a voiceless mass of ultimate moral victims

now you should call me medha. adult, savarna ex-hindu, tme. live in the they/them zone. atheist. leftcom. fuck copyright. year of the linux desktop since 2009. bad at video games but good at robots. tshirt that says i want to have sex with industrial machinery.

[nyantara]

its really nice to be back

there will be more #fandom #sportsblogging #rpf and #haterism than before that were previously cordoned off to their own blogs. content purged irregularly.

you will not call me desi or a person of colour.

ko-fi

[redshift-13]

Most people across 36 countries have negative views of Israel and little confidence in Netanyahu

Majorities in most of the countries we surveyed express an unfavorable view of Israel and little or no confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin

[catilinas]

Deepest and most extensive whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean

Some remains found in Diamantina fracture zone date back more than 5m years and reveal species and ecosystems unknown to science

“Finding a ‘whale necropolis’ where there are nearly 800 skeletons per square kilometre is a surprise, and the mix of whale types is a puzzle,” Copley said, noting that it included some shallow-diving filter-feeding species such as Minke whales as well as many bones and fossils of beaked whales, which are very deep-diving hunters.

[theside-b]

[3liza]

[kaiasky]

I think China deserves to take a crack at Doctor Who

[judgeitbyitscover]

Southern Reach series (10th Anniversary Editions) by Jeff VanderMeer

Cover art by Pablo Delcan

MacMillan, 2014-2024

Annihilation (2014)

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything

Authority (2014)

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.

John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.

In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.

Acceptance (2014)

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.

Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X—what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?

In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.

Absolution (2024)

When the Southern Reach Trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestsellers list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.

And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast—before Area X was called Area X—had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time

[filmphotofranz]

[filmphotofranz]

Incredible new 2026 queer romance: gay-in-denial husband, ftm detrans wife

[queermasculine]

im not above eating some low hanging fruit like if theres low hanging fruit i might eat some

[nyantara]

kind of funny that people think ideologies are tested for evolutionary fitness, like secular liberalism or whatever will die because liberals don't have as many children as religious folk. ideological reproduction happens through the culture, not only literal reproduction from parent to child. there's also the living experience of being born in a religious family, which is often its own permanent inoculation into atheism.

[girljeremystrong]

"Yes, praise be to the underdogs and those who worship in the church of slim chances. I haven’t fully let go of the childlike simplicity that pulls me away from the odds and whispers to my most cynical corners that anyone, anywhere can win."

There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

[captainjonnitkessler]

Today at work a couple of apprentices were rotating rows of solar panels and unwittingly turned one row directly into a couple of metal posts that had been driven into the ground, shattering two panels.

And on the one hand I feel really bad for them, because they were clearly really upset and they kept apologizing even though it wasn't really their fault. (Who the fuck puts metal posts underneath a rotating solar panel?!)

On the other hand, I kind of can't stop laughing. They were so distraught! God, what must have gone through their minds when they heard the first crunch. This is SUCH a classic apprentice scenario, everyone in the trades has been there. Congrats on your rite of passage kiddos, you're gonna be telling this story to your apprentices one day

[captainjonnitkessler]

POV: You're about to have a really unfortunate conversation with your foreman

[andmaybegayer]

Solarkatastrophe

[nyantara]

were you a preemie

no, i almost was when there was a severe crisis but they headed it off. they waited till they hit the 37th week, gave some steroids for my lungs and induced labour for my mom. she didn't want to have a c section because of the infection risks / recovery time so i was born normally too.

[nyantara]

when i was about to be born my mom had been chained to the hospital ward for a month and discouraged from seeing visitors because laughing made her blood pressure too high... wait im assigning this as the new explanatory pseudoscience for my depression

[nyantara]

pre-eclampsia hospitalisation is now an epigenetic factor for depression ✅️

[rongzhi]

Trying on clothes at Muji

English added by me :)

[nyantara]

when i was about to be born my mom had been chained to the hospital ward for a month and discouraged from seeing visitors because laughing made her blood pressure too high... wait im assigning this as the new explanatory pseudoscience for my depression

[nyantara]

where's that post about uniqlo doing comrade mao clothing...

[geryone]

Are You There, Samantha Fain