[ SECRET POST #2447 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2447 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i44.tinypic.com/fxtk4z.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I love the WtNV tweets. XD My favorite is this one:

You have nice skin. It really holds in all your blood and organs - no leaking or nothing. No look great.

Or this one:

A partial list of things currently inside you: blood, skull, ghost.

[(Anonymous)]

*You look great.

[melissatreglia]

Never listened to Night Vale, but I agree. I wish it was this way, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[mekkio]

I can't tell if the world would better or worse off if this actually happened. Better in the case that no one would pass without someone feeling the loss. Worse because if that loss hit the wrong person, I can see them going insane trying to find the person who died with someone not noticing. I can see how someone would drop everything, friends, family, careers looking for that one person that she or he was assigned to. In fact, come to think of it, that would make an interesting premise for a book...

brb...going to write down novel ideas.

[melissatreglia]

It's an interesting premise. Maybe you could write it for NaNo in November? :)

[mekkio]

To tell the truth, I wish I could but I don't have the time at the moment because I have way too many other projects to do. So, if anyone wants this premise, have a go. Make something cool and interesting with it.

I don't think it works that way

[insanenoodlyguy]

YOu'd still feel sad for other reasons. And time would still be the best healer. Knowing who you mourned for might not actually do anything to alleviate it.

[dreemyweird]

tbh, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea that all my life I've been mourning some random assholes.

Whilst a person whom nobody misses might have been lonely, it may also be that nobody liked them because they were bloody intolerable.

[ruxinmeili]

What if it was someone elderly whose family and friends were already gone? Someone who was put into a home because their family no longer wanted to deal with them?

There are so many reasons they may have no one to mourn them.

[sootyowl]

That tweet made me sad :(

[elaminator]

Ooo, I just started following this twitter account; all the tweets are great.

I can't decide if this particular one is sweet or unsettling. That said, what in Night Vale isn't unsettling, and taking that into account I'm going to say it's both.

[ninety6tears]

Yeah, that one got a lot of reblogs on Tumblr from outside the fanbase.

It seems a lot of people are interpreting this as actual grief with no explanation; I just thought of it as an imaginary cause for sudden and unexplainable sad moods people can get, like mourning for one person dealt out in small servings.

[skeletal_history]

OT, but what fandom is your icon from? It's beautiful.

Secret 7 - Welcome to Night Vale

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a twitter from the account @NightValeRadio ("Night Vale podcast") which says: "When a person dies and no one will miss them, the mourning is assigned to a random human. This is why you sometimes just feel sad."]

I don't even follow Welcome to Night Vale, but this tweet was one of the most touching things I've seen in a while. I'd like to believe that this is actually true.

[(Anonymous)]

Except that people don't "just feel sad" sometimes. It always has a reason, often it's just a biological one and not linked to a tragic event.
I used to get horrible fits of depression for no reason. After a few years I've had enough and consulted a doctor and it turned out I was suffering from a lack of proteins and vitamin Bs.
Some people also get really sad sometimes because they sleep too much or too little. Or it's the hormones acting up. There can be so many logical reasons.

(Sorry to be the asshole here)

[(Anonymous)]

You're not being an asshole, exactly, but you are kind of missing the point. Everything Night Vale is very much tongue-in-cheek. They aren't unaware of what clinical depression is or what chemical imbalances are. The tweet is simply a way to put an unexpected, whimsical twist on something most people can identify with-- those episodes where you just feel sad, for whatever reason.

Earlier in the thread, someone mentioned this Night Vale tweet:

"You have nice skin. It really holds in all your blood and organs - no leaking or nothing. You look great."

See? Another twist on the unexpected. It's not because they don't understand that a person's skin is usually complimented because of its appearance or texture. They know that; that's the basis of the joke.

[forgottenjester]

This is why I like Night Vale. It's a nice mix of disturbing and sweet.

[(Anonymous)]

This is like weird twitter but with twee instead of weird.

[(Anonymous)]

you've pretty much described WtNV in a nutshell

[tei]

I don't know. If this were the case, maybe people would feel less responsible for caring for the elderly and mourning their death.... "Eh, I haven't seen that old lady down the street for a while. Could find out what happened to her, but at least if she died someone else thought of her and saved me the trouble."

[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand, it could save some people the guilty feeling of "I know I'm supposed to be sad about this person dying, but I don't really". This way, someone will mourn them, and you don't have to feel bad that for whatever reason, you aren't experiencing the "proper" emotions.

[iggy]

I'm not into WtNV either, but I loved this tweet.

[(Anonymous)]

It was one of my favorites also.