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if you knew what knew if you saw what i see, youd look through illusions, hallucinations, and lucid dream
and other background because im an indecisive bitch
halluciniwaynia reblogged
This was supposed to be a sketch but uh. I got a bit carried away
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halluciniwaynia reblogged
im still heavy thick brain thinking about year 1 carlos btw my thoughts are like syrup
my other favorite aspect of being into wtnv in 2024 and onwards is that there’s a decade plus of fandom content to go through and a decade plus of ideas and people being changed by the series to experience. it’s generally pretty rare to have that kind that kind of experience with something that was popularized in the zenith of the internet becoming centralized, when people were moving from places like MySpace, geo cities and personal websites to formats like tumblr (and for wtnv’s earlier history, deviantart). (The only other fandom I can recall with a property still updating that would fit this bill is homestuck btw) it’s a transient experience of enjoying someone else’s ghosts, of a childhood/teenagehood/young adulthood you never got to experience and history you never saw for yourself but felt enough for it to mean something now. it’s the raw, unfiltered joy of what is almost nostalgia for something you never cared about until very, very recently, and realizing “oh my god the podcast is actually really good on top of it”
#welcome to nightvale#welcome to night vale#I was aware of wtnv through an ex friend a very long time ago but given they were kind of an ass and I didn’t yet have#a reason to listen to wtnv/a long-standing podcast)#I never did#but now I do and it’s partially anthropological and also curiousity for something that#defined a lot of internet culture without being explicitly mentioned or talked about until like#recently. with the tumblr sexyman polls I mean#personal post#wtnv
listening to wtnv in 2024 makes me understand immediately why tumblr over a decade ago thought this shit was the coolest thing ever. it casually but flawlessly parodies the us surveillance state, ultra-militarized police forces, inane human resource bureaucracies and the blasé of the suburban middle class all within the span of three episodes with a very tongue in cheek slice of life format that doesn’t sound possible on paper but is executed absolutely absurdly well
also it’s crazy there’s a timeline where we got that welcome to night vale tv show that was written by the guy who wrote breaking bad and better call saul