The FAILING New York Times recently asked their columnists to select “the one piece of culture that, to them, best explains America." The majority of responses are what you'd expect. (Ted fucking Lasso?) Personally, I'm a Melville's The Confidence-Man man, but I'm curious to hear your response.
I mean, it's probably that James O'Keefe video I just referenced. But seriously, folks...it's got to be "Self-Reliance." Pretty much everything good and bad flows out of this, including unembarrassed citations of TV ephemera from would-be literati and other cultural elites:
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,—“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
I didn't love The Confidence-Man, found it claustrophobic and cynical, the kind of angry old man cynicism that's kin to sentimentality, as you also find in Twain or Vonnegut, whom I also don't love. I prefer Melville when he's sublime or when he's perverse or when he's elegiac. If I were going to pick a novel, it might be The Scarlet Letter, which contains most of the national character except the race stuff, and explains the entirety of the cultural logic—even re: the race stuff—by which Emerson's antinomianism doesn't spin off into total madness. Just for fun, here's the opening paragraph, in the same vein, of Harold Bloom's Introduction to his Modern Critical Views volume on Pynchon:
We all carry about us our personal catalog of the experiences that matters most—our own versions of what they used to call the Sublime. So far as aesthetic experience in twentieth-century America is concerned, I myself have a short list for the American Sublime: the war that concludes the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup; Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying; Wallace Stevens’s “The Auroras of Autumn”; nearly all of Hart Crane; Charlie Parker playing “Parker’s Mood” and “I Remember You”; Bud Powell performing “Un Poco Loco”; Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts; and most recently, the story of Byron the light bulb in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
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Brother Faulkner (The Silt Verses) Playlist
🙏5 folk-punk (and adjacent) songs
↝ Down the River - The Crane Wives
↝ Coffee, God, and Cigarettes - Mischief Brew
↝ Bottom of the River - Delta Rae
↝ Ohio River - Virtual Bird
↝ Maker of My Sorrows - Eliza Rickman
a little content warning- some of these songs contain themes of addiction, su*cidal ideation, and (as per the request specifications) religion !
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hi all, i'm kin with brother faulkner from the silt verses and i'm looking for sister carpenter or paige. my name in my canon was river, if that stirs up any memories for anyone. if you want to find me, please interact with this post, or message me on tumblr at transfaulkner (all one word). thank you!
@transfaulkner
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hey, this is a bit of a long shot, but i'm brother faulkner from the silt verses podcast. i'm looking for anyone from my canon, specifically carpenter or paige. if you remember a faulkner whose name was river, please interact with this post or message me at transfaulkner on tumblr! i am over 18 and would prefer not to interact with anyone under 17. thank you!!
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hello it's once again brother faulkner from the silt verses, looking for any of my sourcemates! if you remember a faulkner whose name was river/riv, please interact with this post, or message me on my blog transfaulkner !! thank you so much
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for the kin counts ask i have four! an oc kin, brother faulkner from the silt verses, victor frankenstein, and harrowhark nonagesimus from the locked tomb series/gideon the ninth
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Re-introduction
So I’ve gotten an influx of followers which is super exciting! Thank you all for following me! It’s been an exciting year already as I’ve finally gotten kicked in the pants to start the rough drafts of my stories! 2019 was incredibly dry, save for a few instances, but I’m trying to make 2020 a better year for myself and my wips!
So anyway, you can call me Babble, Spiff, Tiff, what suits you! I’m 31 and I work full time. I have a major in baking and pastry arts that I’m not using XD I enjoy drawing and I’ve been doing my best to start putting my glorified daydreams to life.
