#wtnv ep 54

[kevin--of-desert-bluffs]

WTNV quick rundown - 54 - A Carnival Comes to Town

Hey it's the holidays let's get this done! Featuring the additional vocal talent of Dylan Marron as Carlos the Scientist.

The secret to a long life lies in how acutely you perceive time. Welcome to Night Vale.

A carnival comes to town and parks on Bandera Street. It seems to be a completely regular carnival, but Cecil twists it to sound weird due to the NV-normal xenophobia and lack of an understanding of what a carnival is.

Cecil acts like the carnival has low-level hypnotic properties, but it doesn't really do anything and as the mob drives them out the workers seem genuinely afraid and mention that they're just really lost and that NV is weird.

They burn some of the toys that were left behind and celebrate their victory shaking farm tools and animal parts. Also shouting 'interloper' at new people is apparently the NV norm and, mandatory.

We also hear a voicemail from Carlos. In his usual rambling way (got that Autistic swag going on), he reveals to us that the pictures in the lighthouse aren't pictures so much as windows to other dimensions. You can't go into them, but you can watch them. Carlos uses it to watch Cecil shave and apologises for having no time to look for a way back. He declares the otherworld to be the most scientifically interesting place he's ever seen.

Old Woman Josie and the Erika's have finally broken ground at the 'new old opera house' location. Nobody in NV actually knows what opera is. Nor will they acknowledge the Erika's are angels yet, even though they have it all over the new Strex's posters etc that the company is 'angel owned and angel operated'.

Intern Maureen is actually alive and seemed interested in the carnival, so is upset that Cecil helps to drive them out by encouraging people to revolt. Cecil says he just doesn't understand teenagers.

Apparently there is a twice-annual 'cleaning of the books' at the library. This is done to make sure that the librarians have not sneaked in any 'forbidden literature' like Pride and Prejudice. Dana supports this but thinks that the librarians are more dangerous than the books. Tamika does not support this and says that everyone should be able to read any book they want. Cecil supports the suppression of books and tries to 'compromise' by saying maybe they could allow only a few trustworthy people like Tamika to read books and allow everyone else to stay ignorant.

Weather: "Bremen" by PigPen Theatre Co pigpentheatre.com

Doug (the giant masked warrior) has a partner, Alicia, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. They have a dog and are trying to make a new currency based on sand.

The Erika's have seven cheekbones.

Old Woman Josie refuses to let the Erikas help her making the cement, and scolds them for not recording things on TiVo, reluctantly admitting she can watch catch up TV elsewhere. It's clear she has a lot of authority over them/they respect her a lot.

Approved literature includes biographies of Helen Hunt and all four of Dean Koontz' novels.

People with human bodies and coyote heads, eating armadillos out of duffel bags, turned up to mourn Maureen at the rec centre when they thought she was dead for the second time. Cecil assumes they're from the college.

There is an 'Abandoned Lot District' which is apparently full of lots that people do own, but they're not allowed to build on so just stand around talking hopefully about one day that rule being lifted.

Stay tuned next for people arguing about sports. Not on the radio, somewhere else. Somewhere and soon people will be arguing about sports. I don't know what's happening next on the radio. I never do. And as always, good night Night Vale. Good night.

Proverb: Say what you will about dance, but language is a limited form of expression.

[lovingly-lightbulbs]

Cecil and carlos should smoke weed and get high and host the radio program together for the night and do weed science (like normal science but for when youre high on weed)

[kris-py-president]

Me: I'm not gonna try to find any connections between these two podcasts. I'm not gonna be that person.

Welcome to night vale ep 54: 🤡🎡🍿🍬🍭

Me: wHAT IN THE STRANGER IS THIS-

[rel-ish]

Okay I’ve been listening to wtnv for 4 years but i only know 1 character who uses they/them pronouns. Who’s the other one? I only know sheriff Sam

oh i actually haven't seen that character yet!! but the two they/thems ive seen so far are the angel erika and alicia from ep 54 

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#5

Right so since I’m at work on mobile atm I’m just gonna do bullets for this ep so uh. Here ya go.

Jon sleeps with his eyes open and has since the eyepocalypse started?? Also love how Martin keeps comparing him to some sort of eldritch router

Still finding the cult pseudo-mansplaining things to Jon fucking hysterical thanks

Martin honey I am so sorry if those tins contain peaches

“Yeah well. Your truth is rude.”

Battle of the Poets 2021 LETS GO

As funny as their break in salesa’s little bubble was, I forgot Jon didn’t remember anything from it. Obnoxious.

“They’re archivists.” EXCUSE ME

So archivists can linger and may be coming to the panopticon?? Are we gonna get some sort of archivist battle royale?

Love of my life jonathan sims voicing the entire fandoms concerns rn

*fabric rustles*

AUGHHH THE I LOVE YOUS....S-SOFT

Ah it’s light roasting of Jon time

No longer light roasting, dark roasting time

It still staggers me sometimes how much Melanie reminds me of captain Lovelace?

Petition for her and Georgie to just get married at the end of this jfc where is my serotonin

GIVE HER HER GODDAMN CAT BACK

29 notes • Posted 2021-01-21 17:08:54 GMT

#4

199. I am. So nervous.

Still makes me so sad that I only hear Tim’s voice via ads now. Miss you baby.

Martin still doing damage control through tea

“Let Jon become god” ...no :)

Jon your martyrdom complex is infuriating, let them loVE YOU

I am loving basira’s ethical approach to this, I can’t even imagine having to vote or have input on a situation like this

This is. This is just going to be a 24 minute argument isn’t it lmao

Yes ladies, thank you for not letting Jon go full Guilt Spiral

CALL HIM OUT MARTIN SHUT HIM DOWN

Melanie sweetie, I also want you to stab Jonah but I get you.

I am gonna slap some sense into this man I stg

Well at least I get Jon and Georgie bonding

Georgie hanging onto the lighter concerns me

And like. The tiny bit of static when she takes it, portraying he’s uncomfortable. Wow.

I am not ready for this conversation I am soBBING

I’M DYING SQUIRTLE

THESE LINES KEEP HITTING ME LIKE TRUCKS, I’M IN FULL RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC

“I love you, I’ll always love you. And I know you love me too” waILS

Martin Killabitch Blackwood will end Jonah Magnus. This is all I ever wanted.

Basira I care you!!

Wow okay leave me to die I’m gonna be emotional up until the last ep god

29 notes • Posted 2021-03-18 16:51:54 GMT

#3

I do find it really interesting that as Jon is getting more enveloped by his archivist position/powers, he’s tending to forget that Knowing and knowing are two separate things.

Like just because he Knows what awaits upstairs in the warped institute, he doesn’t know what the other survivors have gone through up there.

It’s really interesting to see!

36 notes • Posted 2021-01-21 17:28:28 GMT

#2

Hey I mean. If Martin really does have to die in the grand scheme of things, at least give me a good old fashioned anguished cry from Jon that dissolves into tape static as he becomes the monster he thinks he is.

55 notes • Posted 2021-03-04 20:52:10 GMT

#1

Tfw the animal crossing update drops early and you and your friends collectively lose your goddamn minds about it

73 notes • Posted 2021-11-04 03:29:45 GMT

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"The secret to a long life lies in how acutely you perceive time"

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[vrson]

I would say Cecil needs to calm down bc it's just a carnival but I mean even bread is dangerous in night vale so...

[kevin--of-desert-bluffs]

I wonder if the Carnival will ever come back to town?