chromadoesstuff

a photo from a tumblr-famous post of someone holding a startled-looking baby crow. the crow is fine, just seems comedically shocked, beak slightly open.



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    my silly little lethal company worldbuilding, all through the lens of a fucked-up employee labeled only as 11618 and the horrors they face :]

    i'm also @chromadoesstuff on tumblr if u wanna ask anything of me at all anytime <3

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    Ryland Grace is living peacefully on Erid. Peacefully until something (or someone) so monumentally bloody stains the water in his enclosure.

    Simon is trying to get by on what he thinks is heaven, until he starts to mutate into something unholy.

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    You know the drill it’s platonic bloodymary time

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    podfic/translation welcome!

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    12 Jul 2026

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    AWWWWW this one was such a fun spin on simon as a character and what he'd go through, the sheer refusal of the brain to believe what's happening can be terrifying. GREAT WORK!!!

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    “Don’t let the blood get into your ship, okay?”

    That made Grace pause. “What?!”

    “If I die, you have to get my body out of here,” the man pleaded, but Grace had to go. His oxygen was out. The guy would be dead in six minutes. “You have to get me out, even if I’m dead. Hey!”

    “Just hold on!” Grace propelled himself through zero gravity, away from the radio.

    “Don’t leave me here-!” The roar echoed through the ship halls.

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    When Ryland Grace complained about being a little bored, maybe a little lonely, he thought a nostalgic trip around Erid would fix him right up. The last thing he expected was to find deadly space bacteria in deep space and a human. Alive.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    i am fucking obsessed with this please keep cooking oh my god

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    There were times after Rocky moved into the Hail Mary when Grace would be hunched over an experiment, struggling to make things work; struggling to find the solution that Tau Ceti held, then struggling to grow nitrogen-resistant Taumoeba faster. Sometimes he would sit staring at the farm-tanks, slouched in his chair with his hands dangling over his knees, and whisper to himself. “Please,” he would say. “Please, please, please.”

    “Who is Grace talking to?” Rocky had asked in the stilted way he’d been stuck with at the time.

    “No one,” Grace had shrugged. “Or anyone. Anyone who’ll listen.”

    Rocky does not understand humans. But now, he sits on the shore of an infant sea, a brand-new constructed world all around him just waiting for its single lonely occupant to take control of it, and wonders if human senselessness is worth a shot.

    “Please,” he whispers, running his claw through the water. “Please, please, please.”

    The sea does not respond.

    Or, what if your friend accidentally catches the attention of a god in hopes of saving you, and that god falls in love with you instead?

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    11 Jul 2026

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    HOUAAAAAGH

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    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

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    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

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    Where does the mask begin and host end? When the corpse's memories seeps into the mask, what does it do? It is no longer an item but an entity, in a facility full of entities, but none like itself.

    What does it do?

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    13 Jan 2026

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    FUCKING BELOVED THIS WHOLE SERIES OH MY GOD