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airport thought
At some point soon I'm going to write up my lovely week in Chicago - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
junebug_waltz, Improv Shakespeare, Vividcon, lovely fannish people, and lots of good food and heavy drinking - but I'm listening to Welcome to Night Vale at the airport and just realized that the passing reference to Earl Harlan the Scoutmaster having a past relationship with Cecil is such a fantastic stealthy dig at the Boyscouts of America's homophobic policies that I can't even.
Also, I came to the realization that I wouldn't love Welcome to Night Vale as much without the fandom. Since the radio show format is so disjointed and sometimes deeply surreal, having fandom to dig into the worldbuilding and give depth to the episodic characters is satisfying a lot of narrative needs that the show isn't. Stories like How I Survived My Summer Vacation, which is both the saga of Tamika Flynn and breathtaking ode to reading, Not Even A Week, which explains what happened to the other scientists, and The Rat and the Ruby Slippers, wherein Carlos gets kidnapped by Desert Bluffs (amnesia = always my favorite!). Then there's the ones that poke at the philosophical underpinnings of the show: jus sanguini, jus soli, about Carlos and why people come to Night Vale, or a love song for schrodinger, which might be my favorite portrayal of how science and faith can coexist that I've ever read.
(Hmmm. On reviewing my links, it seems that I --like Cecil-- really really like Carlos. Understandable, right?)
Anyway, my flight is about to board, but I'm all caught up on Welcome to Night Vale now, so people should come talk to me about it!
junebug_waltz, Improv Shakespeare, Vividcon, lovely fannish people, and lots of good food and heavy drinking - but I'm listening to Welcome to Night Vale at the airport and just realized that the passing reference to Earl Harlan the Scoutmaster having a past relationship with Cecil is such a fantastic stealthy dig at the Boyscouts of America's homophobic policies that I can't even.Also, I came to the realization that I wouldn't love Welcome to Night Vale as much without the fandom. Since the radio show format is so disjointed and sometimes deeply surreal, having fandom to dig into the worldbuilding and give depth to the episodic characters is satisfying a lot of narrative needs that the show isn't. Stories like How I Survived My Summer Vacation, which is both the saga of Tamika Flynn and breathtaking ode to reading, Not Even A Week, which explains what happened to the other scientists, and The Rat and the Ruby Slippers, wherein Carlos gets kidnapped by Desert Bluffs (amnesia = always my favorite!). Then there's the ones that poke at the philosophical underpinnings of the show: jus sanguini, jus soli, about Carlos and why people come to Night Vale, or a love song for schrodinger, which might be my favorite portrayal of how science and faith can coexist that I've ever read.
(Hmmm. On reviewing my links, it seems that I --like Cecil-- really really like Carlos. Understandable, right?)
Anyway, my flight is about to board, but I'm all caught up on Welcome to Night Vale now, so people should come talk to me about it!