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I'm sending @midnightburgr to @thesiltverses -verse to pick up Paige and Hayward for a shift. Those two are creative problem solvers and I think they deserve a little holiday in a world where creative problem solving solves problems and then your friends give you a high five and make you waffles, instead of creating new problems and also inviting terrible punishment and suffering for your hubris

Game: choose a podcast character (or three), and then a second, different podcast to send them into for a while.

It could be to bully them, to give them some relief, or even just to see them interact with the characters that live there.

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

"That’s what the Last Word tells me, and who are you to deny it? "

Still thinking about The Silt Verses (as you do). It's the podcast of all time. It's completely unique, there's nothing else like it. It's the best piece of media I ever came across. Its Horror but the horror was not the important thing. It's about people perpetrating the horror, unable to break free from the system. It's about people turning their back on the system, breaking the cycle and still dying. There was love and kindness and it didn't save them but it mattered. There's so much queer representation in the most beautiful way. It will hit you in the feelings with a sledgehammer in the purest form of carthasis. The Chekovs gun is a crab nuke. There's a bitter old aroace woman who's allowed to be bitter and old and aroace. There's a guy called Chuck Harm. Joe Biden sex coma. It's about late-stage capitalism. It's about family and community and belonging. It's about gifts offered freely. I could write so many essays on how none of it mattered and everything mattered. It's completely rotted my brain, if you couldn't tell by now. The audio quality is fantastic, the voice acting made me cry so often. It's the podcast of all time.

I saw this Tiktok and I knew I had to, GO CRAB BOY GO

(Original Tiktok under cut)

I LOVE how you made Carpenter aromantic, I was wondering what was the process behind making that decision and how you incorporated it into the script?

Thank you very much!

Well, the issue of how social normativity (and in this case specifically amatonormativity) can put us under intense pressure to perform in certain ways - to conform into a shape that's pleasing and expected to those around us and which allows us to navigate more easily through the morass of other people but which may end up consuming us - is a big underlying theme across both of our shows, both in its own right and as an example of our wider preoccupation about how our hopeless yearning to make sense of ourselves can end up destroying us.

With that in mind, Carpenter's confident and settled aromanticism felt very appropriate as an expression of her existential self-reliance and her ability, through self-knowledge and just a little obstinacy, to avoid getting trapped into a shape that someone else has chosen for her. She goes one better than the Promised Bride in that sense (Although that said, I really did want to ensure she still felt relatable and real as an aro individual, and not just as - like she says - an allegory.)

my god. Hayward and Carpenter roadtrip. this is everything i ever wanted and needed in my life. my heart is full, my soul is singing. im fucking obsessed with them, these fucking people oh my god absolutely insane. i would give literally anything to be a fly on the wall of that car

Wouldnt it just be truly fucking awful if it was only people out here, and nothing else?

anyways this is like my favourite carpenter monologue of all time it destroys me. so yk i had to draw it. ALSO you can BET i used @catwyk 's incredible parish designs and @valtsv 's leech halo for faulkner. because i gotta steal their smartypants ideas

pov your friend just got ritual sacrificed and you're trying to have a moment but your inner monologue gets interrutped by an unhinged twink trying to add grand theft auto to his list of crimes

just started listening to the silt verses and i like carpenter a normal amount

they call him chuck harm because of how they chuck him in harm's way

he's so fucking funny i'm sorry

ok but you know what back in glottage we don’t have to put up with this shit. day after day the vast majority of people go to work. they get through the day intact. reality stays within the usual permitted confines. but out here in the countryside towns flood and dirt patches eat you. and people turn into fucking shrimp.

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

ID in alt!

High prophet Faulkner, my beloved anger incarnate.

"Do you understand me?"

everytime VAL speaks in the podcast I grip my seat trembling and sweating. Which I suppose is apt given her, uh, whole deal

mr press secretary a second crab has hit the moridame

bear witness. to my ascension - and my victory

"To become a Katabasian is to shed skin and soul, to drown, and in drowning, be born anew!

Do you accept this offering from the depths?"

alts under the cut

I truly couldn't decide between the versions, so you get them all. I would like to thank Jon Ware, Muna Hussen and B. Narr for giving me insomnia