#munchatter

As funny as it is that rocky sees grace and complains about grace and humans in general as a terribly inefficient blob of water and fluids and teases constantly...

I REALLY think this should be a relatively rocky-exclusive perspective. He's watched this incredibly stressed human drip all kinds of tears and goos while they were floating around in space, and grace let down basically all of his guard around rocky personally, have discussed and understood eachother over life threatening missions. To Rocky, grace is Grace!

But grace does have some naturally combative push to him (see, the commentary that got him stonewalled in the scientific community in the first place, and being able to keep up with and handle Eva stratt) and further more, when an eridian is Not Rocky, i.e. not incredibly socially withdrawn and traumatized and maybe on their own spectrum of divergence before his ill fated mission and was very susceptible to latching onto a strange and unusual creature in just as much crisis as him...

That is to say. The eridians are going to meet grace with wildly different priorities and expectations. And what they're going to get is a human dangerously close to deaths door, and cornered and dying humans aren't always the most friendly or cooperative and kind, even the Nicest Humans You Can Get.

So they get a dying human. And as tumblr loves to say, humans are terrifying to aliens, and fuck do they persist. Rocky's so-described "pathetic space blob" grace is terrifying to most eridians, especially the scientists studying him.

Penny probably sleeps like a ROCK. The only time she didn't was when she was a new mother and the slightest sound had her jerking awake and getting up to check on the baby.

Billie still has "not sleeping teenager" energy. Up until 5 am and waking up at 8am still. Sometimes she texts Steve to ask to come in late so she can crash back into bed and he just happily sends back emojis he shouldn't have of honk shoo and shit that doesn't exist. 👍👍 sleep well my girl

Allen sleeps irregularly. Not poorly, but he can and will sleep anywhere, because he doesn't have a regular sleep schedule. Has been caught napping on his lunchbreak at the truck and is a very cranky waker.

Frances probably gets The Most Sleep. She is turning in early and getting up as late as possible. We are talking 10 hours of sleep average, more if she can. I think she's working through something from her youth days where she basically never slept because she had to do so much studying and practice and extra bullshit because she was a severe overachiever. She is finally resting.

Conrad is less regular about bedtime than Tim but also has a pretty strict bedtime routine and schedule. He also has, like, the nicest bed among everyone, even Frances who shelled out money on everything ever. Conrad spends his money on practical things and does way too much research. He has a fantastic bed and very nice sheets and pillows. He needs noise to sleep and is usually playing music quietly unless it's raining out.

Cesare sleeps like hell. He wakes up constantly and he doesn't usually sleep all that deeply, he's the kind of guy you can talk to while he's sleeping and he will answer you back. He might even remember it tomorrow. Sometimes when he's bone deep exhausted he'll sleep pretty hard, but those are also probably the times you'll catch him sleepwalking, which isn't much more restful than the shallow sleep he normally gets. The old man enjoys sleeping despite this, and needs a lot of it, bad at it as he is. He probably gets night terrors early on, hopefully those lessen with time and safety. Sleeping in his truck is VERY bad for him but he keeps doing it and fighting people trying to take him home to use guest beds; mostly I think because the sleep walking and talking worry him and he doesn't want to be around people just in case.

Steve sleeps, ehem, like a zombie. He sleeps hard and deep and an earthquake wouldn't wake him. But if you called his name he'd snap awake like he was never sleeping at all, almost immediately coherent and ready to do whatever. He probably needs more sleep than he gets and sleeping in his truck is probably less comfortable and less good for him then he acts. Guys who have sore backs, even if there's no long-term damage.

Today's doodle pages included some focus on Kaayras Adaar's uniform to the winter palace; specifically, Halamshiral in his first life. He's significantly more jaded in the era of the winter palace but not nearly as much as he will be in the story following.

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(Ah I shoulda know this would be confusing. The AU that the fic is based on is something I and @providentially-demonic (and a few others) came up with in some back and forth discussion on my rp blog. I have a tag for it here.

The reason I was trying to not mention it was so that people wouldnt think that this blog is a comic of that fic and leave some mystery to this blog. Because this blog is doing its own thing and will only take some things from that fic because it will be altered by follower interaction. The big thing im lifting is the addition of faeries, because in my original idea faeries had nothing to do with the AU, but it was a wonderful addition by Kita. But im not sure whats going to change on this blog, from both the fic and my original AU ideas, im just gonna let it organically do its own thing.

Also some scenes in the fic are so character driven im not sure how I could tie follower interaction in with it

But please do check out all of the fics/ficlets she wrote out, they are great. Just be aware while canon to the base AU (since really we have joint custody of the AU) the fics arent necessarily canon to THIS blog.

Tonally though, they are all pretty spot on to what this blog is gonna be. Alot of fluff as the boys work through their trauma together. I had originally planned to open this blog more mysteriously, leave it unknown whether this was the same AU so that followers could try and piece it together.....but tumblr kinda ruined that plan :V

And specifically: Munk immediately without hesitation joining steve's bit when explaining the differences of the cats play between their two societies.

Like they just kinda bend rules and logic in silly little ways, but it's worth noting that Munk, though he has less screen time obvi, is Less Silly than Steve. He performs detouring bits significantly less and has a better grasp on just using his abilities as he wants and needs to, such as finding Steve on his own and punching his way down to him, and then also directing Steve into helping him bust thru the bars for the jailbreak. He doesn't devolve into bits on his own, not nearly to the ratio of bit-to-screentime as Steve. But he doesn't hesitate to JOIN those bits.

Now as a quick side tangent, many animals have parallel or social mimic behaviors as a KEY social thing they need. A purring cat often triggers a nearby cat to purr in response. There's a bunch of these natures in humans, too, of course- laughter is contagious and distress is often very contagious in all forms, too; a scared human in a crowd scares the crowd, and sad things happening makes people nearby tear up too. Humans particularly are social and need to communicate and when people are talking around or near you, it's instinctive to tune in, and even join in. It's instinct, and it's necessary; humans need human interaction. Other animals can fill space in your heart but it is deeply unhealthy to be isolated from other humans.

Jellicles are social and they are *clowns* and also a species obsessed with performance. Both on a social learning level and perhaps a deep physical, physiological level, it would make sense that bits are contagious the way laughter is in humans. It's social and comfortable and affectionate. Even for old friends who haven't seen eachother in millions of years, there's no hesitation.

Steve is significantly in less control of his bits and his detours from reality, and we see the slice of life in the beginning of season one for Steve and the bigtop crew: Steve is continually doing weird little bits toward his humans, entertaining and confusing them in spades, performing and bending reality the whole way. They're humans- they can't join the bit the same way Munk manages without thought. They can't also shrink along with him, or join in on Steve's unreality otherwise. He keeps doing bits anyway because he's trying to socialize the way he can, a little beast that is purring and purring and purring and is never hearing a purr back.

we're playing a game called short term financial panic!

The summary is that Sav has suddenly and without notice become unemployed and the timing has been everly inconvenient. I've been job hunting the last couple days and while i do have a job prospect in the future, im informed it can take up to two months to even begin orientation. So far no other job prospects have progressed- leaving me, Sav, scrambling for work more *now* than *later* without any success so far.

If I can make do for the next month, and get into the aforementioned job, we can make do! but June is a hurdle. These numbers account for paying what i can already with my scant savings, so this is the minimum i need to scrape together to be stable for the coming month.

So! Sav is opening commissions (And Donations @ paypal / kofi)

Im offering basically anything right now- Here's some full colors at various levels of shade/complexity. But flats and monochromes are also available for quicker turn around!