The Drop (dir. Sarah Adina Smith).
Jermaine Fowler and Anna Konkle star as a married couple in the deceptively simple premised vacation comedy about the repercussions of dropping and injuring a baby. Despite the laser-focused comedic setup, the loose film drives down on its characters, situational nature, and awkward jokes. There’s not much to the thin plot where the comic actors and comedians are allowed to riff on the nature of their situation.
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Binged through The Silt Verses and needed to get down how I saw them in my head.
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lil sketchdump for the silt verses because i miss them.....a lot.....
edit: added ID below, originally written by @princess-of-purple-prose, thank you so much!
[ID: Silt Verses fanart done in dark brown.
1. On the left, Carpenter’s narration hangs next to a portrait of Nana Glass, an older woman with fishhooks radiating around her face and curly hair tied in a high bun. Carpenter says, “Over the long years, she pierced her ears and cheeks and lips with seventeen barbed hooks of varying shapes and sizes in devotion to the Trawler-man.” A note says “*hair curls look like hooks.”
On the right, a young Em and Carpenter walk with Nana, who looks ahead as they stop to look at the corpse floating in the river. Carpenter’s narration says, “Em and I would run and play for hours in the waterlogged garden, dancing amongst the sweetgrass. Leaping over the bobbing buoys of the lifeless, sackcloth-covered heads that bobbed in rows along the shallows.”
2. The bride and bridegroom in a church. The bride is a towering hermit crab-like figure with a mostly-human torso that a long veil flows off the head of. The narration says, “And as the bridegroom staggers back, aghast, he sees the angels part, and his promised bride comes forward to the head of the procession. Swept inland upon new towering legs, smiling as she strides forwards to meet him.”
3. Mercer and Gage, smiling teens dressed in furs and skulls and carrying guns. As Gage says, “We dress in the things we kill, in sallow bone and in bloodied rough fur. Mercer's hood is topped with a goat skull; mine with the skull of a dog.”
4. Carpenter, Paige, and Faulkner in a car together. Carpenter looks tired as she drives, and Faulkner smiles in the passenger’s seat as he and a smiling Paige split a Kit-Kat. Text from the season one recap says: “MÉABH: Carpenter and Paige drag him to the car and the three best friends that there ever ever was... go on a roadtrip :)”. The words “go on a roadtrip” are handwritten in. End ID]
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Despite everything, it’s still you.
Also like- I know I made Paige look wayy to pretty in the second one- don’t ask me where she got the fancy clothes, I just went ham.
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if I had a nickel for every trans silt verses character who had a father that accepted their transition but was a bad father in other ways and they reunited in time for the beginning of closure to happen only for the father to be killed by godly forces…
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I love how TSV protagonists are parallels and foils to each other. Faulkner, devoured by the faith he loves. Carpenter, disillusioned with a god that loves her. Paige, who hates and is hated by her god child. Hayward is also there.
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Finally sat down to take my shot at drawing the Silt Verses main characters the way I imagine them
[ID: busts of Carpenter, Faulkner, Hayward, and Paige set against a blue and purple background. All of them are dressed in practical clothing meant for keeping warm.
Carpenter is a pale woman with gray-blue eyes--maybe in her 40s. She has long, graying sandy brown hair pulled into a braid over her shoulder.
Faulkner is a young adult with a round face and a heavyset frame. He has brown eyes and medium-long brown hair pulled back into a half bun. His tan skin is dotted with freckles.
Hayward is a man with Japanese features, perhaps in his thirties. He has graying medium length black hair and thick stubble. There are dark bags under his eyes.
Paige is a white woman in her thirties. She has brown eyes and long, straight brown hair with a streak of gray in it. She wears a small white crocus flower behind her ear. End ID]
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The way that Faulkner and Paige are approaching their prophethood in such different ways is so interesting to me
Neither of them really... thought through the implications of their actions, and the actual real responsibility that would come with it. And now they're both stuck in a position where so many people are relying on them, and they're so unsure of themselves but they both have to keep face.
Paige had someone to help her bear the weight of it. She had Hayward, so she was able to take her time to fall apart so she could put herself back together again.
But Faulkner pushed away the one person who would be willing to do that for him, and now he can't afford to fall apart, so he's rushing to repair things and keep things afloat.
This is sort of just a half thought out ramble, but I think the comparison is definitely worth thinking about
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