#Khoshekh the floating cat

[strange-and-unusual-bibelot]

Khoshekh the loveable Night Vale Community Radio cat, he’s very cute, has his adult kitty spine spikes and floats about four feet off the ground in the studio bathroom, right beside the sink!

No photography please! We don’t know the full consequences of what will happen to you, this is your final warning!

#khoshekh #Khoshekh the floating cat #welcome to night vale #Welcome to night vale fanart #Night Vale #night vale fanart #welcome to night vale Khoshekh #night vale community radio #Cecil #fanart #digital art #Podcast #art #gif #Radio show

[abessive-art]

HELL YEAH GUYS!

#cecilsweep #cecil gershwin palmer #wtnv #cecil palmer #wtnv cecil #khoshekh #cat #fanart #myart #he is everythingn to me you dnt undesrtand. #the amount of wtnv episode my 14 year ass cried at? #and also come onnnnn the guy is faceless he IS the sexyman #also khoshekh ily little floating kitty #tumblr sexyman

[artbyifer]

Esteban & Koshekh for @Koschei_B for the multifandom Solstice Informal Holiday Exchange 2022

Also can be seen on AO3, along with an image description.

#b&w #cat #cats #child #creature design #digital art #esteban #esteban nightvale #esteban palmer #estevan nightvale #estevan palmer #fanart #floating #gift #gift art #gift exchange #greyscale #holiday exchange #khoshekh #night vale #nightvale #podcasts #solstice informal holiday #black and white #art #koshek #koshekh #wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv fanart

[jmsclipart]

[ID: Welcome to Night Vale fanart in the form of a text conversation on Cecil’s phone, which is at 12%. The group chat is named “abby and carlos 💕💕” and reads:

Cecil: [Photo of Khoskekh, a gray cat with smoky black tentacles floating around him] Cute Khoshekh ♥

Carlos 💕💕: Stinky Boy

Cecil: Noo! Just a baby!

Carlos 💕💕: Stinky Baby

Cecil: Nooo!

Abby: little bastard man.

Cecil: NOO!!!

In the text box, Cecil has written, “i cant believe... my own family...” End ID]

a spat in the groupchat (thank you @princess-of-purple-prose for the description!)

#also charge your phone cecil #wtnv #welcome to night vale #abby palmer #carlos the scientist #cecil palmer #khoshekh #wtnv fanart #my art

[thecatfight2023]

side B, match 2 (quarterfinals!)

Team Cat (Stray) [a cat that you get to play the game as! you get to explore the world as a silly little kitty cat!] and Salem (Sabrina the Teenage Witch 1996) ["Salem Saberhagen is a 500-year-old witch who was sentenced to spend 100 years as a cat by the Witches Council as punishment for attempting to take over the world.... Despite his megalomaniac desires for world domination, he is generally portrayed as having a good heart and being a loyal friend to Sabrina, giving her guidance and causing her trouble in nearly equal portions"] **they tied in round two and have moved forward as a team!

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale): "Khoshekh Gershwin-Palmer is a floating cat who resides about four feet above the ground next to the sink in the men's (now unisex) bathroom of the Night Vale Community Radio Station. As of Episode 159, "Cat Show", Khoshekh is stated to have white socks, black tails, spine ridges, tentacles, pincers, wings, a stinger, more than two eyes, and five rows of teeth. He is able to produce both ordinary feline mews and low, guttural growls."

#polls #round five #quarterfinals #tournament poll #stray #salem saberhagen #wtnv #khoshekh

[dead-body12]

Woke: Khoshekh is an average looking black cat that just so happens to float

Enlightened: Khoshekh is a weird eldritch black blob, vaguely cat shaped

Ascended: Khoshekh looks like a Louis Wain psychedelic cat/kaleidoscope cat paintings

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #khoshekh #pls if you have never seen one of Louis Wains psychedelic cat paintings look them up and tell me it's not Khoshekh #cus it's clearly what khoshekh looks like #headcanon

[best-fictional-cat]

Round 1 Group 1

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) vs The Admiral (The Magnus Archives) vs Pippa (The Penumbra Podcast)

Khoshekh's name is a Hebrew word- חושך, meaning "darkness". He purrs and rubs on your hand like a normal cat, but is trapped in a floating prison and cannot travel. Khoshekh is stated to have white socks, black tails, spine ridges, tentacles, pincers, wings, a stinger, more than two eyes, and five rows of teeth. He is able to produce both ordinary feline mews and low, guttural growls.

