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[raccoonfallsharder]

warm compress ☾.༊·˚⋆⭒

fluff | no use of y/n | gn reader | oneshot | word count: 3,432.

you've taken care of rocket when he's been hurt in the past. when he comes to visit you and finds you tired, in pain, and less-than-receptive to company, he decides to return the favor. can be read platonically or romantically. excerpt below.

WARNINGS: reader is experiencing abdominal pain attributed to hormonal/ovulation cycle. reader frustration-cries at one point. explicit description of pain.

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“Answer me,” he snaps. “You’re in pain? Where?” God. It’s fucking embarrassing. You can feel your cheeks burning and you just want to crawl back into your pile of fleece warmth and put on your favorite old movie for the sixth time. Or maybe rewatch that comfort-show for the fourth. Rocket’s relentless, though. As per frickin’ usual.

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Rocket Raccoon: Grounded (2017) #4 by Rosenberg & Coehlo

rocket visiting NYC - edit i did a good while ago.

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princess jaz

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hello again it's princess jazper lunar solheart (they/he) by @starriidreams! i drew this a while ago but just realized i never posted.

i just fucken love jaz so much.

if you think you've seen jaz before, it's either because you're awesome and you already follow their creator, or because i drew another version of jaz previously. unfortunately i wasn't super-happy with it, and i wanted to work on a few things and now ~ ta-da! ~ here they are, looking as happy as i had wanted them to be. just imagine rocket said something silly to them.

anyway jaz's backstory is amazing. they were adopted into relvoith royalty on their home planet, and they have all sorts of cool powers, like shooting gold energy from their palms, minor healing, limited telekinesis, and a lil levitation/flying for good measure. they're also incredibly gorgeous and i love all the touches of gold in their character design (finger-pads, and the little swirls on their cheeks that turn gold when they "blush," which we in the biz refer to as "gold-dusting" or "sunbursting") (and by "we in the biz" i'm referring to me). i love getting to work in a shiny glow on characters, and getting to draw jaz's hair was so fun. plus their ears and lil happy tooth gap are so cute!!!

that said, jazper's personality is what absolutely won me over. adorable, top-tier, super-sweet, perfection. cinnamon-roll in most scenarios but also fiercely protective. i love them so so so much.

deepest gratitude to @starriidreams for letting me fixate on jaz, and letting me write about them and draw them again and again.

i am currently working on the last two people in the doodle queue lineup! finally, right? i am trying to decide if i am going to reopen the queue, or allow people to make requests one at a time. i feel like when there's a queue it always takes longer than i anticipated because i get distracted by side-projects. if you have thoughts, let me know!

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updated~

future projects. part one.

may 2025 - september 2025 part two | part three | navigation | fanfiction masterlist

below you can find the stuff i am working on, in order of (hopeful) release date. NOTE: these dates will certainly change as the year unfolds and as my writing-whims take me! i have a lot of simultaneous projects so these will be coming out slowly over the coming months. thank you for bearing with me ♡♡ you are shinier than a lilac bush full of fireflies and more precious than pocket-sized pegasuses.

i am hoping to be done with current works on the following timeline: florescence ❀ ~ april 2025 cicatrix.⋆☁︎ :･꧂~ september 2025

may 2025

blue daisies (and other growing things). angst/comfort; fluff | gn!reader | no use of y/n | oneshot | ~5,900 words.

rocket notices things. specifically: opportunities to make money, opportunities to get hurt, changes in knowhere's residential population, and how lonesome you look.

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: post volume-three. discussions of loneliness.

How to Resuscitate a Dying Cosmic Adventurer: A Holodocumented Demonstration. 18+ only MDNI | no use of y/n | f!reader | oneshot | word count: pending. The Nineteenth Visit. Domestic Scenes in Space Travel Series Finale.

your love-confession had been blunt and half-regretful — mostly just because you'd suspected rocket would hate it. and it looks like you were right, because you haven't heard his ship over your roof in months. what's a sweatshirt girl to do when her space pilot has disappeared into the stars — maybe for good?

