#wtnv ep 35

[desert-bluffs-and-me]

Wtnv quick rundown - 35 - Lazy Day

I promise I will do these forever, until WTNV ends or I die, whichever comes first.

No one has seen the trees this week. Hopefully they'll come back soon. Welcome to Night Vale.

The heat is unusually strong in NV today, making everyone feel lethargic and lazy, including Cecil himself. Others mentioned as going about listlessly include: Frances Donaldson (of the antiques mall), all reporters in town, Pamela Winchell (who can apparently create portals mid-air), people's entire bodies just giving up and causing them to die in the street and gravity itself which causes things/people to start floating.

The only one still feeling active is Carlos, who is mowing his whistling lawn, organising his closet and cleaning his gutters when he starts to float. How Cecil knows he's doing any of this is a mystery (or because of Cecil's special abilities~). It's possible that Carlos was unaffected due to not being from NV, but that's just my personal theory.

Intern Maureen makes Cecil aware that the sun is going out, he doesn't seem to have the energy/ability to really care though.

Eventually this laziness stops and everyone goes back to normal, including the dead people suddenly raising back up and being fine.

Weather: "Mijn Manier" by Brainpower, youtube.com/mcbrainpower

The Man ITTJ was seen behind NV's Taco Bell, next to the constantly ringing payphone, plucking insects out of the air and putting them in his suitcase.

Even though nobody could remember much about him, they still received a stamp on their 'alert citizen' card for reporting him. Five stamps means stop sign immunity for a year.

Jake Garcia has filled up three cards and thus 'earned the right to disappear forever'. His family claim they don't actually miss him that much, really. Apparently they want you to be alert but not TOO alert.

The SSP have an mascot, Barks Ennui. His appearance has not been declassified.

Tamika Flynn has organised a child militia of survivors of the summer reading programme. She carries the severed hand of a librarian on a string around her neck. She warns against StrexCorps 'Smiling God'.

'When asked to clarify, she challenged our reporter to a hundred days of hand to hand combat, which our reporter declined by running away screaming, pursued by hundreds of battle-hardened children.'

The Vague Yet Menacing Government Agency reminds us that reality is an illusion.

Thanksgiving in NV involves grovelling to the Brown Stone Spire.

It seems StrexCorp doesn't entirely trust how the radio works and encourages everyone to distrust the previously trusted.

John Peters (you know, the farmer) and Flakey O's are partnering up to create 'imaginary corn flakes'. Miranda Yesby, of the new board of Flakey O's directors, states they have no plans to do a big viral marketing campaigns (such as a transdimensional pyramid). She also has 'large, claw-like paws'.

Carlos had a busy day and is looking forward to a nap. It seems that Cecil is looking forward to joining him.

Stay tuned next for a keening howl, a scratch at the door, a hood falling suddenly over your face, and a delicious roasted squash recipe your family will just love. Good night, Night Vale. Good night.

[martinblackwoodmybeloved]

Cecil Palmer is like if Jonathan Sims embraced his inner silly. and American. thank you for your time.

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Ahhh I hope all this renewed hype toward Goncharov inspires Shane and the Watcher team to feature it in an ep of puppet history! Can you imagine the Professor explaining the behind the scenes affair, the unsolved death of the assistant director? Picture cut-outs of Andrey and Goncharov making out like the oars? A song performed by Katya’s fur coat? I mean come on the ep writes itself.

46 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#4

Even More Nope (2022) Thoughts

The specificity of the vortex. In the desert, in the plains, the vortex is a singular tragedy. Floods, storms, fires, they hit everything. They touch everyone. But a tornado is specific. A tornado can take down a single house, a single horse, a single person. One building can be brought to its foundations and its neighbor left with just a broken window. And in the same way, a tornado can spare a single man.

Jean Jacket’s mouth is not a tractor beam. It’s a vortex. It’s a tornado. It’s choice of victim is specific. When JJ eats the TMZ reporter OJ makes it out unscathed, despite the fact that the two were mere feet apart. And that’s what makes it horrible.

But what makes it worse, you can see a tornado coming from miles away.

Gordy was a time bomb, an amalgamation of instincts placed into a setting made only to exacerbate them. In retrospect, it seems so obvious. Of course a chimpanzee, a species prone to violence, known to have man-killing strength, would cause a tragedy. But when Gordy does, all you can do is watch. All you can do is see the devastation approach and hope you’re not in its way. This is Jupe, caught in the wake of a tornado, in a singular act of havoc.

Em and potentially OJ’s survival can be attributed to their bond, their knowledge and expertise handling animals. But along with that is the tragedy, especially given that OJ may not have actually made it, that their survival was a stroke of luck. After all, when a tornado builds, there is no path or mercy, no story to tell, no motive. There is just those who survived and those who didn’t.

