#katabasian mason tsv

[catwyk]

have you heard about our lord and saviour the trawlerman?

[pinkelotjeart]

Silt verses meme/vine comp inspired by @thermodynamic-comedian

[eyesteeth]

lost your appetite, hm?

[mostly-void-partially-song]

I have Silt on the brain still and think I need to make a playlist for this. If anyone has any suggestions that speak to them re: the world, plot, characters of the show please comment or tag them!!!! I'll post the playlist link once it has at least a dozen songs in it haha

[humanteethmarksonhumanbone]

room where it happens is brother faulkner coded and in this essay i will-

[aregebidan]

i might have missed another usage of "schism" in the podcast but they're rare enough that these are the only ones i've spotted so far. if the word "schism" in TSV specifically refers to a literal splitting of the nature of a god between groups of believers, it would be. very interesting to say the least to see how a potential schism interacts with the trawler-man's already dual nature (and possibly be relevant to his erratic behavior with carpenter + the disciples who were eaten along with the sacrifices?)

[catschimericalcreations]

"Ease away my grateful skin, Trawler-Man, I will rejoice at skin reshaped in silt, And my fragments will swim in the currents of the abyss. Fill my eyes and mouth with thick and choking mud, Trawler-man; I will exult in the death of sight, sensation, and noise. Bear me away into black depths, Trawler-man; I will forget my pain and the name I once wore. Rise like a dark river in my throat, Trawler-man. And my drowning lungs will sing of Tides and Flesh."

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[monstrousproductions]

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I had just finished the latest tsv episode and. well first of all I wanted to congratulate you on the absolute stellar performance of getting drowned. Very disturbing (overwhelmingly positive)

I can't stop thinking about why Rane would get in the water with a shark. You knew he tried to drown himself before and now you stand before him (the other Faulkner, his warped reflection, the bride to his trawlerman) and he's asking you to get in, it's fine, the water isn't even that deep here!

The faith! The trust! Like Faulkner said, it's eating them all but he's the only one awake to hear the bones crunch. I truly believe Rane expected him to do something unhinged in that pool, but either trusted him enough to believe the katabasian bait or thought themself physically able to overwhelm him should the need arise. Except they didn't know he's done that before! How could they? And they still tapped his arm even when they knew he had murdered Mason.

The anglerfishery of it all.

This is the best death for Rane I could imagine. They're one of my favourite characters: a pragmatic fanatic, so terribly faithful and treacherous at the same time, utterly fascinating in their devotion.

I wish that when Faulkner looked down at Rane through the mirror of the surface, he finally saw something other than his own face. I don't think that's the case though, and that, too - him taking away their personhood during the last moments of their life, is part of Rane's tragedy. This is his revenge - for killing Carpenter, for making him into a hollow mouthpiece, for pulling him out of that tank. And they're not even allowed to die as Rane - they die as Charlie, as Faulkner 2, as Mason, as sister Thurox. Terrible! I love it!

Sorry for the ramblings. I just really, really enjoyed Rane. Once again congrats!

No need to apologise, I'm certainly not going to complain about people messaging me to be nice about my performance! Thank you so much 💖

Honestly I think Jon deserves so much praise for Rane - all his characters feel so rich, even if we don't see that much of them "on screen" so to speak. It's easy to feel like even the relatively small roles in TSV are fully realised, fleshed-out people with rich inner lives, even if we never really see that side of them. And I think he's made a show that invites you engage in that if you want to, so that you can approach Rane and ask what their motivations are and why they might make the choices they do, and have fun chewing on that.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and again for being so kind about the performance! I loved playing Rane, can't wait to revive the character in The Tequila Verses, the upcoming TSV spin-off sit-com set in Rane's crab-themed, beachfront cocktail bar they open after surviving Faulkner's attack.

[the-light-of-stars]

saw someone in the TSV fandom try to localise the podcast into dutch so I tried localising some of the names in it into german as well!

to localise the Silt Verses into german I'd associate the Peninsula with northern and the CLS with southern germany, since there's notable differences in naming traditions between the regions so just from hearing a name a german person can tell what region it likely is from - so since the Trawlerman's faith and all its associations with water and silt is in the peninsula, and the CLS are their rivals? northern and southern germany.

The silt verses - Die Schlick Verse

The Peninsula - Das Binnenkap

The Consolidated Linger Straits - Die konsolidierten/konföderierten Harrweiler

Glottage - Glotthaag /Glotthacht

Nesh - Neusch

The Trawlerman - Der Dreggemann

The parish of tide and flesh - Die Probstei von Tide und Fleisch/ Der Sprengel von Tide und Fleisch (both are protestant words, idk what's more common in northern germany)

Sister Carpenter - Schwester Zimmermann

Brother Faulkner - Bruder Falkner

Katabasian Mason - Katabase Steinmetz (or Maurer, but Steinmetz sounds more historical and official)

Mallory Glass - Mareike/Mareeke Gleske

Richard (?) - also just Richard

James Hayward - Jens Heuwert/Heiwert

Paige Duplass - Elisabeth Angerer

I have reasonings for all of these but I figured I'd just post a summary for now

[siltslut]

6 for the podcast ask game!!

