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Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself
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Did a collaboration with my brother for #hucklerobbyforhealthcare — he drew a comic based on this drabble —to celebrate the goal not only being reached but exceeded by so much for the following charities: outcarehealth and outrightintl
With an intial goal of $300, everyone came together and raised $11,210 for the healthcare needs of the LGBTQ+ community! Of course, even though the campaign is over, donations are always appreciated. Thank you and I hope you have a great day/night. — It's been a while since I've written anything solo, but I had a lot of fun with this one and tried my best lol
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Three months…
The first day was the longest, by far. Spent familiarizing himself with the space he had been entrusted with. Terrified of unintentionally invading the other's privacy yet too curious to keep from leaving a single corner unexplored. In a way, the house was strangely normal. Nothing that particularly screamed Robby to him. Although Dennis couldn't begin to explain what that even means. Only that as he took in the lived-in yet oddly-impersonal space, he somehow felt further from Michael Robinavitch than ever.
Two men on a mission, united in purpose.
Why do I kind of want them to. They have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
There was far more to the conversation, but Dragon dropped this banger of an observation on Discord and I wanted to share it here because they're RIGHT
“Someone bought this costume for their dog and let him loose“
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iron lung, eh?
cool movie, I liked it
ohhhh my god
Feel bad about covering up the girls, but it was the only good spot for the text. Anyway they're two sides of the same coin.
It’s called self-care
fine, you want the butcher? come on
The butcher
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The butcher is out
Yknow after my third watch of iron lung im even more confused than ever that anyone could think that this film needed time cut from it. Like I was trying to take notes while watching and I had to write BLIND because I couldn't tear my eyes away from the screen. It was so hard to even find a time where I could write something because there was far too much happening to not pay attention to. Just because the spoken words in the movie weren't that common doesn't mean the film didn't spend its run screaming at the audience. The visual language is incredible. I couldn't tear my eyes from the screen because things were happening in every second. If anything, trying to write while watching made me feel more frantic than ever. The pacing is so rock solid I couldn't even find a moment for a bathroom break until after the movie was over. Every second is used to it's entire capacity and I need this movie on something I can pause IMMEDIATELY because there is so much going into every single second i need to inspect and replay every bit of it over and over.
Iron Lung Spoilers!
A detail about simon that I love that I haven't really seen anyone talk about is how everyone around him seems to insist that he's stupid. And how desperately he needs to disprove that. Since he was a child, he's been berated and called stupid for having hope, for having regret, for wanting to live, for simply being labelled a convict. Even when his intelligence isn't actually being questioned, he feels the need to defend himself. "I've seen a skeleton before, how stupid do you think I am." "That's not condensation I know what condensation is." "I know what letters are. I can read."
In a world determined to make him feel less than for who he is and what he wants and what he's been defined as, Simon refuses it. And not for no reason. He isn't stupid. Not that he'd deserve being belittled regardless of his "actual" intelligence, but. He's smart. He maps out unmapped parts of the blood ocean using only the very limited resources he has. He finds quick solutions for moving the ship automatically, for keeping the camera running(even if it doesn't work great), and bandaging his wounds. So it does grind my gears a little when I've seen people call him stupid for drinking the rubbing alcohol. I know it's just for jokes, but it's such a poignant character moment!! He very much understands the consequences of drinking it. He takes several moments to consider it before deciding fuck it. This is one of the many moments that make him feel so human!! He's concussed, alone, lost at the bottom of an ocean of blood with god knows what outside, and he's given this one chance at relief. The obsession with horror protagonists always making the most logical decision at every turn creates characters who are boring!! Humans make dumb decisions for any number of reasons!! It doesn't make us stupid! Just human!
