#authority by jeff vandermeer

[likopinina]

death stranding + authority

[virgogonegirl]

So far Authority is so vastly different from Annihilation but I feel like it works. It still is very much in the same world and it is continuing the story just from a different perspective.

Yeah there isn’t as much fucked up swamp/forest lands, however there is something so delicious about things being fucked up underneath the surface and the character knows it and the audience knows it but the character doesn’t see how much they themselves are changing and being changed by it. Why the hell does Control keep smelling rotten honey? why does he not think anything of it? Those are the questions that we are going to get answered.

[autumnbell32]

“…the story that anchored Control as a kid soon revealed as just a brief moment set against a landscape of unhappiness. Not unique: the kind of depressingly familiar painting you’d find in a seaside antique store but never buy.”

-from, “Authority,” by Jeff Vandermeer

[deermouth]

Scavengers Reign (Joseph Bennett, Charles Huettner, 2023) // The Southern Reach Trilogy, from Authority and Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer, 2014)

[12thbiologist]

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

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

[greatlakesrebel]

I finished the southern reach trilogy can you tell

[petitedeath]

I started this drawing and it was fine in just ink. And the it was fine when I water colored it but then I accidentally ruined it. And just kept going. Oh well. I combined it with some experiments I did with paint pouring and peeling.

I finished reading authority last week and just loved the concept of the mouse/plant in the drawer and the concept of terroir. I'll have to try drawing it again.

[erythriina]

my dealer: got some straight gas this strain is called ‘the southern reach’ youll be zonked out of your gourd beyond what any man can bear, but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit

me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw a rift in reality in the tunnel tower

my buddy Control, pacing: The Voice is lying to us

[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

[littledeadling]

I know it’s not the lunar new year yet for a while, but all this rabbit talk has got me thinking about Southern Reach again 💛

[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

[gorgynei]

has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

[perigilpin]

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

Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

[mountainmagpie]

Begging HBO Max and the creators of Scavengers Reign to make an adaptation of the Southern Reach trilogy.

[slabmangrave]

Members of the Twelfth Expedition/Southern Reach Personnel

[toytulini]

Americans will measure in anything but the metric system