And as she wept before the grave, the first buds of the Woundtree stretched out around her and formed a bower to shelter her from the falling rain.
It’s tragic, it’s compelling. People understand it, they sympathise with it. It keeps us safe.
I hate her, quite a lot.
Everyone go listen to @thesiltverses NOW. i love Paige so much its not even funny
[ID: fanart of Paige Duplass from the Silt Verses kneeling with tree roots growing from her skin. Paige is a thin white woman with long, straight brown hair and brown eyes. She is nude with her hands twisted in the air above her head. Roots protrude from her flesh, tangling and twisting around her. White crocus flowers bloom from her mouth and one of her eyes, and the flowers frame her silhouette. She looks towards the camera with one anguished eye, a bloody tear gouged into the skin underneath. Where the roots touch her skin, her flesh is marked by deep, bloody wounds. End ID]
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The silt verses chapter 37
I will keep making cool silt verses fanart until more people listen to this podcast, I am desperate.
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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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every friend group gotta have:
-aspec bitch
-transmasc failure
-lesbian who worked in advertising
-ex cop
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On episode 32 of The Silt Verses now, finally. Hello Paige enjoyers
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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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"The Many Below, the Woundtree - my god, my hated child... The exact same voice that bellows in my head about the reckoning that’s to come for all of us unworthy sinners... is a mouth without a face. A pitiful thing that feasts upon carrion when we don’t have richer meat to offer it."
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also Very interesting to me how transness is completely accepted in the silt verses and misgendering/deadnaming is nonexistent, but the only two references to transitioning in the show are about the exorbitant medical cost. (dennis saying he helped pay for paige's transition and now faulkner's father apologizing for not being able to afford T for him.)
the decision to forgo transphobic worldbuilding and not to hold the listener's hand wrt Explaining Transness is Very intentional, which makes the choice to reference transition like this stand out even more. everybody in this world will gender you correctly no matter what you look like, but if you actually want to feel like Yourself through transitioning, you gotta pay for that. which means you gotta sell yourself to a church or a corporation. all systems functioning as intended....
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big lover of women who are terrible and morally grey and don't need to receive redemption arcs. big big fan
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most psychologically healthy wage slave
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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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