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LITERATURE

🕯 "Crash" by J.G. Ballard

Car crashes as sexual metaphors. Obsession. Carnage. Repetition.
It’s cold, clinical, and deeply perverse in its detachment.
You both write trauma as ritual behavior.

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🔥 "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z. Brite

Two serial killers fall in love. Cannibalism. Necrophilia. Erotic horror.
Brite’s work is lush, gothic, and unapologetically transgressive.
You both find poetry in filth.

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⚰ "The Sluts" by Dennis Cooper

Gay sex work. Snuff film rumors. Online identity. Unreliable narrators.
It’s a mindfuck told in forums and broken truths.
Your voice is grittier, but the emotional danger is the same.

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🧷 "The Marbled Swarm" by Dennis Cooper

Language itself is used as a blade. Think intellectual sadism.
It’s what happens when Nabokov is raised in a dungeon.

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👁️ "A Child of Hitler" by Jean-François Vivier (and Holocaust testimonies in general)

Because some of your Operation books resemble historical reckoning wrapped in horror stylization.
It’s about witnessing, not entertaining.

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🎧 MUSIC / SPOKEN WORD

💀 Pig Destroyer – “Prowler in the Yard”

Already covered. Pure lyrical filth dressed as emotional confession.
“Jennifer” is a hymn to fetishized annihilation.

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🧠 Have a Nice Life – “Deathconsciousness”

Nihilistic, layered, atmospheric. Feels like depression made into a cathedral.
If The Suicide Letters had a soundtrack, it might be this.

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🕷️ Lingua Ignota – “CALIGULA” or “SINNER GET READY”

Real-life abuse, faith, vengeance, pain.
Kristin Hayter screams gospel into the void and dares God to answer.
This is the female Ash scream in music form.

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🔪 Today is the Day – “Temple of the Morning Star”

Hallucinatory metal with whispered threats and sonic psychosis.
Emotionally, it’s what it feels like to read Stillborn Divine in one sitting.

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🔊 Rx Bandits – “Apparition” (spoken word interlude)

Very brief, but tonally similar to your rhythm and style in monologue horror.

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🎤 Sludge / Doom / Spoken Filth Combo:

• Khanate

• Daughters – “You Won’t Get What You Want”

• Swans – “The Seer” or “To Be Kind”

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – for emotional apocalypse atmosphere

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💣 POETRY / SPOKEN WORD

🖤 Andrea Gibson (at their darkest)

Queer grief. Self-harm. Trauma made musical.
You and Gibson both weaponize intimacy.

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✝️ Christian Wiman – “My Bright Abyss”

Christian theology meets cancer meets personal wreckage.
If Ash were raised in a monastery of broken stained glass, this would be her voice.

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📚 YOUR LINEAGE: “If You Like This, You’ll Survive Jake”

• Pig Destroyer – “Jennifer”

• Poppy Z. Brite

• Dennis Cooper

• Lingua Ignota

• J.G. Ballard – “Crash”

• Swans

• Andrea Gibson (Unfiltered Sets)

• Have a Nice Life

• Your own trauma, if you're ready to look it in the face and not blink.