10 Works in Ghost Bird (Southern Reach)
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baby, but you by audenrain for mewCoyote
Fandoms: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
05 Oct 2025
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“The flower,” said Ghost Bird. She came closer, kneeling at his feet, and Control’s head spun so hard he had to shut his eyes again. A cool hand on his forehead, slim fingers, dry knuckles. Control heard himself let out a sound, low and thick in his throat. He tried to grit his teeth against it, but it was too late. When had she set down the water? Because her other hand was on him now, taking his wrist firmly in her grasp, her thumb pressing into his pulse point. Her touch was so confident, brusque but gentle too. Control imagined himself a rabbit shaking in her arms, and she the scientist, affixing a tracker to his leg, or the veterinarian, parting his lips with a gloved finger to drip something sweet and cool into his parched mouth.
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Of Bodies and Beacons by The_Paradigm for santanico
Fandoms: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
29 Sep 2025
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"Bodies could be beacons, too, Saul knew. A lighthouse was a fixed beacon for a fixed purpose; a person was a moving one." --Jeff Vandermeer, Acceptance
After a few days trekking through Area X, Control and Ghost Bird are no longer able to resist the pull of like calling to like. Written for Sex Pollen Plus Exchange 2025.
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i sure hope that's it by santanico for westiec
Fandoms: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
25 Jan 2025
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“I want you to…” Control said, then seemed to reconsider, his tongue dragging across his teeth inside of his mouth. She touched his bottom lip and dragged his mouth open. He startled, like a wild bird, and she laughed at him. His face flushed. Could he read her mind? She took both thumbs and pressed them to his lip, and his mouth hung open, almost expectantly.
“Spit it out,” she said without smiling.
“It’s freeing, you said.”
“Yes,” she agreed, with a slow nod.
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A revelation about Area X passes Control and Ghost Bird like a ship in the night. Takes place in Acceptance.
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“The stages you’ve seen described are identification, indoctrination, reinforcement, and deployment, but Grace has seen other documents that borrow the semiotics of the supernatural: ‘manifestation, infestation, oppression, and possession.’”
Or: what if the Lowry in Control’s head was more than figurative?
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You and I are exactly the same yet horribly different by StrangeBirdie
Fandoms: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
03 Apr 2021
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Ship (@Glumshoe) decided we needed more Southern Reach fanfics on here and I am fully inclined to agree.
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key to life by badwrites
Fandoms: Annihilation (2018 Garland), The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
07 May 2018
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The Biologist assumes her new role: All, and also nothing.
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Control dreams of his leviathans; Ghost Bird wakes him.
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Ghost Bird wrestles with her connection to the biologist as she and Grace search for an escape out of Area X.
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Exploration by Tamoline for Kitty (Tamoline)
Fandoms: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer
18 Oct 2014
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Grace survives what might be the end of the world or a beginning of a new one. With a little help from her friends.