#Area X

[linseedling]

A post compiling my Southern Reach fanart thus far because I just read the fourth book in the series and I feel like there might be more fanart incoming...

[raideoarts]

"Is there something in the corner of your eye that you cannot get out?"

[12thbiologist]

what can you do when your five senses are not enough? ... what occurs after revelation and paralysis?

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

[localcryptidartwork]

I’m a fourth generation Floridian. I’ve been watching my beautiful home get destroyed piece by piece. The Southern Reach series feels like a haunting love letter I could never put into my own words.

[orbgoo]

THISTLEKEEPER.

An annihilation fan comic.

Many miles into Area X, within a lighthouse’s hidden chamber, a journal lies at the bottom of a pile of many thousands just like it. It’s all that remains of a forgotten expedition. What follows is an account of the information contained in those water-stained, molding pages. Five lives, and the thistles that buried them. This is the story of the Thistlekeeper.

next: x

[southern-reach]

boss makes a dollar i make a dime that’s why i put dead mice and plants in desk cabinets on company time

[dandunn]

If you saw it, you would have run as far away from that place as you could.

Goodbye. Fucking old man. Stupid fucking old man.

[gatorbytes]

[wester-nesse]

Woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming this meme.

[thinkanamelater]

Well why are you wasting her time making her repeat herself then?? 🤨

(Panel 1

Ghost Bird: There it is

Panel 2

Ghost Bird: The lighthouse that makes you gay

Panel 4:

Control: WHAT

Ghost Bird: The lighthouse that m

Control: I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME)

Bonus the lighthouse that makes you gay itself:

[versatilemess]

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

— 📚Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer // 🎞 Annihilation, Alex Garland (2018)

Trying to read more fiction and the Autism and Queerness and Transcendent nature of these books truly has me in a chokehold. Like there’s something so liberating in The Weird, the eco and the body horror, the undefinable, The transcendent nature of area x ugh

[linseedling]

I've finished my re-read of the Southern Reach series and it has only confirmed that Authority is my favorite of the series and Whitby is my favorite character.

He's so relatable...who among us has not cried in the office supply closet and strangled your own doppelgänger with your bare hands...

[wazagh]

Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer

Cover art by Pablo Delcan

[12thbiologist]

interesting note about the chapter breaks in authority, the 4 parts of the book each do chaptering differently.

in part one (incantations) all chaptering is done in the traditional way:

the page before has white space and the new chapter begins on the next.

in part two (rites), chapters start beginning without white space:

the chapter title just marks the change without a break in the text. there are still traditional chapter breaks, though

in part three (hauntings) it switches to be exclusively the second kind of chapter break and now every chapter is just a continuous stretch of prose without white space to break between them.

in part four (afterlife), chapters are gone.

very interesting! what does this mean? i don't know. im guessing it shows the ways control is losing control over his life and therefore over the structure of the narrative as well

[the-ghost-bird]

You like Annihilation in a "ooo creepy wilderness" way, I like Annihilation in a neurodivergent "I can relate to the biologist and I would also feel a weird sense of belonging in Area X and then proceed to be found in a parking lot" way

[perigilpin]

“It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.”

Jeff VanderMeer, Authority