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my-lonely-angel · 1 month
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We return you now to a safe place. The Street Cleaners have passed. Street Cleaning Day, as so many other days, is behind us. We emerge from hiding spots, from secret locations, from places under other places. We step out into the street, and it is as though it is brand new to us. Certainly, it is cleaner now, but that is not all. We have survived all the way from birth to this very moment, and we look at each other, and some of us start laughing and others start weeping and one or two of us break out into a wordless humming song, and all of us mean the exact same thing.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 15 — Street Cleaning Day)
Somewhere the tiny people of the city below have arrived in Night Vale, and are beginning their war against us, having already shown themselves capable of murder. Somewhere a man in a tan jacket is whispering into the ears of our mayor, and we do not know what agenda they pursue. […] This all happens, somewhere else. But here, Carlos and I sat on the trunk of that car, his car, looking together at the lights up in the sky above the Arby’s. They were beautiful in the hushed twilight, shimmering in a night sky already coming alive with bits of the universe.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 25 — One Year Later)
But.... In spite of all this, coach al-Mujaheed called a pep rally last Friday, in a gesture of support for Malik Herrera. This, as any time, is when we should join as a town, despite the game that never was. […] Everyone was sad, and everything was perfect. We stayed late into the night under the fluorescent corona of the bleachers, eating damp barbecue, wearing our orange ponchos, and telling those tales we wanted to tell to those loved ones who have left us, telling them instead to those who we currently or may eventually love. Tears were hardly noticeable on our rain-streaked cheeks by the time we said our goodbyes.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 56 — Homecoming)
And they both take the hand of the person they love, and Amber smiles at Wilson and Wilson smiles at Amber and everyone smiles at everyone and at everything and no one is okay, exactly, but we’re outside and we’re smiling and that is a kind of perfection of its own.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 57 — The List)
Night Vale isn't a single unified thing that can love or be loved. It's just the name slapped onto a set of borders and rules that some old bureaucrats [..] devised centuries ago. But they don't live here anymore. We do. I do, and I can make it worth it. I can’t just leave it, I have to live it. Live it and make it better. For myself. For Carlos. For my friends. […] And for you, listeners. We will together celebrate another homecoming game. We will together survive another street cleaning. We will together… well we will see.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 70B — Review)
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. Angels are real. Our town is a deeply weird place. We know and acknowledge that it is a deeply weird place. There are dotted lines and arrows in the sky. And I love my family, and I love my brother Steve. He was right about everything. He always has been.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 110: Matryoshka)
This is my work, listeners. My work is to speak to you all. To talk you through the day. To murmur you into the night. Settling in to be another clear and pretty evening here in Night Vale, this weird, weird town. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. I know I do.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 111 — Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA)
Carlos and I hold each other through the town, passing two teenage boys dressed in scraps of of airplane upholstery, gripping tightly each others’ faces. We help a lost toddler find his parents. We clear broken glass from streets. We walk home. We shade our eyes from the setting sunset which kindles through a hilltop cleft. We talk nonstop about today about tomorrow about yesterday about every possible moment, just talking, and talking, because we almost lost our talk forever. We do not hear the returning echo of sirens across the valley. We do not hear anything but ourselves. Stay tuned next for a silence that is all your own.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 167 — Echo)
And I say: “Look at the clouds in the sky. They mean nothing, and yet they are there and they are pretty. Isn’t that nice?”
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 181 — C****s)
The day after Valentine’s we said “it’s over” but we did not believe it was over. We believed it would never be over, that we would always be living the same sad and terrifying minute, breathing the same stale air thick with our own fear. But we were not in that moment anymore. But we were, some part of us, still. The day after Valentine’s was a rebuilding, a recovery, a return to form, a back to business. Bury the bodies and stand up the fences, it’s time to move on.
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 202 — The Day After the Day)
“What do we do now?” I asked him. He smiled, “First we go home, eat meals together, remember that we are a community, and that we are better together than we are alone.”
(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 230 — Carlos, Explained)
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smartheart · 2 years
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Chapter 111 is making me so completely soft… all the parallels… all the character development they went through…
Cecil acknowledges angels, and how weird the town is
Carlos realizes how much those years in Night Vale changed him, and admits how he had been looking for excuses to be around Cecil since day one
Steve Carlsberg is referred to as Cecil’s best freaking friend, and they talk about all the things Cecil would have never talked about in the first years
I’m just. So soft.