My major influences have been Disney’s Gargoyles, anime (Digimon, Dragonball Z, some El Hazard, bits here and there) Final Fantasy 7, Kingdom Hearts, Tomb Raider (I’m an old curmudgeon and we only talk about PS1 and L/A/U Lara in this house) Unico and the Island of Magic, and a sprinkling of Reboot and Elfquest, Sailor Moon and plenty more!! (some of these I still actively watch and enjoy like Gargoyles, Unico, FF7, Tomb Raider, and some KH)
I have four major wips! I specialize in fantasy and some sci fi and I’m still finding a lot of my roots, style, and worlds; but as I’ve been working on some rough drafts, things have been coming easier than when I’ve just daydreamed about it. My major wips are
Bequest (title pending) - fantasy/sci-fi/drama (will be focused on in March, July, and November 2020)
59 year old Tad Irving has had a life as a successful movie star, is still happily married to his first and only wife of 30 years, and has 3 wonderful kids. But despite all of the positives, there’s been something eating away at him since he was a child: Where did the source of his inhuman strength come from? A source of power, and horrific anxiety, Tad’s only shred of an answer may have come from his grandfather; who Tad never saw eye-to-eye with. Can Tad, with the rest of his family, unravel the mystery of where Tad’s powers came from? And, eventually, where their family comes from?
Princess Dagney and the Seahorse King (PDatSK) - fantasy/drama (Will be focused on in May and September of 2020)
A mere two hundred years after Humanity rounded up the Shapeshifters and reclaimed their autonomy, Princess Dagney, a descendant of the Shifters, learns her younger brother is dying. Will anyone who is able to help find themselves willing to help kin to the Shifter demons? Or will she only cause more trouble and trauma to still-healing wounds?
Hark - sci-fi/drama w/ biblical Christmas symbolism (we’ll see how that pans out) (Will be focused on in February, June, and October 2020)
Corbin Ghallager is a space cadet, traveling on his ship, the Hark, every few months to try and find an alternative planet to earth. Despite his own illnesses, Corbin’s determination to give humanity a second chance at a real life helps stir the best in people; but also recognition from those who will make things much more complicated.
CoffeeBoy - sci-fi/drama (Will be focused on in April, August, and December 2020)
When Silas Faulkner’s business goes under, he must keep a truce he made with his former rival, Petras Varga: he must serve as a coffeeboy at his home office for five years. Silas gets placed to work for Petras’ daughter, Oksana, who is one of the few actually doing her job (unlike her older brothers). However, Oksana’s views are much different from Petras’, and she’s actually eyeing the CEO spot of Vargas’ tech herself, and she enlists Silas for his tech knowledge and savvy nature. Hoping to see Petras dethroned, Silas and Oksana team up, and begin an underground coup to make the company their own.
I’m currently splitting my wips up per month to focus on them on my blog so I can rotate and keep motivation fresh. I post snippets of the chapters I’m working on through the month, and I’ll occasionally post a character sketch here and there.
You can find my writing here
and you can find my art here!
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hi, brother faulkner from the silt verses here!! i was transmasc in my canon and while i know it's a long shot i'd love to talk to some other tsv kin, specifically carpenter and paige. you can find me on tumblr @ transfaulkner
@trans-faulkner
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EAST ANGLIAN GIG LISTINGS:
9TH-23RD NOVEMBER 2017
Every Thursday, we bring the onions and you bring the meat. To submit your own news and listings, click here!
