic bricks to 5 year olds" and 90 minutes later come out of "surreal cosmic horror comedy about the existential dread of artistic expression and the meaning of free will with commentary on capitalist oligarchy. To sell plastic bricks to 5 year olds."
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
the bats have a special ranking for whenever they experience waking up called "the zitka scale™".
see, if you wake up in bed, exactly how you remember going to sleep, congratulations. you're totally good, continue with your day.
if you wake up in the infirmary, then damnit, either something went wrong on patrol and you were knocked out, or you just happened to faint. either way, you'll be fine.
if you wake up in the infirmary, look to your left and see zitka the elephant tucked into your side? it's time to start fucking panicking. you must have been inside a coma or something because having zitka means that you were asleep for so long and scared dick enough that he felt the need to bring you his most precious possession.
oh god, if you wake up with not only zitka, but also dicks favorite blanket? the heavy one that bruce bought him in his first year as robin that he still sleeps with? fuck. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK you must have died and been brought back, either that or you got the jason 3000 and exploded.
however, if you wake up with zitka, the blanket, and dick sleeping beside you? yeah that's fine. that's just dick sleeping next to you. he probably brought his stuffed animal and blanket for himself, solid 10/10 cuddle sesh, super comfortable.
( there are alternative scales as well that aren't as prominent, such as : the red hood jacket scale, the duke thomas backpack scale, the bruce scale, the damian scale, etc. )
i answered this in the comments, but I'm just gonna copy and paste my response :]
the jacket scale is for jason. if you wake up and you have red hood's leather jacket over your shoulders or draped on top of you, you've absolutely been through some shit that you just don't remember at the moment. kidnapping, torture, etc. it basically means that jason was the one to find you and was so concerned he gave you the jacket, which is huge for him.
seeing duke's backpack by your bed means one of two things. one, duke has been doing his schoolwork inside the infirmary to watch over you as much as possible, or two, he keeps snacks in his backpack and he's supplying them to anyone who is sitting and waiting for you to wake up. so yeah, sorta like a mom friend. it's about a 5/10 on the 'how fucked am i' scale.
the bruce scale is just if you wake up with bruce next to you. because it's so rare, you probably nearly fucking died. if bruce himself wants to stay and check? yeah you're cooked.
the damian one is basically the same as bruce, accept that it's damian. if you see damian, even worse if he's leaning on the bed, that means he was nervous about you being in a vulnerable position and he is keeping watch. it's surprisingly common, it's his way of protecting them without being too obvious. (it's very obvious). it could also just be him waiting for you to wake up, though.
okay so, I did NOT expect so many people to like this. the shitposts of shitposts. but yall did, and I had a whole bunch of people ask me about the other scales. I answered about all the scales in the comments, but not everyone is able to see those, so here yall go :]
I'm gonna copy and paste exactly what I said in the comments, so if it doesn't seem like the usual vibe of my posts, it's cause it's just the full-on comment.
the jacket scale is for jason. if you wake up and you have red hood's leather jacket over your shoulders or draped on top of you, you've absolutely been through some shit that you just don't remember at the moment. kidnapping, torture, etc. it basically means that jason was the one to find you and was so concerned he gave you the jacket, which is huge for him.
seeing duke's backpack by your bed means one of two things. one, duke has been doing his schoolwork inside the infirmary to watch over you as much as possible, or two, he keeps snacks in his backpack and he's supplying them to anyone who is sitting and waiting for you to wake up. so yeah, sorta like a mom friend. it's about a 5/10 on the 'how fucked am i' scale.
the bruce scale is just if you wake up with bruce next to you. because it's so rare, you probably nearly fucking died. if bruce himself wants to stay and check? yeah you're cooked.
the damian one is basically the same as bruce, accept that it's damian. if you see damian, even worse if he's leaning on the bed, that means he was nervous about you being in a vulnerable position and he is keeping watch. it's surprisingly common, it's his way of protecting them without being too obvious. (it's very obvious). it could also just be him waiting for you to wake up, though.
