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eridians stealing his glasses makes me happy too

you’ll probably see it later but I wanted to send it directly cause it’s sooo good and i feel a brainworm coming in

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HELLO >:3c not to make everything abt the dynamics Blackness adds to every situation but. (looks around) who am i kidding thats exactly what im gonna do.

because in this situation, now you have Dr. Carl ProjectHailMary, a chill, laidback teacher w a sharp wit and a barely hidden sense of humor. the kids love him. he was a big name scientist once, but… something happened, and now he’s not. he’s still got all the knowledge, though, and suddenly he’s worth considering again when the astrophage crisis hits. so he gets roped into the project by Stratt, and we have already talked At Length about what Blackness adds to that experience.

and then you add the security. he says his name’s Ry, never tells Carl more than that. no mention of family, no mention of friends. but he’s always there. talking, goofing off, pulling Carl on these impromptu shopping trips. they’re scientific partners. they spend 18 hours a day together. they might even be friends. but at the end of the day, Ry is a white man with a gun, and Carl can never quite forget the power differential between them. Carl is a scientist, and Ry could get away with killing a man. Carl knows what that means. and they’re still friends. by the end, Carl really likes him.

and at the end, his friend is gone, there’s just a white man with a gun, still smiling like he’s not ending Carl’s life.

“Listen, buddy, you’ll do great. This is just what we have to do, okay? Don’t take this personal.”

Phm brainworms 😋😋

This started because I wanted Rocky to say "rain loud as hell, statement"

Grace describes it as best he can, but all he can really manage to get across to Rocky is that he was surrounded by small floating lights.

Later on, Grace is talking about the stars and how important they've been to human cultures for millennia. “What do the stars look like, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, y'know, they're a bunch of small floating lights.

There's a disco ball on the Hail Mary. Grace says it's there because it “makes me happy”. “How does it make Grace happy, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, it creates the illusion that he's surrounded by small floating lights.

Rocky begins to do some research.

Glitter: a substance invented by humans to make things look like they're covered in small lights.

Human jewellery: mostly involves gemstones or polished metals, designed to reflect small lights.

Christmas lights. Candles. Lanterns. Fireworks. Glowsticks. Glow in the dark paint. Rocky is beginning to notice a pattern here, statement.

It takes Grace a fucking while after getting to Erid to notice that a lot of the gifts he's receiving from grateful Eridians are either a) sparkly, b) incredibly shiny, or c) fitted with lights.

While the last one is obviously a concession for his human light sense, he's confused about the former two. Are Eridian materials usually this shiny? Is there some quality about sparkly or highly polished surfaces that makes them sound better? Or is there something about Eridian geology/metallurgy that makes their materials like this?

He asks Rocky about it.

“Simple. I tell people humans like lots of small lights. Humans are easy to make happy.”

Grace kind of wants to protest that humans are much more complicated than that.

But honestly… it fucking works. Like yeah the polished gemstones, shiny metals and glittery rocks are beautiful. Yes those Christmas lights you put up around the house did markedly improve my mental health, Rocky. Thank you, I hate it.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)