#visibility dramatically more so in the frigid months of the polar night. During these storms Travel Is Not Advised

[crawdad-depot]

walked outside of my dorm and a blast of snow and wind hit me in the face. #this is just like the white vault

[closet-thing]

"In the winter months, gale storms in Svalbard can reach wind speeds of 130 km/h. Accompanied by, or following, snowfall, such storms can reduce visibility dramatically, more so in the frigid months of the polar night. During these storms, travel is not advised."

[watchmoods]

Podcast Aesthetics |  The White Vault

In the winter months, gale storms in Svalbard can reach wind speeds of a hundred and thirty kilometers per hour. Accompanied by, or following, snowfall, such storms can reduce visibility dramatically, more so in the frigid months of the polar night. During these storms, travel is not advised.

[somanyfuckedupiftruebooks]

Hey, themes of being driven to look at bad things despite knowing that no good will come from it, welcome back! I missed you <3

Yeah big fucking mood dude. That's absolutely what I would have assumed as well.

Of course they disappeared as soon as the light came on, the singers aren't in the church, they're in the Dark.

Why does the statement end like this? This is a written statement, right, so who was he talking to when he wrote this? The Eye???

Dude, you don't have to ask permission. If you're finished writing, you can just get up and leave. You're a grown man.

In the winter months, gale storms in Svalbard can reach wind speeds of a hundred and thirty kilometers per hour. Accompanied by, or following, snowfall, such storms can reduce visibility dramatically, more so in the frigid months of the polar night. During these storms, travel is not advised.

Fuck yes Archivist!! Well done!!

I bully Jon a lot, but credit where credit is due, he has a real talent for seeing connections between things which are seemingly unconnected. Weird screams in an empty dark church that has nothing to do with the Institute on the same night the Head Archivist died? How could anyone possibly think those two things have anything to do with each other? But Jon is right!! There is a connection, one that won't be made clear until late Season 4 and Jon fucking called it right from the start!! Everybody cheer and clap for the Archivist, he's being good at his job for once <3

@a-mag-a-day

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Lol literally two seconds before the line where he jokes about her being a vampire I was thinking to myself, 'If I were him, I'd assume she was a vampire.'

I hate this! Yeah yeah yeah she's flooding the home with darkness to serve her fear god or whatever, but it's so fucking petty!! And annoying!!! Why are all avatars pathetic little children first and evil monsters second? Oh wait, maybe it's because that's what being afraid all the time does to a person.

She's practicing for choir!! She has to learn a whole new language for this song. Leave her alone!!

She left her vibrator on.

And another person falls victim to the Entities because they were too British to successfully avoid an awkward confrontation. Girl, your roomate has joined some sort of cult and is keeping you awake with occult singing all night. If you're not going to move out immediately (for some reason) at the very least don't let her peer pressure you into eating weird slimy spinach in the dark with her.

What does Natalie think will happen when the world is reborn in darkness? Obviously she thinks it must be good, otherwise she wouldn't be doing it, and she's been at least a little brainwashed by Raynor and the Chruch. But like... what did they tell her specifically? She's talking about home and family and being saved, all things I would associate with a merficial god. But her god eats fear, so what the fuck?

Generally speaking, I think it was a misstep to try and turn the Dark into a cult. A fear of the dark is such a childish thing, I think the Dark works best when we experience it through the eyes of children, or using childish perspectives. Julia Montauk home alone with a monster at the door, the children trapped in Night Street, 'the blanket never did anything'. Darkness is difficult to do effectively in an audio medium, but moments like these work because they speak to the scared children inside all of us.

That said, fear as a form of worship fucking slaps. I just think other Entities could have done it better.

I also did a search for Hither Green Dissenters, and along with some images if a particularly creepy looking abandoned church, I found this:

An original Smirke design! And as far as I know Jonny doesn't mention this anywhere in the main canon. I wonder how many other details like this can be found with a little extra research?

If my maths is right, the Dark ritual lasted for at least a month. Was London just weirdly dim the entire time, or was this only noticable to people in close proximity to the Dark?