#alice fink

[screamingsilentlyintothevoid]

#joseph fink #alice isn't dead the novel #alice isn't dead

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July 21 || Favorite Endpages:  Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

#Alice Isn’t Dead #Joseph Fink #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos

[ofliterarynature]

“A few bad apples, shit. Good apples and bad apples don’t matter if the outcome of the system is harmful. A good person doesn’t matter if they’re working in a bad system.”

- Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead

#quotes #joseph fink #Alice isnt dead #bec posts

[last-of-the-jaded]

Bruh Alice Isn’t Dead really came up with a whole new cryptid type and I don’t think people talk about it enough. The Thistle Men are the perfect adaptation of subtle liminal horror.

#alice isnt dead #joseph fink #thistle men #the thistle men #alice isn't dead

[echeveriia]

l i m i n a l

Frank Brunner, View; Transit / John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows / Spirited Away (2002) / Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead / Holly Warburton for The New York Times / Jules de Balincourt, What Divides the City People and the Country People

#web weaving #web weave #collage #parallels #moodboard #words #travel #transit #liminal spaces #liminal #melancholy #frank brunner #john koenig #sonder #spirited away #hayao miyazaki #joseph fink #alice isn't dead #holly warburton #jules de balincourt

[spiral-wizard]

I recently started listening to Alice Isn't Dead on my long drives for work and uh. I think part 1 chapter 3 is gonna haunt me forever

#if u know u know i guess #joseph fink's writing is just Like That #should i have known better than to start the Spooky Gay Lady Goes Trucking podcast while driving my big truck in the morning? #i mean. yeah probably. #alice isn't dead #wtnv

[mikelogan]

Put it in your pocket, Ben. I didn’t let her do it to your witness, you don’t do it to hers. Objection sustained.

#law & order #law and order #law and order og #mygif #logif #ben stone #eada benjamin stone #alice sutton #rebecca steinman #michael moriarty #melissa leo #susan blommaert #userdundun #HIMS FINKING #amanda that 3rd gif is for you

[nervousferret]

"Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel" by Joseph Fink

My mini review of this book; It's a really good book with great wlw representation. The main character Keisha has an anxiety disorder and I really enjoyed the way she was written. The first 2 parts of the book had me hooked and I loved the mystery it presented, the atmosphere the author set was a vivid testimony to rural/mid America and life on "the road." The relationship with Keisha and Alice was super cute and the way Keisha's grief was described really gave me an idea of her mindset. I love how Keisha chose to not forgive Alice because Alice deserved it, but because Keisha deserved to be happy. I rarely see books make their characters deal with the consequences of their actions, and it was a moment that felt very real and in character.

I will say that there is a pretty big tone shift in the second half of the book, I wont say any spoilers but the switch from small town, trucker, mid-west murder conspiracy wasn't something I saw coming. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, and the writing continues to deliver all its goodness from the first half.

All and all I highly recommend this book, not only to the Welcome to Night Vale enjoyers, but anyone looking for a good mystery/horror fiction/thriller book.

#alice isnt dead #joseph fink #wtnv #reading #books #book recs #book recommendations #booklr #book review #good reads

[findthefandom-orbecomethefandom]

Joseph Fink: "Hey Alice Heads... which is a name I just came up with for listeners of Alice Isn't Dead and that I don't think ill ever use again"

Proceed to continue using the same outro throughout the seasons

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#alice isn't dead #joseph fink #unreliable narrators #wtnv #welcome to nightvale

[thok-best-piraka]

I felt I needed to make a tribute to one of my favorite forms of media

I haven't tried listening to things not from night vale presents but I would love recommendations. To stir conversation, what is your favorite podcast and (if you feel like it) why is it your favorite?

tribute art by me (I used the logos tho)

#alice isnt dead #wtnv #welcome to night vale #desert bluffs #joseph fink #podcasts #ana original

[marmidas]

Awkwardly, Fiona has to turn down her best friend because somehow she’s fallen in love with the guy who wears shoes in her bed

#and also #alice is married so... awkward all around #fiona fink #legacy; fink #fink gen 1 #ts4 #ts4 legacy #ts4 strangerville

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July 21 || Favorite Endpages:   Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

#alice isn't dead #Joseph Fink #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos

[lovelaceisntdead]

Once again thinking about the Alice Isn't Dead pizza monologue

#feeling crazy and deranged #Joseph Fink had no right to do that to me. how dare you. #it's been like 6 years since I first heard it. and it makes me feel the exact same amount of insane. #aid #Alice isn't dead

[clovergrass00]

American/Midwestern Gothic and Alice Isn’t Dead

(*I wrote the following essay for a college class in April 2023, but in doing so discovered to my disappointment that there wasn’t much writing on Alice Isn’t Dead! So I'd like to contribute this.)

