We did already know this based on the fact that he bagged both Lark and Harry, but the latest appendix really is just rubbing it in our faces that if there’s one thing Sherman’s got in abundance it’s game. He incurred caenum for getting too much pussy + dick. they needed to take his ego down a peg. He sold out Lark because he was tired of being the most sought after person on Midst. The sex appeal of the Black Candle Cabaret? That was all him baby. And he even cares lovingly for his daughter and braids her hair? Absolutely unfuckwithable. Where do I sign up.

The fact that Jonas Spahr seems to be heading on an express route to Breach, while totally reasonable to us the audience, is absolutely fucking nuts from the perspective of your average Trustee, since they lack the context of his internal monologue and several key events that were not part of the public record

To become incredibly Canadian for a second, the average citizen's perspective on the matter would be like if the federal government blamed the cost of living and housing crises solely on the Governor General and had him removed from office, and he turned up a week later having joined a grassroots anti-monarchism movement. Divorced from context Spahr's turnaround time from key government official to seditionist is absolutely ridiculous

Really wanted to draw my take on Phineas Thatch, from Midst 💎✨

the population of stationary hill after hearing lark is wanted by the trust for the murder of maximilian loxlee and is currently the most caenumous criminal in the cosmos:

he made it to the club!!

Kozma Laszlo really sat down to dinner with the Upper Trust and said ‘listen up 5’s, a 10 is talking.’

Kozma: “The Breach isn’t just out there. It’s in here: inside the Trust, inside the Company, inside this city. Maybe inside this very room.”

Hieronymous:

congratulations to Jonas Spahr on the clarity, but fucking christ alive what an ordeal of a conversation that was.

bonus, and I'm redeeming my personal experience card for this one, so don't @ me about taste:

If I had a nickel every time a character I liked who struggled with perfectionism and control issues and came off as harsh at times was frequently maligned within the fandom for this behavior, only for it to later come out in the narrative that they were the recipient of far worse treatment and were merely not yet sufficient in their application of an axe to the vicious cycle visited upon them, I'd actually have a really big nickel collection

it's incredibly amusing to me that lark and phineas were the first ones to set out on a rescue mission and it was this whole big moment for both of their arcs and yet harry/saskia/tzila all got to sherman first. relatedly, the funniest possible thing to happen next would be for lark and phineas to also show up to this apartment, if only because i desperately want everyone to have to explain to the two of them what the hell Hieronymous Fucking Loxlee is doing in this situation

Midst asks a lot of important questions, such as: what if the stock market was for sin and good deeds? What if nighttime was a sentient soup that will kill you (or make you float)? What if the military’s psyop for recruitment wasn’t a tiktok egirl but a handsome buff man starring in a serialized radio play version of the military’s adventures? What if a guy called Phineas turned into a broken shell of a man? What if your babysitter was the coolest woman alive but also killed your friend the retiree with an upside down mouth? All this and much more.

Pick a Tearror!

Not enough people are listening to Midst imo, so I'm going to do my level best to fix that by making this poll! Please choose a tearror to be afflicted by.

All of these are canonical, and this doesn't even come close to covering the weirdness of the Fold from which tearrors originate. Please, if you think these sound fun, go listen to Midst.

This is the club Phineas should have been at the whole time.

shout out to this baby absolutely balling in the background of Spahr's depressive spiral

listening to fault is like. what do you mean the cycles of abuse and generational trauma are perpetuated on every level within a hierarchical capitalist cult based on subjectively quantifying the values of good & bad actions