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how about that episode, huh folks?

i have SO MANY thoughts about todays episode

i know the you are my sunshine part was an opening gag, but imagine cecil singing that to estaban??? my heart????

THEY GOT RID OF THE ARBY’S??!!???? NOOOOOOOO!!

is mother lauren activity manipulating people??? do they just accept her??

“‘This just won’t do,’” yes kevin tell them

“‘Oh geez,’ Carlos was overheard to comment.” carlos is so seltzer water flavored/pos

Yay the cool book teens are back!!!

DID THEY KILL OFF KEVIN. IS THAT WHAT JUST HAPPENED.

HOMOPHOBIA!!! THIS IS HOMOPHOBIA!!! THEY DID NOT JUST DO THAT TO ME IN THE MONTH OF GAY PEOPLE!!!!

WHAT ABOUT CHARLES?? WHAT ABOUT DONAVAN?? HOW WILL THEY TAKE THIS SITUATION???

i refuse to accept this. kevin will be back i take no critism.

“I would say good night, Night Vale…But if a tree falls in the forest, you know?” this goes SO HARD and also i’m going to go lie down now

favorite carlos things

spoilers for the entire show and also the books

Carlos’ lab is basically shoved into a strip mall by Big Rico’s and it has a friendly sign that says We’re “Open”! complete with the accidental scare quotes. (WTNV Novel)

Due to Cecil being a blathermouth, he and Carlos as an item are like local celebrities and people follow their relationship like celebrity gossip, it’s hilarious. (WTNV Novel)

Carlos thinks he’s funny and his jokes are terrible. Bless him.

Frequently forgets how radio works and forgets listeners cannot see his visual aids. (”Ghost Stories,” “Holiday”)

He’s trying very hard to be a good uncle to Janice, coming up with little jokes before seeing her and transparently hoping she accepts him. (It Devours!)

He had an immediate crush on Cecil in return, all the way back in the “Pilot.” The device he brought to the radio station to detect stuff, he had no idea how it worked, he just needed an excuse to meet Cecil. (”Summer 217, Night Vale, USA”)

Given Cecil’s leisure activities during the town curfew in Season 6, can be assumed to: smoke pot, play Strip Uno, and go out clubbing with his husband. (”Council Member Flynn”)

Carlos was the one to propose to Cecil. Of course he was. (”All Hail”)

Shockingly quick to jealousy! Cecil, in All Hail: “Oh, that makes sense because my favorite scientist is Rihanna–” Carlos, immediately annoyed: “What.” Cecil: “S-second! Second favorite–” Carlos: “Yeah, you can stop talking now.”

Keeps trying to give Nilanjana relationship advice and being terrible at it. But he keeps trying! Even when Nils is just tuning him out. (It Devours!)

Literally the horniest character in Night Vale. Has an orgasm on air in “Holiday” talking about doing scientific equations with Cecil. (give WTNV ten bucks, go listen, jfc)

“Bunny” is the greatest and most indicative nickname I could possibly imagine. Carlos is excitable!! and is small enough that Cecil can carry him as complete dead weight!! and is very anxious and nervous, has to stop and calm down during times of heightened stress. Bunny. jesus fucking christ.

Carlos has like a half dozen nicknames for Cecil. Cecil has “Bunny.” Fuckin’ kill me.

It’s often implied by the show that Carlos is often running around in the background saving the day, but seeing him actually dangerous and vengeful in “It Devours!” is incredible. He takes out a gas can and a flare and fucking kills a monster to protect Night Vale, holy shit? Holy shit, Carlos.

also sidebar not for nothing but ID! is largely about Nilanjana and Carlos’ differing levels of integration into Night Vale, and how much slower the process is coming for her in comparison. Carlos being willing to basically Do An Ethically Fucked Thing in the name of saving people is pretty interesting.

Can be staggeringly illogical. The entire plot of ID! revolves around Carlos reacting badly to his panic and his trauma and also destroying Night Vale in his terrified reaction to a crisis and to his trauma with the Desert Otherworld.

Carlos is incredible smart, but incredibly unwise. He called Teddy Williams deranged, jumped down into a miniature city, and almost died. VERY SMART. ALSO WTF CARLOS. (This is why he needs Cecil, I’m fuckin’ sayin’.) (”One Year Later”)

“Go play some Bloodborne and relax” is a thing Cecil tells him when he’s too pent up, god fucking bless.

LITERALLY AND CONSISTENTLY CANNOT EXPLAIN HIS SCIENTIFIC PROCESS.

