[ SECRET POST #2698 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2698 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04. http://i.imgur.com/x1ReEav.png
[Curvy; linked for porn, illustrated]


__________________________________________________



05. http://i.imgur.com/CEL6gFP.jpg
[linked for gore and stuff]


__________________________________________________

















06. [SPOILERS for Captain America: The Winter Soldier]



__________________________________________________



07. [SPOILERS for Godzilla 2014]



__________________________________________________



08. [SPOILERS for Wreck-it Ralph]



__________________________________________________



09. [WARNING for rape]
http://i.imgur.com/uGSGQZF.jpg
[Starfighter, porn from it]


__________________________________________________



10. [WARNING for rape]

[Daughter of Smoke and Bone]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #385.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 (I don't think this really counts) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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?

[icecheetah]

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).

[(Anonymous)]

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

[souljelly]

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.

[electromouse]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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.)

[electromouse]

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! ♥)

[heystasa]

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.

[ryttu3k]

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).

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[ryttu3k]

That's totally fair. If you do want to catch up for the rest of the plot, the episode to avoid is episode 43 - Visitor. There's also an update in the next episode, Cookies, about how he's doing - it's pretty hopeful and actually quite cute (he's doing well, is now at Cecil's home, Carlos is apparently allergic to cats but is taking Claritin and coping well), but it does mention what injuries he ends up with.