If A Single Person Mentions Piss Around Me I’ll Strangle Them

I almost completely agree with this, however I think Jon could, in fact, survive nightvale. I think that it also depends on WHEN he would have been transported there (for whatever reason) any time after atound season two he starts to actually go out and get statements, nightvale is quite literally the perfect place for Jonathan sims to be. It’s like an endless buffet of people just casually talking about the horrors that be, and Jonathan if swapped with Cecil and therefore with his job, gets paid to talk about it. That’s his whole thing. He gets fed, and gets to document everything that happens. Nightvale would be Jonathan sim’s paradise. If you got him at the beginning of season one or even before he’d be fucked for sure.

OKAY I AM TALKING NOW

I have seen “Jon could not survive Welcome to Night Vale but Cecil could survive TMA” and yeah. Sure. But also no I don’t think so

spoilers for some of WTNV and TMA

it’s not about curiosity, it’s where the main power or fear comes from

Cecil thrives on knowing someone, all of Night Vale, is listening. He’s a radio host. You don’t host radio expecting nobody to hear.

The statements up until the end of s4 and i to s5 weren’t meant to be heard, that wasn’t why Jon (and the others) recorded them. Not originally. Sure, they fed the Watcher yada yada, but that wasn’t the intent until Jon started -actively seeking out statements-. The reading them out loud in season five, searching for information, Asking people for their stories. It was for his curiosity. And yes, he did record stuff so he wouldn’t “become another goddamn mystery” but he never expected anyone to listen to them. Very rarely does anyone plan to die in some obscure way. The tapes were a backup plan, a ‘just in case’. Had all been normal and all gone well, the tapes he made would have ended in a drawer somewhere.

So now we swap it. Jon is in the Night Vale radio station. He doesn’t know what to do, he certainly can’t do his job in the middle of the desert in a town in america but Boy, there sure are weird things happening. So he goes out, he fights the weird stuff, and it kills him, sending him to obscurity just as he feared.

But Cecil? He’s fucked. The Glow Cloud and the angels and Koshekh and his weird little home town have NOTHING on the fears. And worst of all, nobody is listening. They can’t call in, they can’t message him online, he can’t talk to his town about it. That’s his Whole Thing. That would drive him mad. Even as far as I am maybe 60 episodes in, I’ve heard younger him dreaming of being on the radio, dreaming of being heard. So suddenly, when all he has is a tape recorder and a statement and some weird stuff to investigate, it would slowly drive him to the brink of his sanity knowing nobody is listening. Nobody cares. Not the Faceless old Woman, not the man in the tan jacket, not even Steve Carlsberg, nobody tangible that he knows about is listening. Let’s be honest, even the Eye probably wouldn’t be that interested in him, he’s not even made for reading the statements.

anyways that’s my TED talk feel free to criticize this or add on

There are so many lines that show up in every statement, or so commonly that you notice. Every time you listen you hear a new phrase that they’ve used 100+ times lol

i need a counter of how many times people say “not really” in both TMA and TMAGP because it’s so much.

i so admire people who wait until they have a bunch of drawings that pair together nicely to post them… the second im done drawing something i cant help but be like ok everybody come look at this right now this instant. or else

Having mostly guy friends means that at three in the a.m. the words “irl yaoi?” Leaving your mouth is a real possibility.

And both episodes are my favorites I fear

Is ‘Scrutiny’ going to become the Michael of tma/tmagp titles?:

Get on facebook and start reposting things you want her to see (or delete Facebook altogether and tell her Oopsie it’s down for life)

eeeeyikes my mom told me that she views my presentation as very feminine (not what you want to tell your transgender son!!! this is not supportive parent behavior!!!!) and then started saying that rejections of femininity make her nervous bc internallzed misogyny which like ok but im pretty sure i’ve seen terfs say that. what is my mom seeing on facebook & how do i get her off it

Gwen creeping around and shoving herself into conversations she’s not particularly welcome in is so me I fear

“I think Alice dyer would wear earthy colors” I say as I use every sparkly brush in my arsenal.

which is more yuriful: celia going into depth describing the smell and taste of alice's perfume, or gwen mentally grabbing onto the hot stove burner to force herself to directly ask alice for help?

She bou on my shard till I Jon, apologies for the deception.