Let’s spend a moment on this. We do see Actual Science getting done in ID! by Nilanjana, so real science totally exists in the WTNV universe. But Carlos never fucking ever explains how he does it. He says HMM a lot and rubs his chin and thinks of numbers, but you know what? SHIT GETS DONE SOMEHOW. He can’t explain it, but he still does it!

the stealth storytelling of “The Mudstone Abyss” and the appearance of Charles, Carlos’ double, is that Carlos is finally fully integrated in Night Vale, enough so he gets a double like everyone else.

He kind of adorably takes Cecil’s love for him for granted? like obviously Cecil loves him? when Cecil forgets about Carlos in “The General” Carlos still thinks he can get away with “lol we’re married, we’re in love, it’s fine” and just shortcut his way back into Maximum Relationship. it’s like a universal constant has been disrupted.

There is a hilarious moment in “It Devours!” when Nilanjana needs to tell Carlos something important but he keeps getting distracted by John Peters and then the Palmer-Carlsbergs, and then Nils sees him getting distracted again and literally tells him “LISTEN I NEED YOU TO FOCUS FOR ONE SECOND, I KNOW YOU ARE EXCITED TO SEE EVERYONE BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!” and its fucking great. I love Nilanjana and Carlos. Best science friends. Even if she has a crush on Carlos’ husband.

This is not expressly “canon” but I will never be over the way we are introduced to Carlos through Cecil’s narration and then how Dylan Marron just walked on stage and flipped the script on its axis. Carlos goes from being this archetype of the Only Sane Man to being… someone Cecil has to rush to keep up with because he’s running around waving dangermeters at things and getting into trouble and nearly getting eaten by the City Council, and there is this palpable way to me how the sort of Expected Dynamic between them was completely inverted. Entirely because of Marron’s performance of him, which then informed his writing in a very noticeable way.

This also lead to my favorite things about Cecil, but I’m still not ready to write my thesis on Cecil As Caretaker Of Carlos, His Family, and Night Vale, that’s def coming though.

By getting married, the question of “what is carlos’ last name” is subtly and quietly solved. It’s Palmer, obviously.

Carlos is the best character in Night Vale, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

I'm not okay

I saw a post @bulkhummus made back in December about Lubelle forcing Cecil to sit in from of a mirror and it gave me SUCH BRAINROT that I had to draw it and I figured I’d post before the influx of new episode posts. I spent too long looking at pictures of infinity mirrors. (text below)

Lubelle: And subject 370895?

Random scientist: Moved to room 58-c

Lubelle: Any change?

R: Same responses. Stopped crying about fifteen minutes ago. Why the move?

L: I want to monitor multiple factors. Subject has proved… adept at resisting. I need him to See and not be Heard.

This is a moment I replayed Over and Over and Over again. It's just so sweet and such great writing ❤️

I'm so glad I finally started listening to WTNV.

http://hungryhungryhannibal.tumblr.com/post/100061986213/cecil-has-been-asking-questions-wanting-to-ask

Cecil has been asking questions/wanting to ask questions in recent episodes.

He asked the lady from the University of What It Is about Carlos. And now he hoped to ask his mother about the cassettes. That is quite a change from his earlier behavior upon discovering the tapes, which was to destroy...

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if we look at the color palette, then everything seems to be much more obvious. this is a weird gradient, i think.

After yellow comes green, and then cyanide (a color that does not exist in reality), so we can say that it is so bright that it seems white to those who watch. and on the other hand with other colors, it's the same. red goes down to black, which quickly turns into purple (bc purple is a dark color (very dark)) through the gradient due to the proximity of the colors on the palette. She crawled over to the opposite side of the original colors. weird, but at least i tried to explain how i see it

I definitely need to go back because I feel like the progression of Lauren's looks means something. The height is obvious, same as her getting more... eldritch? As everything progresses but what about the colors? We had:

Red and gold

Black and green

Purple and white

First one feels very Desert Bluffs colors and last one very Night Vale colors. I don't know if that's truly it considering the middle one though.

A man stands in his lab. It just so happens that today, the 16th of June, 2023, is this man's promotion day. Though it was ten years ago he went on sabbatical, it is today he will be appointed dean! What will the name of this man be? >PROFESSOR SPINELESS LITTLE FISHBOY >DOCTOR CARLOS DAVE ROBLES

Marine biologists be like: I fucking love the desert

this just in: entire welcome to night vale community in shock over the revelation that carlos's last name is not "scientist"

the illustration Jessica Hayworth did for this Night Vale episode is gorgeous