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: comics-inspired, of course. based on Guardians of the Galaxy (2019), Issues 7-12. more warnings to come.

fairylight divider and pink mdni/support banners by @/saradika-graphics.

june 2025

birdie. (an evasive maneuvers expansion) 18+ only MDNI | f!reader x rocket | 8-12 parts | word count: pending.

xandar is saved. the power stone rests safely in the hands of the nova corps, and our favorite heroes-for-hire get their records expunged before going their separate ways. unfortunately, one furry little motherfucker just can't seem to keep his claws out of trouble. in a rare gesture of good will, the nova corp give him a get-outta-jail-free card (not that he needs one):

all he has to do is escort a bratty little princess safely and discreetly to her new home, halfway across the universe.

should be a piece of cake. what's the difference between a bodyguard and a bounty-hunter, anyway?

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: mcu-based canon-divergent post-vol1. angst, betrayal, and the agony of falling in love. a little darker than my usual fare - true enemies-to-lovers. bondage (duh), gunplay, toys, dom/sub vibes, and a smartass f!lead. more warnings to come.

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july 2025

love is blind: andromeda 18+ only | rocket x f!oc | 7-10 episodes | word count: pending.

rocket has broken out of twenty-three prisons. this one will be no different.

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: silly smutty romance with lots of feelings happening way too quickly. mcu-based with a dash of comics-vibes, and kinda au.

cream lace, green lace, and kiss dividers by @/bernardsbendystraws | ivory mdni/support banners by @/cafekitsune

august 2025

starfall over satellite s519. (formerly titled defiance) rating undecided | no use of y/n | f!reader | oneshot | word count: pending.

the universe is hard and heartbreaking. what's a girl to do but try to drag some happiness out of it, kicking and screaming?

cloud & star divider by @/strangergraphics | blue support banner by @/cafekitsune

the arsenal. based on this eidos headcanon. 18+ only MDNI | no use of y/n | f!reader | two parts. | word count: pending.

the fact that you've never done space-drugs before is infinitely amusing to rocket, and he decides he can't wait to be there for your first time. then he decides he wants to be there for your second time, too. and possibly all the times after that. look, he never said he wasn't a greedy motherflarker.

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: eidos-inspired. smut & intox. first-time use of space-drugs, aphrodisiacs, dom/sub vibes. a little erotic dancing, some toys, and so much more.

bokeh divider by @/firefly-graphics | neon mdni banner by @/cafekitsune | purple stringlight divider by @/thecutestgrotto

september 2025

schematics for happiness. 18+ only MDNI | f!oc x rocket | 20+ chapters | word count: pending. the isekai project.

earth 1218. the guardians of the galaxy is an mcu trilogy that has recently reached its cinematic conclusion. it is popular for its themes of found family, community, and connection - and its prevailing message that no matter how ugly and painful our pasts are, we deserve to open ourselves up to the possibility of joy. it's one of evvie's dearest comfort-stories, to be honest.

which is why she's terrified of ruining it.

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: mcu-based. enemies-to-lovers slowburn. eventual smut.

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future-future projects...

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okay this…. well it made me tear up tbh

i feel like i see a lot of talk about like, purging reader-inserts of anything that makes them unique (not only physically), arguing that it “automatically makes them an oc.” and i don’t like writing that way. one of the things i value most about fiction is its ability to cultivate empathy in readers and a (er, metaphorically) stripped-down reader seems counterintuitive to that purpose. but what you’re describing is like…. hyper-empathy lol. and i love that.

and i think you inadvertently convinced me to change one of my other ocs to a reader-insert

anyway thank you. this means a lot and i appreciate you taking the time to write it. and i really hope you like birdie because rocket’s basically a legit fuckin bully in the beginning

also i saw an update for if only for tonight so i’m gonna toddle off to write an obscenely long comment on ao3

birdie will be the evasive maneuvers “prequel”, which i am hoping to start posting this summer. [summary below]

whenever i write a longer piece, i tend to shy away from reader-inserts because i like to give ‘em some personality and i feel like that’s not the point of reader-inserts.

imo a “good” reader-insert is relatable enough that even if their behavior is idealized or catastrophized, you can think, yeah, at my best/worst, i might do/say that. but the longer and more complex the narrative is, the harder it is to do that. storyteller-reader in florescence❀ tells rocket a story about her parents that’s supposed to be true and like. figuring out how to write that in a more-or-less accessible way was fuckin hard lol (and i’m sure it still didn’t resonate for some people).

