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how to get out of your own way
I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy
and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it
he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??
eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh
"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"
"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"
"HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. THANK"
Listen, I don't think we're a perfect fandom but the fact remains that if we were going to have ships for the "broadly-headcannoned aroace" character I think it's prettyyyyy fun that the most common options are:
Ship him with the genderless rock alien(s) but not ☝️ in a normal way. They are very weird by all standards.
Ship him with Markiplier some guy called Simon who somehow has even worse trauma. Again in the least normal way possible.
Some form of qpr with any/all of the above
What if Grace's Eridian students learnt the notes to the Happy Birthday Song so they could surprise him on his special day? Y'know, besides making him bawl his eyes out (understandable.)
Dr Ryland grace: *comes back to earth and is revealed to have been alive just living on erid for the past like 40 years*
the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way
My silly addition that I hope brings a smile to OP's face. Art is a beautiful thing in every single form, and even my silly finger-drawn art deserves to be shared. I hope that people are inspired to keep drawing, regardless of their perceived "skill". Do makes you happy, y'all! Spread the humanity. 🧡
Choose Your Fighter
VaNiLuMiLc Shac
□²□² GECr
SHStrobere
Chinese FrenhF
SPEE COK
Made your choice? Hit the readmore to find out which of my students' favorite foods you turned out to be! [TIP: you can Reblog and Tag this post to let your friends know what you chose!]
its on Erid, long after Grace and Rocky figure out how to hug and snuggle. Eridians dont really do full hugs like humans because then you can hear everyone's internal organs that close so its a little weird, maybe tapping/hand holding is the usual affection. Everyone assumes the constant cuddling is purely for Grace's human needs benefit, and while Grace obviously does love and need the touch, Rocky being driven to space madness and having every form of ptsd means he is equal if not more in need of constant full body hugs because he likes feeling how alive Grace is.
So random Eridian scientists are talking to Grace and are like, absolutely no disrespect intended, but very interesting Rocky overcame the cultural weirdness and sensory disgust of "hugs" and does them despite no benefit to himself because he cares for your needs! Its sweet!
Grace: actually Rocky freaks out if he cant press himself against my lungs and heart through the thinnest xenonite possible until he can hear every muscle cell in my body moving at least once a day.
Scientist: ok cool so hes kind of a total pervert then okay
happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces
Women stick thin and malnourished on the red carpet, and people are saying you can't point out that these women are dying because that's body shaming. Girl.
@whitenikes
the hardest pill to swallow about being in a fandom is that some people are only ankle-deep in it and aren't taking things too seriously and other people are up to their necks and taking it as seriously as a heart attack and yet everybody thinks that every other person is in it just as deep as they are and will get very upset to realize otherwise because they don't know how to engage with the different perspective
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
Shakespeare is like this
Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away
Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal
devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit
Andy Weir: I don't put politics in my writing. I hate that actually.
Also Andy Weir:
"Probably asking if Sally’s Diner served gluten-free vegan grass clippings or something."
"This is a single man’s apartment with a single man eating a single man’s meal. I don’t see anything feminine at all. There’s nothing to suggest a woman in my life. Am I divorced? Gay? Either way, there’s no sign that children live here."
"So I’m a single man in my thirties, who lives alone in a small apartment, I don’t have any kids, but I like kids a lot. I don’t like where this is going…"
"The situation was dire and deadly, but it was also the norm. Londoners during the Blitz in World War II went about their day as normal, with the understanding that occasionally buildings get blown up. However desperate things were, someone still had to deliver milk. And if Mrs. McCreedy’s house got bombed in the night, well, you crossed it off the delivery list."
"Kids are smarter than most people think. And they can tell when a teacher actually cares about them as opposed to when they’re just going through the motions."
"God knows we could do with more parents being engaged in their kids’ educations, but there’s a limit."
“'You guys know about climate change, right? How our CO2 emissions have caused a lot of problems in the environment?' - 'My dad says that’s not real,' said Tamora.'"
"Thirty years. I looked out at their little faces. In thirty years they’d all be in their early forties. They would bear the brunt of it all. And it wouldn’t be easy. These kids were going to grow up in an idyllic world and be thrown into an apocalyptic nightmare."
"A modern nuclear plant can power an entire city for a year with the energy stored in just one kilogram of Uranium. Yes. That’s it. The entire output of a nuclear reactor for a year comes from a single kilogram of mass."
