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An Appendix of Influences on the Thickets Campaign
These are works from which I have drawn heavy inspiration, thematic and
aesthetic alike, ranging from a borrowing and reinterpretation of ideas
to outright theft of imagery for my own use. When I write and play they
rattle around in my head, helping shape and structure my own
ideas.
As a quick aside before the list, I feel like I need to issue a huge
thank you to all my friends who play this campaign with me. It wouldn’t
be the same without you, none of what’s listed here would have the same
weight without people like you sharing your thoughts and input, and you
are all goddamn saints for putting up with things like me, for example,
waking up at midnight and sending a bunch of incoherent texts about a
picaresque you haven’t read but which I have ended up interpreting some
aspect of your character through before I fall back asleep. Love you all
<3
The works, listed in a wholly vibes-based order:
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Turn A Gundam directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino
The Devil’s Backbone directed by Guillermo del Toro
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
The Earthsea Cycle and The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K Le Guin
The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
Phallos, Babel-17, and Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
A
Spy in the House of Eth, and the entire A Thousand Thousand Islands
project, by Zedeck Siew
Wet
Grandpa by Evey Lockhart
Penda’s Fen, directed by Alan
Clarke
The art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Harrowing of Hell by Evan Dahm
On The Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Isle, Wolves
Upon the Coast and &&&&&&&&&
Treasure by Luke Gearing
The Devils, directed by Ken Russel
May
Our Chambers Be Full by Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou
Inconsolable
by Thou
The
Batrachian Swamps by Micah Anderson
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
The Dark Souls series writ large but in particular Dark Souls 2
Sangfielle
and Twilight
Mirage by Friends At The Table
Where
the Wheat Grows Tall by Camilla Greer and Evlyn Moreau
The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Loves Secret Domain, Backwards, Stolen and Contaminated Songs, and The
Remote Viewer by Coil
Roadwarden
by Moral Anxiety Studio
The art of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
The
Thawing Kingdom by Rowan A.
Punishment Park, directed by Peter Watkins
The Sun King’s
Palace by Snow
Pathologic by Ice Pick Lodge
Iron Path
by Last Exit
The art of Katrin
Dirim
Storming Heaven by Steve Wright
Rakehell by
Brian Yaksha
All The Waters of the Earth turn to Blood by The Body
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
On the Silver Globe, directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman
The art of Hieronymus Bosch
Dracula by Bram Stoker
All
Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota
The player of Burhannetin in my campaign also cites the Dune series by
Frank Herbert, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and the Hitman game series
as direct influences on how they play their character.