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dolphelecat · 4 months
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"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Eating some snacks and reading a book. Oh, this was a different day. We shouldn't be defined by our worst moment."
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oc-ohsahi · 1 year
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I told the creators of Welcome to Night Vale about the sexyman poll.
im taking a narrative podcast production course, and we had joseph fink and jeffery cranor come speak to the class over zoom
as the final question of our Very Serious QA panel, i told them about the tumblr sexyman poll, with hundreds of thousands of votes, and that cecil still won a decade later. i asked if the power of creating The Sexiest Fictional Man was something that could go to their heads. they couldnt stop laughing.
joseph gave a long spiel about how grateful he is for the impact Night Vale had — he told a story about seeing a fictional flights board in an airport and that it felt so strange to see Night Vale up there. he was super humble and said that Night Vale ‘belongs to the fans’ and takes no ownership of Sexy Creationism.
then jeffery comes in like ‘yeah, what he said, but personally i think it does go to my head’ and giggled and said “It feels pretty awesome.”
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yourbelgianthings · 4 months
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"there's no loss in romance by imagining them as normal rather than the most beautiful people you've ever seen." (joseph fink about cecil and carlos on i only listen to the mountain goats episode 113)
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This book is so fucking funny I love it
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thatpodcastkid · 11 days
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Currently thinking about how I started listening to Welcome To Night Vale when I was 14 and I am not the same person but the show is still there.
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nightvaleofficial · 1 month
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Podcasting is one of the most exciting forms of media, with people trying all sorts of wild things.
Night Vale co-creator Joseph Fink reveals his favorite podcasts of 2023 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/joseph-finks-of-96242395?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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mashumaru · 4 months
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I’m very new to journaling, so when I made a pretty bad spread, I ended up just completely covering it with a better one
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falenminds-blog · 11 days
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wtnv ep 244 - a multiplicity of kevin, in one image:
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Today marks 40 years since Huntokar tried to save Night Vale and ended up destroying them all instead. She was meant to become the saviour but ended up becoming the destroyer.
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seedsnacker · 2 months
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My predictions for the next wtnv episode
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fairycosmos · 11 months
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the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home by joseph fink
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Continuity and Tonal Shifts in Season Ten
This is gonna be a really long meta describing some of my frustrations with the current writing decisions. I'm approaching these as someone who loves the show and wants it to succeed, and I'm not making any sweeping "the show is problematic" or "the writers are bad" statements, just that the writing decisions lately have been poor in my opinion and I need to express my thoughts on that.
So as a lot of people may or may not know, Fink and Cranor alternate writing episodes, and according to Patreon, they have minimal communication about what is going to happen in the next episode, giving the other relative creative freedom. This often works when the style of Night Vale is random, disjointed, and with a lot of left-field plot devices, but with this current plot line so grounded in literal stuff and reality, it is SO FRUSTRATING. Especially because Fink mentioned in a patreon post that he only backreads the past five episodes to maintain continuity - something that clearly does not work when your show is over 230 episodes long, has had tons of live shows, and expanded into three books. I feel like the last three episodes have had a very off-putting disconnect, and that makes this writing decision REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS in a glaring can't-overlook-it-anymore way.
There's no way to know which writer wrote which episode, but we'll say "odd writer" and "even writer" for continuity's sake. I have my personal opinion about which writer wrote what, but I don't want to share that here. It could be that Fink is odd writer and Cranor is even writer, or it could be the other way around, but what matters is that odd writer and even writer didn't communicate.
227, written by odd writer: Blake lures Cecil away with a made-up sob story and Cecil departs the station. Lubelle comes to the radio station and gives a long speech about Night Vale, condescends about Cecil's hold over the town, explains away the weather, says outright that she's taking over, and leaves with the ominous "show over, Night Vale, show over" closing tag. What's going to happen? Find out in two weeks!
228, written by even writer: Actually she just briefly broke into the radio station and left without a struggle and Blake was just tricking Cecil and let him go, and now Cecil is back and Lubelle hasn't taken over anything yet, nor kidnapped him. But science is going to be made illegal to stop Dr. Lubelle and the Univeristy, and that will really mess with Carlos! What's going to happen? Find out in two weeks!
