Cool fish guy

Slightly below-average, sci-fi loving cool fish fellow. I am new to tumblering

[homunculus-argument]

Doxxing my inner child by visiting my childhood roaming areas on google maps and turning a road I used to take to school into a painting.

[homunculus-argument]

I keep making these, apparently.

[kyuurius]

that’s savior grace guys. Let him be

[coolfishguy]

Pretty much encapsulates my career goals

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

From this post. :: @spitoonpot

Something clicked in my brain about how to draw Simon after that last reblog. So, thanks to @mousesize!

[fluoresensitives]

You tell a teacher on tiktok...hey you can't speak to kids like that. you can't discriminate and be cruel to disabled children. Sorry that you're stressed but you have no need to scream at a little child, and they act like you are personally cutting funding for the department of education...like girl, your archnemesis is a 1e year old with adhd whose had covid like six times. Quit your job??

[creatortheviii]

You get this early too!! Human Rocky and Adrian!!

[coolfishguy]

I loooveee this human Adrian design!!

[birdbyrne]

bugs when u lift up a rock idk

ignore the fact that simon's missing the wrong arm in the shitpost i did it in the car DONT KILL ME

fic link: aperture

[willowwyrd]

Sorry i've been holding back the demons but some of y'all need to watch the fucking movie I just saw someone say "Simon probably never learned to read :("

Brother there is a Whole Scene and joke. Dedicated to the fact that Simon can, in fact, read.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

You are NOT being a hater. I've seen multiple fics do this, too. I've also been holding back the demons, but this is also my Opinion Blog, and I can do what I want.

Sorry, I just- hold on a minute. I gotta put on my Big Boy Media Literacy Degree Voice for this.

You know how all of America sort of stereotypes the South to be full of hillbilly illiterate red-pilled gun owners?

That's what the COI is doing to Eden. The COI believe themselves to be intellectually superior and speaking to a sub-human. They treat Simon like an actual animal on multiple occasions. It's a bunch of self-proclaimed scientists talking down to an agrarian religious man. There's a lot of prejudice happening, and it's not just because of who Simon is, or what he did, although, that does play a part in it.

There's a great prose by @antilocaprine on this exact topic here, which I recommend everybody read before they write for Simon.

Tossing around characterization ideas that reinforce the discrimination Simon faced in the movie is some bullshit, in my opinion. I think this is one of the writing topics I cannot be flexible about.

And before you ask me, "what discrimination?" I mean, look:

It's not about Simon being a convict. These people have enslaved their incarcerated populace. They know well enough that their convicts are capable and useful in job settings under the right pressure, and they abuse the fuck out of that.

No. These guys think Simon can't tell his own ass from a rocket launcher because he's from Eden, specifically. They very explicitly use the word Eden in a derogatory manner in the film.

So, when I see people write him struggling to read, it's an instant click-away. I can't stand it. Let our lad intellectually flourish. He's SO bright and resourceful.

[cirilee]

you may ask yourself why are mister simon iron lung's hands tied, when clark gave that croptop kid only one rope around his waist. that is a FOOLISH question.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

This crossover is growing on me, lately.

This has such potential as a 100k word long crack fic taken seriously... I feel it in my bones...

Also, I'm thinking about Clark overpowering Simon, the war guy, and I'm in hysterics over it.

[targetedknowledge]

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[blue-green-memes]

[atimesfeeler]

I really can’t stop thinking about this scene

Where Simon challenges The Father. Because!!! It shows he is smart, he’s always been smart. He challenges authority when it he doubts what they are saying.

Do you know how dangerous a doubting child in a cult is??

The Father laughs like he likes the question and that’s the trick because Cults hate questions and doubts and independent thinkers- but they pretend to love questions.

Especially from new members. Simon is a new member (came from Mars- that one conversation with his mother “I don’t want to go- Simon don’t be like that.”) They love to answer questions from new members because it offers them a chance to nip any doubt in the bud, answer with absolutes and half-answers and usually end in humiliating or tearing down the person who asked the question. Not to get personal on main but trust me. You just see their teeth sharpen when you admit to a doubt or ask a question as a kid. They’ll make you feel stupid for asking and if you keep not understanding their half answers (asking more questions) they will get angry at you for persisting.

That’s why I headcanon that Simon has always been a doubter- especially with his monologue later about “what’s more likely? The stars disappeared or a few space stations?” (Paraphrasing) but it’s a very difficult and painful life for a doubting child growing up in a quite literally inescapable cult. But doubting doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t listen. Doubting doesn’t mean he didn’t fall for the dogma. He can still doubt and be their Butcher. They made him a solider, they made him loyal, and just because he privately thought it was all horse shit doesn’t mean he didn’t learn to not to challenge authority (that he still struggles with). That the belief sank into him like thorns, that he can’t help but feel a religious reverence for the seed despite hating what they did in the name of the Last Tree.

Religious trauma is just so complicated and especially cult trauma because they are literally masters of manipulating large groups of people and they have systems in place to keep their members there even if they don’t believe and even if they do escape, they leave lasting gashes.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

YEAH BABY THIS KIND OF ANALYSIS IS WHAT I LIVE FOR.

[stacy-yarche-neba]

Simon never been Happier

[lutheban]

Man who lives in alien planet 16 light years away from earth is somehow surprised humans made it to their backyard

[pattern-recognition]

Hostile

[pattern-recognition]

Да, комиссар

[demonboyhalo]

​this is such classic tumblr I'm surprised it has less then 50k notes

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m getting ads telling me to replace live porch flowers with plastic ones because the plastic ones don’t die and buddy I can tell you from personal experience that those flowers will fade until they look like they’ve achieved a new kind of death

[algae-illustrations]

Silly comic. Grace would absolutely pull this move.