#tohc

[oldcf]

this is for my people. with the silly podcast syndrome.

[cookiecaker]

last Saturday, I went to a show to see my favorite band The Music Tapes perform for an Orbiting Human Circus show and it was fantastic! Julian was an absolute pleasure to be around and it was a very fun performance. I couldn't get the silly little dance he did with the polar bear when they were performing The Lost Angel out of my head, so I threw a quick little drawing together for it :-)

[orpheustra]

Ok so uh

I am listening to the orbiting human circus . Guys pls feed me content pls

me: I would NEVER enjoy a podcast!!!!!!!!

Julian koster of neutral milk hotel fame:

[morawcrumb]

Stuff I did for fun, Sorry if my animation is a bit rusty I havent animated a big thing in a while. First turnarounds everrr

I’ll make more orbit turnarounds occasionally :)

and You’ll see them on TH if you know me there

If wanted, It’s on Youtube too :)

[felixcosm]

Do yourself a favor and listen to The Orbiting Human Circus (Of The Air), it will heal your heart and soul and also make you see beauty in life again

[animalcollectiveporn]

The orbiting digital circus

[tobytown]

Thinking abt the parallel of how Jeff Mangum would throw Julian Koster into drum sets when they performed live and how Jacques threw Julian into the packing peanuts in Ninethly, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner………….

[aerosk8r]

here's the kicker

[secret-sageent]

Just started The Orbiting Human Circus and Julian the Janitor's whiny voice and traumatised wet paper bag swag have already captivated me

[night-vale-presents-big-bang]

Night Vale Presents is a podcast network known for the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, as well as some significantly less popular, but still good, podcasts such as The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air, Alice Isn’t Dead, Within the Wires, Dreamboy, and Unlicensed. This blog will — with enough interest — run a Big (or Reverse) Bang for either all of these podcasts at once, or separate them into multiple fandoms — what we choose depends on the results of the interest checks.

Inspired by @pilesofnonsense’s Rusty Quill Big Bang.

Interest Check Masterlist

[Plain text: Interest Check Masterlist]

Interest Check #1: Would you be interested in a Night Vale Presents Big/Reverse Bang?

Interest Check #2: Big Bang or Reverse Bang?

Interest Check #3: Fandoms together or separate?

Interest Check #4: Interest for Welcome to Night Vale Big/Reverse Bang

Interest Check #5: Interest for Alice Isn’t Dead Big/Reverse Bang

Interest Check #6: Interest for Within the Wires Big/Reverse Bang

Interest Check #7: Interest for Dreamboy Big/Reverse Bang

Interest Check #8: Interest for Unlicensed Big/Reverse Bang

Interest Check #9: Interest for The Orbiting Human Circus of the Sky Big/Reverse Bang

[oldcf]

major tohc season 2 spoilers!!!

SO i have a lot of very complicated thoughts and feelings about tohc, which i will hopefully one day combine into a single cohesive binder, but for now: i ramble!

so right off the bat, julian establishes (and will later go on to reinforce the importance of the fact) that he likes to believe that we are there which is already just. so. like ‘you are there. i hope you are there because you being there to listen means what i say is worth listening to.’

and i think it loops back into the way the story works because the big idea is that julian is scared. scared and alone. and the story, as well as us as the audience, is his retrieve. furthermore, the narrative follows his will. it doesn’t have to be cohesive and you can just stop it whenever you need to. and then come back to it (something julian does several times and something we also do in the middle of the story, to go be a person at work or around other people before coming back. it’s like a bit of a loop, a mutualistic relationship even).

and. sure. he only really started telling this specific story for coco but julian’s use of escapism as a coping mechanism has always been there. like, julian’s experience with loneliness, his feeling of being an outlier even in his own narrative? there’s nothing that hits harder than that. being so used to the idea that you just don’t fit that even in your own story, you’re content being the observer, sometimes (most times, in julian’s case) the catalyst for chaos.

julian was ready to live in his head because he was scared of growing up, of people not having a good reason to love him. it’s easier in his head if he already knows what everyone’s going to exactly say. it’s predictable. it’s easy.

but doing the things that scared him like talking to coco and leaving the tower are small monumentous moments that have changed him as a person, and he still gets to live in this world with his narrator and he still gets to tell coco his stories. it’s not either or. it’s just about finding the healthy balance.

but that’s not what got me here in the first place. there’s something very important the story tries to convey, and you’d have to be listening to the show with earplugs on to miss that the end of season 2 is julian learning change is possible. but it’s not just that! and i feel stupid for not thinking about this much before but— julian is proving that it’s never too late to see the world through the eyes of a child.

it’s only really julian’s isolation in the eiffel tower that makes him appreciate the small things in our everyday life so much, but we don’t need to do that; we just sort of need to understand that

it’s never too late to be bewildered that the sun is bright and the grass is green and that soup tastes really really good. it’s never too late to walk the streets knowing no one literally cares you look weird, and it’s not too late to learn to sing for someone out of love.

and so i conclude my essay by stating that irl Julian Koster is definitely my number 1 hero. he had an 8 year old saw child that he told the extensive life story of!!!

[morawcrumb]

A future Cloud-maker

[ciara-clycone]

Remember in Iswm when the narrator said the captain has a deep dark secret? Do you think Mark ever asked the captain about it after everything calmed down?

[ersatz-colubridae-888]

first half of the show seems to be done!!! they played an elephant 6 show called major organ and the adding machine (i'd heard parts of the soundtrack but never watched the film myself, also jeff magnum of all people plays a lobster in it which i think is extremely fucking funny) and a russian film called hedgehog in the fog i'd never seen before till now! both wonderful little films i loved every minute of both of them ❤❤❤

[kipskiptrip]

This shit is evil TOHC S2 Shoebox scene