yellow

And he partly fears it for Ryland's sake, and partly looks forward to it for his own ego.

Only to then realize that times have changed, modern fandom culture works differently and fans nowadays are more mature than they were ten years ago.

Instead of hating on Grace, they all just adopt him immediately.

Whenever Tom shows a photo of Grace and himself on instagram, he expects comments like "I'm soooo jealous of Ryland" and "Break up with him Tom, he's not good enough for you".

Instead he gets comments like "It's so nice of Ryland to give a platform to lesser known creators <33" and "Watch out, Tom, I'm gonna steal your boyfriend". On all his social media platforms he sees his fangirls, HIS fangirls (!!!!!) post pictures of Ryland and gush over how handsome he is.

It becomes a running gag in the fandom to act like Ryland is more famous than Tom is.

And Tom totally goes crashout.

"I need to write this", I say for the hundreth time today while millions of other WIPs rot in my drafts.

child: mr. grace, why does mr. rocky talk like that?

rocky, with a big smile: is faster! rocky want to keep up with conversation! can't talk normal same speed with device as you can with voice.

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grown ass adult: dr. grace, may i ask why your companion speaks... the way he does?

grace: well, he's — [gets elbowed] oh, rocky's telling you, hold on

rocky: ...

rocky: ...

rocky: ...

for the most part im just combining the separate evil grace and evil rocky aus ive seen floating around cuz i want them to be evil and codependent and selfish forever. like lets all make gracerocky more unhealthy i think. for fun

grace who doesn't wake up with amnesia by some miracle so he follows through with his threats to sabotage the mission. rocky whos grown bitter and maybe a little insane in all his years of isolation. mmm

they know tau ceti's star system will be completely fine so they don't really care to do anything for their respective star systems. the only concern would be food, but maybe they both lock in on synthesizing food for each other and its like. hm. interesting!

cuz all their experiments for the astrophage problem mysteriously fail, but they lock the fuck in when it comes to increasing the longevity of their lives? the "clumsy" grace is oh so dextrous all of a sudden? xenonite is suddenly a lot more stable of a material than before?

"hey rocky did you make the chains yet" "no but i managed to make multivitamin supplements for you in case we stay here for a longer period of time" "lovely. thanks, bud"

Ryland Grace has trouble dating because he tends to overthink everything to the point he comes off as distant and uninterested (head in the clouds, y'know)

Tom Ryder:

Really really likes watching Grace's brain go brr

Has a habit of saying the most out of pocket shit that does a really good job of derailing Grace's runaway trains of thought

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Grace (internally): oh gosh I made eye contact does he think I like looking at him? Does he think I don't like looking at him? Wait a second, do I like looking at him? What if-

Ryder: I want you to dissect me like one of your frogs

Grace:

Grace (internally):

Greetings BloodyMary Nation!!🩸⭐️

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PHM characters as text posts: Pt. 3/?

‘engineering disaster’

‘Engineering failure’

‘engineering failure explained’

‘engineering failure explained audio’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with puppet show’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with *visual presentation*’

‘well there’s your problem podcast’

‘how to speed up video’

‘project hail mary schematics’

‘what is Hail Mary’

‘what is football’

‘Communism’

‘what is Christian’

‘what is Christianity’

‘can high g-force cause CTE?’

‘CTE signs’

‘history of trains’

‘Islam’

‘Is Mary Magdalene and Mary same person?’

‘Judaism’

‘biggest train’

‘coolest trains ever’

‘nuclear power’

‘which religions can alien join’

‘nuclear power how does it work’

‘nuclear reactor detailed diagram safe’

‘safest nuclear reactor designs minimum radiation’

‘nuclear meltdown’

‘criticality incident’

‘Nuclear bomb’

‘how many nuclear weapons on Earth’

‘how to stop being afraid of nuclear war’

‘mutually assured destruction’

‘Hiroshima bombing why?’

‘Hiroshima still city’

‘radiation sickness signs’

‘how to improve radiation sickness outcomes’

‘Radiotherapy improves outcomes’

‘Radiation treatment not in humans’

‘chemotherapy’

‘radiation shielding best’

‘solid xenon’

‘solid xenon papers’

‘solid argon’

‘why no solid xenon’

‘woman’

‘man and woman’

‘female male difference’

‘sexual dimorphism’

‘sex hormone’

‘transgender’

‘trans man’

‘trans woman’

‘lgbt’

‘lgbt why’

‘Homophobia why’

‘transphobia’

‘How to tell if friend is gay’

‘how to ask if friend is gay’

‘period’

‘period not punctuation’

‘menustration’

‘puberty’

‘pregnancy’

‘pregnancy hurt women why’

‘human head evolution’

‘whale song compilation’

‘human sleeping pattern’

‘dream’

‘Nightmare’

‘Why do dreams happen’

‘tastiest foods how to’

‘artificial protein synthesis’

‘protein folding’

‘NileRed cooking compilation all’

‘is human head limb’

‘How to win argument with friend’

‘famous philosopher says head is limb’

‘famous scientist proves head is actually fifth limb’

‘head fifth limb spiritual belief’

‘head is arm mouth is hand proof’