#wtnv the whispering forest

[honeybeebaaz]

Joining the whispering forest as a lifestyle choice is so relatable fr

[astoryaboutyou]

If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police and we have you surrounded.

[stubbornvulpixquotes]

There is a thin semantic line separating weird and beautiful and that line is covered in jellyfish.

-Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 22 - The Whispering Forest

[4me2knowandyou2wonder]

I’m back with another headcanon/fic idea!

This time, a Welcome to nightvale Angst fic!

Where someone can survive the whispering forest because their self esteem is so low that they don’t believe anything the forest says at all. They just assume it’s a forest that’s supposed to lie to them. Once they decide this they just feel like the forest is revealing their failures to them.

‘Your mother always loved the brightness of you smile’

‘Oh, that must mean I have a really boring smile that my mother never loved, since all this forest does is lie.’

Type beat

They just lie down and live there for awhile. Terribly sad and just happy that no one can reach them.

[eclipse-song]

Welcome to Night Vale, ep 22 'The Whispering Forest'

Welcome to Night Vale, ep 132 'Bedtime Story'

[a-sentient-cup]

TREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

They are us

[urgentkettle]

Do you have a minute to talk about the whispering forest? You look nice today. That hair cut suits you.

[honeybeebaaz]

Cecil ungendered voice is sending me

[astoryaboutyou]

Saturday afternoon is a secret parade. You will know where and when it is, if and when you are chosen to see its secret floats and hear its secret songs.

[urgentkettle]

If I’ve learned anything from the whispering forest, it’s that trees whisper “you look nice today” or “you’re a good person” or “is that a new haircut?” in an attempt to absorb you into their collective.

I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It's called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to

[theglowingeyeballz]

Me pulling up to school listening to malevolent wearing my wtnv whispering forest shirt

[listeningtoabundleofpodcasts]

WTNV Ep 22 - The Whispering Forest

i love cecil and his dream journal so much also i need to know more about kevin please wtnv tell me more

[bloopdydooooo]

what's your doctor who wtnv crossover like? 👀

i am so glad you asked! (category 7 adhd event to follow)

so our doctor is cecil (no assigned number since i didnt want to cram the wtnv characters into a doctor who plot line when it would be so easy to make a new one special for them (though cecil does come from a welsh surname meaning sixth (among other things) so he could replace the 6th doctor? it doesn’t matter either way)) and while his name is, as always, just ‘the Doctor’, he lets carlos call him cecil as a treat cause they’re in looooooove <33 (he used cecil palmer like john smith when they met and carlos really like the name (it’s so i don’t have to completely erase either ‘the doctor’ or ‘cecil’ and i think i’m awfully clever) anyways he’s like doctor-weird plus cecil-weird, because they’re all so fucking bizarre (affectionate) he kicks off the fic adjusting to the new body and i felt the need to acknowledge the fact that cecil is usamerican while the doctors generally are Not (is a good fic if you don’t slander your own accent a little bit?)

i considered making carlos the doctor, because he’s. you know. a scientist and not a silly goofy gay who works in community radio, but since so much of cecil’s story revolves around him not being quite as person as the rest of the people around him, about him losing track of his age and everything he’s been through, of him canonically dying multiple times, about his relationships with family and parenthood (etc) i just felt like it would be such a waste to not make him the doctor, yk? (i also considered changing up what it meant to be the doctor to include cecil’s title of ‘the voice’ but that felt like too much so we have doctor!cecil now)

so that means carlos is the companion, he’s introduced while studying the phantom ocean which was actually just like. a big weird alien fish. then they go to the dog park and the desert otherworld and have a bunch of doctor who-ified wtnv adventures together (like lee marvin‘a birthdays, the whispering forest, the auction, etc… but make it dr who sci-fi)

i know most of the actual episodes are the doctor saves his companion and Others, but i’m such a sucker for ‘the doctor needs help’ that i wrote in four chapters of carlos saving doctor!cecil (technically could be six, depends how you count it)

and we finish off with a daleks confrontation which takes place during the blood space wars, because you have to have the daleks at least once, and it’s a good cap on a fic

i’ve made it 13 chapters long, cause all the new who seasons are well. 13 episodes long. and i’m considering doing a (not-)christmas (because even though doctor!cecil wouldn’t be jewish it would be incredibly ethically fucked up if i just. chucked a canon jewish character into a christmas landscape w/out acknowledging it) special afterwards as is customary, to follow the bbc’s standards

i am literally so invested in this fic i’ve written the first three chapters so far and they’re all like double my usual length and i’m considering making them longer because i think there’s still more i could add.

anyways thank you so much for asking i am in love with the world i have created. (would you like the link to the doc? (im so proud of this i want everyone to read it and i only want to post it when i know that i have enough of a buffer for regular updates, given how long the chapters are) (obviously it’s fine if you don’t want to read it no pressure))

here’s a drawing of doctor!cecil i made (though i changed the cape to a tailcoat because it felt Better)

[ID: a black and whit pencil drawing of cecil as the doctor. he’s got dark skin and graying black hair. he’s wearing a puffy-sleeved shirt under a vest and a loosely-done tie. he’s wearing a bunch of jewelry, cat-ear headphones, and star-shaped glasses with beads on his glasses chain. he has multiple chains and beads handing from his belt and is wearing back pants with white pockets. he has a cape tied around his neck and in one hand he’s holding the sonic screwdriver, which he’s looking at and smiling. beside him it says ‘the Doctor (a.k.a. cecil)’ End ID]

i did draw carlos but he’s just like. some guy and i’m honestly not proud enough of that to post it here.

ok i think that’s all (it’s not but you get it)

[blagueofchaos]

Actually, this is a common misconception! It's a little known fact, but trees: they are us!

[cecilsaid]

there’s a thin, semantic line separating weird and beautiful, and that line is covered in jellyfish

welcome to night vale

[wtnvoutofcontext]

Grovel, Mortals. Put your tongues to the soil and beg for your worthless lives!