#veniss underground

[swallowedabug]

Jeff Vandermeer, Afterword Veniss Underground + talking about Dradin in Love (infinity plus interview, 2002 )

[crunchys-art-n-shit]

Drew this an entire year ago but never posted it! My interpretation of a scene I liked in Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer

If you guys haven't read Veniss Underground yet I HIGHLY recommend it. Its so cool to see how Jeff Vandermeers writing has changed over time!

[parttimecosmichorror]

I am, mind you, nearly all the way to aphantasia. However. The organ cathedral from Veniss Underground was so vividly described that I think it's been somehow seared into my memory forever. The high ceilings, the bodies in the alcoves, the tubes, the mound of flesh that just goes on and on and on and on and on with people still alive somewhere beneath all that slowly dying matter...

[skyrzeart]

“Be my affliction for all the world to see.”

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Book Mail!: Spring Edition. Featuring a couple preorders, a couple workiversary gifts to myself, and flowers growing at the base of our biggest tree!

[phantomoftheshoppera]

Memory so ephemeral, that it should fade so quickly, so without a struggle. The apartment dissolves against the pressure on your throat and you are light remembering itself, the light lingering upon shadow, the light wistful for itself. In that place all memories are one, and although you are not at peace, although you ache for the smell of chemicals in the Canal District, for the feel of a lover’s touch, for the sound of your own heartbeat, you cannot say you have time for regrets, for pleas, for absolution, but only this final thought: that there was so much more you wished to do. The ache of atoms, the yawn of the abyss, and then you are ascending, carried in another’s arms, the light flooding into you and through… light.

You so desperately want to remember the color of roses in the spring.

Veniss Underground, by Jeff VanderMeer

[that-dinopunk-guy]

I bought some books.

[kammartinez]

Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground Reveals the World by Breaking Its Boundaries

Some books teach you how to read them. Lost at first, you look around for markers, footholds, anything that might provide solid ground, some basic sense of orientation. As you gradually acclimate t…