#infodump

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

totally didn’t draw this just to talk about sharks haha whaaat

…so the hammers on hammerhead sharks actually have two main advantages. firstly, their insane field of nearly 360 degree vision, with a greater range of overlap between each eye that allows depth perception. for comparison to their more aerodynamic family members most sharks rely on their other senses to tell how close an object is.

*This post contains spoilers for the end of the Iron Lung movie, as well as frank discussion of severe injury + death, medical terms, and illustrations of broken bones*

As promised, here is the infodump about how I think Simon's arm loss went and how it was possible :3 The first half of this is anatomy basics and then I get into more Simon-specific examples

First tho, my credentials for doing something really involved like this: I have a degree in scientific and medical illustration and I've studied human anatomy, injuries, biology and physiology extensively. Also I'm autistic and this is my main special interest XD

Now to start: Here is our Simon for these visuals. Say hi to him, he doesn't know what's in store for him yet (I'm sorry he doesn't have a face, human faces are my weak point hhdbcj)

Simon in the movie loses his left arm above the elbow during the climactic fight with the Blood Eel/the ocean itself. It becomes stuck to the surface of a pipe by what I am referring to as bloodvines - these are an aspect of the ocean/the blood eel, and they encase Simon's left hand and attach it to the pipe to try and trap him. In complete desperation to get free, he braces himself with his feet and, in a visually stunning display, pulls his own arm off.

As a baseline we're working under the assumption that this is absolutely mentally possible for Simon to accomplish. Where it might not be possible for someone weaker, Simon is shown to be incredibly strong both physically and in willpower. He wants to live; he'll do whatever it takes. It it also, as we see, possible physically. He's able to get his arm off and get free.

This raises a few questions though. Take a look at some basic anatomy of the upper left arm on our Simon:

Muscle-wise, the shoulder and upper arm are pretty complex structures. A lot of connections and attachment points are involved in making the 360 degree motion we humans have in our shoulders possible, however luckily for Simon, most of those complex and tiny muscles are stored in the back. The three main muscles his limb loss would affect directly are the deltoid, biceps, and triceps (biceps and triceps count as one muscle each they just both have a few attachment points).

Bone-wise, this injury is technically simple. It's going to affect the humerus, the only bone of the upper arm between the elbow and the shoulder - in fact, it's part of forming both of those joints.

Knowing all this anatomy that forms the part of the body where Simon's injury happens, here are our reference photos:

These are stills from this moment in the movie. However, they're not great quality, so I also found this video posted to TikTok from the account of an SFX artist (ATXFX) who was part of the team that created this effect (video link: https://www.tiktok.com/@atxfx113/video/7629184974377323790?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc )

Makeup and SFX for Iron Lung were designed and carried out by Anna Fugate-Downs ^^

THESE ARE FAKE ARMS.

Here, we can see where each fake arm was cut in order to create the ripping effect later achieved. This is our trauma site. With this trauma site decided, we can make a few inferences about what was affected and what problems this brings up and would cause.

Now to address the problems this raises. First off: the humerus.

The humerus is a long bone, one of the strongest in the human body - it is comparable to the femur, which is the longest and strongest bone and makes up the upper part of our leg. The humerus has a LOT of muscle attachment points as well as being part of two different joints, as stated earlier, and here is the very crucial thing about severe limb injuries and loss; these traumas almost *always* happen at the joint. The meeting point between two bones is the weakest part, and usually if an arm is going to be ripped off it's going to be at the elbow, or at the shoulder if things have gone *really* wrong.

However as is clear from the reference photos, Simon's arm is ripped off about a third of the way up the humerus. Right on the main shaft. Where it is almost at its strongest.

Damn you Markiplier for making my job harder (/j), alright, here are my theories for how this happened:

One method for explaining this, and something that is definitely an option in fanfiction, is that there is a moment we as viewers miss in the movie where Simon's arm is hit with something hard enough to break it along that specific point on the bone. Personally, I intend on using this interpretation in a fanfic, mostly because I want him to be holding the piece of Ellie's tooth that he breaks off for... reasons. However, my other idea for a blunt object that could do this would be the fire extinguisher. This injury in the moment could be self-inflicted or accidental as a product of the ship being thrown around.

Another method: It was the bloodvines. These vines are shown to be extremely damaging - Simon's hand starts to mutate and deform almost as soon as the vines encase it and start to spread, and wherever they touch Simon's skin is left horribly marked and damaged. They're clearly hurting him with every second they touch him, and I believe that it would be possible that if he had begun to rip himself free and they were able to grasp his bone in their effort to contain him, the force of being gripped combined with the damaging, almost necrotizing nature of the vines would have snapped the humerus at that point and freed him.

