#wtnv 218

[lazy-toad]

Listening to a podcast episode where a character is interacting with their child

[enjoy-purple-skies]

I need more esteban on air please please !!!! i’m going to cry every time cecil is interrupted to focus on his baby

[goffiks]

"hm? yeah, esteban, honey? oh, you need a snack!" i cant take it i cant i

[hestias-night-vale-ramblings]

Oh my God the sudden shift

From townsfolk rallying to expel the University from Night Vale like the mob gathering in Beauty and the Beast

To dad mode, "oh you need a snack?" How

[hauntedlooseends]

“So when you gonna tell him?

That nothing grows in corpses

There's nothing hе or anyone can do”

[donothing-nothingworks]

”’shucks,’ said the bunny, ‘you are inescapable. even in my imagination, you have me trapped!’ and he was.

‘have a carrot,’ said the mother bunny, and the little bunny had no choice.”

[night-vale-presents-described]

[ID: The Short Tyler1 meme. Tyler1 looking up at Mel Capperino-Garcia. Mel Capperino-Garcia is labeled “Cecil trying to do his job.” Tyler1 is labeled “Esteban wanting Flaming Hot Cheerios.” /End ID]

I would unironically die for Esteban

[wt-nv-quotes]

9 out of 10 doctors agree that there's something off about the 10th doctor.

[annabelle--cane]

pls I need episode sources for the true ones in the wtnv polls

this is about my "which of these is a fake fact about welcome to night vale" poll and ideally one should take that before reading these answers. having said that, let's go:

NVlians have to fill out triplicate sex paperwork with all potential partners: canon in the novel it devours! a few paragraphs from chapter 13,

2. cecil is an avid tiktok user and regularly records dances at the radio station: this is the false one, it's actually carlos who is the wannabe tiktok star. from episode "218 - the sitter cancelled,"

I tried to get Carlos to take Esteban to the lab, but apparently today they’re doing a dangerous experiment and he doesn’t want our son to get hurt. I’m not sure I believe that. I think Carlos might just want some time alone to work on his Tiktok dances. He’s obsessed these days with getting one to go viral, and he’s putting a few too many hours into choreographing and filming these things. 

3. k[h]oshekh the floating cat is a misogynist: from 195 and 196, silas the thief parts 1 & 2. these episodes are told from the perspective of silas, a former successful art thief who used to work with a partner called sandrine whom he never got on with, largely due to his self-centeredness and misogyny never letting him see her as a full person. it all came to a head when sandrine, as an act of revenge, cursed him to be an immobile mutant cat for the rest of his days, and this is the cat we have known all along as khoshekh gershwin-palmer. however he has mellowed since then and his misogyny has kind of cooled, having kids really changed him.

4. cecil turns a recurring nightmare of his into an nft: I feel the need to say he turned the nightmare itself into an nft, not an artistic representation or anything. from "199 - guidelines for retrieval,"

And thus ends the new Guidelines for Retrieval. Aw, that’s such a nice offer from the Sanitation Department! A little long winded maybe, but I don’t want to be too critical. I know their public communications department has had a lot of turnover lately. Anyway, I definitely will be taking them up on that offer this week. There’s a super vivid recurring nightmare I used to have that would make a great NFT.

5. cecil doesn’t know what fridges are: this one comes from the 2017 live show "ghost stories,"

Cecil: Oh yeah! Carlos and I have one of those humming closets, and when I open it up, there’s a light inside and cool air washes over me and I’m just like – what is this thing? Earl: Well, that’s just your refrigerator, Cecil. Cecil: Wait, that’s a refrigerator?! Earl: What have you been using as a fridge? Cecil: [beat] So tell us more about this master class um, Earl.

6. carlos climaxes in person in voice on podcast: from the patreon bonus episode "holiday." thinking or talking about science at too great length has a long canonical track record of getting carlos hot and bothered, and in one passage of the episode he starts talking about how much he loves doing science with a romantic partner, and, well. I'll just link the clip.

7. a big villain is defeated by getting squashed under a falling cow: major spoilers for very recent content here. in episode "230 - carlos explained," right as dr janet lubelle is giving her big villain monologue, this happens,

DR. LUBELLE: Now you’re starting to understand. There is no defeating me. No trick to wriggling out under my thumb. I’ve gamed out every gambit. Foreseen every fumbling, sweaty strategy. You have lost. And now…now Carlos, I will explain you away. You, Dr. Carlos Robles, were the son of [WHISTLING SOUND OF SOMETHING FALLING FROM THE SKY. LOUD SPLAT] [LONG PAUSE] CECIL: And that’s when the Glow Cloud dropped a dead cow on Dr. Lubelle. I sure hope she wasn’t injured. We should definitely check on her at some point, you know, eventually.

