Live Undead

Vampires, cats and horror films | 33 | He/him | Native Spanish speaker | Currently obsessed with Welcome to Night Vale (again)

[crimson-chains]

Enjoyed the new Castlevania!! Very cool vampire man~~~

[clouds-of-wings]

"Watching my dad (a GP doctor) watch House is more entertaining than the show"

[zoi-no-miko]

GOD, I wish more doctors were more like this redditor's dad

[sighinastorm]

been ages since I saw a rage comic!

>thread is from 13 years ago

oh.

[ninjamouse13]

[jackiedollcurtis]

Kevyn was kinda sexy. Why did they have to kill him :/

[drakevampire]

Forever sad they took away my opportunity of seeing more of Alex Wyndham :(

[honestlynervousnut]

IF I SAY I DON'T LIKE YJ MEN....

Never ever am I talking about...

✨These guys right here✨:

[incorrect-yellowjackets-quotes]

Natalie: Handcuffs? Wow, you’re kinky…

Kevyn: First off, I’m a cop. And secondly, you’re being placed under arrest.

[vithcy]

MUTUAL!! THAT IMAGE IS AI GENERATED!! MUTUAL! DON'T REBLOG THAT!! IT'S AI!!MUTUAAAL!!

[assan08]

Please anyone tell me if I accidentally reblog sth ai generated! It's NEVER intentional

[dreamycloud]

Alex Wyndham, The Hills Run Red

[leagarland]

                            *~ Lalo ~*

[leagarland]

[drakevampire]

I'm so obsessed with this man since I saw him as Maecenas in Rome and I almost can't find any content 😭

[kcdahippie]

I think adult Kevyn is attractive.

[charlesoberonn]

"I asked ChatGPT-" well, I asked the oracle of Delphi and she said that if I go to war with Persia, a great empire will fall.

So I'm gonna do it.

[charlesoberonn]

This post was originally about the story of Croesus, King of Lydia, and how he decided to go to war with Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE. Now it's about something else.

[themonsterundermystairs]

[charlesoberonn]

Arguably the most appropriate post for Apollo to "bless" since it's about his oracle.

[charlesoberonn]

Hey, what the fuck

[lemoneyshipz]

went back to my night vale tag and i CANNOT BELIEVE that i never posted this drawing of cecil and kevin’s tattoos here (drew it back in 2022)

[my-brain-is-rotting]

"I asked chat gpt"

Ok and I asked the faceless old woman that secretly lives in your home and she replaced all your kitchen utensils with roaches.

[a-bowl-of-soup]

"i asked chat gpt-"

well I asked the Glow Cloud (all hail) and it emitted a low whistleing and dropped a lizard on my head.

[quizzical-paradox]

what the fuck. hey why are yall classifying WTNV as "ancient problematic media" because people liked it in 2013. am i not FUCKING allowed to like things if they're not from 2018 or later. i refuse to forget about it just because the new-age tumblr gays replaced it with the penis archives or whatever. fuck you

[grave-gift]

Not to be like "ah how quickly internet communities forget their roots" but ah how quickly internet communities forget their roots...

People forget that the reason wtnv became so popular on 2013 tumblr is that it was openly and explicitly queer from day one. That just... didn't really happen in media in the early 2010s. This was peak superwholock years, where the queerbait of johnlock and destiel were legitimately considered good representation in some circles. Night Vale really broke completely away from that mold and a lot of young, queer fans flocked to it because of that.

I've seen similar things happen with The Legend of Korra, where people today will say "they're just holding hands it's not that big of a deal, why is everyone freaking out" about the finale, but when it aired back in 2014, having word of god confirmation that the protagonist of a popular kids show was in a same sex relationship was unheard of. It was a massive step forward. LOK doesn't really compare to Steven Universe and She-Ra on terms of on-screen queer rep but it aired in a different time and a different culture of LGBTQ+ acceptance.

We absolutely can and should criticize media, even if it was groundbreaking in the past. No piece of work should be exempt from evaluation. All art is ultimately telling you something, and also, no work is ever purely unproblematic. To assume there is a state one can reach of being entirely unproblematic is to assume there is a point where we, as people and activists as well pieces of art, can stop trying to be better. Wtnv, since we're talking about it, has been criticised by some (myself included) for having some ableist pieces (probably unintentional as they're in contrast to some very upfront and center anti-ableist messages, but nonetheless they're there) and for a lack of explicity and clarity in it's racial representation.

But to lump wtnv in with superwholock as a "cringe 2013 fandom" is to ignore and belittle it's incredibly political themes and open criticism of the surveillance/police state(s) and the United States government, as well as the fact that it was groundbreaking queer rep made by actual queer people.

TLDR:

[lemonlimeimprobabilitydrive]

WTNV was the first piece of media I’d ever consumed with openly gay main characters. It was the first thing to tell me “hey, this doesn’t have to only be in your headcanons”

WTNV, along with being really well written especially for the time (the early 2010s weren’t great for this sort of thing), was unapologetically, unabashedly gay.

For anyone who’s never listened to it, the narrator (who is either male or male-presenting or something along those lines) clearly and openly states his romantic attraction to another male character within the first six minutes

There wasn’t a single popular homophobic trope in any of the episodes as far as my memory goes. Their relationship was never a joke, never a comedy, and was extremely stable.

[itsclydebitches]

“That new scientist, we now know he’s named Carlos, called a town meeting. He has a square jaw, and teeth like a military cemetery. His hair is perfect, and we all hate and despair and love that perfect hair in equal measure. Old Woman Josie brought corn muffins, which were decent but lacked salt. She said the angels had taken her salt for a Godly Mission and she hadn’t yet gotten around to buying more. Carlos told us that we are, by far, the most scientifically interesting community in the US, and he had come to study just what is going on around here. He grinned, and everything about him was perfect, and I fell in love instantly. Government agents from a vague yet menacing agency were in the back, watching. I fear for Carlos. I fear for Night Vale. I fear for anyone caught between what they know and what they don’t yet know that they don’t know.”

[kosmogrl]

[s1l4s-3nj0ys-t0m4t03s]

i love sex workers and contraception and abortion and open relationships and gay people and transgenders and weird identities