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grace 100% needs fire in his enclosure, both because its genuinely important and because i want the eridians to freak the fuck out forever
grace like "okay buddy hear me out because you are nOT gonna like this. I gotta heat my food. It's the literal evolutionary basis of my people. We have two options."
"Yes yes yes."
"....fire or radiation."
*unholy screeching*
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I do think it would be kind of funny if Eridian media, like Earth media, sort of tends to go through phases. Like you know how sometimes 100% evil vampires are all the rage, and then sometimes they're sympathetic tortured antiheroes, and sometimes it's all vampire romances, and etc?
So like, with the stars dying, I'm thinking Eridian media might have gone on a whole "aliens are bad bad bad out there killing stars and wanting to eat Erid" and etc trend for their sci-fi. Long ballads about what are essentially evil Eridians with the equivalent of prosthetics doing terrible things to the galaxy and brave heroes like Rocky going off to stop them. Because y'know that's probably how you'd conceptualize a huge scary conflict like total cosmic annihilation in a way that makes it seem beatable: designate a bad guy you can just defeat in order to stop it.
But then Grace and Rocky get to Erid and that trend gets immediately flipped. Turns out that there were kind of bad aliens, the astrophage and all, but that's more like a natural disaster, and hero Rocky has returned with the weirdest, nicest alien ever. Erid media suddenly rockets back to a prior era of optimistic sci-fi previously considered intolerably twee and cringe after the solar disaster kicked off, where the aliens are always nice nice nice, incredibly weird and sometimes goofy as fuck but friendly and not the bad guys.
Of course you never get full consensus on these things, so there are also creative Eridians who are like. But what if evil humans question? Evil humans posing as saviors infiltrate Erid and replace Eridians with pods that hatch into creepy non-Erid rock monsters question? Evil human comes to Erid under guise of niceness and KILLS Eridians question???
Which is broadly considered like. Holy shit dude stop being gauche the nice alien saved the planet stop fucking writing stories where his skeleton cracks open like a nest of evil eggs and turns into a bunch of monsters! Rude, statement! Aliens very nice statement!
And like at first all the Eridian scientists are very sure to keep this sort of stuff away from Grace, they don't want to insult him or imply that he's being slandered in their media or anything. And again overall the popular trend turns a lot more to aliens-as-friendly, especially if they're expressly humans, and the sci-fi writers of Erid are having a total BLAST speculating about Earth and writing stories about it and etc, Grace seems to very much enjoy answering questions for the ones who want to keep things accurate and chuckling and enthusing over the creativity of the ones who don't. He's like, oh yeah they are definitely also doing this back on Earth, don't worry.
Researchers laughing and nervously just being like, yes of course, this is the full extent of it, not to worry! Normal thing which humans are also doing!
Until one day Rocky just brings Grace a recording of a full-blown Eridian horror sci-fi where Grace HIMSELF is EXPLICITLY a horrible monster that goes on a killing spree and tries to destroy Erid.
The other researchers are losing their shit. RoCKY?!?! WHY QUESTION??? Oh fuck Grace is going to be so upset! He's such a sensitive soul he doesn't even like it when one of his students gets distressed!
Anyway Grace thinks it's hilarious and Rocky gets to be smug about it for months.
My personal headcanon is that there's a Power Word for every possible state a person can be in.
Sure, wizards focus on the combat useful ones like "Power Word Kill" or "Power Word Pain", but there's also "Power Word Mascot Costume", "Power Word Gay", "Power Word Having A Nice Cup Of Tea", "Power Word Bankrupt", etc.
I’ve seen art and fics with Grace having permanently lost teeth because of that uncomfortable stint with All The Malnutritions, and it got me thinking… What would an Eridian’s perspective be about that?
Modern commercials trying to sell you dental stuff (at least in the USA) like to peddle the idea that having a visibly-complete set of pearly-white neatly-aligned teeth is like, a foundational support for your self-image and thus your self-esteem. I think it might be cool if Eridians have an entirely different view of this, aesthetically-speaking.
After all, those human mouth rock things are specifically for eating. If you’re standing really close to Grace, you might even hear bits of *shudder* FOOD still attached to them. There are so many of them. Do you really HAVE to have all of those??? And they’re all sitting in there so… so… bilaterally-symmetrical. That Shit Is Creepy. Put Those Away Please.
When some of them fall out (and finding a way to replace them safely is middle-to-low tier on the List Of Grace Health Concerns), that might actually be a tiny bit *less* unnerving to Eridians. After all, somewhat-jagged and uneven protrusions on somebody’s outer carapace are natural and expected! That’s *normal*! In certain configurations, that’s even considered attractive by Eridian standards, like a human having a cute arrangement of freckles or hair with streaks of a different color in it!