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unfortunatelyevent · 1 year
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when the original song started playing I was tearing up fr
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Love hiw cecils issue with the Night Vale with no sun is, in fact, their street planning
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Oh my lord what a beautiful episode. The parallels to the pilot? And the acknowledgment that so much in Night Vale is different now (or at least in 2017, when the ep first aired) than in 2012?
God. I love this. So, so much.
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fismoll7secinv · 1 year
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In the intro to night vale it's said that you can listen in no specific order and just the chosen episodes but honestly? I'm enjoying the ride from the beginning so much?? Catching all the little references to the past, gradually getting to know more characters and their stories, and consistently falling in love with everything. Idk if I'd enjoy listening as much if i skipped or didn't go chronologically, i love this podcast so much, please give it a try it's so worth it
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WTNV quick rundown - 111 - Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA
Read the others here!
A friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead, while we lay open eyed, watching it all. Welcome to Night Vale.
In many ways this episode is a mirror of the pilot/earlier episodes but with updates according to developments in the story. For example, Cecil is questioning why they aren't allowed in the dog park, the angels are legally acknowledged as angels and are throwing a memorial service for Josie, Cecil and Steve have a better relationship etc
The rips in reality left an ocean around the NV boardwalk which can only be viewed from said boardwalk.
Carlos, Luisa and Nilanjana are renewing their investigations into the House that Doesn't Exist with new understanding of it as a portal to another world. They also say that the 'seismic activity' that can be detected but not felt could be the different universes colliding.
Weather: "Andromeda" by Airospace
The tiny NV under Lane 5 had disappeared.
Carlos admits that he doesn't know what his box that makes a noise like baby birds waking up and tests for materials actually is, he just used it as an excuse to drop by and see Cecil.
Settling in to be another clear and pretty evening here in Night Vale, this weird, weird town. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. I know I do. Good night, listeners. Good night.
Proverb: There is no proof you exist, only evidence.
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leonardburton · 1 year
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once again thinking about cecil from the miniature city under lane five of the desert flower bowling alley and arcade fun complex and weeping softly on the floor. he sounds so tired. so small. so defeated. soooo. so. also the way he says "it leaves me uneasy" and "he was beautiful" ... you know.
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naciapiracia · 10 months
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TINY NIGHT VALE UNDR LANE 5 OF THE BOWLIGN ALLEY AWWWARGRRGR
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Night vale finally acknowledging it's weirdness and the sky returning 🥺
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theoutworlder · 1 year
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OK. I love Episode 111 "Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA". It did not feel familiar. (parts of the last 5-10 minutes of "Matryoshka" did.., as did promos for the "All Hail" tour)
I'm starting to think the Summer Hiatus 2017 is the point I lost the thread, which may just come down to sometimes I kinda... Forget things exist. IIRC, I stared a new job during that time and might have just been too burned out to fold WTNV back into my life... Idk. I can't remember. (which I hate)
Looking forward (hesitantly) to the show still ahead.
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arthurtaylorlester · 2 years
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cecilos is a tragedy (but in the best way possible)
NOTE: this is mostly speculation and wild interpretation on my part. as a cecil kin, I should also say I might involuntarily favour cecil more than our beloved carlos bUT I DON'T MEAN TO I LOVE CARLOS ALRIGHT
after writing out my disorganised thoughts, i sectioned it out so it's easier to follow my wild train of thought
re-reading it, i don't think i captured well how exactly they are a tragedy, but if you catch my vibe, feel free to explain even better!
also it should be known i haven't actually listened to that much of year 2-3, but i have read transcripts for this posts. sorry i cant handle actually hearing the tragedy and angst
edit: some people misinterpreted my post, so I'll clarify. I don't think cecilos is unhealthy. quick scroll through my blog will prove that. what I mean by this post as a whole, is that they care very much about each other to the point that they aren't willing to change because they're scared. further edits in []
spoilers for the newer episodes and it devours
cecil and carlos, the og gay podcast ship
unlike the other two ogs jmart and jupeter, most listeners would say that they are the happy and loving relationship
BUT YOU'D BE WRONG
yeah sure, jupeter have their messy shit going on and jon acted like he hated martin for the better part of 160 episodes, not to mention the individual trauma those characters have
but the format of wtnv let's us think everything is all and swell, it is most definitely not. cecil overshares a lot, but cecil is also a bad, unreliable, questionable narrator. he's opinionated, kind of arrogant at times and very sure he is ALWAYS in the right.
