[ksoleil7]

ksoleil's IL conlangs

NOTES conlangs by me, @ksoleil7 (tumblr), ksoleil (ao3). inspired by @ctrl-shift-alt-9 (tumblr) DISCLAIMER: This is an ongoing linguistics

here is a (hopefully) open access doc of my conlang notes so far!

inspired by @ctrl-shift-alt-9 and @merymeou

thanks to @evienyx for the help with the tooltip boxes i hope to use when i post the fic! i thought you might like to know what im doing with them lol

if anybody needs me I'll be working on the (as of yet untitled) fic :DDD

anything on this project will be under the tag #iron lung conlang on my blog

[ksoleil7]

Simon being tactile / self-soothing

most noticably, his repetitive circling motion with his thumb over his empty knife holster (which he often touches for reassurance in a kind of muscle-memory reaching for a weapon that isn't there)

then his light tracing of the map, brushing his fingers over it to situate himself, and just the delicate way he handles everything in general, like he's trying hard not to damage anything (he's very physical/visual, he also uses his hands when gesturing directions)

when he finds the Eden pendant he ties it around his wrist to keep it secure, but he also holds it enclosed in his palm. he keeps it tight in his fist under his thumb. part reverence part anchor to home

and when he's stressed he makes fists and fidgets with his hands / the pendant. he also bows his head to it in his hand like he's praying or hoping it'll bring him luck like a talisman

[mourningsideris]

He convict on my lung till i iron

[ksoleil7]

Simon being tactile / self-soothing

most noticably, his repetitive circling motion with his thumb over his empty knife holster (which he often touches for reassurance in a kind of muscle-memory reaching for a weapon that isn't there)

then his light tracing of the map, brushing his fingers over it to situate himself, and just the delicate way he handles everything in general, like he's trying hard not to damage anything (he's very physical/visual, he also uses his hands when gesturing directions)

when he finds the Eden pendant he ties it around his wrist to keep it secure, but he also holds it enclosed in his palm. he keeps it tight in his fist under his thumb. part reverence part anchor to home

and when he's stressed he makes fists and fidgets with his hands / the pendant. he also bows his head to it in his hand like he's praying or hoping it'll bring him luck like a talisman

[apocynthiondream]

rocky can see! is boring.

screenshot below cut

[ksoleil7]

i think it's interesting that Simon truly believes the COI might just be sending him to his death, while Ava insists they aren't because "there aren't enough of us left to be throwing lives away". it really says something about how Eden views death versus how the COI views it.

like to Ava intentionally executing a convict would be a waste of someone who is more use to them alive, in a universe suffering scarcity where every skillset is valuable.

whereas Simon sees no reason to believe they need him unless he has something of value outside of himself (eg. the location of the sm-8, the skeleton, the blackbox data). it doesn't even occur to him until Ava says it that his life has value purely because there's so few people left. Eden was more than willing to throw lives away, like with the destruction of Filament Station. their focus is on sustaining the Last Tree over all else. they're preoccupied with the universe's will and letting nature run its course, letting humanity die out.

they don't care at all about "throwing lives away", because they've already given up. to Simon, this means his life is worthless to these people, especially because he's the enemy. why wouldn't they kill him?

[runefirestarter]

I don’t care that this point has probably been beaten to death, I just watched Iron lung with three of my friends so you’re getting a post about it.

Everyone talks about Simon’s “you sent me down here to die and you don’t even know my name?” (and rightfully so, it’s a heart wrenching line) but just before that, something else happens.

Simon doesn’t believe that Ava’s real. He thinks it’s another trick from Ellie. So he asks her questions to try and trip her up. And, considering part of his realization with the eel being that he never told them his name,

And she doesn’t know. She doesn’t know his name because it didn’t matter. And that impact, that realization that Simon is trapped, all alone, in one of the worst nightmares you could imagine is exacerbated.

Because the only way he can assure himself of Ava’s humanity, the only way he can truly recognize her as a real person, is by letting her dehumanize him. He doesn’t have a name. He’s “the convict” and all the people that could be able to help him, that should be helping him, can only be identified by how little they regard him as an actual person, the same as them.

This has probably been talked to death already, but I’m so tired rn and I do not care.

@djd1amond270 @localidiot1334

[ksoleil7]

holy shit you're right. he knows they're real because they don't care about him. they don't even pretend to know him.

there's a moment with the eel / ellie / the sm-8 research team where simon seems to really feel like they're on his side, and they're in this escaping-the-blood-ocean shit together, before it all goes wrong. he's genuinely hurt when it turns out they weren't aware of filament station and blame him the second they are ("maybe you do deserve this"). having that hope of a friend torn away makes him remember that's not how life works, but he did believe it at first. and he's on guard after, wary of any pretence of kindness from what might Not be ava, only to realise it is because they're back to treating him the way he knows: as nothing more than an expendable tool.

[birdbyrne]

(punching my pillow) its not an old submarine its a ship of theseus submersible rover

[tabbety]

guh help me hellppp my lungs are filling with iron im drowninnggg heeelp im turning into a treelike growth of human bone and viscera 😟😟😫😫

this took so freakin long. medium: alcohol markers and colored pencils on cardstock

[ksoleil7]

@ctrl-shift-alt-9 blood tree simon gore art if you haven't seen it already 👀

[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[somepomegranatetea]

glad to see we're all on the same page

[fieldbears]

We have all seen the scenario of 'Simon just woke up on Erid/the Hail Mary and he's confused and defensive and possibly even violent', but consider:

Erid and the Hail Mary both have synthesized painkillers, Simon has probably never been on so much as Tylenol before, and someone missing an arm would get a dosage high enough to knock out an elephant

First Grace/Simon meeting:

[fieldbears]

Hello, I am putting my money where my mouth is

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88666371/chapters/235259491

[page127]

SAVE STARS

[sokodraws]

iron lung, eh?

cool movie, I liked it

[rainfeather13]

Since you all wondered what she thought of trending from this post

[sourfruet]

hello bro ❤️

[egg-ify]

i think i need to draw more grace being a freak and rocky and simon being freaked out

[potejto-potato]

Names...

It's funny how some names survive when others don't.

I had a strong vision for this one.