Curse This Flesh Prison

I fell DEEP down that podcast rabbit hole and now here I am

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Girl help I’m in the woe.begone tag and there’s ship names I don’t recognize

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If this post gets 10 notes I’ll figure out a way to diagram the plot of woe.begone. Fully bc I’m insane and can’t stop thinking about it

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Remember this?

Im doing it. Like right now. Actively. It’s a PowerPoint that’s 75 slides and I’m on episode 24.

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Something cool about The Silt Verses is that, it’s definitely a story about religious oppression: there are official religions, and there are illegal religions, and Carpenter and Faulkner’s religion is super illegal to practice. But their religion is neither a depraved weird horrible thing set against a loving, just, peaceful, merciful, ~ normal ~ official religion; nor is it loving, just, peaceful, and merciful in contrast to the depraved and evil official religions. The worship of the Trawler-Man has a lot of body horror and human sacrifice… but all the official, legal, normalized religions also involve a lot of body horror and human sacrifice. It’s human sacrifice all the way down in this world!

Vaughn, I think, states the theme outright: at least you get to choose the thing that eats you. What I’m starting to get is the thing that makes the Trawler-Man illegal is that he’s regional, specific, and unmarketable. The legal and official gods like the Saint Electric, the Petropater, and the Slag King are the ones connected to industry, ones that money and control can be wielded through. Sweet Jolly Crunch-Tooth as a god of farming and harvest was canonically deliberately invented to usurp the thousand different harvest gods and unify all the farmers under a single god to be more profitable and commercialized. These popular gods still demand sacrifices, of course, but it’s in the name of industry, or modernity, or convenience, or products. The military has a god to assuage and give courage to soldiers; the police invented The Cloak, a god of police to do the same for cops, and it was signed off on as an official god when higher-ups realized they could send officers out with The Cloak as their ride-along and thus have to pay fewer people. And yet these cynically-created gods aren’t fake, either. They are very real.

What’s especially interesting is that local and regional and personal unmarketable illegal gods aren’t any better than the official ones. The Trawler-Man, god of a specific river, still demands drowned sacrifices. The Elk of Birch and Bone seems to be a very local god of a specific forest, of wilderness and hunting, and it also requires deeply disturbing body-horror sacrifices. There are gods like the Hollow or the little boy’s god of thunder that are accidentally called into being and given power and form through just a few individuals wanting something and naming something and nobody actually wants that god to exist and nobody actually wants that god to do what it does. Being afraid of or fascinated a thing is enough to call a god into being. And that god then immediately starts eating people.

It’s fascinating. I’ve heard that The Silt Verses gets really into critiques of extractive capitalism, and I’m starting to see that take shape. That this form of human sacrifice is good and necessary, but that form is tragic, and that form is evil. That the official, licensed, universal gods of capital and progress and industry and markets are what you’re encouraged to sacrifice your life to, and the small, weird gods of your local woods or your local river are weird and scary and also a distraction from what you should be worshipping and therefore banned. That even so, you can accidentally—or even intentionally—invent something that consumes you.

And in this world, something will end up consuming you. If you’re lucky, you get to choose what it is.

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screaming "I'M GONNA GET YOU OUT OF THERE" down into the pit when the person i'm shouting to only exists within the pit and cannot live outside of it

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I’m sorry but . Your butch Celia is fucking everything to me I think . She’s so <3 the everything .

[ID: Digital drawings of Celia Ripley from The Magnus Protocol on a gray background. She is a slim, muscular Korean woman with pale skin, short black hair, dark brown eyes, dimples, body hair, and eyebags. In all drawings, she is wearing black rectangular glasses, and snakebite piercings, industrials, and x-shaped stud earrings, all gold. The top two drawings are of her in casual wear, with a light green t-shirt with the short sleeves cuffed, purple cuffed jeans, light green socks, dark green Doc Marten boots with gold laces, and a green belt with gold hardware. The upper left drawing is of her from the shoulders up, holding a purple mug with both hands and taking a sip while looking up, and to the right is a full-body of her sitting holding the mug with one hand and leaning slightly on the other, smiling at the viewer. There is a note that says "casual mode" pointing to both of them. The last drawing on the bottom left is much smaller and is of her wearing a light green button down, dark green trousers, light green socks, dress shoes, a belt, wrist cuffs, and shoulder holsters, all purple, and a black necktie. She is kneeling and aiming a golden pistol with a serious expression, and she has a second gold pistol in her other holster. This drawing is labelled as "spy!Celia theory/au" and "(I'm gay let me have this)" end ID]

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never apologize she is everything to me also <3

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“This podcast contains depictions of violence, some of which are wet and visceral”

Just say tw Eagle, it’s less words

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If this post gets 10 notes I’ll figure out a way to diagram the plot of woe.begone. Fully bc I’m insane and can’t stop thinking about it

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What deal did John make with Kayne I need to know I NEED TO KNOW I KNOW IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIS MEMORY

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Picking up woe.begone after a long period of not listening to it like

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I listened to Deviser this week, which is a sci-fi horror podcast about what happens when bad literary analysis goes unchecked

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Kayne: the whole reason Yellow exists is because of me, I made him make a gut wrenching and awful deal after he slit his throat with my knife!

Scratch: I literally trapped him in a nightmare world of his own worst memories and guilt.

KIY: amateurs, I hunted him for months, took john from him, and left him to die in the woods

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Arthur Lester getting picked up by Mr. Scratch and getting called his favorite

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Listened to cryptids and then called my friends to explain it and literally sounded like this dude in the process

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Matthew Leads after 4 hours in Station Blue

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Shoutout to all the indie podcast creators coming out of their seasonal depression and updating/announcing content again!! Love y’all so much

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Welcome to the club Sunny!

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[Image ID: A grainy closeup photograph of a milkshake with a blurry diner background, heavily filtered in pink. Neon pink and blue text reads: “Badlands Cola, Episode 12: Some Velvet Morning” End ID.]

January 31.

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