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Sometimes when an action makes NO sense to us ("he's like a stupid alien"), it's bc we are not understanding its true motivation/purpouse. If his goal was control, financial pressure and limiting her options due to lack of funds, it makes perfect sensie to buy the truck.

This is classic abuser behavior: maneuver the partner into a situation where they feel trapped and cannot escape. The timing on this is too perfect; he saw her gaining agency & power in the relationship and moved to short circuit that.

I am SO GLAD she got out.

If this happens to you, try reaching out to friends & family first. Chances are they've been watching your situation and are aching to help, but have felt powerless. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this scenario unfold. Ask. For. Help. Nobody will judge you, and they're probably waiting for you to make a move. People notice abuse and want to help.

if you feel truly alone, start out with some free online resources.

Barista: Welcome to Starbucks, home of delicious, what deliciousness can I put in motion for you today?

Customer: … Can I get a trenta pink drink please?

Barista: Go big or go home, we here at Starbucks appreciate your commitment, what else can I get started for you?

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Customer: Nitro cold brew with shots of espresso please.

Barista: Brave of you to commit to staying awake for three days, anything else today?

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Barista: *slams open drive-thru window* HI HOW ARE YOU?

Customer: …I’m pretty good.

Barista: Are you ready to be even better? Because you’re about to be. *hands them their coffee* 

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Barista, realizing that a drink was made wrong: *slams open window* SO how do you feel about surprises?

Customer: ….they’re okay.

Barista: Great because I’m about to give you one.

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Barista: You have two drinks so I am going to hand you two straws which means, FANTASTIC news, these straws double as drumsticks. / You have one drink so I am going to hand you one straw and, promise not to tell anyone, this straw doubles as a magic wand.

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Barista: Here are those cake pops, I plucked them fresh from the tree myself.

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Barista: *slams open window, holding drink* Amazing, fantastic, delicious, you are a very lucky man/woman!

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Barista, realizing drink is being delayed or remade: Looks like it’s gonna be just one minute so they have time to put the extra love in.

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Barista: I’ll be with you in one hot second. *beat* WOW that second sure was hot!

This barista actually left Starbucks and I figured I would never see her again.

I don't think I'd call it a party phase, but that first year of university he was uh. Definitely getting involved with people he probably shouldn't have been.

Not because he enjoyed it, but, well...

His oldest brother had just died, and Ryland wasn't handling it well. He was keeping it together when Colt was around, but when Colt was gone? It was a lot easier to let alcohol and drugs do Ryland's thinking for him. When he was high it didn't hurt so much to think about Court, when he was drunk he could be angry at Court for leaving without feeling the guilt that always came from that anger, and when he was high and drunk he didn't think about Court at all.

It all came to a stop one night when he came back to the dorm fucked up enough that Rocky damn near took him to the ER. The only reason he didn't was because Ryland begged him not to. If he did then they would call Colt because Colt was his emergency contact, and Colt couldn't know about any of this. Colt was already fucked up enough about Court. He didn't need to be worrying about Ryland too.

Rocky didn't like it, but he agreed, and he stayed up all night watching Ryland sleep to make sure he didn't asphyxiate himself in his sleep.

And then, that next morning, while dealing with the worst hangover of his life, Ryland finally told Rocky about Court.

It was the first time he'd ever told anyone about his oldest brother, about their father, about what he did to him and his brothers, about what Court did, about that night they took his oldest brother away, about how badly Ryland just wants him to come home even though he knows he never will.

Posted: May 16th, 2026 Last Updated: June 08th, 2026 OP's Note: Hello everyone! And welcome to the Sun/Moon Master-post! This post is planned to keep being updated as the AU develops so, feel fee to check it whenever you'd like. I wanna thank everyone for your amazing support, you've been amazing so far and thank you for enjoying my ramblings as much as I do. I hope this helps in clearing a bit more the plot and the characters. Without much more to say, sit back and enjoy!

This is an Alternative Universe set between the plots of Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung, focusing mainly on the relationship between Ryland Grace and Simon. At it's core, it's a Canon Divergence from both movies, starting at both character's death scenes.

WARNING: THIS AU (and account) IS RATED 16+ (18+ even)FOR NUDITY AND SUGGESTIVE EROTIC CONTENT. MINORS PLEASE DON'T INTERACT.

Main Plot

Ryland Grace has failed his mission on saving Earth. But he gets ascended and given the role of the Sun God. Now he's got a second chance at fixing it all, but for that he must remember the man he once was to achieve it. In the process he'll re-encounter his little rock friend and also an intriguing stranger, but Grace isn't too sure what his true intentions might be. A threat looms around the corner, as stars seem to be dimming and Grace doesn't know what he's supposed to do to fix this. Will he push through the pain and get the aid he needs to remember his real purpose? [Under development]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

2. I spend a lot of time online, secretly, and am exposed–for the first time–to the fact that it’s weird that I share a room and bed with my dad and am not allowed anywhere else 

3. My dad brings me to a corn field and tells me obama is the anti-christ who’s been sent by god to end the world, as foretold by the bible. I believe this and cry when he’s elected because i don’t want to die 

4. I begin googling and discover that my situation is not great. I begin a careful attempt to ~distance~ myself from my father by sleeping anywhere else through any means possible. Eventually, I’m allowed to sleep in my own room

5. Now that I’ve been exposed to the real world and the fact that I’ve been groomed, I’m not ~obedient~ anymore and my dad Dips(™) to find a new kid. We lose our house and have to move to government housing in a new city 

6. Eventually my parents divorce because of this. My dad moves to a horse ranch. I visit him on the horse ranch, think it’s cool, and invite my friends over for a sleepover. I have my first gay kiss with a girl in a tent. The next day my father tries to ~kill~ me on the horse ranch(™) with a golf cart

7.My dad disappears from the face of the earth. He forgets his phone is connected to the family iMac. We know all about the crimes he is committing. He fakes a heart attack in a Wal-Mart at some point, idk

8. The FBI is onto his life of crime. He flees to Romania to escape them and lives with a millionaire Romanian woman. She’s suspicious of him after a while. She hires a private investigator and unearths his life of lies and crime. He flees to Alaska. He gets a roommate in Alaska. The roommate goes to federal prison. We never hear from my father again. He is, perhaps, dead.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

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