Found myself in the universe

(description in alt text) everyone say thank you @b33tlejules for requesting this! i am always about the bear bod wei chen agenda (and in butch edition) even if i don't post about him as much anymore, happy pride

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Rae snapped, "Hands off."

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"Hands off," Key said simply.

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Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

Aaaaaah the repetition the protectiveness the picking up of each other's phrases aaaaaaah

Bonus:

"I am your king!"

"Hands off, Your Majesty."

Twice Rae protected a little sister figure (Alice, Lia)

And once someone protected her.

i drew rhis a few months ago and i felt bad cor not posting ir 🥹 this game is underhyped it was soo good

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

BUT

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.