Pinky G. Rocket

She/her, adult. FUB free, 18+ blog, minors will be blocked on sight. An internet and fandom creature that writes way too much. Here, you'll find musings, headcanons, blabber about what I'm working on, and dumb thoughts written at 2AM. Admin for the Pizza Tower Wiki, gardener for Fanlore, and tag wrangler for Archive of Our Own. All opinions are my own, etc. Feel free to ask me casual questions, but depending on the nature of the question, I may redirect you to official inquiry channels. Icon by simzartz. AO3 account

[pinkygrocket]

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guess i should make one of these huh.

hullo, i'm pinky g. rocket. you can call me pink, pinky, pinky g, rocket, pgr, etc. any work. she/her pronouns, adult.

this blog is my personal space for both fannish stuff, things that delight or interest me, and dumb blabber. the list of all fandoms you may see here is looooong, but the main ones you'll probably see are:

psychonauts

splatoon

pizza tower

minecraft

minecraft: story mode

buckshot roulette

antonblast

scp foundation

ENA

team fortress 2

iron lung (2026)

okami

the wind waker

markiplier

various indie games

various nintendo games

various horror movies

i also really like to post about cats, video games, movies, positive encouragement, fandom culture, cool art, and people being cool.

some headsups:

18+ blog. i block minors and blank blogs on sight.

my reblog habits are arbitrary and up to my own personal whims. i don't consistently maintain a queue.

i will not reblog fundraisers from people that i don't know personally.

i will not talk about sociopolitical issues, wank/drama and general discourse here.

asks are never turned on, even without anon. ping me if you want to chat.

i do not receive notifications for likes, reacts, etc. and in fact i can't even see them most of the time. if you're not directly mentioning me or talking to me, i will probably not see the note.

i make things, sometimes!

i write fanfics sometimes! no consistent posting schedule.

oh, i occasionally post minecraft things over on curseforge too!

my personal sideblogs

@deep-dark-galaxy horror art reblog repository

@peppinocore posts that remind me of a certain anxious italian man

@ivorcore posts that remind me of a certain disaster bisexual wizard

@spaceship-piloting-guide recipes, guides, advice, resources, tutorials, etc.

"why do you have so many sideblogs, why not use tags" sometimes i want separate Things sue me. that said, i DO have tags:

#? - if it made me do a paper mario question mark sound, it goes here

#rocket reblogs - reblogs from other people

#rocket blabs - general chatter

#rocket memes - memes and shitposts i made

#rocket polls - polls i made

#rocket arts - artistic and visual creative stuff i made

#rocket writes - fanfiction and the like i made

#rocket posts - things that don't neatly fit into the above categories

#queue for takeoff - queued posts

#scheduled takeoff - scheduled posts

i am an admin for the pizza tower wiki, a gardener for fanlore and a former tag wrangler for archive of our own. all opinions are my own. feel free to shoot me casual questions, but depending of the nature of your question, i may redirect you to official inquiry channels.

i run a semi-private discord server; feel free to dm for an invite link!

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

I'm scraping Iron Lung for screenshots tomorrow to build a master reference folder for you artists, cosplayers, character designers and detail enthusiasts who love cinematic visuals as much as I do. ❤️🩸

Update: I've taken 39 photos and I'm seven minutes into the movie... I'm being incredibly thorough.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

Fellas. I'm building Simon's entire black box. This is gonna take longer than a night since I'm also taking references of all items, side-characters, details, environment, etc.

PLEASE BE PATIENT!!! This has taken me two nights already and I'm only like 8 minutes into this fucking film guys holy shit.

You WILL have a master reference for EVERYTHING!!! I have not forgotten you, prop-makers!

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

I'll admit, this is starting to get taxing as a one-man job. So, I have a proposal for you all.

I would like to make the master reference a communal effort and communal resource. I'll be adding onto it as I go, but I think this would just be so much faster with multiple people on the job. TuT

I'm building a file structure (as you see pictured, with various containers for item photos). I need to fill those folders with images of said specific items. So, I'm sending you guys on a treasure hunt! If you know how to take high-res screencaps of Iron Lung, please consider contributing.

My unfinished work is now available as a Google Drive folder to be sifted through. Feel free to utilize what's already there. Also, if you need reference images of something that has not been added yet, ask me. I will go and get them for you, and then add them to the master.

I'm looking for the following, in general:

Facial expressions

Unique angles (for artists looking to make comics, those hyper-specific angles are to-die-for!)

Detailwork/material textures/visual identity mapping

Prop items (even as small as a marker or COI badge)

Environment images from unique angles

All black box photos (holy moly please help. Simon took SO MANY PICTURES.)

Interesting things, like catching Mark looking at the camera LOL

Now, I could either A) make this editable by everyone, which poses a massive security risk in the event someone decides to be like "ah yes, let's wipe everything" or "ah yes, let's drop a zip bomb in here", or B) open my inbox to images for submission. So uh... inbox it is, for now, until I can find an easier and safer way to communal image-gather.

[pinkygrocket]

i think you should make a wiki! it'd be easier to organize information, keep track of contributes, organize things, etc. miraheze is a good host and i'd be willing to lend a hand on getting up and running

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

hc kinda fanon/divergence thought: i like to imagine that in the iron lung universe, blue leds (or at least, commercially viable/mass produced ones) were never invented, and that's part of why the technology is so 90s despite being Future. someone pointed out that the black box does have a blue led, but i still like this idea and grip onto it lol

tl;dr due to how light works, blue leds are way more finicky then red or green ones, and inventing one that could be mass produced was a decades-long struggle spanning multiple people and countries

Okay, interesting thought! I can run with that.

I think they pulled a computer out of the wall of an old station (possibly an original piece of architecture from their golden age of space in the 1990s - early 2000s) to hot-wire into the SM-13.

I think that they certainly have tons of better tech than the Lung was given. It's an expendable tin can. They're not going to put anything they'd miss in there... unfortunately that included Simon.

Their technology is so 90s because that's when they started shooting shit into space, so there's a bunch of original tech still operating on those stations, I bet.

I'm unsure about the light spectrum thing, but that's a neat idea regardless.

[pinkygrocket]

their technology is so 90s because that's when they started shooting shit into space, so there's a bunch of original tech still operating on those stations, I bet

i don't think the original tech would last that long if it's continually in use. even in the best of circumstances, computers will break down over time. however, consider that in the real world, we still have a outdated programming language from the 1960s around and kicking due to change being slow in business, government, etc.

for the world of iron lung, i think you could finagle old tech being around in a similar vein, with pre-rapture governments and the like having interest in keeping old hardware and replacement parts in production. spaceships and stations are harder to upgrade/retrofit then, desktop computers, servers, and mainframes + the old computers will run legacy software that may be archaic, but is well understood and works + bureaucratic red tape and slowness

[pinkygrocket]

heard from someone over in the iron lung community that they were having trouble over on AO3 finding non-phm crossover fics in the iron lung tag, so i threw together a search setting for your bookmarking pleasure. this should filter out all the phm/bloody mary crossover stuff. here are the settings:

searchs the tag David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types tag, sorted by date updated (the default AO3 sort method)

excluded tags: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Ryland Grace, Rocky (Project Hail Mary), The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace

search within results: -tag:"ryland grace" -tag:"phm" -tag:"project hail mary" -tag:"bloody mary" -tag:"bloodymary". this is to filter out works with bloody mary tags that cannot be attached to the above tags

happy browsing!

[pinkygrocket]

and then here's a tumblr search setting!

searches for the tag or text "iron lung"

excludes the tag or text "ryland grace", "ryland gosling", "bloody mary"

excludes the tags #bloodymary #phm #project hail mary #bloody mary

you can read more about tumblr search operators in tumblr's help article if you'd like to throw together your own search settings for similar issues. AO3 search operator documentation is a bit scattered and all over the place, so i'll probably make a standalone post for that when i got the energy and focus for it.

happy browsing, again!

[pinkygrocket]

i've seen some chatter regarding tumblr tags and how to use them and requests from some il community folks and while i don't have much thoughts on tumblr, i would caution against not tagging iron lung or phm on bloody mary fics on ao3. namely:

ao3 tags are manually sorted/linked to one another by volunteers;

ao3 tags have separate categories for fandom, characters, relationships, and freeforms;

ao3 works require at least one fandom tag;

if you just tag bloody mary as a fandom tag, that tag then cannot be linked to any other tag due to tag sorting guidelines and it'll end up being more difficult for folks to filter out;

therefore my personal recommendation would be to at least make sure that you tag simon and grace as character tags + bloody mary as a relationship tag + project hail mary and iron lung as fandom tags so exclusions work better;

also tagging both PHM and iron lung will enable fics like that to be excluded with the "show no crossovers" filter options, for the folks that don't want crossovers whatsoever

[pinkygrocket]

heard from someone over in the iron lung community that they were having trouble over on AO3 finding non-phm crossover fics in the iron lung tag, so i threw together a search setting for your bookmarking pleasure. this should filter out all the phm/bloody mary crossover stuff. here are the settings:

searchs the tag David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types tag, sorted by date updated (the default AO3 sort method)

excluded tags: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Ryland Grace, Rocky (Project Hail Mary), The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace

search within results: -tag:"ryland grace" -tag:"phm" -tag:"project hail mary" -tag:"bloody mary" -tag:"bloodymary". this is to filter out works with bloody mary tags that cannot be attached to the above tags

happy browsing!

[pinkygrocket]

and then here's a tumblr search setting!

searches for the tag or text "iron lung"

excludes the tag or text "ryland grace", "ryland gosling", "bloody mary"

excludes the tags #bloodymary #phm #project hail mary #bloody mary

you can read more about tumblr search operators in tumblr's help article if you'd like to throw together your own search settings for similar issues. AO3 search operator documentation is a bit scattered and all over the place, so i'll probably make a standalone post for that when i got the energy and focus for it.

happy browsing, again!

[pinkygrocket]

heard from someone over in the iron lung community that they were having trouble over on AO3 finding non-phm crossover fics in the iron lung tag, so i threw together a search setting for your bookmarking pleasure. this should filter out all the phm/bloody mary crossover stuff. here are the settings:

searchs the tag David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types tag, sorted by date updated (the default AO3 sort method)

excluded tags: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Ryland Grace, Rocky (Project Hail Mary), The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace

search within results: -tag:"ryland grace" -tag:"phm" -tag:"project hail mary" -tag:"bloody mary" -tag:"bloodymary". this is to filter out works with bloody mary tags that cannot be attached to the above tags

happy browsing!

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[pinkygrocket]

@melissadiamond

[pinkygrocket]

so if a crackship is a ship with characters that are absurd to put together, then what is a keygenship

[radawaycunt]

I think being pinned onto the clothesline and fluttering in the afternoon breeze while I sun dry would cure me actually

[sm64mario]

I met every single creepy pasta and they wre all nice to me

[sm64mario]

A lot of you relating to this one!

we live in such'a kind world

[pinkygrocket]

mom phineas and ferb are rescuing markiplier from an ocean of blood

[clownjuicebox]

"I asked chatgpt" okay well I asked Tumblr and- wait, one second- there's some new yaoi lore in the space fandom or something- oh my god is that Markiplier?

[pinkygrocket]

been spending the last couple of hours with ublock origin and firefox portable just taking a hypothetical crowbar to tumblr, ripping out all the annoying shit, after talking to my therapist about how tumblr was passively eating a lot of time and energy even after restricting it to just the computer. and man. man man man man man it feels really fuckin nice to not have all the annoying bullshit that comes with social media these days

[eeper-eeps]

"Drake?"

"Josh?"

[pinkygrocket]

@babycharmander

[pinkygrocket]

hi i'm ryland grace and you're watching disney channel

[dyktvideogamesfx]

Visit Original Link

Do you know this SFX? #1469

I know where it's from

It sounds familiar

I've never heard this

Voting ended onMay 15

[pinkygrocket]

a poll inspired by this poll:

grace and rocky are now in the world of the last piece of media you watched/read/played/etc.

how do they do?

they're fine, seamless inclusion

they're still fine but weird/clunky inclusion

rough ride but they'll be alright

oh no get them out of there

their presence completely derails the narrative

Voting ended onMay 15