Don't wake me up

i just realized dubois told ryland about his sexual relationship with shapiro bc they thought he was the second in command. there's no HR department on that ship. it was tell him or tell stratt. no wonder he sprung it on grace

NO BUT FOR REAL with all that shit happening to the planet and all those people dying, how many hands will be left in the phm future for things like video games and movie making? Not at the scale we enjoy, maybe not for decades. Preserving and sharing the wildflower meadow of humanity in full swing so skinny little kids still have Minecraft and Bluey and skinny reskilled adults also still have minecraft and… bluey… is going to be a whole noble thing.

#friends with benefits and the benefits are preventing hourly panic attacks (via @valtsv)

i refuse to believe after everything in phm that grace would be comfortable sleeping alone ever again, he'd make rocky move his house and have a little window between their bedrooms. rocky doesnt even need light but he has one with adrian in there just so grace can see him which DOES mean rocky can bug him whenever he wants. grace tries to install a curtain and hopes rocky will respect it but he wont

Ok but Rocky finding out about walkie-talkies and no one around them ever having a moment of peace without them talking to each other every 5 minutes

sobbing my eyes out over how terrifying meeting grace must have been for rocky. obviously there’s the horror of what grace “looks” like to him, but the fact that rocky feels responsible for killing everyone and now there’s this fragile, squishy thing that rocky can kill with one wrong move. what if he messed up the oxygen in the tunnel? or it wasn’t enclosed all the way? and then he was alone, again.

I feel so many feelings about Rocky during the first contact. He wants to connect SO BADLY. Do Eridians have horror stories about scary aliens? If they do, Rocky doesn't care. He wants this alien to be friendly. He does everything he can to accommodate. Here, a little gift I'm sending your way at the speed you're comfortable with. Please be there. Here, the next gift is going right into your airlock so that it's easier for you to catch. Please don't fly away. You made a strange gesture with your limb, I'll make my robot make that gesture back. Please belive that I'm friendly. Here's a tunnel to connect us, I'll make sure you can breathe in it. Please come meet me. I'll let you choose the material for the wall separating us; I'll rebuild the whole wall if it makes you more comfortable, no trouble, just please let's talk. You're all alone on your ship, I can hear it, please come sleep here where I can watch you, it's unsafe for you to be alone. I'm alone and scared, it's been 46 years since I felt safe while sleeping, please please please watch me sleep too. I'm very vulnerable when I sleep and I trust that you won't use it against me. I want to visit your ship, am allowed, question? I'm moving in with you. Let's save the stars.

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw