shrimpigman

they make me SICK

you canNOT understand what I feel for them

FUCKING PEAAAAAAAKKKKKK FHJDHDGEHF

ryland grace after class is done for the day and a young eridian asks if he has a moment. ryland grace noticing this normally exuberant little alien speaks in a lower octave than normal and is nervously fidgeting with three of their arms. ryland grace listening when the young eridian says they know all eridians mate for life, but is it okay if they don't think they want to? that they don't really have the interest? that they know everyone else has a mate, or wants a mate, but maybe that's just not for them? ryland grace telling his student of course that's okay, sometimes people just feel that way, heck, he's felt that way his whole life! ryland grace deciding after the young eridian leaves to boot up an old Hail Mary laptop and do some more research to support his student. ryland grace reading through thousands of old websites and forum posts and blogs and it finally clicking after years. ryland grace learning he wasn't the only one all those times he felt different, or strange, or isolated from everyone around him. ryland grace realising despite being the only human on erid, he is not alone in this feeling.

I want to BITE HIM (he makes me feel so seen and to me the image of a cis “straight-passing” man whose judgment is unclouded by this weird icky thing the world is obsessed with being the one to save the stars sheerly through forced circumstances, a lack of choice, a healthy dose of kidnapping, and the cosmic power of deeply trusting and loving someone without ever touching them and being okay with that, preferring that in fact because the most fulfilling relationships in his life are not physical or superficial, they are deep and lasting and based in the joy of discovery and wonder of communication across all barriers means more than I can ever say and this movie healed a part of my soul and told something in me exactly what I needed to hear)