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I only saw PHM for the first time yesterday because i was on a goddamn library book wait list of four weeks -__- (just wanted to read it before seeing film lol) but all that to say, i want to hear some of your Ryland Grace head canons!!

OH MY GOD THSNK YOU FOR ASKING

I HAVE MANY

1. aroace. i mean. do i even need to explain this lol, it's the most widely accepted headcanon of him

2. i just think he's autistic because i think every good character is/should be (naturally) so yeah

3. okay so i haven't seen this one much but he's in a qpr with rocky (rocky is still romantically with adrian though) and i think qpr's are probably just like a regular normal thing on erid because why tf not

4. not really ryland grace, but me and my boyfriend were talking about phm and we decided that rocky speaks in the most foul language ever possible and grace just thinks it's normal and so when he goes to erid, he 1) doesn't understand much if anything any of eridians are saying or 2) on a little human text to eridian speech machine that im sure rocky would have made he just starts speaking like 'what is UP, motherfuckers!!!' and rocky is mortified. in contrast, adrian definitely speaks like the eridian version of shakespeare and always gets annoyed at rocky when he mocks them (also i think adrian have they/them pronouns)

5. again not ryland grace but eva stratt is definitely autistic and thats not even me just self inserting like with most other characters, i mean. look at her.

Here's a couple of mine i've been pondering over:

keeps all the drawings his students give him and either display them around his classroom or they're just all pinned to his fridge

2. related to teaching again, he has to restrain himself not to get into heated debates with some of his students parents during parent teacher meetings due to what they may be indotrinating his students with at home and what he has to unteach in class (this is also just a general teacher thing haha)

3. Loves to crochet (for example the fox jacket and the hacky sack)

4. Autistic as well (obviously) but I think undiagnosed, he's been 'peer reveiwed' by other autistic people who obviously know he is. Also I think this is true for Stratt as well

5. Statt packed Graces bags

Ryland Grace who is a teacher in an American school.

Ryland Grace who has sat through countless hours of active shooter training.

Ryland Grace who has stood in his classroom and tried to figure out the best plan to keep everyone safe in that room with oh so many windows.

Ryland Grace who has awoken from nightmares alone, imagining he heard the sound of gunshots in the corridors.

Ryland Grace who has spent hours on the floor during drills reassuring his kids and desperate for someone to reassure him.

Ryland Grace who has walked into work every single day knowing this might be the day he has to stand between his kids and a gunman.

Ryland Grace who was <brave> before the world even knew of the Petrova line.

Cynthia Erivo for Variety. She speaks on how people were psychoanalyzing her friendship with Ariana and the misogynoir she was subjected to during the press tour for Wicked For Good:

“It’s very interesting, watching what people’s perception is versus what the reality actually is. Lots of psychologists seated at home deciding who we were, what we were going through, what we were doing and why. I think that people didn’t really believe that we were actually friends. But that’s also because people don’t know me very well. If I’m a friend, then I’m a friend. If I’m not, then I’m not.”

“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

good!!! i was just on school camp (that's why i didn't reply - sorry) which was rainy but pretty fun!!

(heres a couple nice photos from it!)