#as are interstellars black hole and the beach in contact (willing to bet that contact explictly inspired interstellar though. Look at it.)

[planet4546b]

list of fucked up places that are the same to me and are also my best friends:

the zone roadside picnic

area x annihilation

the black hole interstellar

the beach at the end of contact (book, ive never seen the movie)

piranesi’s imaginary prisons

the pale disco elysium

most of the cities in invisible cities italo calvino

the zero kentucky route zero

constant's new babylon

the forest at the end of outer wilds

the titular mar internum in mar internum

the cave in caver ted

#pers #might add more when i think of them. #idk if you want me to write up a description itd be like. places that are incomprehensible + indescribable and draw into question #incredibly human aspects of the characters that experience them. you know what i mean?? #theyre not haunted places (notably almost all of these are natural spaces) but theyre places that haunt you. or something #some of thse are more closely linked than others. the zone and area x are besties even if vandermeer wasnt writing #in response to roadside picnic which hes explicitly said those two are in conversation with each other #as are interstellars black hole and the beach in contact (willing to bet that contact explictly inspired interstellar though. Look at it.) #the prisons cities and new babylon are the only built spaces and all of them are explictily impossible spaces #and make you think about them as representational spaces as a result if that makes sense #also imo almost all of these could be classified as caves. metaphoricall #also yes the garden counts (why do you think i love her so much) but shes not. well. uh. well written. #and also yes theres one of my own in s/n. hence why im thinking of it bc ive been rolling around some ideas about the synapse so