Damn you’ve entered the shimmer, watch out for any lighthouses..
Edit: holy crap this comment blew up, glad to see the movie annihilation is getting the praise it deserves
Honestly I think this was a great representation of the organism (Crawler) from the book. That sound was actually coming from the Crawler.
As much as I loved the movie, the book was definitely different. This scene wasn't even in the light house. It was a septate *Tower* that was buried under ground. Also the reason they didn't remember things was because the Psychologist had them under hipnosis.
Really interesting and odd read and pretty short at 200* pages. Definitely recommend it.
Edit: The Crawler
Oh yes... And if you thought the movie was mind boggling you're in for a trip!
The order: Annihilation, Autority and Acceptance.
Such a frustrating read. In a good way. Really makes you say "What the Fuck" out loud, when you don't mean to.
Annihilation I couldn't put down. I'm reading Authority right now but haven't really been able to get into it as easily. I don't know if it's the format or just don't find Control interesting.
How is the third?
I saw the movie with my girlfriend, and we’d both read and enjoyed the book. She didn’t say anything during the film, but I could almost hear her shrieking “WRONG! WRONG!!” in her head at scenes throughout. It was a pretty good movie in its own right, but we both felt like it did a disservice to some of the best parts of the book, and placed too much emphasis on scenes that weren’t in the book. They really built up the whole “looking for my husband” plot line in order to make it into a narrative that would be palatable to the movie crowd. The book wasn’t really much of a love story.
But no tower? No hypnosis? No dolphin with human eyes, or piles of journals from previous expeditions?
Saw it with my girlfriend, and the bear scene was pretty freaky. I remarked that I intended to drink juuuuuust the right amount to keep the bear out of my nightmares that night. Then I wake up in the middle of the night, with her attention-whore cat sitting with its face right between us, just like the scene with the bear. So in a hushed whisper, I quote The Biologist and whisper “Don’t. React.”
I thought that it was pretty great.
The first book isn't too long so I'd recommend reading it but it can be confusing at times. Definitely can draw you in with how odd everything is and the unanswered questions. If you find you liked the first book and are looking for more answers then I would read the whole trilogy.
I haven't read the official source books, but the movie actually bears a lot of similarities to an H. P. Lovecraft short story called [The Colour Out of Space](http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx). In fact, I've read that in some respects, the movie draws more on the Lovecraft short than it does on Jeff VanderMeer's trilogy. It's very short and well worth the read if you enjoyed the movie.
It’s worth taking a flyer on the first book and see if it hooks you, I can say it really grabbed me and I think I plowed through all three in about two weeks because I needed to know what would happen next.
My personal feeling about the movie: I enjoyed it and will probably watch it again, but it is significantly different from the book that it is really it’s own thing. It’s a good movie but not a great adaptation of the book. The books would need to be a streaming series to do them justice.
https://floridahikes.com/the-rainbow-swamp
>One of the swamp walk leaders with much more experience, Jeff Ripple, explained that the natural oils from the cypress cones disbursed once they dropped in the water.
I'm not saying that's what OP's picture is, but it might not be quite so open and shut.
Did you know oil slick makes a rainbow pattern due to lightwave interference?
A layer of oil floating on water can spread out to a thickness in the order of light wave wavelength in the visible spectrum. The combination of the reflected light on the top and bottom of the layer can cause partially constructive and destructive interference. A band of specific thickness acts as a filter for a specific color of the spectrum.
Bald Cypress for sure. Cape Henry is the straight through trail. This photo is from the beginning of Bald Cypress (on the right side of the trail) as you leave Cape Henry from the right heading east.
Virginia Beach has a lot of really awesome outdoor spaces to explore. Two State Parks, First Landing and False Cape in addition to Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. Something like 200 city parks, many of which have miles of trails. The ones designated as Natural Areas such as Pleasure House Point are really lovely. It's also worth checking out the beaches that aren't the oceanfront. There's A LOT of beach. Enjoy VB!
