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[ SECRET POST #2698 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2698 ⌋

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04. http://i.imgur.com/x1ReEav.png
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05. http://i.imgur.com/CEL6gFP.jpg
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06. [SPOILERS for Captain America: The Winter Soldier]

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[Daughter of Smoke and Bone]

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05. http://i.imgur.com/CEL6gFP.jpg

Do people actually find WTNV scary? I am still unsure what the appeal was, but it seemed to be mostly for weirdness and slash, not horror. Or am I wrong?

I like the creepyness side of it and the weirdness myself, and also how Cecil's voice is one of the few things that can reliably send me to sleep.
The horror? I think it's barely there, but I may just have high standards for my horror, and I WAS introduced to Welcome to Night Vale via Fallen London playing friends (which is also creepy and humorous).

Edited 2014-05-23 23:27 (UTC)

Cecil's voice put me to sleep, too, haha. That's actually why I gave up listening to it.

I got into it for the quirky, but I find that if I listen to it at night in the dark it can veer into creepy/scary territory, which enriches the experience for me. On the whole though, I would certainly say I find it more weird/quirky than scary.

Personally, I like it because it's just quirky and the whole "creepy stuff" is treated like an every day occurrence. You saw an OVNI? And it was being piloted by cows?? Must be Tuesday. Your loved ones become trees? Oh well, it happens more often than not. I'm not that much into the canon gay couple, but it's a really nice bonus.

Same. I like it because it's not so much creepy as "differently normal," and that lately it makes for a cool contrast when all the supernatural horrors are still being treated as business as usual while the apparently-human Strexcorp representatives making veiled threats on the citizens are something skin-crawling.

(Also: Seeing someone say "OVNI" has brought this English speaker many happy memories of being a sci-fi geek in a high school French class with a teacher who liked to teach us vocabulary that was relevant to our interests.)

Exactly! Different normal describes it perfectly. Strexcorp feels just downright evil in a more "common" sense (enslaving a whole town, threatening (and accomplishing) murder, hurting loved ones, etc).

(Pffft I'm not a native English speaker, if that helps! ♥)

Edited 2014-05-24 18:12 (UTC)

I'd say creepy more than scary. I've creeped myself out by thinking about the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives Inside Your Home a couple of times. The idea of someone constantly in your space, watching you but just outside of your own vision is pretty damn freaky to me - in quite a fun way though. And sometimes Cecil's voice can be legitimately unsettling, even menacing. And that episode with the Woman from Italy (I think that was the one?), where he descended into this horrible shrill shrieking, that was unnerving.

I mean, I don't generally find WTNV scary, and the creepy feeling doesn't follow me around like a scary movie would, but yeah, there are some moments that go past weirdness into scares, but that's part of the fun.

It's taken a sharp turn from weird into horror recently. Episode 19 kind of set it up with Strex being associated with, uh, a lot of gore, and the creepy has been steadily ramping up with Strex taking over the station in episode 32. The most recent one was 47 - Cecil is out of the picture and his whereabouts and well-being are completely unknown, almost all of the other main characters have been temporarily removed (Tamika has been imprisoned, Dana is trapped in another dimension, albeit with an army that she's been mobilising, and Carlos has been stuck in the gateway between Night Vale and that dimension as well, and could potentially meet up with Dana), the entire population of the town has been rounded up in labour camps where there's implicit torture going on, and the boys in sales just contributed towards Kevin 'redecorating the studios'.

So yeah, at this point, it's not so much weird as 'heavily dystopic with serious peril for the main characters and semi-explicitly-described gore'. I was seriously creeped out by the last episode, and there's been other quite disturbing parts in recent episodes too (I found Khoshekh being attacked, almost killed, and permanently mutilated to be really, really upsetting, since I have cats).

And that's all I need to know to know I don't want to get caught up anymore. I just cannot handle bad things happening to animals.

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ryttu3k - 2014-05-27 22:24 (UTC) - Expand

That art is awesome.

It really is!

Hasn't she appeared more on the show lately than Kevin? I don't really think of him as anything myself but she is a bit freaky.

Guh. Well judging from that picture alone, I'd agree that she's definitely creepy.

As with most Night Vale fanart, the picture is 100% fanon. She never gets any visual description; she could easily look like your average non-creepy real-world human. All the canon creepiness has to do with her voice and her dialogue.

Dang. I'm always intrigued by things that can creep me out just from listening to them. I've only listened to the first episode of Night Vale. I might be swayed to listen to more.

Oh, is it actually WtNV fanart? Haha, I thought it was, like, Junji Ito art that had been co-opted for the secret.

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erinptah - 2014-05-25 16:02 (UTC) - Expand

I find them both super creepy. Not scary in the traditional sense maybe, but I do find some of the things they get up to terrifying and disgusting and yea, I can see why someone would dread either of their appearances if they're easily scared or upset.

The show has been very suspenseful lately and they've both had their share of creepy moments. I do agree with you on Lauren feeling more authentic though. Not sure why because I think the actor for Kevin is great too, but Lauren's forcefulness is something else. I wish I could say she doesn't still surprise me, but that bit in the last episode with her and Kevin and Shaun was like, "Holy shit, no".

They're both excellent antagonists, imo.

To me what makes Nightvale fun and interesting is the weirdness. And she's not interesting weird, she's ... cliché and boring. (and irritating, I just find her so irritating)
Also, I'm not in the fandom, so I don't know how much fans (or not fans? do they like him if they find him scary?) Kevin has, but Kevin's first apparence was also a long time a ago, comparatively Lauren is very new.

Oh boy, I feel the same as you, OP. The episode previous to this one, where Cecil was narrating at the end about them just staring and smiling gave me the creeps.

they both creep me out. which is good! i dunno if you knew about kevin previously, OP, but i think the reason he freaked me out the most is i didn't see the twist in sandstorm coming. i honestly thought it was just supposed to be a joke that cecil lives in night vale, which is horrifying, but thinks that peaceful, chipper desert bluffs is horrifying.... until the end of the episode where you find out his studio is covered in guts and everything. so yeah, i guess not expecting that outcome has a lot to do with how i experience his creepiness.

guhhh i'm so excited for the next episode.

*makes the mistake of clicking link*

Well I was eating. *puts down sandwich*

Ohh, don't worry. I find her disturbing as fuck - especially her not-so-subtle threats to Carlos and Janice, and her ACTUAL involvement with the StrexPet. Carlos... can probably take care of himself. Janice is A LITTLE GIRL, and we know from what happened to Khoshekh that she's completely capable of harming characters...

That free radio station with it's crazy guy was scary. The new, controlled broadcast is far more soothing and relieving. All that thinking and independence was so overwhelming!

Thank smiling god that's done with.

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