Definitions by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary is the name given to the ship between Simon from Iron Lung and Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary.
The crossover ship came about due to both films releasing around the same time, as well as both being sci-fi films. Fans thought that since both Simon and Grace are traveling through space, there is a chance that they may come across one another. There are also not that many characters to ship Simon with in Iron Lung and fans needed to reach out to other media for ideas. The ship quickly took off with it gaining more traction in the month following its creation, with it often trending on tumblr as a result.
Due to Markiplier, who was the writer, editor and director for Iron Lung, being online very often, the prominence of the ship on tumblr has had fans point out that he could very easily find out about it. Some fans think it would be funny, and want him to find out, while other would prefer to keep the crossover ship just to fans. Especially those that think Markiplier might get a little bit too into finding out people ship him with Ryan Gosling.
On AO3, BloodyMary is the fifth most written ship for Ryland and the most written for Simon. It is the fifth most written ship in the Project Hail Mary (2026) tag and the most written in the Iron Lung (2026) tag. There are currently 320+ written works.
The crossover ship came about due to both films releasing around the same time, as well as both being sci-fi films. Fans thought that since both Simon and Grace are traveling through space, there is a chance that they may come across one another. There are also not that many characters to ship Simon with in Iron Lung and fans needed to reach out to other media for ideas. The ship quickly took off with it gaining more traction in the month following its creation, with it often trending on tumblr as a result.
Due to Markiplier, who was the writer, editor and director for Iron Lung, being online very often, the prominence of the ship on tumblr has had fans point out that he could very easily find out about it. Some fans think it would be funny, and want him to find out, while other would prefer to keep the crossover ship just to fans. Especially those that think Markiplier might get a little bit too into finding out people ship him with Ryan Gosling.
On AO3, BloodyMary is the fifth most written ship for Ryland and the most written for Simon. It is the fifth most written ship in the Project Hail Mary (2026) tag and the most written in the Iron Lung (2026) tag. There are currently 320+ written works.
Person 1: Man, I love Bloody Mary
Person 2: Oh, the drink?
Person 1: No, the ship between Ryland Grace and Simon from Iron Lung
Person 2:
Person 1:
Person 2:
Person 1:
Person 2: What the actual fuck
Person 2: Oh, the drink?
Person 1: No, the ship between Ryland Grace and Simon from Iron Lung
Person 2:
Person 1:
Person 2:
Person 1:
Person 2: What the actual fuck
Bloody Mary by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink June 3, 2026
Scientology Speedrun
A 2026 trend in which a group of people break into the Scientology headquarters and try to make it the farthest into the building as they can before being forcefully removed by security. The trend has become so widespread that the door handles on the outside doors of the Scientology building have been removed in an attempt to prevent people entering
Scientology Speedrun by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink April 28, 2026
Rule 35
“If no porn is found of it, it will be made". This acts as a corollary to the more famous Rule 34 ("If it exists, there is porn of it"), implying that any missing content will eventually be created by users.
Overlaps with Rule 36: ‘There will always be more fucked up shit than what you just saw’, and potentially Rule 63: ‘For every given male character, there is a female version of that character and vice versa’ but not always
Overlaps with Rule 36: ‘There will always be more fucked up shit than what you just saw’, and potentially Rule 63: ‘For every given male character, there is a female version of that character and vice versa’ but not always
Person 1: Finally, I’ve found something Rule 34 doesn’t apply to!
Person 2: Not according to Rule 35, you didn’t
Person 2: Not according to Rule 35, you didn’t
Rule 35 by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 25, 2026
Great YouTube Outage
An event that took place on February 17th/18th, 2026, in which YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music went down for around half a million users.
Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube from 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the 17th (1 a.m. on Wednesday 18th in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site Downdetector. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.
Around 10 p.m. EST (17/2/2026) equivalent to 3 a.m UTC (18/2/2026), YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.
The event is named for the volume of users who the platform went down for.
Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube from 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the 17th (1 a.m. on Wednesday 18th in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site Downdetector. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.
Around 10 p.m. EST (17/2/2026) equivalent to 3 a.m UTC (18/2/2026), YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.
The event is named for the volume of users who the platform went down for.
Great YouTube Outage by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 18, 2026
1000xResist
A video game created by developer Sunset Visitor and published by Fellow Traveller Games for Windows on May 9th, 2024 and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 4th, 2025.
The player is a clone named Watcher in a post-apocalyptic far future where an alien race known as the Occupants have eradicated most of humanity through a global pandemic, leaving only a small society of clones behind. These clones worship Iris Kwan, known to them as the Allmother, as their god, as Iris is the only person in the world to be immune to the Occupants’ disease.
On the whole, the game is full of generational trauma, doomed yuri and lesbians. And it’s fucking amazing.
The player is a clone named Watcher in a post-apocalyptic far future where an alien race known as the Occupants have eradicated most of humanity through a global pandemic, leaving only a small society of clones behind. These clones worship Iris Kwan, known to them as the Allmother, as their god, as Iris is the only person in the world to be immune to the Occupants’ disease.
On the whole, the game is full of generational trauma, doomed yuri and lesbians. And it’s fucking amazing.
Person 1: Hekki grace!
Person 2: Hekki.
Person 3: What the fuck is ‘Hekki’?
Person 1: Play 1000xResist and then you’ll understand
(14 hours later)
Person 3: I see now
Person 2: Hekki.
Person 3: What the fuck is ‘Hekki’?
Person 1: Play 1000xResist and then you’ll understand
(14 hours later)
Person 3: I see now
1000xResist by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 16, 2026
VTVL
An acronym for ‘Vertical takeoff, vertical landing’, a form of takeoff and landing for rockets. Multiple VTVL craft have flown. A notable VTVL vehicle was the Apollo Lunar Module which delivered the first humans to the Moon. Building on the decades of development, SpaceX utilised the VTVL concept for its flagship Falcon 9 first stage, which has delivered over five hundred successful powered landings so far.
Person 1: Yo, the Falcon 9 recovery is so cool
Person 2: It’s called VTVL
Person 1: Shut up you fucking nerd
Person 2: It’s called VTVL
Person 1: Shut up you fucking nerd
VTVL by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 12, 2026
The Maryland Point
The point at which a flag which initially looks ugly morphs into becoming beautiful. Most commonly seen with the flag of the US state of Maryland, from which the term takes its name
The flag of British Columbia, boy is it a gong show. But it manages to cross the Maryland Point where ugly becomes awesome
The Maryland Point by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink January 25, 2026