on the other hand, writing a relatable OC feels way easier. i can offer up specific backstories (and give ‘em a goddamn name) that people can identify with but not have to identify as, if that makes sense.

that said, i think i could write a reasonable reader-insert for this. if that's what you want. she'll be stubborn and stand-offish at first (though i think most people would be in her situation) and while she's a softie underneath it, she definitely gives rocket hell at first. it's okay, he deserves it.

birdie. (an evasive maneuvers expansion) 18+ only MDNI | f!reader x rocket | 8-12 chapters | word count: pending.

xandar is saved. the power stone rests safely in the hands of the nova corps, and our favorite heroes-for-hire get their records expunged before going their separate ways. unfortunately, one furry little motherfucker just can't seem to keep his claws out of trouble. in a rare gesture of good will, the nova corp give him a get-outta-jail-free card (not that he needs one):

all he has to do is escort a bratty little princess safely and discreetly to her new home, halfway across the universe.

should be a piece of cake. what's the difference between a bodyguard and a bounty-hunter, anyway?

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: mcu-based canon-divergent post-vol1. angst, betrayal, and the agony of falling in love. a little darker than my usual fare - true enemies-to-lovers. bondage (duh), gunplay, toys, dom/sub vibes, and a smartass f!lead. more warnings to come.

*** this is a little darker than some people's tastes (and cicatrix, which i'll still be posting, is kinda dark too) so i am hoping to release it in tandem with Love is Blind: Andromeda which is gonna be the sugariest fluffy-smut with fluffy-feelings ever (as a palate-cleanser).

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✩࿐࿔ stop frickin' apologizing. [new 4/9]

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fluff | gn reader | no use of y/n | anthology one-shot | word count: 1,207. read ✩࿐࿔ stop frickin' apologizing on ao3

hey, kid. for many of us, the impulse to apologize is conditioned so deeply into our subconscious that we don't even realize how often we do it until someone says, oh my god. stop apologizing. (which often makes us... well, apologize again.) luckily, the captain is here to offer his patient counsel and support. lol.

for @raccoon-coded ~ babe. i had a hard time writing this one, probably because i identify with both reader and here. (watch me barely holding back the impulse to apologize right here.) i am both the over-apologizer and the person who tells other people not to apologize (which does not work lol). i really hope this is still able to provide some comfort or validation for you. i will work on apologizing less if you do too, and maybe together we'll feel free to just exist without having to be sorry about it.

When Xlomo Smeth trips on the bone-pavement and bumps into the Captain — who in turn bumps into you — the words find their way out of your mouth before you even realize you’re saying them: an impulse as natural as drawing breath. “Oh! Sorry.” You don’t even notice Rocket stilling and stiffening in the street — not until you’ve already left him five paces behind. You stumble to a halt and turn, only to find him gazing up at you: eyes burning, arms crossed, tail and whiskers twitching. “Would you fuckin' knock that off?” You blink. “Excuse me?” Xlomo Smeth has already ducked into the laundromat where he’s been headed with a basket of his clothes. Other than the two of you, there are only a few people out and about right now in the early wake-shift hours. The Broker is sitting at a table across the street, daintily sipping something that you assume is the intergalactic equivalent of espresso. Sssaralami is leaning out of her window, hanging wet laundry to dry. Hoobtoe and a few of the Star Children are watering some plants in a series of box-gardens set up in a nearby alley, and Drax is lounging in a doorway: keeping a casual eye on them while he rips grilled orloni off a stick with his teeth. The streets are quiet, and the manufactured morning light is pearlescent and misty. “Apologizin’ so much,” the Captain growls at you.

read more on ao3 ✩࿐࿔ for @raccoon-coded ♡ ✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist | take what you need queue

need more reminders from rocket?

the world is hard, and sometimes it's difficult to complete daily tasks & take care of yourself (aka rocket bullies you for your own damn good).

feel free to ✩ request reminders ✩ via reblogs, asks, and tumblr or ao3 comments if they would be helpful for you. it may take me a hot minute to get to them depending on life n stuff, but i will do my best. ♡ view the take what you need queue to see upcoming installations & the current backlog.

this is about as wholesome as it gets (for me) i think. can be read platonically or romantically. mcu-based anthology, meant to take place post-volume-3, but headcanon however you want ♡

✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist

eat somethin. (wc: 576)

go to frickin bed already. (wc: 737)

get outta bed & get your shit done.(wc: 925)

take a damn bath. (wc: 1,375)

leave your frickin skin alone. (wc: 1,579)

take a fuckin study break.(wc: 1,020)

drink some goddamn water. (wc: 1,209)

stop destroying your frickin clothes. (wc: 1,609)

just buy the damn thing already. (wc: 1,271)

it's frickin laundry day. (wc: 1,923)

get some sunshine, sunshine. (wc: 1,614)

did you take your damn meds today? (wc: 1,288)

schedule your fuckin' appointments.(wc: 1,222)

do your goddamn dishes. (wc: 994)

brush your frickin' teeth. (wc: 1,774)

nobody fuckin hates you (wc: 1,231)

stop biting your goddamn nails (wc: 2,920)

take a frickin' shower (wc: 1,359 )

take care of your fuckin injury (wc: 2,102)

cook some goddamn food. (wc: 2,707)

clean your frickin room. (wc: 2,465)

stop hittin shit. (wc: 1,862)

do your frickin homework. (wc: 2,121 )

chill the fuck out. (wc: 1,499)

i'm damn proud a' you, kid. (wc: 1,639)

fuck heartache. (wc: 1,781)

stop frickin' apologizing. (wc: 1,207)

if you find any of these at all helpful, they're meant for you.

teacup and teal line dividers by @/saradika-graphics | support banner by @/saradika-graphics | raccoon divider by @/thecutestgrotto. total wordcount: 42,041.

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future projects. part three.

additional, unslated projects part one | part two | navigation | fanfiction masterlist

below you can find the stuff i am thinking about and am hoping to eventually write, but they are not currently on the calendar. (that could change, of course!) for projects that are already (tentatively) scheduled, check out parts one and two or the current monthly forecast (accessible through the navigation page or the #aspirations tag). thank you for being amazing little wildflowers and droplets of sunshine and moonlight. you are the gleam of a unicorn's horn under the stars.

fluff ✮ | spice ✩ | some smut ❤︎‬ | much smut ❤︎‬❤︎

hot single dads in your spacestation. rating undecided | reader undecided | no use of y/n | oneshot | wordcount pending.

still working on the oneshot of this post.

daydreaming about quitting my job and running away to outer space. i’d live in a city in a giant floating skull and i’d run a street-food stall for the neighborhood. i’d teach the local sentient tree how to play stardew valley, and just fucken recklessly hit on his hot dad every chance i got

ivy divider by @/strangergraphics | offcenter ivider and support banner by @/saradika-graphics

universe killer. 18+ mdni | DARK CONTENT | f!reader | no use of y/n | 3-6 parts | wordcount pending.

animated celestial divider @/enchanthings | black glitter divider @/firefly-graphics | orange stringlight divider @/thecutestgrotto | neon mdni banner by @/cafekitsune

other duties as assigned. 18+ only | rocket x f!oc | ?? | word count: pending. ~i'm not sure this will ever get written but it is in the back of my head, always. natasha romanoff is an administrative nightmare - a fact that does not go unnoticed by the (interim) captain of the milano. First she demands that the remaining two guardians of the galaxy be reachable via a primitive terran messaging system, and then she can't be bothered to read the frickin' emails. thank fuck she's hired a new assistant. mcu-based, slight au, begins five months post-snap; rocket x oc email romance/LDR (lol); slow burn + probable smut with feelings.

scheduled projects...

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✩࿐࿔ i'm damn proud a' you, kid. [new 3/27]

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fluff | gn reader | no use of y/n | anthology one-shot | word count: 1,639. read ✩࿐࿔ i'm damn proud a' you on ao3

when you're questioning your path, when you're disappointed in yourself, when you're feeling lonely, try to remember: the captain is proud of you. and he hopes you're proud of yourself, too.

i got two requests under different names for this scene. it was a hard one, because everyone feels the need for this kind of reassurance, but in different ways. to the requester(s): i hope that you feel seen by this. i hope that it moves you and reminds you that you are amazing, not just in what you do, and not only in how hard you try - but also, simply, in who you are. and i hope it brings you some peace, and reassurance, and contentment. ♡♡♡

