Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

there's this ridiculously soulmatey line in the phm book when grace is just kinda idly wondering aloud about why human and eridian technology are at such similar phases of development, and without thinking about it much rocky responds "has to be, or you and I would not meet." which he goes on to explain as (paraphrasing here) "if either planet were less advanced then we couldn't have built interstellar ships, but if either were more advanced then we could have dealt with the astrophage problem from home, so we'd have to be at around the same level to both be here, that's the only way it would make sense." what it sounds like though is "oh, that's easy: the two of us had to meet so the history of both of our entire species lined up in preparation to make it possible." what kind of tau-ceti-crossed red-petrova-line-of-fate nonsense is this.

FORTY-SIX FUCKING YEARS!!!!!!!!

ilya voice so myshane your babadook i never see him at david and yunas is he hibernating like the bear or - your babadook, my shane. your family babadook. everyone ha- you do not know what this is. hm.

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

grocky fic where grace is one of those people who sneezes when he comes and somehow that's the first time rocky ever hears grace sneeze and it gets lost in translation that humans can also sneeze for other reasons. cue rocky tapping his fingers trying frantically to figure out why grace keeps coming randomly in the middle of the day. is dust turning him on???? why does this happen in front of OTHER ERIDIANS? is this normal for humans??? rocky's earth thinking machine has no answers because grace's condition is not all that common. mary has no suggestions. none of this is in grace's medical file. and to make things worse rocky's pepe silvia style yarn board has yielded no patterns that would suggest an explanation. cue dust-bunny-themed roleplay attempt that ends in disaster and twelve sneezes in a row but no erection whatsoever and finally grace is like WHAT is going on and the truth comes out but it was an interesting six months