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recently read Borne by Jeff VanderMeer 👁️👁️👁️👁️
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MORD, BEAR-KING OF THE DESOLATE CITY 🦠🍄
From Jeff Vandermeer's BORNE
#borne#jeff vandermeer#southern reach#southern reach trilogy#mord#psychadelic#colored pencil#mushroom#fungus#mold#eldritch
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Someonw should run over this guy
#madness combat#madcom oc#pistol ocs#cyrus#borne#my og guys.. i hold them dearly in my heart#sketch tag
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we all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.
#borne#jeff vandermeer#annihilation#southern reach trilogy#borne jeff vandermeer#books#fan art#sorrel draws#science fiction#scifiart#hiii niche cut but this book unexpectedly captured me#i’ve been sitting on this drawing for a while and finally had to touch it up#to share with the world and successfully complete one of my dozens of half rendered WIPs
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Oc Art
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Borne tout bee alive
#laNatureReprendSesDroits #enFlanant #borneIncendie #cestLincendie #leGrandIncendie #borne #nature
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from The Situation by Jeff VanderMeer, illustrated by Eric Orchard
#jeff vandermeer#was just thinking about this comic again#it's an early version of characters that would later show up in borne#i was thinking about posting the whole thing but it's like 65 pages long#comics#borne#art
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for my first polymer clay creation i made the blue fox from the borne series by jeff vandermeer. hes not perfect but i love him and im quite proud. now watch him spin
#could a depressed person do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the qnswer is YES#art tag#borne#jeff vandermeer#dead astronauts#maybe the people that rebllg my blue fox art every once in a while will find this too.........
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I finished Borne by Jeff Vandermeer last night, and it was the best kind of dystopian horror novel for me, because the darkness was so fully balanced by how full of love the narrative was. Rachel loves her late parents, she loves Wick, she loves Borne, and she loves them so hard that she made me love them too, and, just as importantly, all of them love her back. So much of the world and the story is messy and ugly and painful, but the love ends up overcoming the horror in such beautiful ways.
“Life is still hard, but it is fair, and there is more joy in it that doesn’t feast on heartbreak,” she concludes.
#I had to take a few minutes to sit with Rachel and Wick’s Sam-and-Frodo moment climbing up the slope while escaping the Company <3#favorite books#borne#jeff vandermeer
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People who hope Absolution will give them answers about what Area X actually is clearly never have read Dead Astronauts.
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anyway go and read borne by jeff vandermeer it will fundamentally change you
#the southern reach series is also a masterpiece. but borne man.........endless things i could say#borne#jeff vandermeer
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"Because dead things felt only love for the universe." A dreamy, doom fanmix dedicated to Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts.
i. ivixor b / phase inducer - electric wizard // ii. white stork - bossk // iii. ekpyrotic - the otolith // iv. the screen - yob // v. the shooting star - gojira // vi. souvlaki space station - slowdive // vii. moon in your mouth - goldfrapp // viii. ptolemaea - ethel cain // ix. evaporate - a.a. williams // x. feather - windhand // xi. fight like gods - chelsea wolfe // xii. marked for death - emma ruth rundle // xiii. drag me into the woods - holy fawn // xiv. the things they believe - loathe, john waug // xv. and, we disappear - alaskan tapes.
i. ivixor b / phase inducer - electric wizard : I chose an instrumental as the first song in this mix and this specific song because it emulates the feeling of traversing a desert wasteland, similar to the astronauts' odyssey heading toward the Company during the first part of the book. There are radio signals and warbbing-like sounds along with unintelligible speech in the background that remind me of the original Star Trek where there'd be random 'scifi' noises.
ii. white stork - bossk : Another instrumental track. While Ivixor B / Phase Inducer felt more passive to me, almost a song that would assist setting the vibe of the story's landscape, White Stork for me is the song of desert's active mystery and signs of hostility. It hasn't asserted itself yet, but there's a kind of danger lurking as the story progresses.
