And see whether you shit yourself out of fear or laughter
http://podbay.fm/show/536258179 (http://podbay.fm/show/536258179)
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,34430.0.html
"Before it was cool..."
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However, your link is actually more useful than mine. And the thread hasn't been bumped in forever, so good work.
Night Vale quickly became one of my favorite things.
It is becoming a thing all over Tumblr and wherever else. There's fanfiction in the works and odd drawings and . . . yeah. I'm waiting for the Night Vale equivalent of bronies now.
Oh god yes, my kids are super into it and there's FAN ART.
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NO
NO NO NO
I HATE ALL THE FAN ART. No one may depict Cecil.
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 15, 2013, 06:28:49 AM
NO
NO NO NO
I HATE ALL THE FAN ART. No one may depict Cecil.
THANK YOU for making it clear to me why I hate all the fan art. I did not understand my rage before, and now it makes sense.
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right? And really, he's an invisible voice behind a microphone anyway.
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right?
:crankey:
Yeah, don't ship.
FUCKING SLASH.
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
What?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 15, 2013, 09:29:47 PM
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right?
:crankey:
Well he sure as shit doesn't SOUND like a wispy blonde 27-year-old hipster, like damn near every piece of fanart depicts him.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 15, 2013, 09:32:00 PM
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
What?
"Shipping," or 'shipping, short for "relationship."
It's the thing where people fantasize about characters in romantic situations (whether or not it makes any sense based on the source material), often with fanfiction or art that focuses entirely on those relationships. This is to the exclusion of everything that makes the characters, and the work from which they originate, interesting in the first place. If the author didn't include lots of "will they or won't they?" tension in the original work, then the shippers will create that tension. These are also the kind of people who sometimes get legitimately mad at an author if they write a different relationship than the one the fandom wanted to happen.
I'm kind of being facetious when I say "adults," because it seems to be mainly a teenager thing. Sometimes I forget I'm 23 and should go easy on the 16-year-olds. :lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 15, 2013, 09:30:40 PM
Yeah, don't ship.
FUCKING SLASH.
This. I can accept fanfic when it results in things like "My Immortal."
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 10:32:25 PM
"Shipping," or 'shipping, short for "relationship."
It's the thing where people fantasize about characters in romantic situations (whether or not it makes any sense based on the source material), often with fanfiction or art that focuses entirely on those relationships. This is to the exclusion of everything that makes the characters, and the work from which they originate, interesting in the first place. If the author didn't include lots of "will they or won't they?" tension in the original work, then the shippers will create that tension. These are also the kind of people who sometimes get legitimately mad at an author if they write a different relationship than the one the fandom wanted to happen.
:madbanana:
THANKFULLY
despite the horrorshow that is the Tumblr fanbase, which can produce dumb bullshit even faster than Filthy Assistant can produce wrong answers,
the actual podcast itself remains not-bullshit and completely awesome.
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 15, 2013, 06:28:49 AM
NO
NO NO NO
I HATE ALL THE FAN ART. No one may depict Cecil.
THANK YOU for making it clear to me why I hate all the fan art. I did not understand my rage before, and now it makes sense.
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right? And really, he's an invisible voice behind a microphone anyway.
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
YES I think that Cecil is in his late 30's at the youngest. But even more importantly, nobody knows what he looks like.
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 16, 2013, 10:22:18 PM
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 15, 2013, 06:28:49 AM
NO
NO NO NO
I HATE ALL THE FAN ART. No one may depict Cecil.
THANK YOU for making it clear to me why I hate all the fan art. I did not understand my rage before, and now it makes sense.
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right? And really, he's an invisible voice behind a microphone anyway.
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
YES I think that Cecil is in his late 30's at the youngest. But even more importantly, nobody knows what he looks like.
He is simply the Voice Behind the Microphone.
The only details ever given in the show: He is not tall, or short; not thin, or fat. He is wearing a tie.
Quote from: Cainad on August 16, 2013, 11:21:13 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 16, 2013, 10:22:18 PM
Quote from: Cainad on August 15, 2013, 09:24:27 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 15, 2013, 06:28:49 AM
NO
NO NO NO
I HATE ALL THE FAN ART. No one may depict Cecil.
THANK YOU for making it clear to me why I hate all the fan art. I did not understand my rage before, and now it makes sense.
The third eye and tattoos are bullshit, but everyone also draws him way too young. I know the guy in real life is not old but Night Vale Cecil is CLEARLY at least 45, am I right? And really, he's an invisible voice behind a microphone anyway.
Also, fuck shippers. Shipping is this horrible thing wherein adults strip away everything that's actually interesting about a work of fiction and reduce it to the equivalent of a four-year-old smacking two random toys together and making kissy noises.
YES I think that Cecil is in his late 30's at the youngest. But even more importantly, nobody knows what he looks like.
He is simply the Voice Behind the Microphone.
The only details ever given in the show: He is not tall, or short; not thin, or fat. He is wearing a tie.
Cecil is everyone's Cecil. Cecil is the unsullied Cecil in each of our heads, and nothing less.
"Humans, temperatures, angels, and chairs are all equally real and sentient. Which is to say we are all not real, nor are any of us actually sentient."
This is absolutely delightful.
All hail the Mighty Glow Cloud!
AAaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll Hhhhaaaaaaaaaaaiiiilllllllll