The Admiral enjoys sleeping on the radiator, getting belly rubs, and showing people his bottom.

Pippa loves tuna brik. She was catnapped and genetically duplicated in an assassination plot against her owner. Her known physical features are black and white splotched fur, a tastefully filed down stinger, six green eyes.

#Pippa 🤝 Khoshekh (having a stinger and more than two eyes) #best fictional cat #cats #polls #competitions #welcome to night vale #khoshekh #the magnus archives #the admiral #the penumbra podcast #Pippa

[annabelle--cane]

pls I need episode sources for the true ones in the wtnv polls

this is about my "which of these is a fake fact about welcome to night vale" poll and ideally one should take that before reading these answers. having said that, let's go:

NVlians have to fill out triplicate sex paperwork with all potential partners: canon in the novel it devours! a few paragraphs from chapter 13,

2. cecil is an avid tiktok user and regularly records dances at the radio station: this is the false one, it's actually carlos who is the wannabe tiktok star. from episode "218 - the sitter cancelled,"

I tried to get Carlos to take Esteban to the lab, but apparently today they’re doing a dangerous experiment and he doesn’t want our son to get hurt. I’m not sure I believe that. I think Carlos might just want some time alone to work on his Tiktok dances. He’s obsessed these days with getting one to go viral, and he’s putting a few too many hours into choreographing and filming these things. 

3. k[h]oshekh the floating cat is a misogynist: from 195 and 196, silas the thief parts 1 & 2. these episodes are told from the perspective of silas, a former successful art thief who used to work with a partner called sandrine whom he never got on with, largely due to his self-centeredness and misogyny never letting him see her as a full person. it all came to a head when sandrine, as an act of revenge, cursed him to be an immobile mutant cat for the rest of his days, and this is the cat we have known all along as khoshekh gershwin-palmer. however he has mellowed since then and his misogyny has kind of cooled, having kids really changed him.

4. cecil turns a recurring nightmare of his into an nft: I feel the need to say he turned the nightmare itself into an nft, not an artistic representation or anything. from "199 - guidelines for retrieval,"

And thus ends the new Guidelines for Retrieval. Aw, that’s such a nice offer from the Sanitation Department! A little long winded maybe, but I don’t want to be too critical. I know their public communications department has had a lot of turnover lately. Anyway, I definitely will be taking them up on that offer this week. There’s a super vivid recurring nightmare I used to have that would make a great NFT.

5. cecil doesn’t know what fridges are: this one comes from the 2017 live show "ghost stories,"

Cecil: Oh yeah! Carlos and I have one of those humming closets, and when I open it up, there’s a light inside and cool air washes over me and I’m just like – what is this thing? Earl: Well, that’s just your refrigerator, Cecil. Cecil: Wait, that’s a refrigerator?! Earl: What have you been using as a fridge? Cecil: [beat] So tell us more about this master class um, Earl.

6. carlos climaxes in person in voice on podcast: from the patreon bonus episode "holiday." thinking or talking about science at too great length has a long canonical track record of getting carlos hot and bothered, and in one passage of the episode he starts talking about how much he loves doing science with a romantic partner, and, well. I'll just link the clip.

7. a big villain is defeated by getting squashed under a falling cow: major spoilers for very recent content here. in episode "230 - carlos explained," right as dr janet lubelle is giving her big villain monologue, this happens,

DR. LUBELLE: Now you’re starting to understand. There is no defeating me. No trick to wriggling out under my thumb. I’ve gamed out every gambit. Foreseen every fumbling, sweaty strategy. You have lost. And now…now Carlos, I will explain you away. You, Dr. Carlos Robles, were the son of [WHISTLING SOUND OF SOMETHING FALLING FROM THE SKY. LOUD SPLAT] [LONG PAUSE] CECIL: And that’s when the Glow Cloud dropped a dead cow on Dr. Lubelle. I sure hope she wasn’t injured. We should definitely check on her at some point, you know, eventually.