Thursday 9th
Bury St Edmunds, Apex
The Levellers
£25 - 8pm - Tickets
Bury St Edmunds, Constitutional Club
The Catch
£5 - 7.30pm - Event page
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Joanne Shaw Taylor
£22.75-£30.25 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Junction J1
Spoon & Husky Loops
£25 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, St Philips Church
Martin Simpson
£19.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Epic Studios
Rews & Kingdom Keys
£7.70 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Project Mork, Bono!, The Bad Apples & Hyperfox
Entry by donation - 7pm - Event page
Norwich, Waterfront
Cradle of Filth & Savage Messiah
£20.35 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
Wildwood Kin & William the Conqueror
£12.10 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
Emerge
£3 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Friday 10th November
Bury St Edmunds, Hunter Club
Ben Holder Quartet
£12 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Collabro
£42.15 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Junction
Big Country
£25 - 7pm - Tickets
Colchester, Bull
The Hit List
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys
LeVendore Rogue, The Knock-Offs, My Man Jeeves, Gavin Bowern & DJ Sam Leppard
£5 - 8pm - Event page
Ipswich, Steamboat Tavern
Ady Johnson & Reb Capper
Free entry - 7.30pm - Event page
Norwich, Arts Centre
Macka B and the Roots Reggae Band
£14 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, Epic Studios
Mammal Hands
£10 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Open
Worry Dolls & Lisa Redford
£10 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
The Black Sharks, Stromm & The Fools Moon
£3 - 7pm - Event page
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
The Rezillos, Rampton Disco, Smart Alex & Hotwired
£17.60 - 6.30pm - Tickets
Saturday 11th November
Bury St Edmunds, Apex
Eddi Reader & Dan Whitehouse
£23 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Bury St Edmunds, Rehearsal Rooms
Ryan Jordan, Zen Reggae Masters, Italian Books, Buttercup Insurgent & Anrufen
£5 - 8pm - Event page
Cambridge, Junction
System 7 & Mirror System
£18 - 8pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Relevant Records
The Batts, Eeyore, Idealistics & Jeneric
Free entry - 7pm - Event page
Cambridge, St John's College Fisher Building
The Dissolute Society
£8.80 - 9pm - Tickets
Colchester, Bull
Beautiful Dangerous
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Colchester, Soundhouse
Low Frequency
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys
Cosmic Puffindoors All-Dayer w/Deferred Success, Ghosts Of Men, Pet Needs, Les Carter, Rad Pitt, The Thinking Men & more
£15 - 12pm - Tickets
Norwich, Arts Centre
JBXM, Kulk & Front Bangs
PWYC - 1pm - Tickets
Norwich, Epic Studios
Elegy All-Dayer w/Beneath The Embers, Baithead, Collapse The Sky, Feral Sun, Scream Serenity, The High Points, Junkyard, Suburban Tide, Hollow Reign, Kaine & Nihilist
£15 - 2pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Diabetes Benefit Weekender w/The Restarts, Knock Off, Butcher Baby, Overload, Addictive Philosophy, The Minor Discomfort Band, Nelson County Steppers, Wreck-Age & Ambition Demolition
£13.20 - 12pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront
Big Country & Beautiful Mechanica
£25.31 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
A Foreigner's Journey & Uprising
£13.20 - 6.30pm - Tickets
Southend, Chinnerys
John Otway
£17 - 7pm - Tickets
Sunday 12th November
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Alison Moyet
SOLD OUT - Info
Cambridge, Junction
Deaf Havana
£18.50 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Ryan Buxton, The Jam Club House Band & Dan Wilde
£5 - 6.30pm - Tickets
Ipswich, Smokehouse
Caves and Clouds, Curtis Garrett & Jim Morehouse
£4 - 8.30pm - Event page
Ipswich, Steamboat Tavern
The Gipping Valley Stompers
Free entry - 2pm - Event page
Norwich, Arts Centre
Ghostpoet & Eera
£17.50 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Diabetes Benefit Weekender w/Infa-Riot, Braindance, Backdown or Die, Rotten Foxes, The Blue Carpet Band, Abandon Cause, Skurvi, Feral State & J'aime Rachelle
£13.20 - 12pm - Tickets
Monday 13th November
Cambridge, Murray Edwards College
Jazz Philosophy ft. James Tartaglia
£5.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Weaves, Dama Scout & Grieving
£9.90 - 7pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Gigspanner
£13 - 7.45pm - Tickets
Norwich, Arts Centre
Emily Barker & Pete Roe
£14 - 8pm - Tickets
Tuesday 14th November
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Gareth Malone
£37.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Jared and the Mill
£6.60 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Trinity College Chapel
Venetian Coronation
£36 - 8pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Dälek & Palindromes
£10 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Arts Centre
Catfish Keith
£14 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, LCR
Nothing But Thieves, July Talk & Darlia
SOLD OUT - Info
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
Von Hertzen Brothers & Walkway
£16.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Wednesday 15th November
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
£29.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Channel Crossings
£28.13 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Junction
Afro Celt Sound System
£27.50 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Unitarian Church
Black Top with Cleveland Watkiss & Tiago Coimbra
£8.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, West Road Concert Hall
The Endellion String Quartet
£27 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Epic Studios
Newton Faulkner
£22 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, LCR
The Cadillac Three & Brothers Osborne
£20.35 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
As Lions, Greyhaven & Lightscape
£8.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Southend, Chinnerys
Mawkin
£11 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Thursday 16th November
Cambridge, CMJ Hidden Rooms
Soft Machine
SOLD OUT - Info
Cambridge, Junction
Newton Faulkner
£24.50 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Yonaka, Black Cortinas & Eeyore
£6.60 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, St John's College Divinity School
Annelien Van Wauwe, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad & Pavel Kolesnikov
£16.88 - 6pm - Tickets
Cambridge, West Road Concert Hall
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Joshua Bell
£47.50 - 8pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Afro Celt Sound System & The Dhol Foundation
£25 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Ipswich, Swan
Blues Jam
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Norwich, LCR
Status Quo (Aquostic), Fraser Churchill & Richard Malone
£49.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
Mighty Sands, Animal Noise, Warm Winters & Sun Scream
£8 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Friday 17th November
Cambridge, Blue Moon
Goldblume, Pale Girls, War Waves & Dythsu?
