ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO. SHIT

advertising lemonade is pointless. the human body already knows it needs it

i think the funniest possible permutation of grace/rocky is if grace is demisexual but never got emotionally close enough to anyone for sex to feel like more than a mostly-unobjectionable chore. so when he starts developing Those Feelings for rocky it hits him like a meteorite and he's like. oh god. what is this. have i just been a massive repressed xenophile all along. do i have a geology fetish. am i gay. well rocky's not actually a man so it's probably not that. but what if i am.

What I envision for Grace is this. He would have been a normal guy if he'd stayed on earth. As a baseline, he is not a monsterfucker or an alienfucker. He's not even really into other humans because he can only get the hots for someone if they've established a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy first, which is impossible because he's allergic to vulnerability. On the flip side this means that on the off chance that he establishes a soul-baring level of emotional intimacy with someone, he's going to have the hots for them no matter what the genital situation is. If Rocky had been a cloud of sentient algae he would have wanted to do it in the cloud. However Grace doesn't know this. He thinks he must have had some kind of latent alien fetish and that's why he was so bad at relationships

#yeah. #it bears repeating! he is not self-aware enough to realise ANY of this. #he thinks he's a completely normal dude and everyone does sex and relationships the way he does (badly) #then he meets rocky and he's like ohhhh got it. it must be the alien thing. that's what was missing. i've been into aliens all along. #NO IDIOT YOU JUST LIKE HIM. AS A PERSON. <- prev

you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever

Being clocky when i was working as a barista was one of my big joys. Being clocky when i was teaching high schoolers how to play the marimba was my reason for being for half a decade. It sucks how scared I am to leave the house I live in now. But I still need to try and be clocky at the grocery store. I wish i had a job to be clocky at. Being visibly me is one of the most radical acts I'm capable of, and I hope that one day we live in a world where it isn't radical at all.

that's exactly what I was feeling when I wrote this. we all find ways to defy our fear, love is an excellent motivator.

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies