#The people of Vale

[mambodork]

This is definitely how it went down

[mjulmjul]

Hello listeners.

[chewaai]

As Welcome to Night Vale is gaining another burst of popularity, I do wish to send out a warning to people who are very sensitive to psychotic episodes: be careful if you want to listen to it

If you're the type of person who has #unreality blacklisted, don't listen to too many episodes in a row/maybe avoid it all together?

Stay safe <3

[lovebunnie]

some cecil facts for people who dont know who he is or havent listened in a while :)

he is jewish

hes been married to his husband for 7 years

they have an adopted son

he has a niece named janice

and a dog named aubergine

he didnt age for an unspecific number of years (around a century) but recently has begun to age again

he was a boy scout and maybe a bit of a gay thing with his best friend earl harlan who still has feelings for cecil even if cecil is oblivious

he has a cat!

hes totally normal and not at all different from any other cat you may know. as normal as any cat from night vale can be

he has really prominent mommy issues

like as in, she used to literally hide from cecil for days and then she died when he was a young adult and his older sister abby raised him and it put a strain on their relationship where abby resented cecil for needing to be raised and cecil resented her for not being their mother (theyre also doing better now)

theres a sorta other world called ‘desert bluffs’ where cecils evil doppelganger named kevin works and they used to fucking HATE each other but more recently, things have mellowed. kinda. well atleast on kevins side i think

cecil never knew his father but its starting to seem like his dad is a tree..?

he has a fear of mirrors and doesnt know what he looks like or how old he is because his mother told him ‘someday you will die cecil. and it will involve a mirror’ normal!

he smokes weed and plays VR

[xenolinn]

He wants to show off his husband real quick.

[jekyllnahyena]

life as a motorsport fan in the year of 2024

(we haven't even reached the halfpoint of the season)

[virtuissimo]

hey before we get much further into this night vale discussion, can we remind everyone that if you are vulnerable to unreality or if you need unreality tagged, welcome to night vale is NOT safe for you.

it constantly explicitly says reality-bending things with the express purpose of making the listener doubt things they know to be true. They constantly blur the line between reality and fiction by rewriting historical events, in one episode they bring on number of real life celebrities talking as fictionalized but convincing versions of themselves, and in more than a few cases deceives the listener into misremembering facts about the show. This is all done creatively and non-maliciously, but i think people deserve to know that before going into it

[sentient-forest]

#cecilsweep and Welcome to Night Vale trending #1 in 2023

[maddisandy]

what do they fill horror podcasts with i swear. its like i start one and i blackout and suddenly its a week later and i've listened to eight hours of episodes every day since then

[potato-lord-but-not]

I CANT STOP DRAWING THEM SEND HELP

[geekwarriorgoddess]

I like the idea of Crystal starting an Instagram (Twitter, tumblr would work too, but for this I need insta) and posting about the boys. Like:

*photo of the office. No one there. Irl Charles is holding a book out of Edwin's reach, both are laughing*

Caption: "Edwin and Charles are flirting again... maybe we'll get work done tomorrow"

And so people think she's a great shit poster, with these two OC's that are gay teen ghost detectives.

I can also imagine her having a vlog, or maybe Nico, and it's just her talking so it'd be like "today's case - yes Edwin im filming a "vlog" - today's case - Charles they can't hear you, yes I'll tell them you were bad ass, no you can't show them your moves - today's case we had to-"

[bookshelfdreams]

the thing about night vale that makes it stand out to this day and makes even the old episodes hold up is how unabashedly unashamedly queer it is

and I don't just mean that cecil declare es his undying love for a man he saw once within the first 10 minutes of the entire show. I don't just mean the many, many casually lgbt+ characters

I mean that it's just. So fucking weird.

like the first thing to understand about it is that long-form fiction podcasts like this weren't really a thing before. night vale was foundational to not only it's genre, but it's format. audio dramas weren't dead exactly, but they were going out of style, who listened to the radio for fiction in 2012?

and Fink & Cranor just came along and went fuck you, we're gonna do what we want. we're gonna tell the stories we want to tell how we want to tell them.

there's a giant glow cloud that drops dead animals. DO NOT APPROACH THE DOG PARK.

like. I can't really express it. but from its very first moments it was just so. genuine. like you could really feel that this was written by people just doing whatever they thought would be fun or cool or interesting, who wrote for themselves and didn't really care about reaching an audience.

hey apropos of nothing let's do a psa about what color helicopters are most likely to abduct your children. have you heard about throat spiders?

and it works! too this day it still works because it's fun and scary and heartfelt and weird as all fuck

of course a website full of queer weirdos would fall in love with this

[myrquez]

found this while scrolling down on motorsport images… oh-

like. oh?

[nightvale-thoughts]

having a category 9 nightvale thought i love this podcast episode so much. josh crayton you will always be loved

[thousand-winters]

Gods, I just... really, really like Cecilos. Cecil getting infatuated with Carlos immediately and that turning from a puppy crush into actual love. Carlos, who was also attracted to him from the beginning, but who didn't really let himself get closer until his near death experience made him stop running.

How they seem picture perfect, except they aren't. They're just people. Cecil gets irritated with how secretive Carlos is, to the point he has to admit Carlos isn't all that perfect like he thought... but he finds that he loves him because he's imperfect, not in spite of it. How Carlos gets frustrated too by Cecil broadcasting everything on the radio, but eventually he comes to terms with that just being part of who Cecil is and finding it endearing. How both of them still compromise, Carlos opening up a little and Cecil keeping more boundaries with their personal life and his radio show.

They don't have one problem that they solve and that's it, either.

The Desert Other World, the secrets, the privacy issue, the weird reality altering events. They go through so much but they try for each other and they come through. They're just sweet.

[doctorsiren]

IM IN LOVE WITH YOUR REIGEN SPLIT AU. I NEED MORE OF IT 😭😭😭

ask and ye shall receive :)