Southern Reach Trilogy - Tumblr Posts
this sucks so bad i need to (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) join an expedition into Area X
characters from the Southern Reach trilogy 🌿🌀 (i know its not everyone, just my favourites for now)
and the wall was soft and breathing under the touch of his hand.
"The Biologist"
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Digital collage made in GIMP. Inspired by The Biologist from "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with stock images from pexels.com.
Annihilation was such an experience. the book was beautiful in the most powerful meaning of that word. It was beautiful.
It was so unnerving too. I have a fear of body horror as well as mold/fungus/sprouting/growth unease, i cant stand being near a fuzzy fruiting body. It icks me, and yet it was so worth it to endure for the book. It was so well crafted, it was such an amazing experience. I think it was the deepest way a piece of literature has touched me yet. Its a love letter to nature with an apology of how we ruined it embedded in it’s center.
The movie was awesome but the book is so so much better. Its everything you could possibly want. I cried when i finished it because i knew that i would never be able to experience it for the first time again (of course if i werent to sustain some concerning brain damage but still tho just how hard do u have to knock me over the head to knock this piece of work that rewired my soul out my being?? I think ever if i were to loose all recollection of reading the book there would still be pathways that my neurons formed around it, id still know a part of it somehow. u would have go thru some real sci fi shit to remove all the growth my cells have gone through after finishing consuming such a media) . Its just shmactaculous, truly honestly surreal
I wanna talk and talk about this and im stooped that theres such a small following around this!! like kumon theres a bigger fandom for my immortal and not this jaw dropping-knee buckling-mouthwatering-brain altering-heart smackening piece of work??! please if youre even a smidge bit interested go check out Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
(either the movie or the book, cause if theres any intent the movie will become a highway to the book trilogy (absolutely not speaking from experience))
Also if you could i actively suggest avoiding the movie before reading the first book, theres a few spoils and it sets your mind to where you think the story will go and it will ruin a lot of the craftsmanship which goes into the setting and creating the story, plus the movie has like 20% of the content the book has, its very watered down and as good as it is it can never compare to the book
favorite reads of 2022: annihilation by jeff vandermeer
"we were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination."