They retire young, ballerinas.
October 12. Embers
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They retire young, ballerinas.
October 12. Embers
THE ZINE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED
It is now the eve of the one year anniversary since the The Silt Verses finale. We are so happy to announce that The Zine Of Tide And Flesh is now officially released!
It has been two weeks full of incredible creativity and community, working on this zine. Everyone has come together and come through in such spectacular fashions that we are all winded still from the response. In the past two weeks, this project borne of love has flooded the river of our hearts with it, bringing offerings along our river banks in the form of new friendships forged and wonders witnessed.
We are incredibly thankful to everyone who showed up or cheered us on from the sidelines, and of course, to everyone who kept this quiet. We have been utterly overwhelmed by the amount of people who came with us on this journey, and our hearts beam with pride for everyone who completed their projects to such amazing results.
And of course, we are also incredibly thankful to the creators of the story this is a celebration of. Jon, Muna, Méabh, B, Lucille, Jimmie and everyone who worked on this podcast that continues to tie us all together, asking us to strain and hear those pilgrims make their way along the river once more.
In this zine you will find art, writings, games and music by the most incredible people we have ever met, we look forward to seeing everyone's reactions
Without further ado, REJOICE SIBLINGS!
THE RIVER RISES
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"You were a milkman"
"And you...you were a ballerina"
I'm never recovering from this podcast sorry
VAL animatic || the silt verses 3x02
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!!!
comedy queen, someone get her a talkshow
do you ever think about how val's dream was to be a ballerina, a profession that famously requires one to commit hard at a young age and submit to drastic - sometimes eventually disabling - changes to one's body to achieve the technical capability alone, never mind the social pressures associated with looking how a professional dancer "ought" to look. and how ballerinas retire young because their bodies break down and cannot perform the same or look the way that a professional dancer "ought" to look anymore and they are discarded by the profession as no longer useful except perhaps to train more dancers into the same shape so the spectacle of ballet can continue to exist.
i think about this a lot.
Val scares me but also she's kinda hot...