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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Welcome one and all to the Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament! This is to determine once and for all what is the best obscure Night Vale ship. This tournament brings together canon pairings from the supplementary media (like the books), fandom crack ships, rarepairs, and could-have-beens. Some of these ships have large fanbases on Tumblr, but are more lacking on other platforms. Some of these ships will genuinely make you question who in the world is interested in that. And all of these ships are up for your vote, starting tomorrow!

Official Bracket:

On the left we have:

Nilanjanet (Nilanjana Sikdar/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasvin (Kasper Rhodes/Kevin)

Cecearl (Cecil Gerswhin Palmer/Earl Harland) vs Charlos (Carlos Robles/Charles)

Josh/Monty vs Danielauren (Daniel/Lauren Mallard)

Kascil (Kasper Rhodes/Cecil Gerswhin Palmer) vs Blake/Larry Leroy

On the right we have:

Mallardinal (Lauren Mallard/Dana Cardinal) vs Pawn Sherrif (Jackie Fierro/Sherrif Sam)

Toxic Science (Blake Jones/Janet Lubelle) vs Pizzacat (Silas the Thief/Big Rico Goldblum)

Radio Scientology (Cecil Palmer/Kevin/Carlos Robles/Charles) vs Women's Wrong's (The Faceless Old Woman/The Woman From Italy)

Laurbelle (Lauren Mallard/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasplake (Kasper Rhodes/Blake Jones)

Vote correctly, or never see your loved ones again.

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It's Time

Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Long live yuri

Nilanjanet art is by @bulkhummus and the Faceless Old Woman art is from the script books by Jessica Hayworth.

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some of yall this round

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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Nilanjanet art by @bulkhummus, poster from WTNV episode "Salmon Burger" by Jessica Hayworth

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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

art by @bulkhummus and @thevoiceofdesertbluffs respectively.

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Round Two Results:

Cecearl eliminated. Nilanjanet moves on.

Blake/Larry Leroy eliminated. Danielauren moves on.

Pizzacat eliminated. Mallardinal moves on.

Laurbelle eliminated. Women's Wrongs moves on.

Some stats and facts for round two: despite receiving the second-highest amount of votes in round one, Laurbelle was eliminated in round two. Women's Wrongs received the highest vote count in both rounds so far. Daniel is now the only man left in the tournament, although he is popularly headcanoned as nonbinary. Three/fourths of the ships remaining have had no canon interactions with each other. There are no m/m ships left in the tournament.

The semifinal match-ups are:

Nilanjanet vs Danielauren

Mallardinal vs Women's Wrongs

Semifinals go live tomorrow!

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sneak peak at the "Janet survives" wip im working on

Will probably release tonight or tomorrow

Darkness, fury, and the smell of meat. These were the things that greeted Janet Lubelle upon a cruel awakening, her ribs throbbing and head spinning, breath coming in short and stifled gasps. Her mouth was full of blood and no one came to save her.

Darkness, fury, and the smell of rotting flesh. She faded in and out of consciousness, stars exploding between her eyes, and still no one came. For the first time in over thirty years, she was entirely alone.

Darkness, fury, and a vision swimming before her eyes. Janet blinked against the phantom silhouette of Carlos Robles over her. "You're still here?" he asked. "I thought one of your team would have come to check on you by now." Janet glared up at him, realizing that she could only see him out of one eye. "Fuck you, Carlos, for taking everything from me. I may not have explained you away, but one day I will return, and if necessary, I will channel the bastardized logic of your town to come back from the dead and haunt you til the ends of the earth. So watch out, because I'm coming for you," she tried to say. All that came out was a rasp of "Caarrrrrlossssssss." She tried to scream but nothing came out. When the mirage faded she was alone again.

This time she didn't fall unconscious, and with a jolt she realized that this was because she was dying. Janet flailed her limbs. Her left knee met resistance, but from the thigh down her right one felt free, and a few fingers in her right hand flexed with the effort. She could no longer breathe, whether because the carcass on top of hers had shifted, or because she'd exhausted what little oxygen remained in this fleshy prison. She tried to move her head and gagged at the smell.

