#tsv relisten

[little-lamb-lyosha]

CHAPTER TWO OF TSV RELISTEN!

• the stitched lip monologue it fucking haunts me i'm always thinking about the little "i don't want to" GLASS EATING ISN'T ENOUGH

• i was already hooked on the podcast but what really made me in love of it was abel, the saint of the Waxen Scrivener the concept of a saint fascinated me so much

• Faulkner babydoll there's something very wrong with you 🥰💖

• the scene in front of the window of peterson with Faulkner taking photos they're so like siblings

[eatnightmares]

1.10 YESSSSS TOP 3 EPS OF THE FIRST SEASON IT'S SO UNDERRATED...WHISPER AND BABBLE MY BELOVED

tides that offer and tides that seize...the corpse tide...

WELL U WERE RIGHT LIL BUDDY...

THIS IS THE CLOSEST THEY EVER GET TO. GAH. PAAAAAIGE

bangs fist on floor. do you carp. do you wish 10 year old you could see you now.

oh carp...this isn't ur heart...

the way they speak to each other makes me so crazy...my only love...

ARE YOU LISTENING MY RIVER CAN YOU HEAR ME. THE WORLD IS CURSED, CAN'T YOU MAKE IT BETTER? I'VE LEARNT TO WEATHER AS MUCH AS I NEED TO. HAVEN'T I GIVEN ENOUGH OF MYSELF TO YOU? I WON'T DIE A FOOL, STILL WAITING AND HOPING. LET'S KILL OURSELVES!!!!!

BLOWS UP

("fucking up proactively" omg carpenter you're so funnyyyyyy twirls my hair)

BABYGIRL OF ALL TIME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE JUST WRAP HER UP IN SOME COZY BLANKETS HUH!!! HASN'T SHE EARNED IT!!!!!!!!

carpenter jokes in ep6 about "getting into property" and literally living in the walls...her parallels w whisper...

what if i wept and wailed

I'LL LISTEN IF YOU ONLY SPEAK. RIPS MYSELF IN HALF

(shaking so hard i start seeing shrimp colors) carpenter "corpse carer" tsv soothing it to it's death. sympathizing with the fear of your god not listening or answering. faulkner's dream abt mason being disappointed with them. using your last breath to whisper you were made for me and i was made for you. "withered little thing"

I'LL LISTEN IF YOU ONLY SPEAK. ARE YOU THERE? ARE YOU LISTENING? CAN YOU HEAR ME DO WE UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER? IT'S TOO LATE. (ATOMS FLY APART AND EXPLODE)

i think about this episode all the time something about it scratches my brain so good. the nature of "personal" gods. codependent little freaks <3 (and now w the context of the finale OUGH)

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

WHY DID HE SAY THIS. WHAT POSSESSED HIM.

[rottingraisins]

reality doesn’t stay still, when the winds blow from the south

[unbloodiedmartyr]

their doglike charm and pathological people pleasing have bewitched me body and soul

[woodlouseonastring]

i love how immediately attached paige got to faulkner and carpenter, because she gets kidnapped by them and in the space of a couple days she's like 'these two idiots haven't a fucking clue what they're doing i've got to go rescue one of them from the police'

[themostdearofspaghettis]

Can’t wait to catch up on my podcasts so I can relisten to my podcasts

[lights-at-night-art]

...shrue with the interruption cactus

[3584-tropical-fish]

Chapter one Carpenter is so unserious. “I’m not with you 🙄”, “did you give them our pamphlets? 😑” I love her so much

[cherrywhite]

Haha what a fun episode where nothing bad happened! 😀 anyway tall Carpenter (or short Cross?) Confirmed????

[crimeronan]

everybody talks about and memes on the euphoria-and-tragedy of carpenter and faulkner becoming siblings when you forgot to consider that faulkner had killed his sibling before but ALSO. have any of you guys ever stopped and. just. thought about em.

thought about carpenter's brother giving himself up to the trawler-man body and soul. in a decision that made sense inasmuch as keeping his faith went, but was also wildly destructive and hurt people and more importantly, left his sister fully alone in the world. when she had already lost Everything else she held dear.... em's death as one of the things that most firmly shaped carpenter's tumultuous relationship with her own faith n the trawler-man, the miracles after he died and the helpless "you took everything from me" anger/grief combined.....

do you ever think about em as a man willing to give up everything for his god. including his sister. who loved him more than anything.

and then. DO YOU THINK ABOUT FAULKNER-

[little-lamb-lyosha]

In a completely different and not related to my own childhood note(lmao) i always feel so sad when listening carpenter's monologue about her childhood, Em and the pond 👍

"Children and adults hold different forms of faith. 

In Nana Glass’s old and crumbling house by the delta, our faith was both an existential certainty and my life’s grandest, most raucous game.

And

I ran out through the French windows, into the fresh and freezing dew of the garden, out into the world and towards nothing in particular, and all I could think through hot and angry tears was that Em had been struck down for my disloyalty; that the Trawler-Man had seen my faith’s collapse and had taken my brother to punish me. And as I stood there alone on the empty lawn, crying and sobbing with my hands clenching that morning I looked down into the depths of our pond and I saw that the goldfish were dead. Bobbing absurdly on the surface of the water, upon their sides. Their black rolling eyes staring upwards towards me. Shiny and still. Like five corpses floating in sealed cells. And an inexplicable, smooth tide rolled out from the water’s heart, slopping over the sill of the pond and soaking my trainers. The Silt Verses teach us that all rivers are one river. And all currents, sooner or later, find their way to the same silent garden beneath the waves. This was the first miracle my god showed me. There have been more since, over the years.