A third method that seems slightly less feasible, but possible: Simon had a somewhat-recent bone break at that specific point on his arm. It would've likely had to have been a complete break, something that went all the way through the bone, and it's not hard to believe that it wouldn't have healed correctly given his residence in prison probably receiving less-than-ideal nutrition. A strong enough force or pressure would've snapped the bone along a pre-existing fault line a LOT easier than it would a healthy, whole bone

So, these are the main three theories I came up with on my own, but it still seemed like a long shot. So I consulted Reddit. And lo and behold, the wonderful Iron Lung fandom had already come up with the final piece of the puzzle.

Radiation damage.

Sustained radiation damage, alongside causing a huge amount of damage to the soft tissue cells in the human body, also mutates, weakens, and breaks down bone cells. I haven't yet done an Iron Lung watchthrough where I count how many times he uses the camera (last time I was busy counting concussion opportunities) but it's safe to say that Simon is exposed to a LOT of radiation over a fairly short period of time. Yes it's muted somewhat by the hull of the Iron Lung but like. We see him puking up and coughing blood, that's not normal. His mutations at the very end also speak to this problem, which may also be being accelerated by the bloodvines. If the spot on his humerus where his arm broke off happened to be at the right stage of radiation damage, it would make perfect sense why any of the above factors would've snapped it. It might've even been possible for the bone to snap on its own, without any outside force (pulling wouldn't do it though - Simon would have to jerk his arm to the side to get.the necessary force).

I have included a diagram of all the kinds of bone breaks Simon may have sustained along his humerus during this process, partially for visual clarity and partially so that my fellow writers and artists can feel confident in their descriptions :3 I encourage everyone to look into these specific kinds of breaks to best describe what actions cause them!

Alright, we're almost done. Final things I want to address is if you intend to have Simon survive at the end of his ordeal in the Iron Lung, in one way or another, and he has already lost the arm, there are a few things to keep in mind. One of those is the brachial artery.

This is a major artery that runs through the armpit and down the back of the arm. It supplies blood to the whole of the arm, and while it doesn't bleed *quite* as fast as other branches of arteries it will still cause severe blood loss in a matter of minutes. Solution! Tourniquet that man at once. The sooner he gets a tourniquet applied to what's left of his arm (placed high as close to the armpit as possible), the better off he'll be

There is also the risk of shock, which is compounded by blood loss and just total system overwhelm from pain and bodily harm. Shock can definitely be lethal and often is, and at the end of the movie Simon's lack of immediate pain response to having his arm ripped off could be seen as an early sign. If you want him to live, fixing that blood loss first is a necessity, then getting him to a place where he can be stable and hopefully pull through. He's a fairly strong person so his likelihood of dying of shock isn't as high as it could be, but the risk is never zero.

I did want to mention that it's always a good idea to read accounts from people who have lost limbs in the same place/same way as Simon has in order to represent the experience of living without a limb more accurately. Reddit's r/amputee is honestly probably a good place to start, and you can find an endless amount of accounts from real people living with this disability.

Andrey Emelyannikov (Андрей Емельянников (Also referenced as Andrei or Yemelyannikov) was born on February 7th, 1999 in Moscow, Russia. His parents, Dmitry Emelyannikov and Anna Emelyannikova, seperated when he was one year old. He had an older brother named Artem Emelyannikov. As a child, he was responsible and was not shown to be agressive. Andrey was raised by his mother, but his father was still in his life. He would later move in with Artem, but would still recieve visits from his parents. Artem is technically his half brother, as Anna was married before. He grew up normally and did not display any concerning behavior. A quote from Anna after the attack: “He didn’t just attack \[danilov\] out of nowhere, did he? He never told me about his problems at college. I called my eldest son, and he said andrey, as usual, left for school in the morning, in good spirits. I hope the police can shed some light on this, because i dont understand anything myself.” A quote from Dmitry: "He grew up as a normal boy. Good-natured by nature. As a teenager, like many teenagers, he was into heavy music. We met from time to time, and i was a presence in his life." Upon being asked if Andrey was registered with a psychiatrist, his father states, "Anya would have told me if Andrei had been registered. He grew up a normal boy.” "After ninth grade, he entered this college. We decided so at a family meeting. He's now in his third year. I don't understand what could have upset him."

