all lovers part as dust

dani | she/they | 25+ | I am once again asking you to listen to the silt verses

[rosenkranz-does-things]

A young citizen of the nation by the unfortunate name of Caul Serrikane is preparing to die. Again.

[valtsv]

the nametaker: hey, check this shit out. alexa, play despacito [rotting corpse starts shrieking] pretty cool, eh? why don't you ask me how much it cost. go on. i know you want to.

caul serrikane, who couldn't give a shit if you tried to waterboard one out of her:

[botanycrewmember]

I love the naming conventions in Our Wars Have Ended. In most cases it seems to be a combination of Adjective + family name, like in the cases of Sore and Dogged, Lively, Peevish, poor Pug, as well as Foal's father Loose, and Sunny Pelder (the corpse in the gibbet who's being used as a PSA in Ep1). And then we have Noun + family name, like with Timmer, Caul, and Foal, who are presumably named after nouns (caul is the membrane around a baby in the womb; foal is a young horse; timmer might be a Scottish variation of timber).

The naming scheme handily sets up expectations that could be played straight or subverted: Sore Morel is, as expected, a sore loser in every aspect of his life, Dogged is unrelenting in her quest to preserve her family until it all goes belly-up, Timmer is tasked to cut people up for resources like timber; and then you have characters like Caul, whose poor health and ties to death are in stark contrast with the traditional belief that a child born covered in caul would be lucky; or Pug/Vile-and-repugnant Wiles, whose name does NOT prepare you for his courage and compassion.

I just love how this world's terminology seems like it's all built on simple descriptions: the city is categorized into body parts, people are like This or That, but just like how the cities are breaking the boundaries of their bodies, names fail to convey the whole of the people.

[winter-wise]

Our Wars Have Ended still coming through on the commentary of how bioessentialism impacts assumptions about reality. Street preacher who is adamant that the Big Man is biologically male even though there is no proof. Another street preacher who is adamant that the Big Man is biologically female (and pregnant). Presumably also without any proof.

Each telling people to have faith that their perception of reality is the correct one. Even though the thing they are adamant about could certainly be verified. Has anyone ever checked the Big Man's biological sex? Sent an expedition? Does the Big Man even have genitals? Any secondary sexual characteristics?

The Big Man is assumed to be able to think, but we again have no proof of this. If the Big Man does think, does the Big Man have a perception of gender identity that would even fit with Cyshanic society?

Something I love about the worldbuilding is how the setting (the planet is a human figure walking through space) is used to tell us about what society believes. What would it matter if the Big Man had one or the other set of genitals? (Nobody in the podcast has yet posited the theory that the Big Man has no genitals or is intersex - after all, that wouldn't serve an agenda focused on two sexes.) What would it change about the daily experiences of the people in Cyshane? Absolutely nothing. But those street preachers are yelling about it anyway.

[freezerfridays]

the sound design for the Neth is soo jaw-droppingly gorgeous btw. the way it's just muffled enough to convey a feeling of something great and vast? the haunting song being carried through the space? the baby wailing in the distance that somehow manages to sound melodic? insane. would absolutely listen to the Neth Ambience Soundtrack if it had one

[valtsv]

nonbinary jeff bezos hires a necromancer to cross the border between life and death to chase up an employee who killed himself without clocking out first. podcast of the year.

[bluehedgeh0gart]

A little doodle before witch hat monday

[vesperosy]

this tweet has been fucking killing me

[thesiltverses]

Episode 3 of Our Wars Have Ended is live!

Episode 3: What His Fingers Remembered

Podcast Episode · Our Wars Have Ended · S1 E5 · 53m

In the conquered city of Catalfac, a young dead-diver takes on her newest contract - a job to descend into the depths of the Nether and retrieve valuable information.

Transcript is live here: https://www.ourwarshaveended.com/transcripts-episode-3

Cast List

This episode features, in order of their appearance:

Bekithemba Mbondiya as the Nameless Historian

Laya Lewis as Caul Serrikane

Méabh de Brún as The Severed Head Of Sister Bull

Gregory Dwyer as Caul's Fader

Adam Sam as Nametaker's Second

Gayle Why as The Nametaker

B. Narr as Vile-And-Repugnant Wiles

H.R. Owen and Syd Hymanson as Blinders-in-the-Guts

Additional voices by Kit Paterson, April Tuiolosega, Melissa Lusk

Content warnings

This episode contains homophobia and racism, violent death, suicide, vomiting, animal death, reference to torture.

[cherrywhite]

The Silt Verses writers think they're SO funny for casting Méabh de Brún as the severed head of a priestess and you know what. They are.

[pylonsaint]

You’re an organ in the working body of this world, Mallory Glass. No amount of scornful looks and sour remarks is going to change that.

[nexeliam]

Sacrifice for human kind

[deermouth]

god. dogged's last words to sore being "put hands on timmer again and i'll kill you," which of course he ignores once she's dying not just because the physical threat is no longer actionable, but because he can just choose not to remember that she said that to him. she becomes a symbol just like everything else that is from or represents his pre-war past (obvious in his monologue to her). her death is a deep and genuine wound to him, and he's not wrong to feel that pain, just as ideologically there's a lot of ways in which he's in the right, but it also means dogged can be whatever he needs her to be now, and he can do whatever he wants to timmer and pretend she's ok with it.

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[shitpostingkats]

Olruggio was having a normal day three hours ago. He was coming home after a long day at work looking forward to seeing his husband best friend and eating a warm dinner. Pat the kids on the head and then go lie down. NO Qifrey says I have obtained another child she's a part of an active criminal investigation and a sign that I am dipping back into my worst destructive behaviors that you thought I'd set down years ago you have to be okay with this right now or else I'll lobotomize myself. Also there's a rat in the living room.

[cannibal-flowerbomb]

"why are you proship" I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.

No self respecting or genuine feminist theorist or advocate is in favour of censorship.

If they're telling you that someone deserves to be arrested for her art, that's a poser. It isn't just fandom bullshit. Laws being imposed that crack down on artistic depictions of things you don't like affect everyone. You included.

Why would I, as a queer disabled person, advocate for MORE censorship. Unless I was a fed.

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way