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this is your sign to relisten to welcome to night vale

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love this cecil design! Wonderful expression work as well

the voice of night vale 👏👏👏

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they inventeed a new science called "dont let the balloon hit the floor" scientests are being vaery careful and bapping that thing before it can fall jumping over the couch and shit

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wtnv is awesome because cecil will be like "and that shows you why it's so important to be alive. truly, really, isn't it amazing? isn't it wonderful how everything has led up to this moment? every little decision made, every atom in the universe, every small event that's happened up until now- it's all led to you being here? in this moment you are alive, and you are breathing, and the world is spinning, and all across the world, people are alive and breathing on the same earth as you. take care of yourself as the world has taken care of you and nurtured you to get you to this point" and then he immediately follows it up with "and now here's the new development on the story about the Baseball Team Players beating each other with Hammers"

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janet and blake are just jealous that carlos met someone who matches his freak i think

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gross sobbing because my cecil has been so well received and i was just making him up as i went along but now i’m super happy with the design

what if cecil wore.. carlos’ shirts……

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imagine you live in nv and new incomprehensible horror just dropped and people are being killed and you turn on the radio hoping to hear anything about it and the guy is busy ranting about whether a hotdog is a type pizza

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cecil would frame and hang an important piece of info or graph of carlos' bc it looks pretty and carlos would go bonkers looking for it and walk by it 10 times before stopping short like an old cartoon character and tearing it off the wall.

carlos would also not take it out of its frame, and bring it to the lab framed and continue to use it, while framed. and everyone in the lab wouldn't question carlos' behavior because he is also as crazy as cecil and they'd assume he just really appreciated this one specific piece of science.

this is how they are made for each other btw

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cecil palmer is at his best when he is being a bitch

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FUCK IT UP GRANDPA !!

[ID: @bulkhummus' cecil design (old dude with four eyes and a moustache) on a skateboard jumping over khoshekh. he's wearing a backwards cap with cat ears, baggy jeans with a star pattern and a pink bra layered over a polo shirt layered over stripey long sleeves. all of these are in eye-searing colours. khoshekh is blue with tentacles for tails and a ring of eyes around his head. the background is incredibly bright pink. end ID.]

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oh yeah? you see that dark planet of awesome size, lit by no sun? that invisible titan, all thick, black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans?? why don’t you reach out and touch it, you coward?? just reach up and touch it.

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this little snippet from the WTNV directors notes made me smile so hard!!!! going to be pondering this for a while

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cecil that is nothing to be proud of

[ID: drawing of cecil and carlos from night vale. carlos is smiling while wearing a yellow shirt that says "I heart my passive aggressive wife." he is also wearing pink shorts, lab goggles and crocs with socks. cecil has his arm around carlos' shoulder and is saying "he means me!" while throwing a peace sign. he is wearing furry pink shorts, heart-shaped sunglasses, fishnets, a pink shirt and a massive bowtie. his head is a giant eyeball. end ID]

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WTNV fans are like: holy shit blorbo from my shows

[ID: map of the US with michigan coloured in red. end ID]

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[audio: cecil palmer saying "relax, buddy. it's just fruit."]

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another cecil redesign but this time, cuntier than ever >:)

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hello and welcome to the post where i finally talk about some of my favorite wtnv episode art, because it’s a thing they do that i absolutely adore.

and i think it’s severely under appreciated/untalked about

starting with this one because i think it’s really lovely both in concept and execution. i have the print of it :)

i enjoy this work a lot for a same reason that i love room scenes: story told through subtlety. using the fridge as a canvas, including esteban’s drawings and letter magnets, gives us a window into the lives of these characters that we don’t really see in the typical format of this show. it’s also just really cute??

the subtle references to the past, the constant, and the current really tie the themes of the episode (and the show as a whole) together.

other things of note:

the star tarot card is representative of hope and new beginning.

the exes on the community calendar match up to the day of the month (the 15th).

i really really really like the references to the wtnv novel, because i think the novels are neglected a lot when it comes to the podcast and merchandising.

it knows with a certainty that the people seeing it will understand the niche references on it, and thus does not feel a need to explain itself.

it works really great as episode art, but also wonderfully as a 10th anniversary piece. unlike the poster. which i hate.

like the above, i love this one for several reasons. the composition, the colors, the lettering.

but above all i am a big enjoyer of flower imagery and symbolism.

lavender is pretty well known to symbolize calm, and tranquility. i think most people know that. and i think that reflects the kind of levelheaded and methodical way that carlos finally deals with his problems in this episode.

and i’m hoping the it’s representative of carlos’ mindset in the year to come? representative of him finding peace with his past.

him having his back turned to the viewer gives a sense of withdrawal or running away, but the lavender and calm atmosphere portray an aura is resignation. he’s done running.

other things:

old woman josie says in an early episode that carlos smells like lavender chewing gum

lavender is drought resilient and does very well in desert climates :)

i love this one for the same reason that i have issues with the most recent arc.

the magnifying glass both casts a shadow over and a beaming light into the community that you see in the illustration. it can be assumed that it’s only a matter of time before it bursts into flames and is destroyed under the prying eye. symbolism that is pretty easy to dissect. it tells us exactly what the danger is and exactly what is in danger in a very easy to interpret way.

welcome to night vale has always had a very heavy emphasis on community, but for me that isn’t really shown in this arc.

allegorical meaning aside, it ended up being framed in this way that ended up m very cecil & carlos vs. the night vale community + the uowii. rather than it being cecil, carlos, and the night vale community vs. the uowii. which was so

i think both of those concepts exist within the arc, but the latter is less believable because there’s so much less community detail. characters motives are not described. characters reactions to certain events are brushed past, often with little emotion to them. oh josh is missing? that sucks. anyways. dana is completely innocent? woohoo! anyways. they don’t allow room to for us, and the characters, to just FEEL? which is a stark contrast to the writing of previous years.

night vale as a community is what was at stake at this arc. but the lack of focus on characters and the relationships between them really took the stakes and emotion out of the situation. and, for me, took some impact and comedic value out of the ending.

i remember being really excited upon seeing this episode art because this piece did a really good job at setting an expectation for what the themes of this year would be. the themes were still there, but the writing didn’t do them justice and didn’t give them enough push to make them feel as impactful as they should have been.

this is all that i have the energy to talk about for now, but if there’s other episode art you’d like me to talk about, send me an ask! i’m also happy to talk about my opinions on other merch pieces that they have in their store! :)