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The Ghostbird and The Biologist

“I am a copy, John. But not a perfect one. I’m not her. She’s not me. Do you know what I’d say if I came face-to-face with her?”

“What?”

“I’d tell her, ‘You made a lot of fucking mistakes. You made a lot of mistakes, and yet I love you. You’re a mess and a revelation, but I can’t be any of that. All I can do is work out things myself.’ And then, knowing her, she’d probably look at me funny and take a tissue sample from me.”

#digital art #illustrators on tumblr #illustration #southern reach #the southern reach #annihilation #authority #acceptation #ghost bird #jeff vandermeer #area x #the biologist #sher art

you prefer this place, you really do, don’t you?

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guys do you wanna hit up the wetlands after work its 98 F there are bugs and only 45 minutes of daylight left and a storm is brewing - the limpkin

#woodsydraws #I became the modern day equivalent of the first people on the moon and all I got was turned into a fucking velvet ant - the surveyor probs #I don't know who ghost bird is talking to but she knows everyone i refuse to believe otherwise #la la la la spreading my brainworms I love lowry and his garifle and ghost biiiird la la la la #southern reach #the southern reach #jeff vandermeer #james lowry #ghost bird #annihilation

control would do numbers on tumblr hes so shaking scared crying pathetic man resistant to the change growing inside him and taking over so smoothly he cant do anything about it. and hes even infatuated with someone whos only a copy of a real woman and might not be made of human flesh at all and also has more important things to do and thinks hes lame and boring and his mind is too small to grasp area x

#puddle talks #acceptance #southern reach trilogy #area x #jeff vandermeer #the southern reach #southern reach #authority #ghost bird #the biologist #john rodriguez

obsessed with the fact that Ghost Bird, doppleganger created by alien entity Area X, is somehow better suited to interacting with/forming relationships with humans than the Biologist was

there's something to the fact that the Biologist ends up this massive, alien creature, while Ghost Bird ends up walking out of Area X seemingly human

what if you had an alien copy but somehow that copy was better at being human than you were

#obsessed with the differences between them actually #ghost bird #the biologist #the southern reach #southern reach

they are filled with pristine wilderness

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I've only very recently finished the original trilogy, but the scene in Acceptance at the decommissioned lighthouse where Control has a panic attack/mental breakdown/existential crisis about everything and Ghost Bird comforts him is probably honestly one of my favorite scenes in the whole trilogy. Idk quite how to properly articulate it, but it feels like the world and circumstances of these books tries so hard all the time to totally dehumanize the characters, the people, and so this scene just stands out as so so beautifully human to me

There're definitely more scenes that stand out to me for the same reason, ones from Saul's or Gloria's/The Director's povs. But idk, there's just something about this moment that - in a story full of so much mystery and cosmic horror - is so incredibly sweet and impactful to me, I love it

I won’t assist in charting my own pathology. I am not the biologist.

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