✨ Believe In The Hail Mary✨

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You're sick. You recognise the symptoms from your crew, you have radiation poisoning. The astrophages that were protecting you and powering the ship are gone. You couldn't find the leak in time to stop it. And now you're dying out here in space, alone.

The life support systems on the ship are shutting down. Everything is shutting down. Your planet will die– your entire star system will die. They'll never know how close you came to saving them.

You think about Grace. Is his ship dying too? Or is he on his way home, none the wiser to your fate?

Maybe you're fighting until the end, or maybe you've 'made peace' with it.

And then you hear knocking, on the outside of your ship. Furious, desperate banging on the window. Your friend, your lab partner, your first contact, has come back to save you.

"This might seem like me betraying you, but this is actually me believing in you."

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it's a long way to erid, and sometimes grace gets a bit dramatic and in his head about things. rocky, as always, is more of a practical kinda guy 🪨

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a silly comic drawn at the behest of my good friend @letruinendhere, who came up with both the concept (inspired by this post) and the paneling/dialogue after i dragged them along to my third viewing of phm. i simply provided my dubious artistic skill to their vision ✨

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bonus panel bc i thought the idea of rocky being able to take the (human, christian) lord's name in vain was conceptually hilarious

you jump and say "jesus christ!" once and suddenly you have to explain catholicism to an alien, happened to my good friend ryland grace—

𝘌𝘷𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘪𝘹, 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨

come one, come all! we’ve got:

- popular queer headcanons people agreeing are basically canon (aroace ryland grace)

- unhinged crossover shipping that ends up trending on tumblr (bloodymary/simon from iron lung) which doesn’t take away from the aroace headcanon at all

- a sibling au birthing beautiful manips that the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom would be proud of (coltland twins, courtland gentry, etc)

sacrificial lamb //

"he was oppressed and he was afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to slaughter and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

Colt x Ryland

Ryland x Colt twins