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I am kicking myself because I started listening during the big Tumblr push two weeks or so ago and I had no idea this thread existed or it was heavily goon-made until today. I'm midway through my second listen of the series. I also often pull up the ending of One Year Later when I need something to chill out to because it's honestly one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. I am now twisting the arms of not only tumblr followers but other goons and real life friends to listen as well. I made a deal with another goon to watch a few episodes of Scooby Doo if he'd give a few episodes of WTNV a shot, so as you can see I'm basically willing to give a bloodstone sacrifice to get more people into the show. And I know that fanfiction is generally terrible and a large portion of WTNV fiction is apparently tentacle porn but this was recommended to me and I think it's pretty good, and touching, and there's no tentacles in it at all that I can remember: How I Survived My Summer Vacation, by Tamika Flynn, Age 12 3/4. (Spoilers for Summer Reading Program.) Please keep making WTNV for as long as you can. I sent in a smallish donation last week and I'll make another one soon. My last couple of weeks have been hell weeks at work because it's audit time, and WTNV has helped get me through that with my sanity both more intact and yet somehow much more unhinged. Getting into my car this morning and realizing that I had a brand new Night Vale episode to listen to on my way into work made my day 200% better.
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This person has apparently gone through all the episodes and drawn a detailed map of Night Vale based off of the descriptions of where things are in the show. (Click the pictures for big.)
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Aug 17, 2013 11:53
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I was (re)listening to Street Cleaning Day on my way home from work and now I really want to know what's happening with Wilson and Amber. Also, Tamika Flynn. I hope she runs Night Vale someday. BTW here are some decent tumblr blogs to follow/look at so you don't have to venture into the tag: http://darkowlrecords.tumblr.com/ http://theshapefromgrovepark.tumblr.com/ http://fyeahnightvale.tumblr.com/
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Aug 21, 2013 00:37
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Leospeare posted:Somebody else made a trailer for Night Vale as a summer blockbuster movie. It's pretty much just a montage of shots of everything vaguely Night Vale-ish, but the Apache Tracker got a good laugh out of me. S/he also made one specifically for Summer Reading Program.
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Aug 27, 2013 13:07
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The fandom is getting super organized. Looks like basically a week to push people to get very creative. Probably going to be some awesome things made (and some of the usual "was that really necessary?" fandom stuff).
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Aug 28, 2013 17:04
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If we see someone selling stuff which is probably without your permission is there a preferred way to let you know about it? (I just saw this come across my tumblr dash.)
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Aug 31, 2013 03:03
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Here's a link to the article about the NPR interview but the audio isn't up yet. 
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Sep 1, 2013 03:15
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Yeah I'm a terrible sleeper, and WTNV is great at helping me drift off when I need it, too. I've found Poetry Week to be especially great for relaxing. A lot of people dressed up like WTNV characters this weekend it looks like. Also I saw this today, ever instance of Cecil saying Carlos' name.
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Forgive all the  , but watching the popularity surge on tumblr and the rest of the media the last month and a half or so since I got into the show has been half as much fun as listening to it. I kind of cobbled together some theories about the why's behind what has been happening based on a couple of years of watching tumblr/fandom culture. First of all, in general why its exploding 1) The number one thing is just that it's good. (I'm not trying to sound like I'm sucking up here, it just is... really, really good.) The writing, the voice acting, the Disparition music that sets the mood, it's all fun to listen to and just as entertaining as any TV show or movie people love. Though opinions on some of the Weather might vary greatly, most people can identify at least a couple of Weather songs they love. There's not a part of the show I would call "weak" unless you count some of the early post-show credit segments where the sound was bad/too far from the mic etc. But people even stick around to listen to the credits because everyone knows the proverbs at the end are awesome, and how else are you going to find out who did the Weather this week? 2) It's unique. There is just not anything else in the market out there like it that most people are aware of, at least. You can make comparisons to the X-files, the Twilight Zone, Supernatural or a dozen other shows/books/movies but there are elements to WTNV that make it a thing all of its own and no two people will describe it the same way unless they're deliberately parroting something they read and memorized. And specifically why it exploded on tumblr: 3) It has an actual gay romance. If there's one thing about a huge number of tumblr kids, they really love gay male romances. If two men even glance at each other on a show or in a movie, a large segment of the tumblr population decides that those two men are secretly gay and in love and nothing will convince them otherwise. They tend to also latch on to the few actual canon gay romances that are out there, but since there's not many, this huge segment of the tumblr population is hungry for more. The Carlos/Cecil relationship in the show is a huge selling point for a lot of the fans. Any quick glance through the #Welcome to Night Vale tag on tumblr will prove that. Also, note that the show really took off on tumblr right around the time One Year Later was released. 