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Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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wow the new lando calrissian movie looks amazing

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welcome to night vale ep 25 ↬ 1 year later

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Inktober Day 17: Graceful

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character posters: cecil palmer

It is possible that I am alone in an empty universe, speaking to no one, unaware that the world is held aloft merely by my delusions and my smooth, sonorous voice.

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A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome, to Night Vale.

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also like everyone suddenly likes huntokar now?? like?? nope, not for me. y'all go on, but she’s just not for me.

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Probably my favorite thing about the new welcome to night vale episode was that the gods didn’t chose generic domains like the ocean or death or fire, they chose things like everywhere but Italy or this one town that I have created. Always love how creative and original Welcome To Night Vale. 

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so night vale is separate from the rest of the world, so that means that majority of everyone who has ever come to contact with it is probably from another reality of night vale

i know it’s hard to get in it, but some of the people arriving in night vale get there by just…getting there

The Man in the Tan Jacket found Night Vale just by wandering around

You found Night Vale just by driving and eventually ending up in it

Presumably, Carlos and his scientists were planning to get there and just got there (although I remember Carlos said he doesn’t actually remember how he got there or something?)

Kevin found Night Vale by a vortex (probably a rip in reality)

so at this point it’s probably just

King City? Alt Night Vale

You’s original place? Alt Night

Carlos, his scientists and The University of What It Is? Alt Night Vale

Desert Bluffs? Alt Night Vale

Red Mesa - I think the dragons came from here; Alt Night Vale

Pine Cliffs? also prob alt Night Vale, especially since it’s populated by ghosts

Us, the listeners? Alt Night Vale and we just don’t know it because majority of everyone who’s come into contact with Night Vale are just from another reality of Night Vale

Everything is Night Vale

also one time I told a friend ‘Night Vale AU where everything is the same except it’s set near the ocean’ and they gave me a ‘wtf’ look but gUESS WHAT

OCEAN NIGHT VALE AU IS REAL

EVERY SINGLE AU WE HAVE IS REAL

AND I UNDERSTAND NOTHING

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one thing i don’t understand about the “desert bluffs is an alternate night vale” theory are the name changes. huntokar refers to all the other night vales as night vale. she refers to all the other cecils as cecil. 

so why would a night vale be named desert bluffs? why would their cecil be named kevin? i don’t think it’s an alternate night vale, but it could be a copycat night vale. 

maybe the smiling god saw what huntokar was doing and wanted to make a town too. or maybe he didn’t make desert bluffs at all. maybe it already existed and the smiling god caused “the incident” when he decided to interfere in their lives. 

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is it just me

or is huntokar sketchy af?

(spoilers for “a story about huntokar” and, below the cut, “all hail”)

- like maybe it’s because i just saw gotg 2, but i do not trust anyone who kicks around the galaxy for a few million years and then goes “yep time to go influence some sapient life”

- “I was, of all of us, the only good one” said no one who was actually good ever

- “Every action that endeavors to improve only causes more suffering and terror.” i wonder if that’s because these improvements include a subway advertised by roaches and creepy-ass children that made people disappear and the 12:37 train to red mesa, which featured, in case you forgot:

“Some people wearing deer masks are gathering by the train, distributing roaches to bystanders. The roaches all have phrases printed on them, things like ‘Business in the front, knife in the back’ and ‘#NotAllTrains.’”

“The figures in deer masks, looking like the same transit lovers who built the Night Vale subway system three years ago, are in an inverted V formation out in left center field, their shoulders and heads bobbing as if in silent laughter”

“She leaned in, insects scuttling across her long brown snout. ‘I am the destroyer. They take our buildings. They put them in crates. Their interests are furthered. I am the destroyer.’”

SEEMS LEGIT

- “Cecil. Sweet Cecil, who I tried and tried to guide toward the truth.” 

i was like “when have mysterious forces ever interacted with cecil (that wasn’t caused by something we already know about)” and then i was like “oh yeah, the weird stuff from ‘cassette’/‘filings’, you know, WHEN HE DIED” so like. that’s not ominous.

- “I came across a valley, dry, almost lifeless. Save for a few brave people who had worked out how they could be sustained there. And I chose them, I guided and taught them, and gradually a town grew. Night Vale. The one place in the world that was truly mine. I am the Creator.” 

pro tip: calling yourself “the creator,” much less of a place that already existed and supported life, is not so much a white hat move

- “Worship of me started, as they became aware of my kind presence in their lives. Their love gave meaning to the passing of my years and in exchange, I gave them a better and better world. They developed ceremonies devoted to me, wearing soft meat crowns and building what would become known as bloodstone circles.” 

SO MANY ALARM BELLS. who goes “wow, my goddess has such a kind presence! better start worshipping her with BLOOD AND ORGANS”?? 

