Erid minister of cultural affairs

all rocky plural all earth die we die we die

[stixy]

Bro is cooking

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[lotldraws]

hey don't worry? completely unrelated giant dump of heartwarming PHM doodles ok??

once again these are all from like the same two canvas files in procreate judging from the same color background. also straight up had a dream where grace and rocky figured out how to make gnocchi out of taumoeba hence the making gnocchi over a bunsen burner

[cookieekun]

[vespiday]

If Rocky hadn’t had the extra fuel do you think he would’ve tried bringing Grace back to Erid on the Blip-A (pretend the taumoeba don’t escape)

question

yes (ends catastrophically)

yes (they make it)

No (Grace left to die??)

Secret third thing

Voting ended onJun 3

[ghstwht]

Wow, this is so cool!! Link!

[ghstwht]

It is based on GAIA DR3!!! AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE!

[kyoukorpse]

i know rocky still technically got to play with the measuring tape in the movie but the way it happened in the book always makes me smile when I read it. :]

[aroace-ryland-grace]

I took this video at like 3 am last night and I can't stop laughing at it...whatever. go my rocky

[hailing-on-my-mary-til-i-project]

I feel like rocky being alone on the blip a for 46 years doesn't feel the way it was probably intended to feel.

I am guessing that it is supposed to be an overwhelmingly long amount of time, especially for grace and other humans (like the reader) who don't live as long as eridians, while also being impactful for rocky with his eridian lifespan.

But 46 is somehow too big of a number for "years of solitude in space" to matter to me.

It also sounds a little unrealistic? I don't feel like rocky would be at the stage of "knowledge about the system" that he is at when we meet him after 46 years. I feel like he would have much more info to share.

The number also feels too large in the context, to the point where its size stops mattering.

In my opinion, you could just as well have said "yeah rocky was up there for 300 years" and gotten the same effect.

So i am wondering

how long people think would seem appropriate for the "time that rocky was alone on the blip a"

0-5 years of solitude

6-10 years of solitude

11-15 years of solitude

16-20 years of solitude

21-25 years of solitude

26-30 years of solitude

31-35 years of solitude

36-40 years of solitude

41-45 years of solitude

the original 46 years of solitude

longer than 46 years of solitude

Voting ended onMay 6

[furo-contra-machina]

Am reading PHM after seeing and loving the film and I'm realizing that it is an academic's fantasy of getting kidnapped into your dream job with, oh no, all the resources and funding and exciting important space adventures! It's like fifty shades for asexual researchers

[vespiday]

So much art of Grace post canon/on Erid depicts him as like 20-30 years old & able bodied which makes me sad because seeing so much love for a canonically disabled older character is such a blessing!! I really wish the movie hadn’t taken out all the physical changes he went through in the book

like post-canon grace is in his 50s. his left arm is all burnt up. he survived severe malnutrition. he canonically uses a cane!! he uses mobility aids! that man should be wrinkly and have grey hair and missing teeth. to be loved is to be changed💥

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[vespiday]

It’s a little weird that Grace just assumed meeting Rocky was first contact for both humans and Eridians but I guess it kinda makes sense and is semi plot necessary. but there’s a way funnier version where Grace is like the tenth alien race Rocky has seen. He has no idea humans have never met other sentient aliens & is like “oh yeah the ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬s from the ₊˚♬ system should be here soon too yeah they also have a petrova line” and Grace is like “wait hold on what? who??” & Rocky’s like “??? the ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬s?? they won space hurling at last year’s interstellar olympics??” and Grace goes “LAST YEAR’S WHAT???”

[vespiday]

underappreciated instances of Rocky politely telling Grace to just please shut the fuck up

[vespiday]

Ryland “rides a bike to work and it’s not for exercise” Grace becoming the sole owner & operator of a $10 trillion spaceship

[cookieekun]

[vespiday]

very in favor of art depicting eridians cuddling with grace or each other but also a fan of the idea that eridians just don't really do that. they're mostly inorganic matter and covered in sensors for audio input so being touched is a little weird. they do their psionic connection thing to bond instead

which means they're just completely perplexed by grace's/human's constant need for touch. hugging? you just grab each other? why? grace will absentmindedly pat his students and even rocky or adrian sometimes. this leads to a new eridian culture trend of scuttling up to your friend and whacking them and going "Look! I'm a human!" and a subsequent conversation about if that's insensitive