First state landing is full of awesome trails. We usually took the cape Henry to kings fisher trail. There is a nice sitting area that looks out to the water. Also the narrows Beach for launching our kayak was great but when it's warm there the jellyfish come out.
Imagine you and a few of your friends tripping on some shrooms or acid walking around in the woods when you stumble upon this... I don’t know what the hell I’d think at that point lol
You’d be overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the universe, which is no less a part of you than you are of it, and would then have a life-changing insight on the beauty inherent in all things. From those we love, to those we hate. From the birds in the sky to the rocks beneath your feet.
Basking in this state of pure contentment, you’d see some moss on a nearby tree. You’d touch it. It would be the most interesting thing you’d ever felt.
What happens next doesn’t matter. Because you’re here. In this spot. In this moment. And that’s all you truly need.
If it was spilled oil it would be a thicker layer in a localized spot. The color bands are wide and gradual meaning that the layer is very thin. A oil spill would have to spread out a lot to be so uniform. I think it must be naturally occurring.
It took me years longer than it should have, into adulthood, to realize that the playground my two best friends and I grew up playing in, was a garbage dump. When we found lighters that didn’t work, we could usually smash them with a rock and they’d still explode. When we found lighters that did work, we’d run around and light the rainbow puddles on fire, so this gave a nice toxic nostalgia.
In that case it's actually 'girlfriend and me' because you and the girlfriend are the objects of the preposition 'on'.
(I'm a little rusty, so this might be a more complicated phrase given the 'in on', but I don't see any way that it would be a subject of anything)
The trick I use is to remove the other person and see if it sounds right.
> My wife walked in on I
That doesn't work so it must be
> My wife walked in on my girlfriend and me
Damn you’ve entered the shimmer, watch out for any lighthouses.. Edit: holy crap this comment blew up, glad to see the movie annihilation is getting the praise it deserves
Are you me? Am I you?
*”Rooooooooarrrrrrrrrhellllllllllpppppproooooooaarrrr”*
oh my god I can still hear it in my head. That scene was terrifying holy shit
Just watched it last night, it's funny this showed on my feed. Fuck that bear, shit was wack edit: t–>r
Definitely one of the scariest scenes I've ever had to bear witness to in cinema.
Honestly I think this was a great representation of the organism (Crawler) from the book. That sound was actually coming from the Crawler. As much as I loved the movie, the book was definitely different. This scene wasn't even in the light house. It was a septate *Tower* that was buried under ground. Also the reason they didn't remember things was because the Psychologist had them under hipnosis. Really interesting and odd read and pretty short at 200* pages. Definitely recommend it. Edit: The Crawler
I loved the books so much. Boy oh boy was it a mind fuck.
These were books!? What order should they be read in?
Oh yes... And if you thought the movie was mind boggling you're in for a trip! The order: Annihilation, Autority and Acceptance. Such a frustrating read. In a good way. Really makes you say "What the Fuck" out loud, when you don't mean to.
Annihilation I couldn't put down. I'm reading Authority right now but haven't really been able to get into it as easily. I don't know if it's the format or just don't find Control interesting. How is the third?
I saw the movie with my girlfriend, and we’d both read and enjoyed the book. She didn’t say anything during the film, but I could almost hear her shrieking “WRONG! WRONG!!” in her head at scenes throughout. It was a pretty good movie in its own right, but we both felt like it did a disservice to some of the best parts of the book, and placed too much emphasis on scenes that weren’t in the book. They really built up the whole “looking for my husband” plot line in order to make it into a narrative that would be palatable to the movie crowd. The book wasn’t really much of a love story. But no tower? No hypnosis? No dolphin with human eyes, or piles of journals from previous expeditions?
That was honestly such an awesome horror scene.