6: what characters from different podcasts do you think would be friends?

i need val and agnes montague to get together. maybe they need to go on a date. maybe they need to form a suicide pact. idk. i just love my special girls

also desperately need to see elias bouchard, peter lukas, katabasian mason, and katabasian roemont in the same room. their options are business meeting or orgy but no in between

another one for funsies: david ward and hembry from tsv 20. i think they’d kill each other in a bout of mania. but in a friendly, if not homoerotic, way.

[catwyk]

revelations based on shitposting in the discord

[magus-incognito]

Transformative Prayer to the Trawlerman

Ease away my grateful skin, Trawlerman. I will rejoice at skin reshaped in silt, and my fragments will swim in the currents of the abyss.

Fill my eyes and throat with thick and choking mud, Trawlerman. I will exalt in the death of sight, sensation, and noise.

Bear me down to black depths, Trawlerman. I will forget my pain and the name I once wore.

Rise like a dark river in my throat, Trawlerman, and my drowning lungs will sing of tides and flesh.

—Katabasian Mason, TSV 1: Let Me Speak First of Revelations.

[3584-tropical-fish]

(only as serious as you want to take it, but generally light hearted)

“my good friends mallory richard james and paige#<- prev tags fuck off (affectionate)#anyways tsv au where everything is the same but they go by those names”

nooo! Malory -> Carpenter has so much painful real world (in universe) importance!! It’s about *starts thinking about nana glass and mason and a carpenter being one who builds things and dissolves into a puddle of goo*

Yeah I said that as very much a joke au, because you’re right!!! The names that they choose are so so important and aaaaaghhh Carpenter choosing to go by Carpenter is so important! Simultaneously distancing herself from her family but also tying herself more closely to the Parish. It’s so. Augh

I suppose there is a thought experiment to be had about “what if this was a world where names weren’t changed” and Carpenter couldn’t change her name because the Katabasians disapproved more than they do in canon. How would the divide between Faulkner’s family and faith change if he never used the name Faulkner.

There’s certainly more to be said about the use of names in tsv and I can’t type more coherent thoughts out right now but. Yeah you’re so right about the deliberate use of names being so so important to this story (and the names being connected to building!!! Agh!!!)

[fiovske]

Hello, i just wanted ypu to know that the silt verses has ended. You got me in to this show so if/when you listen to them, i'd love to hear your thoughts:) hope you have a good day!

anon hi! thanks for letting me know! sorry abt the late reply but I want you to know that it was your message that compelled me to start tsv from the top again, and it's been... an absolute roller coaster of emotions.

i just finished tsv36 All Lovers Turn To Dust... so you can understand the state I'm in... [dinosaur explosion sounds].. I have so many thoughts on stuff that's happened so far but i still maintain s2 ending.. was really really good. carpenter and faulker's relationship is in so many ways the backbone of the show... and watching faulkner throw away every meaningful relationship in the pursuit of his ambition...is truly something. carpenter's relationship w the cairn maiden... she inches closer... god I miss Acantha... not the mention Paige and Hayward.. and Paige being the widow of wounds... and everything spiraling out of control... sometimes I think abt how Paige, her father and Hayward birthed the god of martyrs on her dad's cursed land where nothing grows right, and that God also wasn't borne of solely the intentions that were fed into it, but bore more than could count on... and now things are.. well complicated to be sure. I really liked High Katabasian Roemont ngl.. he had this.. old world charm to him and.. even tho i never really liked Mason, Mason through Roemont's eyes is... a different man. and I like complexities like that. Carpenter and Hayward road trip tho yayy.. which brings us to. Sebastian and Deveraux...

sorry I'm still processing e36 I just finished it... but I'd love to talk more about TSV if you're feeling up to it!

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

TSV s2 finale spoilers

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For as much as Faulkner hated Mason by the end, pinning a double murder on the Trawlerman's preferred whipping girl is actually an astonishingly on-brand grade-A Katabasian Mason move. Faulkner truly speedran that corruption arc. Terrible boy. The only difference is that Mason wouldn't have felt bad about it at all.

[vesseldraws]

THIS WONT LEAVE ME ALONE, WARNING FOR THE SILT VERSES SPOILERS

but okay so in ep 17 acantha points out that experimental gods are tested on the coast and then the bodies that come from that are thrown in the ocean

which, the idea of experimental gods being used to prep for war is fascinating enough in itself, just like i hope we find out more about what happens on the coast i would love an in depth exploration of those atrocities. Like, what do they look for in gods they make on the coast? What is the goal, how do they decide what they need and how to achieve it?

but! thats not what this particular post is about, thats a post for another day

what i wanna look at is the fact that they’re given to the ocean afterwards, all the leftover bodies are thrown into the sea. We’ve already seen Mason exploring the idea of ocean saints, and whether or not the trawlerman’s reach extends to the ocean. By his thought process the river feeds into the ocean and therefore the ocean IS part of his god’s domain, but i would argue otherwise

I think this is something not unlike the hollow but on a bigger scale, and both the government and mason are feeding directly into it. The hollow was never a PURPOSEFUL belief, sid wright’s whole sleep god was never the intent of what he was doing, and faulkner barely knew of the trawlerman before making a sacrifice to him, it’s entirely possible to be worshipping a god without being entirely aware of what exactly you’re doing

mason is feeding a god all right, but i’d bet its not his own