#nightvale
I often listen to Within the Wires
http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
while doing other things, but the episodic nature really doesn't work for this story. I should just save them up for the end of the season.
But then instead of a couple minor irritations at the ads every time, I'd have constant interruptions as I listened.
#nightvale
"A bird in the hand is worth..."
"Who cares? What the hell are you doing?!?! Put that bird down RIGHT NOW!!! Have you not heard of Bird Flu?"
- A Night Vale Proverb
“Like those famous Rosie the Riveter posters all over town say: ‘Get chanting in Bloodstone Circles double-time or me and the rest of riveters will come at you with rivet guns.
You ever have someone come at you with a rivet gun? Well, bud, you don’t want that, trust me.’”
— Welcome to Night Vale
Anyway, if you are a #NightVale fan, and somehow missed A Story About Huntokar, do yourself a favor and listen to it. It is a very heartbreaking story, in addition to explaining everything.
All you need to know going into episode 109 is that the town is extraordinarily weird, and a bunch of pissed off dragons are in the process of completely destroying it.
And coincidentally, it is the exact same thing that made #TwinPeaks weird: the detonation of atomic bombs which caused celestial beings to step in to try to remedy the situation, to only limited success.
And the super weird thing is that both of these long running series revealed that fact at almost the exact same moment!
#NightVale released A Story About Huntokar on June 1, 2017 and then Episode 8 of Twin Peaks The Return aired June 25, 2017.
For anyone who would like to take their mind off things, a fic recommendation:
There's a novel crossover between Welcome to Night Vale and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, based on the idea that Carlos the Scientist is also Carlos Ramirez, Warden of the West. It is very good and well-written, with complex plot, sympathetic characters, time loops, humor. I love all the Scientist characters.
The wizard sex-ed scence made me laugh out loud.