#night vale
UNWELL IS BACK FOR SEASON 3
If you haven’t listened to this podcast yet I strongly recommend it! It has representation! it has mystery! and its the only horror podcast that makes me genuinely scared!
Here is the description from the official website if anyone is interested
Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery
A fiction podcast about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice.
Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town’s boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house’s strange assortment of residents.
A few months ago I was offered one of the most terrifying freelance projects of my life. To create what is, to my knowledge, the first official illustrations of two of the most beloved and fiercely headcanoned characters in the world, Cecil and Carlos from Welcome to Night Vale.
I see lots of posts here on tumblr telling everyone to stop attacking me over these, but I see zero (0) people attacking me! Everyone is so nice, even people who dislike them! It’s not my Cecil either! It’s just A Cecil.
Some FAQ:
No, this is not canon!
My stipulation for taking the job was that I could put that disclaimer on there, which is a spoof of the “this is canon” style sticker on the 1980s Dr. Claw action figure, which was the merch-only reveal of a previously unseen face that scandalized me as a kid.
Yes, Cecil does just look like some guy!
That’s what I screamed at every draft. There were some specific rules I had to follow, but I won’t tell you what they were so that you don’t have to consider them canon. When I listen I just see something much closer to the voice actors. But I couldn’t draw their likenesses, and also couldn’t duplicate anything fans designed!
The handcuffs are from episode 70B.
In that episode they were used for crime, not kink. But this is an interactive toy, so you do you.
Yes, the cuts are a little weird.
I didn’t know until I saw the pictures of the final product how the cuts would like, and the idiosyncrasies of the laser made them a little odd. If you want to perfect them with an Xacto knife, the images above (which is what I sent to the manufacturer) can act as a handy guide.
Thanks everyone! Feel free to AMA!
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If you love something, set it free. If it attempts to emotionally manipulate you by telling you it died, it never loved you in the first place.
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This is a reminder that Basic Life Saving (BLS) skills must be renewed on a yearly basis. Night Vale Community Hospital will be offering American Heart Association standard CPR/Helicopter Piloting classes, which will satisfy this requirement. Classes will be held in an unidentifiable windowless basement with time dilation facilities. The worthy will find themselves transported to this location at any given moment.
Stay tuned for information on our Advanced Cardiac Life Saving (ACLS) Certification/Sniper Training Sessions and Infection Control/Home Horticulture Inservice.
The Greater Night Vale Medical Community prides itself on staying up to date on the latest in healthy living. That is why we are proud to announce our latest research on citizens living a chemical free lifestyle. All participants have been reduced to their individual base elements and are currently residing in neatly labeled jars. We are having difficulties in communicating with our participants, but we assume they have reached a zen like state, as evidenced by their lack of screaming.
Two thirds of Americans are not drinking enough water. To figure out how much water you should be drinking daily, follow this simple calculation: Multiply your weight in grams by the number of arbitrary guidelines of attractiveness set by a media standard you cannot possibly hope to achieve. Divide this number by your current jeans size. Take this number, write it down, and throw it in the trash. Drink wine instead. As always: if you see something, say nothing, shoot all yellow helicopters on sight, and drink to forget.
Invisibility is an interesting concept. So is silence. And intangibility. More interesting that we come up with these concepts when everything our limited human bodies see, hear, and touch are a mere 4% of the universe as a whole. What do you know of nothingness? You could be drowning in a cacophony of sensation, and never have the slightest clue.
100% of reality is an illusion, 0% of the above is true. Be careful not to think yourself out of existence.
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You are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive that is youer than you. Except for your mirror double, who has been making an art of duplicating your finite quirks since you first met eyes as an infant.
Also don’t forget: Writing utensils are still forbidden, as is the majority of knowledge included in the above lists.
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If you hear the following strange sounds echoing about town, do not be concerned. It is merely the Earth making New Year’s resolutions about you.
Do not ask what these resolutions are. It’s better that you not know.
Plates lay half empty on the table. Scraps of brightly colored paper skitter across the floor of their own accord. Tinsel has ended up in places that tinsel was never meant to be. The sound of a choir plays softly, somewhat warped from an unseen speaker. The inhabitants of the house are nowhere to be seen- it is safer that way. Take heart. It is only 10 hours until midnight.
Happy holidays from the Greater Night Vale Medical Community. May you survive to see the new year.
Do not concern yourself unless you begin to hear ‘Carol of the Bells.’ They have not broken their silence for you. They are calling out to something much more malevolent.
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Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells. All seem to say- BELLS DO NOT TALK. They do not. Do not listen to the bells. They only tell lies and do not exist. Do not let their tintinnabulation fool you. That is not a bell you hear. It is the laughter of the Eldritch being that has tricked you into believing that it is a small, harmless musical instrument.
98% of the universe is invisible. That thing you told yourself you didn’t see? It’s there. Watching. Waiting. Relying on the fact that although you know it’s there, you will never see it coming.
After several unfortunate confection related incidents, candy canes are now considered deadly weapons. As such, you must have a concealed weapons permit to have them in your possession. Those who wonder why this has come to pass have clearly never eaten a candy cane, and would never be approved for a permit in the first place.
As always, we wish you happy holidays, and hope that you survive to see the new year.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but people simply have to stop whitewashing Carlos from Welcome to Night Vale. He’s canonically described as dark skinned:
And yet I consistently see him drawn as light brown or even tan white. It’s not as much a problem as it used to be since the fandom has died down, but it still gets on my nerves. So here’s a reminder:
Obviously this chart is not a perfect representation of the spectrum of skin tones, and the line can get a little blurry between midtone and dark, but it’s a start. If you hear/read “dark” and automatically invision lighter brown shades, that’s because you subconsciously view white as the default and lump in any brown-skinned person under the same category of “dark”. And if you make him brown because “he’s latino, not black!” then may I remind you:
-Latino is not a race
-Afro-Latinos exist (and don’t even have to be multiracial)
-Dark-skinned indigenous Latinos exist (and don’t even have to be multiracial)
I am not latine but this is what I’ve learned from the indigenous and black latine community who face an extreme amount of colorism. If you think the above skin tones are dark, you don’t adequately understand how dark the spectrum of skin tones actually gets. Please draw and write Carlos with a canon-accurate skin tone ❤ Also while we’re at it some curly/kinky hair texture cuz not a lot of dark skinned bipoc have completely straight hair
-Sincerely, a lighter skinned black person tired of colorism
