#silt...co

[solgemn]

yn what im gonna say it

im obsessed with this man and i think we should talk abt this more

[eliassimp]

How it feels to listening podcasts when english is not your first language

[lunarhorrors]

i’m in desperate need of fiction podcast recommendations. podcast enjoyers please share your favorite podcasts

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Redemption Bracket — Round 3

Propaganda

Mariana Ametxazurra (Sherlock & Co.) (Boba Count: 2):

she is a badass she is a queen she is not not Mrs Hudson and she quit her job to hang around with these two loosers and shes having the time of her life

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses) (Boba Count: 2):

She quit her shitty office job to start a cult with the intention of toppling capitalism. She brought a man back to life through the power of improv theater. She’s either burning with a righteous fury or a washed up and pathetic. She even has daddy issues. Listen to me listen to me Paige is the full package and I need her to return my calls

Art of Paige thanks to @cookiesandcantarella-art.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Mariana Ametxazurra (Sherlock & Co.):

VOTE MARIANA!!!! #she’s a polyglot #extremely smart #saw a chance to get work and took it! #queen #such pretty voice in all languages #speaks Spanish English Italian Japanese French #Portuguese I think too?

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses):

#paige!!!! the widow herself!!!!

#SILTSWEEP AGAIN

#PAIGE PAIGE PAUGE #VOTE PAIGE #she’s even trans!

Paige nation rise up

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

[yewstronaut]

alright I need more podcast reccs, fiction, non-fiction, inter-dimensional, all are welcome just drop the name in the comments (I'll tag ones I've already listened too)

[friendlyfirestarter]

The Silt Verses are BACK BABY! And it's nothing but bangers

[procrastinatingattorney]

going "booooo" at people calling spelunking "cave diving", cos cave diving is infinitely more fucked up

[podcast-official]

podcasts based on what other weirdly specific media you like, based on vibes, genre, sense of humor, and what message the story is trying to teach you:

gravity falls/over the garden wall:

-welcome to night vale

-nowhere, on air

-where the stars fell

-monstrous agonies

-death by dying

andrew joseph white books:

-hello from the hallowoods

-the silt verses

-witherburn after school news

-the magnus archives

-alice isn't dead

-old gods of appalachia

she-ra, steven universe, etc:

-the orbiting human circus

-the penumbra podcast

-the bright sessions

doctor who:

-the strange case of starship iris

sherlock/other sort of aesthetic crime dramas/period pieces:

-wooden overcoats

-the kingmaker histories

-fawx and stallion

-sherlock & co.

(i know these categories make no cohesive sense i promise it made sense in my head)

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game

By Gabriel Robinson & Jason Cordova

A game of folk horror & monstrous divinity.

From the drivethrurpg page: "In The Silt Verses RPG, you play Custodians, employees of the Bureau for the Investigation and Assimilation of Stray Deities. In a world with tens of thousands of gods, your job is to track down the forgotten and stray deities causing trouble in the community and… deal with them. Sometimes that means figuring out how a community can co-exist with the god, and sometimes that means eliminating the god's threat in a more extreme way. Regardless, you are a pawn within an uncaring system, and will eventually be the target of a conspiracy that will try to use your work for its own nefarious purposes."

[eliassimp]

So fellas, if you had to name a child after something in your favourite podcast... What would the name be???

I start

Panopticon

[thesiltverses]

Weird question about The Silt Verses. Is there an in-universe equivalent of Communist/Socialist thought?

There absolutely could be in theory (I really enjoyed Disco Elysium's three-degrees-askew fantasy rendering of communism under a leader whose name was presumably a Karamazov/Grand Inquisitor reference), but I think the general principle of the setting is that it would have been co-opted, minimalised, whitewashed, or demonised by the time we get to it, and any remaining strands of thought clearly vulnerable to abuse.

If they can figure out how to harness it, Sid Wright's let's all go together to transform into the slumbering shape of our god egalitarianism is sort of lining people up to be eaten in honour of a new deity of sleepytime tea, right?

I can easily imagine TSV-world operating lots of little communes which appear independent and self-sufficient but which are, effectively, free-range sacrifice fields.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Redemption Bracket — Round 3.5

Propaganda

Mariana Ametxazurra (Sherlock & Co.) (Boba Count: 3):

she is a badass she is a queen she is not not Mrs Hudson and she quit her job to hang around with these two losers and shes having the time of her life

Sister Carpenter (The Silt Verses) (Boba Count: 1):

She's tall. She's aroace. She was raised in a cult and got sent on a pilgrimage for said cult and told her god to go fuck himself. She loves pancakes.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Mariana Ametxazurra (Sherlock & Co.):

VOTE MARIANA!!!! #she’s a polyglot #extremely smart #saw a chance to get work and took it! #queen #such pretty voice in all languages #speaks Spanish English Italian Japanese French #Portuguese I think too?

