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my contribution to the “something is up with luke dyer and his water association” theory is the fact that he plays the bass. he plays the Bass. fish pun.

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yes yes jumpscares are cliché. but lady mowbray abruptly appearing and finishing celia's sentence as if having emerged from the case audio itself was. effectively scary, actually.

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Normal british experience after a pint or two I guess

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The Office of Incident Assessment and Response 💾

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internet wiccan tries to harm me with an emoji spell but i narrowly survive bc my phone is too old for updates so i just get black rectangles, easily one of my favorite color and shape combinations

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Assigned Flower At Birth

I was planted in the ground; a seed,

And told I was a flower.

When I sprouted my little green stem, I thought I was.

I dressed myself in petals because that’s what they told me.

Once I was old enough to water myself,

I began to question things, as one does.

Why am I a flower?

I don my pink petal dress and I think;

Pink really isn’t my colour.

I would look better with thick, dark leaves,

And branches that arc into the sky.

Is it wrong of me to think so?

Am I mistaking my anxiety about my maturing form,

For the need to be something else?

Or am I truly growing wrong?

Is it my place to decide,

What I can and can’t be?

Am I just scared of being a flower?

Afraid to get trodden on,

Or picked?

But I know,

I am a tree.

I will be a tree.

I fear the people who will try to stop me,

The loggers bringing their axes and chainsaws.

They will tell me I’m dangerous,

And then they will kill me with their hypocrisy.

So I will stay a flower,

Just for now, until I’m older.

And then I will grow,

Swap my petals for branches.

But I will keep my thorns,

And when they try to hurt me,

When they try to grab me and cut me down,

Their hands will bleed.

And then I will be a tree, undisturbed.

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kids are like sponges when they get to a certain age and the fact that esteban has most likely heard the grandpa Gershwin story from abby telling it to his father so many times that he can draw and reference it is…………………… heartbreaking! To say the least. Because he has no context or ability to really understand it, just like his father

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if you're feeling bad at the end of the month you can always look forward to a wtnv episode the next day

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i think one of the most baffling articles I have ever read analyzing welcome to night vale has to be this one from the artifice (written in dec 2020, so very recently in terms of the shows history) because it points out literally everything correctly about wtnv but then pulls an insane conclusion out of its ass that wtnv…supports fascism…? Because the narrative does not explicitly show the change of the town or focus on that as a plot point…..?

like call me crazy but i think wtnv assumes that you, the viewer, know that what is depicted in it is bad. There’s a reason the show doesn’t delve into body horror outside of the desert bluffs segments (most of the time) because the horror is that the town is so wretched and byzantinely run. You’re supposed to laugh at badly this place is managed, you’re supposed to laugh at the phrase “vote correctly, or never see your loved ones again!” because it’s so eerily grimdark of like, actual American fascism. This entire show is literally a parody of everything wrong with modern suburbia/small town closemindedness, so much so that it ended up being prophetic in a few places (“helpful pandemics”, wheat and wheat by products). Did you think the interns being literally disposable was a joke the writers came up because they thought that was a good and fair practice in the real world?

if you came out of night vale thinking you were supposed to sympathize with its residents and the way the town is structured, or that it’s a nice to live, you ended up with the wrong message. Yes, Cecil and Carlos and everyone within the show are lovable, but the presentation is deliberately framed like that. Everything from the supernatural to the horrifyingly realistic depictions of fascistic liberal democracy are presented as being normal because we’re living in a world where the latter is becoming normal. We’re living in times that are tumultuous and terrible, times where our tax dollars go more towards bombs than they do our healthcare. People are getting married while other people are being murdered unfairly because of some kind of societal injustice. That’s just the reality of the world we live in, baby! And pointing that out through a satirical horror podcast does not suddenly mean that the writers condone what they are depicting. What kind of backwards ass tumblr reading comprehension is this article?

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esteban seemingly living out cecil's exact childhood is scary but also wasn't it said that cecil looks exactly like his father. and honestly acts like him too. 😢

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honestly the nurse when i told her i wanted to start hrt

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before the new episode comes out here is my slightly updated Cecil design

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death is just a scam invented by obituary writers to sell more obituaries

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Gert: Could be better! Could be better if I’m gonna be honest. Do you have a phone? OW: No, I’m sorry, I don’t have one on me. Gert: Do you know where the police station is? OW: The police are highly ineffective in Crestfall.

Obituary 01: Wyatt Died

the death by dying podcast is really fucking funny