#cecil rambles

[bloopdydooooo]

as long as this photo of gp tim exists, peace on earth is an option

#this picture inspires such a great calm in me #the mechanisms #cecil rambles

[cesalt]

Hey guys the new 1.6 update lets Emily turn you into a femboy btw

#how i look with he/him in my bio #sdv #stardew valley #stardew valley 1.6 #sdv 1.6 #sdv emily #stardew valley emily #stardew farmer #cecil rambles

[acesamateurart]

The more I unmask, the more touch averse I find myself becoming, and it's a little sad to realize how long I spent ignoring my own physical boundaries... it's also sad because I WANT to want touch, but 4 times out of 5, it makes me feel sick, ykwim

#actually autistic #audhd #touch aversion #just some thoughts #cecil rambles

[ionlyhavetwoeyes]

If I had a Nickle for everytime a therapist I actually like quit, if have two nickles which isn't a whole lot but a weird thing to happen twice.

#any time i dont like a therapist they just so happen to not leave #i really really like ny therapist now #but theyre leaving next month forever #and im really upset about it #IT TOOK ME AGES TO MAKE THE APPOINTMENT AND I DIDNT EVEN LIKE MY THERAPIST BEFORE SHE WAS SO ANNOYING #anyway #cecil rambles

[petrichorvoices]

you know what, so what if i just want attention and approval? what the hell is wrong with that? why is it so embarrassing to want to be loved, to want to be known, to want to be accepted? why do i have to self-flagellate over the desire to be appreciated and talked to and cared about? i am going to go eat a rock

#rambling #Cecil's tag

[fox-guardian]

As funny as it would be for there to be another sans vs reigen standoff, I Do think it'd be really funny if we got Cecil to go all the way. Especially since, in my opinion, he stands the test of time and has come all the way around to the new brand of sexyman.

Like, yes, he was, in WTNV's early days, given the twink treatment. Dapper style, youthful features, etc. But he was never like that canonically.

He dresses horrifically (affectionate), he's canonically an older man even in the podcast's beginning, and he is and never has been a twink (he is neither thin, nor fat. Implying at thinnest, straight-sized, and at biggest, mid-sized).

Obviously this doesn't change the fandom's sexymanification of him, but it does lead him to fit more nicely into the sexyman that the aging tumblr userbase has recently developed:

The Babygirl.

Listen. Apart from the above, he can't cook for shit, he's petty, he's written Jaws slash fic and had his intern beta read it, he is CANONICALLY a dilf, he grows his own weed, he loves his husband So Goddamn Much, he won't shut up about how much he carnally desires said husband, he mentions his kinks on the fucking air, AND HE EVEN HAS A FUCKING TUMBLR.

I think he fits the bill for the pathetic older queer man that tumblr has grown so very Normal about. He is so very powerful. And after ten years of being this way I think he should be allowed to go all the way to the top. I think he's earned it.

Sure, if he doesn't stand a chance in the final four, I'll accept sans vs reigen. But if it gets close enough, say, above 40%.... Maybe we could push to go all the way. For the bit. For one of the original sexymen of tumblr history. For our dear gay uncle, Cecil Gershwin Palmer. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

#ramblings with major #welcome to night vale #wtnv #cecil palmer #cecilsweep #I JUST THINK HE COULD DO IT #HE'S BEEN DOING PRETTY WELL SO FAR WHAT IF HE WENT ALL THE WAY #ill go for sans v reigen but i want to submit my thoughts for the bit #cursing

[smallfilms]

a vote for cecil gershwin palmer is a vote for all the faceless entities that cannot be tied to conventional standards of beauty. a vote for cecil is a vote for our perceptions of what is attractive to be solely gauged through the connections of souls to words, and not the physicality of a bodily form. a vote for cecil gershwin palmer is a vote for the ways we learn to love that are not inherantly tied to flesh. a vote for cecil is a vote for focusing on the being within and not the vessel without.

#welcome to night vale #cecil gershwin palmer #tumblr sexymen poll #tumblr sexyman tournament #wtnv #mars rambles #asexuel #aromantic #cecilsweep #tumblr sexyrematch

[fluctuating-fanby]

Yeah, Kevin's the mirror that shows everything Cecil fears and never wants to be, but do you think Kevin ever looks at Cecil and is reminded of his past imperfect self that Strex killed? Cecil has his silhouette but is drawn in the darkness that the Smiling God finds abhorrent; Kevin is Cecil's broken reflection but Cecil is Kevin's shadow.

#if this is incoherent it's bc it's 4am sorry #wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv kevin #cecil palmer #kevcil #vince rambles

[shuutingstar]

You know a trio I think is pretty underrated?? Will, Lou and Cecil?? Like what happened to them after BoO? I need more CONTENT RICK. MORE.

Oh and a fanon trio I like a lot is Drew, Connor and Malcolm. Like it’s so random but makes perfect sense at the same time??? Need fics for this trio fr.

