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And they were criminals together.

The One Time Michael Smiles A Little Bit™ is when he knows Eden is gonna be eating good for a while.

I like putting Simon in different outfits. :)

#iron lung #simon the convict #michael iron lung oc

thecritter

As promised, simon with an undercut ‼️‼️‼️

A little wonky but whatever what can you do when you're drawing in coloured pencils

Close-ups under cut

#iron lung #simon the convict

secondbeatsongs

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

sockdreams

We often eat pie at work...for morale.

eerian-sadow

"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.

blueey-jayzilla

Home run show fr

starrose17

May I just say I think this is my favourite scene in the movie in terms of emotions from Ryan.

Grace has just discovered the Taumeba eats the astrophage, he has the literal cure for Earth's and Erid's problem under the microscope right in front of him, he can save everyone!

And he wants to celebrate this, he's joyously happy, but he can't, because turning to see Rocky still not moving, still dead as far as he's concerned I mean he doesn't know he's going to ever wake up. And he can't celebrate. How can he? He can't save Erid without Rocky telling him where to go, he can't do any of this without Rocky, and he's crying tears of joy and frustration and relief and sadness and fear and loneliness all in one, and it's just an amazing portrayal of emotions.

i-scream-but-the-void-rejects-it

#STOP #😭😭😭#project hail mary #ryland grace

cowardsexual

stratt and grace and the rest of the phm science team running on 4 cumulative hours of sleep at an unscheduled conference. dimitri and lokken are trying to explain a new complication in the hail mary's fueling system and the resources necessary to iron it out but they keep getting interrupted by government officials butting in until grace (who doesn't even look up from his laptop and checked out of the conversation two days ago) snaps "we raise our hands to speak"

complete silence for like 3 seconds. the french prime minister sheepishly raises his hand and stratt smiles for the first time that week (grace buries his entire face behind his laptop screen for wont of a better option, like jumping straight into the sea)

#project hail mary

ghostly-joy

Doe Eyes

#iron lung #simon the convict

cosimads

IRON LUNG Simon/God parallels

#iron lung #simon the convict

de-ja-vu-loop

#me every morning when i wake up #for legal reasons this is a joke #iron lung #simon the convict

water-activated-light

@emilyisemrys hiii hope you don't mind me tagging ya but I wanted to reply on a proper post <3

first of, thank you sm!! yes I have full intention of dissecting the whole movie, even if it takes me a while <3 I don't have that much freetime of late but this has been a fun project, so I will continue. i also have some more meta and theory posts on the slow cooker cus they will require a bit more reading and foundations to stand up on.

I do wanna reply to both the tags and your message cus, I have a theory that connects the both of them! cus the audience is not just a parallel to the Pinhole God, but the audience is a separate God, and I think that God is the Seed Tree

It involves some egregore and tulpa creation theory and well as some gnostic principles, but to make it very short: The Pinhole God sees Simon as the Butcher, and names him as such. "A God makes sense of what it sees, despite what it should be". The Eye sees Simon only as an equal in violence and murder, and thus won't let him go.

The audience however knows Simon far deeper than this, we have seen his vulnerabilities, his gentleness, his regret and guilt. He's not just violence, and that side of him is often shown towards the Pendant, the seed of the Tree. It literally plants a seed as the audience mind that Simon deserves more, deserves better. We make sense of what we see by creating a broader but still incomplete vision of Simon. Those eflashbacks are not because of the hivemind, but rather the audience as an entity seeking to understand him.

What Simon should be, is free, not just one more soul to be swallowed up by Eden or the COI or the blood. The audience is witness to that injustice, and we have tied him with the Seed, just as he has tied himself to it. That Seed becomes a vessel of this connection, from who Simon is truly and our idea of him. That is the same seed that breaks through and "saves" him through rebirth as a tree.

Which is another tragedy. We are no better than the others who have tried to protect him and onlt ended up hurting him as a result. His mother's love is a knife, Eden wants him to be a Butcher, the COI wants him to be lesser than the cause, Ava wants to spare him from execution but just draws it out by letting him make amends through compulsory service, the blood wants to make him one with it, Elli wants to have him around for as long as he has oxygen for it, and the Seed turns him into Soil.

#oooh audience as another entity watching through a pinhole is gooooodddd #we don't see or understand everything that is happening and that led us here #but we want simon to live as much as the pinhole god except we see more of him (though still not all)#and we see how the seed is so so important to him #and what do we do but doom him all the same like everyone else around him?#iron lung #iron lung theory

disnerd126

When talking about ships in the IL fandom, I feel like there’s like. So much potential for main SM-8 Researcher (who I call Ellie) and Ava as a tragic doomed yuri ship.

I know she’s in part tricking Simon when she talks to him, but Ellie actively CALLS OUT to Ava while talking to him before he even knew Ava’s name. Shit, she even calls out to her while crying on the recording. And then she’s so far gone as the eel, that she ends up killing Ava in the end. Even to the point of saying “I’m sorry, Ava.” And then following that up with “why do I have to do this?”

There’s something there man, I can feel it. Something something “sacrificing love for the cause” something something “the ghost of that sacrifice haunting you and resenting you for it”