Early night vale cecilos was so funny. Imagine being Carlos. You move to a new town and turn on the local radio station and you just hear the host talking about how he wants you carnally.
fuck all of u bitches with bad taste welcome to night vale did not have THE MAIN CHARACTER, THE NARRATOR, say hes in gay love at first sight with another man in goddamn 2012 when the best you could get was, like, glee, for you to say its only legacy is that some ppl r being cringe abt horror. fuck you.
people’s standards have dropped so fucking low n some of u have never had that experience of listening to the pilot for the first time and hear cecil wax poetic about how handsome and mysterious carlos is and have it be completely normal and expected! do you know how unprecedented that was? do you know how healing it was to hear gay love being talked about with such candor and without shame, without restraint?
wtnv was incrediblyy ahead of the curve in a lot of ways and it continues to be almost a decade later and i REFUSE to let yall slander it like this. it isnt even a horror podcast it’s a comedy with horror elements but it was never meant to be scary. the way that wtnv also does satire so well n the scathing critiques of contemporary society (esp the surveillance state)….. just say u never understood what it was (is & continues to be) abt and go lol no need to embarrass urself
and you see. the thing is. i remember being here. i remember when ppl were scared wtnv wld just be another bury your gays story. and i remember when the 1 year anniversary episode came out and EVERYONE being shocked that not only did nobody die but cecil and carlos rly got together! and i rmbr when wtnv topped the charts week after week after week following that and it was THE fiction podcast and it was THE podcast in general for so long until its popularity gradually lessened and people started to look at other things and listened to other podcasts.
but you cannot look at wtnv which was literally genre-defining in its ingenious storytelling and everything else and say its legacy is that ppl think trees with eyes are the epitome of horror.
i wont allow it.
they’re literally celebrating their 10 yr anniversary this year n they never dropped the ball, not even once. your faves could never. i need u to apologize to jeffrey cranor and joseph fink rn for this slander.
Your hands are shaking from the coldness of relatives…
You stomach aches from avoiding dinner’s canabalism…
You have waded in pools of familial blood and found it thinner than water and running fast away from your heart…
You are the last leaf in winter, hanging to the tree. You are trembling in the winds of life you cannot avoid, but are forced to weather through until they break you.
You cannot change your family tree. You cannot change anything. Only be changed.
And yet when you found yourself in that downward spiral to the earth you realized it was not the end.
The ice of your father. The howls of your mother. The torrential clawing of grandparents and sibblings. None could break you.
Only set you free.
And I will not tell you winter will not come again… After spring is another fall.
But I will remind you that after fall is another spring.
And one day you will be warm with the love of chosen family. You will be somewhere you chose to be. With people you chose to let change you.
One day you will not be a leaf ever falling through external forces. You will be a person.
Beyond metaphor.
Beyond poetry dressing pain.
Beyond your tree.
Free to roam and move against the breeze and enjoy allseasons.
Do not feel guilt if this coming year does not deliver what last year’s could not. Your love is not an infinite distance or time away.
Never fall asleep while listening to Welcome to Night Vale or else you’re gonna dream that you’re a citizen of Night Vale that listens to the local radio show as you deal with the monster of the week while Cecil narrates everything.
Not to mention you’ll wake up wondering if it was really a dream or if it was really an episode.
Bro I think you astral projected into Night Vale
All the night vale citizens watch as I disappear after saving the day: “Oh, y’know that’s a silly little thing she does :)”
Never fall asleep while listening to Welcome to Night Vale or else you’re gonna dream that you’re a citizen of Night Vale that listens to the local radio show as you deal with the monster of the week while Cecil narrates everything.
Not to mention you’ll wake up wondering if it was really a dream or if it was really an episode.
do you guys have that one really old post of quotes from welcome to nightvale? and it was like a masterlist of this persons favourite quotes that inspired them/ changed their outlook on life, and some other people added on,,, if u do can u send me the link please? ive been thinking of it and i cant find it anywhere,,,
Theory:Jon and Martin will fail to save the world from the Eyepocalypse. London will continue to evolve under The Eye, and develop new government agencies and “secret” police system. After many years it’s revealed London has become the town of Night Vale.
NIGHT VALE NATION PRESENTS: PLEASE GOD LISTEN TO WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
either you’ve listened before and haven’t continued or maybe you’ve never listened to it at all! please consider checking it out if you haven’t! i know after tma ends a lot of you will want something to listen to and this just might be the thing for you!!!!
i’ve had to mash some pictures together but please check out the actual presentation we had so much fun making it.
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.
Welcome to Night Vale’s live show in Vancouver. The best way to spend Halloween, really. Eliza Rickman’s music was a pleasant surprise and in the spirit of the season Cecil dressed up as Carlos and vice versa. HOW CUTE IS THAT? Best Halloween ever!
Adventurekateers! Our own founding WorkJuice Player Mark Gagliardi is putting up Tales from the Black Lagoon for one night only in NY! Here’s a message from Gags himself:
Hello, Thrilling fans! I have some exciting news for our east coast folks.
I, like you, miss hearing Acker & Blacker’s stories told from the stage by nicely dressed performers. When some friends told me they were raising money to build schools in Malawi I thought this seemed like a great reason to gather some of my favorite WorkJuice East Players and have a Thrilling night at the Bell House, our New York home. And what a story we have for you!
Do you remember our serial Tales from the Black Lagoon? It’s a trio of noir stories about Hollywood’s Golden Age and one of my favorite segments we ever did, so we’re gathering those serial episodes into one seamless story of glamorous intrigue.
It will be on May 17th at 7:30 at The Bell House, our favorite theater, to raise money for a good cause. I hope to see you there!