121 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

#3

More Nope (2022) Thoughts

Nope is about the uncontrolled. The idea that you can conquer it, the reality of circumstance.

A balloon pops. A chimpanzee is riled into violence. Jupe survives the chimpanzee’s attack. A shoe sits on its heel.  These are all by chance, a random collection of events, the creation of trauma. The media fanatacizes it, obsesses over it, feeds on it. Makes it so Jupe can’t escape it. Years later, Jupe cannot escape it, lives in that single trauma. But by profiting off of it, by telling the story, he thinks he controls what happened to him. What the world did to him and that moment. He thinks he’s conquered the chaos.

He treats Jean Jacket the same. This creature comes to his ranch, by chance, and this time Jupe tries to own the narrative immediately. He thinks if he gives the voyeur the horses, attention, care, he has bonded with it. He has gained its favor. He can make it his. But the same chaos that let him survive lets him die this time. And in that last moment he stares at the beast and he is bewildered. He doesn’t understand why that happened to him, why that chimpanzee went wild. And he doesn’t understand why Jean Jacket eats him now. He is in the eye of the storm, wondering why it would rain.

375 notes - Posted September 4, 2022

#2

One More Nope (2022) Thought

The almost fist bump between Ricky and Gordy as subversion of ET, as inverse of an act of healing. Gordy reaches under the table, eyes obscured from Ricky, hand sticky with blood from the person he’s brutally beaten. Ricky, confused and terrified, reaches out to meet Gordy as if to perform a fist bump, an act the two had likely done many times during production of the sitcom. It’s an act of connection, Ricky desperately reaching out in hopes to calm the well-behaved chimp with whom he’d thought he’d bonded.

The scene horrifyingly echoes the iconic moment of connection in ET where ET touches Elliot and heals him. In Nope, this moment of touch is the opposite, leading to Gordy freezing long enough to be shot and killed and leading to the lifelong trauma or Ricky being witness to this violence. More than that, it shows how naive Ricky’s hope for connection is, the idea that this bloodied chimpanzee can be mollified with a gesture. How naive Ricky is for even thinking he understands Gordy at all. This is made even clearer by the fact that Gordy was not Gordy; he was a nameless chimpanzee, one of many used to play the role. Ricky is bonded with the idea of Gordy, but in reality he is just mimicking at friendship with a whole slew of chimpanzees it’s unclear if he can even tell apart.

In ET, the touch between ET and Elliot is a moment of humanity. Nope shows us how foolish that idea is in practice, and how dangerous it can be to superimpose human behaviors onto creatures we can never fully understand. Is Gordy actually connecting with Ricky? Is he reaching under to try to grab and beat him? Is there any motive to Gordy’s movement? There is no answer, and there will never be. Just like Ricky, we can’t see into the chimpanzee who played Gordy’s mind.

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949 notes - Posted September 6, 2022

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Another Nope (2022) Thought

What does it mean to be consumed? I am thinking of the moment after Jupe and the tourists are swept into the maw of Jean Jacket. When they are screaming, confused, trapped. As Jean Jacket hovers over the Haywood house, someone shouts and begs to be let out. Of what? Do they know that they are in Jean Jacket, the beast? That they are being digested? When Jean Jacket silences them, do they understand finally? There is something so horrifying, so visceral, about being in the maws of something and not even knowing it. Having your fate known by everyone but you.

And then I am thinking of the Haywood ranch. Of OJ and the horses, him slowly selling them away to Jupe, and thinking he can just buy them back. But the horses are already gone; Jean Jacket eats every single one of them. Jupe knows this, but lets OJ make his plan. He doesn’t tell OJ that his ranch is half-eaten, bleeding out in front of him. That he and Jean Jacket have been chewing on the Haywoods the whole time.

I am thinking about that horror, of being someone else’s meal, profit, plan, and of not knowing.

1,532 notes - Posted September 4, 2022

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[rel-ish]

man remember when wtnv said "ours is a quiet now"

[cosmicrhetoric]

ok again im still really early into wtnv but ive consumed enough to finally go lol at all the jon archivist running into cecil in the apocalypse jokes. however! i know space/distance doesnt work the same but the concept of jonmartin accidentally ending up in middle america is so funny i want to scream

[plastic-beech]

Welcome to Night Vale. 

messy, but i couldn’t help myself. 

