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He’s so cute when he’s not losing his mind

I have posts mentioning Simon seemingly being stuck in a hyperactivity mindset, along with some other traits taken on from Markiplier:

Platonic Bloodymary ideas mentioning Simon's ADHD habits

More Platonic Bloodymary ideas mentioning Simon struggling with education

Simon having Markiplier's traits (Including ADHD)

Me Getting Bullied About the Above Post in 4K Super Resolution

Fact of the matter is: Simon is played by Markiplier. There's no getting out of a "similar mannerisms" scenario. Homeboy FOR SURE has at the very least ADHD-like traits.

So far, the reference contains / will contain:

Simon in various poses, angles, and facial expressions (there will be much more as I make progress. I'm only about 20 minutes into the movie in terms of frame-by-framing)

Detail photos of the SM-13, plus wide-angle and exterior shots

Images of the Tow Ship, side characters (Ava, Jack, David, Simon's mom, etc.), and soon to come, images of all the monsters, such as Simon's Shadow

Close-ups of practical effects, blood & gore (soon to come)

All concept art and BTS footage released by Molly Brown

Screenshots specifically looking for clothing and prop details for cosplayers and prop-makers

All of Simon's x-ray photos in high quality, plus a compilation video of them as a stop-motion animation

Reference images of various items, like the fire extinguisher, charcoal stick, knife holster, map, pendant*, and life jacket* (<- coming soon)

A link to a timestamp chart in-progress containing a beat-by-beat recap of the movie, for easy scene finding. Everybody say "thank you" to @negative-pressure-ventilator for their work.

I plan and hope to get other scrapers on board to help me not drown under the amount of content I have to manually rename, organize and sift through. You guys. I spent an hour manually renaming every single hemorover photo so they sat correctly and in order within the file structure. I'm not fucking around here LOL

I'm also looking to start up a folder archiving everything and anything we can find on Behind The Scenes, so if you have those available, submit them! There's a lot of content I'm trying to stay on top of at the moment.

King Woman is sludgy, doomy metal band whose corrosive sound features super concentrated walls of amp noise interwoven with lead singer Kristina Esfandiari’s vocals. (Audiotree Live Session if you're curious about their sound design outside of this one song.)

Celestial Blues uses the biblical allegory of Lucifer and the fallen angel as a metaphor for personal trauma, shame, and self-reinvention. It explores the messy process of overcoming abuse, confronting one's inner demons, and emerging stronger.

Esfandiari, who was raised in an intensely religious and strict household, uses the Devil as a symbol of the outsider, the rebel, and the scapegoat. Musically and lyrically, the sluggish tone, along with its soft-spoken prose, evoke the push and pull between hopeless lows, disorientation, and aggressive outbursts of defiance. It's very "Simon".

The lyrics are as follows, if you're inclined to read while listening:

Celestial blues A mile in my shoes The devil left a bruise But God left a light on for Her wayward ones Left under a fountainhead for dead Casting out the spirit of death Under Her breast She says, "Take my hand" Let's go to the land But my life is no longer mine once I recite Shrill noises from a crypt

Living in shoes, yeah, I don't know what to do Walking in skin, I've got celestial blues Looking for a home, oh, it just doesn't exist Festering wound you know I never could fix Well I hang my head, I'm not feeling right I want to ascend into the divine But I'm stuck Right here

But I'm not from here that's for certain I've never felt like a normal person I hang my head, I'm not feeling right I want to ascend until we collide I want to crash my heart into the divine

Celestial night They took me from my birthright Celestial night They took me from my birthright Celestial night They took me from my birthright Celestial night

I'm not from here that's for certain I've never felt like a normal person So now I hang my head, I'm not feeling right I want to ascend until we collide I want to crash my heart into the divine

It's a lament diving into the need to be seen as anything other than a monster, the struggle of being stripped of everything, "walking in skin", feeling like a shapeshifter in your own body.

"I hang my head, I'm not feeling right" both psychologically and physically, the base need to ascend, to be something better, to literally ascend out of the ocean, to live... but he's stuck.

"I'm not from here, that's for certain, I've never felt like a normal person" calling back to Simon being a Martian, the baseline cultural differences between the COI and the Edenites, and the extremist environment Simon grew up in.

"Looking for a home, oh, it just doesn't exist" calling back to Simon's vice being nostalgia for a time before, constantly thinking of his mother. He's looking for home but it's in the past and will always stay there.

"Festering wound you know I never could fix" this being his anger and grief, and the "living in shoes" prose at the beginning of the song, as a cherry on top of the cake, is Simon living in the shadow of the cult's expectations.

"They took me from my birthright" to life and freedom.

This song is a goddamn masterclass in coincidental Iron Lung references. This has got to be worth something to you guys in the fandom who love music as much as I do!

Also the sludge metal just makes everything tonally fit with the grittiness of the film itself. I love everything about it. The music is slow-going and takes it time with presenting its themes, just like the movie plot.