#tsv

[phantomrose96]

So do you have any Silt Verses thoughts that you wish to share with the world?

oh boy! okay time for some buckshot statements

Paige absolute character of all time for being an upper-middle class benefiter of the oppressive class structure who is radicalized and skips right past the "slacktivism on twitter" phase to instead jump directly into "creating gods and killing people." She's smart she's driven she's idealistic she will rend the earth in a horrid symphony of predator and prey ensnarled on bloody oaken crucifixion and I support her.

Hayward does not actually deserve the disproportionate attention I give him and that's because he's a loser and a failure (said with all the love in my heart.)

I may give the impression Hayward is the single fail-man of the series but that is not true. It is actually the case that every single The Silt Verses character is batting between a 50%-70% on the "a situation has occurred and it's gone So Fucking Wrong for them" measure. However Hayward stands out as the single indominable character batting a pure 100% in this category who can never be surpassed.

The voice acting is SO across the board good?? Hayward and Carpenter and Faulkner and Paige would all, in isolation, stand out as examples of excellent voice acting and they're all just together. Also the cameo from Harlan Guthrie in season 2 went so fucking hard.

When I started TSV I was like "oh okay so WE'RE the bad guys. like we're following the disciples of this bloody human-sacrificing river god cult. It's like if the TMA avatars were the main characters." And it was a fascinating revelation for the world to peel back and make clear that, actually, everyone is doing this. The world works like this. The Trawlerman followers are not being targeted for being human-sacrificing cultists - they're being targeted for being the losing human-sacrificing cultists on the wrong side of history. I haven't dug too deeply into this thought but it feels significant in the vein of "MY country's wretched human rights violations are the just and moral ones, because we're the correct people. Unlike those losing nations barbaric and unforgivable human rights violations."

The unavoidable cycle of "I kidnapped you as my hostage but maybe we're fwiends now? 👉👈🥺"

Why did Hayward LARP a whole story about being in a fail-marriage with a fail-wife. Why did he tell all this to Carpenter, a woman he just met. Why is he like this. 💖💖💖💖

Really love Faulkner's brand of "happy little sunshine boy who's being that way precisely because he wants to manipulate you into thinking he's a simple happy little sunshine boy." Very guy-who-killed-his-brother behavior of him.

[unbloodiedmartyr]

Every miracle that Val has conjured has turned against her. Even her god has fled her, leeching what little life it can from the hallowed husk of her mother's daughter before turning its back on her. There is no reason for her to continue. And yet, Val fails to die.

In the wreckage of Glottage, Shrue wakes to find themself anathema, alone, and at the mercy of the apocalyptic god-storm sweeping out over the Peninsula.

What else is there left to do but go on a road trip?

blinks my eyes so sweetly at you. i wrote something :)

[frankensteinmutual]

Signalis (2022) [H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival] /Sagittarius A* / Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates / Outer Wilds (2020) / Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics? / Drain for overflowing water at Sambuco Dam, Lavizzara Valley / ? / Thomasin Frances, Hole Theory (15/10/2022) / Bryan’s Ground, a public garden in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. / odd, weird, strange and unusual / Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves / Evil (2019-2014) / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / Illustration of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 from “A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy”, Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886) / @imdad_barbhuyan on Instagram / The moon’s Copernicus crater. Through magic glasses. 1890. / Kaveh Akbar / Dune (2021) / x / Dmitry Kochanovich, Epiphany (Russian,b. 1972) / The Silt Verses, Chapter 41: But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, The Camp is a Bait for Time / Darina Muravjeva, Hole / Hilde Heynen in Heterotopia and the City / x / Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers / x /  Louise Glück, from Descending Figure / Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. / Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from “A Letter To Love” / Lara de Moor, Orb (2014) / Sam Sax, Pig / The National - Wake Up Your Saints / Aleksander Rostov / Sanna Wani, from “Princess Mononoke (1997)”, My Grief, the Sun / Gregory Orr, [i want to go back] / Thomas Ott / ? / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room / Massive sinkhole swallows house in Florida / Edna St Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952) /Silent Hill 4 (2004) / @/vren-diagram / Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t / Law of Holes / Scarlet Hollow (2021) / China Miéville, from Railsea

(part one)

[agodmustfeed]

it must be said that i simply love to watch a character destroy all their relationships in an attempt to get what they think they want only to achieve their goals and be lonelier and more depressed than ever. and to realize they can never go back and are trapped at the top of the hill playing their part. its the dream you never wake up from!!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

from the commission pileup i'm trying to speedrun before leaving for the states:

will update yall once i put it through a coffee wash to really get that riversilt/dredge from the primordial muck effect

[mossgoblins]

God I miss season 1.

[localechoes]

praise be the saint electric! praise the signal that shall not cease!

[critter-time]

“queer horror podcast” ok? wet water?

[woodlouseonastring]

podcasts are great because it's like having a friend tell you about their day while you're doing the dishes but instead it's a bunch of guys running around and experiencing the horrors

[phantomrose96]

It's got everything. A compelling and intertwined narrative across characters. The cruelties of cult alignment and nationalism. Southern representation. A fucked up sunshine boy who killed his brother. Crabs. Like a horrific number of crabs. Capitalism that is allowed to sacrifice you overtly. A fail-man accidental-terrorist turned real-terrorist. Competent dialogue. The beautiful voice stylings of Méabh de Brún and Jimmie Yamaguchi. Really fucked up gods you can make with a ritual not dissimilar from creating a Build-a-Bear. Aromantic main character. A wound tree that kills both you and your attacker so bad but you CANNOT argue with the aesthetics of it. Beets. Wet. Even more wet. An amount of wet which truly cannot be overstated.

None of my friends are listening to The Silt Verses which I feel like is a first for me having exactly zero (0) people to go throw words at.

Like I keep having thoughts and mentally flipping through all my discord contacts and going "Ah shit, no one huh. Guess that one's just staying in the brain bank."

[greeblegrub]

Carpenter my beloved 🫶🫶

[queenoftheantz]

work doodle as im relistening to the Silt verses. She is gods special little princess and she hates it

[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%

[cyclochila]

more silt verses! i did the first episode of s1 so it felt right to do end of s1

ID in alt!

[wretchedbroth]

Can’t get this scene out of my head…like…the layers…ough…

[lunacias]

but we'll never be rid of each other