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New! Smiling God Poster

Check out our new poster by Dave Watt here.

Director’s Notes:

One of the Truths about aging is you will start to resent the Youth. I’ve always known this. My parents and aunts/uncles used to make commentary about my generation when I was a teenager. But when I spent time around my grandparents, they were still hanging on to bullshit about my parents’ generation. The pattern was pretty easy to recognize, even as a kid.

“But this generation is different!”

Of course it is. And the generation before than was different, too. They’re ...

254 - The Triangle

There’s a gang of Cattle Rustlers coming to town to rustle up the cattle.

Weather: “Dark Skies“ by Danny Schmidt https://www.dannyschmidt.com/

Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth http://www.jessica-hayworth.com/

UNLICENSED Season 2 arrives October 31, only on Audible

The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is comin...

Thoughts on Unlicensed Season 2

Hey, Joseph Fink here.

Years ago, I had the thought that it would be fun to write a Night Vale episode with Molly Quinn and Lusia Strus, because I thought they both had great voices that would be very interesting contrasted against each other. Then we cast TL Thompson as Lee Marvin, and their voice got added into the mix in my head. I wanted to hear these three voices together. Gradually I decided that a Night Vale episode was too small an idea. I wanted to make something new with these...

New Calendar and Backpack

Our brand new calendar will keep all your special dates organized. Since it is not year-specific, you can use this calendar for years to come! Find it here.

Hello Listeners. This backpack is such a fun and creepy design. Get yours here.

The Newest Night Vale Live Recording Is Now Out!

At long last, the live recording of our newest live show, The Attic, is available. Bring the magic of the Night Vale live show into your home. Featuring Cecil Baldwin, a live score by Disparition, and several guest stars. Plus live weather by Danny Schmidt.

Find it here.

Directors Notes: 253 - Instructions for Folding

Earlier this year, Jeffrey, Brie and I sat down for a writers meeting to discuss some general plans for the first part of the Night Vale year. We don’t like to lock ourselves into a plot just yet, instead we like to come up with some general concepts that we want to look at for the year, and then see where we’re at after we’ve written a few episodes. This more organic approach to story building allows us to see what is interesting to us as writers before we start building out a more str...

253 - instructions for folding

These are instructions for folding. Please follow exactly.

Weather: “Clifton“ by Chapter Nineteen https://chapter19band.bandcamp.com/

Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth http://www.jessica-hayworth.com/

The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is coming! Crowdfunding launch begins OCT 1! 2024-09-01 04:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post

September Merchandise Discount Code

The 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in September is ISO-SKULL

Our August Hangout (feat. Cecil Baldwin!): Wed, Aug 28

Hi again everybody! Join us this Wednesday, August 28 at 4pm ET, when Joseph Fink and I (Jeffrey Cranor) will be on Zoom along with our bud, Cecil Baldwin. You may know him from podcasts!

Anyway, as yuzh, we'll be talking about whatever, but that could include Night Vale stuff if you wanted it to!

Here's the Zoom link for today's hang-out! (waiting room in effect till 4pm)

2024-08-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

The Danger of the Long Read (or, The Worst Paragraph Ever Written)

I'm finally doing it, y'all. I'm reading Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. The whole fucking thing. My copy is a little over 600 pages with some pretty small type.

I'm halfway through it, and I have to say: Not Bad. Well, like, incredible, but as a reading experience, it's got its ups and downs. First off, it's super readable. Short chapters, minus the 40-something-page digression where Ishmael talks about all the different kinds of whales there are. And for 173-year-old writing, pretty a...

Director's Notes: 252 - Paid Programming

I've been wanting to write a whole episode for DEB for a long time. A couple years ago, I thought I would make it so that she's Cecil's replacement host (like Joan Rivers for Johnny Carson back in the 80s). But I never got around to writing that, which is probably good, because I don't know that it makes sense for Deb to be on a track to become a talk-show host.

Deb is the master of the deal, a spokeshaze, a sales god. So of course, she would make a name for herself doing that very job...

Ep #252 - Paid Programming Illustration

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Illustration by Jessica Hayworth. Want it as a print? Buy it here.

