alright cowboy go get 'em

eddie diaz is just like. he's my sweetheart. my pretty princess. my baby. my little kitten. my specialest little guy (god's too). my pookiebear. my sopping wet stray puppy. my babygirl. my pumpkin pie. my sunshine. my angel. my little cowboy. my little cow boy. (they're different). my ethereal baby deer with the big brown eyes. my tormented voodoo doll pierced by a thousand pins. my delicate rose. my sweet cheese. my funtime boy. my little buddy. my precious sweetiepie. my dearest darling. my punching bag that i kiss apologetically every night. my thorny rose. my fallen angel. my everything.

okay hihi insane episode loved it what the fuck was it. THE PROMO.

when grace hugs rocky and rocky asks what's going on not in a fearful way — even though a hug could very easily be misinterpreted as a threatening gesture by a being unfamiliar with the concept — but because their friendship is so careful about understanding each other's cultures and doing what they can to ease the homesickness and loneliness of being lightyears away from your planet and species. and the way he asks if he should hug back in a kind of panicked way because he just wants to get this right for grace and share in this moment with him. they mean the world to me can u tell...

there is something so beautiful about rocky telling grace that 186 years with his mate is not long enough when grace says that it's a long time to spend together. grace a human who lives around 80 years if they're lucky and if they're not on a suicide mission to the stars. grace who can barely fathom living almost 200 years nevermind sharing all that time with another person. and then when grace is on erid and rocky hesitantly tells him that the hail mary is ready to return home grace asks if he can think about it and rocky jumps at the chance for more time with his best friend. says "yes! think about it for long time!" even though grace's life is a blink compared to the lifespan of an eridian. time being the first thing they shared with each other and both of them greedy for more :')

something so personal to me about grace taping the hail mary baseball cap to rocky's ball and drawing safety goggles on the xenonite when they're experimenting and the saviour of the universe hat grace makes for rocky during their celebration. the way these are such silly, unnecessary things to do but are so loaded with care and thoughtfulness. a way for grace to let rocky in on human culture but also a way for grace to merge their cultures because he knows eridians decorate themselves so meaningfully. giving rocky not only little pieces of humanity but little pieces of grace himself before they have to say goodbye.