#wtnv 146

[unmechanism]

I fucking love this show man

[enjoy-purple-skies]

just finished listening to wtnv 146 & I have Very Normal Feelings right now for lee marvin’s monologue

?!?!?!??!!!?!!!?!?!?!?

This episode made me stop on whatever chores I’ve been doing to fully internalize the whole thing

KJDKSJSKSJAKJDNDKQ GAAAHHHH

[moved-to-piersgender]

A song for a planet of awesome size, lit by no sun. An invisible titan, all thick, black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans.

(TL;DL lyrics for those not in the mood for a 14 minute doom metal ode)

[naciapiracia]

im curious what Europe looks like in the wtnv universe

[leonardburton]

once again thinking about cecil from the miniature city under lane five of the desert flower bowling alley and arcade fun complex and weeping softly on the floor. he sounds so tired. so small. so defeated. soooo. so. also the way he says "it leaves me uneasy" and "he was beautiful" ... you know.

[kevin--of-desert-bluffs]

WTNV quick rundown - 146 - The Birthday of Lee Marvin (II)

This episode is narrated to us by TL Thompson playing the role of Lee Marvin.

Read the rest of my rundowns here!

Every evening’s disappointment is the next morning’s hope. I’m Lee Marvin. Welcome to my birthday.

This is one of those episodes I highly recommend listening to to get the full experience - what follows is a very brief summary which does not do it justice.

Lee Marvin tells us about what it is like to be him. How his daily routine, the day of his 30th birthday as it always is and always has been, is always exactly the same. It is the same even if he tries to change it. For example even if he doesn't go near the box of cereal he has for breakfast every morning the exact same amount of cereal will always be in the bowl.

He tells us that he has been on the surface of the Awesome Planet Lit By No Sun and that we will all go there one day, one at a time, alone.

He tells us about visions he's had, visions about forests full of water he wades through, about board meetings with a unsmiling man who does not talk to him, about shimmying slowly up an infinite chimney with brutal cold water sloshing far below and sunrise/sunset above.

He tells us about all the things he has not done and how it's impossible for everyone to do everything anyway. He seems content with this existence but there's an undertone of sadness.

Weather: “Sicilian Crest” by the Mountain Goats

There is another Lee Marvin trapped in the walls that questions him about there being 'more than this' and then asks to be helped out but cannot be.

He likes to binge old 90's sitcoms like 'Five In A Pit' or 'The Thin Man Commences'.

He never actually falls asleep, staying away counting the hours instead, but always wakes in his bed at 5am anyway.

He drives a Dodge Durango and owns a hat that he's never bought, running shoes he's never used and has never been married but has been divorced.

He likes the 1960's original version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall where every part is played by Frank Sinatra and since he loved it so much he can't imagine a better movie and so has never watched another.

Time travel is like super a thing in NV btw it's mentioned a few times in the Blood/Space War and Pioneer day episodes and I never realised it was becoming a Thing but Lee Marvin also says he gets brochure's advertising Time Travel so it's super a thing yeah.

After all, past performance is not a predictor of future results. After all, death is only the end if you think the story is about you. After all. After everything. After it’s over. What then? Good night, Night Vale Good night.

Proverb: A group of Chihuahuas is called a committee. A group of Labradors is called a jumble. A group of Golden Retrievers is called a butter dish.

[thedarklyblue]

podcast brain..

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 7th April ✨

Happy #AudioDramaSunday! I’ve had such a long week - here’s what made it better!🌈

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E7) I loved the April Fool’s episode, it really brightened up my day. And the main ep was lovely too. I do so love a parakeet and the idea that some kids can actually see ghosts 🥺 but what the hell was Frank doing at the end there? Please can this be the thing that pushes Leo back into Julia’s (arms) and Riley’s circle of friendship????? Please! 

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (146) Danielle!!!!! I am rubbing my grubby little hands together waiting for more information on how Clem and Danielle came to be Like That. The fun thing about this ?time skip is that it makes me want to be omnipresent in the narrative too. I need to know what’s happening to everyone everywhere!! 

🎙️WTNV (245) Maybe I have father-related trauma, but I am HUNGRY for the Grandad Gershwin lore.

🏛 @the-mistholme-museum (FRANTIC) ohh I was wondering when the Queen was going to make an appearance (Hero is too good not to be featured LBR) but now it’s happened I’m scared!! I think the next episode is the finale and I have no idea what kind of ending is going to emerge! 

🔎 @224bbaker Fawx and Stallion released the second part of their Q+A which was so much fun to listen to. We love self-indulgent show runners, particularly when we all want the same things (AKA lava-filled cage matches). Please be really cool and intelligent like me and support the S2 crowdfund! I need the case of the Birthday Boy or I’ll perish. 

🍾 @ameliapodcast (30) This was such a cute episode!! Not going to lie, if the first human voice I heard was Amelia’s, I wouldn’t be mad! Not sure that they’re going to get them back as a client though . . . 

