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although I figure (and HOPE tbh) that if food is pretty taboo on Erid that Grace doesn't...? give ppl food based names...? but maybe cultural difference. maybe it's modern and fashionable some places idk
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During the trip to Erid Rocky understandably gets super curious about Earth’s alien media. Wants to know what humans have imagined aliens like. And Grace is a movie nerd who’s happy to oblige. He hits some of the iconic highlights—E.T. (Rocky likes this one), Alien (Rocky hates this one), Star Wars (Rocky is mostly just politely confused by this one, which is heartbreaking to Grace), Star Trek (Rocky is endeared by this one. It’s heartening to see human media that imagines a future where humans and aliens are exploring the stars together and doing science. He likes Spock, and he likes Geordi, but he also REALLY likes the Horta.)
And then they get to Avatar (the blue people one)
and Rocky learns a brand new fact about his friend
Ryland Grace has VERY, VERY STRONG opinions about Avatar’s font choice
The resulting “nanopasta” can then be spun into a tiny mat about 2 centimetres across. While it isn’t intended as food, Clancy says that it should be safe to eat, but is reticent to talk about having tried it. “It’s an ethical quandary to talk about scientific self-experimentation,” he says. “But, hypothetically, one might expect it to be chewier than you’d expect.”
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“I mean—I mean, no, Ilyukhina brought it up, but. Apparently lots of people think this.”
Stratt sighed. “Is there a problem with your coworkers, Dr. Grace?”
“They think I’m sleeping with you!” It felt irrational to be getting worked up about this—oh no, your coworkers think you’re sexually active and sleeping with the most powerful woman in the world, the horror. But now I was also getting worked up about Stratt not being particularly worked up about it too.
“Have people been saying things to you about this?” she asked, still extremely not worked up about it.
“I mean,” I said. “Uh. Mostly no. I only learned about it today.”
“Was anyone pressuring you, making uninvited or invasive comments, distracting you or themselves from your jobs?”
“Well, Ilyukhina made a joke,” I said. “But that’s just how she is.”
“I can have a talk with her, then,” Stratt said, and returned to the invoices.
“I think she felt a little bad because she did drop it,” I added, feeling like I needed to defend Ilyukhina’s honor. “It’s not—it’s that lots of people think this.”
“You’ve said,” Stratt said, clearly exasperated. “So what’s the problem?”
“What do you want me to say? People think I’m having sex with you!”
“Yes!” she snapped. “People think that. And I’m asking you what part of that is making you so upset. Are they concerned because they think I’m taking advantage of you?”
“What? No! No—or, jeez, I don’t think so. Not that anyone said.”
“Are they accusing you of taking advantage of me?”
“No!”
“Are you interested in another woman on the project and you’re concerned she’ll think you’re already taken?”
“No!” Why was every suggestion Stratt came up with such a nightmare?
“Are you interested in a man on the project, and you’re concerned he’ll think you’re straight?”
“What?”
“I am trying to determine what the problem here is,” Stratt said. “If nobody is bothering you, nobody is making accusations of sexual coercion, and it’s not interfering with any actual sexual interests you have—then why are you being so insistent? What do you want me to say?”
“I…” I didn’t know. I guess I wanted her to commiserate, maybe. Acknowledge that it was stupid and wrong and they were stupid and wrong for thinking it.
She stared at me for a few seconds, then sighed, put down her papers, and rubbed her eyes. “Dr. Grace, are you trying to ask if I want to have sex with you? Is that what this is about?”
“No!” I whined. “That is—that is not what this is about.”
“Then what is it about?”
I stared fixedly at the titanium reports. “I don’t know,” I eventually mumbled. “Just, it doesn’t bother you? That people think that?”
“Dr. Grace, if I let it bother me what people think about me, I would not be able to make this project happen.” She paused, and waited for me to look up at her. I was regretting ever raising the topic, but when I met her eyes again, she didn’t look annoyed anymore. Just tired. “People will think what they want. I thought you, of all people, would know how to handle people thinking unfair things about you.”
It’s not like I haven’t given myself this pep talk before, or had conversations like this with students before. It’s not like I didn’t know this. And it’s not like people thinking I was… with… Stratt changed anything about my life. But it still felt like something deeply weird and wrong that I was desperate to correct.