8. joseph fink, irl writer of the podcast, has been a NV radio intern twice: once, in the live show "the investigators," an intern played by joseph fink introduces himself as intern joseph fink. in all fairness, he could just be playing a character with his exact name, I mean, that's what maureen johnson does. however, from episode "188 - listener questions" onward, our world has in-universe been merging with the night vale world, and the actual writer joseph fink has been trapped in the town of night vale for over two years, at one point doing a stint as an intern.

9. a big villain is offered “an extra hour in the ball pit” as a bribe to go away: this one's about dr janet lubelle, again. in the last couple of seasons, tamika flynn has been feeling like she's outgrowing using violence as a tool to solve her problems, so in "228 - diplomacy," she tries the following,

Frustrations have swelled to a new high in Night Vale after Councilmember Tamika Flynn’s failed diplomatic attempts with the University of What It Is. Tamika tried offering them everything from limitless use of the scrublands to a coupon book full of cute tasks like free backrubs. She even offered an extra hour in the ball pit at the Night Vale Convention Center. But Dr. Lubelle and all of her henchmen will not budge.

#whererobin #wtnv #answered

[dishsaop]

"well, listeners, the riots have been forcefully calmed down by the sheriffs secret police, and the definitely-not-angels have put out their burning effigy of that round skeleton and ceased their chanting of 'SE-XY MAN. SE-XY MAN.'

"i am finally safe and alone in my office once more, and i - oh. oh god. oh dear god. listeners, i have just noticed what appears to be a dead body at my door, left there as if a gift from some well meaning but utterly clueless and unrelatable animal who does not know basic social etiquette - that, of course, corpses as gifts should be wrapped in silver paper with pages of that great american surrealist parody novel "Eat, Pray, Love" taped into a bow stuck on top.

"since khoshekh, my cat, floats four feet off the ground next to the sink in what was the mens restroom and is now a unisex restroom, this can only mean station management has left this corpse here.

"listeners, i find myself nervous, wondering if this is a warning to me from the edritch plural monstrosity that governs my work life and threatens me constantly - oh, but no, listeners, i am observing the dead body more carefully and am sensing the bitterness and fear that can only come from one who has lived a live spouting so much hate and pain. this corpse, whoever she may have been, lived a life of cruelty and deliberate harm, perhaps in the form of anti-transgender laws or severly antisemitic childrens books, though of course, listeners, i would have no way of knowing for sure. i can absolutely say i would not brave a library to find out.

"regardless, i think this must be a congratulatory gift from station management as to my new crowning of 'sexyman' status. my beloved carlos assures me i deserve it, though i admit i do not know, because of course i do not look in mirrors.

"well, listeners, if we have learned anything today, it is that the kindnesses and good intentions of our past, no matter how distant, will always remain in the hearts of the people around us, and may someday crown us - while our poison and hatred may end up with us brutally murdered by squamous beings and dropped at the doorsteps of unsuspecting radio hosts. good night, night vale. good night."

welcome to night vale is a production of commonplace books. it is written by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor, and produced by joseph fink. the voice of night vale is cecil baldwin. original music by disparition. all of it can be found at disparition dot info, or at disparition dot bandcamp dot com. this episode's weather was 'megalovania' by toby fox.

#welcome to night vale #wtnv #cecil gershwin palmer #undertale #sans the skeleton #sexyman #sexyman polls #LMAO IDK MAN REMEMBER HOW SANS WINNING KILLED THE QUEEN? MAYBE CECIL WILL KILL JAY KAY ARR #m text

[elliottnotyet]

Someone who just finished reading my book: Have you ever heard of Welcome to Ni-

Me: Khoshekh?

Them: Yeah!

I got weird floating cat representation

[Image ID: brown longhaired tabby with three eyes and three sets of grey-feathered wings. End ID ]

#artist described #image id #art #cat #cats of tumblr #kitty cat #clara #yccoc #you can count on clara #weird cat #welcome to night vale #night vale #wtnv #wtnv khoshekh

[7furbiesinatrenchcoat]

In honor of Cecil winning the Tumblr sexyman rematch, I'd like to offer the people of Tumblr Khoshekh, my long furby named after the floating bathroom cat from WTNV

#wtnv #furby fandom #furby #long furby #cecilsweep

[halothenthehorns]

(missionary voice) Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Night Vale?