🍎 @notquitedeadpod (XXX-XXXII) help, oh my god, listening to Alfie talk to Cas is actually destroying me emotionally 😭 I hate how evasive (and manipulative??) Neige is being. I KNOW there’s something huge that hasn’t yet been revealed and I’m not ready to find out what that is!

Hope everyone has had a good week! I'm so excited for more Camlann next week and I think The Silt Verses is returning too!! 

[hoarding-stories]

Listening to wtnv ep 146 and y'know, if I were to eventually get a welcome to night vale tattoo it'd have something to do with the dark planet lit by no sun

[disparition]

I know this was about 100 episodes ago but do you still have the audio files used in ep 146 of wtnv? The whole episode has the most melancholic music i’ve ever heard and i think they were original. I’m a hugeee fan of your instrumental piano work n i can’t find the songs anywhere :(

most of the music in that episode came from the album Through Stone

https://disparition.bandcamp.com/album/through-stone

[carnation-notebooks]

Would you possibly have a favorite WTNV episode?

Ok, so my FAVORITE ever (as of right now, im on episode 146) is ep 100. But in very close 2nd place is Numbers. Fey makes me so happy and sad at the same time!

Honorable mentions : The Sandstorms. Of course. I dont remember the name but the one wjere one Dana double comes back to fight her. Almost all epiosdes where Carlos talks. The registry of Middle school crushes. The Old Oak Doors eps. And i also dont remember the name but the broadcasts from Desert Bluffs 2. OH AND THE ONE WHERE WE TALK TO THE DIFFERENT KEVINS. those may be all?? Thats all im remember rn!!

[unmechanism]

what if I sobbed

[bardicindignation]

okay okay okay so bear with me here, and keep in mind that a. I haven't watched the bad batch or anything Star Wars has put out since the Mandalorian season 2 and b. It's been a minute since I've listened to WTNV and I've only listened up to ep 146.

So! here we go!

I stand by my casting for Padme, Anakin, and Qui-Gon, but I actually think that Obi-Wan isn't the Steve Carlsberg of this AU-he's the Man in the Tan Jacket. I've read at least one WTNV fic where the Man in the Tan jacket is Cecil's brother that he has no memory of and I know this god jossed by later canon but I really liked the theory! But in this, he's not Padme's "brother" he's Anakin's, and Anakin is the one who has some kind of (Palpatine fuckery induced) memory issues. (more on this later)

I spent some time debating with myself over who would be the Tamika Flynn equivalent, was kinda waffling between Sabine and Ahsoka but then! It occured to me that, hey, Ahsoka's kind of close to Padme in canon, and she did the whole like wandering journey thing...So Ahsoka gets to be Dana Cardinal! (without the becoming the mayor part. I don't think that would suit Ahsoka tbh.) So, Sabine is our preteen explosive revolutionary, joined by Ezra. For no reason other than vibes, Dooku is definitely The Woman From Italy Serenno. (...Or maybe that's Mother Talzin and she's the Woman From Dathomir idk). Hmmm...alternatively, Dooku is Marcus Vanston and the Erika's are Force Ghosts. Yeah, Mother Talzin can be the Woman from Dathomir

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home was kinda tricky, and frankly I feel like the Star Wars character who most matches in terms of Gremlin Vibes is Yoda, so we've got the Little Green Troll Who Secretly Lives In Your Home. (Look. It would be so funny to put Yoda in a mayoral race.)

Cut Lawquane, you know, the farmer.

As for Steve Carslberg, the honor goes to Sola Naberrie, towards whom Padme has an animosity two parts concealment of Sola's relationship to Padme Amidala (an open secret) and one part sibling aggravation.

I was super close to having Maul be Lauren (evil, talks too much) but then I thought it would be more fun if he, Savage, and Feral all make up a literally three-headed dragon.

As far as Clones go, I think that they were secretly created by SepCorp (Seperatist/Strex Corp). The Coruscant Guard is the Sherrif's secret police, Rex and the 501st are planted with the scientists, etc. SepCorp thought that it would be much harder to have this infiltration, but the town immediately accepted clones existing as Normal (I mean, look, they all know that Amidala is like at least 4 people)(with some exceptions).

The whole chips thing doesn't come into play until the SepCorp takeover, and are pretty quickly jail broken by Sabine & co with help from Anakin, and (virtually, Ahsoka.) Echo is Fey/The WZZZ numbers station (or the ARC station) and also helps free the rest of the clones from the mind control.

Now, as for Obi-Wan/Man in the Tan Jacket, Anakin, and what the fuck is Palpatine doing, anyway?

Anakin caught the attention of Palpatine (aka the secret CEO of SepCorp) shortly after he began attending college. Palpatine proceeded to spend Anakin's undergrad grooming him to be his right hand in Strex Corp. (Maybe he was posing as a professor or smth). This plan got messed up when, upon starting his graduate program, Anakin ended up roommates with Obi-Wan Kenobi (who had recently left Nighvale after his worst fight with Qui-Gon yet.) Obi-Wan (unfortunately for Palpatine) forms a fast and strong (if sometimes contentious) bond with Anakin, which results in Anakin changing his focus for his graduate degree to something less what Palpatine wants and more what Anakin is interested in.

