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This distinguished gentlebeast appears to be a Smooth-handed Ghost Crab (Ocypode cordimana)!
They are members of the Ghost and Fiddler crab family Ocypodidae, and have a highly varied diet of plant/algal matter, other invertebrates, vertebrates, eggs, and carrion. Theyāre opportunistic and will try to get anything they can eat!
This species is also widely distributed across the Pacific and Indian oceans, where they can be found most active at night on beaches. Like other ghost and fiddler crabs, they typically stay hidden in their burrows during the day to avoid predators.
Grapes, as shown here, make for a delightful treat for captive Ocypodes; however, it should only be a treat and part of a balanced and varied diet including fish pellets, shellfish (such as clams), and veggies.
Photo by Thomas Mesaglio (iNaturalist)
[ImageID: A small tan-and-beige ghost crab of the species Ocypode cordimana sitting on a sandy beach during evening hours. It has two large white claws with its right claw being slightly larger than the left. It has two black-colored eyes on eyestalks and a slightly pale pink-colored mouthparts called mandibles, maxillae, and maxilipeds. /. end ID]
I've divided recs into non-explicit and explicit categories, listed from shortest to longest word count. The fics are Grace-and-Rocky-centric and usually feature Eridian culture/worldbuilding.
Before we get started, I'm on the hunt for more aroace Grace, especially fics involving QPR Gracerocky or platonic sex. If anyone has recs, please let me know!!
NON-EXPLICIT FICS
i want us both to eat well by peglarpapers/@peglarpapers (Gen, 2k)
Grace and Rocky have very different cultural values regarding cannibalism. Culture shock, emotions, and cannibalism as a metaphor for love.
Leaving a Mark by startingatmidnight/@startingatmidnight (Teen & Up, 7k)
Grace got a crappy tattoo of the Drake equation in grad school and Eridians have strong cultural beliefs about body modification. Worldbuilding and emotions aplenty.
aren't you too old to be afraid? by spqr (Teen & Up, 8k)
Grace meets Rocky's parents and sees Rocky's pebble photos. Grace watches Home Alone with Adrian and has emotions about his barely-remembered childhood.
SCHEDULE B, SECTION 4: Declaration of exotic pet by doomedblade/@doomedblade (Teen & Up, 12k)
Rocky imports Grace to Erid as an exotic pet to keep Grace safe (and also to commit tax fraud). Flustered customs officials, Rocky's 93-person mate cluster, and general hilarity.
Without a Doubt by voidknight/@eldritch-elrics (Gen, 18k)
Grace learns how to speak linguistically complex Eridian. Regional Eridian accents, fun Eridian OCs, and language learning as an expression of friendship.
Lost in Translation by Mayasynth/@quekerahkerah (Teen & Up, 23k - Ongoing)
Grace remembers more of his backstory and has a gloriously messy aroace identity crisis. As an aro aspec person, this fic brought me to the verge of tears multiple times.
I'm Ryland Grace - AMA by sly_as_an_alpaca/@anxiette (Teen & Up, 23k - Ongoing)
Social media fic where Grace and Rocky, on Erid, get real-time access to Earth's Internet. Funny, delightful, thoroughly researched crack.
Co-Valence by Minimalistless (Mature, 26k)
Eridians believe forcing someone to sleep is a uniquely abhorrent crime, so Grace doesn't want Rocky to find out he was forced into a coma. Delicious hurt/comfort.
i beg to differ, said the red fox by deervsheadlights/@deervsheadlights (Teen & Up, 32k)
Rocky convinces Grace to go back to Earth, but Rocky doesn't go with him. Grace is Not Doing Well and has a haunting relationship with a still-living Stratt. Devastatingly sad.
The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight/@startingatmidnight (Teen & Up, 48k)
Rocky and Grace bodyswap on the trip to Erid! Body horror, gender contemplations, unhelpful muscle memory, and attempts to solve the bodyswap mystery with science.
