#hayward

[rottingraisins]

[melandrops]

every friend group gotta have:

-aspec bitch

-transmasc failure

-lesbian who worked in advertising

-ex cop

[mintytea-exe]

carpenter: I'm glad paige has escaped from here and hayward didn't get to her

paige and hayward creating a new god at that exact moment: 💃🕺

[eyesteeth]

love the diner scene in episode 5 so much. on the surface it's hysterical, hayward just dumps this rant about his wife (soon to be ex-wife) onto carpenter, someone he fully believes to be involved in the deaths of five men, with barely any prompting. and carpenter cringes through the whole thing and it's so awkward to listen to. it's four minutes of an incredibly realistic rendition of the worst conversation possible.

and then later you learn that there is no ex-wife. hayward just said that shit off the cuff. and it's so fucking funny on a second listen. all that awkwardness, to a stranger, about something that didn't even happen.

when he mentions his wife again in episode 14, something's clearly off - his speech about the good man running, it feels more like him talking about himself than describing what someone said to him. then, when he says his wife knows he's at the party in episode 18/S2E3, we know he's been on his own for a while. finally, it comes out in episode 27/S2E12 that she was never real. and this knowledge completely recontextualizes the whole encounter in episode 5.

him talking about fear and apprehension, that mounting feeling, desperately wanting something to be over but not wanting to make it be over, feeling like you're giving more than you're taking, it's very clearly him ranting about his job and his associated insecurities. he goes into feeling like he's going to lose himself if he pulls away from this "relationship" or come out the other side worsened from the whole ordeal.

and then carpenter pipes in, and says that there's another option - he can destroy the other party. and that's where this scene really clicks and comes together, because the thoughts hayward is having about his job are the same thoughts carpenter is having about her faith.

she also doesn't want to be here, both in the sense of being in this town and being in this position. she's tired of gods and the problems they cause for her and everyone, and she's struggling with leaving. hayward and carpenter foil each other incredibly in this regard. they even have similar forces pushing them to make this choice in the first place - hayward got into the police because he didn't want to let his mother down, and carpenter got into the church because of the fear surrounding her brother's death. it's guilt and family for both of them.

then, in season two, we get to see them both existing outside of their respective "bad partners" - hayward abandoning his job and working with paige, and carpenter traveling alone to bury the body she's given. (the similarities diverge here - carpenter spends this time alone reflecting and ultimately decides she needs no higher force in her life, while hayward feels directionless without a higher authority and so goes all in on the new god - they both go in very different directions with the momentum they're given)

now, with season three six days away, they're both being pursued by that same "bad partner" from before - hayward was already on the run from the police and making a god isn't going to put him in any better graces, and carpenter has the forces of the river faith coming after her for a double-murder she didn't do. when their paths converge, which is very likely, maybe they'll foil each other again. only time will tell.

[twomystdunstans]

HAYWARD I HAVE FEELINGS FOR YOU.

[kinglindwyrm]

hayward voted funniest character arc in the world

[the-zenith-calls]

UNOFFICIAL and UNAFFILIATED trailer for The Silt Verses made using stock videos and sounds, and audio from some of the episodes

[rainewintersnow]

TSV season 3 ep 1 spoips so it's below a cut

Season 1 Hayward:

Season 2 Hayward:

Season 3 Hayward:

[spoondrifts]

he's so fucking funny i'm sorry

[babeluda]

OMG Carpenter and Hayward in that opening scene I'm in love

yesss affable Hayward the people whisperer strikes again

Carpenter really pulls out all the stops to offend him and drive him away but then he goes along with it. A master. An inspiration to all who want to endear themselves to the scum of the earth

I love the mirror this is to all the Faulkner and Carpenter in car dead end interactions too

[pocketsizedquasar]

we keep ploughing on, through the dark and polluted waters — my prophet and me.

(ID: A photo of a sketchbook page with an ink drawing of a scene from the silt verses. In the foreground, a small motorboat with two passengers ploughs through the waves. Twisted and rotting carcasses of sea creatures impaled on black tendrils are raised into the air high above the sea. White crocus flowers burst from their wounds and float around the scene. The rest of the images are closeups on the drawing.)

[rottingraisins]

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

[lesbian-deadpool]

Y/N: My dad taught me that there is only one way to communicate with a bully.

Director Hayward: I see. And what was his advice?

Y/N: *Hits him*

[reverendlazarus]

housewife hayward arc <3

[shipwrecked-graveyard]

DNI IF YOU DON'T THINK HAYWARD DOESNT HAVE A SHITTY LITTLE MULLET !

[wingedjewels]

Hooded Merganser by Lee Greengrass Via Flickr: Don Castro Regional Recreation Area, Hayward, CA