Where am I going????

Eva Stratt, I wouldn’t let her touch the thermostat

She’s way too cold and I don’t care if she’s old

You don’t just stab people in the back and put them in a sack

Hope your life is hell, your house ablaze, I’ll be over here saying Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

Eva Stratt— you’re so good with history you better write it down, I’m your number one enemy

He might’ve forgotten, but I’ll remember forever that your heart is rotten

You better look behind, run don’t jog, and by the way you don’t even have a dog

You’re to blame for Grace displacement, sleep with one eye open cause I’ll be watching you, statement

Stay the fuck away from Grace or I’ll fucking send you to space

If he makes a single frown, I will hunt you down

He already fucking told you he’s not an astronaut, for that I’ll meet you at a Denny’s parking lot

So I made a list.

Reasons why friend Grace's eyes leaked this Eridian cycle:

One of the students gave him a carving of Earth. It was lopsided and the continents were wrong, but Grace held it to his chest and his eyes started leaking. It looked like the round-soft-thing he gave me when we first said goodbye.

He found out 🎶🎵🎶(he calls them lizards) are often pets here. His voice warbled to a pitch nearly too high for humans to reach.

He told me the rocks here have color. He studies them in his biodome and calls them “beautiful.” He informed me I have color beyond black-brown-medium-smooth-stone. “Blue,” Grace said in that voice he uses when he is feeling sad but not-sad at the same time. “Like the ocean.”

He tried a new recipe with a new version of his recycled tissue meat. Humans are still disgusting when they eat, but he was happy with the taste.

He remembered that 🎶🎵🎶are pets here and asked if they are ever dressed up. I told him that sometimes children will make collars for them out of smooth stones.

I finally finished the xenonite suit and knocked on his door. For the first time, there was no wall separating us. I told him to kneel down (humans are so tall) and I wrapped my limbs around him and squeezed. I could feel his breath catch, his body shake (fragile fragile fragile), and he used his two grabbing limbs to wrap around my carapace and cling.

“Sorry, I’m leaking everywhere,” he said, voice thick. “I know it’s gross.”

“Not gross,” I said, even though it always is. But Grace can leak on me anytime he wants. “This is good?” The concept of hugging is so strange to us. But I could feel his heart fluttering, could see the way his body’s core temperature spiked and then smoothed out, calming.

“Yeah,” he said, sniffling. “Thanks, bud.”

I gave him this list. He can read my language now, can speak it well too with the help of his portable Earth thinking machine and the sing-speak instrument our musicians have given him. I heard him laugh and even the sound was wet. "C'mere," he said, and I was wrapped in his strange arms again. He pressed his face to my xenosuit, and I held him tight. Another hug. I would hug him everyday, just to make him happy. He is so fragile, nothing to protect his soft, strange skin. He almost died on the way here and now I can listen to his heart beating, strong and steady. I feel mine pounding in response. He can't hear it, but they say, Love love love.

inspired by that one reddit post

as promised, the spy x fam parody AU

I had some fun thinking about this like 2 years ago and only made a couple of sketches at the time.. but then I started cleaning them up last month and before I knew it, it spiraled out of control to become this monstrosity. I can't help it, as you can all tell by now, I love coming up with scenarios to get all my little guys interacting with each other

some details i didn't put in:

the Kudou parents are absent like in the show

whatever is happening on Haibara's end is probably super messed up but I haven't thought of any of the details

Akai gets fancy tech stuff, like the voice changer, from Agasa. Agasa comes to help babysit Conan sometimes and he gives him all his little gadgets. Akai hasn't said anything about it but figures he could use it considering the amount of crime he comes across

the facility shinichi was in is like in the original story, it exists to research esp to create super soldiers which is why he knows everything he knows

Conan regularly eavesdrops on Akai and Rei's top secret phone calls which is how he learns their real names. He can't help it, he has really good hearing

PHM x Artemis II photoshoot thingy!

based off of two tweets (see below)

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

For one, humans on Earth likely continued to breed astrophage, trying to minimize its range or damaging effects - any number of things. Rendering it sterile would be ideal, of course, but it was likely impossible until the mission succeeded. You can damn well bet your ass Stratt was out there chaining scientists to workbenches, trying to find or force a silver lining. She wouldn't be wrong: Astrophage IS an excellent source of fuel, which means it has great potential. PLUS!! the discovery of Taumeba gives you a way to control it.

Erid is only 16 light years away.

Imagine humanity pulled back from the brink, striving together to produce not one but TWO (at least!) huge joint efforts to save ourselves and each other. Project Hail Mary was followed the Taumeba Project, surely. The world comes together again.

I, however, like to imagine there was a third plan.

I think meeting Eridians became a worldwide obsession. Ryland Grace's legacy can be nothing but a collective triumph, though his contact with intelligent alien life is somehow second to saving the Earth and who knows how many other systems. Once saved, the next major project would surely be meeting our interplanetary friends. How would we say "hello"?

Let's say Earth's initial overture is a simple probe, Voyager style. What do you send? Well, they know Grace may still be out there, or at least was/is known to Eridian culture. He's the one link; the only common element.

The probe launches, and what it's full of is love for Ryland Grace. His childhood pictures. Interviews with his students. Thousands of statues and dedications and documentaries. Videos of worldwide celebrations of the Day of Grace. Kids' drawings of Rocky with laboriously-written thank you notes, thick with crayon so the Eridians can see. We love him too. We love you already.

Given their longevity, I imagine Rocky and Adrian opening the probe together, trilling over memories of their old friend. Stories they only heard about secondhand or not at all. Joy and triumph and thankfulness and hope, all in one small interstellar package. Amaze amaze amaze.

Rocky introducing Grace to other Eridians like