#wtnv year 4

[lesbianmothman3000]

Little rant about year 4 of night vale and what I'm picking up so far!

Now, I’m no expert on media analysis, but I do know that every story has a message. Stories are trying to communicate things to you. And when crafting a story, you’ve got to be careful about what exactly you are communicating, how it will be interpreted.

In year 4 of welcome to night vale, a major conflict is the strangers. They are descending upon this beloved community that We the Listeners have become attached to, these strangers who want nothing and stand and breathe. In my opinion this has been wtnv’s most effective use of horror yet, but that’s another rant. 

Sometimes, when a threatening outside force like this is positioned as villainous and monstrous, it can end up having some not-so-great implications about people who are outsiders and people who are different (like immigrants, for example). I’ve heard that some media about alien invasions can fall into this harmful category.

This is why I think that the inclusion of the Desert Bluffs merge is a very necessary and intentional choice in this arc. Here they have night vale being forced to coexist with another community, one that they’ve had a lot of animosity towards, a community that does things differently, that many of them are distrusting of, and having them learn to live together. 

The people of night vale and desert bluffs still have their differences, and there is still lingering mistrust, but they are still able to live together. Dana defended the desert bluffs people, their kids play baseball together with a ghost! They practice different religions but are still able to stand together against a greater evil! They’re saying here that people can be weird and different and hard to understand and still live in community with each other. I just think that this little storyline was really great and necessary to prevent this arc from falling into some sketchy territory, and is part of what made year 4 my favorite so far. I might just be stating the glaringly obvious here, but whatevs! 

[carlyraejepsans]

in light of the coming sans vs cecil finale, i have to say that there is no bad outcome to this now. you did it. you mad sons of bitches, you did it. we could vote this like a true sexyman showdown or we could vote this for a gag, it doesn't matter anymore. but most importantly, the question that this poll raises is...

WHERE is the undertale/wtnv crossover episode where cecil announces monsterkind's return to the surface right outside of town. because "thousands of weird creatures came out of the nearby people-eating mountain after millennia of imprisonment and are currently settling into town via wacky hijinks" is a VERY night vale thing to happen

(UPDATE: you should check the full post cause i swear to god if y'all mention the goddamn mountains again)

[lazylittledragon]

about to start my yearly critrole campaign 2 rewatch so prepare for me to be absolutely insufferable

[eyeoftheaxolotl]

looking for more character-driven horror podcasts like malevolent. tag with suggestions please raaaa

[friendamedes]

hash tag cecilsweep

[rabid-transcendentalist]

Vote correctly! Or never see your loved ones again.

[asydicsydney]

(2023 "Coming Home" theory ^)

Y'all ready for the 10 year anniversary of Homecoming? For Cecil's dad to come back as a ghost that he must talk to. For Earl to come back and force Cecil to remember. For Carlos not to be there to comfort him.

[cha1cedony]

Idk what it is that makes me fixate so hard on one specific thing for years at a time, but I need it to chill out 😭 DnDads has been my only long-term media interest for like 1 and 1/2 years now, and it’s BORING to only like one thing ever lol I’m BORED!!! I need other things to be interested in, but I struggle with getting into new stuff (other than video games) sooo bad :(

That said, if you have DnD podcast recs that have interesting characters……… GIMME 👀 Also where the early episodes aren’t a nightmare to listen to 🙏 I have never listened to any other DnD podcasts, and I think it’s mostly bc the earlier seasons are always poor audio quality or like 3 hours long 😭 I’m also good with any type of narrative podcast. I just want compelling characters and platonic/familial dynamics pls. Stuff I can write sad shit about!! But also not TOO sad the whole time… maybe a little bit silly idk

So far, ones I’ve written down to listen to are Cast Party and Friends at the Table? I don’t know anything about either of them, though so? Also I keep seeing my mutuals posting Oxventure and Woe.Begone (although the latter isn’t a DnD podcast.. I think?) sooooo let me know your thoughts. And recommendations! Send me your propaganda! Tell me about your blorbos

[mudstoneabyss]

Charles compilation! or, well, Kevin talking about Charles compilation. only a few moments because 1. its already 8 minutes long 2. honestly might as well upload the whole episodes if i were to add all the times he talks about Charles

[lonelysheepling]

On one hand I think one would expect me to be annoyed that my non-fanart posts get barely any attention

But on the other hand, my Hollow Knight fanart is sick as hell and frankly everyone should be complimenting my genius

[art3ren]

posting while cecilsweep is still relevant, even rhough he will and has always been relevent to me, in my heart.

[arataka-reigen]

I'll be honest, the overarching arc of year four was not the most interesting arc so far, but to compensate year four had some incredible standalone episodes that leave you heartbroken, with a sinking feeling in your stomach and a bittersweet taste in your mouth. Like "The Trial of Hiram McDaniels" in which we expect justice to prevail, at least for Violet, and what we get instead is a clear criticism of the death penalty when Hiram is cruelly sentenced to death, or "One Normal Town" in which we see Cecil grow as a character and finally see that the people from Desert Bluffs are just people and deserve respect and compassion, or "Lost in the Mail" an anti war episode in which a daughter tells the story of how the war tore her father away from her, OR TRIPTYCH DO I EVEN NEED TO TALK ABOUT TRIPTYCH IS THAT NOT THE BEST EPISODE EVER

[grimbeak]

anyway 1 of my hcs for kevin is that strex rly fucked up his hair like severely badly by unsafely bleaching it like 24/7 along with other stuff so now it like grows extremely slowly, like an inch a year if he's lucky. so he doesnt like to cut it bc otherwise it takes like a full decade for it to be at a comfortable length for him and the longer it is the more scars it can cover. anyway i think lubelle should science his ass and shave his head and mb Explain him a lil

[mellowmaidenhairs]

kevin never being mentioned again post mudstone is so funny to me actually

[buttrflyisland]

its been almost 5 years since mudstone abyss came out which is the last time our boy kevin has been in the podcast. this is an injustice

[joskippy]

Cecil promotion era