Someone wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal 2018-08-09 10:48 pm (UTC)

Re: Rec me a canon

You’re welcome and happy listening!! I think Sayer is sort of nightvale-ish in that it is explicitly a broadcast program that slides past weird shit as if it’s normal, but where Nightvale likes to do the suburban gothic thing, Sayer is more about reassuring you that your corporate overlords care about your life (after all it is a part of the cost calculation of production)! Nightvale doesn’t give me the same depersonalization vibes, because things don’t happen to the listener in it so much as Events In The Community or about the setting, whereas Sayer is mediating or filtering the listener’s experiences of described events so the listener can process what is happening to them in the setting. Full disclosure: Nightvale isn’t so much in my wheelhouse, but my partner who enjoys both Nightvale and Sayer says it is more like Nightvale Presents: Within the Wires (in the form of guided meditations) than WTNV itself.

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