[bigbluewreckingball]

Is there somewhere that a playlist or something similar of The Weather from WTVN exists? I would love to put on a playlist of all those awesome songs on from time to time

[christofyuu]

all of the nightvale asks

1. How did you discover WTNV?i heard an audio clip from it somewhere (later learned it was from condos) and i thought it sounded neat, so i looked it up. then i spent most of my summer lounging in the living room listening to the entirety of the podcast. 2. What were your first thoughts upon listening to WTNV for the first time?i loved how weird it was, and the wider-than-usual representation from even just the first episode had mehooked. 3. Did you immediately join the WTNV fandom?no, it took me a couple weeks. i redownloaded tumblr mobile for it though, because i’m extra. 4. What is your favourite episode? Why?that’s a hard one... but i really liked lazy day (ep. 35). it was calming to me, and i listened to it while i floated in the swimming pool. 5. Who is your favourite character? Why?oof uhh,,,, love my girl tamika podcast-wise, and book-wise i loved nilanjana with all my heart. 6. What is your least favourite episode? Why?i don’t really have one? none of them really stick out as being “bad” to me. 7. Who is your least favourite character? Why?ummm,,, no n e ? actually, wait, no, fuck that dog from the who’s a good boy episode. hate that dog. 8. Night Vale or Desert Bluffs? [The Sheriff's Secret Police will be taking note of your answers here]night vale. i’d rather not be arrested today, i’m not feelin up to it9. Is the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your House actually answering these on your behalf?yes10. Will you be supporting Hiram McDaniels, the Faceless Old Woman, or Marcus Vansten in the upcoming mayoral elections?the faceless old woman has my vote 11. Have you ever attended a live show?i wish 12. Do you own any WTNV merchandise?if the books count, yes. if not, then i have unofficial mercy. 13. You know computers are banned, right?i don’t use my computer for tumblr eyyyy 14. What is your favourite piece of music played for the Weather section?it’s in between i know this by rachel kann and robert frost by mal blum15. Have you partaken in any wheat or wheat-by-products recently?yes, because i am a rebel. can’t arrest me if i’m too tired, because that’s rude. 16. [Question 16 has decided not to exist today]big mood 17. What do you think Strex Corp are up to? [We're running out of ideas after the orange juice fiasco and would appreciate some suggestions, Listeners]i hope they’re having a nice time n o t e x i s t i n g a n y mo r e 18. How about a favourite quote from the podcast, for old times sake...?“within our limitations, there is no limit to how beautiful we can become” 19. Who do you think bought Cecil in The Auction?beautiful, lovely violet who deserved better20. Got something to say? Need to say it? Unfulfilled? Never made sense of what you are, who you were, who you will be? Unfulfilled?always

[sol1loqu1st]

OH B O Y YALL 35 EPS OF WTNV IS STILL A LARGER AMOUNT OF WTNV THAN I CAN TAKE WITH NOTHING IN BETWEEN

[haute-torture]

WtNV 35 | Tamika Flynn is a fucking badass

Tamika just told StrexCorp to not fucking mess with them

Strex Corp: Look around you, Strex. Look inside you, Strex.                      Tamika: We do not look around, we do not look inside.

Strex Corp: Go to sleep, Strex Tamika: We do not sleep.

Strex Corp: Believe in a smiling god, Strex. Tamika: Our god is not a smiling god.

Can't wait for this Tamika-StrexCorp war to begin

[rel-ish]

oh wtnv 35 lazy day vibes even harder than most of the other eps so far. im four minutes in but it's already so comforting and unsettling

[haute-torture]

WtNV 35 Spoilers

"Stay tuned next for a keening howl, a scratch at the door, a hood falling suddenly over your face, and a delicious roasted squash recipe your family will just love!" I am so imagining this to be Cecil howling and scratching at Carlos's door to let him inside. Cecil removing his hoodie and throwing it off, hitting Carlos in the face. And the 'delicious roasted squash recipe your family will just love!' Is good sexiiins or Cecil being the perfect boyfriend

[haute-torture]

This fucking quote Wtnv ep 35 spoilers

“Carlos, meanwhile, says he’s had a busy day and might take a nap now. Tha—-Well, that sounds nice. 
Listeners, I think now is the time at which I must say goodbye. There’s a place here in Night Vale, a place I’d like to be just now.
 Maybe my lazy day isn’t quite done after all.”

THIS FUCKING SPEECH IS LIKE A SUNNY SATURDAY MORNING AND YOU’RE SEVEN YEARS OLD AND YOU’RE HAPPY AND IT’S PERFECT AND YOU WISH IT LASTS FOREVER.

[haute-torture]

WtNV 35

I bet the last lines in the episode makes up for the cries of 'Where's Carloooos' we all thought back in ep 33 and 34 and the anxiety we had from ep 32 and 33.

[haute-torture]

You just know Cecil is going to get some when he goes to Carlos' place