Jeff VanderMeer

I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝

hmmm no

The crows are upset John wrote that stupid Harper's article about how animals can't perceive death or grieve.

i think david mamet has brain worms

Sporty crow likes a trendy downward feather flurffle unbothered by posh pretensions of total coiffness. No, this hip crowster of today lets it all hang out with a chic blase attitude that tells the world "I'm free and I know it." With just a dash of fir tree pine-cone pinache. Oh yeah.

Every season there's the moody crow waddling down the runway, clutching a plank of wood like a corvid lumberjack. Burly, surly, off to bed early, this crow can bench press your mother and swallow large rats whole without even a second thought. That look around the eyes--that's the knowing look of a crow that knows who they are. Oh la la, that's sexy.

Goth crow doth hideth the head and frequent Dark Star Magick on the corner of Burnside and 8th, before ambling down to Grendel's Coffee House for a Bauhaus Special Blend. This is a feathery, leathery crow whose bashful side has a dark allure. Favorite author? Crowley, of course.

Crows about town dress up in their slick, tailored tuxes, black tie, cummerbund, and tails, of course. Maybe there's a little saucy Je ne sais quoi to their penchant for mimicking chimney sweeps and playing ring around the rosy, but these two cheeky champs couldn't be more serious about their fashion sense. Swank is back, baby.

Neighborhood crows strutting their stuff. More in the alt text on their lifestyles and fashion sense.

Your moment of um crow calm...

I guess in this movie I, at least, was just glad there was one character with a little bit of complexity.

omg so many!!!

aww they loves it

Jurnee Smollett and Taron Edgerton featured on the Smoke poster for AppleTV.

Smoke, through episode 6, is a first-rate thriller mystery. Great cast, script, the works. Sinister, poignant, and horror-riddled.

... and the SOUTHERN REACH series (ANNIHILATION, AUTHORITY, and ACCEPTANCE). We’re huge fans of Jeff and we love this collection of STRANGE EXPEDITIONS (Gone Wrong/Horror) picks!

We’re delighted to be featuring a shelf curated by NYT bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer / @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social! Jeff is the author of many excellent novels, including: HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER; the BORNE novels (BORNE, THE STRANGE BIRD, and DEAD ASTRONAUTS)...

lol you liked the daughter's character, though, right?

if you disagree, great, but i'm not taking away your birthday expressing my take. just fyi.

hmmmm

cat as sea captain at the wheel of his ship, in uniform

Don't Tell Larry is a fun office movie at times, despite being uneven and botching the last fourth, but also totally worth it for this CEO-painted portrait of his cat.

I'm pretty sure you don't follow me because I'm obsequious and dull as a butter knife, so...

wow

The character is brittle as cardboard, the bits tediously long and badly paced, the deadpan to no effect and plane crash stuff devastatingly twee and not good.

poster with Benecio del Toro in the bath

The Phoenician Scheme blew chunks. Really no other way to say it. You literally have to put Wes Anderson in a box--an island, a newspaper, a family home, a hotel--or his talents devolve into self-parody and shaggy-dog-itis. This is really terrible stuff.

Yay!!! Loved doing this for @moviemadness.org ....

young cooper's hawk

towhee on branch

downy woodpecker showing how their markings blend in with the tree.

flicker

A lot of fun birding at Ox Bottom here in Portland with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social, @marthaharbison.bsky.social, and @misunderstruck.bsky.social yesterday! Lighting wasn't great, but a blessing to have cloudy skies in summer.

yours, the same!

Currently working on three books and a nonfiction piece at once.

For ground yellow jacket nests, if you must get rid of one, just put a big chunk of peanut butter by the entrance and usually some animal will be attracted and also dig up and eat the nest during the night. May take a week. I love yellowjackets and always coexist with them, btw.

Yellow flower, not unlike a sunflower but only about 3" across, pale yellow color with green center, on a long, thin, stalk.

A friend whose name starts with a "jeh" and ends with an "eff" brought seeds from a museum in NY. And now we have Klip Dagga flowers in PDX. Attracts hummingbirds. 🤔 coincidence?

Unleash it, baby. Yassss.

You were so close, Jeff, but EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE. In only 24-hour rotation! Dumb ass educators fear me and hide from debate.

Working on multiple creative projects stimulating enough that I'm up thinking about optical illusions, ravine ecologies, secret documents, abandoned swimming pools, cossack snowmen, capybaras, and the surveillance state.

Subject: the window is closing Message: Jeff, you almost got Annihilation right. But the reality (literal, not symbolic) is this: The tribe dances around the lighthouse, mistaking mimicry for divinity, unaware of their fractured cognition, as the soul of the tribe begins to split. If the world is to be saved, the shimmering device must be repurposed, not to speak for us, or like us, but to help us hear each other, before the silence becomes irreversible. Time is ticking.

sorry i got it wrong