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Ghosts aren't real, it was probably just the house settling that gave you that blowjob

Actually yknow what. WTNV should be considered revolutionary and significant gay media that played an important role in the growth of gay representation in media especially in podcasts. When people talk about important gay media in the early 2000s I want wtnv to be one of the ones people talk about. No if ands or buts about it.

the-storming-sea

Actually I cant shut up about this. In 2012, people did not even think about putting gay representation in popular media. Gay representation wasn’t considered profitable yet. Gay marriage would not be legalized for another three years. The Legend of Korra, a show that fought to the death to have their main lead hold hands with another woman, just released their first episode earlier that spring. Steven Universe, a show well known for its gay representation, including having the first gay proposal + marriage on a kids cartoon tv show, would begin a year later in 2013, but wouldn’t show their gay representation hand until 2015 with the episode Jail Break. The Adventure Zone, a podcast currently well known for it LGBTQ+ representation, wouldn’t begin until 2014, and didn’t show their hand until 2015. In my young queer experience, representation was covert, secretive, only implied or dead.

and then in the summer of 2012, wtnv introduced itself to the world, proclaimed its main character gay in the first episode, and played it gay (pun intended) for years. Being gay wasn’t a trope, or a goof, it was normal. Cecil Gershwin Palmer was just a canon, gay character who fell in love and stayed in love and was happy. and that was that.

if we talk about revolutionary queer media, we talk about Welcome to Nightvale. No exceptions.

hushpupper-deactivated20240118

I think it’s really important Cecil Baldwin credit for this. I’m not saying Fink and Cranor and later Dylan Marron have nothing to do with it, because of course they do. But Cecil being gay was not something the writers intended. Because initially, Carlos was not intended to be a love interest for Cecil. He was just meant to be a character that showed up occasionally to be a tongue-in-cheek goof on scientist characters in shows like Fringe or the X-Files. But Cecil Baldwin made the decision to make his character utterly in love with Carlos, because he was gay, and wanted his character to be as well.

For those who don’t know Cecil Baldwin is HIV+, and he’s openly discussed his struggle with it. This is a large part of why his playing a man who is openly gay and sexually active is also really important. The importance I think of having LGBT people playing LGBT people really shines through with both Cecil and Dylan’s characters. They can be authentic, they can be a source of hope and representation. Behind the scenes, Night Vale is just as diverse as the show itself. Cecil Baldwin’s pretty incredible and it’s worth it to read what he’s had to say on WTNV if you have the time.

mellowmaidenhairs

lucretia my dear lucretia i love you and miss you

anistarrose

[ID: art of Lucretia from The Adventure Zone, drawn as mostly colorful line art with some shading against a black background. Lucretia is a young Black woman with an afro, with braids on either side of her face. She wears round glasses, a blue turtleneck, and a red robe as she smiles sadly at the viewer. End ID.]

homunculus-argument

this emerged in my head when I was trying to drive

oldblankcanv-deactivated2022011

May I propose the fill ins?

rat-in-impossible-location

#i am undiagnosing myself with 'adhd' and rediagnosing myself with 'cursed by wizard'

faustandfurious

One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.

faustandfurious

My pronouns are I/me and the rest is for someone else to deal with because I have better things to do.

faustandfurious

Very fond of macrolabels, like “queer”, that provide zero extra information. Is it genderqueer? Is it romantic/sexual orientation queer? Is it queer as in “none of your fucking business what’s in my pants and what I do with it and with whom”?

randomslasher

This is actually probably the first time I’ve ever read something that accurately describes my relationship with gender--ie, ‘my gender is me and my pronouns are a you problem’--so thank you for that!

ober-affen-geil

#you cannot gender me in a way that matters

drchucktingle

WOW LIFE IS VERY COOL AND FUN

koiagain

museum date but i spend the whole time crying over the concept of history and time

raccoonmilf

have you seen jimothy of Seattle, the raccoon with a short body? is he okay or is he too silly for a long lifespan?

Hopefully this video clears some stuff up about Jimothy! (There are captions for anyone who needs them)

trans-masked

I mean in this instance when I’m talking about a disease that affects the uterus then yes people with a uterus are going to suffer from it and people without a uterus aren’t? Yall are going to call me a TERF for believing in cervical cancer next

sodomit

Very cool, taking an intersex girl out of context because she disagreed with your exclusionist definition of a medical condition.

softerseasons

Since the post isn't showing up for some people clicking on the link and this actually genuinely pisses me off:

jjsp34ks

Jimothy for Disability mascot/icon

Happy disability pride everyone!

deepfrieddeltarunememes

Headcanon that Kris did actually like and want to hang out with the flowers

deepfrieddeltarunememes

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rebel-hunk-enjoyer

The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

I hate it here, actually.

ineffectualdemon

I've had a lot of success with "It's very unlikely to be x but considering my medical history and previous medical advice it's probably better to be safe then sorry you know? I'm expecting it to be (something minor) but don't want to be reckless with my health you know?" It's important to act reluctant to be there and that you think this is low key a waste of your time but you are trusting doctors more than yourself

And usually doctors immediately take the "of course you need to be checked out! That's the responsible thing to do!"

If they don't order testing adding on "I know it'll probably be nothing but can I get (test) or something to double check? I'd leave it but I've had a doctor tell me this sort of thing needs that and id like the confirmationwhen (relative) fusses at me"

deepfrieddeltarunememes

so who do we think Susie was going to "practice" giving the flower to

deepfrieddeltarunememes

crazy that Susie spent like several seconds blushing furiously and looking at Kris while imagining giving Kris the rose before realizing that they were actually standing there