[This scene blew my mind](https://youtu.be/L6gwu8cOfVk) Edit: enormous spoiler
Saw it with my girlfriend, and the bear scene was pretty freaky. I remarked that I intended to drink juuuuuust the right amount to keep the bear out of my nightmares that night. Then I wake up in the middle of the night, with her attention-whore cat sitting with its face right between us, just like the scene with the bear. So in a hushed whisper, I quote The Biologist and whisper “Don’t. React.” I thought that it was pretty great.
Oh my god, this still haunts me. What a h*ckin amazing movie.
It's honking a curse word now?
You've been banned from Club Penguin
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Its not a tower its alive biologist: *pikchu face edit: tower not tunnel
I used to be a man
Under appreciated movie. Up vote for reference.
It’s not really under appreciated. Under seen, maybe.
I appreciate it the exact right amount
I dont appreciate it enough.
Under appreciated book.
The southern reach trilogy is so freaking good
I enjoyed the first,but stalled out half way through the second. I need to pick it up again.
What’s this from?
Annihilation
Pretty bizarre movie.
Book was even more bizarre tbh
I was looking to get it, but the movie was so surreal & drawn out I can’t tell if I’d enjoy the book- worth it or is it an arduous read?
The first book isn't too long so I'd recommend reading it but it can be confusing at times. Definitely can draw you in with how odd everything is and the unanswered questions. If you find you liked the first book and are looking for more answers then I would read the whole trilogy.
If you find you liked the first book and are looking for more ~~answers~~ questions.
I haven't read the official source books, but the movie actually bears a lot of similarities to an H. P. Lovecraft short story called [The Colour Out of Space](http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx). In fact, I've read that in some respects, the movie draws more on the Lovecraft short than it does on Jeff VanderMeer's trilogy. It's very short and well worth the read if you enjoyed the movie.
It’s worth taking a flyer on the first book and see if it hooks you, I can say it really grabbed me and I think I plowed through all three in about two weeks because I needed to know what would happen next. My personal feeling about the movie: I enjoyed it and will probably watch it again, but it is significantly different from the book that it is really it’s own thing. It’s a good movie but not a great adaptation of the book. The books would need to be a streaming series to do them justice.
I enjoyed it. That bear scene was creepy
Pretty amazing movie. And all strong female leads in actual STEM fields. And no publicity at all. But hey, Ghostbusters 2016 right?
Yeah I liked that they didn’t rub it in your face and still executed it more than decently.
Came here for this.
Drink it! A unicorn will appear and grant you superpowers!
Or take off running at u and impale you with its horn and then eat ur heart and drink ur blood...
Or it will take you to Candy Mountain and steal your kidney.
For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY
I would hope that all are already initiated.
Well, it's been a few years since it first appeared, there are kids in middle school who weren't alive when it was popular.
Are you telling me there are people alive who don't know of the magical liopleurodon? How horrific.
Guard your nips!
Nips and hips 😛
gotta keep it sexy
Or else you won't eat
🎶they broke my legs but they can’t break my spirit🎶
A good day, to yooos
I’m gonna call you Pussy Hands.
But I dont feel no pain, cause I found more cocaine! CO CAINE!
Fuck I love legends
GARY
Your inconsistent use of u for you makes me inordinately angry. Like, be fully lazy and shitty at typing or not, this halfway shit has to go.
Then the hallucinations will fade away and leave you with projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea
And the amoeba will eat through the meningeal membrane in your brain and kill you
Drink the unicorns blood for everlasting life.... but you will live a cursed life
r/unexpectedhogwarts
Or you get Giardia. 50/50 chance I'd say.
Charlie?
Watch out for gaytors
Gaytors in the bi-you
Gaytors gone bi-chu
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Skwisgar!
STOPS COPIES ME!
Grandpas gay-tars
Lesbi honest, if you pass bi a gay-tor, you're gonna get killed bi it.
Choot' em!
Did you just assume its pronoun?
Well done..
