DragonBreathingBlue

23 | Capricorn | Ace/Biromantic | She/Her | It's refreshing I'm not an idiot |

[seren-dipitous-art]

…okay so what if the problem with the taomeba never happened on the way back home. What if the radiation never got onto the Blip-A. What if Rocky ended up back on Erid, and Grace made it back to Earth. What if they missed each other desperately forever.

What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.

What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.

What if I made myself cry, what about that? Huh? What then?

[estarsdoodles]

Eden Doesn’t Understand That.

You Don’t Understand That.

[teawithapsycho]

BloodyMary On The Rocks Concept

I love the idea of Bloodymary on the rocks, its just kinda cute

But I really love the idea of Rocky finding Grace, and Simultaneously, Adrian finding Simon.

Adrian finds Simon on the blood moon and extracts him, bringing him back to Erid with their close range space team. All the classic Simon waking up on Erid stuff happens, but without Grace. He freaks out. Even more freaked out by the fact that Erid is pitch black nearly 100% of the time, the only thing to light it being the sun 40 Eridani, and at night, the stars.

So slowly, Simon begins to trust the Eridians and they build him a better habitat to live in. Ever able to engineer food for him and collect water from nearby planets after recycling his or pulling the water from the blood that was in his ship.

I like the idea of Grace and Rocky falling in love in space, and even more of Simon falling in love with Adrian on Erid. He doesn’t have a face, so obviously that somewhat puts Simon off, and I like thinking Adrian is fairly big, about the side of a small tree, at least five feet taller than Grace at least, so Simon might have some fearful correlations to another big alien tagging after him. And Adiran tends to make sounds that sounded just like the creaking of the Iron Lung’s hull, or the sounds of the blood ocean at great depths.

But when they do manage to form communication, I imagine Adrian is patient. Mostly because he’s an Eridian of few words. Or at least not as many words as he used to be, when his mate was sent off to space and has yet to return.

Simon appreciates how succinct he is. Though a bit blunt, to which Simon tends to freak out when he’s given the whole truth and no soft cushioning for terrifying realizations (ie, using his own flesh for reproduced sustenance, losing his arm, being told he seems to have some mutations when he’s unconscious) , Simon can always be assured that Adrian is telling the truth, and will give him choices. Adrian confides in losing his mate on the mission to cure their stars of StarEaters™ (the translation for Astrophage before they know its called that) and how he has not yet returned, leading them to believe they died. That much too soon, their star will die out and life will go extinct.

Which, yeah, scares Simon, but Adrian isn’t scared, just melancholy. And so he comforted him, awkwardly hugging the big rock with one arm.

I really love Simon and Adrian together as just two chill dudes who care for each other. 

That Adrian sits with his legs curled in near Simon to block the artificial sun from his eyes. That Simon leans against Adrian’s carapace to doze off in the middle of the day. 

Simon pressing his forehead to the center of Adrian’s flat carapace and a hand against the turquoise exterior. 

Adrian hearing the older Eridians whisper of how up his spirits have been since losing his mate. How he talks more, sings more, reacts more, and spends so much time in the biodome with the new alien he is hesitant of letting others interact with. 

I just love the soft gentleness of Simon and Adrian, who are on the slower moving side, calm around each other, and yes, admittedly easily frustrated and distracted by their multiple tasks that they can’t decide which to do first.

I think it’s super cute with nervous Simon who instinctively can’t really hurt Adrian if he gets too startled by a nightmare or when he first gets out of the sub. He’s the butcher, so he’s always scared about hurting people when he doesn’t mean to. But he doesn’t have to worry about that with Adrian, because he's only ever cracked his own knuckles against his xenonite suit. He can exist and work through his pain without the fear of hurting anyone else.

I love it. And I think that Adrian would find a way to be able to touch Simon without the xenonite suit because he wants to make this alien his mate, but not without being able to feel his squishy skin first.

So imagine his surprise when his mate makes it back alive, and he’s like. “Adrian so happy happy happy happy Rocky back- But Rocky needs to be very cool very quick because Adrian found an alien mate when Rocky was away.”

And Rocky’s like

“Me too me too me too- Adrian still love of Rocky life but Grace mate is important to Rocky.”

So they’re like, yeah, we can make this work. Let’s see if your aliens like each other.

And yeah, Simon is nervous about the fact that there’s another alien lifeform to the Eridians that Adrian wants him to get along with and now Simon has to try and get along with Rocky, who speaks way too fast and is very little compared to Adrian (How does that work pebble wise, because Simon has heard Adrian refer several times to how long Rocky had to carry the pebbles and how painful it had been for him- This little guy was taking something proportionate tot eh size of adrian or all ass their mating genitals the same-) And he can try and make it work but if this thing is come weird space snake or eldritch horror thing he might vomit- So everyone is shocked when double date Tuesday comes along to introduce everyone to each other and Grace and Simon lay their eyes on, not just the only other human being for light years probably, but the hottest man they’ve ever seen.