Palpatine is Not Amused. When it becomes clear that Anakin is no longer interested in filling the job that Palpatine has so generously created or him in Strexcorp he decides that something Must Be Done. He enacts some kind of curse or smth on Obi-Wan, removing all memories anyone has of him, and making it very nearly impossible to form new ones, beyond that he's a Man in the Tan Jacket.

Infuriatingly, this does not immediately result in Anakin running into the loving arms of SepCorp, but Palpatine is able to pull some strings and get him into the research team destined for...oooh! Starvale, of course the town is Starvale!

But back to Padme! I feel like this is a great vehicle for Padme to be every bit as insane abt Anakin as he is about her bc...let's be real. She absolutely is; just because she seems to be more chill by comparison doesn't make this actually true. Padme is not the Normal One. There is no Normal One.

Also, given the handmaidens, this has interesting implications for the double incident, huh? Like, do Padme and the handmaidens take the doubles arriving in stride, or do they feel at a deep, instinctive level that these are Not The Same Thing? Does the eldritch station management actually know the difference between Padme!Amidala or, say, Sabe!Amidala?

Now, I think that Palpatine is also Leonard Burton, and was Padme's radio mentor. With all the concerning implications involved etc. He somehow still doesn't really get how Starvale works. (Maybe a faliure to keep Padme under his thumb prompted him to search outside Starvale and ultimately find Anakin). Dex runs the Moonlite All-Nite Diner.

Not sure who the Apache Tracker would be...unless he's Quinlan Vos deep undercover (Obi-Wan, possibly the only person who knows that it's him, will never let him live this down) and fakes his death. idk tho, this one's tricky.

Mace Windu is the mayor. This man deals with So Much Shit in canon, he deserves the chance to be a little unhinged, and to have mayoral powers, as a treat. Plus, he's canonically a theater performer. He could do the drama, he Has The Range.

And uhhh, yeah! that's what I've got!

(there's another version of this set in the GFFA where a Supposed To Be Dead Padme is doing like, a rebel broadcast, Obi-Wan is Old Woman Josie, and Anakin/Vader is both Carlos and Steve Carlsberg. "And Vader came around to kill a bunch of people with his stupid, perfect, shiny helmet, and his sexystupid murderwalk. He's the worst person to ever exist and I defintiely, definitely, hate him. It's just and only hatred.")(And yes, this is partially inspired by hometown blues)

Natalie Portman wearing a Panasonic FM Stereo Headset RF-60 from the 1970s 

[igordumbra]

Few sentiments compare to when you listen to wtnv 146 for the first time and go,holy shit.

I think this is one of the best episodes and I watch it religiously

[google-searchhistory-official]

Hey google :)

Sup.

Anyways on to my header description in regards to this text and similar ones

I have just listened to The Birthday of Lee Marvin and got ideas to use on Pepsi Grimm. I didn't realize a few similarities between the characters until now. I think at some point during his time in the void he shall have visited a dark planet. Not exactly the same as the dark planet of awesome size, lit by no sun. An invisible titan, all thick black forests and jagged mountains and deep turbulent oceans.

No, rather he'll have visited the last to exist before radioactive decay began the start of the universe's end. Stumbling around with no destination. Just looking for black pillars against a black sky and heading towards them. As the planet decays he starts to feel his own flesh follow this pattern. It hurts but it starts to dampen for no apparent reason. Something is keeping him alive against decay and fading.

The planet beneath still fades and he eventually stands upon its core, confused. He is in a vaccuum but it no longer feels like the suffocating one he was used to in his long journey. The planet is pulled by an invisible force at an alarming speed. For a brief moment, Pepsi was stretched across time and space, experiencing it's beginning and end and everything inbetween. For a moment, he saw himself but only his backside. And then... He saw stars, and galaxies, and a universe that should be ending in all regards to his memory.

He was back in the suffocating vaccuum of space filled with the invisible. He was looking forward to fading into nothingness with the universe, and he was refused. And so the rock he was on wandered aimlessly back to his original solar system. Having only been a few years since he bwgan his eternal journey away from it

Sorry this was long I just like to do stream of consciousness writings with these asks and well, oc fever caught up because of a car ride home listening to wtnv ep 146. :3

[wanderingandfound]

Last year I was doing a WtNV relisten with the liveshows and [audio]books in publication order. I was going pretty fulltilt and eventually started keeping track of (brace yourselves) the plot (*gasps in horror).

Anyways that simply wouldn't do. WtNV is about the vibes, not the tension. It's for bedtime, not stressing over. Contemplating the mortality of all living and not-living, not the fates of fiction.

So I paused on the relisten.

Anyways I haven't been able to listen to podcasts as much as usual recently. I've been choosing to drive in silence. (Or well, I put on a podcast and pause it after three minutes. It's a forty minute drive.)

But on the way home on Friday I picked up where I left the WtNV relisten, with episode 144. And all is well, and now I'm listening to 146 to fall asleep.