Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.
Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.
Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.
You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.
You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.
So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.
Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.
Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.
Without any spoilers what are people's opinions on it. I got to like episode 2 before I kinda stopped, not that its not interesting but I just got interested in other media cough cough project hail mary and iron lung.
I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:
Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed
Something that actually drives me insane is how dehumanized Simon is in Iron Lung
Let me explain
TWs: Dehumanizing, cults, spoilers for iron lung
Eden is for lack of better terms a suicide tree cult. What a metal name suicide tree cult. Anyways. Ive seen a lot of theories about why the battle of filament station was started but my personal favorite is that Eden was killing people to use as the soil for their tree. They have this whole thing about "when we die our bodies will become the soil of the last tree" and all. There are absolutely some plot holes like why would the brothers want to blow up filament station but its one of my favorite theories so im going with it. And theres this whole sequence thats a low oxygen induced hallucinations and something that has always always ALWAYS stood out to me is these two lines
"When did you grow a conscience simon?"
"You have the highest body count out here killer. You have more blood on your hands than any of us"
I have interpreted it as simon is seen as a weapon, a short tempered man who's excellent at killing so Eden can use the bodies as the soil. And Simon has never explicitly gone against it, until filament station where he tries to stop his brothers. So they're asking when he gained a conscience, why the hell did he care? They dont see him as a brother, they see him as a tool.
Now the C.O.I sees him as a convict. As expendable. They dont even know his name and they send him down there, not caring if he dies or not. Again another thing that stands out to me is:
"can I not ask a question?"
"No. Just get the sample..." again. So dehumanizing.
I FORGOT SOMETHING THEY DONT EVEN REPLENISH HIS OXYGEN. LIKE WTF.
WE DONT EVEN GET HIS NAME UNTIL NEARLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE. THE COI SENDS HIM DOWN WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING HIS NAME.
He is so dehumanized and yet he's so fucking human.
He acts impulsively and then when he realizes that he hurt people his expression drops, and his voice breaks saying "I... I didn't know that"
He has to take a moment to breathe while they pull him out of the ocean because he's relieved that he's getting out.
He begs for fairness, he talks to himself, when navigating these caves outside of the main map he uses his hands to figure out what direction he needs to go.
He lashes out and hits the sub, then APOLOGIZES TO IT.
Simon begs to live, he cries about how much he wants to go home, how he gets defensive over the mention of filament station.
How he wants to make ends meet.
When Ava tells him the password to the computer to get admin access, he pauses and has to ask Ava to repeat herself because he can't remember that long string of numbers in one try.
He is so painstakingly human. Simon from Iron Lung they could never make me hate you.
The Arthur Lester Fandom page is so funny. There's a chart of all of his injuries and istg there's like 10 in a row that just say "fall". Remember falling in holes, Arthur?
I'm happy with how it turned out, I think I could've done better with rocky but its okay I think for my first try of really trying to shade and color something this isn't bad. But any critiques would be appreciated!
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