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Maggie-26-she/they-lesbian Just a huge nerd

[fancycake]

Rocky and Grace are yelling at each other. Rocky stops mid argument to demand that Grace put on his angry eyebrows. Grace immediately stomps to the whiteboard, stomps back over with the dry erase marker, draws angry eyebrows on the xenonite ball. the argument continues

[cat-has-arrived]

do you think when grace stretches rocky says “oooh, big stretch!” like humans do when they see an animal stretch

[kentodreaming]

gracerocky moments that make me smile and/or giggle (pg. 272 / pg. 273 / pg. 274 / pg. 280 / pg. 281 / pg. 286 / pg. 287)

[lesbojughead]

this is the only thing i’ve ever had any faith in

[xxthedeadgodxx]

soulmates/red line of fate or whatever.

[stellernorth]

haiku of despair

[necromancelena]

Computer loves to be like "fuck! You sure you want to shut down? Youve got volume mixer open"

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[sagankid]

GRACE ROCKY SAVE STARS

[ssopimir]

oh okay

[puncertainty]

a leap of faith !

[myshanya]

Was absolutely delighted by the concept of Eridian organized sports, so wrote this ficlet inspired by @rockrockgrace & their stone skipping sport art. fic + link under the cut!)

Gen / Grace & Rocky

Grace likes to be an active citizen. He'd taught civics two semesters when Mme. Landry went to maternity leave. He voted! He thinks he phone banked for Obama in college. He definitely had the shirt.

So when the telegram arrives inviting him and Rocky to be ambassadors to the Eridian Olympics, he's totally fired up at the chance to contribute to something with a civic spin.

Eridians don't vote, and even if they did, Grace is fairly sure he not a citizen of Erid. He has some kind of fuzzy legal status he tries not to think too deeply about because it makes him panic. The implications of it all freak him the heck out.

Unrelated to this, Grace rarely turns down invitations for public appearances.

"They want us to do a medal ceremony at the Olympics?!" Grace says, sitting up with interest and squinting at the invitation Rocky has thrown onto the table. Written Eridian is still a little bit of a nightmare for him, but he can see his name, and Rocky's and and a lot of titles after that, which means it's an official invite.

"What is that, question. Need word," Rocky grumbles. He absolutely hates being reminded of his status as the Savior-Survivor of Erid. He's definitely got some PTSD, but the little guy has a computer for a brain so without access to Eridian Task Manager he's a little out of his depths on that..

"Oh, uh, Olympics. It's a big competition where humans play sports and see who's the best," Grace says, deciding he'll skip the mythology part, and the oil wrestling.

"You said that was FIFA," Rocky says accusingly, and Grace groans. Rocky had gotten very into FIFA during their trip — he had gone wild when Senegal had beaten France in the 2002 tournament.

"It is!" Grace says "But that's one sport – this is a whole bunch,"

"Like Redbull Extreme Sports Ultimate 2010 Adrenaline Championship, question," Rocky asks, perking up.

"You watched that?" Grace asks, because he didn't even know that was a thing. His only real associations with Red Bull is throwing it up after mixing it with vodka.

"Yes, Rocky like," Rocky chitters with the noise Grace classes as a giggle. "Humans go fast, climb high, not fall. Grace could not join" Rocky says, and shakes his carapace in a way Grace can only describe as pitying

"Rude!" Grace replies, "I think anything we did getting the Taumoeba sample from Adrian is way cooler than the Redbull Extreme whatever,"

"Grace would break every bone in body," Ricky says, ignoring him , and then perking up in delight as he says "Rocky would have to replace entire skeleton,"

"Why did you get excited at the end, huh? My bones work great," Grace says.

"Not good for Erid gravity, Rocky could design better," Rocky says with a noise like two pumice stones rubbing together, a sot of raspberry mixed with a scoff.

Grace is tempted to agree. His knees really hurt.

"I think tendons and stuff are also part of the issue," He says thoughtfully.

Rocky raises two vents and shakes his carapace like a dog, smug pride clear. "Rocky fix tendons, easy easy. Grace want Xenonite bones could do surgery in…maybe four weeks,"

"Lets put a pin in that," Grace says "Don't think you're getting away with trying to change the subject,"

"Fine. What Grace want to know about stupid sports festival, question"

"What do they do at these games?" Grace asks "I don't think we talked much about sports,"

"That's because Grace is nerd and not athletic," Rocky says, and Grace gently aims a kick at him.

"Don't be a brat. Tell me about the games," Grace chatises, and Rocky huffs.

"Ugh. Normal sports," Rocky says after a few moments.

"Normal for you, buddy, not to me!"

"Running, hunting, chasing, team games," Rocky says "Like human thing,"

"Yeah, the idea might be the same but the sports aren't. Like you guys won't have the swimming," Grace says, imagining a group of Earidians in synchonized swimming costumes. It makes him grin.

Rocky grumbles, and says "you will like ♫♪♫,"

"what's ♫♪♫?" Grace says, his whistle back a little off but understandable. Damn his lack of airsacks.

"…You would call it cannon assisted stone skipping," Rocky says, and Grace bolts up, a huge grin curling across his face at the idea.

"You've been holding out on me, Rock," Grace says, "Maybe you're the nerd who doesn't like sports," and Rocky explodes into an annoyed sound and clacks three of his claws like the worlds most attitude filled crab.

"No! Rocky cool and fun guy, statement," He argues.

"Fine, well, cool and fun buddy, I'm making…well, not popcorn, but something crunchy for a snack. We're doing a sports day," Grace declares "Statement. Non-negotiable,"

"Disgusting bossy human," Rocky grumbles, calling him several variations of a wet mouthed dickhead, but he turns on the TV away.

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Art inspiration below! :)

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[rockrockgrace]

Do you think Eridians have some sort of 'rock skipping' sport, where the ones with flatter carapace shoot themselves across a lake and and the ones that go the farthest/have the best form win? Kind of like human diving competitions, but horizontal??

YOU'RE A GENIUS YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT

(It's one of Grace's favourite Eridian Sports!)

[cloudabserk]

i know we just met but i’ve been thinking about you my whole life

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[revvetha]

I am loved! 😊 [white knuckle gripping the sink unable to meet my own bloodshot eyes]

[infectiouspiss]

disabled ppl we need to start lying to nosy people okay? you tell me i'm too young to need a cane and i will tell you point blank that maybe you should tell that to the guy who ran me over. you don't get an explanation of my health issues you get lies and depending on how much of an asshole i want to be that lie will be anything from a humble car crash to a 1 billion lions attack. mind yr business.

[infectiouspiss]

"i could never live like that" well maybe you'll have to because this happened overnight. yeah you heard me i was the most able bodied man in the world but then one morning bam i woke up disabled. yeah you could have that too. there's no cure either you'll just wake up one morning and now you have to live like me

[infectiouspiss]

"what happened" well have you ever seen looney tunes? yeah an anvil landed on me and squished me flat.

[unclefather]

genuinely sickening to think about how men pop up out of holes in the ground and you have to swing a mallet and hit them over the head to get them to stop