Sick and Tired

Rocky: "why Grace so 🎶🎶🎶 stupid. Question."

Grace: "Excuse me buddy?"

Rocky: "...🎶🎶🎶 stupid. Hmm. Need word."

Grace: "...what does it mean?"

Rocky: "Meant add strength to word. But some Eridians think also .....rude"

Grace: "So a swear word. I'm not giving you the human word for that."

Rocky: "Why not. Question."

Grace: "Because this human thinks they are rude too."

Inspired by @shrugsinchinese and @eedweiz 's art of BIG Adrian!

thus, he becomes like the Eridian equivalent of miss rachel

parents all over Erid turn on his recordings when they're tired of parenting bc ofc all the kiddos would sit still long enough to listen and obsess over the "science alien," but also grace is just a rlly, rlly good teacher lol

meanwhile Grace is just happy that people are tuning in, not realizing he's been turned into every eridian kindergartner's Favourite Person™, and doesn't understand why he's suddenly being thanked by parents all over for his radio recordings instead of the astrophage debacle but hey he's flattered

I'm so normal about this movie that I did this in 3 days with a total of 10 hours of sleep. If you know this song you know it s time to bring out the tissues.

Kliban Cats but make it Rocky

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this is so silly.

I like to think that once Earth receives the beetles and fixes the sun, they then send another beetle to Erid full of seeds, food, spices, and other care package stuff for Grace.

At that point, they won't know he's still alive, as far as they know, he probably starved to death by then. But Stratt insists they send it anyway. If nothing else, it can be a gift for their newly discovered neighbors, the Eridians. Afterall, what's more friendly than sharing food?

The Eridian scientists study the contents of the care package. It's full of shelf-stable human food that they do their best to clone/replicate for Grace. There are also some seeds that store well for the years of travel they experienced. Radish, lettuce, tomato, beans, etc. (Potatoes would be a great callback to "The Martian")

You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.