It’s early morning when Rocket finds you. You’re not always up at this hour, but you’ve got a lot to do today — and something had moved you to steal an extra hour of peace and quiet before the city starts its quiet morning hustle. So you’d made your favorite cozy-warm drink with the electric kettle on your tiny countertop, and you’d gone up to the roof — leaned out over the edge with your elbows propped against the low bone-concrete wall, and gazed down on the strings of twinkling plasma orbs, slowly fading like stars in the lavender-rose glow of the manufactured sunrise. The orloni peddler sets up their cart, and someone wanders down the street to the laundromat with a brimful basket propped on their hip. A lone, lazy Terran bull — liberated from the Arête, you assume — pulls a mouthful of grass from a crack in the walkway. But otherwise, the skull is still and tranquil, and everything seems oddly pastoral in the pearly light of artificial dawn. Even with Rocket scuffling around up here. He makes more noise than he needs to — more noise than he normally would, too: pushing open the door to the roof, and making sure to drag his boots on the gravelly surface. You appreciate the gesture, since it keeps you from startling when he finally swaggers to your side and hoists himself up on the ledge next to you. “Hey, kid.” “Hey,” you murmur back. Both of your voices are hushed, like the sleepiness of the world has stolen its way into your lungs, making everything soft and gauzy. “You heading out?” He drops into a seated position, legs dangling out over the street four stories down. Frankly, you’re surprised to see him this morning. Usually when he has to leave for a mission this early in the wake-shift, he heads straight from his apartment to the Bowie. “Yeah,” he grunts. “Just wanted to see how you were doin’ before I left.” Your mouth curves. You lift your mug to your lips and breathe in the steam, keeping your eyes carefully averted so he can’t see too much affection in them. “Checking up on me, Captain?”

read more on ao3 ✩࿐࿔ for a requester (or two) on ao3 ♡ ✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist | NEW: take what you need queue

need more reminders from rocket?

the world is hard, and sometimes it's difficult to complete daily tasks & take care of yourself (aka rocket bullies you for your own damn good).

feel free to ✩ request reminders ✩ via reblogs, asks, and tumblr or ao3 comments if they would be helpful for you. it may take me a hot minute to get to them depending on life n stuff, but i will do my best. ♡ view the take what you need queue to see upcoming installations & the current backlog.

this is about as wholesome as it gets (for me) i think. can be read platonically or romantically. mcu-based anthology, meant to take place post-volume-3, but headcanon however you want ♡

✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist

eat somethin. (wc: 576)

go to frickin bed already. (wc: 737)

get outta bed & get your shit done.(wc: 925)

take a damn bath. (wc: 1,375)

leave your frickin skin alone. (wc: 1,579)

take a fuckin study break.(wc: 1,020)

drink some goddamn water. (wc: 1,209)

stop destroying your frickin clothes. (wc: 1,609)

just buy the damn thing already. (wc: 1,271)

it's frickin laundry day. (wc: 1,923)

get some sunshine, sunshine. (wc: 1,614)

did you take your damn meds today? (wc: 1,288)

schedule your fuckin' appointments.(wc: 1,222)

do your goddamn dishes. (wc: 994)

brush your frickin' teeth. (wc: 1,774)

nobody fuckin hates you (wc: 1,231)

stop biting your goddamn nails (wc: 2,920)

take a frickin' shower (wc: 1,359 )

take care of your fuckin injury (wc: 2,102)

cook some goddamn food. (wc: 2,707)

clean your frickin room. (wc: 2,465)

stop hittin shit. (wc: 1,862)

do your frickin homework. (wc: 2,121 )

chill the fuck out. (wc: 1,499)

i'm damn proud a' you, kid. (wc: 1,639)

if you find any of these at all helpful, they're meant for you.

teacup and teal line dividers by @/saradika-graphics | support banner by @/saradika-graphics | raccoon divider by @/thecutestgrotto. total wordcount: 39,062.

