#fuck hayward

[missmarvelobsession]

[catwyk]

sopping wet scared out his mind prey animal swag through the roof. james hayward the man that you are

speedpaint below!!

hehe he looks kinda like david tennant briefly :] im on my trust the process pills

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

WHY DID HE SAY THIS. WHAT POSSESSED HIM.

[fadeintoyou1993]

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) dir. David Lynch

[ianthewife]

end of s1 Hayward: *handcuffed writhing on the ground foaming at the mouth choking on rage* CARPENTERRRR FIND A GOD OF SOBBING FUGITIVES LIMPING PREY-ANIMALS AND TREMBLING CREATURES AND PRAY TO IT DAY AND NIGHT AND HOPE IT ANSWERS YOU BECAUSE I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND NOTHING CAN STOP ME FROM THAT—

s3 Hayward: oh my goddd it’s Carpenter! hi, Carpenter! yeah yeah she’s an old friend:)

and this is why i am, unfortunately, obsessed with this man

[crimeronan]

the silt verses season 3 + dying words.

brother philly:

adjudicator cross:

carson:

rane:

val:

shrue:

hayward:

faulkner:

carpenter:

.....and finally, a bonus.

our final girl.

paige:

[automatonwithautonomy]

very funny to me that paige makes her only friends when they kidnap her and are just awful at it. then at the nearest opportunity she kidnaps and befriends hayward. tried and true method!!!!

[fagulaa]

Something I really love about the Silt Verses is how, in a world of gods and monsters, how grounded Faulkner's trauma [and relationship with his father] is. Especially as the season moves on, and the stakes amp up [and up] its so unexpectedly piercing to be presented with this exploration of childhood abandonment/negligence, inter-generational trauma, the indignities and stress that comes with unexpected elder care/early onset Alzheimer's. You're so locked in to these grander, more abstract concepts that your defenses are down! Mine were, anyway. TSV is so good at cutting its grand, complex plotlines with simpler [but not shallower] gutpunches, and it just grounds the whole thing.

[phantomrose96]

I love love love Jon Ware’s response about not making Hayward and Paige into a romantic couple, but I laugh every single time I remember this part in his response

“No one wants that particularly!”

I’ve been on tumblr long enough to know James Hayward, pathetic wet failman sad sorry theater-adult bastard with a voice like honey, who spends the entire season getting his ass kicked and getting dicked around by shrimp catastrophes and yelling about the world to no one in particular because no one likes him... He is entirely, emphatically fuckable...

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Abbey Lincoln (Nothing but a Man, For Love of Ivy)—abbey lincoln was an actress, jazz vocalist, songwriter, and civil rights activist; in her acting career she's most noted for starring in nothing but a man, an independent drama about a black couple navigating life in a small town that's been called an important example of american neorealism, and for love of ivy, a romantic comedy co-starring sidney poitier

Susan Hayward (With A Song In My Heart, I Want to Live!)—I had a Tom Tierney paperdoll of her when I was little (remember those?), and I remember I just had the biggest crush on her in her sparkly red dress

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Abbey Lincoln propaganda:

link to nothing but a man trailer [editor's note: TW for N-word slur]

link to sidney and abbey being charismatic in for love of ivy

she also appears as herself in the girl can't help it:

[misstrashchan]

So. What's the opposite of a sacrifice?

With the final episode looming it's a question we've been turning in our heads, so I wanted to give my best guess/analysis as to what it might be before Jon and Muna come to tear our hearts out in the final episode.

This is the question Hayward asks Paige, and later Carpenter, and it seems to be the underlying thematic statement of the series, in response to Carpenter's exposition in the first episode of the Silt Verses that introduces us to the fundamentals of the world and system they live in:

CARPENTER:

A god must feed.

A god must be fed.

This is a fact agreed upon across every territory in the Peninsula. And so, really, the only difference between the people born to the water and the people born to the land...

...is the precise nature of the sacrifice we need to make.

There is a God for anything in their world as long as there is someone believing in it. But all Gods need human sacrifices. A god must feed. A god must be fed.

These simple rules have been used as fascinating and horrifying metaphors of our modern society, and to explore themes of faith and sacrifice throughout the story.

And so the final question the last season proposes is if we can find a way to make something better, that can exist outside of this ultimately unsustainable exploitative system and the harm it inflicts upon ourselves and the world, when it has come to define so much of the way we live and how we think. And that means figuring out the opposite of a sacrifice, if they want to kill the idea, the lie, that is at the heart of their world.

At first I thought the opposite of a sacrifice, of offering up to the gods, was about killing your gods. Starving them out. Refusing to offer up anything. And that is part of it, I think. I mean it's literally been a repeating mantra of multiple characters this season once they've reached they're breaking points. Violence in revolution as a tool to overthrow oppresive systems is sometimes needed and necessary. But what about after? What kind of future or vision for a better world can there be? There needs to be something at the heart of that movement that isn't just about violence against their opressors, because you then define yourself in relation to them.

