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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. Currently based in Portland, Oregon... he/him
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sweatin it, lol
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(the definition of "buildinhih" is a building with "horror in house" add on elements)
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Some additional views of this unique buildinhlh...
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yep!
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i guess i just mean you seem to want me not to like it. i don't find people saying these kinds of things to me about books in the least helpful. sorry.
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i could care less about generational assumptions
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I hope someday many of you can engage with beauty like this without a layer of ironic detachment
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Simon Waskow's soundtrack is great. About one fourth through it.
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Watching Cuckoo right now in Hulu and it's really interesting so far.
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And a couple of the final design posters. That was a fun project and I hadn't thought of it in years, so thanks for the memory!
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From 2008, before the mural was finished.
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oh cool!
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Here's the owl mural you can only see if you're on the path.
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You'd love it! The sheer density of birds is ridiculous, so much activity.
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Part 2 of Oaks Bottom, plus bonus birds from a prior week.
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Thought you might enjoy this - put me in mind of the covers of the Southern Reach series Artist and photographer Jill Bliss who explores and documents the rain coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, creating nature-inspired work #womensart
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it's ID'd in the alt text
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yes lollllllll
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fair
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It was sooo full of birds!!!
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lollllll
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I guess it just cracked me up it was during the day and that once they saw people up on the path, they tried to be quiet.
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This first turtle of the year was the only wildlife not humping today, or thinking about humping, it seemed like.
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Indeed! Every Portland child knows the classic rhyme: “Flowering trilliums and humping raccoons, tell us that springtime returns again soon.”
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it was sooo good
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yep. mousse.
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thanks!
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i see a slattery slump of wooden brain that fell from on high and landed between some trees
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if i could afford to hire a writer to do alt text i would live in a gold plated house on the coast and have someone posting for me on social, too
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this is a challenge that i think any prospective writer would relish!
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i remember one workshop where describing a tree was important to the story and it wasn't working and i asked the student if they had gone right outside and word sketched the tree there or close observed any tree... and no they hadn't.
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i think this applies just to conciseness, though, too... like, it makes it easier to describe something you need to minimalistically
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that's really interesting!
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yes
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Nope, sorry!
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you lost me with ass pieces
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my haiku memoir