I'm sorry but I can't get over how much of a loser Ryland Grace is. I love him but he's so stupid. He writes the most controversial paper in the history of his field and after he's laughed out of academia he's like actually I wanted to leave anyway. And then when the worst paper in the history of science somehow gets him access to actual real life aliens it takes him like a week to have the idea to kill one of them to see what happens. And then when the sample is distributed and he only has three left he fucking loses them and has to play the worlds highest stakes game of I Spy. He gets kidnapped by Earth's new dictator during a top secret mission during which she commits ten thousand crimes and thinks that she's just keeping him around for his winning personality. Tries to save his friend by using a leaf blower to separate him from his internal organs. Guy of all time

"Et tu brute" to Robbie Thompson whose main sin was just getting hired by jackles is crazyyy

Like publicly crashing out at jackles is already silly, but okay, whatever, they're #bros4life and he expected to know everything about jackles' projects. But as far as I know, Robbie and jp weren't even close, what was jp expecting him to do.

a few days ago bf told me that a couple years ago when he played counterstrike he would respond to dudes getting angry and aggressive and hostile by saying “a kissaroo from me to you” in a slightly goofy friendly voice sort of like the voice you’d associate with a dog muppet.  he said they would absolutely lose their shit every time, insisting things like “i dont want a kissaroo from you!  only tall blonde girls!”.  they always said kissaroo.  i cant stop thinking about this

shoutout to book-canon dr ryland grace, who literally became second-in-command of the global scientific project to save the world, but still moped around thinking "i wish i could go back to the job i was actually respected in: teaching middle school science"

*street shot of zohran mamdani clad in nasty lil suit and hard hat* five months ago i was elected mayor of new york city. in that time, we have managed to COMPLETELY defeat the Staten Island Minotaur at no additional cost to the new york taxpayer

it’s been talked about a million times but way too many books now have a problem with telling and not showing. a character in the book i’m reading rn said “my therapist says my anorexia and drug use is my way of gaining control” girl i don’t want to hear that i want to see you starving yourself and snorting coke every time something goes wrong

Very true that Rocky is Not Sharing. But I feel like we haven’t talked enough about how Grace is NOT sharing either. Guy who spent his entire life thinking he’s unlikable and alone who finally meets someone that finally breaks down that wall? 4 years of being the singular focus of his favorite person in the entire universe? Do you really think Grace would like graciously accept not being Rocky’s number 1 most special favorite princess in the whole world? Do you not think he would freak out if Rocky left for a few days to spend time with Adrian?

I think at BEST Grace would be pretend to be fine with Adrian and in his head be like “I’m being such a martyr. I’m beautiful and tragic and put upon but I’m being so brave and suffering in silence” meanwhile every eridian he comes in contact with is like. I think you could be suffering a little more silently please.

woman with a miniskirt on would like to sit in your lap no ulterior motives

my main/more serious grocky playlist is like 1/4 songs by they might be giants, because i very seriously believe that’s the only band grace listens to.

meanwhile i think rocky initially gets very into human music with interesting and complex percussion, but then branches out and becomes fascinated with humans doing cool shit with their voices. like, the human voice is pretty limited compared to what eridians can do, but also surprisingly versatile. he gets big into opera, then various forms of throat singing, then screamo and harsh metal vocals. keeps expecting grace to have something insightful to say about all this and grace is like, i have never heard of any of these bands in my life. why do we even have this in the database.

just got a call from the american psychiatric association. you old dogs, i said, picking up on the first ring. how many times i gotta tell you to lose this number. i don’t want you coming around here anymore. “listen, toots, we’ve been doing some thinking,” they says, and i says, guess there’s a first time for everything. “you’re a real funny dame, sugardoll. reviewing criticism, we’ve determined that the biggest issue with our previous diagnostic and statistic manuals of mental disorders is the anonymity of it all. we’ve been circling around a vague figure of the mentally well without defining the traits of a mentally well person. there’s no personality. what we need is a cute broad with a couple opinions to model the psychological norm.” so i’m saying back up and give it to me straight: i’m the new standard of sanity? can i get that in writing? and they say, “as the american psychiatric association we hereby state that you are the baseline and any deviations from your personality are deviations from the very concept of sanity, at least in the united states psychiatric system.” they’re making it public tomorrow. it’s a nice gig, if you really want to know. never thought they’d let a woman do it.