EXPLICIT FICS
friend husband brother father by spqr (4k)
Rocky reads Oedipus Rex. Eridian family structures, Grace's sad childhood, and daddy kink as a vehicle for codependency.
It Is Imperative That The Cylinder Remains Unharmed by startingatmidnight/@startingatmidnight (5k)
Possibly the funniest smut I have ever read in my life. What if your first time with your alien bestie went catastrophically wrong and you imagined consulting Reddit about it.
the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles by spqr (5k)
Rocky is an excellent massage therapist. Featuring demisexual Grace, Karl Marx, erotic rain sounds, and delightfully weird sex.
plans for life by spqr (6k)
Rocky wants to get Grace pregnant. It's not a sex thing (kind of). Forays into engineering sex toys, a marriage proposal, and what it means to be part of a family.
Light-Permeable Solid by voidknight/@eldritch-elrics (7k)
Eridians don't experience sexual arousal and Grace is aroace, but he still has libido. My very favorite Gracerocky arrangement: intimate platonic sex! Yippee!!
The Scientific Method by Quarfield/@convocation-conduit (17k - Ongoing)
Rocky's eggs are stuck in his reproductive system (the author has a diagram) and he needs help expelling them. In most fics, Grace is a bottom, but here he's a service top.
pilot study (knowledge gaps) by deervsheadlights/@deervsheadlights (18k)
The sex pollen fic ever!! Aspec Grace being annoyed and alarmed by the sex-pollening, top-tier Rocky POV, wonderful prose, and a unique approach to Eridian arousal.
The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known by SerotoninShift/@juliana-jones (32k)
Grace isn't the only one who felt lonely on his home planet. Internalized ableism, Grace and Rocky being book-accurate jerks, and my fav take on Eridian non-reproductive sex.
leave this star-crossed world behind by grimark/@grimark (34k)
An excellent demisexual Grace character study. Exhibitionism, flashbacks to Grace's past failed romantic relationships, and Grace thinking really hard about The X-Files.
The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.
So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.
So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The bastards just worked out a deal on the package, and they're going to try and ram it through the House in the next couple of weeks.
So, if you've been waiting to call, the time is NOW. Do it ASAP, be polite, be informed, but light up those phones like a Christmas tree!
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Buncha new bullshit in my Etsy shop including uncensored homophobic Rocky keychains/stickers. Should be open to UK, Canada, and Mexico buyers now š«”
I'm pretty sure homophobic rocky got me shadowbanned or at the very least Fucking Decimated in the Etsy algorithm so a reblog would be much appreciated šš https://soldrive.etsy.com
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i cannot overemphasize how much joy gay and homophobic rocky brings me. bro arrived in the post yesterday and im going fucking bananas i love it so much
i genuinely just want to say thank you again for your grace portrayal. i had such a good time reading your fic last night that it gave me inspiration to write and iām in such a good mood today because of the impression you left on me. seriously, thank you, i feel like i found a needle in a haystack with you š
Aw thank you so much!! It was a treat reading your comments too :3
I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore š
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the appā¦. Which requires your login informationā¦.. and also stores your card information so even if you didnāt use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. Thatās how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So hereās what weāre gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didnāt actually want it, you just couldnāt see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you donāt want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If itās a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If itās a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
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it's only been a handful of months since the film came out and the film ao3 tag is already insanely big. as such, i'm definitely missing out on some great fics that by all rights ought to be on this list. if you've read something cool lately, please throw a reply under this list so i and others can check it out!
in the meantime, here's a bunch of authors i'm obsessed with who one day will receive a hugo award. or maybe already have, honestly. in this lineup i'd hardly be surprised.
GEN/TEEN
forever altered by @deervsheadlights (T)
Grace finds an extra bag of vodka. Rocky makes clear to us, the audience, that nobody has ever suffered so nobly for love like an Eridian having to be designated driver.
"I will not describe the next 1,042 seconds in any further detail, because the very reminder of it leaves my insides writhing in ways that make me consider whether there could be kindness in the embrace of the void waiting beyond the Hail Mary's hull."
better than your best by Goldmonger (T)
One of the best explorations of Rocky's trauma relating to sleeping alone for nearly half a century, using some great additions to Eridian biology and culture to get those feelings out in the open.