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Sister Carpenter (The Silt Verses):

#carpenter is the rare heroic slasher #she has killed more people than we know #at least two gods personally cherish her #in a world where gods aren't people they still personally cherish her #that is how sexy sister carpenter is

The Best one-liners and mic drops around, nothing sexier than a crisis of faith, unwavering commitment to saving everyone has all the panties dropping, certified milf

#we have no idea if she’s ace #but she IS the sexiest character in this poll tournament

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

People have been disagreeing about whether or not she is ace. This has been submitted as Word Of God evidence.

[sassylich]

we're starting SAIL THE OCEANS QUEER with an AMAZING cast in 20 minutes (including my fabulous silt verses co-star méabh de brún)!!!

come hang out and donate to join a GREAT raffle for fab prizes!!!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Some Law-Related Vocabulary

for your poem/story (pt. 3/4)

After-born - born after a certain event (as a father's death or the execution of a will)

Aliunde - from another source

Alluvion - material (as clay, silt, sand, or gravel) deposited by running water

Bona fide - characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit; being real or genuine, sincere

Brain death - the final stopping of activity in the central nervous system especially as indicated by a flat electroencephalogram for a usually statutorily predetermined period of time

Cas fortuit - fortuitous event (i.e., an event of natural or human origin that could not have been reasonably foreseen or expected and is out of the control of the persons concerned)

Choice of evils defense - a defense to a criminal charge based on the assertion that the criminal act was committed to avoid the commission of an even greater evil

Civil fruit - the revenue derived from property especially by virtue of an obligation (as a lease)

Death with dignity law - a law legalizing the self-administration by a terminally ill person of life-ending medication prescribed by a physician; also called "right-to-die law"

Defalcation - failure to account for or pay over money that has been entrusted to one's care; a failure to meet a promise or an expectation

Embracery - an attempt to influence a jury corruptly

Evidentiary harpoon - evidence consisting especially of a police officer's statement that is improper and is knowingly offered by the prosecution to prejudice the defendant in the eyes of the jury

Ex aequo et bono - according to what is equitable and good

Excited utterance - a statement that concerns a startling event (as a physical assault) and that is made by a person while under stress caused by the event

Featherbedding - the unfair labor practice of causing an employer to pay for services which are not performed (as by requiring more workers than necessary)

Feticide - the act of causing the death of a fetus

Fishing expedition - an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence

Flagrante delicto - in the very act of committing a misdeed; also: in the midst of sexual activity

Flat rule - a generalized rule applied without consideration for specific circumstances; called also "per se rule"

Gift inter vivos - a gift made during the lifetime of the donor and delivered with the intent of surrendering immediately and irrevocably dominion and control over the property

Hedonic damages - damages deemed to compensate for the loss of enjoyment of life resulting from a wrongful act

Inadvertent discovery - unexpected finding of incriminating evidence in plain view by the police

Mental cruelty - conduct by one spouse that renders the other's life miserable and unendurable and that is a ground for divorce

Mens rea - a culpable mental state

Noscitur a sociis - a doctrine or rule of construction: the meaning of an unclear or ambiguous word (as in a statute or contract) should be determined by considering the words with which it is associated in the context

Pecuniary - consisting of, measured in, or relating to money

Peonage - labor in a condition of servitude to extinguish a debt

Perils of the sea - perils that are peculiar to the sea but are of such an extraordinary nature and power that one cannot guard against them using ordinary skill and prudence

Quashal - an act of quashing something

Riparian - of or relating to or living or located on the bank of a watercourse (as a river or stream) or sometimes a lake

Scintilla - a small trace or barely perceptible amount of something (as evidence supporting a position)

Silent witness theory - a theory or rule in the law of evidence; photographic evidence (as photographs or videotapes) produced by a process whose reliability is established may be admitted as substantive evidence of what it depicts without the need for an eyewitness to verify the accuracy of its depiction

Vulture fund - an investment company that buys up bankrupt or insolvent companies with the goal of reorganizing them so they can be profitably resold as going concerns