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that is a much larger gap than i anticipated lol. my mind is blown.

reader-insert i guess it is then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s just as well. i was having a hard time coming up with a name anyway lol

but trust me when i say birdie-reader definitely has a distinct personality

birdie will be the evasive maneuvers “prequel”, which i am hoping to start posting this summer. [summary below]

whenever i write a longer piece, i tend to shy away from reader-inserts because i like to give ‘em some personality and i feel like that’s not the point of reader-inserts.

imo a “good” reader-insert is relatable enough that even if their behavior is idealized or catastrophized, you can think, yeah, at my best/worst, i might do/say that. but the longer and more complex the narrative is, the harder it is to do that. storyteller-reader in florescence❀ tells rocket a story about her parents that’s supposed to be true and like. figuring out how to write that in a more-or-less accessible way was fuckin hard lol (and i’m sure it still didn’t resonate for some people).

on the other hand, writing a relatable OC feels way easier. i can offer up specific backstories (and give ‘em a goddamn name) that people can identify with but not have to identify as, if that makes sense.

that said, i think i could write a reasonable reader-insert for this. if that's what you want. she'll be stubborn and stand-offish at first (though i think most people would be in her situation) and while she's a softie underneath it, she definitely gives rocket hell at first. it's okay, he deserves it.

birdie. (an evasive maneuvers expansion) 18+ only MDNI | f!reader x rocket | 8-12 chapters | word count: pending.

xandar is saved. the power stone rests safely in the hands of the nova corps, and our favorite heroes-for-hire get their records expunged before going their separate ways. unfortunately, one furry little motherfucker just can't seem to keep his claws out of trouble. in a rare gesture of good will, the nova corp give him a get-outta-jail-free card (not that he needs one):

all he has to do is escort a bratty little princess safely and discreetly to her new home, halfway across the universe.

should be a piece of cake. what's the difference between a bodyguard and a bounty-hunter, anyway?

CONTEXT/WARNINGS: mcu-based canon-divergent post-vol1. angst, betrayal, and the agony of falling in love. a little darker than my usual fare - true enemies-to-lovers. bondage (duh), gunplay, toys, dom/sub vibes, and a smartass f!lead. more warnings to come.

*** this is a little darker than some people's tastes (and cicatrix, which i'll still be posting, is kinda dark too) so i am hoping to release it in tandem with Love is Blind: Andromeda which is gonna be the sugariest fluffy-smut with fluffy-feelings ever (as a palate-cleanser).

silver stardust and silver bar dividers by @bernardsbendystrawsblack | black rose divider by @/firefly-graphics | heart-handcuff & ivy dividers by @/strangergraphics | silver glitter divider and support/mdni banners by @/saradika-graphics

[raccoonfallsharder]

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

[raccoonfallsharder]

i’m proud of you for facing the days you really don’t want to face

[raccoonfallsharder]

I’m wondering how would one write Rocket post Guardians of the galaxy 3?

Do you think he would be as brash?

hi again, lovely! ♡♡♡ this is such a fun question. you also asked something really layered and nuanced here, which is how would one write rocket? and i want to give you a layered and nuanced answer. (philosophic ramblings about writing & characterization below, plus some of my own thoughts)

the fact is, no two people would write post-volume3 rocket the same exact way, which is exactly as it should be.

when one writes rocket post vol-3, i think they should think about how they imagine rocket at his core. what they think drives him. on the surface, we can say - he lost the only family he loved. but that's just a thing that happened to him. what drives him are the feelings. is rocket primarily motivated by empathy? regret? resentment? grief? loss? outrage? emotional pain? physical pain? isolation? community? fear? greed? hatred for self? hatred for others? fatherhood? friends? enemies? units?

how do these feelings change in every situation, and how do they stay the same? are there a few primary emotions that touch all the rest of them, and if so, what are they?

the next questions are, how has one seen rocket's emotions and responses change over time, and why do they think those changes have occurred? how do they think he'll continue to change in the future?

maybe one sees him as less brash. or... maybe one sees him as more brash, or more confident. or less confident, dealing with all this new responsibility and a bunch of kids, too. maybe one sees him as more fatherly. i think one could write him a dozen different ways, and each version could be justified with the right explanation of why.

ultimately, i think the most important thing for a person to infuse into their writing when developing a version of post-vol3 rocket is loving rocket. when you love and know your character, then you have a better grasp on who they're capable of becoming.

