Welcome to Night Vale

this is what i sent

Now that I’m back from my vacation and at my computer. I figured it’d be a good time to get back to working on prints. This is sort of me first attempt at a full painting. It took forever, and there are a ton of mistakes. Yet it will have to do because my painting skills are not that great haha. 

By "listened to" I don't mean that you have to necessarily completed/be up to date on it, but have listened to at least a few episodes in their entirety enough to have gotten the general gist of the show.

this image is worth a billion dollars to me

Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) "I know he won last time, but I honestly think he deserves it. He is seemingly all knowing about current events in the town and sometimes reports them in a similar way to fear statements. I don't pay enough attention to all the lore to know exactly how he knows all the goings-on all the time, so it seems spooky to me. Though there is no canon description of him having a third eye he is often depicted with one, and a huge eye is a part of the logo. Being watched is also a theme throughout Nightvale, with the government agents who are always outside your house, or the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home"

Ornithologists (Brian David Gilbert) "They start out seeming like two perfectly normal hobby ornithologists, but over the course of the song, it becomes clear that they are unwilling servants of the Bird God. They, as well as presumably all birds, are the messengers of the Bird God, sent to earth to spy on humanity. The birds they watch tell them about the things they've seen, and the two examples we're given are "a whole bunch of worms" and "a white collar crime". They seem to be actively recruiting people to the Bird God's cause. To quote the last line of the song: "We like watching birds, and the birds like watching you too."

Also, just go listen to the whole song. It's really good."

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The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

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As usual, I am delayed closing the survey. 😅 This time, I'm delayed by a busy day, followed by a 10pm migraine. I do have a couple of mostly-quiet weeks coming up, so I think I'll aim to close the survey tomorrow and start working on it. Not to jinx it immediately, but I think/hope this will be one of the years where you don't have to wait 4 months for the results report??

Anyway, you have at least 12 more hours to participate, just in case you've not gotten around to it yet. :) It only takes 5 minutes, do it now!!

In other news, this evening we topped 40,000 responses, whaaaaaaaaat!!!

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