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they/them, 22, taken

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[bayardbruh]

major iron lung spoilers ‼️🩸

thinking about when simon was in the crawlspace trying to get the engine to start, and then he's startled by THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS WALKING IN THE SUB AND PUTTING TAPE ON THE BUTTON?!?!??! literally like an echoed soundbite of the scene right before he went into the crawlspace?? true eldritch fuckery. i love being right there with him in his delirium, not knowing what's real and what's not. simon's being fucked with and so are we, because we are him.

haven't seen anyone else talk about this. it took me a couple watches to notice, but you can literally hear the tape UNROLL.

I feel like this falls into the same category as simon seeing the bloody figure sitting at the controls, which I've seen people say is what he turns into by the end of the film, and I agree, with the mutations and the missing arm, YES.

there's this blending of past/present/future throughout the film that is done super well because simon is not only haunted by his past, but also his future; he just wants his freedom, he just wants to live... but not everyone gets to be saved. which then ties back into the whole concept of the quiet rapture, the massive, catastrophic event that killed almost the entire human population. nobody could save them. not even if they wanted to.

god i want to see this movie again.

[disnerd126]

The current state of AO3 relationship tags for the “Project Hail Mary” tag is fucking crazy.

The top option is a platonic relationship.

The second option is a gay crossover ship.

The fifth option is a ship between two alien monogendered rocks that’s mentioned in passing with a character we never meet.

The sixth option is also a crossover situation, but it’s not a ship and instead a twin brother AU.

Said sixth option is ABOVE an actual canonical relationship (and its romantic interpretation).

The tenth option is a ship THATS FROM A WHOLE ASS DIFFERENT MOVIE!!!

[onlyplatonicirl]

Oh man I haven’t had a new interest in a while. It’s always been the same three things on repeat. I wonder when I’ll st-

Ok.

[thehmn]

Listening to Andy Weir talk about eridians is so funny because fans are always talking about Rocky and Adrian as these “soft” adorable aliens but Weir won’t ever let us forget that their species are apex predators on their planet. Not like humans who became apex predators by inventing weapons, but natural top of the foodchain like lions or polar bears. So far I haven’t found an interview where Weir explains who ate eridians in the ancient past that caused them to watch over each other while they slept; another predator species or rivaling eridians.

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.

[kiapet2]

It's commonly accepted in this fandom that humans have extremely fragile bodies in comparison to Eridians, but I think that's actually an oversimplification.

Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:

They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them

They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind

In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal

They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)

They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)

They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens

They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)

They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation

In contrast, humans:

Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage

Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength

Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance

Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet

Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care

The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.

The TL:DR is that Eridians are harder to damage, but easier to kill. They're like an rpg character with high armor and low health. I think Rocky would consider Grace to be very delicate at first, only to be blown away by how deceptively tough his friend can be.

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Actually, rewatching the ending of Iron Lung, I think I finally understand what happened.

The final shots we see of Simon show him being assimilated by the blood ocean. We hear Simon's screaming gradually distort into a roar, and there are fang-like teeth growing on the side of his face:

The blood is mutating him into another monstrous fish. This implies the voice speaking to Simon had once been human too, but had since become the monster we've seen throughout the film, having burst out of (not bitten into) the SM-8.

The voice says, "We can save everyone, within us!!" which makes sense if we recall the line from earlier in the film about the blood ("It's us"). It's stated that the blood is human blood, and may even be what remains of the humans that were taken in the Quiet Rapture. As people (like the woman from the SM-8, and like Simon now) are sent down into the blood ocean, are irradiated, and mutate, they are absorbed into a sort of hive-mind connection with the blood itself. (It's sort of an antithesis to the repeated refrain of "It's bigger than us"...no, it literally is us.) Simon and the ship are already part of it--an iron lung, built by what is found in blood (perhaps distilled from it) and refilled with oxygen as if the blood is a body using it to breathe.

Then we follow Simon under the surface of the blood and see the following shots (I've taken down the saturation for clarity). The tree pendant cracks and shoots out tendrils:

Simon resurfaces, and his eye (below) flashes and changes color, becoming more like the giant eye we've seen throughout the film. His mutation seems to be progressing.

It cuts to black and the voice says, "We live." Then it cuts to an exterior shot of an explosion, ripping through the monster, and dark shapes start to shoot out from the center of where the ship had been.

Some people have interpreted this as the completion of Simon's transformation, but it isn't. This isn't a fish or even a tentacled sea creature. It's a tree. The trunk is the upper portion, and the roots are the tendrils spreading out towards the screen.

Simon's choice to hold onto hope allowed what was intended for evil to be used for good. The piece he carried of the Last Tree touched the blood, and, as if to fulfill what Eden had said ("our bodies will become the soil"), used it to grow, destroying the monsters as it did. The blood can nourish something now ("we live"), as it is meant to, even if (just as with the data) we don't get to see what it becomes.

Simon is gone, but the Last Tree lives again. And thanks to him, maybe humanity can too.

[corvidgardens]

happy prime time have my bullshit

i realized that gaspanman by masa works design fits them so well ... i draw it

i havent stopped listening to this song since it came out omfg

[dulxelexhe]

lil redraw :-)

[mothreign]

hes so precious-

[zsigmondgalaxy]

Remember: every Miku is canon

[zsigmondgalaxy]

I’m crying why did this shit get 1000 likes

[thecompanyfavorite-deactivated2]

Coyle’s two seconds of fame in the new trailer… damn he looks good!

[ejtheangel]

[mammutblog]

tim gets de-age-beamed and jason is forced to stay at the manor because timmy only wants to hang out with his favourite robin

[angzonic]

Something I made a couple of years back. Man, I love Gob.

[mammutblog]

assorted timkons

[karos-4art]

brain go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[roobeer-float]

the women of outlast trials are so intimidating and scary and the men are just kinda stupid and fun to bully and i think thats beautiful I love my terrifying wives and my pathetic little guys i huck beer bottles at.