now, as mentioned, i have written post-vol3 rocket a few times. i don't necessarily think of him as being less-brash, but i do think of him as trying really hard to be "less of a jackass," as he would probably characterize it. i think of his scene with thor in infinity war, after his whole "time to be the captain" self-talk. i think of him trying to be a good dad to groot. he's trying to tap into the empathy he’d cut himself off from for so long. he’s trying to be practical, and he’s remembering how to be kind. but that doesn't make him less him. he’s still a genius, still sarcastic, still cynical (though less-so than in 2014), still using humor to protect himself from vulnerability.

then i think of him leveling up: being the captain to a lot more people; being a dad to a lot more people. still being himself — maybe even more fully than before.

i also personally imagine that the people of knowhere love having rocket as the captain of the guardians, and i think that's sometimes hard for him to adjust to or accept. his near-death conversation with lylla and finding the raccoons and finding himself all had a healing effect on him, but healing doesn't happen overnight. it's an ongoing process for our favorite pilot and mechanic and captain.

and as fan creators, we get to be part of that. and i think that's really lovely.

mitten aesthetic. ✮| ✩ fluff | gn reader | word count: 8,415. when knowhere breaks down in the thneed system, you receive an unexpected visitor. aka, it was a dark and stormy night when a stranger came to your door. for @/leresq.

welcome to the knowhere christmas party.✩ fluff & low-grade spice | gn reader |word count: 13,251. the worst thing about being a single dad is the number of meddling matchmakers rocket’s gotta deal with during the holidays. that's where you come in. mcu-based, post vol3. romantic fluff with low-grade spice.

emotionalistic. ✮ fluff | gn reader | word count: 570.bubbles & other intangible barriers. or, rocket cries during midnights on knowhere.

bite. ✮✩ low-grade spice & fluff | gn reader | word count: 2,266. you run into a familiar stranger at your place of work and end up flirting madly. or, a raccoon walks into a bar.

family. ✮ semi-romantic fluff | gn reader | word count: 1,274.one year ago today, the star children were liberated from the arête. the people of knowhere celebrate.

machinery.✮| ✩ semi-romantic angst & fluff | gn reader | word count: 1,946.rocket manipulates you into stealing something for him. what wouldn't you do for a pair of pretty almandine eyes? see post for warnings.

take what you need.✮ [each chapter is an individual oneshot.] gn reader, fluff & friendship. the world is hard, and sometimes it's difficult to complete daily tasks & take care of yourself. rocket bullies you for your own good.

windfall. (a meetgroot) ❤︎‬❤︎ 18+ only MDNI | f!reader | 3/3 parts | word count: 44,521. semi-shy ultrafeminine touch-deprived reader tries to avoid meeting knowhere’s intimidating captain. is profoundly unsuccessful. see post for warnings & context.

various headcanons & imagines:

rocket & coloring (string cheese nonnie)

rocket & origami ( @/wren-phoenix)

rocket & sudoku, crosswords & word-searches ( @/hyperjorts)

rocket & hanayama puzzles (nonnie)

rocket sings (nonnie)

music and rocket & adam, pete & jason (@/leresq)

rocket gets a team-up film(@/leresq)

rocket’s sense of humor + rocket with phyla

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Just wondering: Where did you read any of the GOTG/Rocket comics? I've looked for a while and can't find a reliable site to read them for the life of me xD

hey babe! this is a great, fair question.

honestly, as an artist and as someone with an ever-decreasing trust re: companies honoring digital licenses, i like print media for my favorite comics. i have most of the modern rocket, rocket & groot, and groot arcs in print.

i care much less about most gotg comics at large lol, so i have been more creative in my consumption of them. some ideas below (and maybe others will see this and add their own!) ♡ i am US-based so these may or may not be options in your location.

i was very lucky in 2023-2024. my partner had a free one-year subscription to marvel unlimited, so i consumed a vast amount of gotg comic content then. i don't love a lot of gotg comics (i'm a cretin, i know; a lot of the human characters are boring to me) so i read a lot at that time when it was free lol. things may have changed but marvel unlimited at the time was not a super-intuitive app (it might have been better from a web browser?), and there is a three-month lag from the comics hitting the shelves to be available in-app, but i didn't care about that too much at the time since i was mostly reading older stuff. marvel unlimited is $10/month i think. it looks like there is currently a free trial period you can access with a Disney+ account (not sure how long that lasts), and a code for 50% off for two months.