252 - Paid Programming

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Weather: “Starlit Aether“ by Virtual QSO https://virtualQSO.bandcamp.com

Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth http://www.jessica-hayworth.com/

The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is coming! Crowdfunding launch begins OCT 1! 2024-08-15 04:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post

The model for the Night Vale library

In the first Welcome to Night Vale novel, we have an adventure in the Night Vale library that, for the first time, describes that library's interior. When writing the rough draft of that chapter, I drew on what is still the archetypical library in my head, which is the library I grew up with. The Camarillo public library, about an hour outside of Los Angeles.

There is now a new Camarillo library, which is slick and beautiful and features a children's section with a pirate ship that you...

New! Mother Lauren T-shirt

This episode artwork was so amazing we had to make a t-shirt out of it! Get yours here.

Introducing The Night Vale Roleplaying Game

A while back, we announced the Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game. And then we went quiet for a long time because developing a game is not a fast process.

But the game is almost ready to go, and we are excited to bring it to all of you out there.

Which is why our friends at Renegade Game Studios are launching a crowdfunding campaign for the game on BackerKit on October 1! This is your chance to get on the ground floor of this game developed by experienced designers in close co...

August Merchandise Discount Code

The 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in August is REALITY411

Ep #251 - Detours Illustration

There's a brand new way to get where you're going.

Listen here.

Illustration by Jessica Hayworth. Want it as a print? Buy it here.

Director's Notes - Episode 251: "Detours"

My housemate Nathan and I were in San Francisco this past spring—the city where we both used to live when we met in film school in the early 2000s. We try to go back every year to visit old friends and hang out in our old neighborhood. For a city that’s changed in so many ways since those days, our old neighborhood, the Richmond District, has stayed pretty much the same. It’s comforting to browse the same discount stores, eat at the same cafes, walk out to my favorite thinking rock at C...

251 - Detours

There's a brand new way to get where you're going.

Weather: “Homebound and Gagged“ by Snowed In https://snowedin.bandcamp.com/

Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth http://www.jessica-hayworth.com/

The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is coming! Crowdfunding launch begins OCT 1! 2024-08-01 04:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Episode: Hey There Cecil

Cecil answers advice questions from Night Vale residents.

Music: Disparition http://disparition.bandcamp.com

Logo: Rob Wilson http://robwilsonwork.com

Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. http://welcometonightvale.com

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How to access ad-free episodes and bonus episodes

Weird Scout and higher members can access their ad-free episodes and bonus episodes through any podcast app (except Spotify) using this link: https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/1766401

Support for Spotify may happen later, but the way the app works makes it complicated.

If you have any problems accessing your feed, please message us and we will be glad to help.

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Ad-Free Episode Update

Recently some members have been unable to access the ad-free episodes. Please know we are aware of this issue and working with Patreon to resolve this as quickly as possible. Once it is resolved, we will post again with further information to ensure everyone can access the ad-free episodes.

update: Joseph here. I believe there is no technical issue. The important thing is to use our acast feed for ad-free episodes, which you should find in an email we sent you (we will soon put t...

Understanding the assignment

My mother's moving houses soon, and she's been cleaning out the attic, which means she's been shipping me boxes of old stuff from when I was a kid. Yearbooks, comics, football cards, photos, etc. You know the drill. It's really fun looking through all of these old things, but kind of a burden to have to make the decision myself on what to keep. I live in a NYC apartment, so space is a premium.

But one thing I think I should keep is this project i did for my high school English class. We...

Archive: Zoom Hangout 7/11/24

Howdy y'al! Thanks for another fun hangout. For those who missed it (or are just curious what these are all about), here's the video from that session.

We'll see y'all in August!

TODAY: Zoom hang out w/Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Howdy Night Vale! Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor will be hanging out on zoom with you TODAY Thur Jul 11 at 4:30pm ET (that's New York City time for those outside the US). Use the link below to join in and talk with us about sports movies, the best pizza toppings, favorite cursed dolls, or even Night Vale!

ZOOM LINK (waiting room in effect till 4:30pm)

2024-07-11 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

New Quote T-shirt

You are what the earth will eat.

...and the earth is hungry.

Find it here.

July Merchandise Discount Code

The 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in July is THROATSPIDER

"What's your shining light?"

There's a lot of good that came out of the 2015 podcast The Worst Idea of All Time - in which two New Zealand friends decide to watch Grown-Ups 2 once a week for a whole year, while recording a podcast review of the film after each viewing. It's of course, a funny concept and a hilarious show. And it led to one of the greatest Thanksgiving traditions of all time: Till Death Do Us Blart.

But I'm going to focus again on the phrase: "What's your shinin...