Hi I saw you reblog the cute demon cat art post and was writing you tags about what an amazing show the art is from, but thought it would fit better in an ask actually :)

The demon cat is indeed adorable, and his name is Khoshekh! He's from a fiction podcast called Night Vale, which you should absolutely listen to - it's presented as a community radio show for the town of Night Vale. The show is hosted by Cecil Palmer, who reports on all the weird things happening around town.

The twist is that so much weird shit happens in Night Vale that everyone treats it as normal. A secret underground city under the bowling alley? A mysterious glow cloud passing over town and dropping dead animals on people? A strange cat floating right above the sink in the mens' bathroom at the radio station? Eh, not the weirdest thing that's happened lately :P the show ends up being absolutely unhinged as a result, it's beautiful

There's some plot continuation but you don't really have to listen to the episodes in order if you don't want to. I hear a lot of people prefer to skip around and just listen to whatever episodes sound the most interesting. Or you can just start from episode 1 and go in order, up to you :)

Have I persuaded you yet? It's fine if not, but it would be so cool if you gave it a try! Atleast the episodes with Khoshekh, he's adorable and appears pretty early on - episode 2, I think?

Ok bye <3

I genuinely admire people who are like, hey, I love this thing, come here please and see if you do too! I will indeed go check out your podcast because vague but not actually scary horror that is treated as the norm is always so fun to me! Thanks so much for the ask and inviting me!

[podcast-pet-tournament]

Kicking the polls off with the big cat vs cat poll! Unlike other polls, this one will be running for the whole week

"He's a floating cat that lives in the radio station bathroom! And he has kittens. Pretty sure he saved Cecil's life. He's even transgender. Known physical features: black and white splotched fur, a tastefully filed down stinger, six green eyes. Delightful, isn't she?" (Khoshekh)

"The Admiral is adorable and wonderful and a light in a pretty dark place for the main character, when he stays a while with his friend - the owner of The Admiral. He also manages to survive a horrible universe-changing Apocalypse and simply become a natural part of it and i love that for him." (The Admiral)

#podpetfight #the descriptions are lifted from the submissions #polls #tma #wtnv #i know i said i wouldnt main tag polls but im a liar. this one i am main tagging

[thecatfight2023]

side B, match 4 (round 4!)

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale): "Khoshekh Gershwin-Palmer is a floating cat who resides about four feet above the ground next to the sink in the men's (now unisex) bathroom of the Night Vale Community Radio Station. As of Episode 159, "Cat Show", Khoshekh is stated to have white socks, black tails, spine ridges, tentacles, pincers, wings, a stinger, more than two eyes, and five rows of teeth. He is able to produce both ordinary feline mews and low, guttural growls."

Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation): "Spot was a female cat, and Data's pet in the 2360s and 2370s. She lived with him while he served aboard the USS Enterprise-D and -E. She had a litter of kittens with one of the other cats on the Enterprise-D. Data once wrote a poem about her, entitled 'Ode to Spot'."

#polls #round four #tournament poll #wtnv #khoshekh #star trek the next generation #spot star trek

[mississpissi]

i accidentally wrote an essay with citations and everything oops sorry for the long post but

this whole arc with the uowii and janet lubelle has been reminding me of the huntokar/rips in reality story arc (specifically eps 108-111, and ESPECIALLY 110 - Matroyshka). i definitely think there are tons of comparisons that can be drawn between carlos and lubelle, and their stories are certainly connected. but what about steve carlsburg and lubelle?

steve, the only one who (vocally) understands the lines and arrows in the sky. who sees and acknowledges what everyone ignores and denies. who points out, “You believe me. You just can't accept it. Acknowledge it and understand it” (110). who explains that the angels are real, who is the main proponant in helping them obtain their legal existence. who can clearly see and comprehend the messages huntokar left for night vale. who has always known what a strange place night vale is. who is able to resist reeducation, to see through the truths most of night vale accepts without questioning. 

in this arc, reality only starts to heal after, with steves help, night vale starts to see itself for what it is: “a deeply weird place” (110). cecil says, “Our reality is badly damaged, and the only thing keeping it together is our acknowledgement, finally, of this strange town that we live in. No more denial. We must see ourselves clearly or risk losing ourselves forever” (110). 

there’s this idea introduced that only by looking clearly at what night vale is can night vale be safe, protected from being torn apart over and over. 

