May 31
"I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things." Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow (1957)
"...when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.” Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (2014)
#the pacific#hbo war#john basilone#sci names below the cut#so if you wanna hear the great big meta on this piece i started writing a fic years ago that attempted to merge-#-the biology-scifi-body-horror of Annihilation and the wild bleakness and tropical vibrance of The Pacific#i still think they would make a great crossover. A parallel that might have influenced this was JJ Abrams's Overlord (2018)#which crosses zombies and D-day in this sorta gothic romantic aesthetic. if im remembering correctly#well i never got more than one chapter into the fic and it still lays very scarily in my google drive#another thing. oarfish have been rent free for me ever since i saw my first specimen when I was very little. ever since I feel as if-#-i have been followed by oarfish? like in the sense that I keep seeing them even though they're pretty rare to be able to see#fun facts: both the bat and the crow are native to Guadalcanal and not found anywhere else. guess what they're called???#i must have spent at least twenty-four hours on this piece over a month of work.#this is my magnum opus rn#i go to sleep now#more thoughts to come maybe. if you feel like asking please do lol#my art
