#listening to tsv

[ichabodcranemills]

me when Val is doing literally anything: Val terrifies me, she must be stopped! (just not by Carlson, I hate that guy)

me the moment Val says she’s in pain: Val??? is hurt??? 🥺🥺🥺 nooooo!!! someone protect her 😭😭😭

[seven-winged-liar]

Yeah, okay so this keeps happening

[woodlouseonastring]

podcasts are great because it's like having a friend tell you about their day while you're doing the dishes but instead it's a bunch of guys running around and experiencing the horrors

[lunacias]

(Silence. CARPENTER tries to rally HAYWARD's spirits. She's afraid she's going to lose him.)

"All three of us - we can all go on living, Hayward. Just like you said."

[woodsphinx]

These are the marks of the Many Below.

Use them, pass them on, do not forget the suffering that keeps the engines of this world turning..

[doghart]

i’m catching up on tsv, i think something that eskew prod does extremely well is using horror absurdism to capture the absurd horror of capitalism. it’s clear in eskew too, but i think it’s especially fantastic in the silt verses. the casualness with which sacrifice is discussed. how red lobster has a god that has and continues to take human sacrifice, and so do cereal companies, cops, and the grueling start up that has a “fun room”. it captures EXTREMELY well how it feels to live under capitalism, that you’re constantly bombarded with horrible things, discussed cheerily in a nice tone. the way it’s simultaneously numbing, hysterical, and horrifying. i think i was especially fond of how in ep 39, protest against sacrifice was taken as radical, a propostorus, idealistic thing that’s just so SILLY it’s not even worth considering, something that feels very real to revolutionary organizing/protest irl. i also liked how despite the face, when everything gets down to it, when everything is about profit, all people come down to are bodies. all capitalism is a gaping maw, and it eats the poor and marginalized first, but doesn’t STOP eating just there. the very literalized version of this, where the profit wheel (and all that includes— war mongering, the prison industrial complex, wage labor, etc) is given a very real literal set of teeth, but the body count is the same. so the electric company has a god, and so it takes humans sacrifice. do real electric companies not have a very real human cost? overworked and underpaid labors looking to make rent, or well off comfortable employees no less likely to get the axe under profit margins, or the blood shed when colonizing in the first place, in clearing the space for the electric company to move in. is that not also a very real human sacrifice? the commercial aimed at elderly people talking about “back in my day, we would just talk about all this human sacrifice and find a compromise :)” is so bleakly hysterical, but is that not very accurate? that you can put a good face on it, but in the end what it comes down to is that you’re being sold the chance to be human fodder? that there is no glory or honor on a battlefield or in working yourself to death, just mud and shit and bodies to throw at problems. idk! i’m rambling but it’s a deeply engaging podcast.

[thatrandombystander]

"average person kills 1 sibling in their lifetime" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person kills 0 siblings. Brother fratricides Faulkner, who lives in a cult & adopts new siblings to kill, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[thekhaninglass]

The truth - as we have painstakingly established across the previous chapters - is this. There is no idea so grand that it may not be murdered one day in the slumber of its own complacence.

There is no tool which may not be repurposed, no meaning which will not turn to nonsense - given time.

Time is the cruellest and the kindest deity, for it mocks those who seek to triumph from it; for it suffers no power, humours no tyrant; it topples every great justice, dismembers reason, rots progress, forgets the stories we laid down at its feet.

@thesiltverses - Chapter 41

[cherrywhite]

Amidst everything in the finale I'd like to say how much I adore Elgin and Paige's dynamic at the end of everything. That Elgin started out as Paige's biggest critic in the beginning, merely tolerating her and quickly losing patience with her, only to end up as a sister to Paige. "You're the only one we're likely to lose faith in" she says. Cut to the finale and Elgin is the among the group leaving everything behind because of the faith they have in Paige. "We need your here with us." she says as she gently encourages Paige back to her feet so that they may continue walking into the unknown.

[cairnmaidens]

just about every character in the silt verses could wear a "i caused an international incident and all i got was this lousy t-shirt" shirt and it would be accurate

[crustaceousfaggot]

[ichabodcranemills]

this might seen minor on the season that has Val, but I shivered at “idea conduit”. I think it’s particularly chilling given the context of a summit to figure out how to better sacrifice people, with the cheery corporate babble that’s awfully familiar to me

[worldwright]

yknow I don't really know what I expected from The Silt Verses. but I don't think that this visceral, scathing, brutal, and unrelenting critique of the inherent dehumanization of capitalism and the crushing weight of an industrialized society was on my list.

[lunacias]

this is how it ends

[woodsphinx]

The Promised Bride

[ianthewife]

i miss you Mercer tsv:( she just wanted to wreck bloody carnage and slaughter and murder man and god alike to build a ravenous god out of the carcasses of her quarry like since when is it illegal…………. god forbid women do anything god forbid women have hobbies…………..