in “A Story About Huntokar”, huntokar says she thought, “If we only put our heads down, and insisted on living, without looking at or considering the world around us, we could just keep moving, and the main thing was to keep moving. Denial was key. As long as we denied, then nothing was wrong” (109). but as she explains, this denial is the thing that led to the collapse. that led to night vale folding in on itself. denial damned night vale, and acknowledgment of reality saved them.

this doesn’t mean they understand their reality. cecil says, “a big part of recognizing the world for what it is, is recognizing when you have no idea” (111). citizens of night vale are very comfortable with the idea that they don’t need to understand what is happening around them- they just to acknowledge it. they just need to say, “‘Have you ever noticed… that we are being watched by secret agents? That’s not normal. That doesn’t happen in normal places' ... ‘Most towns, I think, aren’t run by literal monsters and heavily armed teenagers’” (110). they can celebrate and confront and deal with the day to day strangeness that is night vale by acknowledging what it is. 

carlos has learned that. enough has been said about this, i think, but i did want to point out is an interesting moment from 111 that feels relevant considering recent events:

“Then we fed Khoshekh, the cat floating in one of the bathrooms here at the station. Carlos pointed out, ‘cats don’t float.’ I stared at Khoshekh, having never really thought about that. After a bit, I said, ‘this one does.’ Carlos smiled, petted Khoshekh between the eyes and went back to his work, and I went back to mine" (111)

carlos clearly recognizes that what he is seeing doesn’t make sense- there’s no known scientific explanation for khoshekh floating. he points this out, point blank, in a very similar manner to lubelle. but! he isn’t concerned with an explanation; he’s content to recognize when things are scientifically fascinating. 

janet motherfucking lubelle on the other hand?

her approach to night vale is simultaneously the same approach that saved night vale (acknowledgment) and the approach that can tear it apart (denial).

she says, “Our job, as scientists, is to explain why everything is the way it is. There will be nothing left in Night Vale that does not have an exhaustive, perhaps even tedious, explanation” (212). she simply cannot acknowledge that there are mysteries- she can’t fathom the fact that some things are mysterious, that some things might not have an explanation (denial, anyone?). so, she creates one. no matter how far reaching her explanations are (cough cough “dead animals… drawn into the air by dust devils or water spouts or what have you and then dropped back to the earth again” ok sure), she has stated that she will find an explanation. as she says to cecil, “Everything needs an explanation”. and she is determined to explain everything. 

steve understands the messages in the sky. he understands, probably more than anyone else, the reality of night vale. why it is the way it is. but he knows that, “Perfection doesn't exist. All we can hope for is better” (110). he knows no one truly believes him, that no one else understands what he does, but he doesn’t care. he cares about making night vale better, about connecting with his community the best he can, about seeing, truly, the beauty in the strange town he lives in. 

lubelle doesn’t see beauty in night vale- she only sees lack. lack in explanation, in understanding, in education. she says, “Pretty is as common as dirt and not of any serious scientific interest” (221). she equates poetry to ignorance. she is able to weaponize logic in a very physical way, in a way that, honestly, can’t be explained in and of itself. isn’t irony fun!

philisophical absolutism is the metaphysical view that- (ok no sorry if i get into that this will be even longer than it already is but like………. anyways)

rather than accept the reality around her, lubelle is reaching out and forcing reality to fit her understanding. rather than give herself the opportunity to actually learn something new, to actually pursue knowledge (you know, like a scientist), she creates a reality she can explain. she doesn’t ask questions, she just comes up with answers that she likes. 

all this to say- get steve carlsburg out here idk what’s gonna happen but wouldn’t that be fun??

#sorry i just started thinking about this and then didn't stop for the entire day #so here u go! ur welcome xoxo #paused this halfway through bc my mom called me and when i tried to explain she said she thinks i should go back to school HAHA #wtnv spoilers #wtnv

[best-fictional-cat]

Listen I can't explain why without spoilers but Khoshekh is 100% the best cat

Oh I KNOW that :D he was the best cat to me even without all the *checks notes* 195 etc ep lore

C'mon guys he is a weird kitty floating in the radiostation bathroom which was made gender-neutral from men's just so that people could go see him! And he had kitties! Adorable floating little kitties! That's already reason enough for me!

#cat propaganda #he was a weird critter before it became fashionable