[queerdungeons]

birth

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

THE PORTAL OPENS

[walmartdionysus]

[horrorridden]

@bacon-hawk007

[louisegluckpdf]

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

[ytpreviews]

It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD

[notgreatthanks]

This tag has been more effective than any meds I’ve ever taken

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[depsidase]

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒

[eskewcity]

People will be like “oh I love gay podcast characters” but won’t even listen to the ROOTS (welcome to nightvale)

[eskewcity]

nothing like hearing this on the very first episode of the show and knowing shit was about to go down

[eskewcity]

there’s something about reading the tags on this post that really gets to me because so many people are talking about how this podcast was their first exposure to a gay character that wasn’t played off as a joke and instead how powerful it was to see Cecil completely unshakable in his immediate love for Carlos. some people even talked about how they used to listen to this with their parents and how their parents actually became more understanding for their own coming out because of it. I know it’s a podcast that most of us listened to when we were 13 and haven’t caught up to in years and but it’s really refreshing to see how much that representation meant to people then and still now :)

[evilkitten3]

it was also one of the first times i’d seen a jewish character whose jewishness was only used as a joke in explicitly jewish contexts. like not that “hey i don’t worship christmas trees” or “haha circumcision” or something.

the joke is never “haha cecil’s jewish” the jokes were an ancient chant being similar to one he learned in torah school and his mom covering up all the mirrors even though, as far as we know, no one had actually died yet.

he’s explicitly gay and jewish and neither of those things are ever mocked.

[cancerously]

Oh hey, I have something to add to this. So when I was in college I majored in a cross of sociology and media studies, which effectly lead me to studying fandom, identity, and how what we love defines us. I started in 2011 so you can imagine when Night Vale was getting big I was smack in the middle of the everything, and as a fan I was approaching it through the lens of my thesis and studies.

I ended up doing an entire final on this and including it within my work, but the long story short on this one is that Night Vale does particularly, specifically well because Cecil’s queerness is the most mundane part of the show. In the first 2-3 episodes, we are introduced to: - A floating sentient glow cloud - 5 headed multicolored dragon running for mayor - The weather report is music for no apparent reason - A portal that hocks dinosaurs into the school gym, a “minor inconvenience” - That our MC is gay Now out of those five, Cecil being gay is the only thing that exists in the real world, and therefore automatically becomes the most relatable. Effectively, the usage of the fantastical as mundane makes our fantastical, to the story, mundane. The key aspect of Night Vale is that sensationalizing the queers would actively make the story worse. And it set such a good fucking precedent for queer people in fantasy, horror, just about anything- the queerness becomes the relatable aspect, and it was Night Vale. So y’know. Yeah, go back and give it a listen, now that it’s coming up on 10 years old. And think about how far we’ve come.

[veeranger]

did you hear mark zuckerberg renamed facebook to ligma

[kuipernebula]

what’s facebook

[veeranger]

[supergameboytwo]

what’s facebook

[veeranger]

[zonesoftime]

who the hell is mark zuckerberg

[veeranger]

[tabloidsores]

someone needs to stop this blue guy

[veeranger]

[nerunodaisuki]

[oceanflowerrs]

i like this better actually

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[guooey]

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[doona-baes]

#mood today

[led-lite]

The convergence 

[dogposts]

[yrownknife]

for all my pop punk fuckers out there

[unpeeled-human]

think i forgot to post this one here whoops.

also on bsky

[ozempicofficial]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Time loops strike again 😔

[fallenangelvictorious]

No??? 18 years of time loop obviously 🙄

[ruusverd]

This post will gradually get less funny until reaching its lowest point in 2043, after which it will gradually become funnier indefinitely

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"boil him in oil" fuck off you're frying him. You expect me to believe you're getting that oil above its boiling temp? That much of it? By heating it with fucking charcoal? And you're not melting the cauldron?

That oil is NOT boiling, you are not boiling that man. You are frying him.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"I'm not boiling the oil but I'm boiling him because the water in his body -- " SO DOES THE WATER IN A CHICKEN WING WHEN I STICK IT IN THE DEEP FRYER, BUT WE DON'T CALL IT DEEP BOILED CHICKEN WINGS, DO WE? Have some fucking linguistic standards. Fry That Man.

[sovereign-skyy]

now this is the discourse i come here for