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Big Long Influence ThreadI’m happy has hell to relaunch The Great Chameleon War - but it’d be a big goofy lie to pretend it wasn’t influenced and inspired by a bunch of artists and poets and writers who all have little lizards in their hearts.
Let’s go [1/?]
![Big Long Influence ThreadI’m happy has hell to relaunch The Great Chameleon War - but it’d be a big goofy lie to pretend it wasn’t influenced and inspired by a bunch of artists and poets and writers who all have little lizards in their hearts.Let’s go [1/?]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0uBH2dWYAECjar.jpg "Big Long Influence ThreadI’m happy has hell to relaunch The Great Chameleon War - but it’d be a big goofy lie to pretend it wasn’t influenced and inspired by a bunch of artists and poets and writers who all have little lizards in their hearts.Let’s go [1/?]")
A lot of this can be blamed on Zachary Schomburg, who I was introduced to while in Prague at a formative time in my writing ed. and ignited my love for poetry and the surreal. His poems are such violent and delicate dreams. Scary, No Scary is my fave collection ever.
Also, Margaret freakin Atwood. You should stop listening to me babble on and just go ready everything over at the Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=114&issue=1&page=50
Specifically to the new episode: @thegodfreyguide & @NicoleKnudsen16 - I was really not pleased with the setting for the episode, but was really inspired listening to The Godfrey Audio Guide and now have a little weird/violent memory museum as the setting. Go listen to her show
Next up is this amazing miniature photography dinosaur book I had as a kid and just recently reacquired after more than a decade. Teruhisa Tajima and these photos stayed up with me late at night and imbedded so, so deep inside my imagination. Giant reptiles for life, bb
Oh my flippin hedgehog - The Force That Drives the Flower by Annie Dillard from 1973. This is such a fascinating essay for anyone into the natural world. Just go read it, I'll post an excerpt. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/11/the-force-that-drives-the-flower/308963/
This view requires that a monstrous world running on chance and death, careening blindly from nowhere to nowhere, somehow produced wonderful us. I came from the world, I crawled out of a sea of amino acids, and now I must whirl around and shake my fist at that sea, and cry Shame!
Next up is The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (who I wont @ and disturb his bird watching). I loved the all consuming incomprehensible nature of, well, nature in the books. I just wanted more weird in them - so I’ve set out to give weird a capital W in my own area x.
We arrive at Attack on Titan - I was in early on the manga and was enraptured by the horror and mystery set up by the series. Giant naked regenerating people eating small people? It’s just scary. Really a big fan of the art and slow burn mystery.
Of course we have wound up at Godzilla - I used to pray as a child that I would wake up and have transformed into the holy grail of monsters. I guess the main character in my show did the same. Destruction incarnate and just plain freaking cool.
I’m gonna pause here - might add more. But thanks to all who have toiled and struggled to make the art I hold dear. I’ll never forget how sunlight shines off the scales you’ve created - how monstrous and iridescent the silhouette slinks when framed by lightning
