#wtnv shit post

[localratwithcowboyhat]

Well come to nightvale

[allthatispeculiar]

[dysfunctionalcreature]

if anyone's ever wondered why I ship Heiffel so hard, it's because on my first listen-thru, years and years ago, I got to this scene in episode 15 What's Up Doc? and I legitimately believed (for like however many minutes it took Hilbert to actually explain the Decima thing) with all of my heart and soul that Hilbert stopped Minkowski cause he was secretly in love with Eiffel and Minkowski had figured it out and that's why she thought threatening to kill Eiffel would work

[karengillanslefteyebrow]

The pure comedy of Carlos wanting to be a marine biologist and then fucking off to live in the dessert forever is unmatched

[cowboyinternist]

wtf is wtnv even about bro

[soph-the-podcast-nerd]

my head cannon for night vale is its in Arizona for two reasons:

D E S E R T S

2. The fucking license plate screams Night vale to me idk look at it

disclaimer i live on the other side of the country and know nothing about Arizona

[xiangtefi]

i’ve just finished listening to episode 19A of wtnv and. KEVIN???

[leconcombrerit]

I redrew Lauren so naturally I redrew Kevin too. He looks a tad more unhinged than before, go Kevin go

I'm gonna put them side by side too, Lauren had it coming.

[mudstoneabyss]

wait hold on. thinking. what if Charles does have (some of) the same "just walk out if it sucks hit da bricks" mentality as Carlos but it also falls into the work/family parallels with them. like Carlos came to Night Vale for work- and to escape a workplace- Charles came to Desert Bluffs for family- and originally left Cactus Park (or, fuck, Pine Cliff) to escape one. What if he just grabbed Donovan and left.

This and okay hear me out I'm bringing out It Sticks With you because the traffic from it haunts me:

"But let’s have a look now at traffic. At the intersection of High St and McDowell sits a 2004 Honda CRV, silver, with a broken taillight. Inside the car is a man named Sergei. He’s looking at the night sky. He does not see the light change from red to green. Nor does he notice this process repeating. There is no one behind him to indicate his attention should be otherwise paid to the road. The intersection of High St and McDowell is curiously empty except for the man in his 2004 CRV."

that, then from The Mudstone Abyss Part 1:

"Let's have a look now at traffic. There's a single car, a maroon Honda CRV, one taillight out, driving along State Street. Inside is a man, listening to his radio."

which hey. imagine being me when I was listening to this episode and they just threw THAT out. But the traffic in It Sticks With You continues:

"If anyone else were around, and they were to look at the same night sky, they would see blackness and stars, the faint slit of a nearly-new moon. They may see an airplane or the wisp of a cloud. Yet Sergei sees something that anyone else would not. Sergei sees a triangle of bright orange lights. They do not move, nor blink. They simply are an inscrutable pyramid perched in the firmament. Sergei wonders if they are extra-terrestrial or just a trick of the eye. The traffic signal changes from red back to green, and the CRV does not move. No one else is around."

Yeah so he's the only one seeing an orange triangle huh? An orange triangle specifically? And isn't it consistent with the dark planet that when people end up in Night Vale they saw the dark planet lit by no sun beforehand. This idea of seeing something in a sky and ending up somewhere. (At this point I'm fulling using Sergei as a metaphor for Charles than a parallel sorry buddy)

and it continues:

"He is scared. He is hopeful too. Sergei hopes that he is to be abducted. Saved even. Taken away from his job, and his wife, and his dogs, and his family. Taken away from his CRV with its broken taillight. Taken away from High St and McDowell. He doesn’t know if the alien craft would imprison him, experiment on him, or even kill him. Everything that is unknown is hope."

So this when I first listened had me hey wait why's this guy paralleling Charles seeing an orange triangle and not liking his family D: but I think if we're seeing Sergei as a metaphor, a parallel, etc, and the lights as symbolic of db, this makes more sense to be Charles before Desert Bluffs. The lights- Desert Bluffs- being a promise of possibility he's hoping to reach

"Sergei does not pray, he only thinks of the possibilities of leaving his car, his body, his planet. And as the traffic signal changes again, Sergei opens his car door and steps out, jacketless, into the brisk night air. A swirling breeze curls his hair.

He stands in the center of the intersection of High St and McDowell and waves. He waves to the triumvirate of orange lights in the night sky, and he imagines someone or some thing waving back."

Then dropping everything and going no hesitation to greet this possibility. This whole time, not being sure if it'll work out- if it'll be dangerous. But everything that is unknown is hope. This could be better.

[aroace-and-has-a-mace]

moment of appreciation for my father, who:

is a huge ally

was in band as a kid

listens to weird music

makes shitty jokes

wears shirts with puns

teaches fucking history

apparently listens to wtnv?!?

[allthatispeculiar]

[halfdeadwallfly]

almost posted about doug eiffel on instagram and then realized that is not the site for that

[karengillanslefteyebrow]

Dr. Lubel lost all credibility the second she said “ALL of my hypotheses are proven!” Because ANYONE who has dipped a toe in the science world knows that hypotheses can’t be proven! They can just be SUPPORTED!!!!!

[grimbeak]

ohhhh my goddd i dont want to read the transcript i want to listen to the episode the episode that you worked hard on the episode that you wrotei i dont want to look at words on a page i want to hear the voices the emotins the weather i dont want to read the transcript stop posting the transcript and not the episode i dont want to listen to the episode in four hours i want to listen to it when its supposed to come out

[archangeliccc]

The Magnus Archives is a fucking pipeline, I swear. At first, I was like:

"I don't listen to podcasts...not since I listened to a few episodes of Chuckle Sandwich...they're far too long...I dont know if I'm going to even finish this..."

*listens to the entire podcast*

"Holy fuck, that was awesome. I'm obsessed!"

*listens to it again, finishing in less than a month*

"Wow, that was awesome, but who is this Arthur Lester I keep hearing of from adjacent fandoms? I think it's funny that me and the main character share the same name...Maybe I'll check it out."

*sees the length of the episodes*

"Wow, this is going to take a while..."

*gets caught up with Malevolent in two weeks by listening to it at work*

"Holy shit, that was awesome, but what is this Welcome to Night Vale thing I heard of one time a few years ago in a passing conversation I have barely any recollection of?"

*listens to WTNV*

"Oh fuck, I have an addiction to audio dramas now"

Post Script:

I've learned that it is very easy to continuously listen to podcasts for lengthy amounts of time at work, given the fact that I work 8 hour shifts stocking and recovering grocery aisles. That being said, if you ever see a short emo guy restocking shelves in a random fucking store with one earbud in, always assume that he is feeding his horror podcast addiction, especially if his name is Arthur. Exclusively if his name is Arthur.

Because there is only one person I know with that name.

And it is me.

Tumblr User Arthur "Ikkaros Archangel (Archangeliccc)" Gaylord IV Avatar of the Whore Goddamn Motherfucking Jurgen Leitner...the First...my official title...

Now, I have to go unlock all of the characters in hit game from 2007, Sonic and the Secret Rings so I can play as Shadow the Hedgehog in party mode. (Unrelated to the above post)

[shithowdy]

my early 00s fandom gothic post got revived and it's just reminding me of how annoyed i was during that "[x] gothic" trend where everyone was wildly misunderstanding the foundation of the gothic genre being that the horrors are manmade and kept writing these WTNV-esque posts about trees having eyes and shit

and then on my posts people would tag stuff like "this isn't gothic this is just what it's like". that's the point!! that's the entire point!!