#wtnv 209

[spooksier]

tfw you wear a black coat and never existed

#art zone #fanart #wtnv #wtnv 209 #cecil palmer #let this mf REST i swear to god #but fr this ep was so fucking interesting #i’m so excited to see where it goes!!!!

[ci-ah]

[ID: A two-panel meme from Seinfeld. Jerry looks down with a bemused expression and asks: "You're crying from Welcome to Night Vale #209" George looks down with a teary expression and says: "Canon confirmation that with his dying breath Cecil is worrying about Carlos and calling his name got to me." Jerry says: "All right." End ID]

What a joy to learn right before the anniversary :)

#wtnv #wtnv spoilers #wtnv 209 #cecilos #cecil palmer #carlos the scientist #what if he was actually asking to save his Carlos from the Narrow #the whole town got into the Narrow in ep75 right???

[saturnisfallingdown]

happy pride month! [places you in the narrow place]

#wtnv spoilers #THIS NEW EPISODE..... WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLL #wtnv 209

[enjoy-purple-skies]

I hope Carlos was listening on this very specific story on the radio

#i would like jealous carlos pls #but not too much. just a sprinkle pls and thank you #i want silas fanarts #wtnv spoilers #wtnv 209 #wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecil palmer #wtnv podcast #carlos the scientist #cecilos #wtnv cecilos

[agnes-come-back-challenge]

"I wore a black coat and had never existed." (209, "The Black Coat")

"Did she lean over your sobbing face and ask you, 'Why are you crying when you don't even exist?' […] Have you ever decided you wanted a lightweight wool button-up coat, all black?" (171, "Go to the Mirror?")

#just thinking about this again #especially since the rest of that last sentence was about how the lightweight wool button-up coat doesn't exist either #im having so many thoughts #wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecil palmer #cecil gershwin palmer #wtnv 209 #The Black Coat #wtnv 171 #Go to the Mirror? #the crooked path #the narrow place #i wore a black coat and had never existed #lightweight wool button-up coat all black

[go-to-the-mirror]

tfw you watch yourself die in front of you and all you can do is be glad that it wasn't you

#wtnv #wtnv 209 #my lonely rambles

[angryducktimemachine]

So the last Nightvale Episode fucked me up a little bit and I LOVED IT.

[ID: A digital, fully coloured drawing of Cecil from the podcast Welcome to Nightvale.

He is standing in the middle of the picture staring at the viewer. He is wearing a long black coat and a black hat and heart shaped Sunglasses.

Only his left eye is visible in the shadow of his hat. It's pink.

His expression is serious as he is staring ahead and he is casting a long shadow forwards.

He is standing on a small path that is leading into the background to a narrow bright yellow line. The rest of the background is held in brown and dark orange tones.

The artists signature "ÄngryDuckTimeMachine" is set in the upper left corner. /End ID]

#wtnv #welcome to nightvale #wtnv cecil #cecil palmer #wtnv 209 #wtnv spoilers

[lostboywriting]

Today on Night Vale thoughts:

Thinking about Cecil's tendency to look away from deaths he doesn't want to see. Thinking about Go to the Mirror?: Do you think disbelief in death will make it disappear? Are awareness and manifestation one and the same? Thinking about the crooked path leading to the Narrow Place, which Cecil now claims he has never entered, where he wore a black coat and never existed.

Thinking about how in Ghost Stories Cecil tells the story of his mother returning home and dying ten years earlier, when he was an adult. Yet in Go to the Mirror? he asks: When was the last time you saw your mother? It's been since childhood, hasn't it? Since then, I don't think there's been any direct acknowledgement on the podcast that he remembers her death. I could be wrong about this.

In Ghost Stories he says that he and Abby came back together, when their mom returned, to navigate that dark and narrow path of forgiveness.

But he's never been into the Narrow Place, where he wore a black coat and never existed.

You know something you wear black to? Funerals.

All of this is to say, what if somewhere in the last few years Cecil looked away from his mother's death so hard, maybe due to his fears over parenting Esteban and confronting his own mortality, that he subconsciously retconned it into never happening and now as far as he's concerned she's still Out There Somewhere? What if like @bulkhummus said, the traffic in episode 227 was about Abby, and she was going to see their mom? What if the reason everything was identical to how Abby remembered it from decades earlier was because Cecil's just kind of stuck their mom in some nebulous vision of Somewhere that never changes, because Cecil can't let it change, because letting it change would mean letting time move forward and letting what already happened happen, and that would mean letting her die?

Do I think any of this is where the story is actually going? Nah probably not. Am I having too much fun thinking about it to care? Yep thank you for coming to my TED talk

#wtnv #wtnv 171 #wtnv ghost stories #wtnv 227 #wtnv 209

[ame-exe]

This is all I could think of when I listened to the new wtnv ep

[ID: the meme of two guys shaking hands. The left arm is labelled as ”Mayor Desmond saying there’s a surprise party for Eric on Piffling FM then that he hopes he’s not listening”, and the right arm is labelled as “Cecil announcing on the radio he has a surprise for Carlos but “no one tell him”. End ID]

#wooden overcoats #welcome to night vale #wtnv #wtnv 209 #wtnv spoilers #technically #podcasts #mine

[warriorblood1]

WTNV 209: I was wearing a black coat, and did not exist.

WTNV 171: Have you ever tried to buy a light-weight wool button-up coat, all black?

WTNV 171: Why are you crying if you don't even exist?

#wtnv #wtnv 209 #wtnv 171 #plus stuff about doubles and mirrors and AAA #im gonna relisten to 75 and also fuckin uh #33 #so i might add to this #i have a feeling the anniversary is gonna fuck us up #captain madd

[tefmiles]

looses my mind over the similar references in go to the mirror versus the narrow place episode to inspecting yourself and being confronted with unfamiliarity and the uncanniness of being left to see another version of you impossibly rot

#fucking???? #wtnv #wtnv spoilers #wtnv 209 #welcome to night vale

[robininthewindow]

So I just finished binge listening to welcome to nightvale and I’ve started listening to Magnus archives because a lot of people told me they were similar, I’m like halfway through the first episode and I’m very confused

#welcome to nightvale #wtnv 209 #wtnv #magnus archives

[saturnisfallingdown]

the narrow place was kinda homophobic for traumatizing cecil with the dissolving form of another him who only knew how to shamble onward and ask for his lost husband on the first day of pride month ://// cancelled

#wtnv spoilers #wtnv 209 #finknor have still got it!!! (it = terrifying me) #wtnv

[all-hail-i-guess]

And then, his eye became alert and he looked at me urgently. “Carlos?” he asked. “Carlos?” The effort of saying the word made his body shake. I told him: “Carlos is safe. He is with me.” And this other me nodded, his partial face showing profound relief. He leaned back into his chair, and kept leaning, and leaning, and leaning, until there was nothing left of him except his black coat, which smelled of cinder and sickly sweet candy.

#i cant with this fucking show #literally DIMINISHING #ceasing to exist??? #and this like Other Cecil uses the last of his effort to ask about Carlos #i cannot take it #wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv 209

[go-to-the-mirror]

Tfw you watch yourself die in front of you

#wtnv 209 #also #the lost #doctor who the lost #dalek universe #wtnv #doctor who #audio: dalek universe #audio: the lost #my lonely rambles

[hestias-night-vale-ramblings]

Cecil. Cecil. If you're planning a suprise, and you want to keep it a suprise, may I recommend not broadcasting it on air? Perhaps?

#hestia listens to night vale #wtnv #wtnv 209 #almost to 10 years later!!!!