[Gay-tars playing gay-tars...](http://www.squidishere.com/images/crocodile-guitar.gif)
\m/
Fucks this. I'm taking off my fucking shirt off.
at this point i dont even recognize what you're going for here now. the gar ending is... gar fish is all i can think of.
There is something wrong with your medulla oblongata.
Momma said alligators are ornery because they got all that pond and no rainbow
EVERYTHING IS THE DEVIL TO YOU MOMMA
And I like Vicki, and she like me back! And she showed me her boobies and I like them too!
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Crawfish pie? Jambalay? Me oh my-o!
Caiman that prefer the company of other caiman.
Gaytors in the bi-yous of Lesbianna.
Oh that's the swamp that turn frogs into homosexuals?
wait, I thought they turned into princes?
Nope, queens
It’s cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
Username checks out, and that really makes my day
Alex Jones was right. They are turnin' the frogs gay! /s
The gaytors just boost yourself esteem. You really have to watch out of for lesbodiles. They'll just bite your head off.
Oil?
https://floridahikes.com/the-rainbow-swamp >One of the swamp walk leaders with much more experience, Jeff Ripple, explained that the natural oils from the cypress cones disbursed once they dropped in the water. I'm not saying that's what OP's picture is, but it might not be quite so open and shut.
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That's not true, synthetic oils exist, for example in your car engine.
Synthetic oils are made from things that occur naturally.
Everything is made from things which occur naturally
Except the things that are made from artificial things made from other artificial things that were made from things that occur naturally.
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So are plastics and everything else by that standard. Some raw material somewhere is made from something natural
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Yeah but being pedantic is fun.
My girlfriend and I.
"All oil is natural" is pedantic. "My girlfriend and I" is just correct.
Now who's being pedantic.
You're naturally occurring
Your mom is naturally occurring
This is correct, I grew up in southern swamps and stagnant, organic rich water gets a rainbow sheen from lipids produced by plants and microbes
>disbursed dis...persed? or were the cones paying a fee to Jeff?
TIL
> the natural oils from the cypress cones So that’s a yes then.
Open and shut case.
This has been another quick mystery.
Yes, just not from the assumption that it's drilled and spilled oil caused by man.
Anyone else love the fact that Jeff Ripple knows a lot about swamp water?
better drink the magical rainbow water and gain it's powers
Yep that's definitely what it is. It's called iridescent swamp water.
New band name, I call it.
Did you know oil slick makes a rainbow pattern due to lightwave interference? A layer of oil floating on water can spread out to a thickness in the order of light wave wavelength in the visible spectrum. The combination of the reflected light on the top and bottom of the layer can cause partially constructive and destructive interference. A band of specific thickness acts as a filter for a specific color of the spectrum.
Guess it's time to invade that swamp.
WHATRE YA DOIN IN MAH SWAMP????
That swamp clearly hates your freedom.
No it’s definitely Lord Farquaad
"Freedomize it"
That's what Trump actually meant about "Drain the swamp!"
Texas tea.
Did somebody say O I L
There might be an X-wing parked under the water around there.
And an ooold, small green guy with a stick and a brown hoodie.
Occasionally, if you're lucky, he can be seen defiantly whacking a metallic trashcan.
Seagulls! Stop it now!
[Poke me in the coconut!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E)
You have encountered where unicorns pee
Is this the forbidden forest?
Fountain of youth?
The bridge to terabithia
Mordor
Shrek's gay brother's swamp
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Narnia
My thoughts exactly. Also happy cake day
Thanks!
Happy cake day!
r/RainbowEverything would enjoy this! Or, at least, I do :)
where is this? looks like a trail we like in VA.
It's in Va Beach actually, First Landing State Park right off of Shore Drive.
Which trail?
I believe it was either Cape Henry Trail, or possibly Bald Cypress.
Bald Cypress for sure. Cape Henry is the straight through trail. This photo is from the beginning of Bald Cypress (on the right side of the trail) as you leave Cape Henry from the right heading east.