£5 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Junction J1The Fiver: Hollowstar, False Hearts, The Hot One Two, Maverick, Level Up
£6 - 6.45pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
The Temperance Movement & Naked Six
SOLD OUT - Info
Colchester, Bull
Punch It Chewie
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys
The Widdershins & The Gavin Bowern Band
Free Entry - 9pm - Event page
Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys Top Floor
Off The Wall, Stealing Signs & Oceans
£3 - 9pm - Event page
Ipswich, Steamboat Tavern
Open Mic
Free entry - 8.30pm - Event page
Ipswich, Swan
Elephant Tree, Old Man Lizard & Sky:Lark!
Free Entry - 8pm - Event page
Norwich, Arts Centre
The Icicle Works
£20 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, LCR
Wolf Alice, Sunflower Bean & Superfood
SOLD OUT - Info
Norwich, Open
Lightscape, Maven, Bury The Light & Fingers Crossed
£5 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
The Renadeans
Free entry - 7pm - Event page
Norwich, Waterfront
The Tubes
£27.50 - 6.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
Young States, Blood Like Honey & Burn The Headlines
£5.50 - 7pm - Tickets
Southend, Chinnerys
Kiev
£12 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
Son of Dave, Clare Free & Paolo Morena
£14 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Saturday 18th November
Bury St Edmunds, Apex
Suffolk Sinfonia Autumn Concert
£12 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Bury St Edmunds, Hunter Club
Women's Refuge fundraiser w/Janet Street Slaughter, Goldblume, Sam Eagle and the Lemon Lizards, Lemondaze, All We Know & In-between Normalities
£5 - 6pm - Events page
Bury St Edmunds, Risbygate Club
Georgina Jackson & Chris Ingham Trio
£12 - 7pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Blue Moon
Indiepop Alldayer w/Peaness, Personal Best, Dream Nails, Emma Kupa, Baby Arms, Chrissy Barnacle, Schande, Faith Taylor & Rainbow Reservoir
SOLD OUT - Event page
Cambridge, Junction J1
Black Star Riders, Blue Pills, Tax the Heat & Dirty Thrills
£30.50 - 6.45pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Snapped Ankles, Ghosts of Men & The Valhallans
£6 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Colchester, Bull
The Collectors
Free entry - 9pm - Event page
Ipswich, Swan
Krief & Hunt For Titans
Free Entry - 9pm - Event page
Norwich, LCR
Airbourne, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons & The Wild
£23.10 - 6.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Son Of Dave, Ben C Winn & Olinski
£8 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
Roachford & Chris Pidgeon
SOLD OUT - Info
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
Reg Meuross & John Ward Trio
£12 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Sunday 19th November
Burston, Crown
Aartwork
Free entry - 5.30pm - Event page
Cambridge, Blue Moon
White Clouds
Free Entry - 6pm - Event page
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Phoenix Calling
£6 - 8pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock
£15 - 7pm - Tickets
Ipswich, La Tour Cycle Cafe
Bessie Turner, Nathaniel Robin Mann & Mick Squalor
£3.50 - 2pm - Event page
Monday 20th November
Bury St Edmunds, Apex
Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita
£18.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Model Aeroplanes
£7.70 - 7pm - Tickets
Colchester, Arts Centre
Megson & Kelly Oliver
£13 - 7.45pm - Tickets
Norwich, Arts Centre
Caravan & Guranfoe
£18 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, LCR
Scouting For Girls
SOLD OUT - Info
Norwich, Open
Roderick Williams and Ian Burnside
£29 - 7pm - Tickets
Tuesday 21st November
Cambridge, Blue Moon
Folk Session
Free entry - 8pm - Event page
Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Scouting For Girls
SOLD OUT - Info
Cambridge, Portland Arms
Euros Childs