so WHY do we think cecilos is healthy, in relation to other podcast ships?
cecil admittedly falls in love with carlos instantly, and carlos says the same (see: first line of carlos' monologue in ep.149 "The General" and the carlos mention in ep.111 ''Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA'')
also they get married, and have been together for 9 years. but marriage is NOT an indicator of a healthy relationship.
i've always thought of nightvale as reflection of cecil and his inner turmoil, and by extension a reflection of his relationship with carlos. night vale itself is a tragedy and i've linked to a post that sums my thoughts on it.
so ok great night vale is tragedy, but surely carlos and cecil have a open relationship and trust each other. WRONG AGAIN
cecil and carlos' do not trust each other, not in the sense that they think the other would hold it against them, but in the sense that they don't want to burden each other with their own problems.
they do, as night vale did in year 5, ignore all their problems. they're ignoring the existence of their metaphorical angels.
carlos has the phantom ocean, the university of what-it-is, his whole life before night vale, before cecil. cecil does learn to be private on air, but i find it strange that in 10 years he made 0, not even one, offhand comment about something that carlos said about his life outside of night vale. like about his family, or work, or interests.
and i think it's because cecil doesn't know. carlos never told him. and cecil never asked because, to him, it doesn't matter. after all ''The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore''
that isn't to say that cecil is his own neat can of issues. he is a little bitch (affectionate) and has mommy issues, and wants to be there for everyone, and has a fear of being replaced. and he will not talk about it. like girl will talk about anything else. we know he has a habit of latching to people with very strong emotions, either negative (steve carlsberg, susan willman) or positive (carlos, janice)
in A Door Ajar (all parts) he is VERY insistent on trying to figure out what carlos' deal is, because he can't stand the fact that his husband doesn't want to tell him something to he (cecil) can make him (carlos) feel better. and they go to therapy. but therapy DOESN'T SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS IF YOU DON'T COMMUNICATE
as seen in ep. 201 ''The Delivery Man'' their relationship isn't in the best state, and how they might reconsider therapy.
of course, now in year 11 we're getting some good old Carlos angst.
carlos angst analysis woop
of course, the biggest elephant in the room is the Desert Otherworld.
carlos got trapped there for a year, yada yada he has tons of fun, almost gets cecil to move there and then changes his mind in the end giving up science for cecil. now there are a few things that never sat right with me about this.
he was completely willing to make cecil move to the DOW
we never got to know EXPLICITLY who carlos' letter was for
so for the first point, I guess I can understand since it was ten years for him and cecil agreed. but idk it was their 3 year together I wouldn't ask that. it just hit as I'm writing that for Carlos it was their 13th(ish) year nvm
point number 2 bothers me SO MUCH. it's generally implied and accepted that carlos gave the letter to kevin. but i don't think carlos wrote the letter with kevin in mind. the wording of how he feels is just specific enough to convince me it was for cecil.
''It’s a sad letter. A letter about regrets, about mistakes.
You know how sometimes you spend a lot of time with someone, and you think that the someone makes you happy, but then suddenly one day you realize…maybe you weren’t happy at all. Maybe both would be better off doing what you love in different places. Without each other. Maybe neither of you were as happy as either of you thought.'' - Carlos, ep. 70A ''Taking Off'
this is what carlos says in regard of his letter. I think sometime before this is how he felt about cecil. before his 10 years of research got destroyed. I am fully convinced that as carlos sat there waiting for it to load, he fully intended to breakup with cecil, tell hims to stay away and in night vale, while he continued his research for who knows how long in the DOW. all because he thought the science would make hi happier
and then he lost the research. I think that at this point carlos decided that yeah no fuck this. the ten years he spent in the DOW wasn't worth not having cecil. losing the science meant he'd have to do more. and that thought he didn't excite him
he thought he was happy because he had so much science to do, when in reality it just distracted him from the fact night vale felt as if he didn't belong
I think losing it made him realise that no he didn't enjoy the loneliness and that he wasn't willing to do it all again, this time without cecil.
