for the uninformed i would like to point out the many layers of this tweet:
the op, whose name is currently “captain a.c.a.b.”, is jeffrey cranor, writer of popular podcast “welcome to night vale”
the quote retweet is cecil baldwin, voice of said podcast, “welcome to night vale”
the tweet is liked by noelle stevenson, showrunner/creator of popular netflix show “she ra and the princesses of power”
the joke itself is comparing the tulsa trump rally to tumblr dashcon, which is a circa-2014 tumblr joke
which implies that all three of these internet pseudo celebs found the dashcon joke funny enough to like/retweet/quote-retweet im reeling
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT DASHCON YALL THEY PULLED OUT BUT THEY WERE THERE
They weren’t just there, they are indirectly the reason “an extra hour in the ball pit” became a meme.
See, there was supposed to be a WTNV live show at Dashcon, and admittance to it cost an additional $15 on top of the Dashcon ticket price. When the Night Vale crew got there, they were informed that the organizers did not have the money to pay them, so Cecil refused to perform.
Naturally then, the people who had paid for the show started demanding refunds of their $15. But the organizers claimed they didn’t have the money to offer refunds either, and instead offered to let those ticket holders spend an extra hour in the ball pit as a form of reimbursement. There were several posts going around about this, and the famous photo above was taken to illustrate how pathetic of an offer this was. And that’s how the Dashcon ball pit went down in infamy.
there’s another layer to this: noelle stevenson was an invited special guest at dashcon too. she had to moderate her own panel, and even worse - the con organizers didn’t pay for a hotel room for her, so she had to crash on the pull out couch in… the night vale team’s room.
so all of these people were in one room, at dashcon, getting screwed over by dashcon. this is a digital recreation of that hotel room 6 years later.
awkwardly-asexual liked this 
solarisetlesetoiles liked this hugeclearjellyfish reblogged this from queenofbooknerds
queenofbooknerds reblogged this from hugeclearjellyfish nottodaylogic liked this
dcat-could-be-spookier liked this
lithographicperambulator reblogged this from helloarmchairphilosopher 
strwbrryhze reblogged this from tuffypelly 
tuffypelly liked this 
darlingbookworm reblogged this from pentollwhaaat 
rainbowglitter liked this convenient-odin-sleep reblogged this from eisenvulcanstein
spellingbeereblogs reblogged this from eisenvulcanstein 
karnival2 liked this eisenvulcanstein reblogged this from dduane
aners liked this ruethos reblogged this from reedrichards
ampleappleamble liked this 
supremeadmiral2613 reblogged this from mikey-hunter mikey-hunter reblogged this from mamafriesmeal
quackingrussians reblogged this from buunbi pyrekiran liked this
tokusatsumixup reblogged this from whatthe4355 
whatthe4355 reblogged this from mamafriesmeal mamafriesmeal reblogged this from glitterntrash
lexi-little-italy reblogged this from wingedkiare
crispyruinstheinternet liked this
georgeousprince liked this
theplaguebeast reblogged this from prismatic-bell 
dripping-moonlight reblogged this from biracialclaude 
bi-panic-at-the-disco liked this 
dirtybucket liked this 
veenlijken liked this 
nach0 liked this 
unprofessional-zombie liked this 
mlmrioranger liked this 
localbats reblogged this from taserbats gayygender reblogged this from 8ellaluna
theheckami-maybenothing liked this 
faerie-daze liked this 
lordtonic liked this inked-to-bring-you-back reblogged this from theassbuttchronicles
slainbanjos reblogged this from macro-microcosm
biracialclaude posted this