#pjo hoo toa #pjo #pjo fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #will solace #cecil markowitz #lou ellen #drew tanaka #connor stoll #malcolm pace #shuu rambles

[voidvale]

If Cecil and Carlos had another ship name, it'd be Unethical Husbands. Because those men are horribly unethical in their respective careers <3

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecilos #void rambles #wtnv cecil #carlos the scientist

[bloopdydooooo]

has anyone in the coven actually. been to see this place? cause i’m curious now

[ID: a map for the coordinates 37.7694961, -122.5130832 along the 143 road near Dickinson Hill in Ohio. The red dot is pointing into the nothingness of nature. End ID]

#cecil rambles #the forgetmenauts

[cesalt]

Jupiter fun fact?

Oooo my favorite planet!

There's a brown barge (a kind of brown vortex of Jupiter, it's usually big and long) that looks like a dolphin!

I first learned about it myself while doing some volunteer work on the citizen science project Jovian Vortex Hunter on Zooniverse. I even encountered a part of it while marking images!

These are some pictures of it taken by NASA's Juno cam :) it's definitely one of the coolest features of Jupiter in my opinion

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/dolphin-in-the-jovian-clouds

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190415.html

#cecil rambles #thank you so much for this ask :) i love talking about jupiter #jupiter

[emotionalcowboy18]

Me when I learn a Piece of Information about the Palmer Family

#I love you Cecil I love you Carlos I love you Janice I love you Abby I LOVE YOU STEVE CARLSBERG #lu’s first wtnv listen #welcome to nightvale #wtnv #lu rambles

[ionlyhavetwoeyes]

Sometimes I turn on the TV and wish I could turn the brightness down.

#idk wtf to tag this as #i usually just to fandom stuff #general #TVs #cecil rambles #(im going to try to make that a thing here #for all 3 of my followers

[willofwinnie]

Calendar of Auldrant

Though I do not know if other games in the Tales series go by a similar date and day naming system, this will primarily be Tales of the Abyss. This is a long post!

Here is all the information the game gives regarding the calendar.

The Days:

This is a funny nod towards the origins behind the names of the days of the week. Rem is light and the “Sun” in Sunday is directly referencing the Sun. It's pretty neat that both reference a form of light. 

Similar situation with Lunaday and Monday (Luna- Moon, Mon- also Moon). 

Ifrit(also spelled Efreet) is Fire. Potentially in Korean the Tuesday equivalent translates to “fire day” according to Wiki about Tuesday. I don’t speak or read Korean so I also checked WordReference and found similar characters in some of the words like rage, wrath, ire, (further down that provided list) great fire. So it potentially could be a fun nod to that, can’t completely confirm. 

Undineday is water day. In Japanese and Korean Wednesday also translates to Water Day. Yes, in WordReference the Japanese character used in Wednesday is used for water so this seems fairly straightforward. In Korean I also found a bit more difficulty as the characters are widely used in many words, there are some water-related words in the sea of words the character appears in so I wouldn’t completely dismiss the possibility. 

Sylphday is wind. Thursday is a reference to Thor, the god of thunder. The wind would relate to stormy weather that thunder and lightning often appear with. 

Loreleiday- Lorelei. Friday- the greatest day of the week. In Auldrant Lorelei is considered pretty great! Just kidding, well partially. Friday comes from Freya, the goddess of marriage and love. Lorelei is a godly figure in the world of Abyss. Though Lorelei may be caring, it’s more related to sound and memory. Daath in general is fairly religious, following Lorelei, with the Order of Lorelei. In Christianity, Good Friday is a widely celebrated day. In Catholicism, all Fridays during Lent, you can’t eat meat (but it is supposed to be all Fridays to abstain from meat not just Lent). This being Friday's equivalent does make sense with the more religious aspect of the day (since Sunday was used for the more straightforward “light” connection).

The Gnomeday-Saturday connection is fairly nonexistent. Gnome is the element earth in Auldrant. Saturday is a reference to Saturn (God of Time), sabbath day (for romantic languages), and bath day (Old Norse). I will be honest, none of these fit. Sadly, it may be a case of “just put it in somewhere.”

The Months:

There are 13 months in Auldrant. As far as I can tell, there is no official count of how many days are in each month.

If we ignore Lorelei Decan for a moment, the rest of the months go forward and reverse except for Rem Decan and Luna Redecan (which is in place of the counterpart of a potential Rem Redecan). The order of Rem, Sylph Undine, Gnome, Ifrit, and Shadow are not in the order of fonon numbers. The number order of this month list is 6, 3, 4, 2, 5, 1, 1, 5, 2, 4, 3, 6, 7. I am assuming Luna and Rem are two sides of the same coin and are referencing the same fonon so they are both the 6th fonon. There was close to being a pattern of taking a number, halving it, adding one, and halving it again but they ran out of whole numbers to continue that.

The first half of the year has the postfix Decan and the latter half Redecan except for the Lorelei month. This could be because Lorelei signifies that a new year will arrive, so it has the postfix Decan. Lorelei is an important figure in Auldrant, especially Daath, so a month that stands out in the name of Lorelei would be fitting.