Wrongful conception - a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a healthy but unwanted child usually against a physician or health-care provider for alleged negligence in performing a sterilization or abortion procedure and sometimes against a pharmacist or pharmaceutical manufacturer of contraceptives; also called "wrongful pregnancy"

Youthful offender - a young person (as one within a statutorily specified age range) who commits a crime but is granted special status entitling him or her to a more lenient punishment (as one involving probation or confinement in a special youth correctional facility) than would otherwise be available

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Law-Related Words ⚜ Word Lists

[v3lvieraven]

Yandere! Lemon shark X Reader

Marine biology was your passion, this was one of your new projects that involved a few more people than you would have liked it too. Most of them were either total assholes or lazy, either way though, you still managed to have fun with it. You were placed in a small cottage, where you would reside for as little as 3 weeks to 5 months to study the new kelp forests.

Strange ruins had been surrounding them, species of fish that lived in the abyssal zone (abyssopelagic) had been spotted near.

Tonight you had to research and observe the kelp forests closely underwater, your co-worker that was supposed to be with you, was talking selfies on the shore with her bathing suit on. Your eyes roll as you take mental notes on your surroundings, still recording with your waterproof camera… your completely still as the fish swim around you gracefully, an anglerfish comes out of the kelp getting right up to your face. You gasp, slightly in fear but mostly amazement before It swims away to catch its prey.

You hum in satisfaction, swimming up to the surface to take off the goggles and rub at your eyes, feeling the drowsiness seep in. You notice that the girl- known as Jane, had left. You groan before diving back in only to be met with two yellow eyes, his dark hair with white streaks at the bottom shone in the moonlight. He wasn’t human at all, he didn’t have gills but it seemed as if he could breathe perfectly fine, his hair is down to his knees, a giant silt smooth tail with little shark fins going down it stood out.

He had claws, long claws, his feet were webbed a little bit, and he had resembled a lemon shark… but humanoid. With legs and a long tail fins on his back.

His movements are hesitant as he inspects you, you reciprocate this inspection from a distance, mouth agape with the mask being the barrier from salt water filling your lungs. He comes closer, grabbing your hand, you jump slightly to pull away. He lets go quickly with a widen of his eyes, not because of you , but he heard rustling from above the water… he glared at the land above, turning back to you he points to himself and then puts a finger to your mask, right where your lips would be…. He was telling you to be quiet about him..

Sometimes you would see him out of the water, walking around cautiously, staying near your cabin. The first two weeks you both were wary of each other, but he still followed you around in the water and on shore… after you both got used to each other, he would cling to you. His claws sometimes leaving marks on your back when he hugged you, but only when you were about to leave. Some of the teammates that would slack off disappeared, only in the day though, when you were asleep. Each time he would seem so giddy that same night…

It had took four months to finish your project. When you had to leave he was absolutely devastated, but made no move to stop you, only taking off your mask and giving you kisses all over your face.

You went back to your aquatic lab, consisting of many sea animals, lake animals and more in enormous tanks to resemble their natural ecosystems for a better effect. You came back about a week after you left to upload all of your documentations, files, reports and more… they had been working on a new kelp forest environment for the specimens you had picked carefully.. but why was he here too??

He puts his hand on the glass while staring at you with a lovesick smile, watching as your mouth hangs agape. He takes the wet soil onto his finger and traces something onto the glass- “Novak”

You had asked your lead scientist about why he was here…

“Miss-“

“Marlowe” she corrected yoy sternly

“Marlowe… what is he doing here?”

“He had caused a commotion for the town nearby, so we got alerted and now we are studying him.” She informs you without an ounce of emotion “He has been a bit.. aggressive.. towards other staff members, they won’t go in his tank at all… so I was hoping you would be brave enough to go in?” She asked, you nod.

Your swim gear was tight against you with the water, swimming near the man he immediately hugs you, pulling you into his new cave, a big air pocket present as he drags you onto the rocky shore. There were cameras in here of course, he knew that.

“My Name is Novak” he mutters quickly, his body quickly surrounded yours as he cuddled you tightly. His claws digging into your back once again, not enough to draw blood, but enough to leave a big mark.

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If you can’t tell I really like marine biology and kelp forests, love to include them in my writing as well.

[cookiesandcantarella]

You know the silt verses is great because we get to see Hayward trade in his job as a cop to become co-leader of the government-toppling murder-suicide cult and this is a huge sign of positive character development for him. Where else would you get this????