comixology through amazon is $6/month i think, and there's a 30-day free trial. if you're interested in going that route, i'd recommend lining up all the stuff you want to read in a list before you even sign up, and then consuming as much as you can before you cancel. you read through the kindle app, and some comics are available through kindle unlimited, too. if you've got money to spend and you enjoy electronic copies, you can also straight-up buy most of the comics through kindle. i haven't done a comparison on e-price vs print-price, so you'd probably want to double-check that.

finally, we also have a used bookstore near by with a decent tradebacks section, and we usually stop in about once a month. there was a pretty decent hardback version of rocket raccoon 1: a chasing tale (2014, skottie young) there two weeks ago, and it's actually where i got my copy of groot (2015, loveness & kesinger) about a year ago. i think i got it for like a quarter of the new-print price, and it was in really good condition. all the pages were nice and there was a little grime on the hardcover that i was able to get off (carefully) with some dish soap and a damp cloth. i've also gotten a couple gotg arcs there for cheap.

of course, all this relies on having at least some expendable income (unless you're gonna just truck through your whole library on that 30-day trial from comixology, which i fully support). i have not looked into this recently BUT if you have access to a local library, a lot of times they do have tradebacks/comics and will get what you want with an interlibrary loan if they don’t have it on hand. in most places you can coordinate the whole thing entirely online (even accessing the media digitally, sometimes).

beyond that, there really isn't (to my knowledge) a good way to access the comics for free, which i have complex feelings about.

i hope one of these options works for you nonnie, or that there are better options available and you can find them quickly! best of luck, and happy comics-hunting, my friend. ♡♡ may you find exactly what you need.

[raccoonfallsharder]

Doodles

[raccoonfallsharder]

oh my god. yes. please open knowhere's first bakery. when the streets don't smell like grilled orloni, they'll smell like fresh bread. it'll be a little extra serotonin boost for everyone on the skull.

also if you don't mind i'd like to source my bread from you directly ♡ gonna teach groot how to make grilled-cheese sandwiches whenever we take a break from stardew

daydreaming about quitting my job and running away to outer space. i’d live in a city in a giant floating skull and i’d run a street-food stall for the neighborhood. i’d teach the local sentient tree how to play stardew valley, and just fucken recklessly hit on his hot dad every chance i got

[raccoonfallsharder]

the final chapter of florescence❀ is clocking in at almost 25k words (nearly sixty pages) so i am probably going to split it into two parts, posted a few days apart (I’ve updated the april posting calendar) i’m sorry???

this has been a nineteen-month-long project so you might want to refamiliarize yourself with the other chapters if you plan to finish it with me! i’m so sorry it’s taken so long, but i’m also pretty happy with it, and it remains my love letter to the community and particularly to the other writers in this fandom.

as an FYI the smut exists in this chapter but it is comparatively a small proportion of each part; (i really thought that was true when i first wrote it but i have since edited and the smut is....girthier) this final resolution is by necessity more plot-driven and i really really hope you enjoy it when it comes out at the end of the month ♡♡♡ ๐·°(⋟﹏⋞)°·๐

flower divider by @/thecutestgrotto • planet divider by @/edensrose • mdni & support banners by @/saradika-graphics • moodboard by me! ♡

[raccoonfallsharder]

Do you think we will ever see Rockets sweet face again? 😭

hey bb ♡♡ i'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. do i think he'll be back in another movie? i'm not sure. if so, i think it will only be a one-liner (or even a no-liner), like a brief glimpse of him and our new guardians in some other ensemble-movie. and... i'm actually okay with that. gunn handled all the guardians' stories so beautifully and i don't necessarily trust that other writers would be able to do that. (if you're curious, i have written before about the idea of additional gotg movies!)

that said, marvel-related properties seem like they're constantly coming out with opportunities to feature new incarnations of rocket (i see you, marvel rivals!). and i really hope we see new/more rocket- or rocket-and-groot based comics in the future. i love them all so much.

AND... i also think this is why we need to keep the rocket fan community alive and thriving. sometimes, fandom is the only way to keep seeing our favorite characters' faces again and again, in new situations. so write! or doodle! or make cool edits! or hype up the people who create more of the thing you love! that way we can keep seeing our beloved raccoon for as long as we can.