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rustedmonkeyking

I saw Iron Lung with my brother a couple weeks ago and had this terrible idea that begged to be illustrated...

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soup-racing

"...I didn't know it was radioactive." (A little comment on the radiation theme under the read more)

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sokodraws

this is not an expedition...

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mimitay-art

he got his freedom in a way

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fightabear

guess what i saw

now available on my inprnt!

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wokibug

my favorite part of Iron Lung (2026) was when the convict escaped relatively unscathed and got to have a nice hot shower at the end!

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polaneva

If I had a nickle for every angler fish monster whose lure is perceived as God by its prey, I'd have 3 nickles. Which isn't alot, but-

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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.

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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

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axondrite-ink

A job that slowly kills you

A parallel to Laika The Space Dog: Schrödinger’s cat.

A print is now available!

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mooch-the-goblin

You cannot kill me

in a way that matters

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@animeshogun8 has stolen this artwork and is claiming it's their own and selling it without my permission/possibly pretending to sell it to get you to click a spam link. Please help me by reporting the post as impersonation/spam. Update: looks like the account was taken down. Thanks everyone!!

I'll have to slap a watermark on this when I'm able. Sorry we can't have nice things because people think it's okay to profit off someone else's work. Thought Tumblr was better than that.

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