Wandering the Sand Wastes

Sandra | 33 | she/her | aro/ace Photo nerd, science geek, loves monster stories, distances, landscapes, wind and skies and void...huge WTNV fan. Currently I mostly use this blog to collect cool fan art, especially of the Night Vale landscape and Night Vale creatures. Also quotes and tweets and odds and ends, usually Night Vale related. Fangirling may occur in times of touring, beware!

[digitaljourney]

OK tumblr - save me… how do I get the WTNV audio book without ordering the CD or going through iTunes?? I want to put it straight on my (Android) phone… in Canada. Suggestions?

Eta: paging @scruffy-spiderwolf - any ideas? Eta2: I may have to download audible I suppose. Just not much room on my phone for more apps. Which is another issue altogether.

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

Hi, sorry for the delay! I hope I’ll soon get back to whatever “normal“ was for me before I messed my head up with this latest round of Christmas stress.

I think the Audible app might be hard to get around, if you want to put it straight on your phone as it is. Otherwise you can download it on a computer, burn it onto an audio CD there (with itunes or Windows Media Player), and then make normal mp3 files from the CD.

Hope it works out either way - it’s quite a nice thing to have :)

[ilovealeclightwood]

I’m relistening to night vale cause I stopped around episode 30 about two years ago and I need to refresh before I try to follow it again and wow I forgot how much I don’t like the music they play as the “weather”.

It’s really just NOT for me and I really, really do not like it and I can’t fall asleep to this podcast cause I always have to skip through the music cause it just really is not my thing at all and once I skip through one song, I know in about 20 min I’ll haven skip through another

So my question is

Is there anywhere I can download night vale without the terrible weather music?

[radiointerns]

Boosting this! Does anyone know if this exists??

If not, looks like I have a new project! I’ll start editing the episodes to be weather-free for anyone who wants/needs that omitted for some reason. I just don’t want to start if someone’s already been doing it.

[cosleia]

@scruffy-spiderwolf was doing this. Some weather-free episodes are linked from this post :)

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

Yep, I still have all those edited episodes! I’ll put the rest of them in that dropbox folder tomorrow (getting a bit sleepy now). I haven’t edited the newest  ones yet, because the audiobook solved my problem of being rudely woken up by the weather, but most of the old ones.

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

Hey, I haven't seen you post in awhile. Hope you're doing okay!

Hi, I’m ok (but thanks for thinking of me :)!), except for some fricking epic Christmas shopping procrastination blues. I had computer trouble and got stuck in the mood that comes with that (it flawlessly fits into my usual pre-christmas panic). Soooo grouchy and antisocial. I’m starting to think I need to get it over with, even though we’re doing Christmas a little later this year :)

[yooka-kazooie]

I just finished reading the Welcome to Night Vale novel (ebook) and I was wondering is the audiobook worth listening to even though I’ve read it already?

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

I’m the wrong person to answer that objectively (as I’m read-me-the-phone-book level trash when it comes to Cecil), but here’s an excerpt from the audiobook:

http://nightvale.libsyn.com/bonus-episode-5-welcome-to-night-vale-the-novel-chapter-1

...in case you haven’t heard it and it helps with deciding :)

[everythingishysterical]

Got bored in class and drew a Night Vale Fire Disapprover.

I would pay so much money for a Fire Disapprovers shirt.

[cecilplmer]

Happy Holidays From Night Vale

[disparition]

Did you guys also do the music/talking for the Emissary in last night's Night Vale epsiode? I'm curious what the music was made up of? Recorders?

The basis of the sound is a type of Sri Lankan flute referred to as a Dagoba flute or temple flute. However as I don’t have the actual flute (and am not a flute player) I wrote and played the parts on a keyboard using a sample of the flute’s tone. 

For the Emissary’s “lines”, I recorded all of the parts on three tracks at the same time. I then altered the pitch of these tracks so that they were a fifth apart, with the middle one being the loudest, and added additional reverb to the higher and lower tracks and also made them a bit more fragile by eq’ing them. Then once those parts were recorded I slightly altered the timing of the three tracks so that they were sometimes in sync, sometimes out of sync with each other, depending on what the Emissary needed to “say”. 

[a-box-of-cats]

damn WTNV, too real

[wtnv-panels]

Panel with Cecil Baldwin, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, and hosted by Steve Carlsberg himself, Hal Lublin! From Emerald City Comic Con, March 2014. 

Video by FlipON.TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRB1HfDyjqs

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

btw, if I’m failing to reblog any spectacular fanart that would be exactly my sort of thing, it’s probably because I’ve been getting a fuckton of this. So mysterious, tumblr.

[theatropath-testing-blog1]

you can backup/sync your xkit data with xcloud when switching to new xkit: http://portal.new-xkit.com/assets/migration/xcloud-migration.html http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/post/126630096169/

download links and solutions for common issues here (definitely worth reading before uninstalling old xkit and/or installing new xkit): http://theatropath.tumblr.com/post/132490785484/new-xkit-links-and-tips

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

I’m trying to avoid losing my tracked tags in the sidebar - they’re pretty integral to the way I use tumblr, and the last time I checked, they didn’t work in the new xkit...

Thanks so much for the tips though! :) I’ll probably end up having to switch at some point, so they’ll come in handy!

[scruffy-spiderwolf]

btw, if I’m failing to reblog any spectacular fanart that would be exactly my sort of thing, it’s probably because I’ve been getting a fuckton of this. So mysterious, tumblr.

[nightvaliandragon]

Congratulations to the Night Vale crew for winning several Audio Verse awards!!!!

[petrakhor-deactivated20161204]

Finally finished these! I’m honestly so proud of these they were so fun to make.

Done with acrylic paint

[blacklightco]

[agentgaylahad]

*book has female main character* yes *no romance subplot* Yes *TWO female main characters* YES *DIVERSE female main characters* YESS *female main characters’ differences cause them to dislike each other at first until they realize they have a common goal* YESSSSS *two female main characters respect one another’s differences as they work together and protect and rely on each other, often finding those differences to be an advantage, toward their common goal* YYYEEEESSSSSSSSSS

[dylanmarron]

I got to speak at my high school yesterday. I had always been so terrified to go back, scared that if I did I would somehow regress and become the insecure, unsure teen I was when I went there. I’m happy to report that didn’t happen, that I didn’t mystically become my former self like in some 90s TV movie. Instead I got to speak to some incredible high schoolers, who, like me, may one day go back to speak boldly in spaces where they once felt small and insignificant.

[aconsultingmind]

A BLACK GLOW FLOODS THE ROOM. YOU ARE FILLED WITH DETERMINATION.

Hahaha, slapped some color down on last night’s thing.

Listening to: THIS