#the biologist southern reach

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR'S NEXT TOP GENDER, ROUND ONE MATCH SIXTEEN: Edward Hyde (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) vs. The Biologist (Southern Reach)

PROPAGANDA FOR EDWARD:

"Simultaneously a toxically hypermasculine hairy cunt AND a bitchy effeminate dandy. Literally indescribably uncanny. Ugly as fuck but implied to suck and fuck men all night every night. Needs cocaine to exist. How is that not a gender?"

PROPAGANDA FOR THE BIOLOGIST:

"Let’s see: a buff, severely autistic, stone-faced Asian-American environmental scientist that likes bugs more than people and can and will beat the shit out of you IS already a gender in and on itself… but if that doesn’t convince you already, I have to inform you that (SPOILERS FOR THE AREA X TRILOGY) she turns into a many-eyed interdimensional whale monster. Btw."

[azu-mog]

Is it a tower ? Is it a tunnel ? Up or down, the path only lead forward, toward enlightenment. 🍀🧬

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[ehlihr]

A biologist

[12thbiologist]

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

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

[gorgynei]

whenever i think about how the biologist's husband thought she was having an affair i have to laugh. sorry dude she really does just care more about an empty lot

[onlysoftly]

okay but what if - and hang with me here - you left me to go explore an incomprehensible landscape and what if you returned to me, a shell of yourself before dying, and what if i followed you into that landscape, for all but you, for only my own selfish reasons, and what if i saw you there, in the eye of a dolphin, and what if i, on and island, found you there as and owl and what if i fed you mice and you caught me rabbits, and what if, after thirty years, i discovered you there, dead, in the forest. what then? what would i be to say? that i did not miss you?

[halothanic]

the biologist, 20XX

"the biologist’s hair had been long and dark brown, almost black (…) she had dark, thick eyebrows, green eyes, a slight, slightly off-center nose (broken once, falling on rocks), and high cheekbones that spoke to the strong asian heritage on one side of her family. her chapped lips were surprisingly full for such a thin frown (…) even sitting down at the table, she somehow projected a sense of being physically strong, with a ridge of thick muscle where her neck met her shoulders."

there is no official art of the biologist from the southern reach trilogy, so i quick whipped up my own for the character inspiration meme i did! above is her physical description from the second book.

to me, she is one of the best written characters in any media i've consumed. one of my all-time favorites, undoubtedly. the southern reach trilogy is one of the best things i've ever read too, i encourage it for anyone that hasn't. it's probably my biggest inspiration, as well!

background is eric nyquist's inside cover artwork, just stunning. i thought it fit the symmetry theme of her portrait.

[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

[lokiwaffles]

First draft for a Biologist design.

She is in the brain alwayssss

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[sonyathesnailll]

babygirl who's a 40+ yo woman who's also an eldritch horror

[erythriina]

I think if you put Piranesi into Area X he would wander off in a joyful daze of natural beauty and happily become an entire flock of birds in less than 24 hours, but if you put the Biologist into the House she would immediately start having the worst time humanly possible. Yes they are both scientists, yes they both have their names stolen from them, but in the end the Biologist simply does not have the connection to + awareness of herself/her place in the story to survive in the House without losing her mind; while Piranesi spends his entire book overjoyed to be the House’s blessed child, the Biologist spends her entire book doing her damndest to tell her own story without having to be in it

[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

[azu-mog]

It took quite a while but it’s finally done ! Again, still the biologist, still the owl husband, but I like them ! Also featuring the hand mushrooms, the four beasts of the new covers, books everywhere, starfishes everywhere and our weird lighthouse lens.

[possessable]

rest in pieace the 12th expedition you should've gotten to play minecraft together

[12thbiologist]

skimmed through annihilation again and was reminded of when the biologist stumbled around pissed off and drunk through the tide pools when she was feeling lonely during her research project. shes so funny

[gorgynei]

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