"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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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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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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CARLOS DAVE ROBLES!!!! GET YOUR BEAUTIFUL LOOKING ASS TO THE RADIO STATION ASAP AND TELL USSS WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH CECIL'S DAD .
YOU BETTER SPILL THAT TEA AND SPILL IT SOON OTHERWISE I'LL TURN UR LUSCIOUS HAIR INTO A FUCKING WIG ALRIGHT??!?!??!?!! D O Y O U U N D E R S T A N D ??!??@?@?@?@!?@?!!!?@!?!
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will, did you just refer to carlos as “sainz” ? break my heart buddy it’d be easier to swallow
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EIGHT SURVIVING CHILDREN OF CARLO AND LETIZIA BONAPARTE, SIBLINGS OF NAPOLEON I 🥺🌟♥️
254 years ago on this day, Napoleon Bonaparte, the first French emperor was born
On the occasion of his birthday, meet the Eight surviving children of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte, who lived to adulthood
Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to 13 children between 1768 and 1784; five of them died, two at birth and three in their infancy...😥🥀
Among the 13 children, the first child who died was Napoleone Buonaparte, who was born on August 17, 1765 and died on the same day... The last child to die was Jérôme Bonaparte, who died 95 years after his eldest brother...
The registered names of all the children of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte:
• Napoleone Buonaparte (born and died 17 August 1765)
• Maria Anna Buonaparte (3 January 1767 – 1 January 1768)
• Joseph Bonaparte (7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (Later French emperor) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)
• Maria Anna Buonaparte (14 July 1771 – 23 November 1771)
• A stillborn child (1773)
• Lucien Bonaparte (21 March 1775 – 29 June 1840)
• Maria Anna (Elisa) Bonaparte (3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820)
• Louis Bonaparte (2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846)
• Pauline Bonaparte (20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825)
• Caroline Bonaparte (25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839)
• Jérôme Bonaparte (15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860)
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