#Area X

[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...

[12thbiologist]

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

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

[raideoarts]

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

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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

[bu4ch]

[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...

[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

[scaryvampirelady]

the charm of control rodriguez is not in that he's a nepo baby, it's that he's a nepo baby in an extremely unique and highly sought after position and he just fucking sucks so bad at it

[raideoarts]

June 2024 daily drawing 10/30

The Biologist

And a version without the text and scribbles and then a cleaner lineart version bc I liked how it came out but it got kinda covered up

[wazagh]

Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer

Cover art by Pablo Delcan