this ones for the gays

Lai | she/they/he | 23

[willwriteforhugs]

defending andrew garfield's spiderman on the internet isn't enough. i need a gun

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[witchesonacross]

imagine you’re a man ALONE in SPACE and your best friend is an ALIEN and you look like RYAN GOSLING and suddenly your ALIEN BUDDY who looks like a ROCK so you called him ROCKY tells you there is a HUMAN covered in BLOOD and you break into his SUBMARINE that he was WELDED INTO and you find that the ONLY OTHER HUMAN FOR THOUSANDS OF LIGHT YEARS is the youtuber MARKIPLIER

[oh-goodness-loki]

Things Simon does/say that I love

Spoilers (I guess). My brain would not let me sleep until I wrote this all down (list was done without rewatching the movie my brain knows ball sometimes). It's in order (Im pretty sure) of the events of the movie so.

-when Simon opens that binder with the one page, looks around, and lifts it back up (comedic gold. I laugh every time)

-his little hand wavy's to help him visualize how to orient the ship (he's so real for that)

-'buncha rocks', 'big ass tubes' (probably what Mark was thinking when he played the game lol)

-holding the map so close to his face to try and make stuff out in that big black spot

-"you're not just pretending you can't hear me, right?"

-him getting annoyed at having to repeat himself

-"I know what a skeleton looks like. How dumb do you think I am?" (I love sarcastic Simon)

-how he uses the knife holster as a soothing mechanism

-his facial journey when he's being brought back up and how he tries to calm himself down

-when he tries to look into the hanger (angling his head to try and see more)

-how taken back he is when he learns the camera takes X-rays (he's so devastated 😭)

-how he gets (realistically) annoyed at having to keep pressing the button to light up the back part of the sub

-his little gasp when he sees the charm

-"but I wanna live" his face when he says that ugh. He feels guilty for just wanting to live!

-"the skeleton is gone!" "Yes, I am on a hill." Simon just really hates having to repeat himself and I am here for it lol

-him apologizing for the radiation

-how filament station traumatized him so much and how guilty he feels about it regardless of whether he caused it or not

-his hand motions when he talks about ramming the skeleton

-"just ram it?" (This little piece of convo is so funny to me and I love it)

-"and then I'm free" "then you come back up" *pauses, does hand motion* "and then I'm free"

-"I rammed it"

-"it looks like something" *hand motion iykyk*

-*tosses the lifejacket to the ground* love that he found it so ridiculous

-i love how tactile(?) he is: looking for the coordinates on the map, feeling around the floor hatch, etc

-"fuck that" so real for that

-the adorable hand motions he does when the tape stays (can you tell the different little hand motions mean so much to me?)

-him getting pissed at himself for drinking all the water

-that adorable af little grin when he gets the light to work on the lifejacket (that little grin means so much to me)

-"all that to find the fucking black box. I swear, if I have to read one of those fucking manuals" (oh hi mark)

-the little pat on the emergency engine restart when the engines turn on

-how he grabs the knife harness to sooth himself/calming mechanism

-"ah, I'm fucked"

-his half up bun 🤌🤌🤌🤌 (fave look)

-using the paper to add an addition to the map

-the whole navigating section (I love when a character is competent)

-*looks at the directional thing* "I'm trusting you"

-his 'thinking' stare when he comes up with the idea of using the binder to hold the handle in place

-'alien shit' "fucking aliens"

-when the computer connects to the sm-8 and needs a password. Lmao the different passwords he tries and then he makes sure to type "fuck you" oh simon

-"sure. Good."

-"I'm sure they're falling over themselves trying to find me, so..."

-"no way" his happy smile at how the other tunnel was bringing him up.

-how happy he was to hear another voice only to realize it wasn't the township

-"I just wanna live. Why doesn't anyone else want that?" "Which is more likely? That all the planets and stars disappeared or that a few space stations disappeared." His whole little speech here, and how it is a chance fo us to hear his opinion on the QR. Such a good scene.

-him being completely uninterested in what 'Ellie(the hallucination) was saying about God (I do like reading docs where Simon is religious (?) but there's not enough docs where he isn't)

-simon pulling up the picture he took in the hanger so he could verify Ava wasn't a hallucination

-"you sent me to die down here and you don't even know my name?" His face journey here is heartbreaking

-"I can read"

-the hope that shines in his eyes when Ava said she'd get him herself

-him needing Ava to repeat herself with the console command (don't worry buddy, id forget what she said too)

-"what do you know? You're just a piece of shit that doesn't know it's dead." You tell 'em, Simon

-"fuck that and fuck you!"

