#I've seen WTNV live like 5 times

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I feel like a lot of people don't know how 100% Tumblr Culture the character of Cecil Gershwin Palmer is. This is a character who, in the first episode, outs with the fact that he's gay so plainly and bluntly ("and I fell in love instantly") that some people didn't believe it was a thing until he got with the object of his affections several episodes later.

He has no canon character design. We do not know what he looks like. He's described as being "neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat," and that's all we've got.

He lives in a paranormal surrealist horror town where there are ghosts and angels and monsters and a floating cat in the bathroom of the radio station, the manager of which is some kind of horrifying tentacle monster.

Cecil lost his mother under mysterious circumstances when he was a kid—not because of the paranormal surrealist horror, but because she was a severely mentally ill alcoholic who could not take care of her children. He delivers a beautiful soliloquy about it that is one of the best parts of the entire series.

His love interest, Carlos, was originally voiced by one of the writers; eventually they re-cast him to be played by a queer POC because the character is a queer POC and the team did not feel right not representing him properly.

His actor, also named Cecil, is an openly HIV+ gay man who brings some of the best energy to a live show that I've ever seen; if you get the chance to see WTNV live, do it.

This show is such a cornerstone of fandom on this platform that the WTNV crew was invited to DashCon as guests of honor. (They showed up, too, but I think we all know how that went. 2014 was a hell of a time.)

Anyway vote for Cecil, thanks.

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I posted 2,816 times in 2022

That's 1,549 more posts than 2021!

190 posts created (7%)

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I tagged 643 of my posts in 2022

#rem rambles - 184 posts

#tma - 49 posts

#the magnus archives - 43 posts

#ask and ye shall receive - 17 posts

#tma s5 - 16 posts

#tma s5 spoilers - 15 posts

#wtnv - 15 posts

#tma s4 spoilers - 14 posts

#family stuff - 14 posts

#tma s4 - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#but this was too good of a point and “gay sex will always be a stronger force in the world than transphobia” is too excellent to not reblog

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Jon facing the entities: hey there demons, it’s me, ya boy

Jon showing up in people’s nightmares: hey there boys, it’s me, ya demon

Jon becoming The Archivist: Hey there me, it’s ya demon boy

957 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

#4

So in love with the idea that very few of the ghosts actually want to attack or hurt anyone and are kind of their as glorified personal trainers for Danny.

Like this newly formed half-ghost child is insanely powerful and no one understands why but what they DO know it that ghosts shouldn't go withhout using their powers for very long or it causes problems so they all show up to Amity to cause problems so that Phantom has a way to actually use and train with his ghost powers and release energy before he explodes or something.

And all his villains are so tired like god damn the kid has a new power one of you go handle it.

And after he defeats Pariah Dark and is technically in line to be the new Ghost King when he dies, his villains become INVESTED in making sure he lives as long as physically possible because no one knows how an untrained, over powered teenager is going to use the powers that seemingly show up at random.

And it is BECAUSE he is a child that they don't use his civilian identity against him because come on the kid does not need us outing him to his parents when they might KILL HIM (yes I'm aware they wouldn't but the ghosts don't know that)

I've seen this or a version of this covered in a BUNCH of fics (can't remember which ones so if you do feel free to mention them)

Idk just, the concep of Ghost Children being valued and protected as well as Phantom's Rogues Gallery just being there to make sure his powers don't blow his city off the map

1,476 notes - Posted March 8, 2022

#3

me going from social to social documenting how the different environments are reacting to a drastic unexpected change to the internet landscape that they cohabit:

1,717 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

#2

Ah yes, Jonathan Sims. He plays many famous and fantastic characters. Namely Jon Jonny and John

2,181 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

No but like one of the BEST tropes in fanfiction is definitely "local Hero's community definitely knows their identity but refuse to say anything" it's hilarious. Particularly when the hero is young, like Danny Phantom or Spiderman or Merlin.

This is ESPECIALLY true when the characters kinda just come together to make life easier for the hero

Like Amity Park having collective amnesia over anything Phantom related whenever the GIW come around, or the residents of Queens learning self defence so they can handle some petty crime so that Spiderman has time to actually do his homework, or servants and knights in Camelot making up excuses for Merlin or taking over some chores so he doesn't get in trouble

Any attempt to out the hero is quashed immediately on pain of total social ostracisation

Just give me people protecting the local teenage hero because god damn it he's doing good and he doesn't deserve all the shit he's getting

2,640 notes - Posted March 31, 2022

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