4) A really in-depth world to discover, since 25 - 30 episodes have been out since the explosion, around 12 hours worth of material to listen to. The lore is deep enough for people to really dive into and get a handle on how it works, has a pretty good sized cast of characters, and a bunch of locations, but still small enough for there to feel like there's a lot more that they're able to imagine/contribute. It's not played out, it's new and shiny and different. 4) The audio-only medium with exactly one visual image (the logo) ever presented to the audience. Each fan can decide for him or herself what things look like, the style, the direction. There's little visual canon that restricts what things have to look like, which makes people feel like they have a lot of control when they want to create things. And, creating things about whatever fandom someone is a part of - whether it's drawing, graphic design, putting together photosets of things taken from hundreds of other sources, fanvids, or writing - fanfiction or meta - is what tumblr does best. WTNV is both a deep universe of over 12 hours of canon to explore yet also is enough of a blank slate that the creative types on tumblr get to draw all over it however they wish and there's very little that someone can make that can be pointed out as actually being WRONG. 5) Night Vale is weird. Thus, when they go to create works based off of it however they choose, they can be as weird as they want. There are rules as to how things work in Night Vale, sure, but enough is open that a hell of a lot is permitted in that weirdness. More than in the universes of almost any other media they've ever been exposed to. There's some aspects to this that they've latched onto in uh, cringe-worthy ways, though. Giving tumblr kids a canon gay romance, PLUS the innate weirdness of Night Vale, PLUS handing them 12+ hours of good material to explore right away (to those that discovered it in June or beyond), PLUS a virtual blank slate for creativity was like handing them the perfect storm of the thing they've been waiting for for a long time. Honestly, someone couldn't have crafted a better piece of media for tumblr to latch onto if you had been trying to do just that.
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Lady Naga posted:Homestuck has all of these. I don't really know what Homestuck is beyond that it's also pretty big in some circles of tumblr (I know it's a webcomic only because I went and looked at the wikipedia article for five seconds at some point), so it has got the visual aspect to it that WTNV doesn't have. (Though I suppose you could trade that out for the audio aspect Homestuck probably doesn't have.) And I'm just speaking from personal experience here, but I've never seen as much Homestuck on tumblr in my two-ish years of having a blog there as I have in the last two months of WTNV. I think it's pretty hard to avoid WTNV on tumblr unless you only follow blogs that don't talk about popular media / fandom things or hardly any other blogs at all. *edit* Lady Naga posted:Oh, I was interpreting his statement as "Tumblr has been waiting for something like Nightvale to latch on to" and not "Nightvale has all the qualities they already use to latch on to something." Tumblr is pretty latched onto a lot of things, I think I was more saying the second thing, yeah. 
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Sep 5, 2013 05:21
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The Unfuck Your Habitat tumblr collected enough donations to get Cecil to record a special recording for them. They posted it here, in case you want to hear Cecil say "gently caress".
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Sep 6, 2013 01:40
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Loved the new episode. Is it too much to hope that the army is marching towards Desert Bluffs and their not-so-awesome god?
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Sep 16, 2013 03:57
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Checked the twitter feed just now and noticed Wil Wheaton started following the WTNV twitter in the last couple of days. If Wil Wheaton is a fan, all of the Internet is gonna be aware of WTNV soon. 
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Sep 17, 2013 05:29
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I am not at all a fan of tentacle-Cecil but this fanart is really gorgeous and amazing.
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Sep 21, 2013 01:12
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Spacedad posted:I love this show, but I keep having to un-follow otherwise very talented night vale fan artists on tumblr as non-worksafe Carlos/Cecil porn keeps showing up on my feed. Honestly, this is why it's usually good to follow devoted reblogging tumblrs instead of the fan artists themselves. Most of the communities keep it work safe or have a tag you can blacklist (if you're not using XKit to browse tumblr you need to go get it like, now, and add the blacklist extension) so you don't have to see the porn. Oz posted:Currently I'm only following "fyeahnightvale", "theshapefromgrovepark", "darkowlrecords", and "streetcleaningday" which are pretty good WTNV art aggregates, and I haven't seen them reblog any NSFW ones. fuckyeahwelcometonightvale, which is different from fyeahwelcometonightvale (fyeah deleted a week or two ago). I also like to follow http://cecilsofcolour.tumblr.com/ and http://equal-rep-night-vale.tumblr.com/ for more diversity in the fanart. *edit* Just saw this come across my dash, published today, the Idea Channel - How Does Night Vale Confront Us With the Unknown? Annakie fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Geirskogul posted:Is there any talk about the main show? All this about a live show I can't see makes me sad. It's like a bunch of cool kids have a secret club or something. There's some on tumblr but it is rife with spoilers. Just a casual glance into the tag right now is a bad idea if you don't want to learn basically all the important plot points on accident. Even with "spoiler/spoilers" on blacklist. I tried to just see some pictures and general reactions and had to back out before I got very far. 