iii. ekpyrotic - the otolith : I consider this song to be the theme of all the living beings in either opposition to the Company or those separate from the dichotomy of friend and foe. The foxes are the first that came to mind when listening to this song. The subject of the song is the interconnectedness of all living beings and rebirth, along with the inherent power of being one's true self that cannot be contained. [Lyrics]
iv. the screen - yob : This song represents confrontation, violence between the astronauts and their other selves, the dark bird, the behemoth. An ancient battle forever taking place. It also makes me think of the horror Charlie X experienced during his time with the Company. It's his pain, the pain he inflicts, his need to please what he and the Company demand of him. There's almost this ancient rite he performs when constructing his creations. And of course, the violence done upon the foxes by man. [Lyrics]
v. the shooting star - gojira : This is thee theme for the astronauts - Grayson, Moss, and Chen -, the song that represents not only their mission or their struggles as they fight to succeed, but also their connection with one another. I think of the last four bars of the song: everlasting-love is ever-growing / hang on to what you have and let it grow / everlasting-love is ever-dying / it's in the past, you have to let it go. [Lyrics]
vi. souvlaki space station - slowdive : This song brings more of the dreamy, abstract imagery that I experienced when reading the book. it reflects more of the subdued moments in the story. There's a refusal in the song to confront someone. It feels like the disconnection between the astronauts and Charlie X. [Lyrics]
vii. moon in your mouth - goldfrapp : The astronauts love each other. Moss cares so much for Chen, Chen cares so much for Moss, Grayson cares so much for Moss and Chen, and they for her. I wanted to celebrate that while also moving away from the confrontational sounds and lyrics of the earlier tracks. Because of the lighter note, you can think of this song as something from the very beginning of their mission, before trials, before the violence really took hold. Maybe even when they still had Charlie X. [Lyrics]
viii. ptolemaea - ethel cain : We're back at the Company and Charlie X surviving his father. That's really what this is, it's the section of the book where we really learn what Charlie X has done and what has been done to him by his father, by the Company: you poor thing / sweet mourning lamb / there's nothing you can do / it's already been done. The one of the scariest parts of the story. [Lyrics]
ix. evaporate - a.a. williams : It's the general sense of despair. The despair in moments of fear, violence, pain. Uncertainty really. Might seem like a throwaway because I don't have that much to say about it, but I know it feels Right to include. A lot of characters harm themselves, either by their own hand or they put themselves in harm's way. [Lyrics]
x. feather - windhand : We're returning to sounds that remind me of the wasteland again. Could be viewed as despair but I see it as acceptance of what must be done. There's something about it that reminds me most of the blue fox. The sense of knowing that is to come, what has come. [Lyrics]
xi. fight like gods - chelsea wolfe : The closest songs I can find right now that reminds me of the foxes, but the blue fox specifically. The violence upon them frightening like the violence upon Charlie X - moreso even. Turned to retribution, to revolution, to revenge. Oh did they fight like gods. [Lyrics]
xii. marked for death - emma ruth rundle : Another love song, in all the ways to define love. For Moss and Chen. For Moss and Grayson. For Charlie X and the dark bird. For the blue fox and the foxes, the blue fox and perhaps the Strange Bird; for the Strange Bird and... Who will be there when you are dying, when you are dead, when you are going to die. [Lyrics]
xiii. drag me into the woods - holy fawn : I am reminded most of the transformations and changes and alterations the characters go through. Less of a violence and more of the enviably of it? The awareness of it. The changes that happen not so much out of violence but from a place of love or the natural order of things. [Lyrics]
xiv. the things they believe - loathe, john waug : The instrumentals have returned. Some loose ends aren't so loose anymore. Some things make some sense. It's that dreamy landscape again. The dust settling in its own way. A respite from what we've been through.
xv. and, we disappear - alaskan tapes : "We will always be there. Even before we know you. Even after we've known you. Even then. And, finally, she was free."
#explanations contain spoilers#dead astronauts#borne#borne series#jeff vandermeer#explanations for each song choice under the keep reading#i feel like i've neglected sarah and the behemoth#if it feels like i am stretching to make certain songs fit the narrative then mind your business#this is my opinion and my opinion isnt debatable#im just playin yall we're here to have a good time#i hope folk enjoy the mix
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Oc time i am cringe and i am chained. Cy (he/him) is my arena mode character ❗️ his origin is escaped patient (in my interpretation, he sees ghosts- but nobody believes him) and Borne (they/them) is an ex-merc, but im still working on their design a little ;;
#theyre losers thats all you need to know#borne speaks like. 3 times a year#trying to get comfier with posting sketches :^)#madness combat#madness project nexus#madcom oc#pistol ocs#cyrus#borne#sketch tag
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