Cosmic Tuesdays

God forbid women do anything

Wile E. Coyote, two milliseconds before he lights a match only to reveal he's surrounded by flammable traps he himself has set and the whole website explodes

#rolling myself around in the dirt thinking about how pre-canon grace intentionally crafted the persona of ''cool teacher''#so his kids would admire him#and post-canon grace doesn't HAVE that persona to fall back on#he's gross and leaky and knows nothing about eridian electricity or ANY pop culture references!#he has to actually listen to his students just as much - if not more - as they listen to him.#and wouldn't you know it. the kids like being listened to. [x]

rocky keeps a running list of rock-related idioms that grace uses and ranks which ones are his favourites/which ones are the most accurate

Book Rocky is so, so chewy because he's this deeply logical genius who doesn't let his emotions make choices for him (or so he tells himself, because it ends up being very easy to find a cold hard reason to do most everything he does), and doesn't like to linger on what he's been through even though it keeps making its way into casual conversation, and is so blase about experiencing the closest thing to hell his home planet has probably ever heard of but also so clearly traumatized and terrified and haunted but there's still the mission, and there's still the possibility of getting home with a solution so he has to keep himself together and be level headed and calculating and he does that. he does that very well. But then there are moments, like Adrian and the oxygen and Grace missing their timings and the leak and the tunnel and realizing that one of them has to die, where it slips, and he breaks, and he can't make it make sense it a way that's detatched from him and his pain and his fear and his love, and he acts on them. And it nearly kills him every time, because he should know by now that space doesn't care about anything but logic, but he forgot that for a moment among the blaring alarms and the deafening pound of Grace's heartbeat and the searing smoking cold and the silence and the silence that was all he knew for so many years, and it doesn't matter that he's been holding everything together for decades, because one mistake is all it takes, one bad risk, one terrified impulse, to undo everything.

#HE'S LITERALLYYYYYYYY HOLDING ON BY THE TINIEST HAIR BUT BY GOD HE HOLDS IT#and the counterweight to that tension is loyalty and duty and the counterweight to that tension is guilt and SHAME!!!!#cataclysmic amounts of shame if he ever actually let himself lose control#guy who recoils from open displays of sympathy. guy who would snap “don't PITY me” if he was holding himself this👌much less in check#GUY WHO CANONICALLY PUNCHES WALLS IN ANGER. IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT BOOK ROCKY PUNCHES WALLS IN ANGER