“It doesn’t hurt at least a little, though?” I asked. “When people are just… really convinced they’re right, like they know who you are better than you do and you’re just lying about yourself for no reason?”
“Lots of things hurt,” Stratt said. “And people think unhelpful things all the time. But until it interferes with what they actually do, then they’re just thoughts, and all you can do in response is write it off as their own problem to deal with and refuse to dwell on it.”
“Inspirational.”
“The world is dying. It’s the only way to get through the day.”
I managed a halfhearted grimace. “That does put it in perspective.”
“Mm.” Stratt took a sip of her coffee, which I knew was not decaf and definitely was not healthy this late at night. “If it helps at all,” she added, “I know we’re not…” Her lips twitched into what was almost a smile. “…‘together.’ And I’m entirely happy to keep it the way it is.”
From someone else it could have been an insult. From her, I think it was genuinely meant as a reassurance. And darn it, it really did feel like one. “It does help, a little,” I said. “Thanks.”
Everyone else dismounted and trooped across the ditch as well, until they were standing around me in a half circle. I opened my eyes for a moment to look at their boots, then closed them again.
one text that gutted me and which I (not tag diving for my equanimity) haven't seen mentioned..? is All Summer In A Day, which involves the Sun, Venus, and ever present clouds.
Like THAT'S what gets me most about his getting shot into space (valid) -- his three last days drugged to insensibility - the kind of devastating loss caused by planetary conjuction type events (except that for Grace it's forever -- unless we add in wormhole transport)
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I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.
I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.
There's this thing I never realized I did when I was doing it that I like to think of as "Ownership of Space"
And it's that thing where you mentally place yourself as the second, auxiliary party to someone else that you consider to be "In Charge" of whatever space or occupation or responsibility you are assigned to
And when you are IN that mindset, it *feels* like you're being responsible. It *feels* like you're being respectful, and helpful, and contributing to the load.
But what you don't SEE- because it *feels* like deference- is that the other person who you're seeing as The Authority you report to- by being assigned that role, has also been assigned the invisible load of BEING YOUR MANAGER.
This is by FAR most commonly seen in husband-and-wife relationships, where the man says, "just tell me what I can do to HELP- you don't have to do it all by yourself, but it's like you won't even tell me when you NEED help. You just do everything and then get mad at me for not doing it first. I can help clean. I can help with the kids. I can help"
But I also see it- and am guilty myself of doing it- at work, at school, in public- that mental, "this is THEIR space, and i will be respectful and helpful to THEM"- without realizing that subservience in this manner isn't actually a good thing. That it actually shifts the burden of responsibility to the other person. That aspect was totally invisible to me.
I didn't understand that when I was told, "if you see something that needs to be done, just DO it", or, "take the initiative", what they ACTUALLY meant was, "I am not above you", or "you have equal say in what kind of environment you want to live or work in", or "I do not want full control over what happens here, I do not want to order you around, I do not want to be in charge, what I WANT is to co-command WITH you"
Being in The Assigned Authority position NOW, that is all so much clearer.
I am the senior member of my team at work, and now, every time I train a newbie, every time I finish catching them up to speed and giving them a list of everything that needs to be done, my next big hurdle seems to always be, "now take pride in the space when I'm not around". "Now don't assume I'll tell you when something is due or what orders to plan things in".
Now, having been on both sides of the struggle, I can appreciate the sticking points here
TO THE PERSON "IN CHARGE": The person deferring to you doesn't understand the invisible labor you're doing. They genuinely believe you know more, you WANT more, you see things they don't, and that they are being respectful and good by staying out of your way and waiting on your orders. THAT is the bit that's not clicking.
TO THE PERSON "WANTING TO HELP": "Help" implies that you are providing assistance to a problem that belongs to somebody else. Stop thinking like that. Understand that the problem belongs to BOTH of you equally, and consider what kind of shared space you BOTH want. What is your SHARED GOAL? Not THEIR goal, but a goal that belongs to you too. Own your space.
This is not a Commander-Lieutenant problem. This is a Partnership problem.
You Are Co-Commanders On This Ship
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