"You canāt build while youāre sleeping, but you can die. You can die for no reason at all."
The Chain (Keeps Us Together) by @bottommattmurdock (G)
Vignettes of conversations during the long, boring task of making a chain, and two aliens becoming besties4life. As the author says, it's extremely 'delirious at the sleepover' vibes, in the best way possible.
"Grace eats a breakfast burrito. Throwing himself out of the airlock has been postponed. For now."
silence more musical than any song by @hansdevice (G)
Rocky's years alone on the Blip-A, trying to engineer himself out of an impossible problem. Incredible characterisation of someone who's only surviving by pushing their skills and competence to the bitter limits, and still not succeeding despite it.
An amazingly detailed and well-researched dig into linguistics that, in the PHM tradition, finds a tender story in the exploration of a really dense subject.
"'Does Grace feel like the dictionary is cucking him?' Rocky says in the placid tones of the TTS."
MATURE/EXPLICIT (UNDER THE CUT)
evil alien space pirate by @serenfire (E)
This is a placeholder for basically any of serenfire's fics; grace pretty, rocky stare and rocky curious too are also all-timers! But while both of those fics are fantastic, I can't not put the main spotlight on the world's least convincing pirate roleplay. The perfect example of writing two characters who love each other and are absolute saps and have never stopped arguing literally once in their life.
"Yes,"Ā says Rocky scaldingly, pouncing on the moment of indecision.Ā "I do much for you and your sweaty, leaky body and get no appreciation, just requests. 'What if it taste like pizza? Oh, Rocky, Rocky, come to monitor room, have to show you beach again so you can understand full importance of margarita!' Well, since Grace not taking brainstorming meeting seriously, why not continue to make contraption to make Grace sweat and leak all over himself more?"
phenomenal nominal nothing by @grimark (M)
Grace's first taste-test of me-burger, taken to the best possible extremes. grimark is another author whose fics could just be the whole list. This fic is the example because there's a line in here (that I won't put as the below line, to preserve the joy of discovery) that I'm pretty sure is the most *gunshot sound* line in PHM fic history. You'll know it when you see it.
"'Gonna hand-feed it to me?' Grace says, with the intonation that means heās making a joke."
i'm your man by @andthepeople (E)
And three in a row; again, spqr physically cannot write a bad fic. The limelight goes to a fic that is, I have to presume, the first erotic use of a belt sander in the history of literature.
"Grace gathers that usually there would be a greater variety of minerals involved; Rocky asks him if he has any charnockite, and then he asks if he has any phyllite, and then he asks, in a tone like heās rolling his eyes, if Grace has any metamorphic rock of any kind whatsoever on theĀ Hail MaryĀ or if they just shot him into space completely unprepared."
The Scientific Method by @convocation-conduit (E, WIP)
I truly started out with a rule to not include any WIPs on this list, but it's at 4/5 and I couldn't not include it. Rocky's in need of help and it's going to involve chlorine gas, skintight plasticised xenonite, a bunch of Eridian leg spreaders, and everyone being totally normal about what Grace thinks might just be sex. The author's actively produced detailed anatomical diagrams for this fic, because this is the fandom of incisive attention to scientific detail while still being funny as fuck. Example!
"Rocky loves bowling. Rocky is probably a bigger fan of bowling than any human who's ever lived. Given the choice to either teleportĀ MaryĀ to Erid or himself to the nearest Splitsville Lanes, I think Rocky would not only choose Splitsville, but claim it as sovereign Eridian territory and live there. He mimics the moves he sees on tutorials. He hates pro coverage because the commentators talk over the āsong of the ballā (I have no idea what this means), and he doesn't even care about scoring. Anytime ball meets pin, Rocky's hopping around squealingĀ āYes. YES. Kill,āĀ with a glee that maybe slightly concerns me."
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