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Along those same lines, I figured Carlos didn't think about Cecil much, and then after The Phone Call, when Carlos and Cecil met for coffee, Carlos told Cecil to stop talking about him on the radio, but they could be friends. After the Phone Call, Cecil doesn't talk about Carlos again until One Year Later, which is 9 episodes (and like 4.5 months) later. That would give them enough time to actually become friends, and Carlos would probably relent on the talking about him on the radio thing a bit. I've also seen a fan theory that Cecil dated Earl Hanlan (the Eternal Scout master) in there for a bit, which is why Earl said that they could have had something before the Eternal Scout ceremony (and that maybe that started to turn Carlos' feelings towards romantic.) Probably overthinking it a bit, but I like that theory.
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The new episode is out and if you haven't listened to it yet you probably shouldn't be reading this post, or anything past it. --------- Today's episode is the most terrifying episode yet. Old woman Josie, the new intern being ascended to heaven, the football coach's tongue, and worst of all, Strex Corp is coming to Night Vale and they've already bought the radio station. Are they going to turn Night Vale into the new Desert Bluffs? What could be worse? 
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Oct 1, 2013 15:10
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I added a warning to my previous post but if this were TVIV (which I'm aware that it is not) I'd get probated for using spoiler tags, since the episode is actually out and has been for about nine hours now. If the thread is going to have some other spoiler policy rather than the norm, that should probably be posted. (Please let's not turn the thread into a spoiler debate. )
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Oct 1, 2013 15:39
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Earwicker posted:It's posted at like midnight. It's 10:45 am here on the east coast and the rear end crack of dawn on the west coast, so it's pretty reasonable to assume not a lot of people have had a chance to listen to it yet. It's not like a TV show that comes on at prime time in the evenings. I don't think it's unreasonable to use spoiler tags on the 1st and 15th I agree that would be reasonable if maxnmona agrees, maybe it should go in the OP with the occasional reminder before a new episode. I sincerely apologize if I upset anyone, again, I was just posting by the normal rules regarding spoilers of the forums and WAS hoping to foster conversation about the new episode by those who had seen it.
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Oct 1, 2013 15:51
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Wow, someone translated the first episode into ASL.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:30
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Official links for the LA Podfest Performance: one and two. Two episodes that have already aired a long time ago were performed. *Edit* Sounds like there is a bit of new material, in here, too, just got to it, it's good.
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Hearing that Mark Gagliardi and Hal Lublin were there kills me, I'm even more jealous now than I was before that I live nowhere near anywhere you've done a show yet. Every reaction I've read online said that last night was fantastic no matter which show people went to. Forgive the diversion, but Thrilling Adventure Hour is my other favorite podcast. If you guys aren't listening to it you really, really should be. TAV is a live show put on every month done in the style of old-timey radio, which has various programs which are each about 20 minutes in it. They break up each segment for the podcast. Beyond Belief is Paget Brewster and Paul F. Tomkins as a pair of married alcoholic mediums / supernatural creature mystery solvers. Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars is a space western set in the year 3000 on Mars starring Marc Evan Jackson as the Marshal Sparks Nevada, and Mark Gagliardi as his faithful Martian companion, Croach the Tracker. Nathan Fillion, Josh Molina and Busy Phillips are also all regulars. Sparks Nevada might actually be my favorite thing in the world right now. Sparks and Beyond Belief are in every episode. There's about a half dozen other shows that they rotate through that show up occasionally, and a few spinoffs of Sparks Nevada. I hope WTNV comes to Dallas soon, and bring Mark Gagliardi with you.  *edit* I made a Thrilling Adventure Hour thread in RGD. Annakie fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Oct 31, 2013 |
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Yeah, that's pretty typical for Comic Cons. I've seen people say that sometimes the panel before a really popular thing might be like 80-90% people who don't care about that panel and can sometimes be rude/noisy/disinterested. I heard that Cecil was in last night's live Thrilling Adventure Hour episode of Sparks Nevada as the Emperor of Mars. I really really hope they release that on the podcast. Normally they're like 3 or 4 months between recording an episode and it being posted, so this is going to be a long wait, if they even release it at all.
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Oct 12, 2013 13:40
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Yep. I find it interesting in light of this episode remembering what Cecil's mother told him a few episodes ago about his own death that it would involve a mirror. I also thought Cecil (the actor) did a great job doing young-Cecil's voice.
