cats are the priority

I guess a lot of people get really mad about Grace/Rocky shippers who characterize Adrian as being upset about their long lost partner coming home from space Irrevocably Changed and pack-bonded to a perpetually wet alien because they see "jealous partner" as an inherently feminine trope and therefore deem Rocky/Adrian "heteronormative" (???) but personally I think a) it's crazy to admit you only think women get jealous and are willing to assume other people gendered the genderless rock as a woman because they decided Adrian could/should be hurt by Rocky's infidelity and b) an Adrian who perfectly adjusts to Everything flawlessly with no complaints or friction is Weirder, to me. That guy doesn't have any thoughts or feelings of their own? They're just cool with whatever Rocky wants or needs and they're always perfectly in sync? That doesn't sound like a very complex character to me, it sounds like "Rocky's Mate who only ever wants whatever makes Rocky happy." I think an Adrian who doesn't immediately (or ever!) fall in love with Grace and has grown incompatible with Rocky but is still eager and willing to do the necessary work to keep Erid's First Sapient Alien Visitor alive, not for Grace as a person, or even for Rocky, but for Science or their own curiosity is more interesting, overall. They can still be friendly or whatever but there is just something that low key bums me out when an Adrian interpretation is really only ever a hyper-agreeable mirror of what Rocky wants. And I don't need to moralize that to make a point, I just think it's boring and lame 🤷