#I Am in Eskew

[a-bunch-of-bones]

I am in eskew episode 24 festivity

Wordle is running out of words. Only 2,000 five letter words remain. When that supply is exhausted the Creation shall begin. One day the word will be ZHURM, and all shall get it, and all shall understand it to mean "an ache from suddenly remembering a long-ago friend, who meant something to you once, but whose face you can no longer conjure". The next day the word shall be JOROL, and all will get it, and all will know it means "the melancholy confusion of passing by somewhere where you once could have died". The next day it will be GREFT, and all will understand it to be a small brown bird with white streaks found only in South America, and suddenly, it will appear, in the underbrush of the Amazon, in the streets of São Paulo, and all will know that it once was not there, but now, will always be

[chaosthatwalks]

Obsessed with the idea of a city that hates you.

A city that gained sentience somehow and despises the crawling, insignificant, short-lived insects infesting its every corridor and building.

A city with such a deep, long-standing history of violence and conquest and bloodshed and -hatred- that it becomes impossible to ignore. The air itself is saturated with an all encompassing rage toward its creators and everything not of itself. A city full of people who are, themselves, an extension of the city, who simply... appeared one day. Its hard to tell your new neighbors from the old ones when they all seem exactly the same.

A city filled to the brim with such malice that its easy to become disoriented and lost, trembling as you find yourself trespassing empty alleys that haven't seen someone in years, your very existence seeming to be a crime in this place and... are the walls getting closer?

A city that exists for itself and no one else. You are no longer welcome here. You never were. You cannot leave, and you will be punished for it.

[pseudonymjones]

My daughter did not exist before last night.

Audio is from the (excellent) podcast I am in Eskew, episode 22, written by Jon Ware and Munna Hussen, voiced by Jon Ware. They also make the (excellent) podcast The Silt Verses and you can find them on tumblr at @thesiltverses!

Art is by me (Emma). I am me, for the time being.

[crustaceousfaggot]

Sometimes when l tell people I like horror podcasts they go "oh, same, I love true crime!!" and I just have to nod along, because there is no way to explain to them that we exist in entirely separate worlds and also that my opinion of them just went down by like 15%

[eliassimp]

How it feels to listening podcasts when you a bit slippy or sick

[localechoes]

my name is david ward

[macbethz]

suburbia; or the sad, quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted

"No Surprises," Radiohead // Safe (1995) // Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard // Blue Velvet (1986) // "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads // Little Shop of Horrors (1986) // Jon Ware on I Am In Eskew // Vivarium (2019) // "His 'n' Hers," Pulp // The Truman Show (1998) // White Noise, Don DeLillo // Supergod, Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny // 17776, Jon Bois // photograph of 1970s Las Vegas underground Cold War bunker // Disco Elysium, ZA/UM

[thestarsaresapphic]

listening to horror podcasts is so silly because ill be having the worst day of my goddamn life and ill be like.. you know what i need? to listen to this sad wet cat british man have an even worse day and ya know what it actually helps

[alivehouse]

thjs idiot doesnt even know that the ghost appears behind you because it already knows with absolute certainty that you will have no choice but to look back. LOL

[unmechanism]

did what needed to be done, because I'm no coward

[vvanillavveins]

Humour me for a second-

Imagine that you and a podcast protagonist of your choice are on a road trip- but you're lost, going in circles, stranded in the middle of nowhere, with no supplies and no signal.

However, there is an old paper map in the car, which your blorbo can interpret for you whilst you keep your eyes on the road.

So, with all that being said...

[ehlihr]

The city gave me a daughter, and I turned away.

[jojolavache713]

I love audio dramas because I can be listening to the most soul-crushing, stomach-turning, nightmarish stuff and at the same time I'm at the grocery store.

[transarchivist]

ghosts; alice isn't dead, i am in eskew

[angryducktimemachine]

Holy Trinity.