"Evolution can be insanely effective when you leave it alone for a few billion years."
“'That’s…! Dimitri, I want to hang out with you. Like—can we hang out? I’ll buy you a beer. Or vodka. Or anything. I bet there’s an officers’ club on this boat, right?' - 'It would be my pleasure.'"
"The Orlan-MKS2 is possibly the best EVA suit ever made."
"'I’ll write up a paper and send it along to the UN. We can form a committee—' - 'No, I said we’ll do it.” Stratt stood up. 'You’re with us now, Dr. Lokken.'"
"Well, I say 'his hand,' but maybe it’s her hand. Or some other pronoun I don’t have a word for. They might have seventeen biological sexes, for all I know. Or none. No one ever talks about the really hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns. I’m going to go with 'he' for now, because it just seems rude to call a thinking being 'it.'"
"The Blip-A control room probably has awesome-looking Braille-like readouts. Well, I’m sure it’s way more advanced than that."
"“'Because I have the U.S. Army,' she said. 'And that’s a damn fine army.'"
"I should be more culturally sensitive, but he threw shade when I talked to myself."
“And just like that another climate denier is born. See how easy it is? All I have to do is tell you something you don’t want to hear.”
"I am a tree-hugging antiwar throwback to a bygone era of protest politics.”
"'You are very heavy,' I say. I hope he doesn’t take that to mean Hey, fatty! Go on a diet!"
“'Are they artificial intelligence of some kind?”
Stratt asked. 'No,' said Lamai. “We do not have time to develop a complicated neural network. This is a strictly procedural algorithm. Very complex, but not AI at all. We have to be able to test it in thousands of ways and know exactly how it responds and why. We can’t do that with a neural network.'"
"There are old Eridians out there who were alive when Columbus discovered (a bunch of people already living in) North America."
“'I never would have thought a woman would be so sexist against women.' - 'It’s not sexism. It’s realism.” She righted a strand of hair that had blown into her face. “My guidelines were that all candidates must be heterosexual men.' - 'Why not all heterosexual women?' - 'The vast majority of scientists and trained astronaut candidates are men. It’s the world we live in. Don’t like it? Encourage your female students to get into STEM. I’m not here to enact social equality. I’m here to do whatever’s necessary to save humanity.' - 'Still seems sexist.'”
"I put my hand to my chest in mock surprise. 'Goodness me! DuBois appears to be black! I’m surprised you allowed it! Aren’t you afraid he’ll ruin the mission with talk of rap music and basketball?'"
"I leaned to Dimitri. 'Are all Russians crazy?' - 'Yes,' he said with a smile. 'It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time.' - 'That’s…dark.' - 'That’s Russian!'"
“And can you tell the goddamned corrupt government officials in North Africa to stay out of the way?”
“'That part will be easy,' she said. 'When this is all over, those governments will keep the blackpanels. They’ll be the industrial-energy powerhouse of the world.'”
“See, there we go,” he said. “Save the world and permanently lift Africa out of poverty while we’re at it.
“'Why would New Zealand pay a bunch of money to help Africa?' I asked. 'Because we’re nice,' Redell said. 'Wow,' I said. 'I know New Zealand is pretty cool but—' - 'And it was going to be a New Zealand–owned company that charged for the power,' Redell said."
"We have an unspoken agreement that cultural things just have to be accepted. It ends any minor dispute. 'Do it my way because it’s how I was raised,' basically. We haven’t run into anything where our cultures clash…yet."
“We’re part of the ecology, Ms. Stratt. We’re not outside it. The plants we eat, the animals we ranch, the air we breathe—it’s all part of the tapestry. It’s all connected. As the biomes collapse, it’ll have a direct impact on humanity.”
"It’s Russian for 'vodka.' How do I know that? Because I spent months on an aircraft carrier with a bunch of crazy Russian scientists. I saw that word a lot."
"This screen is just three columns of white text on a black background. The left is all Chinese characters, the middle is Russian, and the right is English."
"We need to raise a strong, solid generation of survivors. Right now we’re soft. You, me, the whole Western world. We’re the result of growing up in unprecedented comfort and stability."
"Do you think the United States—the most powerful military force of all time—is going to sit idly by while half their population starves? How about China, a nation of 1.3 billion people that’s always on the verge of famines in the best of times? Do you think they’ll just leave their militarily weak neighbors alone?”
(this is a very superficial, implcomplete listing. everyone feel free to add on)
Quick and messy comic