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Oct 15, 2013 13:38
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SalTheBard posted:I missed it. What is his last name? Also great episode! Cecil Gershwin(sp?) Palmer I also thought Cecil (the actor) did a great job in voicing younger Cecil in that at the beginning he really sounded different, then he mentioned he needed to practice his radio voice, and I thought each time we heard young Cecil he sounded more and more like the Cecil we now know in his cadence and annunciation, it was a slight transition but noticeable. I really wonder if he would have sounded like modern-Cecil if we'd have heard him immediately after his... possession or whatever you want to call it.
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Oct 15, 2013 21:20
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That is awesome fanart. Here's a video someone took of the end of last weekend's Thrilling Adventure Hour show, it's just the cast singing a song. At about 1:25 - 1:30 you can see Cecil's head in the background.
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The new episode was great! I'm going to have to re-listen soon because listening while driving down the freeway I couldn't quite make out all of the computer's speech over the road noise. Also, I made a Thrilling Adventure Hour thread last week so we don't clog up the Night Vale thread with TAH stuff.
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Holy crap, I am a little worried about what's going to happen to Cecil after what he did and said there at the end. And I'm really worried about (and cheering for) Tamika.
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This is very cool of you guys. Like most people I enjoyed Jeffrey's Carlos, but I'm excited for the new actor, as well.
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Earwicker posted:I'm working on mixing the live episode that was recorded on Oct 10 and the guy playing John Peters, you know, the farmer? I think he had the microphone like all the way inside his mouth. I'm guessing this is Craig Cackowski because he sounds like that a lot. Just hearing you guys are releasing this makes me super happy. The only podcast I love as much as Night Vale is Thrilling Adventure Hour. 
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Dec 24, 2013 16:45
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Yep, someone made the emoji!
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Jan 4, 2014 00:02
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I saw mention of a Dallas date somewhere and I'm holding out a lot of hope for that.
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Dark Grapefruit posted:http://emeraldcitycomicon.tumblr.com/post/74010023036/the-thrilling-adventure-hour-and-welcome-to-night I'm incredibly sad I probably can't make it to this. I'm already planning a trip to the LA area in the spring to see Thrilling Adventure Hour and visit some friends and that's gonna kill my travel budget for early in the year. I'll just have to be content with that in April and seeing WTNV in Dallas in March. Hopefully one or both of the shows will release it as a podcast.
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The Thrilling Adventure Hour facebook said either one show or the other (or maybe both) will release it as a podcast but it won't be until late this year or maybe early next year. If you guys still don't know what Thrilling Adventure Hour is, we have a thread here. If you like WTNV there's a good chance you'll like at least a couple of the segments in TAH. Got my ticket for the Dallas show yesterday. So excited.
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If anyone ends up with an extra ticket to the Dallas show, please let me know, I have a (goon) friend who would like to go but it's sold out now. Thanks! 
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In a display of insanity, I just booked a flight and hotel and rental car for Emerald City Comic Con. My friend and I are only going to be able to go to the con Friday and then the Crossover show on Saturday, so we'll miss the WTNV and Thrilling Adventure Hour panels on Sunday morning but... that's the price for waiting until 3 weeks from the start date to plan a trip. Annnnd next Friday I'll be seeing WTNV in Dallas, and seeing Thrilling Adventure Hour in LA in April. I think my podcast addiction has gotten out of hand.
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thefncrow posted:Full house for the Dallas show. Kinda cramped in here. Yeah, I'm glad I got here early and am about the center on the floor and an aisle seat. It's packed and loud and people still keep coming to the front to look for seats.
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The dude who ended up sitting next to me clearly was only dragged along by his girlfriend, complained to her about it, had BO, shoved his legs into my space and when the show was over basically shoved me out of the way to get out. If I hadn't known I was going to see the show again two weeks from tonight I would be pretty pissed right now. If there'd been anywhere else to go I would have moved seats, he was that bad. I obviously chose not to follow Cecil's instructions for the crowd about talking to a stranger at the end. The show itself was amazing. I loved the musical guest, and the crowd was just eating out of Cecil's hand the entire time. One of the best live shows I've seen in a long time. If you haven't seen it yet, you're in for an amazing show.
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TheJoker138 posted:No, that doesn't sound right. They did some original stuff as well, and rewrote things to be like radio plays. You might be thinking of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, which is all done in the style of old-time radio. The segment Beyond Belief is all about a couple who faces supernatural threats, some of which are Lovecraftian in nature. The episode before last was called "When Cthulhu Cthalls" and was all about some Old Ones rising. But, it's also a comedy podcast and actually not all that scary. This morning's WTNV episode was amazing, by the way. I can't wait for Cecil to officially join the revolution. It's gotta happen soon. Also, live show spoilers: Between Tamika's amazing speech and Cecil again slyly calling for action, I really, really can't wait for the uprising.
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