Feral Science

Those scientists aren't mad, just dedicated.

Show me a field scientist that is injecting trees with a serum to turn them into sentient carnivores. Or one that is manually digging for uranium in order to fast track the eruption of a volcano. Or the one inventing Godzilla.

Not that pansy shit.

Is this one of those one is real but the rest is fake situations?
- More like a “will be real as soon as I get that grant” situation

There were some geologists (field work by my reckoning) from Massachusetts who went mad after an expedition to the Antarctic. The survivors came back mumbling something about a horrible thing from beyond the mountains.

was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?
- The expedition was not real. I was alluding to Lovecraft without naming him.

You're walking through the forest, and some guy covered in mud stumbles out onto the cutline, fly bitten, frenzied look in his eye, and a dirty shovel on his shoulder. Oh wait that's just me

Shia Lebeouf
- Actual cannibal Shia Lebeouf?
LOL, that was me last week. Got myself trapped in a swamp at the hiking trail, limped back covered in slime from the waist down.
- Suboptimal. I've spent a shit ton of time in bogs and fens and it's not a place you want to enter unprepared

This is me. You can usually find me staring up at a light pole talking, heckling or cursing at it, and before you know it I'm gone.

Why? Is the light pole not providing the correct type of light or something?
- Nothing to do with the light actually. I'm yelling at the small cell radios on the top of the poles.

Gf and I passed a young guy while kayaking the river one day. Dude's wearing summer street-wear, standing at bank up to his knees with a net. He was researching turtle populations. Funky thing is, we have no idea how he got where he was.

I just love the idea of feral scientists doing feral science.

That's the kind of scientist I want to be. I wish it paid.

Reminds me of the biologist from Annihilation. Time to reread the trilogy I guess.

I do love the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.

Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.
Wait...there's 3 books? Where in the books does the movie leave off??
- The movie is very loosely based on the first book. The screenwriter read it, had a dream about it, then wrote the movie based off the dream they had, intentionally never referencing the book while writing it. Which... Idk. Kinda fits the vibe of the story, but I'd love an authentic adaptation of the book, because it's incredible.
  
  The second book was a hard read for me, but it's worth it to get to third, and honestly the third kind of retroactively makes the second one better. There's supposed to be a 4th in the works I believe, but don't quote me on that.