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I’m Fish! • she/her • ao3: 3584tropicalfish • ask me about the horror besties au • Currently: Various audiodramas (TSV, Camlann, TSOSK, TMA, etc), Various books at random and sporadically, Whitepine and other occasional MCYT, prehistory <3 • Title from “12/17/12” by The Decemberists, header from Prehistoric Planet
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lights-at-night asked:

hello mr ware, the siltcord has been discussing and so i would like to ask if you have any notes/thoughts on speculative biology or ecology in the world of the silt verses?

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thesiltverses answered:

Howdy! That's a really fun question and I think my only note for anyone playing or imagining within the setting would be to run riot with it. (Because we're talking about a million different accelerated and highly localised evolutionary triggers compared to our world, right? What does happen to the fish swimming downriver from an automobile plant dedicated to a god of oil, coal and gas? What god are the bees worshipping when they construct their vast golden cathedrals, what blessings manifest in their swarms, and what happens if a hive grows large enough? Back in Season 1, we mention that something with a beautiful siren song joins the birds in the branches - how would the birds ultimately be changed by that and become its evangelists?)

I think there's a ton of inherent possibility in speculative biology and ecology if you want to get into the margins of the setting, even as a discipline - I wonder how brave and hardened you'd need to be to put on a pair of waders and head into the wilds trying to chart all of these localised mutations. But it's the sort of thing you need to be really cautious about within a compressed and discrete narrative - the more weird background detail you introduce, the more gonzo and alien the setting becomes, the more we lose the sense of familiar drabness and closeness to our world.

In other words, we barely touched it but it's out there as an idea and I think it's awesome.

PS: Apropos of nothing, a little while back I was reading Cuckoo by Gretchen Falker-Martin, who repeatedly introduces 'ghostly phlox' as a strange background detail of her desert landscape. It's such a wonderful choice because despite having a beautiful meaning, the name of the flower itself is fleshy, lumpen and weird. PHLOX. It sounds alien and wrong. I guess the tie-in is that if we'd done more with ecology in the show, it'd have been about looking for elements like that which are unobtrusively off but off nonetheless.

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#good to know I will continue to run riot when it comes to white gull ecology#cabt believe I forgot about the thing in the branches I love that thing#tsv
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Carpenter who has seen so much horror. Carpenter who is so tired of the cruelty of humans. Carpenter the lure and the hook and the fillet knife. Carpenter who is haunted and cursed and blessed. Carpenter, who heard a little girl crying for help in the woods, and despite it all, didn't even hesitate to try and help. Sister Carpenter <3

#tsv#carpenter
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3584-tropical-fish

Not that anyone asked but looking at a.) the fact that Carpenter says that it’s clay being torn from the riverbank by the floodwaters of the White Gull and b.) The Hjulström Curve:

We can determine that the flow velocity of the White Gull River in TSV45 was approximately 150-300 cm/s.

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing, I’m going to be so honest. I just find this amusing

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@xenoliith thank you for asking and giving me an excuse to ramble more about this topic! Fair warning that this will probably go on several tangents

Also disclaimer that I am approaching this from a geology standpoint, as opposed to a hydrology or biology or any other standpoint, but also that all scientific fields are interconnected and to understand one you must have a grasp on all others! And also I am not yet an expert on this. We’re working on it though

Under the cut because this got. long.

#hi. im insane about rivers actually#tsv#fish's-essays#geology
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ianthewife

tragically, i cannot jam a whole ass fishhook through my ear to freak it Parish of Tide and Flesh style, so we are going for the second best thing — making fishing hook jewelry!!

serving Trawler-man? more like serving cunt—

#BANGERRRRR#tsv
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Not that anyone asked but looking at a.) the fact that Carpenter says that it’s clay being torn from the riverbank by the floodwaters of the White Gull and b.) The Hjulström Curve:

We can determine that the flow velocity of the White Gull River in TSV45 was approximately 150-300 cm/s.

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing, I’m going to be so honest. I just find this amusing

#the silt verses#tsv#there is an image ID on the graph that hopefully explains how to read it but I’m afraid I explained it poorly#I also misjudged the placement of the point where the slop of the erosion line changes#if anyone was wondering clay and silt erode at higher velocities because as grain size gets super small#the individual grains tend to stick together much more and then they act as larger grains#and you’ll notice that clay and silt basically never settle out#like they need a velocity of 0 to be deposited#essentially#so that clay is going to flow out to the ocean and it might spend YEARS in suspension until it eventually settles#wow just like fau— GUNSHOT#sorry I’m just thinking about how he too will end up out in the water column. probably#and eventually he’ll sink#or maybe not#maybe he’ll get caught on a boulder that’s deposited by the floodwater#cause hey if the flow velocity is THAT high it’s probably also transporting some massive boulders and depositing them further downstream#where the channel widens and the flow velocity lowers#does anyone want to talk to me about sediment. I’m normal I promise#I’m putting my geoscience degree to WORK over here <- degree is still in progress I am Not An Expert#I hope my professors are proud of me
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3584-tropical-fish

The Silt Verses, and names.

(In order, screenshots from TSV1, TSV2, TSV5, TSV15, "Batonebo" by Odetta Hartman, TSV14, TSV6, TSV24, "Lover Lover Lover" by Leonard Cohen, TSV24, TSV8, TSV32, TSV37, The S1 Q&A, TSV38, The S1 Q&A, TSV38, TSV24, TSV31, TSV23, TSV23, TSV23, TSV32, TSV1, TSV28, TSV32, TSV32, "Give Her A Name" by Trevor Menear, TSV32)

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Jon Ware on Tumblr + The Second Coming

#OH YAY THIS IS A LOVELY EDITION!!!!!#I almost went and looked for some of his tumblr posts on the subject but didn’t have the energy to do so so this is great#*addition (in that first tag. not edition)#tsv
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