£11 - 8pm - Tickets
Cambridge, Waterman
David Thomas Broughton & C Joynes
£6 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, Arts Centre
Blick Bassy & Brooke Sharkey
£12 - 8pm - Tickets
Wednesday 22nd November
Ipswich, Smokehouse
Tenements, Synthetic, Trapfield Tribe & Katie Rose
£10 - 8pm - Tickets
Norwich, Epic Studios
The Stylistics
£38.50 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Wonk Unit, Aerial Salad & Project Mork
£7 - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
John Smith & Will Stratton
£16.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Thursday 23rd November
Cambridge, Junction J2
Lucy Rose
£17 - 7pm - Tickets
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
The Whole Shebang Open Mic
Free Entry - 7.30pm - Event page
Norwich, Epic Studios
Ian Prowse & Matt Watson
£8 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, LCR
Happy Mondays
£32.45 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Norwich, Owl Sanctuary
Mammoth Penguins & Mega Emotion
Free entry - 7pm - Tickets
Norwich, Waterfront
Jaws
£10 - 7.30pm - Tickets
Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
The Whole Shebang Open Mic
Free Entry - 7.30pm - Event page
Photo: Wolf Alice (playing Norwich LCR, 17th November) by Andy DeLuca
Listings Editor: Kate Quigley
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hi all! i know this is a pretty obscure source, but i'm brother faulkner from the silt verses (podcast). i remember my name as river rather than my canon name, and remember having a deeper connection to my sister carpenter and paige than is shown in canon. we spent a lot more time together than in the show. if you remember me, please like or rb this post so i can message you! thank you!
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i always feel so lonely from my very small scale sources... i know a couple other kins from one source, but none from my other sources. i know i should check a canon call blog, but i'm also nervous about being recognized. ah well. maybe i'll check later.
- harrowhark nonagesimus, the locked tomb / brother faulkner, the silt verses #🧿🧪🌊
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for the obscure kin test, i've only met one other person who kins from my source, and they don't kin as seriously as me. and for my other sources, i'm canon divergent enough that i doubt anyone will match up with me. lol
-- brother faulkner, harrowhark nonagesimus, and victor frankenstein, #🌊🧿🧪
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if i had a nickel for every ocd-coded, heavily religious character with a rivalry with an older female friend that i kinned... well, i would have two nickels. which is a lot considering i only have three kins.
- brother faulkner (the silt verses) and harrowhark nonagesimus (the locked tomb series), #🌊🧿🧪
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(brother faulkner kin here again: my source is the silt verses! if you need further clarification on vibes just ask its a lot of rivers and gods and ill fated cult members having problems)
thank you for the clarification! that extra helps! /gen :)
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man, it's so lonely kinning from an obscure source. i want to find canonmates so badly but when i look at the kin tag for my source, it's only me. i keep sending asks to canon call blogs but i don't find replies...
- brother faulkner, the silt verses. thank you mod party cat for listening to me as i ramble about my loneliness :)
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hi!! could i have a kin playlist for a brother faulkner kin (river, religion, and non romantic obsession themes) please? i love delta rae, fiona apple, and general folk punk music! tysm :]
hi, sorry! i’m not familiar with this character- can you tell me the source? :(
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