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Failed Coping Mechanisms

@tifaria

Sarah. F, she/her, a Fandom Old. Art + whatever current media I'm into (Andor, Magnus Archives, OFMD, Umbrella Academy, Good Omens). No sideblogs, we chaotically cram our personal posts, aesthetic posts, and 800 hyperfixations into one blog like men My art tag| Support my art @ ko-fi

Not me crying over the "Good Night Oppy" documentary on Prime.

I logged in to watch Good Omens and got completely sidetracked and now I'm having emotions over robots and Space. Again.

They engineers keep calling Opportunity "my child" and I'm 😭

Oh no. Well. I guess I'll be spending part of tomorrow crying as well, because there's no way I'm not watching that.

Listen. They played music to the rovers every "morning" to wake them up because it's a tradition to wake astronauts up with music.

And the way their voices all wobbled when they thought Spirit was dead and she came back to life listening to ABBA.

"So when you're near me, darling Can't you hear me, S.O.S.? The love you gave me Nothing else can save me, S.O.S."

I AM UNWELL.

The grief when Spirit died. Ugh. My heart.

They keep talking about Opportunity like she's human. Like her front arm had "arthritis" and her wobbly wheels and "losing her memory," and how she'd go to sleep and forget everything she'd achieved before, all of her science data and how she was still their perfect child and kept going, I'm--

"We hadn't seen her in 14 years and there she was."

The sandstorm just hit and I'm not okay.

The final song they played to her was "I'll be seeing you" sung by Billie Holiday which ends:

"I'll find you In the morning sun And when the night is new I'll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you"

"Good night, Opportunity. Well done" 😭😭😭😭

Oh man 100/10. Ripped my heart out my chest and put it back in with faith in humanity restored. Fuck I love space robots and the humans who build them.

This clip is from their 2019 live show, a slightly-canon look at everyone's first day working in the Archives! and uh…..nothing bad happens to anyone after this XD

thanks for watching my romantic fluff, I think my next TMA project will be something creepy 🌀🚪.

Drawn in storyboard pro with the charcoal brush from this pack: https://rozlynnwaltz.gumroad.com/l/SBProBrushesStarterPack

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We've been losing power due to winter storms lately so my partner 3D printed me a tealight "to fill in for tumblr when you're offline"

anyway this should be official merch imo

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If you're wondering why I will not leave this site and why I love it so much: after this went around, I got a message from Tumblr asking if they could make it official merch and then they did. It went live yesterday I think, and it's even prettier and better than this original design (they definitely put work into it which was very exciting).

But I want to say something else. They asked for suggestions on where to get these made, and I gave them the names of a few mass production companies, but I also gave them the name of my small local guys. I didn't expect them to go there, it's probably more expensive to use a smaller local shop, but I know it would mean more to them. And I was immediately told they'd check in with them, and then that's just what happened.

They went with my little guys.

So if you're wondering about the price, it's because Tumblr staff just... Listened and cared. They listened to the people who said they wanted one of these, and then they not only asked me but listened to the answer when I suggested supporting a business local to me. That's invaluable to me.