Tracing the Gothic to New Mediums & Subgenres – a case for Alice Isn’t Dead

The Proposal:

“America has weird things in it. It has so many miles, so much space to put the weirdness in.” - Alice Isn’t Dead, Part 1: Chapter 10

One of the strengths of [this course*] is in how it traces gothic tropes from its historic roots to contemporary variations, like Parasite being called “Neo-Gothic” or Get Out “Post-Racial Gothic”: in doing so, the course argues for the relevance and importance of the genre’s history, lineage, and permutations, which also facilitates a discussion of what factors contribute to such differences. I propose tracing yet another modern branch of the genre to that of “American gothic,” or specifically “midwestern gothic,” which would enable a focus on how the gothic genre was adapted to address regional-specific settings, histories, and anxieties, such as the different facets of the American experience. Allan Lloyd-Smith writes in American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction about how the “frontier experience, with its inherent solitude and potential violence” especially shaped the midwestern iteration of American gothic; this framework still holds for modern stories confronting endless flatness, nowhere towns, the destructive force of capitalism on communities (4). The medium of audio drama also provides new ways to think about framing, point of view, and immersive storytelling.

Synopsis:

Alice Isn’t Dead is an audio fiction podcast which follows a Black lesbian truck driver, Keisha, as she drives across America in search of her missing wife, Alice, whom she had long presumed dead. On her harrowing road trip, she deals with grief, anxiety, and depression, comments on aspects of American culture she encounters on his travels, and encounters supernatural phenomenon and larger conspiracies—such as regarding a group of dangerous creatures called the “Thistle Men,” a factory owner who ages a whole lifetime before her eyes, a day in which her straight drive passes through the same town over and over, and billboards that seem to speak to her directly, to name some examples from the first episodes.

The series, written by Joseph Fink and voice acted by Jasika Nicole, is composed of 30 episodes total of about 25 minutes each. The show’s format is that Keisha makes audio recordings on the road, either as a diary of her thoughts, speaking directly to Alice, recording live events, or recounting events after they happened.

(More) Key Terms:

The style often “intercuts” a longer, dramatic narrative of what has just happened to Keisha (more plot-focused sections) with shorter observations or memories she speaks aloud in the present (more thematic). Intercutting, or cross-cutting, is a narrative technique used in Alice Isn’t Dead to build tension by cutting between scenes with differing intensity levels or stakes, highlight connections between seemingly unrelated characters or events, or help maintain narrative momentum (Chen).

Liminal: “characterized by being on a boundary or threshold, esp. by being transitional or intermediate between two states, situations, etc.” (OED). We see liminality in Alice’s status between being “dead” and being “found,” in the road between towns, in the towns that themselves are only a bathroom stop on the way to the next destination, the destinations that themselves are only one of many stops.

Rationality and Irrationality: Although we also see Jonathan Harker’s attempts to rationalize events through his journals in Dracula, Lloyd-Smith writes in particular about the influence of Enlightenment era thinking on American literature in the idea of trying to rationalize the irrational, which is amplified by Keisha’s contemporary first-person narration in trying to comprehend the seemingly impossible things she witnesses (95). In episode 10, Keisha prefaces her story with: “I can’t drive while I tell this. Too much to say. I’m going to tell it all Alice. Even the parts you know. I’m going to describe the shape of the monster that is devouring me” (Fink).

Lloyd-Smith describes “frontier gothic” or “gothic nature” as “a terror of the land itself, its emptiness, its implacability; simply a sense of its vast, lonely, and possibly hostile space” (93). In the Part 1 finale, one of the Thistle Men says: “America. A country defined as much by distance as culture. America embraces its distances. Empty spaces and road trips, but there is always a price. We are that price. We are creatures of the road. We feed on distance, on road trips, on emptiness, bodies by the side of the highway” (Fink).

Uncanny refers to an unsettling kind of strange or mysterious, which is a perfect way to describe the revulsion one feels from the odd behavior of the Thistle Men, even without directly witnessing their acts of violence. “Every one of them was like the Thistle man. All of them. Loose skinned, odd movements…none of them spoke, although sometimes one would laugh, long and loud, and then return to monastic silence” (Fink). Getting at the German root of the word, “unheimlich,” Lloyd-Smith elaborates: “it can be understood as equivalent to the ‘domestic terror’ which so aptly describes much of the work of American Gothicists… The house, not the castle, becomes the site of trauma” (75). When Keisha temporarily gives up on her journey, overwhelmed by all she has been through, the Thistle Men follow her home and cause intense paranoia, which ultimately drives her to flee her house and take to the road again.

Works Cited

Chen, Jeff. “Intercut: Everything You Need to Know.” NFI, 14 Mar. 2021, https://www.nfi.edu/intercut/.

Fink, Joseph. Alice Isn’t Dead.

"liminal, adj." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2023, www.oed.com/view/Entry/108471. Accessed 19 April 2023.

Lloyd Smith, Allan. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. Continuum, 2004.

#gothic #american gothic #midwestern gothic #Alice isn't dead #audio drama #audio fiction #liminality #uncanny #frontier gothic #gothic nature #intercutting #cross cutting #Joseph fink #Allan Lloyd-smith #night vale presents

[ofthecaravel]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRwGWnmF/

Greta Van Fleet Vampires😂

I wish I had proof for how many times I've been sent this tiktok, not just from y'all but like from my irl buddies.

and YEAH im obsessed with it. alexa play supernatural black hole

#literally top 10 songs of all time #danny is alice i fink #kgvfvcu

[ricearicema]

Just started Alice isn’t dead it’s so cool, The writing style is very recognizable as being the same vibe as Night Vale

#welcome to night vale #wtnv #alice isnt dead #night vale presents #joseph fink #jeffrey cranor