a night vale episode where the citizens are compelled to join a conga line one by one. cecil treats it as a huge threat and keeps updating about it. eventually, he is compelled to join too. after the weather, everything is back to normal. no plot, pure fuckery.
i kind of can't believe i don't have more night vale episodes to listen to,,, it feels strangely weird to be caught up. for the past 6 years i've been chasing this and now that it is here i don't know what to do with myself, like a house cat hunting a mouse but once it is caught it merely holds the mouse in its jaws, unsure of what to do next
i feel personally called out by that sarah bit in the latest episode
"but there were always so many other things to think about, so they never had time to think about their dying friendship, and when they finally talked again, it was all different, because they were all different. their lives were no longer intertwined. they were no longer wonderfully inextricable"
how about you just stab me? that would hurt less
that cutoff at the end of ep 240 scared me so bad, im so glad i didnt have to wait over a month for the next episode
having joseph fink the creator and writer on night vale be a character on the show itself, as himself is truly the most batshit crazy plotline and that's saying something
Night Vale had some of the BEST one off quotes that would just suckerpunch you in the chest leave you breathless
Like the one that stuck with me was this one:
"when a person dies and no one will miss them, the mourning is assigned to a random human. This is why sometimes you just feel sad."
It's been almost 11 years... It haunts me in a good way
Know what? Tell me YOUR favorite WTNV quote. I wanna know what lingers in people's minds after all this time
“Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present.”
“Death is only the end of you assume the story is about you”
"There is a thin semantic line separating weird and beautiful, and that line is covered in jellyfish"
"Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. That's what love is."
from one of the books:
"Nothing there but a distant airplane crawling across the sky, red blinking lights, vulnerable in the vast empty, faint red beacons flashing the message HELLO. A SMALL ISLAND OF LIFE UP HERE, VERY CLOSE TO SPACE. PRAY FOR US. PRAY FOR US."
Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet it is.
Don’t let your parents win at Knowing Things. Demonstrate that you can make butter from something that is not butter, like Jesus did with the wine. He did that to show his dad that he was a big boy now. And so are you.
“Everywhere we humans go, we bring our world with us. There is no empty that is deep enough to swallow our life completely. When the last of us huddle in a dying world, one of us will tell a story, and another of us will laugh.”
"Emotions are not domestic creatures that can be summoned with a whistle; they are wild and they move as they please"
wtnv 195 gives me such penumbra podcast juno steel vibes
Start of Welcome to Night Vale ep. 188: Oh cute they’re answering some listener questions! Seems like something that would normally be reserved for Patreon, so I’m excited to hear it.
End of WTNV 188:
(ID: a photo of Snoop Dogg with a mild expression. He is holding a piece of paper that’s been edited to read “bitch what the fuck”)
wtnv 191 "the many, many lives of frank chen" is the second most terrifying episode because of the loss of good things that they don't even know about. that trope is fucking terrifying
with the news that night vale is developing a ttrpg i want to direct everyone to absurdia which is basically that but a bit to the left if you need something to do while we wait
hello podcast lovers of tumblr dot com please send me your tma / malevolent / wtnv / tbs / tscosi headcanons i need something to go inside my brain
confidence in love
The Magnus Archives MAG 183 • Welcome to Night Vale ep. 51 • The Penumbra Podcast 4.11
will i ever catch up on wtnv ?
i am LOVING this WTNV renaissance
i can't believe welcome to night vale is trending on tumblr in the year of our lord and saviour 2023
