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⌈ Secret Post #2661 ⌋

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[Injustice: Gods Among Us]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus]

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[Welcome to Night Vale]

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[Crown of Stars]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]

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[LOST]

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[Riff-Raff, Rocky Horror Picture Show]

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[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Problem Sleuth]

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[Doctor Who]

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I'm an ESL, but I consider myself to be prett fluent in it (I'm at C2 level). But WTNV just baffles me: many of their tweets just confuse the hell out of me, and I just don't know what the hell are they talking about most of the time.

So far, this is the only piece of media I haven't been able to understand, and not only to a certain degree, but not at all. It frustrates me quite a bit that it seems to be beyond my ability to understand a foreign language I've studied for so long. :/

In fairness, it's kind of *supposed* to be weird nonsense for the most part.

True, but I honestly haven't seen where people see things like angels or cats whith eyes and what have you. I also don't get what's that all the "and now the weather" thing about...

Have you listened to the podcast or just read the tweets?

Just read the tweets.

AYRT [up above]

In the podcast there are angels, etc. So that stuff is referencing what's going on in the show [albeit in a very vague way.]

You will probably understand it a lot better if you actually listened to it. Obviously you don't have to but... if you really want to know what it's all about that is your best bet. Just reading the twitter is like... reading the back of a book and then asking other people what happens in the book. I will tell you that "The Weather" is their name for the musical segment in every episode. On tumblr, people attach it to weird/creepy text posts that sound like something Cecil would have said, as if to say "This post sounds like something from WTNV."

Do you listen to the show or are you just reading their twitter?

Maybe share a few here and see if anyone can explain them? I realize it's probably less fun that way. But a lot of their tweets are supposed to be creepy twists on common idioms, I think.

To be fair, most of the tweets I've seen I've seen it on my Tumblr dash, so they'd probably are out of context, but here's one:

"Home is where the heart is. We found it one day in the sink. It hums things late at night, but they are not songs."

After seeing a lot of tweets like this, I gave up on even trying to listen to the podcast.

DA

Yeah, that's based on an idiom - namely "Home is where the heart is." It's just taking it more literally than it's intended to be.

Oh, I see. Thank you for the explanation! :D

"Home is where the heart is" is a well-known saying referring to your metaphorical heart.

"We found it one day in the sink" turns the "heart" into a literal heart, which is the primary joke. The secondary joke is that a sink is kind of a strange place to find the heart (you'd think it would have been hidden or something). The tertiary joke is that if you reread the first sentence, you hear the emphasis on the words differently, like "Ohhhh, HOME is where the heart is! I was wondering where that heart went!"

The last sentence is just a weird creepy random thing.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, now I see what this particular tweet meant (it really was driving me crazy)!

this is such a better explanation than mine haha

The podcast is not like the tweets. A lot of it relies on the same concept -- taking something familiar and twisting it in a direction you weren't expecting -- but the tweets are based on the literal meanings of phrases that aren't supposed to be taken literally and will already be familiar to an American audience.

Ah, so to understand the tweets you'd have to be versed on American culture and/or idioms... No wonder some of the meanings just fly over my head. I mean, I know some, but definitely not all of them...

It's also interesting to note the podcast is different to the tweets. I thought they were pretty much the same just on different formats.

Nah, the podcast is a half an hour long and has an overarching plot and recurring characters. If you're interested, listening to it might help your English skills.

basically what anon above said.

The original phrase means "Home is the place where you feel like you belong", but in Night Vale it means there is an actual heart in your home. And that it hums at night.

Yep, twists on common idioms with a few puns thrown in. There are probably native speakers who don't get all of them.

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