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mostly pixels partially art

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what’s your local pixel artist been up to lately?

Hello, everyone! I have no idea how active this blog’s followers still are, but I was looking back through my posts here last night and figured I’d check back in and give an update on what I’ve been up to.

First off, I haven’t been consistently into Welcome To Night Vale in well over two years. That’s unfortunate, since I still really love the idea of the show, but I just haven’t been able to get myself to listen to it. However, in the meantime, I’ve been into other things! If you like D&D, The Adventure Zone, Steven Universe, or outer space, I encourage you to check out my primary art blog, @anglerfish!

Secondly, I’m in college now! I’m studying graphic design, which I love, and this fall I’ll be starting my minor in creative writing. This summer I’m working for my old pottery studio at their summer camp for kids. It’s a super rewarding job, plus I get to use the studio to make my own work.

Thirdly, and this feels kind of silly to say, but I’m sure some of you remember asking me for art of particular WTNV characters, and me having to break it to you that I couldn’t draw people… well, good news! I can very comfortably draw people now, as you can see on my primary art blog. If anybody wants to help me out a little with college and get some art of your favourite characters in return, I’m taking commissions!

Fourthly, if commissions aren’t your thing or you just want shirts with art on them, I also have a Redbubble!

I’ve been thinking about catching up on WTNV, and I aim to try and do that this summer. If/when I do that, all resulting art will be posted to @anglerfish.

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what’s your local pixel artist been up to lately?

Hello, everyone! I have no idea how active this blog’s followers still are, but I was looking back through my posts here last night and figured I’d check back in and give an update on what I’ve been up to.

First off, I haven’t been consistently into Welcome To Night Vale in well over two years. That’s unfortunate, since I still really love the idea of the show, but I just haven’t been able to get myself to listen to it. However, in the meantime, I’ve been into other things! If you like D&D, The Adventure Zone, Steven Universe, or outer space, I encourage you to check out my primary art blog, @anglerfish!

Secondly, I’m in college now! I’m studying graphic design, which I love, and this fall I’ll be starting my minor in creative writing. This summer I’m working for my old pottery studio at their summer camp for kids. It’s a super rewarding job, plus I get to use the studio to make my own work.

Thirdly, and this feels kind of silly to say, but I’m sure some of you remember asking me for art of particular WTNV characters, and me having to break it to you that I couldn’t draw people… well, good news! I can very comfortably draw people now, as you can see on my primary art blog. If anybody wants to help me out a little with college and get some art of your favourite characters in return, I’m taking commissions!

Fourthly, if commissions aren’t your thing or you just want shirts with art on them, I also have a Redbubble!

I’ve been thinking about catching up on WTNV, and I aim to try and do that this summer. If/when I do that, all resulting art will be posted to @anglerfish.

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Can you help me find an episode? I remember Carlos wrote into the show, basically asking Cecil on a date, but signing it "lonely boy in the lab" and Cecil responds with simply "yes". Cecil was answering other letters sent to the station.

of course!! i think you’re talking about episode 84, ‘past time.’  

from @cecilspeaks–

“Hey there, Cecil! What are you doing Saturday night at, say, 8 pm? Would you be interested in an opera and drinks after?

“Signed, Lonely Boy in the Laboratory.”

Hey there, Lonely Boy! Yes! I would very much like an opera, and…whatever else after.

see the full transcript here

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the darkness of night vale is washing away. and what are we, night vale, without darkness? 

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…heh.  hey, everyone.  

as you might’ve noticed, i haven’t been active on this blog since “through the narrow place,” which was… october.  oops.

a good eight months later, here i am again

listening to wtnv takes a particular state of mind for me and frankly i just haven’t really had that since october.  (i kept up through “lost in the mail,” but obviously i didn’t manage to produce anything from those episodes.)

the only reason i’m here again now, actually, is that the other night i had the urge to listen again, so for personal reasons i’m starting back from “old oak doors” and hopefully after finals are over for me i’ll be able to catch up fairly quickly.

again, sorry for the total lack of activity here.  let me know if there’s still interest in my stuff.

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Hi! Hope it's ok I message you out of the blue like this. I have just started a fan podcast for WtNV called 'Under the Vale'. It's a fictional mini-cast (each ep will be no more than 3 mins) about a woman named Charlie who finds herself in a cave with nothing but a desk and a radio. @underthevale is where you can listen to it. I am SO sorry about spamming you :( I just wasn't sure how else to get the podcast out there. I hope you enjoy, would be great to hear what you think!

no worries! i just listened to the first episode and really enjoyed it.

for any of my followers who are interested, here’s a link.

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your blog is so rad! also you have a great url. 😊

thank you!!

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Just thought I’d share

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very nice!! thank you for sharing!! i love the colours in the cloud.  

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here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. you are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are.

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[anonymous requested: ‘"we went through the narrow place" or some variation thereupon? please and thanks, i love your art <3’]

we went along the crooked path, down into the deepening.  and then we all, whether we wanted to or not, we went through the narrow place. 

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[anonymous requested: ‘The most recent episode needs to be immortalized somehow in your glorious pixels. Can you maybe do something with: "What is the use of nostalgia for what didn’t happen when we have to live with what did?"’]

i wish things could have gone differently, obviously.  that is, obviously, what i wish.  but they didn’t.

what is the use of nostalgia for what didn’t happen when we have to live with what did?

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i meant to say this earlier, but today was this blog’s one-year anniversary!  i don’t have anything big to show you, but i just want to thank everyone who’s made this worthwhile !! 

this blog recently hit 2000 followers and that’s an awful lot more than i ever thought i would get, to be honest! as someone whose personal blog has been stuck in the 100-300 follower range for quite a while now, it’s kind of hard to believe how far this blog has come in just a year.  (as well as my artistic abilities– having this to keep up with has made it possible to develop even in areas beyond pixel art.)

anyway, happy anniversary! i’m excited to be here and i hope you’re all enjoying my art

(and just as a reminder, i’m always open for requests!)

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let me tell you.  there are things in this world.  many of them.  most everything in this world is a thing.

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in honour of hitting 2k followers!

[anonymous requested: ‘Design for " mysterious lights pass over our heads while we all pretend to sleep" please? That'd be cool :)’]

mysterious lights pass over our heads while we all pretend to sleep.

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8-bit welcome to night vale cursors (animated)

as requested by networkednine

i don’t currently have an animation of khoshekh.

credit me if used

(static versions here)

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8-bit welcome to night vale cursors

as requested by networkednine !

credit me if used

(animated versions here)

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[anonymous requested: ‘Dark nights are just a shadow cast by something far to large for us to see’]

dark nights are just a shadow cast by something far too large for us to see.