-"fuck me" *when he notices the crawlspace is filled with blood

-"FUCK ME" *psychs himself up to actually crawl through

-his face when it truly hits him that he won't make it out of this alive. He's spent the ENTIRE movie struggling to stay alive and now it's the end of the line for him

-"keep this safe for me, mom. Okay?" When you truly realize that the knife holster was from his mom and it's probably the only piece of 'home' that he has left and he has to use it to make sure the black box makes it oof

-"it's more than me. It's more than me." Like he has to keep reminding himself to keep going that extra bit

-"fine you want the butcher? C'mon!" Just cause he knows he's not gonna survive, doesn't mean he's going to go willingly. No, he's gonna go down with a fight

-his little grin when he manages to break the fang/tooth

Simon is such an amazing character and Mark did a fabulous job portraying him. He felt so real. So many movies have characters that don't feel real. They just feel like a character (they don't act realistically enough for the situation they're in (IDK if that makes sense))

[vahlance]

You can see Simon utilizing box breathing to calm down multiple times in Iron Lung, my guy KNOWS how to regulate his emotions and ground himself, he is just having that bad of a time.

[alx33]

heyyyyy tumblr my first post

absolutely obssesed with these two

[tocourtdisaster]

I've seen so many posts lately about how Grace wouldn't add swears to their translator but I 100% think he did.

He's not morally against swearing, he said holy fucking shit when he saw the Blip-A for the first time, the only reason he doesn't swear normally is because he trained himself out of it because he teaches middle schoolers. If I'm remembering right, he even calls one of the kids a smartass in his internal narration at one point. He's spent so long not swearing that he's not just going to fall out of the habit immediately.

We know that at some point, he learned Eridian swearing anyway because Rocky swears in the final chapter of the book. And I think he learned most of them when Rocky reamed him out after leaving the taumoeba collector out at room temp.

Plus, Rocky is an adult and Grace treats him like one, which includes adding swear words into their translator so that Rocky can express himself.

[diamonds-at-y11]

Incredibly self indulgent things I think would be cool to see in more bloodymary fics/fanart 

Simon not always being the angry one!! I feel like some fan content tends to infantilize Grace as just some innocent soft boy who would never hurt a fly while also stereotyping Simon as angry and grumpy and threatening 24/7? Which is kinda odd to me. Grace canonically lost his shit so hard he called one of his colleagues a “staggering waste of carbon” and got kicked out of academia. He starts breaking shit when things go wrong (him throwing the trash can(?) when he finds that astrophage are water based and punching the screen during the taumoeba leak). When Grace realizes he’s going to be forced on the mission he shoves a chair and climbs the walls and runs for his life and still keeps fighting even when pinned. If during their first encounter Simon attacks and threatens Grace because he’s (understandably) scared and confused and out of it let Grace fight a bit dirty!! Just for a little bit!! He’ll feel bad about it later but for now he doesnt know who this guy is or what he can do and he’s SCARED. FOR HIS LIFE. (Also admittedly inspired by this post) 

Simon helping Grace get ideas for his experiments and theories. We can reasonably assume that Grace is more well versed in science and academics than Simon is, but Simon still shows a great deal of intelligence and resourcefulness throughout Iron Lung; mapping out the caves on his own, opening the crawlspace with the first aid scissors, using his harness to keep the life vest attached to the black box. Grace is incredibly smart and scientific minded, yes, but throughout phm we still see him needing help from others who can think in more out of the box ways than him. Like when Carl suggests to just “put the box in another box.” It’s such a seemingly simple and not at all complicated solution, so much so that it doesn’t even come to Grace’s mind at first. But it's undeniably genius! And then later when Rocky suggests that they just sit in Adrian’s orbit in order to stay in the Petrova line, something Grace didn’t think of. I feel like simon could fulfill a similar role! Let them all do group science projects together.

More Rocky!! Ok this is probably the most self indulgent one. I know it’s kinda silly to ask for more of a character in content about a ship that doesnt (necessarily) involve said character. But like. This is my post so idc. After the events of Iron Lung Simon has radiation poisoning times like a bazillion (in addition to Every Other Disease). Rocky’s crew died from radiation and Rocky probably spent those entire 40 years alone thinking he was useless for not being able to fix it. And now Simon is going through something that not only Rocky can’t fix, but that grace is probably going to have a hard time fixing (if at all) as well! I feel like there’s angst potential there. That’s gotta suck ass. Also Rocky plays such an important role in Grace’s development and the narrative itself that I feel like he should play an important role here too?

And while I'm here more Ava and Stratt too. That moment when you both have traumatic experiences with women named a/eva who sent you off to die. What if when Grace mentions Eva for just a moment Simon thinks he's talking about HIS Ava. Or vice versa. Also if those men get to make out about their joint trauma together then the women should too. Amen. Go my trolley operators!!

[lum1natriiix]

iron lung | project hail mary similarities. 3/3 part one. | part two.

[rylandsgrace]

Iron Lung (2026) // Project Hail Mary (2026)

[ayinvui]

bloodymary sketchdump

[malice-kingdom]

“Save Earth save Erid”

[sticksandstans]

david szymanski knowing about bloodymary is hilarious to me. imagine you're an indie horror game creator and a crazy popular gaming youtuber plays your game and loves it so much he turns it into a movie, starring himself. despite being self-funded and produced, it achieves a level of success and earnings so big there are articles written about it challenging hollywood. then a few months later a big hollywood movie comes out also set in space and now a large portion of fan content for your game is ship content of the youtuber's character and ryan gosling.

[spookonlooks]

Finally safe ❤️

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.