This is even illustrated in the Many Below god Paige created having predator and prey emeshed together, a movement defined by their resistance against the predators of the world, the beasts, cannot seperate themselves to meaningfully create a better future that exists outside of that dichotomy. I think Hayward realises that even earlier in S2:

HAYWARD:

There’s a hare in the grass, half-buried and bloodied.

A barn owl has latched onto its back, its talons driving deep into the flesh of the hare.

Both animals are dead.

Familiar black stone veins protrude from the carcass of the victim, twisting like branches, driving upwards into the predator’s skin.

Hare and owl are locked together, inseparably.

The god must have struck just as the prey died.

White crocus is flowering up from the two entwined bodies.

(Unhappily)

And suddenly I begin to feel deeply afraid.

It all makes me think of a dormouse, dead in the dirt, its ribs showing. Of rabbits, teeth chattering, hungering from their cages

I kick dust up over the corpses. Nudge them aside into the long grass so they can’t be seen from the path.

Paige doesn’t need to know about this, I tell myself.

There’s no sense in worrying her. Not yet.

Which then makes sense why he's the one proposing the question of what the opposite of a sacrifice is to Paige (and Carpenter), for this very reason.

I think the answer is pretty simple and yet, like most simple truths in this world, it's forgotten and overlooked or twisted as naïve.

Preservation. The opposite of a sacrifice is preservation. To better explain this let me use an example:

If someone who cared about you tells you you're working too hard at your thankless job, sacrificing your sleep, your time, your personal relationships, your physical and mental wellbeing, far past the point considered sane, they'd tell you to stop. To make sure you take care of yourself. Instead of endlessly feeding yourself into a machine to justify your existence.

Applied to the world of the Silt Verses, it's not just self preservation and caring for yourself. It's about caring for, protecting, and preserving the lives of those around you, that is the ultimate act of rebellion and political warfare, the first steps forward towards a better world. Caring for humanity.

Whenever our characters reach a breaking point of turning against their gods, there's a common thread of wanting to save their fellow man, and realising the inadequacy of a god's ability to do that. Whether that's somebody close to them (like Faulkner and Paige):

Or humanity as a whole (VAL and Shrue):

SHRUE:

Use them, pass them on, do not forget the suffering that keeps the engines of this world turning, forget the name of your god and cherish the name of your neighbour that was swallowed up by it-

Cherish your neighbour. Be kinder to one another.

This can even go back to Carpenter's rejection of the Trawler-Man back in S1, her fury at the fact those she loved had been eaten (her family) and would continue to be eaten (Faulkner).

CARPENTER:

(Yelling to the river)

It's over between us, you twin mouthed prick!

Do you hear me?

Does that stir you from your torpor? Pry the barnacles loose from your sodden ears?

My father and mother were Gregory and Sandra Glass. My grandmother was Adalina Glass. My brother was Em.

They died for you.

Every single one of them died for you and they thought it meant something.

My name is Carpenter. And I am still alive!

I have loved you for so long. I have tried to know you for so, so much longer.

And I'm done with you. Here and now. I'm not laying down my life for you.

I'm not dying, do you hear?

The same breaking point for Faulkner at turning against his parish and finally snapping is the idea of Carpenter being offered as a sacrifice, an offering returned, begging for her to live.

I must clarify this is my own interpretation of the question and themes the story proposes. I'm

I'm not sure we'll actually get a hard answer so much as different characters offering their own answers and us as the audience encouraged to think for ourselves what it might be. I think this is what Hayward's answer might be at least, anyway, because like me he's a corny motherfucker:

If a sacrifice is the idea that the most meaningful and transformative thing you can do is to give up your life, your sense of self, to die, then the opposite of that would be to try to keep on living, and finding meaning and transformation in that, surely?

[cookiesandcantarella]

Relistening to tsv and I don’t ever see anyone talk about how quickly Hayward changed his tune from “I’m going to apprehend this dangerous criminal” to “I’m gonna help my new buddy Paige start her cult.” Yes, he was in a desperate situation and turning her into the police wouldn’t have helped. But plan B is birthing a god???? Were the rabbits not lesson enough? The years of seeing all the ways gods can ruin lives? HAYWARD. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

[jeffreymeowmont]

While I understand that Harold Smith's disabilities limit him to not socialise or do much, it is not an excuse for him to find "beautiful" the story of Donna and Laura being sexually assaulted by older men in a pool, or him having an odd relationship with Laura who was suffering too. It's still not ok that despite Harold being incredibly lonely and depressed, he still took advantage of Donna and Laura.

[mongeese]

paige & hayward may not have died in each other's arms but I'm still counting the finale as a paigeward win. they were gifts to each other!!!! prophet and paladin 4ever!!!!!

[iknownparadoxi]

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[crimeronan]

it's so hard to talk about the silt verses with people who haven't listened because sometimes even mentioning your favorite characters is a spoiler. if i tell my friends who are on season one that hayward made me cry so hard i nearly threw up, Multiple Times, they're gonna be like "...huh. that's a little disappointing. he's such a well-developed antagonist that i REALLY didn't expect them to go the copaganda route :/" and i'll be like no. listen. Listen--