#the lights above the arbys

[future--ghost]

gay men are destroying my life I drew them in my Spanish syllabus

[a-little-podcast-blog]

welcome to night vale + the lights above the arby’s

[wtnv 230 - carlos, explained // wtnv 100 - toast // wtnv 1 - pilot]

[twink-between-worlds]

ohhh hold on,,,hold on i think,,,

ive captured a vibe perfectly? so perfectly i think ive peaked

[error-432]

do u like podcasts

I’ve heard of a few, yes.

[kameonerd566]

I've suffered permanent brain damage from Welcome to Night Vale because now every time we pass an Arbys on the road and everyones making meat/dick jokes I can't help but melt into my own little head thinking about how it was once the most romantic place in the world :')

[keepinventory]

re-listened to wtnv 25 - one year later today. if i think too long about it i may start crying

[trapper-faggot]

I'm sorry that the other day this turned into a p!td blog and now it's nightvale I'm apparently 16 again

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I still have a very vivid memory of laying in bed listening to WTNV in the weeks leading up to me leaving for college

[lostmidnightwriter]

Inktober Day 10: Lights above the Arby's

Welcome to Night Vale has been around for ten full years, and I'm proud to say that I have been here for eight of them. This podcast has brought me joy and comfort in some very dark times, and for that I'm forever grateful.

[salamanderapocalypse]

I hate to say it because Sans is my friend but if you're a tumblr veteran and it comes down to it I must implore you to vote Cecil tomorrow. We must not forget who we are. We must not forget where we came from. We must not forget about the lights above the Arby's.

Vote Cecil Gershwin Palmer for Tumblr Sexyman.

[ramblingkat]

I will say, I saw a lot of people who had no idea who Cecil was, or who were indignant that someone who doesn’t even have a canon appearance could be “sexy”, and all I could think is we don’t need a face, flesh or bone, to find someone sexy.

Cecil was more than a voice. For so many people, he was their first voice. Someone who was like them who was not hidden, not silenced. He was a voice who loved who he wanted, without fear or shame. And who was still loved by his community. He faced off against a smiling god who burned away what it considered imperfect, challenged the station management in his own way, and cheerfully ignored what he wasn’t supposed to talk about and talked about it anyway.

A lot were confused why they weren’t finding the votes they expect for Sans, because he has a huge fanbase. And he does. But so many of those people were also people who discovered a voice from the desert, who wished us warnings and news, who taught us to understand the lights above the Arby’s, but also to accept we cannot know the partially stars but mostly void beyond them.

It makes me happy to see new people interested in Night Vale. Because for so many of us who voted, it was, truly, our first community radio that heard us as much as we heard it. Because Tumblr was not the other platforms that developed into the social media giants that exist today.

Tumblr was odd, strange. Too much so for a lot of people. And a lot of us saw that in Cecil. In Night Vale. In the dog park nobody can enter, and the house that does’t exist.

We don’t need a face for someone to be sexy on Tumblr. We need someone who hears us and speaks the strangeness that we all love.

Someone to say “Goodnight, Night Vale. Goodnight.”

[getvalentined]

Okay, maybe you people do understand the lights above the Arby's.

Goodnight, tumblr. Goodnight.

[notebookpapers]

aha what if we kissed under the unexplained then explained then unexplained again lights above the Arby’s

[whitherward-art]

Next in "things tumblr will probably like," this WTNV fan piece I did a couple of years ago. It proved very hard to photograph, which is why I did it twice.

(Image description: Two copies of the same landscape-oriented painting, each with slightly different coloring and lighting due to the method of photography.  The focus of the painting is a lit-up Arby’s sign in the foreground.  In the background there is a distance view of large sand dunes under a night sky.  There is daylight visible just above the horizon.  In the sky is a large moon, stars, and two rings of lights suggesting UFOs. End image description.)

[thousand-winters]

"That first night when we sat on the trunk of my car and looked at the lights above the Arby’s? When I got up to leave I looked at you, and I tried to think of how to say everything I was feeling. But I’ve never really been good at describing feelings, I’m only good at describing facts, and love- love isn’t a fact, you know? Love... it’s- it’s a hunch at first and then later it’s a series of decisions, a lifetime of decisions. That’s love. And- I didn’t... I didn’t know how to express that and so I just said: “I’m glad I decided to call you.”"

- Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale 100: Toast)

[lilkittenofdoom]

The lights above the Arbys! Got bored in my Graphic Productions class lolol.