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I'm only on the pilot, so I have little to say so far, other than that no town with an Arby's can be all bad.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
In fact, I did.
There was a long discussion on my dash between Coelasquid (who draws Manly Guys Doing Manly Things and, imo, has a very good grasp on the human form) and her followers about how the Night Vale fandom almost unanimously decided to portray Cecil as a 20-something thin guy in fashionable clothes. She thinks that it shows a lack of creativity on Tumblr, and a lack of diversity besides skin tone. Also, most of the fashionable clothes wouldn't really be available in a small town like Night Vale.
Just finished episode 4.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I'm pretty sure Carlos is of some Latino (or possibly African) origin, given the name and the dark skin and the flowing locks. But it's not out of the question that he has some other races gracing his genome.
He is, however, most certainly not white. White people do not have dark skin. That's generally an iron-clad rule.
I ventured into the night vale tag myself, and I think I found the argument you were talking about. That person was technically right, but he/she was being a dick about it and should be ignored.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Okay, everything I said before, just double it.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
But Cecil the character and Cecil the actor are not one in the same, no more than Sunny from Class of 3000 is identical to Andre 3000 (but man, what if they were?). And Night Vale's a purely auditory form of media, so it's reasonable that translating it back into visual causes some incongruity.
Wow, that Sunny/Andre example was terrible. Okay, it's more like the difference between a voice actor and the character they're voicing. Tom Kenny doesn't look a bit like Spongebob, but they share the same voice at times.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Night Vale's Social Justice Cred consists mainly of two things: the belittlement of the Apache Tracker, and the Carlos/Cecil relationship. It's queer, it features main characters, (Carlos is as close to a deuteragonist as we're going to get), and Carlos's dark skin makes it interracial or POC (as we don't know Cecil's race). Tumblr cares a lot about their media's social justice cred, therefore Carlos's race is a point of contention.
Also, people (meaning anons) have argued that Carlos could be white and a Spaniard, which is just stupid because of Carlos's canonical dark skin. Stupid questions tend to piss off SJ people.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
well the dog park is pretty rad
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Stuff that shows up on my dash tends to be angels or the floating cat. Some shipping, but not much. Dog park shows up occasionally, but not often. Did see one post that had hip, Portlandian versions of the hooded figures and the secret police, which was cool but kind of inappropriate for Night Park. And one post that was a montage of stuff from the pilot -- that one was good.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And you appear to be far ahead of everyone else.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Yeah, this is the point where it's clear that Cecil's obsession with Carlos becomes obvious.
Man, margarita glasses?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
In other news.
I liked the weather in episode 2
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead