oops! they let me out of the box

everett! | they/them | mid 20s | grad student | minors DNI!! current fandoms: mcu, CR2, stranger things, voltron, and bloodymary fanfic author, occasional doodler, perennial lurker also @ev_kingston on AO3

[honeyedpines]

I’m an astronaut, you’re the moon,

I stare at you, I sing to you

I circle you

[balover13579]

As someone who has seen both movies, (iron lung three times) here's a few things i see ppl get wrong/ misunderstand:

Simon is missing his left arm, up to the shoulder. Like at the bicep.

Simon is not just a eel, he's fused with the seed and explodes into a tree.

The seed was on the left arm, fused, reversed Pinocchioed him, and got ripped off.

He kills Elli by exploding into a fucking tree.

He met God.

God gave him prophetic visions and fucked him up. Promised Simon would live, and like a Genie, didn't specify how.

Also some time manipulation bullshit was happening.

Homeboy is played by Mark(iplire), who is Korean. (Draw him Korean you cowards /j)

Simon would not necessarily be impressed/ emotinal from looking at stars. In a flashback he's seen stars before, but knows they're ghost light. He would be grateful being able to see them again though.

He WOULD be very emotinal about any plant life. He found a new will to live when he found the little seed. He had a breakdown when the little charm cracked.

His "job" on Eden was to nourish the last tree with the people he killed. Hence his nickname.

There's a lot symbolism regarding trees (the hull window crack)

Simon is resourceful and smart! Like smart smart! Let him be smart woth Rocky and Grace!

Yes, Simon can be aggressive, but is only in situation where his life is threatened. He's also remorseful. He's apologetic and does want to make up for his wrongs, even if it wasn't his fault.

His left eye glows :3

Grace is not a coward.

Like Simon, Grace did not go down without a fight. He ran, yes, but when he was being sedated he shouted how he would sabotage the mission. Do everything he can to make it fail, just so the wouldn't risk putting him on the exhibition.

He is incredibly brave. He did a space walk without training. He trusted rocky that he wouldn't explode in the space bridge. He CLIMBED ON THE BURNING EXTERIOR OF THE HAIL MARY TO RETRIEVE THE COLLECTION DEVICE.

Grace is not a crybaby. He crys for very real, reasonable reasons! When he was betrayed? When they found a solution to save their stars? When Rock gave him a way to return to Earth? It would be weird for him NOT to cry! (Edit: person in the tags you're so right)

He would be scared meeting Simon, but he would not be a coward.

They BOTH have a "This is bigger than me" mentality. They both risked everything to ensure the survival of humanity. They were willing to die.

It's not selfish just wanting to live.

I don't think either of them would have a problem doing anything to survive. (Eating the Taumoeba or Me-burgers)

How it works in my head

[seacowboy032]

as someone who has also seen both movies multiple times I agree with all of these, and I can’t wait to dig a bit deeper into some of them (especially Grace’s psyche, I feel like his mentality is criminally underrepresented—he cares so deeply about so much and that manifests in ways that aren’t just crying) in a few other fics I’m working on. but in the meantime I’d love to see more tree mutation Simon, more of Simon and his green thumb (and his lack of engineering knowledge; maybe he helps figure out a food source for the long haul back to Eridani?), and also more of Grace processing his complicated emotions around… everything, in a more emotionally intelligent way… urgh there’s just so much good food here you guys there’s too many tempting ideas

[tieflingkisser]

[duckngk]

no one look at me

[seacowboy032]

yall. yall. sometimes I really truly love fandom culture. someone tracked me down (through other people!!) to tell me they loved one of my fanfics so much they printed it out so it could be kept in their physical pile of favorite works. do you know how it feels to create something self indulgent and then later find out it reached someone so profoundly that they gave it a permanent place in their life?? what a wonderful thing to be human. what a wonderful thing to be. I am so honored and also beside myself with joy 🥹

[seacowboy032]

thinking about how Simon and Grace are touch starved and touch averse in such different ways.

Simon is probably used to casual touch because of how growing up on Eden in such close quarters meant it was inevitable that you’d bump into people every once in a while. but intimacy—physical and otherwise—is difficult because of those close quarters. there’s no privacy to let anyone in. and I imagine he’s starving for that non-platonic intimacy but, in equal measure, afraid of it, because it’s such a big unknown. he might not even know it’s something he wants (something he can want) until it’s offered to him, and he would probably be against asking for something like that, because if he didn’t need it before he definitely doesn’t need it now

whereas Grace is also probably used to casual touch in completely platonic settings—high fives from his kids, the normal ways you brush against other people when getting on a crowded bus or getting change from a cashier. he’s also probably had his fair share of intimate encounters (that throwaway line about pills in college, anyone?) but all of that is stuff he took for granted and didn’t even notice until his life became completely and abruptly devoid of it. so he’s probably starving for physical contact of any kind, but doesn’t know how to ask for it, because how do you ask someone to bump into you in a hallway? how do you ask a single person to help replace the day-to-day presence of society in your life?

anyway, the first time they’re passing in the Mary’s corridors and bump into each other I imagine they’d both break down crying because brushing against another person on accident is such a human thing that it inadvertently becomes the best reminder they’re not alone anymore, and won’t be alone again

[seacowboy032]

he knows. mark knows. mr iplier i am so sorry please forgive me but also i will not be stopping the bloodymary brainrot content. forgiveness not permission 🤩

[carlthelizard]

when keith is uncertain he lashes out and hurts the people around him and when lance is uncertain he draws back and hurts himself is this anything

[vampirejuno]

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

[seacowboy032]

my work schedule has been actual hell and I got called in to cover TWO extra days after eight days in a row. but you best bet bloodymary is On My Mind. Next major stretch of off days I get I’m working on subject of your dreams, sequel to Phoenix in the Fire. I can’t wait, but also I feel like Simon trapped in a stupid little box of imminent doom. Let me out of scheduling hell PLEASE I want a day off

[here-to-fangirll]

project hail mary is a fantastic movie that genuinely has me staring at the ceiling at like 2 am. god. its the concept of dying so others can live. what if the sacrificial lamb was there the whole time and taught the butcher how to build the slaughterhouse. what if the lamb was dragged there kicking and screaming and was told that it was dispensable because it had no one, not a family or a lover or even a dog and what if the lamb said that it just wanted to live. isnt that enough? isnt wanting to live enough? what if the lamb woke up alone and afraid but remembered enough about living and love to place his head on the chopping block anyway. and most importantly, what if the butcher wasnt a butcher but just the shepherd trying to save the rest of the flock

[seacowboy032]

what do bloodymary fics on ao3 mean to me????????what does AIR mean to my LUNGS!!!!!!!!!

so so real. yk, I’ve been reading a ton of bloodymary fics lately and I think I’ve genuinely run out of the fics with all the tags I want to read so I think I will also be yelling this into the ask boxes of my fave authors bc cmon yall we gotta represent

Do we think we can get the bloodymary ship tag to over 1k works by the end of the weekend? I think so >:)

[seacowboy032]

I’m here from Ao3. First impression of you btw.

Anyway love your writing. Words of great encouragement.

“First impression of you” okay listen. lisTEN—

I have like zero defense honestly. My Ao3 is filled with all the self indulgent stuff I write for funsies and for some inexplicable reason I have not mustered up the confidence to publish the fluffier things that aren’t porn bc I don’t think anyone will like them. So yall get silly headcanons crammed into your smut fics and I call it a day

But!! Thank you for the encouragement :3 I love being enabled and it always circles back around to Even More Fanfiction so… tee hee :3

[seacowboy032]

HI I REALLY LIKED YOUR OVIPOSITION FIC WITH SIMON AND GRACE IM A BIG FAN !!!!! you write beautifully and you capture the charaters well, in a way that i want to re read the fic over abd over again. Also i loved the fluff in the first chapter it was SO sweet and cute ok i love you bye

HI ANON I LOVE YOU TOO thank you so so much for the complement!! I was honestly very worried I didn’t characterize the boys very well so I am so glad to hear that you liked the way I wrote them ;-; all yalls encouragement has me very excited to finally be able to work on the sequel to this piece (not settle down, that one is just a bonus) bc I also can’t get it out of my head ;-;

[cookiekate-art]

Convict!Grace is here!!

From “I’ll Believe in Anything” by Viiridity on Ao3!!

What better way to celebrate the release of Chapter 3 than a proper look at our main character himself!!!

Fic link in comments!!!

(And here’s some bonus concept art of Rocky and Adrian 🤭💕💕)

[seacowboy032]

not to be too real on main but am I just sensitive? or do other people start to pull away from/feel disconnected from fandoms they’re a part of after a handful of negative interactions from other fans? like, we all enjoy this thing and we can all enjoy it in different ways simultaneously?? there’s no right way to be a fan of something?? and nobody’s headcanons or aus or, hell, even excitement about the fandom are wrong?? might just be a me thing though :/

[seacowboy032]

Here from your ao3 link, love your writing❤️❤️

aww, thank you! you have no idea how much I needed to hear this at this exact moment; I’ve had a few unpleasant experiences with people in one of my fandoms lately and it’s always nice to hear from folks who enjoy the efforts of my heart <3 yall reassure me I’m not just straight up yelling into the void, haha.

I’m very curious what fic brought you here! hopefully it’s not one of the unfinished ones because if so, uh,,, sorry ;-;