it's basic, but it's called the tim scale. it's pretty common to see tim sleeping near you when you wake up in the infirmary or in your bed, because he's just always kind of sleepy and can sleep wherever so he choses to sleep near you to watch over you or to just relax, but if you wake up and he's WIDE awake and youre in the infirmary??? yeah fuck that, you're screwed. not only does he look like he's been awake for a long time, a rare thing for him because I imagine him just constantly being a ready for a 4 hour nap, but he's literally watching your vitals and making sure your pulse is steady. best case scenario, you blacked out from blood loss. worst case is like. yk. being the newest member of the robin resurrection club. rare, but not impossible.
the alfred scale is called "the bedroom scale" and is not only the rarest, but it is also probably as scary, if not more scary, as the zitka scale. because you don't wake up on the infirmary or your bedroom, nope. you wake up in alfreds room.
waking up in alfreds room means that alfred knows that when you wake up, you're going to freak the fuck out. so he choses to handle the eventual fight or flight response you will have in his room, as it is the most unanimously agreed comforting place in the manor. every robin has slept in that room at some point, but never more than twice. besides maybe dick. jason slept in alfreds room the first night he was at the manor willingly after his death. tim got the alfred room after he passed out during the kon-cloning process. damian got the alfred room after heretic. dick got the alfred room on his third day at the manor.
to put it simply, if alfred knows you are going to crash out, sob, scream, or have the worst panic attack of your life upon waking up, he's sitting by your side while you rest in his bed.
the bats have a special ranking for whenever they experience waking up called "the zitka scale™".
see, if you wake up in bed, exactly how you remember going to sleep, congratulations. you're totally good, continue with your day.
if you wake up in the infirmary, then damnit, either something went wrong on patrol and you were knocked out, or you just happened to faint. either way, you'll be fine.
if you wake up in the infirmary, look to your left and see zitka the elephant tucked into your side? it's time to start fucking panicking. you must have been inside a coma or something because having zitka means that you were asleep for so long and scared dick enough that he felt the need to bring you his most precious possession.
oh god, if you wake up with not only zitka, but also dicks favorite blanket? the heavy one that bruce bought him in his first year as robin that he still sleeps with? fuck. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK you must have died and been brought back, either that or you got the jason 3000 and exploded.
however, if you wake up with zitka, the blanket, and dick sleeping beside you? yeah that's fine. that's just dick sleeping next to you. he probably brought his stuffed animal and blanket for himself, solid 10/10 cuddle sesh, super comfortable.
( there are alternative scales as well that aren't as prominent, such as : the red hood jacket scale, the duke thomas backpack scale, the bruce scale, the damian scale, etc. )
The thing that frustrates me is how blatantly about funding this whole thing with my care plan has been. My social worker went from“I don’t want you to become too dependent on care, you probably don’t need someone awake all the time overnight… have you tried drinking less tea?” To “I don’t see how I could possibly justify reducing your care package” within like two weeks.
Literally the only thing that changed is that the NHS agreed to pay for it rather than the local authority.
Some dejointed drawings and doodles of my own post-canon headcanons! Where humans send a ship to their neighbors in order to meet them, and make sure their sun didnt die in case Rocky wasn't successful, but end up finding a very much alive Ryland Grace, looking younger than he should and living his best life on Erid
I'm just fascinated by the idea of humans and eridians collaborating and what that would look like. We are so advanced in some areas they lack, while they are so advanced in some areas where WE lack due to our respective biologies, the progress from both sides would be insane.
Of course, Eridians would also want to go to Earth, and is only fair they get a nice place to stay too. Maybe is then Grace decides to go back, to act as an ambassador for the Eridians, to see the place he worked so hard to keep alive. But i think eventually, after many years living on Earth (specially with the extended lifespan) he would want to go back, yeah the 2gs suck on his bones but he has more of a home on Erid than he ever did on Earth, anyway, there's people waiting for him there.
They can finally touch!!! Yeah they cuddle for a longggggg time after Grace wakes up
Graces frequent crying would translate into a lot of wailing as an Eridian. I feel like he’d have a hard time speaking not only because he’s just not used to it- but because his emotions make him sing without meaning to. Younglings learn fairly quickly how to control their emotions so they don’t constantly interrupt themselves with unconscious sounds. But grace is so used to expressing his emotions as a human (and he’s a big cryer) that I don’t think he’d ever really learn how to suppress a keen when really emotional. Rocky and all the other Eridians would get used to this and would ofc be incredibly patient with him :]
I think there’d be a few times that Grace would freak some people out with his whining - the sound usually means there’s a small hatchling in distress lol
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