atthebell

A red worm creature with ears



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    “What’s the matter? Am I too leaky for you?” he teases. “You’re lucky I can’t come in there and give you a biiiig kith-

    He smashes his lips grotesquely against the xenonite, ignoring the flicker in his heart when he does it. He’s just having a weird morning, he thinks to himself, and he’s still a little hormone-y and sensitive, and it’ll pass with the next star system they fly through.

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    A year and a half into their journey to Erid, Grace's PTSD worsens as he tries to make peace with his imminent death, and Rocky has a revelation that could complicate things.

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  2. Rec 48

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    Grace has many Earth sayings that Rocky has grown fond of. To use one of his most favorite, in Rocky’s defense, he had assumed that humans, due to their unfortunate condition of being extraneously fleshy and containing concerning amounts of liquid, were being dramatic, as humans often are, about the impact of small scale penetration for slightly extended periods of time. But Rocky loves his Grace very much and likes giving him nice things, so he intends to uncover the truth for himself.

    Upon further investigation, he fears the humans were not, in fact, being dramatic.

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    Or, Rocky figures out what a butt plug is, decides to test run one on himself with the intention of eventually putting it in Grace, and gets his shit wrecked, in that order.

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  3. Rec 36

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    His heart skips a beat at the thought that maybe he's taken this too far, and that Rocky has just hurled an uncouth insult at him, but then he glimpses two of his claws gripping the edge of the cot, creaking under his grasp.

    "Hmm. Did not consider that time without Rocky make Grace stupid. Unfortunate oversight.

    "I guess you can't ever get rid of me, then."

    "Could not. Grace too helpless.

    After reuniting post-Taumoeba leak, Grace’s insomnia starts to make him a little needy. Rocky quickly realizes he has his work cut out for him. (Inspired by a deleted scene from the film!)

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    In modern Western tonal music theory, a diminished second is the interval produced by narrowing a minor second by one chromatic semitone. It is enharmonically equivalent to a perfect unison; therefore, it is the interval between notes on two adjacent staff positions, altered in such a way that they have no pitch difference in twelve-tone equal temperament.

    The ache I feel for Adrian has been a part of me for so many years that it is a familiar dragging weight, like a mangled sixth limb. The ache for Grace is stranger, worse. Not because he is an alien, but the opposite; he is so much of myself that I have entirely lost the sound of where he begins and I end, and somehow I still want him closer, closer, closer.

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  5. Public Bookmark 53

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    or "Statistical Fallacy (N=1)
    or "Mimicking you Mimicking Me"
    or "oopsie doopsie absolutely nobody here is a trained diplomat lol"

    or the Erid homecoming keeps having more issues arise. Human and Eridian relations are off to a, pardon the pun, rocky start. And Grace doesn't know why, but he is a little paranoid that Rocky somehow did it on purpose.

    Hopefully Earth gets his updated information on communicating with Eridians before they decide to send someone else. Otherwise it'll probably be pretty embarrassing for everyone.

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