To think of a wild interpretation of the months, it could represent a person’s life or the year’s lifespan. The beginning starts with the sun, a new beginning. The person/year goes through the experiences of their life, experiencing all it has to bring (with fonons making up the world). The center point of the person/year’s life is the Shadow months. At this point, they are no longer young and will have to figure out what to do for the rest of their life (a very shadowy midlife crisis). They reminisce about their life and go back to relive the experiences of their youth until the sun sets and the moon rises. The end of the line. Then as all 7th Fonists do, they return to the Fonbelt, to Lorelei. Then the cycle of fonons can begin again. 

Or a more logical explanation of the months could represent the cycle the memory particles go through when traveling through the Fon Belt (The Planet Storm). Then to encompass all the Fonons Lorelei represents the final one of the 7th Fonon.

Anyway, all the months can comfortably fit 58 days in them but there is a remainder of 11 days to account for in the year. If we add a day for every other month starting with the first month, that would leave 4 days remaining. I do not know a logical placement for these days, so I will add them to Lorelei Decan. The month count would be Rem Decan- 59, Sylph Decan- 58, Undine Decan- 59, Gnome Decan- 58, Ifrit Decan- 59, Shadow Decan- 58, Shadow Redecan- 59, Ifrit Redecan- 58, Gnome Redecan- 59, Undine Redecan- 58, Sylph Redecan- 59, Luna Redecan- 58, Lorelei Decan- 63. (This will be helpful for some calculations later.)

The Year:

A year in Auldrant is 765 days. That is 2.1 times longer than our calendar year. If we compare that to our world, Jade would be 70, Guy 42, Natalia 36, Tear 32, and Anise 28. Dang does Jade look great at 70 haha! I do know the 765 days is a pun because that number sounds somewhat like Namco in Japanese. In this world, I assume people age at half the rate (My condolences to all the Auldrant parents with tantrum-throwing toddlers). Since the year is twice as long, Luke being locked in his Manor for seven years and the time skip in the story would be way longer than originally believed. Nothing like Auldrant continuing to be worse and worse, right?

Birthdays:

Can't have a ramble about a fictional calendar without talking about birthdays! From around the internet, the birthdays of the characters are listed as follows: Jade- Sylph-Redecan 22, Guy- Efreet-Decan 41, Natalia- Rem-decan 37, Luke- Lorelei-Decan 48, Tear- Lorelei-Decan 1, Anise- Shadow-Decan 46. Going along with my guess on how many days per month, the day each character is born in this: Jade- 607, Guy- 275, Natalia- 37, Luke- 750, Tear- 703, Anise- 339. (Basically, add up all the days of the months prior and add then the day of the month they were born). The birthdays I got from fan sites that supposedly got them from a QNA. I do not know the accuracy of these but for the purposes of the rest of this, these are the dates used.

I have noticed that there are assigned birthdays for the characters per our calendar year. Jade is Nov 22, and Luke is Dec 25th. I found these from fan sites and repeated them across the internet. Again with these, I do not know the accuracy, so I did my own take on the potential calculations.

There are a few ways to calculate the birthdays of these characters with our own: Divide the year by two (2.1 to be more accurate) and get an approximate answer, place our calendar year onto Abyss’, and count the days (for example there will be two Decembers).

The first option is easy. Divide the day they were born by 2.1 to get the day they would be born on Earth. It would land the characters birthdays like this: Jade- 289 (Oct 16), Guy- 130 (May 10), Natalia- 17 (Jan 17), Luke- 357 (Dec 23), Tear-  334 (Nov 30th), Anise- 161 (Jun 10). These are pretty close to the associated birthdays with Luke nearly being a Christmas Eve baby and Jade being born in fall.

The second option is also easy, for any character whose birthday is over 365, subtract 365 until it is a number below 365 and find the date associated (For example, if a character is born on the 366th day, they would be born on Jan 1st in our calendar). It would land the characters birthdays like this: Jade- 242 (Aug 30th), Guy- 275 (Oct 2nd), Natalia- 37 (Feb 6th), Luke- 20 (Jan 20), Tear- 338 (December 4th), and Anise- 339 (December 5th).

Despite the numbers not exactly lining up (there will be human error on my part with calculations and rounding), if people celebrate Jade's birthday on Nov 22 that's completely fine by me! It's a fictional birthday anyway! If it means more Tales of the Abyss art and content, Jade's birthday could be Feb 14 for all I care!

This was just something fun I've been thinking about when I learned about the calendar of Auldrant! And might as well try to put all my thoughts together for a big ramble. Hope you all enjoyed!

#tales of the abyss #rambles #birthdays #Why is the year 765 that's just so long #jade curtiss #luke fon fabre #tear grants #guy cecil #anise tatlin

[fox-guardian]

"cecil can't be a sexyman, he's doesn't have a physical appearance" ignoring the sexymen who are only sexymen due to fanon humanizations, Cecil lacking a canon appearance is what MAKES him a good sexyman. His sexiness is up to viewer interpretation by design. He's schrondinger's sexyman.

#ramblings with major #welcome to night vale #wtnv #cecil palmer #cecilsweep