#tsv episode 44

[mostly-void-partially-song]

"I never thought they would drown ME" sobs Sibling Rane, who shadow ran the Drowning People Cult

[pensivespacepirate]

The Silt Verses is a Comedy

[catwyk]

if i survive the next few days itll take me to process that last episode? jon ware watch your fucking back

[cherrywhite]

TSV Fan Favorite Survey Results

Last week I made a small TSV survey for the heck of it and ended up getting way more results than I originally expected!! Wanted to share the results.

When I'm in a "Who's your favorite TSV main character" competition and my opponent is Carpenter 🤯 (Okay but.. is anyone surprised?)

Fun fact: for a while Hayward had only one or two votes and idk why that surprised me so much. Though I'm shocked he got more than Faulkner overall

Top 5 minor characters, as voted: Val > Shrue > Sibling Rane > Gage > Sid Wright

Also unsurprising! Though I regret that I didn't word the question as "Pick up to 5" instead of top 5. Val almost got 100% of the votes in this category... off by 4.. I respect you but also who are you 4 I just want to know

Top 5 side characters, as voted: Acantha > Nana Glass / Greve > Charity / Elgin > The Homesick Corpse > Chuck Harm (though Cross came very close to tying!!)

Acantha at the top is also unsurprising! Though.. looking at the top one.. looks like we all have a thing for old ladies, huh? Definitely my mistake in that I didn't add Em and Vaughn in there to begin with💦 Shoutout to the one person who voted Helen. Also, we love to see that Daggler got 0 votes.

Favorite God, as voted: Th Cairn Maiden > The Many Below > The Trawlerman > The Watcher in the Wings > The Saint Electric

The Beast that Stalks in the Long Grass and The Last Word each got one vote. Also, The Chitterling got a vote. Henge, the god Hayward mentions in s1, the one that takes things people wish to lose, got two votes! :D Idk why, but it's such an unexpected pull to me, it makes me happy to see it was remembered!

Top 5 s1 episodes, as voted: Chapter 4 > Chapter 7 & Chapter 15 > Chapter 1 > Chapter 13 > Chapter 3, 8, 11, & 12 (tied with 3 votes)

Fun fact: of season 1 episodes, only 4/15 episodes weren't picked as someone's favorite!!

Top 5 s2 episodes, as voted: Chapter 24 > Chapter 29 > Chapter 19 > Chapter 17 > Chapter 23

Also not surprised because chapter 24 is also my favorite (probably my most relistened to episode and it still makes me cry). Though, I will say, I was surprised chapter 20 didn't have more votes since that one also seems to be a favorite writing wise!

Fun fact: of all s2 episodes, only 1 episode wasn't picked as someone's favorite! (okay, idk why it's important to me to point out, I just think it's interesting!! Though I can admit I could probably phrase it better. I think the fave episodes are spread out pretty evenly for each season though, which is really neat in my opinion.)

Top 5 s3 episodes, as voted: Chapter 46 > Chapter 38 > Chapter 37 > Chapter 36 (we are not immune to a good tragic love story, I see) & Chapter 43 > Chapter 44

For a while, Chapter 38 had the most votes which I thought was.. idk how to better phrase it, but.. sweet. Because Carpenter's returning home episode was the fave of s2 and if Faulkner's returning home episode had also been the fave... something something we sure do love these terrible siblings, huh? But! Unsurprisingly the finale is the big fave of the season. How many of us have recovered from it??

Fun fact: Of season 3, only 3 episodes weren't chosen!

Boooo I shouldn't have given y'all the option to abstain from picking!! "Don't make me choose," you cowards!! /lh

mandatory link to this recommendation

Favorite episode title:

Hi. So, um. I'm an idiot. And didn't realize that Google Form automatically turns short answers into a bar graph. So unfortunately, the results for this one is..well

And half of these are the exact same title with slightly different phrasing 🙃

BUT I'm nothing if not determined so I went through and organized everything though I didn't make a pie chart. Needless to say. I think we all know the favorite episode title (care to make a guess?)

Favorite episode title: But We'll Never Be Rid of Each Other (25%)

Its Wrath Shall Scald the Sun came second with only 9% of the vote. We sure do love our doomed siblings, huh?

[monstrousproductions]

not an archive submission, just an ask that exceeded the inbox limit!

i’ve spent all afternoon re-listening to the last several episodes of the silt verses and just wanted to say how FLOORED i am by your rane portrayal. SO GOOD. i know you’ve already heard a lot of this from other listeners but truly. so fucking good. obviously an incredible amount of the work can be attributed to jon and muna being excellent writers and sound editors, but right now i’m listening to that last scene in chapter 44 and i just. love it so much. the slow build of tension.. it’s incredible how well you captured rane’s changing perspective and attempts to placate faulkner, how there’s such a visceral combination of earnestness and blatant manipulation – all of the PAUSES. the pauses and the hesitation all have their own unspoken meanings. on my first listen, i knew rane was doomed from the moment the door was locked, but the way you and b narr played this political dance with each other.. ough. fantastic. it was less a feeling of “maybe they’ll get out of this” and more “oh god, they’re trying so hard.” one of my favorite things about the silt verses is how compellingly it fleshes out the ensemble cast & i definitely felt that with rane’s arc. political fantasy drama and dangerous conversations are always my FAVORITE things in media, you (and b and jon and muna) knocked it out of the PARK.

thank you for your work! i’m looking forward to exploring your own monstrous productions ^-^

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Thank you so much!! I get submissions very rarely so am not quite sure if I’m posting this right 😅 I really really appreciate you getting in touch, the response to Rane has been so wonderful - it’s always lovely to hear from people who’ve enjoyed listening to them as much as I enjoyed playing them!

Truly there cannot be enough praise heaped on Jon, Muna and B. for their parts in those scenes. TSV is far and away one of my favourite pieces of fiction in any genre, any medium, and its down to the incredible work from everyone on both sides of the microphone. Jon and B. were also just fantastic to work with as director and scene partner respectively, I had such a blast recording with them!

Also I’m delighted you felt the pauses/silences so strongly! Jon writes quite differently than I do, I think because he’s writing for other people to act from - I can just write ‘beat’ or ‘pause’ and know what I mean whereas he has to get his actors to understand what’s happening emotionally in the scene. So there were quite a few moments where the script would say something like, “Rane gives Faulkner a confused look” or something and I’d be like ….. well how the fuck do we make that audible 😂 But I think we pulled it off! It’s important in audio to not be afraid of those pauses and silences that help the emotions of a scene come through, and I think Jon does that brilliantly 😍

[sassylich]

i know i say this with basically every episode so sorry if this is getting annoyingg but your performance was **INSANE**. i listened to tsv 44 this morning and have spent the rest of the day pretty much delirious from how faulkners, ah, actions made me feel. what an amazing job you did on him. it was so powerful and your RANGE is amazing. got me quaking in my boots

catwyk please know that getting asks like this will never annoy me ��💕 it is always a DELIGHT

seriously, thank you so much!!! 😭 making people feel things is the exact reason i act, it's the best, and i'm honored!! massive props to jon for writing the aforementioned Actions, boy howdy