Grace possessing neat double-rows of semi-internal carapace-protrusions was just an extra layer of highly-unnecessary uncanniness to Eridians that he Really Did Not Need, honestly.
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Skirt grace + eridian style accessories yesssssss
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so so so unbelievably glad ppl are getting on my “post-canon ryland grace becomes the teacher who wears long swishy skirts and jingles when he walks” agenda. i salute you soldier and your contribution to our cause o7
was walking across the parking lot, almost back to my building, started experiencing a weird stinging sensation against my knee. figured hair got caught in seam or something. yanking at pants did not help. not going to take my goddamn pants off in public? must reach building first. someone comes in with me. shared elevator ride. knee still stinging. still can't strip. this is fine. i will endure. back to floor. into room. smacking leg again while turning key, fruitlessly. stinging continues. stagger inside. pants off immediately.
bee flies out. what.
bee never left. fell asleep somewhere. it’s the next morning and i hear buzzing.
This came to me in a vision and I simply must share it immediately.
Eva Stratt doesn't go to jail for the things she did during the creation of the Hail Mary. She doesn't go to jail because she forced Ryland Grace aboard the ship against his will. No, she can't. She has diplomatic immunity concerning anything to do with the project.
What she goes to jail for, is releasing Ryland Grace's full video logs to the public after the World Government Leaders decide to try to edit and bury them.
She lets them put handcuffs on her, lets them carry her off to spend the rest of her life behind bars because she refuses to let the memory of Ryland Grace, the man who saved Earth (and Erid) be tainted. She's a historian, and this is her way of making sure the man she betrayed gets his story put into record properly.
It's the least she can do for him, after all she forced him to do.
in many projects, there is a Guy That Everyone Likes.
he is often quite skilled in his own right, but his main role ends up being Guy That Everyone Likes. running messages between departments gets a lot easier when nobody wants to shoot the messanger. everyone is happier whrn someone they like is in the room, and meetings go smoother when people are enthused about their work, that kind of thing.
grace was one of these guys.
i dont know when or if stratt ever confessed to basically blackbagging and murdering the Guy That Everybody Liked, but i think under the shock and pride and whatever else she was feeling in the meeting room with the rest of the original admin on the 26th anniversary, when ryland goes from "AHHH THE ALIENS COULD BE SENDING BOMBS AT ME" to buddy comedy roommate shenanigans with best friend rocky in what feels 10 minutes, she was pretty satisfied with her decision.
Keeping @startingatmidnight ’s excellent tags. Grace likes people, so people like him. It does translate right across the universe.
You could say that he is adept in
Social Graces.
ctrl+f is one of the greatest things to happen to academia and indeed this world
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Do you think after they send the taumeoba samples to Venus and the apocalypse is averted, there are people back on Earth who are like "See, this is why we should pay teachers more"
The United Educators of San Francisco do a press release at some point that's like "Former UESF union member Dr. Ryland Grace has officially saved the planet, proving once again that teachers are undervalued"
#however long round trip transmission time takes they get a message from Grace:#former?? :( (via @one-true-houselight)
With all love and respect to Dr. Grace, he has not paid any union dues in over 30 years.
philomena cunk doing a documentary about project hail mary. do you see my visions.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Really really tiny PHM headcanon:
At some point, Grace and Rocky learn together that Rocky can do a perfect imitation of the human “record-scratch” sound effect.
Grace finds this delightful, while Rocky is a little bemused at why Grace considers this to be a notable talent, but he’s happy that Grace is happy.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need a "This is absolutely NOT mature content" feedback button on posts. You can report a post as missing a community label. We should also be able to report posts as having a community label when they dont fucking need one.
What if Eridians get darker when they are stressed? And the discolouration stays with them forever. Tattoos are just excess carapace chipped away. Grace's students at the end of the movie are all different shades of the rainbow, with only little spots of darkness. Rocky
Rocky is almost entirely covered in brown. He only has little spots of teal poking out.
46 years of stress on his shell.
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everyone talks abt how adrian and rocky are roger and jessica rabbit and how rocky bagged a baddie and shit but what if,,, it was the other way around,,,,,,
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I would LOVE to know if Eridians have an equivalent of Legos, and if so, what exactly those look like.
Little pebble Rocky would’ve gone WILD with unrestricted access to Earth Legos. Heck, I’m sure *grown-up* Rocky would enjoy that a lot.