But that moment...alone, in the grey dawn, before a pondful of dead fish, knowing that I was seen, and knowing that all things were connected? That was the first time in my life I knew what terror really was. The first time I truly believed in you, my river.

I want to put the transcript of every part that break my heart but I'm supposed to be making chores

[eatnightmares]

1.8 roake episode and also the beginning of the fucking end!!! they're all so silly i need to eat glass about it

nooooo go back to the silly argumentssssss

god they really are the siblings ever though. immediately pouncing on how to hurt each other the most

smiling smiling smiles the smilerrrrr. should've started a count for how many times faulkner portents his own doom

rip paige you would've loved (hated) severance

omg this isn't in the audio "kind eyes" babygirl get your eyes checked 😭 she does call carpenter crow later which. blows up

OH TEAM PROPHET OHHHHHH LIVING IN A WORLD THEY CAN'T EVEN CONCEPTUALIZE TO EXIST WITHOUT SACRIFICE OH KINDNESS AS A FIRST INSTINCT OHHHH

🥺🥺

welcome back jonathan sims

welcome back david ward

ngl roake is still really hard to hear esp while in my car so i am just screencapping some of the more interesting bits hklrhgkl. but this is so coffincore...we don't know what would be waiting for us if we go forwards raahhh paige raaaahhhhh

once again Get His Ass (and carpenter insisting on listening all the way through like mason said...but stories are snares too...)

real promised bride hours...and his god literally being called prior happiness real sunlit garden hoursssss

STORIES ARE SNARES!!!!!! die slow, i beseech you...

lol.....haha................

ohhhh i get it. carpenter "the trawlerman had seen my faith's collapse and taken my brother to punish me". every time faulkner turns away from his god and towards carpenter, chooses carpenter, that's what dooms him. awesome.

so very very emotional about carpenter, injured herself and with a limp, carrying faulkner. and paige obviously doesn't have much of a choice but nonetheless driving for them. cherishing the roadtrip trio while i have them...Our paige...

IT'S OVER I NEED TO STOP LISTENING HERE IT'S SO FUCKING OVERRRRRR AAAAUUGGHHHHHHH

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

Chapter 28: To Drift On, To Dream, To Die.

Chapter 45: Of Love, And Gods' Defeat.

quite aside from the fact that this is an absolutely brutal parallel, I'm obsessed with how Faulkner cannot stop himself compulsively making the people around him into ghosts in his grand narrative. and yet he never escapes them, never assumes power over them. he's the one who remains haunted.

he assumes that an insubstantive Carpenter will be easier to wrangle, easier to narrativise, easier to fit into the Verses. but when it comes to it he can never quite make her into who he wants her to be, even when he really is imagining her. even when he believes he can hear her shouting back from beyond the torrent she still can't save him.

and, after all-- who will remember Faulkner? he killed his sibling. his sister is almost certainly dead. his faith have schismed and fled and will surely write him out of their holy texts.

he'll be a gap in the story of the destruction of Glottage, the division of the Parish, the rise of the Wound Tree. an absence-presence, almost invisible, helplessly and endlessly reshaped by other people's grand stories.

won't he be a ghost?

[hellofromthehallowoods]

"I'm still deciding whether to listen to The Silt Verses or Malevolent or Hello From The Hallowoods or relisten to TMA again, what do I do?” 

Alright. I suggest start with Malevolent, because it’s going to be a relatively short listen through and the fandom is super active. Episodes come out every couple of weeks, which means it’s not too hard to stay current. Prepare for a grittier tone than TMA, and a brilliant writer’s take on the Lovecraft universe minus the racism and misogyny. 

Then try The Silt Verses, which is boldly different from the others. Unlike the rest, you’ll actually be able to finish this one, because there’s two released seasons and a third and final season due later this year. Lots of body horror, unanswered prayers and religious trauma in this indie art film of a story. 

Hello From The Hallowoods is already quite lengthy and releases a new episode every week, so it’s more of an undertaking. Great places to pause are between seasons (E48, where a bunch of plot-relevant bonus episodes show up, and again at E96, same deal). Light on gore, but heavy on exploring homophobia and queer issues. 

I’ll always commend listening to new shows rather than revisiting the same old, (especially when shows like @hinaypod @somewhereohio, @jarofrebukepodcast, @mabelpodcast, Parkdale Haunt, and many more exist for your perusal) but I suspect the best time to revisit your TMA nostalgia will be when the inevitable re-listen parties and events start leading up to the release of The Magnus Protocol. 

[fallentofable]

If anyone is currently looking for a series to fall in love with, I cannot recommend The Silt Verses highly enough! It is a character-driven folk horror podcast about two people, Carpenter and Faulkner, who are disciples of the Parish of Tide and Flesh. They are from an outlawed faith, on run from the law, traveling up and down the white gull River, hoping to find signs of their God among the reeds. The story is constantly jumping at you with the most phenomenal twists and moments, and you will find yourself falling in love with each of the characters. Each and every moment of the story is rewarding, and the episodes often left me shouting out loud for just how awesome or vile or downright disturbing each second was.

If you want a story that'll wrap its way around you and consume your every waking thought (and many of your sleeping ones), listen to The Silt Verses.