#eskew is like

[cassowarywary]

[Start ID: 10 photos of a bound book of the I am in Eskew transcripts. Photos 1 through 4 show the casing with and without a dust jacket. The dust jacket is marbled silver and white with the title written on it in black ink, and the casing is black leather with vertical insets of the same silver and white paper, grey book cloth, and red book cloth. Photos 5 through 10 show the inside: the red and black marbled endpapers, the silver and white decoration paper, the title page with an illustration of a bird turning into a city, a translucent vellum page before Chapter Zero: Initiation, the beginning of Chapter 15: Crossroads which displays the red binding, and a closeup of a page from episode 20: Cruelty. /End ID]

I have always had plans to, once I finished the titlecard art pieces, print them with their corresponding transcripts for myself. Then I decided that I wanted to add the lineart pieces. Then I realized that the transcripts were not fully accurate, so I went through and transcribed corrections to match the audio. Then I decided that I wanted to go back and redo a couple of the titlecard pieces, etc, etc. This printed version ended up not including any art-- I don’t have access to a printer which can handle that--but I wanted a physical copy which I could annotate. As a result, this thing is huge. It’s easily twice the size of any book I’ve bound before, and the cut edges are a bit wonky, but I’m still really happy with it. 

#i am in eskew #my art #bookbinding #Part of the reason I prioritized this now even though I am so close to being done with the titlecards #Is because I am moving at the end of the month #and I won't have access to most of my art supplies for a couple of months at the very least #Also because. New city. New region. All alone travelling thousands of miles and living in a new part of the world. #Perfect time to read Eskew #I did do a proof of concept bind of Correspondence with my art in it a couple of months ago. #But I like this much better

[bulkhummus]

david ward

#i am something of a davidhead myself……………… #first pass at this little sucker #fascinated by him #shaping him in my mind like air dry clay as we speak #eskew #i am in eskew #art tag #davidward #davidheads

[lazy-toad]

Baby's first poll!! This time about traits that I feel are somewhat common in several podcast meow meows 👍

#i feel like i missed a few but yes #malevolent #malevolent podcast #tma #the magnus archives #wtnv #welcome to night vale #i am in eskew #the silt verses #tsv #the penumbra podcast #tpp #um there are others I'm forgetting

[boombox-fuckboy]

Hi!

I have been following this blog for a while now and I love using it to find new podcasts. I was wondering, if you have time, what you think is the scariest podcast you've listened to or what your favorite horror podcasts might be? Thank you, and I hope you have a great day :)

I'm so glad to have helped you find new shows!

I don't really get scared by horror podcasts (not sure why. It isn't some "I'm tough" thing, I get startled by the toaster, and it's not like I never feel unsettled or concerned or icked out at podcasts, just not scared) so I'm not sure I can give you a good answer on that one, but I'll gladly give you ten of my personal favourites instead:

Alice Isn't Dead: The podcast that got me into podcasts. A truck driver travels the USA looking for her wife, who until recently, she had thought was dead. Along the way she has all manner of strange encounters, and sees a side to the world that few truely comprehend.

Archive 81: A young archivist takes a job at a remote outpost organising and digitising a collection of tapes. On the tapes is a series of interviews and investigations made by a social worker in the 90s as she becomes familiar with a bizzare apartment building. The archivist, naturally, has an increasingly bad time. Each season is part of the same story, but they're all a bit different.

Ghost Wax: Recorded interviews conducted by the last surviving necromancer, and various people who died under seemingly otherworldly circumstances.

Hello From The Hallowoods: Supernatural and cosmic horror. A powerful and dramatic entity visits your nightmares to relay stories of the people (to varying degrees of both human and alive) who inhabit the beautiful and deadly Hallowoods. What start off as individual stories quickly connect to a larger narrative.

Hi Nay: A supernatural horror following a young woman named Mari, who's babaylan (shaman) family background draws her into helping people with various horrific supernatural problems around Toronto. Formatted as phone calls to her mother telling her what's happened.

I Am In Eskew: Often-horrific stories from a man living in something that very much wishes to be a city, and a private investigator who was, in her words, hired to kill a ghost. Many people seem to agree this one is scary.

Janus Descending: A xenoarcheologist and a xenopaleontologist are sent to investigate and sample the ruins of a long-dead alien city, and discover more than they anticipated. The format for this one is really clever: you hear her audio logs first to last, and his last to first, and the story is all the more heartbreaking for it. I'd recommend listening to the supercut.

