Deervoidz

everyone gets onto eva stratt for the "think about it long time" vs. "you have three hours" thing but

operating on book canon a little bit: if grace couldn't do it-- if he said no*-- the alternative was to scramble and fly in the next most qualified volunteer, who had 0 training, 0 knowledge of astrophage, and was not an astronaut. three hours could have been three hours of training for that replacement. three hours could have been three hours of preparation for grace, if he said yes

eva stratt gave grace three hours. not to decide, necessarily, because the decision was going to be made the way it was no matter what. but three hours to come to terms with it, to grieve, to mentally prepare himself. three hours that could have been spent giving humanity a better chance to survive

she borrowed three hours that she didn't have to give grace space to process. to get himself together and come to her, teary-eyed but resolved, and say yes.

mysterious next door neighbors~

bonus:

You know, every time I draw something stupid, I think to myself "surely I can't top this!" And then somehow I draw something even dumber

I have a genuine question that I am curious to hear about the general consensus on. I figured I'd throw the question out to be discussed amongst the wider fandom. That being said, I request that any discussion be kept civil, and this is definitely a topic I could see getting kind of heated. Thank you in advance.

I recently saw someone refer to Grocky (Grace x Rocky, specifically in a romantic pairing) as proship. Due to the inherent connotation of the word proship and it's muddied definition over the years of modern fandom, I do believe we've found something of a gray area with this ship. Arguments could be made in favor of Grocky being a proship ("ship and let ship", interspecies/ monsterfucking, age gap), but it also doesn't inherently have some of the "dark" themes that proships typically have (incest, csa, p*dophilia, non-con, etc), so I'm curious as to the fandoms consensus.

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Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.