#WTNV

[vvanillavveins]

ok but Alice "sober up & stop trying to make an impact" Dyer would get along well with Cecil "if you see something say nothing & drink to forget" Gershwin Palmer

[zzoupz]

hi

[lizzard33]

i drew young tamika flynn! it was just supposed to be a few simple sketches, but here we are.

[kerink]

i cant sleep so i wanna talk about the different ways i conceptualize cecil's age. to me there are 3 domains i consider: chronological, physical, and functional

for his chronological age, we know cecil was a teenager in 1745 making him more than 279 years old. this one's pretty straight forward.

for his physical age we have to do some math. i've broken it down in greater detail before, but the tldr of that post is that (in my estimation) cecil physically ages 4-8 years for every 49 years he's alive. given how much wtnv likes a 1:10 ratio, i'd actually be willing to bet my math in the original post is close but wrong and cecil ages at a 1:10 rate. if cecil was at least 15 in 1745, and if he was stuck at 19 for at most 100 years, that would make him around 33 physically.

cecil's functional age i've never seen talked about and i haven't had a lot of chances to talk about before, so this was the main motivator for this post. cecil isn't just a man, he is The Voice. and since huntokar found night vale after it was founded and didn't break time until 1983, we can assume there was something supernatural about cecil before her involvement.

leonard burton was host of nvcr for "an uncountable number of years" and cecil has said he didn't recall anyone being host before him.

cecil interned under him from at least 1745 until ww2, likely after pearl harbor (1941) since cecil stated america was involved in the war at that time. so cecil interned for ~179 years and has been hosting for ~83 years

it's unclear when leonard died, i've detailed the murky timeline on his wiki page, but cecil had been hosting for between 38-60 years when he did. when leonard died he was crossing the street outside of nvcr, which i interpret this to mean leonard was still involved even after he retired, likely continuing his mentor role informally or else helping cecil as a consultant.

no matter how long cecil had been hosting, 38-60 years is a drop in the bucket compared to "an uncountable number of years." cecil as The Voice was still very new, functionally very young, when leonard died.

this continues the theme of cecil's life: that he's abandoned too young and before he's ready. i read cecil's lack of on-air professionalism to be a reflection of that; just like how he struggled and lashed out and acted up after his mother left he's doing the same thing on the radio. he didn't have anyone to show him any better. we aren't seeing cecil the 279 year old immortal or cecil the 33 year old man, we're seeing The Voice who is still only a child

[fake-wtnv-intros]

Do you hear the people sing? I hope you do, because they are outside your front door. They are singing about casseroles. Your casseroles, specifically. They really like them.

[nighvalecommunityradiounofficial]

Nighty-night, Nightvale.

[cecil-apologist]

Note: Sheriff Sam uses they/them pronouns!

[depresso-espresso-theatre-kid]

OMG GUYS GUYS GUYS

WTNV EPISODE 133 HAS THREE DIFFERENT ENDINGS DEPENDING ON WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!!!!!! I'VE GOT THE GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS FOR ALL THREE ENDINGS HERE GO AND LISTEN RIGHT NOW

[niff-of-draws]

new night vale bookmark and my first double sided bookmark!

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Friendly reminder that Cecil writes Saw fanfic.

[annabelle--cane]

the secret police sold cecil and they didn't even pay him for it. he was going to have to try and buy himself back with his own money. not cool.

[jonsimsmissingbraincell]

THE TRIFECTA

MAG 196 - This Old House

The Penumbra Podcast 4.06 - Juno Steel and the Haunting of the Terrible Trio (Part 1)

Welcome to Night Vale 246 - A Story about Him

[teafromthemicrowave]

What if I spent my week with filling my sketchbook with middle aged men being madly in love?

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

some of yall this round

[kerink]

i just realized something. cecil is friends with diane and josh crayton and very early in the show said that he loved them. josh's dad abandoned him before he was born and cecil's dad left right after he was born

[fake-wtnv-intros]

Today's proverb: Fake it 'till... Wait, no! Sorry. Scratch that. Make it 'till you fake it. Make it, repeat it so many times that you're able to fake it. Trust me, it's better than the alternative.

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