Fellow Nerd

It’s so endearing whenever Rocky copes and adopts Grace’s gestures ☺️ I also love that he calls his glasses “eye jewelry” 😂

Aaand here's a self indulgent Senkuu doodle for Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 Aroace pride from a proudly aroace man!😀

Dr. Stone is one of my favorite mangas and means so much to me for many reasons. This character in particular also means a lot to me as he is possibly the coolest aroace representation I've ever seen in media. Even though he was never confirmed to be aroace canonically, he might as well have been! My man's married to science and science only (I mean... he was technically married to a woman for a very short time... but that was just a means to an end lol), and he's wonderfully portrayed as not attracted to anyone and not interested in any kind of relationships except for friendships. I love him as a protagonist and while I'm nowhere near as smart as him, his values largely align with mine and I love how hilariously relatable he can be😄 I always find it somewhat disappointing and frustrating how little he is celebrated as an aroace character in the fandom and usually gets shipped with one character or another. Not to discourage people from enjoying their ships, just saying!

I know there's an actual aroace flag but I always prefer using these two, I just like these two color schemes (separately, at least).

I totally share your sentiments about and connection with Senku and Dr. Stone, Mugi! I don’t engage much with the franchise nowadays (just cuz of my many current hyperfixations), but it still holds a special place in my heart! ☺️

Aroace Ryland Grace Pics + Textposts Part Five

The first one is so something I can hear Grace saying 😂

“The part of our brains that would usually host a sexual preference is actually replaced by a pun generator” Well yeah, of course, that’s why he has so many science-pun T-shirts 😂

Choose your favorite princess.

grace & rocky hug in zero-g <3

(no-xenonite version under the cut!)

OH MY GAHHHHHHH THIS IS SO SOFT AND SWEET 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️

Incredibly OOC PHM skit

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Wow, there is just…so much to unpack and awe over here. As a person of faith, I love and deeply appreciate symbolic connections fanart like this make between fictional characters and religious allegory and art. And this does it in such an amazing way that I almost don’t know where to start.

A sedated Grace being depicted as Jesus is such haunting yet fitting imagery. They both stand as figures of sacrifice for and saving humanity. There’s also the death and resurrection aspect! To me, Grace’s demonstrations of bravery (his risky move to retrieve the collector, his decision to go back and save Rocky) symbolize the death of his cowardice. A figurative resurrection into a new person. And I love the Grace-fox symbolism with the fox figure in his grasp! And Stratt with Mary’s mournful yet resigned expression is really sad 😞 Their halos looking like the Hail Mary’s windows and a Petrova line connecting them is such a beautiful combination of the movie’s symbols and religious symbols.

The golden plaques, especially the inscribed Hail Mary prayer, gave me chills. Reminds me so much of when Grace was looking at the plaque-wall. In fact, the “Humanity” track in the OST started playing in my head looking at this.

Also, I wanna gush about the arrangement of the environmental/atmospheric settings on the bottom! The grass is such a good representation of Earth yet also a tragic one of Grace’s last moment on Earth. And transforming the drape of Mary/Stratt’s dress into space makes for such a mesmerizing visual! It helps make Stratt’s positioning of Grace on her lap feel all the more intentional, like her sending him to space. Then, finally the beach on Erid. The way it’s all horizontally arranged seems like a chronological representation of Grace’s journey.