Andrey was homeschooled after the fourth grade, but would still be around school. He would say hello to people and would not talk about himself, but was very kind. A friend called "Irina" by a news source claimed that he was well groomed, wore nice clothes, and came from a good family. She says he was quiet, never got into fights, and he rarely raised his voice. She also mentions that he carried a knife on him, but would never threaten anyone with it. She mentions that boys would often "catch him" and he started "getting careful". He was said to be trustworthy. A girl he knew online nicknamed "Margarita" says "If he promised something, he always did it.". She also says he had a good sense of humor and he seemed completely normal. Andrey was often seen with two boys, Daniil and Alexander, who mention that during his first year, he did not speak to anyone. They mention how Danilov yelled at him: “The teacher was always coming down on him in front of everyone, and the guy couldn’t say anything. He was scared. It seems he overcame that fear.”. Andrey was said to have been terrified of Sergei Danilov, the health and life safety teacher who he would later kill at his school, The University of Continuing Education West Campus. He often watched video game playthroughs in class instead of doing his work. He told a friend that he was tired of studying, which may have been a slip of the tongue since he did not speak of his feelings. “He kept everything bottled up, and never unloaded his problems onto anyone else.”. Andrey had a crush on a girl for 5 years, but would not speak to her. He was introverted, described as quiet and he did not cause conflict, but is also described as a gentleman who said hello to others often.

Andrey had apparently posted about his teacher, threatening him on forums "sooner or later", but it was common on the site, so nothing came of it. He often used the hashtag "011117" under his messages which stood for November 1st, 2017, the day of the murder. I am pretty sure he also wrote this as the caption to his VK post of the murder images. He was said to be a good translator, helping out others who required help with translations. He was working on translating a comic called "Blood Stain" from English into Russian. He took archery lessons and seemed to enjoy doing it. He worked for a little bit as a courier who delivered tea to restaurants. He bought a scooter and a phone using the money he made from working. A quote about Andrey by a girl he knew: "I'd known Andrey for a little over six years. We met at a sports club. He was always smart, well-read, reserved, and kind. And over the years, he'd become very close to me. I'd never noticed any such tendencies in him. He was a good man. A truly good man." "He didn't drink or smoke. We were celebrating my birthday once, and my dad poured him champagne, and then he said he didn't drink and had no intention of drinking.” People called him responsible and “a bright mind”. He was "well-read" and seemingly very smart as he was fluent in english and russian. Male friends tend to describe him more normally, even a little differently like how he would make small threats or comments, while female friends say that he was very sweet, meaning he may have switched up his personality depending on who was around.

A few songs he mentioned on his VKontakte (VK) are:

FGFC820- Darkseed

Buried- Novembers Doom

Tired- Novembers Doom

Twilight Innocence- Novembers Doom

Leaving This- Novembers Doom

The Novella Reservoir- Novembers Doom

Into Night’s Requiem Infernal- Novembers Doom

Harvest Scythe- Novembers Doom

The Dead Leaf Echo- Novembers Doom

Empathy’s Greed- Novembers Doom.

He was interested in heavy music. He put an unnamed Novembers Doom song behind his murder photos when he posted them on VK. Novembers Doom issued a statement after:

"It has been brought to our attention that a piece of our music was used in conjunction with the images posted from the horrible event that took place in Russia involving murder and then suicide by the individual himself. All of us in Novembers Doom feel absolutely terrible for everyone involved. To the families and friends of all involved, our utmost and sincere apologies for the pain you are going through and we as a collective hope you find the strength to get through this unfortunate event.

We DO NOT and would NEVER condone this sort of use for our art and our music. We create the style of music we do, to reach people on an emotional level, and the thought of it being used for something like this sickens us beyond words. Association of this sort is something a band would never ask for.

If you’re an individual struggling with your own thoughts, please seek the help you need before turning to this sort of extreme and senseless violence.

Be kind, be well.

With heavy hearts,

Novembers Doom."

On his VK, he also posted these lyrics:

"Every time I walk down the street

I want to kill half the people I meet

Crazy zombies just run

like sheep to the slaughter

They don't seem to understand

They dirty the world with their filthy hands

They like to just be led

And take what's given to them."

He may have been interested in My Little Pony, as he would have a profile picture of a My Little Pony character. He was also into video games. He was a fan of Silent Hill and Wolfenstien."His videos feature numerous gameplay clips of "Battlefield" and "GTA,"....". He also enjoyed sci-fi and novels. A girl he knew says, "We often discussed the reality or unreality of science fiction theories from books and films.". He attempted to get into philosophy, but found that it was common sense to him. "Andrei's college friends add that he was also interested in philosophy. But he later abandoned the works of the sages, claiming that their explanations and conclusions were too simplistic." He was said to often go on the computer, and he would converse with others online. He was also said to have not been the video game fanatic he appears to be in the media. He often wore bandanas and usually had longer then average hair. In college, he was studying radio engineering.

