Ashes on Mars

Chris Skelton my beloved🖤 IM ROBIN IM 18 AND I BLOODY LOVE TOAST

[lucy-is-bored]

Can people stop tagging posts about the planet mars with "#life on mars" please I'm trying to look at the Sad Man from 2006

[ouarmy]

Another redraw, but it needed a little refreshing :)

[anotherloreaddition]

Bruh look who at pride🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈✨

[yeah-alright-brill]

Autism be damned, my boy can do the worm

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[yeah-alright-brill]

Wore all black for him:

[goodoldfashionedlunatic]

Life on Mars fanart in 2025 huh. Anyways John Simm is hard to draw but Clay Sam is such a little fella, enjoy

[ashesonmars]

RANDOM STUPID HEADCANONS CAUSE BORED AND I WANT MORE CONTENT FOR THESE DUMBASSES BUT THERES NOT MUCH SO I HAVE TO DO MY BIT AND MAKE SOME!!

-ALL THE LIFE ON MARS AND ASHES TO ASHES MAIN CHARACTERS WOULD LOVE NINTENDOGS

-CHRIS CAN DO A REALLY GOOD KERMIT THE FROG IMPRESSION

-SHAZ WOULD LOVE DOING THE SHUFFLE DANCING THING?

-RAY WOULD WEAR THE CRINGY ALPHA WF T SHIRT THINGS WITH A CRINGE ASS QUOTE ON THEM CAUSE HE THINKS IT MAKES HIM TOUGH (pfffft bahahsh I don't even know I just found this funny!)

-SAM WOULD BE AMAZING AT FORTNITE

-IF GENE EVER DID ONLINE GAMING HE WOULD THREATEN 12 YEAR OLDS ON THE INTERNET

-GENE HUNT SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED ON THE INTERNET

-RAY WOULD INSTALL GRINDR NOT KNOWING WHAT IT IS (or at least pretends he doesnt💀)

-WHY IS MY BRAIN COMING UP WITH THIS SHIT I AM GENUINELY THINKING AS I GO ALONG😭

-I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING FOR ALEX HANG ON

-AHAA

-PROJECTING A BIT BUT ALEX WOULD LOVE COKTAIL PITCHERS FROM SPOONS (DONT DOWN 2 PITCHERS WITHIN 2 HOURS TO YOURSELF, I WASNT EVEN DRUNK I JUST FELT SICK CAUSE THEY HAD ENERGY DRINKS IN THEM😭)

-CHRIS IS SCARED OF THE DUOLINGO OWL (I AM TOO BRO DONT WORRY)

Gonna leave it there cause this is just me being bored and a dumbass who is sleep deprived and STRESSED over college. ABOUT TO DO MY FMP FOR ART AND DESIGN AND I AM STRESSING!!

[ashesonmars]

SORRY FOR ALL THE SHITPOSTING MOSTLY REVOLVING AROUND CHRIS SKELTON I WANT TO JUST TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS EVER💀

[ashesonmars]

GUYS DO YOU THINK CHRIS AND SHAZ ARE IN THE AFTERLIFE TOGETHER OR THAT THEY FINALLY MADE UP AND THEN WENT INTO NOTHINGNESS?!? LIKE I SOBBED WHEN THEY KISSED AT THE END AND LIKE.... WAS THAT IT?? ME SOBBING AND THEIR KISS AND THEN THEY GO INTO OBLIVION?!?! OR ARE THEY JUST IN THE RAILWAYS ARMS TOGETHER BEING CUTE AND AMAZING AND MARRIED?!?

Yes I am delusional 🫢

[ashesonmars]

So I've rewatched LOM and now I'm on A2A so naturally I'm hyperfixated again! But OH MY GOD DETECTIVE CONSTABLE CHRISTOPHER DANIEL SKELTON STOP BEING SUCH A PEOPLE PLEASER!!

LIKE BE YOURSELF YOU WONDERFUL AUTISTIC MAN!! (It's canon I wrote the show guys)

But omg he tried so hard to fit into so many crowds and he's never able to truly be himself! Even around Shaz he tries to hard to appeal completely to her a lot of the time, and the same when he's with Gene or Ray! He's autistic and he mirrors behaviours! (Haha I do that!)

IDK IF ITS JUST ME WHO THINKS THIS OR IF IM JUST WRING BUT S1 EP 2 OF ASHES TO ASHES REALLY SOLIDIFIES THIS!!

[ashesonmars]

Remembering when I got my best mate to watch ashes to ashes which took AGES by the way!! And they were crying when chris was revealed to be the mole, but the tragic ending where it shows they were dead all along...they didn't even shed a tear! Although it was funny when they found Gene's body with the badge, my mate just goes "If that's Gene Hunt then who the fuck are you?!" To gene😭😭

But yeah idk how they didn't cry at the finale cause I was in tatters despite having watched it REPEATEDLY!

[ashesonmars]

RIP Chris, you would've loved LittleBigPlanet 3

[yeah-alright-brill]

Love the way 'Shaz is Bi' and 'Shaz loves Chris' are both widely accepted in fandom. Like she could fall for anyone in the world but she ended up falling for Chris 'they don't actually wash the money?' Skelton. It's sweet but also like... really?

[yeah-alright-brill]

When Chris calls Shaz 'Shazzer,' or when Shaz calls Chris 'Baby,' the whole world lights up

[yeah-alright-brill]

Yes it's not cannon confirmed and yes it'd probably be considered 'problematic representation' by youtube video essayists and yes I know there are probably 'better' autistic characters and yes he is himself 'problematic' and not an aspirational character....

But Chris Skelton's autism coding is so personal to me

[yeah-alright-brill]

(I might post a transcript later- stay tuned)

So I was diving on the old Ashes to Ashes live journal community and saw a post about this article ^^^ with information about the issue number but no images, so I snapped up the only copy of it on ebay, (SFX #168, April 2008), and now I finaly have access to an A3 scanner, I've scanned it for your viewing pleasure. I think it makes for interesting reading. TBH most interviews are with John, Phil or Keely with are good but get a bit samey after a while, so it's nice having a different, in-depth perspective...plus it should be obvious where my bias lies, I just love gleaning any new Chris info (with a touch of Chrishaz, lucky me!) I love having such a lovely, high-quality print of him, he looks soooo good (both in terms of print quality and gorgeousness) part of me wants to cut him out so he can be my own sexy pinup poster but I don't want to damage the magazine.

[yeah-alright-brill]

Chris Skelton they could never make me hate you