Its so good man, I have so much to say, so much to imagine with calm and cool Adrimon learning to adapt to their new alien significant other Grocky who bounces off the walls and who feed into each other's chaos

[clara-tv]

ava enjoyers sound off

[sajdd]

im also obsessed with the interpretation of the blood ocean not being inherently evil or malevolent, in fact, it starts off rather loving. or at least, what it perceives to be loving. it wants simon to become part of it. it could've absorbed the iron lung and mutated it so long ago - we saw how quickly things went to shit in the final act. but its slow, always there in the corner for simon to be constantly aware of it, like a friend letting you know theyre always in your corner. it keeps the oxygen supply going despite the fact it should've run out days ago. it throws him into the cave. it talks to him, tries to entice him to join in anyway it can. come see the truth, it could save you, it has the answers you've been looking for. if that doesn't work, maybe guilt tripping is the answer, reflect on filament station, simon. "i see you". an acknowledgement. simon runs out of tape so the blood mutates to hold the photograph button for him. but the more defiant simon becomes, the more focused on his own survival he is, the angrier the ocean becomes. the creature couldve swallowed him so many times. clearly the radiation isn't actually a threat to it, we see it being blasted so many times in the end, but it continues its chase after him once it kills ava. the creature backing off in the caves after the photograph was a conscious decision. it couldve lashed out right then and there, but it backed off. "hey, im not a threat, im just watching, im right here for when you're ready".

just like eden, just like the COI, the ocean tries to force simon into a life he never really wanted. because he never seems to get a choice.

i just can't stop thinking about an ocean that thinks itself benevolent, when really, its just as cruel as the rest of humanity. or maybe, its humanity that is as cruel as nature. or is it a God? does it even matter?

[ibroughtyoumybullets-ningy]

the stars are dead. it doesn't matter that simon can see them. they're just dead light fading away. simon is dead from the minute he was welded in that sub. it doesn't matter that we can see him.

[everthefractal]

I can't get over how human Simon was. He apologised for his outbursts, even when punching the sub at one point, he repeatedly apologised for the radiation in the exact same way like he was still reeling from the shock of that information. Whenever the oxygen ticked down you can see a new wave of horror washing over him that he needs to take a second to cope with. When Ava gives him the login details he stumbles on remembering control-shift-9 never mind the password she rattled out.

They managed to present a man with a dark past and anger issues who is also not a monster. He is a human being desperate to survive and nobody even knows his name anymore. The closest thing he had to a family he resents but still obviously misses terribly as he clings to that pendant and shakes.

And Ava. Ava too. She's in an impossible situation. She doesn't want more humans to die. She has no idea how much damage radiation has done to her. This man, who she thought was a heartless killer, is begging and pleading and apologising like a child and it's getting increasingly harder to lie to him that he's going to be ok. Her screaming and begging that this is bigger than him is so achingly desperate I can still feel it, humanity is almost entirely gone. I fully believe that she hates this as well, all of it, but if she doesn't follow orders and take calculated risks then what else is there to keep her tethered and sane? What else can she cling to? They're almost entirely alone in an empty universe. She needs this hope.

[vampirecatprince]

Something something the oxygen meter going up and Simon somehow having enough air for days longer then he should and how the sub essentially becomes a part of Simon and how blood carries oxygen and what is the purpose of a real Iron lung anyways and iron is what carries oxygen in human blood after all and the blood trying to make him one with the ship because it was already breathing for him and the eldritch forces genuinely can't understand why he's still fighting to maintain his autonomy and sense of self in the face of something so much bigger than him, when it would just be so much easier and less painful to allow himself to be subsumed

Something about the indomitable human spirit in the face of something that's so incomprehensible that it can make metal breathe for you

[living-force]

Simon "the butcher", who is horrified when he finds out he sentenced a man to death by pressing the camera button.

Simon "the butcher" who keeps apologizing for not knowing better, for causing harm to the people in the room, for being rightfully angry and lashing out, turning every knob and lever and pressing that damn button because why would it work when he doesn't have any power and why didn't they just Tell Him??

Simon "the butcher" who gets teary and has the look of a hurt child on his face when ava mentions filament station and his voice trembles when he is quick to say "that wasn't supposed to happen"...

Simon "the butcher" who apologizes to the sm-13, an inanimate object, after hitting the console.

Just... Simon being so unbeliebably human throughout the whole movie, it makes my heart ache for him

[iamonlyperson]

Renders of the eel's full body by molly brown

[merymeou]

It’s been so long since I got to see a thing and think: wow yeah this could only happen on tumblr. This is one such thing and I had to contribute. Let Simon have a weird fucked up religious sorta relationship with Grace! This man has issues!! He’s never been off a space station!! The Hail Mary is literally as close as he could imagine as heaven!!!!!!

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[constant-brain-fog]

yeahhh, they can take care of each other out there ㅠㅅㅠ

my shaylas ( ˃ᯅ˂)

made a matching drawing to my Iron Lung fanart, because to me, they are two sides of the same coin (same side of the coin, imo) they go hand in hand 🤝 also the little kibty is named Felicette! she was the first cat to go to space and come back safely 🥹 she is often forgotten in the history of space travels, and for what she had to go through, i wanted to have her here as well because she deserves it 🧎

Iron Lung Matching Drawing

[funkylittlebats]

Iron Lung is great bc it asks the question what if the sacrificial lamb was evil. What if the lamb thought itself evil. What if everyone else thought the lamb evil. What if the lamb wasn't evil what if the lamb is just a lamb, bleeting desperately to escape its undue sacrifice. What if the lamb knew it was a sacrifice from the start. What if the lamb just wanted to live. What if the lamb wanted to live so fucking bad. What if the lamb wanted the flock to live more. What if the lamb accepts its own sacrifice, leans into the glinting knife, in the hopes that the flock survives.

[silvaerial]

Patron Saints of One-Way Trips

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[thefloatingstone]

Astronaut and his emotional support alien who leaks all the time.

Xenonite-suit free under the cut

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.