The Lost Cat Podcast: A man befriends strange entities, loses bits of himself and drinks an awful lot of wine while looking for his cat. Soft and cosmic horror.

The Moon Crown: The shortest on this list, but also one of the most fascinating. A disgraced scribe living in a city of humans, beasts, and other bizzare entities, begins to recount recent happenings, and actions she has a hard time explaining, on broadcast. But the people she's hoping to reach might not be the ones listening.

The Silt Verses: In a modern world where gods are plentiful, both illicit and commercialised, two disciples of an outlawed river god go on a pilgrimage.

Although, maybe some other listeners can help me out and share what scared them?

#Please do note that these are not necessarily the *best* horror podcasts. They're my favourites. #audio drama #alice isn't dead #archive 81 #ghost wax #hello from the hallowoods #hi nay #i am in eskew #janus descending #the lost cat podcast #the moon crown #the silt verses #Or like. Some of my favourites. #hopefully this all makes sense I am sleepytired

[spottedsnake]

do you think eskew was psychosexually obsessed with any of its citizens other than david

like imagine you’re trapped in a horrifying sentient city that tortures you every waking moment and it still prefers someone else over you, i would just give up

#like i guess you’d probably have it a little bit easier but still #i am in eskew

[writingpun]

From what I remember of people saying when it came out, it wasn't exactly purposeful, but I think I am in eskew is probably one of my favorite metaphorical depictions of mental illness struggles. I am in eskew feels like it gets me where a thousand other stories about mental health fail. I'll expand later if I remember but basically it's the struggle for survival as a matter of just Enduring being alive. Being able to stand it. Just scraping by

#store.writingpun #i am in eskew #mental illness #(said like hannibal lecter in nbc hannibal)

[freakpit]

david ward you will always be famous for your misery and your. autism.

#op #i am in eskew #i have not seen anyone else read him as autistic but i cannot help but read a majority of his character as that #like . overwhelmingly so . #the part where he talks about how he fantasizes about something horrible and unpreventable happening to him #so that he would have justification for being Wrong #when in reality nothing horrible needed to happen. he’s just like that #I Get Him

[generic-internet-name]

Hey remember when i bound the first half of from the archives? well i've finally done the rest! and honestly i am so proud of it. i tried some new things with the binding, and i am almost completely happy with how it turned out! the only improvement for next time would probably be actually measuring things.

thank you @sixteenth-days for writing something so good i needed to physically bite it.

#ignore the mess in the pictures my desk is the one place in my room that has good lighting and the lamp doesn't like to stay up #it took some finagling #the hermit archives #bookbinding #fanbinding #from the archives #i also spent a lot of time figuring out that handwriting for pix only for it to end up just like mine but loopier #fun though! #it's really strange to look at the first and second parts side by side because the difference in quality is marked #mostly the fabric i was using for the cover was not good! and i should have just gotten some good cotton! #please admire how neat this lettering on the cover is. i am so proud of it #also i need to go back to the first one what with the pix thing in the end and maybe add a note of him donating it to joe. cause that's fun #and i already put the stamp in it #the watchers publishing doesn't mean anything just ''hehe spooky'' basically #plus i put orion publishing on eskew and i figured it would be cool to have something like that on all my books #forgive all this rambling it's like 10 pm

[lonely-dog-draws]

Like a painting, he tells me. Like a sketch upon the surface of the air, a mocking caricature of a human skull.

image ID: a two-panel comic arranged vertically. The comic is drawn in pencil and colored digitally with a range of cool greys. The first panel is dominated by the looming figure of a person, wearing a dark purple shirt and grey coat. Its head is replaced by more of a large white spot that stands out against the grey clouds behind it. Its facial features are black and somewhat scribbly: two empty eye sockets, a nasal passage, and a wide toothy smile. In its thin hand, it holds the dark skin of someone's face, folded in half. The hand hangs in front of the next panel, featuring a tan boy with fluffy dark hair. He's wearing warm clothes with a bag slung over his shoulder. He stands in a doorway, hand still on the doorknob out of view, staring in uncomprehending shock at the person in front of him. Someone in the dark hallway behind him is resting a hand on his shoulder. End ID.