What if you just wanted to live. What if you just wanted to live and have hope and be a real person but everyone around you insists you're stupid for it. What if all you wanted was to live but everyone told you it was naive to want! What if everyone wanted you to give up before you even try.
saw iron lung this last thursday and have some thoughts. do not read past this line if u dont want spoilers.
the thing that fucks me up the most about iron lung is that like. the central tragedy of simon as a character is that he is surrounded by people who lie to him about what he's being tasked to do, about the purpose of what he's doing, about the tools he's been given. and when he does something that hurts others, either because he was instructed to do it or because he's scared/desperate/trying to survive, everyone around him ascribes to him a level of intentional malice that really isn't there.
like we don't learn exactly what he did to filament station, but from my understanding of events presented, it sounds like the people of eden gave him a bomb, lied to him about it being a bomb, and then had him plant it in filament station under the assumption that he was doing something that would help humanity/the people of eden, since clearly eden and the COI were in significant conflict. and then, when filament station was blasted and all the people on it died, the COI assigned sole blame to simon on the technicality that he was the one who actually placed the bomb ON filament station. like this is an educated guess to me, but just from that sort of semi-dream-sequence where simon seems to be talking to someone who beseeches him that he needs to do something in a big space station-y metal hallway who then gets consumed by the flames of an explosion, him blowing up filament station seems like the most likely explanation. and everyone in COI blames him and calls him a butcher and sees him as this intentionally horrible person who blew up filament station because... they thought he wanted to? because he was "evil"? no, because it was simply easier to villainize him as a member of the outgroup. but he didn't know that was what he'd been sent there to do. the people of eden lied to him about what he had and what he was doing, and he took all the blame for it. but i dont believe for a second he would have agreed to it if he'd known what they sent him there to do.
and then simon gets welded into the iron lung. and when he gets pulled up the first time he gets so freaked out about being put under again that he flashes the camera at the people of COI out of desperation because being sent down there again wasn't part of the deal. and eva and all the people there start yelling at him about how much of an evil fucking monster he was for irradiating them to dangerous levels.
but... they never told him that camera was an x-ray. the moment he fully understands the consequences of what he just did, he's visibly horrified and desperately apologetic, and eva is unforgiving even in the face of his attempts to apologize ("tell it to my tumors"). he even says if he'd known what the x-ray camera was, he never would have done that. and he was getting more damaged by the x-ray camera than any of them were due to repeated exposure.
the incident with the camera is a parallel and microcosm of filament station. he is lied to by those with power over them, unintentionally hurts others using the tools he's given out of ignorance and a desperate attempt to survive, and then gets blamed and called a monster. but he didn't want to hurt anyone. he never did. he wanted to survive. he wanted to have hope. he was taken advantage of and used and then forced to bear the blame of actions he never would have taken had he truly known what he was doing. and the weight of it was unbearable.
to me, the greatest tragedy of simon's character isn't just that he was never going to survive going into the blood ocean. it was that his actions, especially the ones that landed him in that sub in the first place, were never done out of intentional, knowing malice--and yet, everyone assumes that of him anyway. they called him a monster, a butcher. but he says--repeatedly, even--that if he'd just known what it was he was really doing, he never would have done it. he'd always been used as a tool of violence by others and then blamed for the damage he'd caused and discarded once he was no longer useful. only fools get cut and blame the knife rather than the hand that wields it.
but what if the knife wasn't a knife. what if it was just a piece of broken glass that started as something that wasn't meant to cause harm and had been shattered and repurposed into a tool of violence thanks to its convenient shape and proximity. what if the broken glass didn't want to cut others. what if it used to be something beautiful. what if it was tired of drawing blood over and over, yet nothing could clean the stain of blood off it.
after all, what is the fate of broken glass in the end? to be thrown away so it cannot hurt anyone with its sharp edges.
he just wanted to survive.
ive been thinking a lot about iron lung movie still and today i had. a horrifying thought. more iron lung spoilers below.
like. the movie went to a lot of effort to show the viewer drops of liquid coming off every surface of the sub. including when the liquid in question is just clear instead of being red and bloody. and i was very curious about the point of these environmental storytelling shots because i wanted to understand what was being hinted at. eva says it's "just condensation" but if it was "just condensation", then why would the movie go out of its way to focus on all of these tiny little drips of water running off multiple surfaces in the sub? if it's just water, it's no big deal right?
but today i realized...
that clear liquid that was dripping off everything in the beginning... it seemed a bit too thick to be just regular water condensation.
then i thought:
what if it wasn't water condensation.
what if it was fucking plasma.
what if the blood was leaking into the sub from the beginning but at first only the plasma could get in, so everyone thought it was just normal old water.
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