A Ladder to Sadness

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[seagiri]

i love myself an eternally grumpy old man

[seagiri]

magma doodles with @harajuno (they drew the first bobby & dhurke)

[seagiri]

burned in a memory

[itsgotgills]

It’s impossible to convince everyone to retroactively use the tag system properly but as a fix-it I’m going to start tagging all my non-crossover Iron Lung posts with #just blood if anyone wants to join me?

(no hate to hail mary but the shipping has eaten the smaller fandom alive & it’s legitimately impossible to search for anything else atp)

[itsgotgills]

what a great idea!

[beanswithbones]

what PHM fans see

what iron lung fans see

BROWSER ADDONS MADE TO HID FILTERD POSTS WILL CUASE YOUR SHIT TO LAG SO HARD BCS OF THIS!!! THUS WHY WE HAD TO MAKE A NEW ADDON TAG!!!

[divviren]

[itsgotgills]

You have to go to the bottom of page 5 in the iron lung tag before you get to a fic that isn’t PHM, and from there, it’s not until page 9 that you get another one. Obviously ao3 has inbuilt filters to exclude crossovers but still…it’s a lot.

[itsgotgills]

By contrast, while the top 2 fics for PHM are iron lung crossovers, there are only 4 bloodymary fics in total on page one for the film. Iron Lung was an absolute triumph of indie filmmaking, and it sucks to see the spaces created to discuss it be so completely subsumed by the fanbase of a mainstream Hollywood production.

Again! I don’t have a problem with people having fun with the exciting new crossover/yaoi of the week. However, it’s objectively true that bloodmary has become its own fanbase separate from & outgrowing the discussion around both original films. Many bloodymary fans are consuming/creating content about the ship without having watched either Iron Lung or PHM at all.

Anyway…all this to come back to the original point of the thread: #just blood is an an active and functional non-crossover tag for Iron Lung discussion! It’s all good. We came together, we got it working. Problem solved etc etc, at least on tumblr. Ao3 has a much more robust filtering system and other social media….idc 🎉 yippie

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Embarrassing fact about me is that it took me so so long to be able to tell Ross Bryant and Grant O'Brien apart. I'm sorry guys you're both tall white dudes with similar-sounding names and very very similar voices. I would just wait for the first sex joke or Shakespeare reference.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I feel better now because everyone in the notes is like "yeah same".

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every day I receive further vindication

[measureyourlifeincake]

i was gonna say "theres literally an old collegehumor sketch about this" but i misremembered and it was actually about grant and keith from try guys, a third identical lanky white man

[eryx-the-strawberry]

Currently thinking about these kind of posts again

[greseadraws]

dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

[nitewrighter]

Peer-reviewing @monikoishi's tags because they're banger.

[marisashorror]

Iron Lung Fanart

Ballpoint pen on paper

8x10"

[kwadlayns]

Can you find me? 🌑🩸

[*slaps roof of car* this baby can fit so many symbolisms in it]

Deep appreciation art for Iron Lung and the character of Simon - you indomitable human spirit character, you.

(📻 playlist)

[reineyday]

brings me lots of joy to see murph, ally and siobhan perfectly synchronized with disbelief 😂

[quantummoonjune]

me when i explain a board game to my friends but i haven't played it in like a year

[bikananjarrus]

instantly a classic brennan and ally moment

[bikananjarrus]

love everyone contributing to the absolute hoard of dice for emily to roll

+ bonus: some delighted emily faces

[rayitopng]

Hi 🗿

[seagiri]

here's my piece for @yatagarasuzine :) had a wonderful time working on this one, i even got to sit through a few movies while painting it.

Remember the zine is free to download, so please go check out everyone's lovely contributions! <3

[totallynotdamien]

Iron Lung community what do we think

[emirrart]

rusty box in the blood ocean

[emziess]

Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach as Simon 'The Convict' Iron Lung (2026) dir. Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach