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On what's possibly the sixth total rewatch of Iron Lung (I'm fine!), this phrasing hit me... Simon says this to Ava, after returning from his encounter with the Light. It's the only time he addresses, out loud, the strangeness and the impossibility of what he went through. Otherwise, he remains incredibly single-minded and practical in his goal to survive; none of the supernatural or the horror phases him too much ("Fucking aliens...").

But then, at the end of the movie, the Blood Eel/Elli throws so many hard-hitting accusations his way. She calls him a killer, she mentions Simon's mother, she calls him out on his hypocrisy... and yet the thing Simon responds to is Elli wailing that "There's nothing else for us now!"

He responds to Elli saying there's no purpose anymore, no hope. It's fascinating to me that what offends Simon here is the "Nothing else", and that his answer basically boils down to "How dare you say there's nothing left to fight for, what do you know?" But then Simon also says "You're just a piece of shit that doesn't even know it's dead." This echoes his own assertion earlier that he "might have died," and I wonder... if this is meant to be another nod towards the similarities between Elli and Simon, with Simon not even realizing that he's projecting; that he's criticizing Elli for something he himself cannot admit (that he died already when he went into the Light, that he's dead).

Or, if this means that Simon accepted death. At this point in the story, there is not any conceivable hope for survival anymore. Ava is gone, and she never intended to save Simon to begin with, so this moment is more likely Simon acknowledging it and almost sounding superior over it; as if he's telling Elli that at least he knows he's dead. Simon is so desperate for purpose, for something to dedicate himself towards-- most of all it's his own survival, but when that's not possible, the goal becomes the survival of everyone else. The thought of giving up, even when all seems lost, angers him. All thorought the movie he talks about how it's "game over" and "what's the fucking point" and "what does it even matter," but it's all just passing outbursts. His will to live and his hope ("If it happened once, why can't it happen again?") are unkillable.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

Because I love them so much P2 of my entry for murdermediaweek2026 Day 6: Partners in crime 🫶🔪

Pls don't mind that Alastor suddenly grew a beard. 🤣 I want to try out different styles and versions of my Hazbin Hotel fanart. Someday, I'll probably settle on one style. 👀 I think it's gonna be more the cartoony look instead of anime 😆

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

nasa employee: this guy hasn't interacted with humans in like 20/60 years should he really be giving interviews?

nasa employee 2: ehh just give him some media training and it should be fine

this is more of a silly one bc i just wanted to draw grace in a suit ^^

This is how you fight art block. You go stupid. And I haven’t done any shitpost for Hazbin College au in a while

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I'm just picturing him showing up at some formal press conference almost fully naked and someone like Stratt just being very tactical with a clipboard until she can get him out of the public area.

Grace: "this is my formal wear??"

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In my head this is a whole abandoned zone au where the shark saved the deer at some point when he fell into and almost drowned in his tank so now in return the deer hunts for him and brings him other deer and mammals to eat (and maybe partakes in some classic cannibalism— Don’t think too hard about the logistics ok.) Love finding new ways to ship radiostatic <3 Do tell me if y’all wanna see more of these two I’m having fun drawing animals

Yuriostatic Week Day 1: Stripping

Biblically accurate Ryland Grace from Ryan Gosling himself.

[VD: A Project Hail Mary animatic titled "We ask the Project Hail Mary crew what they would take on a trip to space". The art is toned in purple, yellow, and orange. The characters answer with audio from interviews with the movie actors as microphones are held towards them.

Grace, sweating and laughing sheepishly: "Well, I wouldn't go to space... Just like never, I would run."

Ilyukhina, smiling: "A picture of my family."

Dubois smiles and stands with Yao, who nods seriously: "Nerds Gummy Clusters."

Grace, smiling nervously: "Why do I have to?"

Stratt: "My phone."

Grace: "Can I pick three? (He counts off) Coffee, donuts, and then, like, some choose-your-adventure novels so I can get a few multiple reads out of them. (He holds up his hands defensively) But I don't want to go. Just to be clear."