♡Baby Blue♡

THAT'S A BABY 🥺😭😭

FOR REAAAAL

This is a tiny baby BOY

And his lil stompy foot when he's telling Stratt he can't do it!

That's a lil guy who just threwd up and wants a nap, not to talk to all these important people (annnd the man he called a "waste of carbon" sitting right up front definitely doesn't help xD) so Stratt has to coax him!!!

AND that scene where Grace is spinning in his chair and Stratt patting the back of his chair as her and Lokken (I dunno if thats supposed to be her but I'm pretending it is) are walking by?? That's a tiny Grace getting checked up on by Stratt 😭💖

collection of doodles i've done over the past week, someone get me off this spaceship.

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

I love Twilight! And I love the idea of her as a pony being a caregiver! Do I think she'd be the best caregiver? No, but she definitely tries her best!

Her bedtime stories are the BEST bedtime stories! Silly voices and special spells to make the words and pictures like a little movie as she reads!

Requests Open!

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so as a reminder...

I see the regressors and caregivers with depression.

I see the regressors and caregivers with anxiety.

I see the regressors and caregivers with autism.

I see the regressors and caregivers with ASPD.

I see the regressors and caregivers with BPD.

I see the regressors and caregivers with HPD.

I see the regressors and caregivers with BPD.

I see the regressors and caregivers with PPD.

I see the regressors and caregivers with schizophrenia.

I see the regressors and caregivers with all types of mental disorders and disabilities, various neurodivergence. You're not alone, there will always be someone to listen to you. There's a light at the end of every tunnel; even with life-long disorders. You are not alone or untreatable, there is always help available.

If you need someone to talk to, this is an international link to crisis lines sorted by country.

Slightly older tot with glow in the dark stars (in real constellation shapes with stratt's help) on the ceiling above his bed !!

5-ish ryland pinning messy crayon doodles of planets and comets and alien spaceships to his big boy desk and workspace (amidst research on astrophage and space travel) and tucking a completed addition/subtraction worksheet into stratt's folder of important paperwork since his also has numbers on it!!

9-ish ryland and 13-ish stratt playing warrior cats after a meeting but he just wants to be a fox that makes star maps but stratt keeps trying to get him to be her clan's medicine cat apprentice

!!!! YES

No matter the headspace, Grace's mind is always soothed and fascinated by space!!

When he's baby his mobile is probably like these:

(Soft felt and there's probably an added red line to show the Petrova line, Stratt's addition) if he's fussing all you have to do it twist the knob or flip the switch and Grace will instantly calm and watch with wide eyes as the planets spin!

When he's a bit older he def has those cool glow in the dark stars!!

They act as his nightlight, a constant light that he can look up at and point out the constellations as he lays in bed♡ (I bet he made up a constellation and called it the Strattla-major 🥺)

Older kiddo Grace loving to read and doodle about space! He has alllll the "kids guide to space" (which do go with him to every meeting and to the lab in case he gets bored/feels small) and oh my goodness, of course addition sheets go in the important files, numbers are numbers and Stratt needs them too!!

And oh my goodness 🥺🥺💖 Stratt isn't as lenient with Grace when he is in an older headspace when it comes to their Warrior Cat play xD She'll tell him his role in the clan and doesn't let him deviate too much (of course she miiiiight let his character do star mapping, IF he's healed the kittypet and the leader!)

I NEVER saw @darthsuki lives but i simply LOVE this lil meme lol,probably he will not see it buuut i made stickers!feel free to use it anywhere yall want guys!

Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying “We know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and he’s safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.”

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

Any whatever you do, do NOT think about the little Eridian schoolkids who go there on class trips and play in the water in their special exo-suits and listen to lessons that Grace pre recorded while he was still alive and become inspired to be biologists and astronauts and teachers themselves.

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

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