noahfromthesea

[noahfromthesea]

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

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#omg! #amazing

[noahfromthesea]

You’ll never get to explore a patch of gulf coast being over taken by an alien presence.

You’ll never be able to find a tower burrowing down into the earth, spiraling ever deeper.

You’ll never be known only by your professional field, and spend relative years holding off alien transformation so you can spend time with your owl husband.

#sad

[noahfromthesea]

behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

#wooow

[noahfromthesea]

I just got into the southern reach trilogy. Have listened to the audiobook of the first book and have now started actually reading it. But anyway, I had a thought. (May contain typos and non sensical statememts written at 00h30

The moaning creature is described in a later book at looking boar-like, right? And we know the Psychologist is able to hyponotise the others into seeing the abnormal things as normal.

When the boar attacks, the phrases 'it's face becoming stranger and stranger... inner torment... its head pulled willfully to the left... great cry of anguish'

And with the moaning creature:

This close the sound was more guttural, filled with confused anguish and rage

...

It was coming so fast, too fast. I could tell I wasn’t going to make it, couldn’t possibly make it, not at that angle... But then the way was clear, and from almost right behind I heard a high keening, and the feeling of the space, the air, suddenly filled, and the sound of something massive trying to brake, trying to change direction, and being pulled into the reeds on the opposite side of the trail by its own momentum.

But anyway, I'm wondering if the boar was maybe the moaning creature but they just couldn't *tell* it was the moaning creature because of prior hypnosis (i know the Psychologist didn't have time during the charge to hypnotise, but surely they had been hypnotised to see things as normal before that? After all, the biologist see the tower as stone until she gets the spores in her face.)

And, if the boar and the moaning creatuee are the same, whether it wasn't her brightness that allowed her to escape the moaning creature but rather it was whatever had caused the 'boar' to veer aside. Just, the imagery of the charges seem so similar to me.

OOH FASCINATING!!!! i have not seen this idea posed anywhere else but i really love it and i think it fits well. the moaning creature is not described as looking boar-like (the biologist never actually sees it), but i dont think that makes this any less viable. the vibes feel EXTREMELY similiar!!

its important to remember that before the biologist is exposed to the brightness, all of her narration and thoughts are completely unreliable and change at the whims of the psychologist. the psychologist can also give commands that are completely forgotten, but still followed. there are a couple times where the biologist thinks things that are completely out of character for her, so its evidence of the psychologist's tampering. i think the situation with the boar could be one of these times! the biologist thinks:

"There was no time for the psychologist to prepare any hypnotic suggestion designed to keep us focused and in control; in fact all she could offer was 'Don't get close to it! Don't let it touch you!'"

which is odd, to me, since it makes it seem like the biologist wanted to be hypnotically suggested AND its just wrong! the psychologist had plenty of time to suggest, the boar was coming towards them for long enough that the anthropologist started giggling. so probably a minute, at least. the psychologist suggests more complicated commands in less time later in the book, and she has no reason to assume it would take longer. so why is the biologist thinking of this?

maybe because the psychologist DID suggest to them, but didnt want them to catch onto the danger of what it actually is and especially didnt want them to open fire and anger it! i'd imagine the command was something like "You see a boar in front of you. You are too afraid to fire any weapons and are intimidated by it. You wish I had commanded you to focus. You won't remember any of this," or something. the psychologist may have had reasons to believe the moaning creature was extremely dangerous/infectious, so she probably wanted to avoid a real combat with it!

as for why the boar veers to the side and why the biologist is able to escape the moaning creature... i'm not sure! what the boar is experiencing sounds a lot like the brightness:

"Inner torment ... I had the startling impression of some presence in the way the gaze seemed turned inward ... A kind of electricity sparked in it's eyes that I could not credit as real."

the moaning creature, presumably, is the transformed form of the man the biologist finds in nasty shell form later on. maybe he was still in the beginning his transformation here (under the boar vision), so he has enough sense to veer away from an expedition team? but thats really just a guess.

i absolutely love this, 100% incorporating it into my canon of the story now. really really good find!!!! welcome to the southern reach fandom, you already found something awesome \o/ !

edit: aha! i was wrong! the moaning creature IS described as looking hog-like, in acceptance! i'll admit, its been a while since i read acceptance so i totally forgot about that. adds even more credence to this!

#wow very interesting

[noahfromthesea]

He smelled like a cleaned bathroom--vaguely of crushed pine needles and aerosolized lemon-peel, with the subconscious knowledge that it was only a matter of time before the smell of bodies and sweat covered him.

[noahfromthesea]

petition to keep calling it the southern reach trilogy even though it has 4 books now. just like how theres only been "12 expeditions" there are only "3 books" in the southern reach series

#my thoughts exactly #keep calling it a trilogy is canon #with the expeditions and all

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Because of the excitement of the new release, I am making something rn, so wip time :

#thats amazing #area x

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PAUSE. did you know there are promotional in universe area x videos. recordings from the southern reach. oh my god

#wow i didnt know !

[noahfromthesea]

do you ever just

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Total eclipse of the Bun 🌑✨

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Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada by Marian Dragiev

[noahfromthesea]

Wanted to paint Teo (from The Sunbearer Trials) with his badass top surgery scars soaking up some sun on his wings, since he has Jade blood I tried having some fun incorporating it :)

#beautiful

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Post like you're from ponyville

[noahfromthesea]

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

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

#beautiful

[noahfromthesea]

It’s been 14 years

...since I watched it, and I’m still haunted by the amazingness of Unfinished Business (BSG 03 x 09).

In my view, that was the climax episode, and the series could have ended right there.

I’m a goner for writing (and acting) which combines chemistry, sexual tension, release, and a sequence of flashbacks. Fantastic script. One of my favorite episodes of any show. Ever.

#yes that episode is amazing #there is so much about it

[noahfromthesea]

The Rite of Spring : Glorification of the Chosen One

#a crossover i didnt know i wanted

[noahfromthesea]

The starpollo brainrot is killing me. I finished the show almost a week ago and I can’t stop thinking about them🫠

Anyways first edit ever?!??

#good luck with the brainrot #its been ailing me for decades