A 1.5 page text document was discovered on his computer, addressed to Artem, his brother. His hard drive, computer, second phone, and flash drive were taken by law enforcement. Saved files included online stores to buy weapons, and which he bought the Varan knife used in the murder. Artem has read the note and claims only a mentally ill man could write it, and that it did not sound like Andrey. It describes a dislike for the adult world, routine, 5/2 work weeks, and social order, basicallg life in general. "I'm off. I'm leaving the monitor and... (followed by a list of game accounts) to you. You can figure out the computer yourself. People are... (assholes), and humanity can't live in peace with itself.”

"According to 25-year-old Artem, who read the 1.5-page note, he couldn't believe it was written by his younger brother. He believed such a text could only have been written by someone with a serious mental disorder who had carefully concealed their illness for a long time.It's worth noting that the brothers lived separately from their parents, who divorced when Andrei was just one year old. The boy remained with his mother. Recently, the woman visited her sons only on weekends. She saw Andrei on Sunday, October 29th. There were no alarming signs in his behavior. According to Artem, on October 31st, the day before the tragedy, Andrey also behaved calmly. The brothers had dinner together, after which the younger one sat down to play computer games"

The Murder:

Around 1 pm on November 1st, 2017, Emelyannikov would enter Danilov's classroom. Supposedly while Danilov was facing away, Emelyannikov would slit his throat with a knife. He proceeded to stab Danilov multiple times before taking a selfie with his body. In the photo, Andrey smiles for it with a toothpick in his mouth. He proceeded to take multiple photos of the corpse and weapon. Andrey then went and took a photo with a circular saw near his shoulder. He posted the photos online on his VK account. He then proceeded to cut his own throat with the saw.

Andrey's backpack was seized by police, and inside was found a hatchet, a knife in a case, and several packages of Analgin and Citramon tablets. These tablets were in the family medical kit at home, used for headaches. It is said he likely carried these in his backpack often. It is said that Andrey brought his own circular saw, since the suicide was committed in the same room as the murder. Both parties' phones were taken and so was the circular saw that Andrey had used on himself. He was found dead under a desk by the teacher that discovered the scene, who taught special education. Many students saw the scene, but thought it was fake or mannequins.

Andrey and Danilov were not on good terms. Sergei Danilov was a war veteran who taught health and life safety classes at the college. He was a highly respected staff member and students admired him. Sergei was said to be a strict teacher, but he was very well liked by his students for that reason. "Sergei Danilov graduated from the Military Automobile Institute in 1996 with a degree in engineering. He worked at the college for six years, RIA Novosti reports ." "The deceased was a highly regarded teacher with the highest qualifications. He had attended continuing education courses. For example, in 2016, Danilov attended classes at the private cultural institution "Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center" as part of the course "Interactive Methods for Developing Students' Civic Identity 'I Am a Russian.'""

"“He was a good man who never failed you and was always there for you,” a student named Vladislav told Meduza. “He gave you a chance to make up work, correct your mistakes, and never cursed, well unless the class wouldn’t settle down. But apparently Emelyannikov disagreed with all that."

Before the incident, he skipped school for weeks straight and did not tell anyone. Danilov threatened him with expulsion.The night before the incident, He ate dinner with Artem. They spoke to eachother as normal and Artem went to bed, while Andrey went on the computer. Most likely, he was typing up his suicide note.

Weapons: “During the crime scene investigation, police seized a 31.5 cm long Varan camping knife, which Yemelyannikov used to commit the murder. A Ryobi circular saw with a 165 x 1.6 x 16 mm blade was also found in the college office, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports .Additionally, a hatchet and another similar knife in a sheath were found in the student who committed suicide. A lens box, two packages of analgin, and one package of citromon were also found in Yemelyannikov's belongings. All of these medications are commonly used for headaches, MK reports.”

Quotes:

""The only thing that made Andrei stand out from the others was that he was more intellectually developed, always slightly ahead of the others. True, he did skip classes sometimes," one of the teachers recounted."

" I can't believe someone like him could do this. Unfortunately, we only know each other online, so I can't say anything about it," " - A girl online.

One teacher told local media: "Intellectually, [Mr Emeliannikov] was always a little ahead of the others."

"Several students told Meduza that college administrators brought everyone in the school together on the evening of November 1 for a conversation with psychologists. “We discussed [the incident] with them, and our opinions, our feelings, and our ideas. After classes ended, we sat there talking for almost two hours,”"

"“Andrey often played computer games, but he wasn’t the fanatic that everyone is now making him out to be,” one of Emelyannikov’s friends told Meduza. The friend says he was a Sports Candidate Master in archery, and he loved to listen to music and ready science fiction."

"A friend of Emelyannikov’s brother told Meduza that Emelyannikov was a “decent, calm person.” “He loved science fiction, but it wasn’t the violence that attracted him — he didn’t really like violence,” he says."