8. joseph fink, irl writer of the podcast, has been a NV radio intern twice: once, in the live show "the investigators," an intern played by joseph fink introduces himself as intern joseph fink. in all fairness, he could just be playing a character with his exact name, I mean, that's what maureen johnson does. however, from episode "188 - listener questions" onward, our world has in-universe been merging with the night vale world, and the actual writer joseph fink has been trapped in the town of night vale for over two years, at one point doing a stint as an intern.

9. a big villain is offered “an extra hour in the ball pit” as a bribe to go away: this one's about dr janet lubelle, again. in the last couple of seasons, tamika flynn has been feeling like she's outgrowing using violence as a tool to solve her problems, so in "228 - diplomacy," she tries the following,

Frustrations have swelled to a new high in Night Vale after Councilmember Tamika Flynn’s failed diplomatic attempts with the University of What It Is. Tamika tried offering them everything from limitless use of the scrublands to a coupon book full of cute tasks like free backrubs. She even offered an extra hour in the ball pit at the Night Vale Convention Center. But Dr. Lubelle and all of her henchmen will not budge.

[medusaesque]

i forgot how happy wtnv made me.. episode 218 the sitter cancelled CutestShitI'veEverHeard.mp3

[smartheart]

NO but Cecil is such a sweet dad in episode 218??? He gave his son attention every. Single. Time. he asked him to, even though his radio show is basically the most important thing to him ever, and even though we saw station management go crazy just last episode when the program was interrupted. I just. I have to stan. Cecil Gershwin Palmer is THAT guy

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

Oh also I don’t think the bunny story is about Cecil and Esteban I think it’s about Cecil and his mother. 

[arthurtaylorlester]

wtnv ep 218 liveblog

right off the bat I'm betting on esteban based on the title

avenues do in fact loop back

I FUCKING CALLED IT

BLOODY MARY NLOODT MARY BLOODY MARY

carlos is a tiktoker???

streamer carlos real !?

AND FUCK dr LUBELLE

yeah and city council has good reason to be afraid

oh the way he snaps out of it

the pumpkin spice beef jerky is a need not a want

I dont watch doctor who and I never will

byers!?

oh she a corpse

oh she speaks

notwilcox huh?

GOSSIP

SO DO I CECIL SO DO i

HUBERT IS AMRRIED

!?!?!?!?!?!

evil gays fr fr

I feel bad for lizard alan

damn cecil

yeah you will cecil

yes bedtime stories :)

goodmorning nigh vale

moon hate js the worst night vale take

no you didn't it

girl please i want to know what's going on

in the bathtub, which is the atlantic ocean, I am holding crime and punishment

so I gotta empty the ocean

oh I like this segment

like a lot

dream a+

what in audio format

the Smethwick house perhaps?

narrow path? like the distant prince?

WHY DOES SHE HAVE ARMED GUARDS

esteban ily but the news

the floor is larvas

can cecil be my father please

ah yes the day of reckoning

labor day haunted houses should be real

the whispering woods?

I hope tgif man has a nice holiday

fuck I only have Sundays off how will I do without them

NO JANET YOU WILL NOT STOP BEING SUCH AN EYE AVATAR KINNIE

the weather time

as usual, it slaps

wait when were rabbits mentioned before

I feel like theyre important

these children's story slap holy shit

it's like the dream vs lucifer scene in the sandman

oh that was spooky

esteban is very sweet

NOOOOOOO

YEAH FORGIVE AND FORGET? NO RESENT AND REMEMBER

good night night vale

good night <2

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

OKOK. WTNV 219 THOUGHTS.

OH MY BALLS OH MY BALLS OH MY FUCK THEY'RE ALL IN DANGER. SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG AND EVERYONE IS IN DANGER. NOTHING IS RIGHT. NOTHING IS OK IN NIGHT VALE, NOTHING WILL BE OK IN NIGHT VALE.

[illustrious-slimeman]

Stay tuned for the sounds of a grown man refusing to debase himself online for the sake of his husband

[falenminds-blog]

Now the real question is: what is Raheem going to do bout this whole Hubert/Alan situation???!?!? I mean, Hubert could’ve come clean to Alan instead of Raheem… Not saying Raheem needs to forgive him, “unethical non-monogamy”?? Pffft pleAse, as if that was some kind of excuse, ridiculous. But still, after so many years of lies, ooooooommfff- And also keeping his entire life a secret from Alan? He really did the un-skink-able to both of them (get it?? cause skinks, like, like lizards, yall get it, right?)