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tardis_stowawayFirst, kitten pictures!
The kittens have opened their eyes. They can't stand fully or walk, but they are crawling more effectively. I can't even handle the cuteness.
My roommate succeeded in moving them out from under my bed and to a box downstairs without the mama panicking (though she does keep wanting to check under the bed in case there are still kittens there too). Also, in this photo you can see that the little white one is looking less pure white, and especially seems to have darker grey at the tail, ears, and legs. I suspect it may be developing a Siamese-like lilac point coloration. I wonder if it has a different dad than the others (cats can have multiple fathers for kittens in the same litter) or if there are some recessive genes at work.
Next, how many of y'all are fans of Welcome to Night Vale? Want to talk about it? Because I just listened to Parade Day, and I sureneed a hug want to talk.
Oh goodness, that ending! I shouted at my car stereo. From the sounds of things I fear that the next broadcast may be made by Kevin. D:
I was not expecting that to happen. Tamika Flynn's power to rise against StrexCorp had received so much buildup as a storyline. Cecil threw off all pretenses of collaboration with the regime and went into open rebellion. Even the weather seemed hopeful. I had a sense that something was going to go wrong, but I was bracing myself for Strexcorp making one last strike-back against Cecil by going after Carlos (likely by trapping him in the house that doesn't exist). And that could still be happening, but we know that Strex has Cecil and Tamika.
Nobody outside of Tamika's tiny band of dedicated readers/freedom fighters stood up to do anything. It hurt my heart to hear Cecil, who normally believes the best of people despite living in a town full of horrors, realizing that nobody in Night Vale had been willing to risk themselves for the greater good. Audio is a weirdly personal medium where it feels like the narrator is talking directly to you, which meant that (despite fully understanding the concept of fiction) I felt personally guilty about failing Cecil. The show wasn't shy about making a point about the important difference between belief and action.
Anyway, other than being DEEPLY UPSETTING there was a lot to enjoy about the show.
-Cecil going on about how Carlos is awesome at science as well as handsome, followed by Carlos's fondly embarrassed "Stoooop!" Awwww. I love their established relationship even more than the UST stage.
-Morse code secret messages! Because the Internet is wonderful, some excellent person put translations on the transcript here. However, Cecil is (as usual) not terribly subtle. Surely Strex has people who can translate Morse too.
-Angels coming back! Their presence made me doubly surprised that everything went to hell in a handbasket so much.
-Mayor Pamela Winchell is willing to admit that mountains might be a thing! What a world.
-Cecil rebelled against Strex-owned Station Management by locking producer Daniel in and making faces at him, then barricading himself in the studio with cardboard signs saying KEEP OUT! with all-caps and an exclamation mark. Bless.
-Welcome to Night Vale is often wise in between the silliness and horrors. In this episode, I really loved the full version of the quote I begin to quote in this entry's subject line:
The kittens have opened their eyes. They can't stand fully or walk, but they are crawling more effectively. I can't even handle the cuteness.
My roommate succeeded in moving them out from under my bed and to a box downstairs without the mama panicking (though she does keep wanting to check under the bed in case there are still kittens there too). Also, in this photo you can see that the little white one is looking less pure white, and especially seems to have darker grey at the tail, ears, and legs. I suspect it may be developing a Siamese-like lilac point coloration. I wonder if it has a different dad than the others (cats can have multiple fathers for kittens in the same litter) or if there are some recessive genes at work.
Next, how many of y'all are fans of Welcome to Night Vale? Want to talk about it? Because I just listened to Parade Day, and I sure
I was not expecting that to happen. Tamika Flynn's power to rise against StrexCorp had received so much buildup as a storyline. Cecil threw off all pretenses of collaboration with the regime and went into open rebellion. Even the weather seemed hopeful. I had a sense that something was going to go wrong, but I was bracing myself for Strexcorp making one last strike-back against Cecil by going after Carlos (likely by trapping him in the house that doesn't exist). And that could still be happening, but we know that Strex has Cecil and Tamika.
Nobody outside of Tamika's tiny band of dedicated readers/freedom fighters stood up to do anything. It hurt my heart to hear Cecil, who normally believes the best of people despite living in a town full of horrors, realizing that nobody in Night Vale had been willing to risk themselves for the greater good. Audio is a weirdly personal medium where it feels like the narrator is talking directly to you, which meant that (despite fully understanding the concept of fiction) I felt personally guilty about failing Cecil. The show wasn't shy about making a point about the important difference between belief and action.
Anyway, other than being DEEPLY UPSETTING there was a lot to enjoy about the show.
-Cecil going on about how Carlos is awesome at science as well as handsome, followed by Carlos's fondly embarrassed "Stoooop!" Awwww. I love their established relationship even more than the UST stage.
-Morse code secret messages! Because the Internet is wonderful, some excellent person put translations on the transcript here. However, Cecil is (as usual) not terribly subtle. Surely Strex has people who can translate Morse too.
-Angels coming back! Their presence made me doubly surprised that everything went to hell in a handbasket so much.
-Mayor Pamela Winchell is willing to admit that mountains might be a thing! What a world.
-Cecil rebelled against Strex-owned Station Management by locking producer Daniel in and making faces at him, then barricading himself in the studio with cardboard signs saying KEEP OUT! with all-caps and an exclamation mark. Bless.
-Welcome to Night Vale is often wise in between the silliness and horrors. In this episode, I really loved the full version of the quote I begin to quote in this entry's subject line:
Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?
I anxiously await to learn where the show goes from here.
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Date: 2014-05-03 03:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-04 07:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-03 04:43 pm (UTC)I really liked this episode. Cecil's whole monologue about "witnesses" and how they just stood and watched is a great metacommentary on the show. Cecil is always talked about how witnesses reported some terrible thing or another, and the witnesses never do anything to stop the terrible thing. So really it shouldn't be surprising that they stood silently by this time too.
But I also love that Dana might be massing an army, including angels, and possibly Old Woman Josie (???) against StrexCorp in the alternate dimension. I bet she'll come to the rescue. I hope next time Kevin hosts the show and then Dana comes charging in to free Cecil and Tamika!
And yeah, that quote was really good.
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Date: 2014-05-04 08:06 am (UTC)You're right that the people of Night Vale normally have a tendency to be witnesses rather than getting involved voluntarily, so we shouldn't be surprised. I'd hoped that things would be different this time if enough of them would share Cecil's desire to return to the less-terrible evil that was endemic to the town before the terrible evil of Strex, but it was not to be.
Oh, I SO hope we get to see Dana returning from the desert dimension at the head of an army and triumphantly driving Strex out of the town. Errr, by "see" I mean "listen to" of course.
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Date: 2014-05-04 05:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-04 08:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-05 10:50 pm (UTC)Couple that with my tendency to only listen to podcasts while going for walks and the amount of snow we got this winter, plus the fact that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! and Ask Me Another generally fall ahead of Night Vale on my 'Order of Listening Importance' schedule, and you have someone who is only starting to catch up on things, even with Night Vale's 2 episodes/month schedule. This will hopefully change now that the weather has gotten nicer and my schedule is about to free up thanks to folk dance classes ending for the year.
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Date: 2014-05-05 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-05 10:44 am (UTC)