faroe

she/it artist, ao3 writer, and history nerd !minor! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[dr-formaldehyde]

sorry guys, it might be a minute before the next chapter of my teeth will only cut your lips my dear. chronic illness fucking sucks and i am in severe spoon debt :(

not bad enough to be the writers curse (i hope) but enough to put me out of commission for a day or two.

thanks for understanding and i will get back to writing as soon as possible because i have so many ideas in my head for things these blorbos need to do and i need to write them down!!!

[dr-formaldehyde]

SIMON MUTATION HEADCANONS LETS GOOO

(also for reference this is what he looks like in the fic im writing rn, which ill link at the bottom of the post)

fic link:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[sokodraws]

rebirth

[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.

[dr-formaldehyde]

i desperately need glasses but don’t have vision insurance so i’ve just kinda accepted the constant migraines from straining my eyes. guess what country im from gang ✌️

[dr-formaldehyde]

i’ve decided to write down my stream of consciousness after my sixth watch of phm

fist my bump fist my bump amaze amaze amaze question amaze amaze amaze ryland grace rocky yáo li jie ilyukhna eva stratt i love eva stratt marry me ms stratt eva stratt bamf righty tighty lefty loosey xenon xenonite astrophage 40 eridani erid eridian centrifuge butter in civil war fun fact speed of light lava earth whoop there it is omg what possessed him to say that like genuinely grace rocky save stars amaze amaze amaze astrophage i can give awww so cute so sweet adrian time go time go fishing lefty tighty lefty loosey oh no why is a schoolteacher in space question i love eva stratt i love eva stratt all her haters can go to hell except ryland he’s pretty valid tbh also ryland grace just like me fr like me like me like me fr fr two rings of eight one ring on my finger for eva stratt no two bc my ace ring i think ryland grace is aroace bc i am and im projecting on my just like me fr fr john paul george ringo beetle beetle beetle rocky’s ship is made of xenonite oh no bad bad bad taumoeba question ahhh no no no no tau ceti that’s not our sun you are my sunshine my only sunshine oh dear lord rocky rocky rocky rocky rocky grace rocky save stars puppet show time amaze amaze amaze i hope the fabric i ordered arrives on time for rocky plush i need to hug him pretend im grace and hug hug hug yes ramen ship ramen ship tap tap tap macarena do the macerena do a flip oh my god he did a flip time go fishing thumbs up baby ryan gosling has the eyes of a sad elderly dog no i’m gonna cry think happy happy happy not sad old dogs happy young cats that share eyes with james ortiz rocky rocky rocky

dear lord.

[dr-formaldehyde]

i’ve watched this fucking movie six times this week and am currently reading the book. i love being autistic sometimes.

[peckaghost]

Page of doods I might revisit later, I’m having fun

[foopsie-daisy]

Game of the year

[nova-ish]

I love promoting my meme redraw commissions by drawing tma fanart 😈😈

If you have suggestions please do tell!! Or commission me that's also VERY possible and greatly appreciated!!

https://vgen.co/Novaishh/service/meme-redraws-/068f4b2d-98c7-4c46-ba5d-b733bcc044aa

[lukewarmtomatosoup]

whatever man i don’t even like this guy

[dr-formaldehyde]

hyperfixating on a character is so weird especially when it’s short-lived. and for me when i hyperfixate on a character i start acting like them and basically just become them. but like wdym a week or two ago i was zuko and now im sal fisher!? ts is peculiar as fuck

[dr-formaldehyde]

update: i’m mark grayson now.

[baleful-meat-worm]

[statements-end]

Just an average week for Jon I guess

[dr-formaldehyde]

hyperfixating on a character is so weird especially when it’s short-lived. and for me when i hyperfixate on a character i start acting like them and basically just become them. but like wdym a week or two ago i was zuko and now im sal fisher!? ts is peculiar as fuck

[daslep]

Salloween 10/10: Tainted Soul