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ill be drawing him sexy every day till he wins ok :)

(edit: i decided to go back and mess w the colors and values a bit more, u can see the original under the cut tho)

”Senshi cant be a tumblr sexyman because no one ships him with himself” extremely fixable problem actually

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

Not as formative as Latin maybe but there were tones and cadences that would carry between concepts. Rocky’s ship had a sort of dictionary on it and Grace was slowly working his way through the “A”s now that he had enough of a basic grasp of the grammar and syntax. Which was more like thinking in octaves and rhythms. Their method of writing was even somewhat similar to what Grace knew of musical notation, sort of. Not with time signatures and bars exactly, but with octave and rhythm indicators similar to music notes. It was like translating into math but each equation sang itself to you.

Grace laughs to himself whenever he finds an Eridian phrase that maps onto an English translation “alphabetically”. Like how Agate begins with A in English and is part of the primary note group that leads this section of words (the equivalent “A” section of Rocky’s dictionary). So when he gets to the phrase for “Atonal” he is surprised at some of the alternate definitions.

In Eridian, the concept of “traditional” tonality carries with it cultural connotations. Notes are arranged and language constructed itself around that hierarchy so the lack of “reference to key or tonal center and using the tones of the chromatic scale impartially” had layers to it that Grace had had to pause in his reading the parse through.

The more he read, the more atonality sounded like an Eridian medical condition. A sort of unknowing transgression of social norms. An inability to copy and present accepted means of communication, a sort of mistranslation that can occur to Eridians with atonality.

The mental image of a piece of paper overlays the screen in front of him and the words Individualized Education Program drift across his mind’s eye. He thinks for a moment. Atonality reminds him of autism.

Grace has autism.

Grace has autism!

As he does for most new memories, Grace goes in search of Rocky. It will allow him to check if he’s right about the social ramifications of atonality and also test Rocky’s medical knowledge!

In all his excitement, Grace hadn’t been prepared for Rocky’s response to his revelation.

When they first meet, Rocky is just as worried about whether the alien will be hostile, and is so relieved by their first interactions being so positive that he names the alien the first thing he has discovered about him: “Kindness”. (It isn’t until Grace is explaining the possible interpretations of his name much later that they realize the coincidence. It feels strangely fated.)