229, written by odd writer: Science is illegal but the University decided to just straight up ignore it and continue with all of their stuff using a bunch of technical work-arounds and sheer numbers to overwhelm the town, so it doesn't really affect anyone other than Carlos, who by the way is barely in an episode that's supposed to be about his struggles. Anyway, Lubelle brought all of her faculty into town, so that's probably bad. What will they do? Find out in two weeks!
It's starting to feel like we're reliving the Star Wars sequel trilogy, except there's two JJ Abrams and neither of them is talking to each other. Every episode ends on this intense buildup and then it immediately fizzles away at the start of the next one. It's like getting edged by someone who keeps pulling their hand away so they can go on their phone and type "actually everything is fine now" before they get back to it.
There's one other thing I want to mention about this odd writer/even writer dilemma, which is episode 225. This was an odd writer episode, and in it, Lubelle asks Cecil to come down to the University for some "tests", an offer that he finds very offensive, but one that's punctuated by Dr. Jones snickering that Station Management has been explained away. It really feels like odd writer is trying to set up plotline where the University becomes interested in Cecil, whether that's for his connection to the town or his relationship with Carlos, and even writer just does not want to let that happen.
There's even a bit of a tonal shift, where odd writer paints Dr. Jones as cunning, "Couldn't be station management. They don't even exist. They've been, well... they've been explained." (episode 225) "Looks like Blake succeeded in tricking that fool away from his mic," (episode 227) and then even writer does an about-face and makes him cowardly instead, forcing odd writer to go along with that characterization; so odd writer decides to just write him out of the story without really doing anything.
The lack of communication between the two writers is becoming more and more obvious, and for the fans, more and more frustrating. There are also so many great fan-assembled resources that demonstrate every episode a character or plot point has appeared in, so I feel like it shouldn't be that hard for the writers to find their own system of continuity - or hell, just borrow ours and then throw in a "extra thank to the contributors of the Night Vale wikia" in the credits or something. You guys do this for a living! Is it so much to ask if we'd like you to be good at it?
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arthurtaylorlester · 1 year
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i think with the events of the recent episode, it’s important to recognise that was dr.Lubelle is doing is not explaining things.
that’s not why sarah sultan died, because when joseph and kareem went to her to try and figure out a way back to the ‘’real’’ world, she shrugged their experiences off as delusions. she didn’t actually explain WHY there are doubles for everyone (probably reality-converging timeline shenanigans), she made them think they had gotten an answer, when we know for a FACT that joseph fink is not from night vale, we heard him get trapped.
And then she went off to try and find dana to dig up the grave of her (not?)double, so she could make up some half-baked explanation about it and gaslight literally everyone, including us the listeners, about the events that we literally heard go down.
She isn’t explaining shit because she doesn’t understand wHY night vale is like this, she just wants everything to fit her version of reality. so basically I’m saying dr lubelle killed sarah sultan in some other fucked up way
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a-ramblinrose · 8 months
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July 21 || Favorite Endpages:  Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
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thatpodcastkid · 7 days
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Should I start listening to Welcome to Night Vale? What's it aboot?
Oh boy. Oh boy.
(Let it be known that if my irl friends heard you ask this, they would tackle me to prevent the rant I would go on)
I definitely think anyone who likes audio drama should listen to Welcome To Night Vale because it is one of the first contemporary audio dramas and possibly THE first wildly successful one. So much of what you hear in recent audio dramas is inspired by/draws from WTNV. But even if you don't like or are new to audio drama, there is so much to love about Night Vale.
So, the actual plot: Night Vale is a friendly, Midwestern, desert community where everyone's favorite radio show is hosted by Cecil Palmer. Cecil is the cheery "voice of Night Vale" who updates listeners on community news like the angels living by the old car lot, the mysterious glowing cloud which drops dead animals from the sky, and the teenage militia defending their right to read at the library. Cecil occasionally (all the time) interjects with his own personal thoughts and experiences like how terrible the scones Steve Carlsberg made for the PTA meeting were, his niece's basketball team, or the handsome new scientist who recently arrived to study Night Vale.
I would talk about the themes of the show, but they cover so much and it all is so important to me. Everything from family to growing up to feeling different to trauma to grief to growth to capitalism to community to fear to love to the dangers of teaching a spider to read.
It's really an incredible show and I recommend at least giving it a try. It has a dry humor I think everyone can appreciate (including my 58 year old mother who listened during blackout when there was no internet and it was the only thing I had downloaded), even if audio drama or creepiness isn't your thing.
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