Punchy-academic - This Is Really Something

Carpenter strikes me as someone who always has sunglasses of some sort. Like to hide as much of her face/emotions as possible. To hide any hangover (from lack of sleep) or need for a cappuccino that one might have.

The big cosplayer question of all time but do you have any inspiration for how some of our main characters dress? Is it all practical with small hints towards the faith, or full southern gothic with long skirts and tattered lace? I’m only about halfway in but itching to start making something, especially for Carpenter or the twins that we got a great description of already!!

I would trend towards practical, and am not great with this stuff anyway, but I get the impression part of the joy of cosplay is elevated realism, right? So no reason you couldn't go hard on the full southern gothic*

*although I definitely do not see Carpenter in lace or skirts. Carpenter wears bovver boots and they are the most important item of clothing to her, being used for both walking and kicking.

i think one of the things with the sibs that makes me go the most feral is just how little time they spent together.

when season one starts, they’ve been together for sixteen days. we then witness them spend about a week together.

in season two, they have a day.

in season three, it's an hour at most.

that is, generously rounded, a month. this series spans two years. they got to 'hopelessly and helplessly entangled' in a month out of two years. a MONTH out of TWO YEARS was all it took for them to change each other, probably forever, if they lived that long.

one of the theses of The Silt Verses is that platonic love can be just as devastating and life-altering as romance love and by god if these two don't embody that.

the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.

WHY DO PEOPLE CALL IT FUCK, MARRY, KILL WHEN THEY COULD CALL IT BED, WED, BEHEAD

why does no one ever talk about how lewis and clark met why isn’t that taught in history classes it’s like some rom-com meet-funny trope and i’ve literally never heard it brought up. literally the start of one of the most famous friendships in america and no one talks about it.

No matter how hard they try no one will ever do ''love at first sight'' like Wolf from The 10th Kingdom

Hayward is hard to place because it changes depending on what season you’re on.

Spot on with the rest though

TSV Character Alignments

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll: Ancantha

Looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you: High Prophet Faulkner, sibling Rane, Paige, Vaughn, Shrue

Looks like could kill you, is a cinnamon roll: sister Carpenter, Gage, Val

Looks like could kill you, will kill you: Daggler, Mercer

Hayward not listed bc idk where to put him :/ he's either looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you or looks like could kill you, is a cinnamon roll but idk which

To follow up, here are some that I started and never finished.

This is not to say that I wouldn’t give them another shot, but they just didn’t pull me in yknow

- I am in Eskew

- the Penumbra Podcast

- woe.begone

- archive 81

- Unwell

- Mabel

- antiquarium of sinister happenings

- Redwood Bureau (I did LOVE the first couple of episodes)

-stellar firma

- Death by Dying (Loved it at the start, lost steam for it and will revisit)

-Nowhere, on Air

- the storage papers

- Camp Here and There

- Malevolent

Some fiction podcasts I have listened to and enjoyed:

- The Magnus Archives (they really started it all for me)

- The Silt Verses(the loves of my life, I could ramble all day about my undying love for this pod)

- Wolf 359 (platonic love to the max my dudes)

- Midnight Burger

- The White Vault (🦷)

- Hello from the Hallowoods

- Secret of St. Kilda (Maebh de Brun the woman you are)

- VAST Horizon

- Fathom/Derelict

- The Unpredicted Party

- Trice forgotten

- the No Sleep Podcast

- Old Gods of Appalachia

- Tower 4

- Darkest Night (I’ve never been so simultaneously horrified and also unable to stop listening)

- Borrasca (a classic No Sleep Reddit post with Cole Sprouse as the mc?!?)

- Red Valley

- Bridgewater

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?