- also, everyone knows lee marvin is the one who founded the town and demanded worship: ”One of the arrivals, famous screen actor Lee Marvin, who just turned 30 today – Oh, hey! Happy birthday, Mr. Marvin! – said that they were immediately proceeding to found a town. A town they will call Night Vale. A home for themselves, complete with all the things a home needs: secrets, dread, omnipresent government, and areas that are forbidden! He then donned a soft meat crown as the other newcomers bowed to him.” – [Best Of?]

how dare she try to take that away from him? it’s his birthday!

- meanwhile, the underground city that does still remember worshipping huntokar responded to carlos’ incursion with ALL-OUT WAR. night vale, which has about as much self-control as a toddler on a sugar high, managed to avoid all-out war even after they were actively invaded by desert bluffs.

- “What once was tribute is now a series of gestures, as human and meaningless as they were before I came along.” 

so human stuff was meaningless before she came along. that’s a normal thing to say.

- “Night Vale is shattered. But for now it’s still here. Hmm. Time is startlingly persistent in that way.” 

uh time’s not real.

- “The other gods were attracted to the site of my teetering domain, but I was able to arrange truces with them. They did not do anything that would upset the balance by which my world barely hung, and in exchange, they could poke their heads in, look around, maybe take a few versions of my Night Vale to turn into playgrounds for their terror-filled delights.” 

“terror-filled delights,” she said casually. “no big.”

- “But now the five-headed dragons in their grief and anger have pulled all of the other gods into this situation” …says the person who had previously pulled all of the other gods into this situation. i’m not saying this isn’t true, but… we’ve only got her word for it. we haven’t seen proof of it ourselves.

- “I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells.” 

meanwhile, in ‘the registry of middle school crushes’: “Before everything, before even humans, there were stories. A creature at a fire conjuring a world with nothing but its voice and a listener’s imagination. And now, me, and thousands like me, in little booths and rooms and mics and screens all over the world, doing the same for a family of listeners, connected as all families are, primarily by the stories we tell each other.” 

huntokar sees stories as furthering her own interests; cecil sees them as connecting humanity.

- at the very least, huntokar is a VERY unreliable narrator and we can’t take her at face value. personally, i think she’s trying to manipulate people (especially cecil, for unknown reasons) into sympathizing with her and doing… what? guess we’ll find out in two weeks.

- bonus spoiler point from “all hail”:

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Well! I guess that answers that theory I saw floating around lmfao

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the smiling god created desert bluffs the same way huntokar created night vale

but where huntokar succeeded (even if she doesn’t see it as succeeding) in saving night vale from disaster, the smiling god failed to save desert bluffs (from whatever “the incident” refers to)

but i do find it interesting that huntokar didn’t mention the smiling god, considering that’s the only entity in the show we actively refer to as a god

maybe it’s because he isn’t like the other gods. the smiling god wasn’t created in the mudwomb but rather “created” by the settlers of desert bluffs and came into existence from sheer belief 

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things that wtnv NEEDS to address before it ends

the dark planet lit by no sun

who are “they”? why are they stealing buildings from the underground night vale? who do they work for?

where does carlos fit in to this narrative and what actually is the university of what it is

kareem’s family in michigan

what happened to michael sandero? if he’s not in michigan then where has been this whole time?

more backstory for the faceless old woman

how is megan doing because i really miss her, like where is she? is she okay? does she need a hug? a blanket? some freshly-baked cookies?

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Episode 108 had Cecil saying whatever had been “coming up next” for the next MONTH was crossed out, and “a story about Huntokar” written in.

So, I imagine we get a direct continuation - or something very close - on the 15th.

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what i really love the most about this huntokar reveal is that it’s a surprise, but not one that feels like the rug has just been pulled from beneath your feet. instead, suddenly everything is clearer, that it really does click into place, just fitting itself right in there into the lore of this universe that has been building up for years now. it’s surprising, sure, but also enlightening.

this town has always been weird with no explanation from the get go. and now suddenly everything, from the very beginning from when we heard the story, comes together. from things like the radiation and tremors unfelt, the house that does not exist, the desert dimension, the old fashioned rituals in a modern day city. hell, faceless old woman never made a secret of being an omnipresent supernatural entity, and that even with her power she would choose to be ambivalent or malicious with it. she could see the “great coils of the universe unwinding”. all those truths she would state outright, not deterred.

in a way the twist of huntokar doesn’t feel like a twist at all. it’s a satisfying explanation to everything going around. hers is a sad and heartbreaking story for sure. but this feeling of englightenment and understanding of this particular little universe is now juxtaposed with the chaos of realities collapsing into each other, and is making for a very interesting and complex conflict for sure.

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remember in yellow helicopters when josie said that if she falls, so does the town? night vale’s been unraveling pretty rapidly since she died...