#tsv 45

[catwyk]

ever since i made this post, i kinda knew i could have done better. finally got around to it :] vallerina continues to be absolutely heartbreaking but we move [eyes red + covered in blood]

closeups, ref, and speedpaint below :p!!!

shoutout to james for the idea of the corpseish hands!!! i love them so much, finally puts my raynaud's syndrome to use :3

the dancer in the reference is Alina Somova i believe !!

[lonleyhumanbeing]

Carpenter never knew that Faulkner was following her. Faulkner never knew that Carpenter waited. Faulkners High Prophet robes were the thing that likely dragged him down in the end. Carpenter let him go to where he was supposed to go.

[digitalpomegranates]

on my sixth relisten and I just got hit by how fucked up this scene is. Paige focusing soley on Carpenter and not saying goodbye to Faulkner, even though he's the most sympathetic and saying bye himself...

how this is their last like direct interaction as far as I can tell. this is SO fucked. what the FUCK

[the-voldsoy]

brb gonna go lay in a field and decompose

[wordto-thewise]

[tsvwords]

So I wade out into the very centre of the torrent, the water rushing about my feet as if it still longs to drag me down with him, bearing my brother before me and then I let him go.

I let him go, and he leaves me behind. Rushing over the edge of the torrent in a triumphant fury. Resurfacing again, in the dark plunge pool below, smaller and smaller, borne downriver.

I keep on watching him, that tiny sodden shape; even as he’s lost to me in the gathering night. I keep on watching for a long time after that.

If he wants to be buried in silt, he’ll be buried in silt. And if he wants to wash up somewhere green and cool, a quiet final sanctuary in forest soil, he’ll find that, too.

If he wants to make it all of the way out to the implacable vastness of the sea, and be forgotten there…well, the river is vast, and no dam can block every channel, and ours is a world of miracles.

— Chapter 45: Of Love, And Gods' Defeat.

[excaliburarts]

Spoilers be warned

Spoilers for Chapter 45 of the Silt Verses

CW drowned body rip

“Bear me downriver, Trawler-man.

And when the river rises,

On that great day when the river rises,

I will find my peace in silt and water.

I will rise in the currents, made anew.”

The Silt Verses

Chapter II: And Next of Dark Deceit

Dudes that final episode HURT. I don’t think I can move on, I don’t think I’ve ever consumed media as beautifully written and crafted as tsv.

Saw someone on here comment that they hadn’t seen any art of drowned Faulkner as gruesome as described by Carpenter. So here ya go, bloated face, river lice, crabs and all haha.

Don’t ask about the reference images I had to view for this, they don’t call it horror for nothing.

[siltslut]

people complain about the blond reveal in the finale but imagine if she had been like “i brush his hair away so i can see his massive face tattoo…” like come on being blond is not the worst thing this guy could’ve gone through