I will move it, she thought. I will move it because if I don't, I will die, and I cannot die like this. She pushed upward with the strength of hips that could bench press three times her body weight and tried to grasp at the sagging flesh of the dead cow with her wriggling fingers. After a moment she gave up and let her body fall slack again.

This is it, this is how I die, she thought. Can I make peace with that? There was still so much she hadn't done, things she hadn't explained and revenge that hadn't been exacted. There were still test tubes somewhere, bubbling with liquid she'd exacted from the body of Dana Cardinal's double. There were still stars to be observed and dimmed. Every single traitor to the University of What It Is would stand against her, and Carlos Robles - fucking Carlos Robles with his brown eyes full of stupid pity and his bitch husband full of stupid ideas, would stand in front of them. I will NOT make peace with that! I will make war with that because I! WILL! NOT! DIE!

Janet tried to scream again, and this time felt the sound tearing through her throat. With all the strength left in her broken body, she ground her heels into the corpse and shoved. She felt her left knee strain as she forced it up at an unnatural angle, felt the pressure intense, and felt the dull CRACK as her bone shattered. She bit back a cry and kept shoving, until her arm came free and she could lift with that as well.

And, after an hour that was probably only a minute or so, the cow moved and Janet rolled over to the side. A cloud of sand puffed up around them as it settled back into the dust, and she coughed. Coughed again. Inhaled fresh air of a world she was still alive to breathe in. Perhaps she began to laugh.

"Carlos," she rasped out as the stars dimmed above her. They had never looked so beautiful.

Nilanjana found her in the desert, bloodsoaked and still bleeding, missing an eye and with a bone exposed, lips chapped and skin cracked, having lost too much oxygen and even more blood, with a grand total three teeth knocked out and seven bones broken - and yet, somehow, she was still alive.

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Chapter Two of my "Janet survives" Nilanjana/Janet fic is up! Featuring Carlos and Esteban, and the new University of What It Is staff.

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First chapter of the "Janet Survives" fic is up! There will be three more to come, so stay tuned.

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Round One Results

Kasvin eliminated. Nilanjanet moves on.

Charlos eliminated. Cecearl moves on.

Josh/Monty eliminated. Danielauren moves on.

Kascil eliminated. Blake/Larry Leroy moves on.

Pawn Sheriff eliminated. Mallardinal moves on.

Toxic Science eliminated. Pizzacat moves on.

Radio Scientology eliminated. Women's Wrongs moves on.

Kasplake eliminated. Laurbelle moves on.

Some stats about this round: Despite being one of the most submitted characters, none of the ships including Kasper Rhodes advanced. On the other hand, every ship including Lauren Mallard made it past round one. Half of the ships going into round two are wlw.

The matchups for round two are:

Nilanjanet (Nilanjana Sikdar/Janet Lubelle) vs Cecearl (Cecil Gerswhin Palmer/Earl Harlan)

Danielauren (Daniel/Lauren Mallard) vs Blake Jones/Larry Leroy

Mallardinal (Lauren Mallard/Daniel Cardinal) vs Pizzacat (Silas the Thief/Big Rico Goldburg)

Women's Wrongs (The Faceless Old Woman/The Woman From Italy) vs Laurbelle (Lauren Mallard/Janet Lubelle)

Round Two will go up tomorrow late afternoon. I'm looking to put new pictures up for some of the ships, especially Blake Jones/Larry Leroy and Women's Wrongs, so if you want to submit a new picture for any ship please do so before tomorrow evening.

Happy lesbian visibility week!

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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Nilanjanet art by @bulkhummus and Danielauren art by @mudstoneabyss

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Semifinals results are in!

Danielauren eliminated. Nilanjanet moves on.

Mallardinal eliminated. Women's Wrong's moves on.

My condolences to the Lauren lovers, but she's no longer a part of any ship. This means that we now have a toxic yuri finale!

The FINAL MATCHUP will be:

Nilanjanet (Nilanjana Sikdar/Janet Lubelle) vs Women's Wrongs (The Faceless Old Woman/The Woman From Italy)

The finale goes up tomorrow!

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merc is sick so im gonna write a fic