carlos thought he was unhappy because he was with cecil, who actually he was sad because he wasn't with cecil for 10 years. you would develop detachment in ANY kind of long-distance relationship, nevermind how long.
carlos does come back and I think seeing cecil solidified his desire to NEVER go back to the DOW.
but the thing was that carlos values knowledge and science more than cecil (or he did at this point in the story). he actively didn't think he would go back, until after he lost his work
which brings us to It Devours.
admittedly, cecil and carlos are pretty okay in the book, but again I'll talk about carlos and the DOW.
carlos in this book is practically the opposite of how he was during year 3. he literally causes all the problems in the book without realising and tries to blame a church, the government and mysterious forces beyond our comprehension. I think he does this because the time in the DOW was generally terrible for him. yeah he has endless science, but I think it was mentally draining for him. not to mention the lack of support system. he had one bloody dude who tried to murder him, but now was obsessed with him who also looked exactly like his bf and his assistants. and dana (I think?)
now lets talk about ep. 210 ''Ten Years Later''
[unpopular opinion incoming]
cecil's gift was underwhelming. what the fuck even was that. I expected something a little more
grand, yk?
nevertheless, it's the thought that counts.
except no even the thought sucked. ''Oh congrats dear hubby you're finally part of the community after 10 years and also after you saved our town like 3973648748475836470809128477 times''
like WHAT
anyways carlos said it
''It is nice, I suppose, this piece of paper. The idea that I belong. But I did not need a piece of paper. I did not need to be told I belong to this town. Because this town belongs to me. It is an artificial set of boundaries around an arbitrary collection of objects and people, and I am one of those people. I help set those boundaries. I started contributing to the definition of this town the moment I set foot in it.'' - carlos, ep. 210 ''Ten Years Later''
[the gift was nice and cute, and I've now been informed that cecilos is building a house together, so that explains a little. but what I mean here was that since this is cecil we're talking about, I expected something else. I'm content with it nonetheless, it was hilarious]
but before he stated that cecil will never know about the ten years in the DOW and it made me so angry
like they love each other so much, they aren't willing to be honest with each other because they're scared it will hurt them.
when we all know damn well cecil won't be mad about the ten years, more-so of the fact carlos lied to him for 7 (or 17, depending on who you ask) years. carlos, according to me at least, loved science more than cecil until after the DOW. and then he was like lol no cecil and nightvale are more important. either way it's not a good look on carlos.
now lets talk about ✨cecil✨
I think that cecil's problems are often overlooked by everyone, except steve, who is the only genuinely nice person from night vale [/j]
as we know from ep. 110 ''Matryoshka'', cecil disliked steve because he felt as if he was being replaced from his role as primary caretaker/provider of abby and cecil, that primarily stemmed from their mother leaving them.
cecil has some sort of issue surrounding receiving and giving out help. clearly, abby resents him a little as the role of pseudo mother was thrust upon her at a young age. and cecil might be a little closed minded, but he isn't stupid. he probably realised that abby didn't like him as much, and that's why he tried so hard to help her and janice.
and therefore his resentment for steve; he felt as though he had to ''pay back'' abby and steve didn't let him
steve tells us in ep. 100 ''Toast'' that he hardly saw cecil out of the radio station afterwards.
so i think in the period between steve and abby's marriage and carlos arriving, cecil became a little bit of a workaholic and probably spiraled as he lacked purpose (other than the voice of night vale)
and then he saw carlos, and psa see my other post about why they fell in love instantly, and so he latched on to him.
carlos was a bit of an anchor for cecil in year one, and so he was fully honest with him. as we well know, carlos is very closed off. (NOT SAYING HE WASN'T ALSO HEAD OVER HEELS, WE KNOW DAMN WELL IT WAS INSTANT PINING)
and then they get together, and immediately get trauma zapped by strexcorp, and then carlos gets stuck in the DOW. so if you think about it, the first year they really spent together without imminent threat larger than station management or city council was year 4.
i also think he has some kind of trauma-induced amnesia, because something clearly happened to him and forests but i'll write another post about him because i've now realised that if i start writing about cecil, this post will become not only incomprehensible, but downright painful to read
thing i didn't know where to put
kevin and charles are the doubles of cecil and carlos. and their relationship isn't healthy AT ALL. you don't ask the person you just met to be a significant part of your son's life. though i suppose if this post of mine is accurate, then a similar thing could be going on here. perhaps they had donovan together in some other reality. but idk if the DOW/Desert Bluffs Too is affected by huntokar. (is the DOW a reality without night vale?)