#traditional art #comics #fanart #i am in eskew #iaie #lonely dog draws #image described #gore/ #body horror/ #frommmm episode 4: culpability #i forgot about the holding the face ''like a purse'' AAAAAAAAAA #so creepy...!!!!!! eskew is a horror podcast #fake fan. sorry.he describes the morning as clear but i couldn't resist having some moody clouds

[superhumanfoods]

today in tumblr history tma fans discovered what happens when you try to claim your beleaguered archivist is the most hard-done-by man in podcasting: a legion of weird, gaunt eskew fans come crawling spiderlike out of the vents and peer at you with their haunted eyes as they whisper "david lived in his own walls once because a package was too intimidating. i'll eat you. i swear i'll fucking eat you"

#i am in eskew #eskew #david ward #he really is so pathetic but like #pathetic (affectionate)

[queerbaitesque]

the creepiest thing about eskew is ep 9's summary

because its true. i never remember this episode even exists. like have i listened to it before? yes. is it about hospitals? allegedly. i dont remember.

#what did they put in this. its a legitimate question #idk how many times ive listened to this show i never remember wtf this episode is about #i am in eskew #EDIT bc its getting reblogged: its the burn unit episode and its actually one of the episodes i remember better #i just keep forgetting it comes so soon jn the show!! and so im always surprised when i read that description bc i genuinely am convinced #the burn unit episode comes later so im like. wait theres ANOTHER hospital episode and i dont remembere it??

[kittykatninja321]

“Gay people baby trapping is insane” I’m listening to I am in eskew and this guy is getting baby trapped by a sentient city

#I saw spoilers already so I know it doesn’t last #but still it just immaculately concepted a child in his girlfriend’s apartment and was like ‘here you go dude!’ #I am in eskew #Iaie liveblog #shitpost

[podcastingpineapple]

Slowly making my way through eskew after a very very long break.

And I am happy how much Weird City loves/loves to torture that odd man, David Ward. This is what that tumblr-trend feels like to me. Like "sorry (not sorry) but i put your boyfriend in the dryer without checking if there was something already in there (i knew what was in there).. now he smells like old shoes and has multiple new holes in him".

Obsessive and absurd. Eskew is rotating that man around like he is in a microwave.

Edit: I am in love with Riyo.

#I really liked the episode “Bug” #i am eager to learn if David manages to get out!! 10 episodes left baby and I am hopeful #i am in eskew

[mr-tll]

sketch of the soggiest, wettest, saddest cat in eskew

#i feel like he's the type of guy to pair sweats and dress shoes #i'm on ep13 enjoying it so far #i am in eskew #david ward #eskew podcast

[dismembered-narrator]

i tried writing out a long post on how refreshing the way tsv portrays the societal expectation of romance is and how i haven't seen any other media take that kind of perspective but i'm bad at articulating my thoughts so i'll just say. the silt verses aromantic show of all time

#it feels like a natural continuation of eskew's perspective on the nuclear family as a societal ideal that is unattainable #to a character who's so isolated and unable to adapt to normal life #the silt verses

[mattodore]

kiss me till you bite ♪

#river dipping #ts4 #ts4 edit #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #a burning house to live in #echthroi #🦇 #these are from an animation not a pose so if you wanna see this in motion just go to my video tag <3 #and that gnarly ass bite on theo's throat prompted me to use this song from their playlist as the caption #anyway. more editing practice :3c there were actually six screenshots but i decided to just do the first three... #also i didn't actually end up finishing these while jerma was streaming last night bc i got too distracted watching him play #instead i finished them like riiiiight before i went to sleep as i was listening to his sorcery streams #normally i just hop between jerma videos or listening to something #really my editing go-tos are jerma / mattodore playlists / podcasts / khadija mbowe or tee noir #i don't listen to a ton of podcasts tho. it's either relistening to i am in eskew / the magnus archives / wolf 359 #or listening to behind the bastards / if books could kill / pick me up i'm scared / you're wrong about / or maintenance phase #...once again making a post where the tags have nothing to do with the actual post. well. <3 #uh. say something abt this post river. um. i like when mattodore kiss but you can't actually see it :) #they only ever kiss in private so... i think it's fitting :)<3 #something abt mattodore being so physical in public but having this line where they almost never kiss around others... brain buzzes #it's bc of theo... kissing is too personal to him. and with matthias he's never cared about it before but... kissing theo... woof. #the way theo melts when he gets kissed... matthias likes to keep that for himself. #now that this is finished i need to get to that ask in my inbox... which i definitely should have started answering by now... 🧘