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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Welcome one and all to the Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament! This is to determine once and for all what is the best obscure Night Vale ship. This tournament brings together canon pairings from the supplementary media (like the books), fandom crack ships, rarepairs, and could-have-beens. Some of these ships have large fanbases on Tumblr, but are more lacking on other platforms. Some of these ships will genuinely make you question who in the world is interested in that. And all of these ships are up for your vote, starting tomorrow!

Official Bracket:

On the left we have:

Nilanjanet (Nilanjana Sikdar/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasvin (Kasper Rhodes/Kevin)

Cecearl (Cecil Gerswhin Palmer/Earl Harland) vs Charlos (Carlos Robles/Charles)

Josh/Monty vs Danielauren (Daniel/Lauren Mallard)

Kascil (Kasper Rhodes/Cecil Gerswhin Palmer) vs Blake/Larry Leroy

On the right we have:

Mallardinal (Lauren Mallard/Dana Cardinal) vs Pawn Sherrif (Jackie Fierro/Sherrif Sam)

Toxic Science (Blake Jones/Janet Lubelle) vs Pizzacat (Silas the Thief/Big Rico Goldblum)

Radio Scientology (Cecil Palmer/Kevin/Carlos Robles/Charles) vs Women's Wrong's (The Faceless Old Woman/The Woman From Italy)

Laurbelle (Lauren Mallard/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasplake (Kasper Rhodes/Blake Jones)

Vote correctly, or never see your loved ones again.

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

OK so. I need to say. I have to say it because it's been bothering me since like. What. wtnv 229, but that whole Blake plot? Sucked. He was stuck up and a suckup. But then suddenly he just. Changed??? And we literally see none of it??? He's horrible to Carlos one episode, explaining Michelle another, and then the next he's just like "ohhhh boohooo lubelle is scarrrryyy i like night vale now :(" Like. Where did this come from. Finknor. Where the fuck did any of this come from. It would've helped a whole fucking lot if there was. Any indication of this change but there, literally wasn't??? Unless you count the whole Blake calling Cecil out of the station thing??? But like. Gragh. They shouldn't have rushed that arc, it needed to have been paced better, hell they could've made it last two years for better pacing but. here we are.

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Nilanjana mentioned!!!!

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Blake Jones clarifying he wasn’t gonna explain anything made me giggle

[faultyvessel]

Professor Blake Jones really saw Carlos and immediately had to assert his dominance as Lubelles Specialest Little Scientist

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Blake Jones - BESITO, 2023

[houseofvans]

IN THE STUDIO | HOUSE OF VANS CHICAGO SESSIONS ARTIST | BLAKE JONES 

With House of Vans Chicago SESSIONS gearing up January 30th, we’re chatting and checking out the creative space of artist Blake Jones who will be creating a live mural at the event. Blake shares with us what his typical studio day is like, what inspires him and what he’ll be preparing for his live mural at SESSIONS. 

RSVP for upcoming SESSIONS in HOV CHICAGO!

Photograph courtesy of the artist. 

Where your space is located: My studio is in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, its about a mile from my apartment so its insanely convenient for a homebody like me.

Can you describe to folks a little about your studio or creative art space? It’s actually a giant beautiful room with a ton of natural light (super important) I saw my work getting bigger and bigger and my apartment just wasnt cutting it. I’ve leaned its pretty important for me to have the separation because if I’m home its very easy to succumb into laying on the couch or slacking off. Having a separate spot lets me focus just on stuff i need to get done and every minute I’m slacking off there is just wasting time and money.

What’s a typical day in the studio like for you?  I’m a pretty early bird, so I usually wake up go to the studio I have a little coffee pot and a communal fridge for snacks and stuff. But most days it’s just me doing little bits of 5-6 projects all once. Lay paint down on this, ink this while it’s drying, sand down this panel while that settles, etc. There’s never really a game plan just kinda go in the morning and see what i didn’t finish the day before.

What type of things do you keep around the studio to inspire you or motivate you?  So I share a space with my buddy Jeff (jpak4ever) on insta, and we are both game and anime nerds, so like the first week we moved into it we got a tv, an n64, dreamcast,snes, and a bunch of manga and art books.  We set everything up and then we’re like wait, these are just distractions; we are just trying to turn this place into a playground, so we turned all of it off and haven’t really touched it sense. As far as specific inspiration, we printed out a big poster of some little cartoon character, and it says something like “I applaud you in pursuing your dreams” or some other corny thing like that. It’s the best.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen around your studio or out the studio window? What’s your favorite thing about where it is located? My studio overlooks a railroad, so trains are going by all day and night. It’s pretty nice seeing all the graffiti slowly rolling by on them, lots of really good bombs and really dumb tags–I’m all about both. 

For folks coming to House of Vans Chicago SESSIONS, what will you be creating for attendees that evening?  I’ve been playing with just some overall new color pallets and figuring out ways to do large scale work quicker and easier. Trying to stay pretty relaxed and loose for the event.

Whose studio would you like to peek into?  It would 100% have to be either Barry McGee or Dabsmyla. Both HUGE HUGE inspirations for me. I just don’t even understand how their brains work honestly.

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