predictions because this post was derailed by own mind
cecil's greatest flaw is his stubbornness i think, so i predict that this new arc this year is gonna have some sort of misunderstanding between carlos and cecil which leads to them not communicating even more and so leading up to the finale next june. i think huntokar will be involved somehow (stan huntokar is cecil's mom theory)
i don't think anything major will happen in the next 3-5 episodes.
closing thoughts???? i guess?
to sum it all up, cecil and carlos aren't tragic in the romeo and juliet sense, but more like they're own kind of tragedy
i'd like to call it the night vale tragedy. on all accounts, i don't think their story or even the show is going to end like a tragedy.
they are a tragedy in the sense that they're circumstances are ridiculous and they're pasts deeply upsetting, and it's that allowed them to be right in time for each other. they met at a perfect time, for cecil to get out of his spiral and find purpose and for carlos to escape whatever happened to him before nightvale.
but that initial perfection, made both of them think that if the other knew about they're insecurities they would leave/stop loving them/whatever other thing romantic gay people are sad about. i'd love if we got another condos type thing where they realise that they're relationship doesn't have to be perfect, paralleling cecil realising carlos is perfectly imperfect.
that's it, that's the post
that's it for this garbled mess on how fictional voices on my phone are tragic and sad and perfect for each other and also terrible for each other.
this is 2454 words long.
stay tuned next for even more words on a screen that you'll read late night, maybe huddled under your covers. maybe you'll insult some random kid. maybe you'll get insulted. maybe you'll read about your comfort white boys or maybe you'll read about people complain about them
next time, why cecil is the best and most misunderstood character of welcome to night vale
bye now
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like-the-2ides · 10 days
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As someone who’s like maybe 100 episodes into WTNV, Does it stay this good? Like is it worth it to keep listening or am I going to be disappointed
Oh man excellent question.
It gets wildly different after 111. Which some people like, some don't. The vibe kind of shifts?? I almost get the vibe that 111 was *supposed* to be the last episode but then they decided to keep it going. They start to include a bunch or smaller plots per year rather than a large overarching plot that lasts one year. Also they ramp up the "goofiness" factor a bit.
For the past year and a half they've tried to go back to the overarching plot thing, but the writing has started to get sloppy. I think the writers just have too many projects going on and aren't taking the show seriously enough.
But!!!! Some people are still loving it. And hey- I'm still listening. I'm autistic and wtnv is my special interest so I feel like I'd still listen even if they spoonfed me literal dog shit, but you know.
That being said, some of my favorite episodes aired after 100.
As a Kevin kinnie, I loved the mudstone abyss arc. And "Go to the mirror" is my second favorite episode in the series. Also, the "Silas the Thief" episodes are a blast.
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squirrelhours · 1 year
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since this is now my squirrel blog
109 110 AND 111 EPISODES OF WTNV ARE SO GOOD
like you could legit end listening there (I bet it's where book 5 ends too)
This is the same level of writing as the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your house novel
I have reached a state of pure bliss.
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joskippy · 2 years
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yo!! idk if you can help me but i DESPERATELY want to catch up on wtnv but i am a million years behind (i think the last episode i listened to was review) and am overwhelmed by the amount of episodes id need to get through. is there like a list of best/most important episodes that you know of?? no worries if you dont ^_^
GOD I AM THE WORST PERSON TO ASK THIS. Its hard for me to pick and choose certain eps because alot of the big stuff that happens in nightvale extends thru mutiple eps. For the like now? I would def rec the two years following review [ eps 71 - 111 ] bc theyre some of the most important ones. And after that i would rec skimming thru the nightvale presents website bc it shows certain eps that connect to certian arcs! [ the big arcs i recommended are door ajar, a matter of blood, the birthday of lee marvin / the blood space war , the delta arc ]. After that? For the current arc thats happening in year 11, i would rec eps 188, 190, 203, 209, and 210 bc those are the eps that build up to it.
and also! HUGELY RECOMMEND episodes 171, 181, 182, and 192 as those are BIG important cecil episodes.
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perfect-cecilos · 1 year
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