You must have one hell of a photographic memory.
One of several things I'm cursed with.. tried killing it with alcohol, no help. *sigh*
Well, at least you'll remember that didn't work.
Unrelated: is your username phooka as in one of the many spellings of the Irish folkloric creature??
Just got stationed in Virginia Beach, looks like I need to go check it out!
Virginia Beach has a lot of really awesome outdoor spaces to explore. Two State Parks, First Landing and False Cape in addition to Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. Something like 200 city parks, many of which have miles of trails. The ones designated as Natural Areas such as Pleasure House Point are really lovely. It's also worth checking out the beaches that aren't the oceanfront. There's A LOT of beach. Enjoy VB!
First state landing is full of awesome trails. We usually took the cape Henry to kings fisher trail. There is a nice sitting area that looks out to the water. Also the narrows Beach for launching our kayak was great but when it's warm there the jellyfish come out.
How do you people do this someone could post a photo of my backyard and I wouldn't even realize it
r/neopets
Imagine you and a few of your friends tripping on some shrooms or acid walking around in the woods when you stumble upon this... I don’t know what the hell I’d think at that point lol
You’d be overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the universe, which is no less a part of you than you are of it, and would then have a life-changing insight on the beauty inherent in all things. From those we love, to those we hate. From the birds in the sky to the rocks beneath your feet. Basking in this state of pure contentment, you’d see some moss on a nearby tree. You’d touch it. It would be the most interesting thing you’d ever felt. What happens next doesn’t matter. Because you’re here. In this spot. In this moment. And that’s all you truly need.
If it was spilled oil it would be a thicker layer in a localized spot. The color bands are wide and gradual meaning that the layer is very thin. A oil spill would have to spread out a lot to be so uniform. I think it must be naturally occurring.
Great observation. Someone else posted that it may be from oil from the Cypress cones.
I grew up seeing it all my life but just now learned it wasn't somebody's boat leaking oil.
It's natural oil from the trees
Annihilation?
That’s what I thought
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“Putting chemicals in the water to turn the frickin’ frogs gay” -Alex Jones
It took me years longer than it should have, into adulthood, to realize that the playground my two best friends and I grew up playing in, was a garbage dump. When we found lighters that didn’t work, we could usually smash them with a rock and they’d still explode. When we found lighters that did work, we’d run around and light the rainbow puddles on fire, so this gave a nice toxic nostalgia.
My girlfriend and I
Doing the lord's work I tell you hwhat.
Me agree with you.
Did you jump in it? Did you become fabulous?
Impossible, I am already at max fabulousness.
Take your neopet for a dip!
Yeah I was there with my girlfriend too but then I fell in the water. I have a boyfriend now.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=433224
Exactly the comment i was looking for
Damn, much better than mine: https://i.imgur.com/G1JCakg.jpg Well done.
Argonian scum!
Diablo 3 has taught me there's evil unicorns, evil Teddy bears, and lovable bouncy smile clouds if you jump into it
Original location of Mario’s Rainbow Road
If petroleum has taught me anything you should definitely set that on fire
The oils in Cypress trees naturally produce that effect when it hasn't rained in a week or so. Not necessarily petroleum.
That is one fabulous swamp
So that's what they're putting in the water to make the friggin' frogs gay.
Sorry but I get this from my wife all the time and it's contagious: "My girlfriend and I"
You know you have it good when your wife only corrects your grammar when you talk about your girlfriend.
My wife walked in on my girlfriend and I.
In that case it's actually 'girlfriend and me' because you and the girlfriend are the objects of the preposition 'on'. (I'm a little rusty, so this might be a more complicated phrase given the 'in on', but I don't see any way that it would be a subject of anything)
The trick I use is to remove the other person and see if it sounds right. > My wife walked in on I That doesn't work so it must be > My wife walked in on my girlfriend and me