#Past My Bedtime

[yesiknowthemuffinman5]

Just staying up late writing Danny Phantom fanfiction like the grown-ass, taxes paying, child raising, full-time working dumpster fire adult I am

[ladydragonkiller]

Alright I started this train of thought in the notes in a different post and it hasn’t left me alone, so here I am.

My brain is drawing parallels between the symbolism Night Vale holds for queerness and how the different methods of scientific understanding that have been attempted interact with that. 

Dr. Lubelle wants to put everything into a neat, tidy little box that fits with her current view of the world. She defines and explains, and in doing so misses what makes Night Vale and the entities within it special. The things she says about Sarah Sultan and the Glow Cloud are, in her eyes and perhaps even objectively, true, but in laying it out so clearly she kills them. 

I’m reminded by this of arguments within and around queer communities about labels. Any word for gender or sexuality means a thousand different things to a thousand different people. Even for being straight or cis, and especially for any number of identities or in-betweens out there. While some people may feel comforted by a definition for these terms, no one explanation is going to fit everyone who uses that label. Trying to separate these out is pointless, messy, and only liable to hurt the people involved.

And that’s okay! That’s great! I love that we can find a home in the gaps left unfilled, because it’s very rare that life is 100% black and white. Not everything can be fully explained, and learning to appreciate the beauty of that is so much more productive than trying anyways.

Just like Carlos’s perspective on Night Vale. When he first came to the town, he was definitely interested in trying to understand it. This desire is now, above all else, tempered with a huge amount of love for the town. He’s investigating in an effort to understand better, yes, but not at the detriment of the town or its’ citizens.

Above all else, he isn’t trying to force Night Vale to be something it isn’t, or trying to take away what it is. He’s letting it be, appreciating it in all it’s beauty, and learning not for knowledge and pride’s sake, but with enthusiasm and respect. He accepts he isn’t going to know more about the inhabitants than they do themselves.

There might be a whole separate idea in here about the town waiting so long to accept Carlos as a citizen (and the as of yet unknown of how he’s reacted to that), but my brain needs to percolate a bit before I can say anything intelligent about that.

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[bean-shart]

im desperately clawing at the walls screeching weeping sobbing in my brain I NEED animatronics I NEED The Rock-afire Explosion I need to see them in real life I cannot live like this anymore

(context: I have autism and I love The Rock-afire Explosion but I don't want to have to go to West Virginia to see them at Billy Bob's Wonderland)

LET ME IN PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEAAAASSEEEEEEEEE GOD PLEASE FUCK LET ME IN LET ME IIIINNNNN AAAAAAAUUUUGHHHHH

CRYING SCREAMING GOD FUCK SHIT PLEASE JUST TELEPORT ME OR SOMETHING I NEED TO SEE THEM

do you think if I asked REALLY nicely the employees would let me see how the program the shows and show me the mechs and show me the back rooms and the walk-around suits and the empty face fasks and the props and let me touch the band and let me choose a song an

heeeeyyyy guys i know this is like. your job and stuff but can I please please please please please please please please see the robots up close like I really wanna get up there and brush out their fur or something please I'll do anything I'll mop the floor I'll do the dishes please i need to look at them in their lifeless robotic eyes also can you take off their skin please i want to see them perform as mechs especially earl HEY do you guys have an old Uncle Krunk because I'm very disturbed by him and would love to wait where are you going wait no ple

[asian-drama-whump-blog]

"Okay one more whump scene before bed..."

[mspoodle1]

more wip and testing

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[mustbe-mistaken]

You were red & you liked me because I was blue

[coffin-fit-for-two]

i am about to make a bad decision

[magnificentdefendorcat]

OMG this duck is totally my mood! ❤

[whoevrwhatevr]

I just tried to write “shoulder” as “scholdur” 🤨 I need to go to bed

[cacaocheri]

I THOUGHT YOU LEFT TO SLEEP GO SLEEP!! >:000

AWWWW MAN BUSTEDDD!!!

listen listen listen. I WAAAAS getting ready for bed and brushing my teefs and all that, but then I saw the funny hahas and got distracted......can you blame me

I'm headed to bed now though I prommy 🙏

[mausarchive]

im up late

[t-trix]

Silently,

sorrowfully,

and shamelessly awaiting.

The days to come,

will they care for me?

As well as I cared for you?

woes belonging to the night

[shayesinterlude]

UM, UH, UM-

AFTG KUNG FU PANDA AU

[punk-pangolins]

now I'm falling asleep

and shes calling ACAB

[i-eated-paint]

Regret