pain. agony Even

imagine a 38 year old man so cringe he keeps you up at night (southern reach series side blog)

[pristine-wilderness]

southern reach series side blog | 28 | any pronouns idc

tags of note:

#words from beyond the border -> catch all tag for my thoughts

character tags: structured "firstname lastname" when possible. if not (ex: only first name is known/name is unknown) their work title is used instead (ex: the director/the psychologist/the biologist)

I ❤️ writing all my thoughts in the tags

i'm making up the rest as i go. i don't know.

[stjohnstarling]

No… not the serum *I start slowly and horribly transforming into an unspoiled wetland*

[tpwrtrmnky]

Sometimes "estrogen would save her" means literally just going on HRT would resolve her issues, but other times it means "a radical act of self-determination would reframe so much of how she views herself and the world around her, she'd come out of it a changed, better person. But also she's a girl and needs to realize that."

[scarletlotus182]

Finished Southern Reach trilogy. Give Control estrogen and KILL JACK SEVERANCE

[infinitely-cute]

[wsdalt]

reading the latter three southern reach books like why is Whitby driving the bus

[baleful-meat-worm]

there is no way whitby would be that artistically inclined but i wanted an excuse to draw yucky hare control

[beguilingcorpse]

obviously other things are also happening but it is a very funny tonal jump to go from annihilation’s “you are becoming a part of this hostile landscape. you are participating in a transformation to which you cannot consent. the biological processes you’ve devoted your life to studying are going to consume you. when you signed up for this suicide mission you must have known you were never going to leave this place the same way you entered it. how much of you is still human? how much of you ever was?” to authority’s “guy with mommy issues engages in passive aggressive corporate power play”

[woodsywarbler]

hey guys, check out my mural #mymural :)

[pristine-wilderness]

my current fav part of establishing this blog has been getting notifications on my Lowry posts

[possessable]

this line from Absolution has become a staple of my vocabulary ever since i read it btw . i frequently say i'm "dissociative and unhinged" and it's a mutation of this phrase

who up dissociative and unhinged. she unhinged on my dissociative till i strange

[trawl]

aita for trying to liven up my workspace

i (late 30s, m) have been conducting an arts project in the crawlspace of my work, but my boss doesn't seem to appreciate the drawings of my coworkers as animals i've been doing. he says it is "scary" and "weird". i think it's a fun way to bring everybody together. i'm pretty sure he's avoiding me because i stroked his neck, which i get was maybe misinterpreted, but he hasn't said anything else about it. am i going to get fired? was i in the wrong?

[trawl]

[crowshuh]

🐇🔬📡

this was a fun drawing to do bc i did this same thing with another man and his cat (caleb critical role) like 5yrs ago so its kind of crazy getting to compare these side by side. i think I had only just started using procreate too...#crazy :]

[seobot]

[pristine-wilderness]

[aldercaps]

Part one of my annihilation fanzine, "strangling fruit"! We had to make a zine for an assignment and I had so much fun collaging imagery to go with this monologue

[longlivethewindandthewaves-deac]

"gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss": Southern Reach edition

[dysfunctionalcreature]

taking John Control Rodriguez and putting him in a metal tin with a bunch of marbles and violently shaking it as a way to express my deep love and affection and pity for him as a character

I love him so much and his ending upset me so much when I first got to it buuut at the same time to me he is absolutely at his most endearing when he's just absolutely miserable and suffering sooooo *aggressive metallic, marble shaking sounds*