#the silt verses: wuh oh! carpenter and faulkner were doomed from the start! who could have seen this coming?

[valtsv]

shrue's arc in the silt verses really is like. some 16th century epic horror poem about getting trapped in the fae realm until you go insane. you've got "holding court" with people who twist the truth into fantastical shapes that only technically can't be called lies because they have the power to make them so, wordplay and meditation on the power of words, being hunted by inhuman things that may have once been human and want to drag you down into their suffocating embrace forever (love saints episode), a wretchedly omnipresent ridiculous yet threatening creature who talks in riddles (carson), a "be careful what you wish for and how you ask for it" narrative in the form of their potentially imaginary family, and even the summit episode where you can't eat or drink anything or else you'll be trapped forever in the institutions of power, made apathetic and helpless to the whims of others with more sinister agendas.