grace was calling himself stratts "little science lapdog" out of a love for the game. nobody else called him that shit. which is to say that he'd absolutely also refer to himself as rockys pet alien and that he'd absolutely call the biodome his endangered species exhibit slash enclosure slash terrarium. grace enjoys petplay that degrades him but simultaneously posits him as the specialest most pampered boy

it’s simple: when I like an adaptation, everyone complaining about changes to the text is a whiny baby who needs to get over themselves and accept that sometimes you have to change the story to enrich the experience/work within the medium. when I don’t like an adaptation, it’s because nobody else understands the core themes of the original work and would be better off just creating a story independent of what they’re trying to adapt.

happy Friday everyone it's time to remember how Rocky was alone at Tau Ceti waiting for Grace since before he was born and feel normal about that

of course youll get tired of doing the same thing 8+ hours a day every day for the rest of your life for monetary gain, even if it’s something bearable. that’s why it doesn’t matter if you follow your dreams or not. of course whatever you do for 8+ hours a day every day for the rest of your life for monetary gain will inevitably become a part of you. thats why its import to follow your dreams. of course you won’t be able to make enough money or build a life either way. what are you. some sort of alive being

grace pleading to have thunderstorms added to the weather system in the biodome like pleaseeee. i need this. i need this one little thing. and every eridian going past the biodome just starts hearing the wind going crazy, heavy rain, the occasional big ominous booms, and grace is just safe cozy in his home curled around rocky like Ouahhhhh. this is the stuff :]

writing in 24 pt bold font at the top of my google doc: THE CHARACTER SHOULD BE LYING TO HIMSELF AT ALL TIMES

fyi to those of you who still haven't read the phm book, you're missing out on some pretty hardcore Yearning after grace & rocky part ways. there's whole chapters of grace like, staring sadly after rocky's departing ship in the petrovascope every single day while thinking mournfully about how great his best friend is and how much he wishes rocky was there, before doing an insane amount of complicated relativistic math to calculate the exact moment when he'll no longer be able to see the blip-a's light in the distance bc he already misses rocky so much. it's great stuff