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Part 3 of the comic

Grace, growing horrified: These are the ground rules? Is there anything off limits?

Grace: (shrugs) I have two hands.

Simon: Don't rub it in.

Grace: (panics) What?! No! I didn't- You- I- Simon, I-

I’m really serious abt this art career thing. Redraw of an Unus Annus screenshot I took while watching some funnies.

Original pic under the cut

As for who confessed, they were both way too shy to say anything. Grace was terrified of making things weird between them. Simon was too, and on top of that he was dealing with a lot of internalised homophobia from his cult background. They just kind of gazed longingly at each other and felt ashamed for how much they enjoyed the intimacy of their situation. Technically, it was Rocky who confessed. He had a basic understanding of human courtship and mating from his talks with Grace about culture and biology, and he was pretty sure that was what he was seeing. Their hearts were beating faster, they were acting stupid, it had all the hallmarks of human mating rituals.

So, he goes up to them and asks how to best respect and support the mating rituals of his new crew.

"You need be alone for mating, question? Can go back to Blip-A while you two have fun."

Simon : "I'm a knife"

Simon waking up and on drugs, half asleep after getting his new teeth extracted, staring at a tv screen playing lala land. He’s bleeding from several orifices and staring at Ryan Gosling’s face as he’s singing and dancing on tv.

how did simon land in grace’s universe? fuck you that’s how

how did simon survive the iron lung? fuck you that’s how

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].