#WTTV

[davros42]

Happy "Max Headroom Incident" Day to all who celebrate.

On November 22, 1987 television signals in Chicago were interrupted twice by an unknown person in a Max Headroom mask.

(Kids, ask your grandparents about Max Headroom)

The first time, WGN Channel 9's 9 PM news was interrupted for about 17 seconds before WGN's engineers got control of their signal back.

The second time, it was WTTW Channel 11's turn. The PBS station's airing of the classic Doctor Who episode The Horror of Fang Rock was interrupted with the clip above.

Those responsible were never caught and has since become a legendary moment in piracy/hacking.

[authoralexharvey]

I don't think I'll ever get used to talking about my works and people wanting to buy them tbh. I talked with someone on Threads today about how my spiritual practice and my writing often intersect and mentioned WTTV and they??? Bought it??? I told them I'd just give it to them for free and they insisted on buying it and I'm just.

I'm on the verge of tears honestly. It's just such a surreal feeling for me.

[welcome-to-the-v0id]

Can you taste colors in the void

Well Sock it depends on what you’ve been keeping in the basement 🤨

[the-memel0rd]

Welcome to the void is a original series that I and a friend of mine have been working on since early 2023 and are really passionate about.

I will be posting all art and progress of welcome to the void on this account and I hope that you will like this project as much as I do.

[lizzum]

Fuck it art dump

[lizzum55]

Welcome to the Void

[authoralexharvey]

Hey there! I'm Alex, a nonbinary author from the Pacific Northwest. I write various types of speculative fiction (mostly fantasy) that often intertwine my queerness, my faith as a Hellenic Polytheist, and things I just think are fucking cool. I have two publications in anthologies and have since taken the reigns on publishing my shorts on their own. Here's a list of my current works:

The Temple on Cicaro Hill - A dark fantasy short about Muirenn, a goddexx of the sea, and the cult built around them for most of their life. Originally published in the Myths, Legends & Dreams anthology and has just been published as a short story on its own, found on my ko-fi and Gumroad storefronts.

Within These Twisted Vines - An urban fantasy short about Macy, a Dionysian devotee, and Isabella, her missing best friend. Originally published in the Darkness and Moonlight anthology and is also available as a short story on its own! Ko-Fi || Gumroad

I Would Enter Haides - A historical fantasy short about two women of Eleusis who shirk tradition to run away together. This is available as a short PDF. Ko-Fi || Gumroad

Pillow Talks - Two women find themselves trapped overnight in an IKEA. Left with nothing else to do, they do the one thing that makes sense: make a pillowfort worthy of envy. It's available as a short PDF. Ko-Fi || Gumroad

I also have a Patreon, and my Ko-Fi accepts tips as well. I'm planning on releasing more shorts before the end of this year, including a fantasy retelling of the myth of Eros and Psyche.

On top of this, I have some longer fantasy books in the works, including a sapphic fantasy dark academia novel (A Sharper, More Lasting Pain), a Gothic lesbian vampire novella (Before the Moon Sets), a dark fantasy adventure about reincarnated gods (Those Who Emerge from Ashes), and a dark fantasy novel about monster hunters (A Bitter-Tasting Blade). You can check the tags on my blog for all of those and much more.

I wanna help get LGBTQ indie writers paid this month so let's start a thread! If you've got a piece of writing (be it a novel, a collection, a book of poetry, a short story, erotica, whatever!) for sale online or in bookstores that u would love for more people to read, HERES YOUR SIGN to reblog this with links to your work <3

[satuurnos]

AND DOES YOUR HUSBAND KNOW THE WAY THE SUNSHINE BEAMS OFF YOUR WEDDING BAND DOES HE KNOW THE WAY DOES HE KNOW THE WAAAAAAY TO WORSHIP OUUUUUR LOVE

[beardedmrbean]

Chicago is shutting down its migrant-only shelter system and merging it with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system.

The Windy City is also closing its "landing zone" for migrants where newly arrived migrants get shelter placements and other resources. The landing zone will close at the end of 2024 and is now only open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., as opposed to also being open overnight. 

The moves come as the number of migrants arriving in the Windy City continues to drop. At its peak in late-December, the city was housing about 14,900 migrants, but that has fallen to around 5,000, per reports. 

The overhaul will see 3,800 beds added to the city’s current homeless services system of 3,000 legacy beds in a new strategy being labeled as the One System Initiative (OSI). The new strategy aims to streamline operations and reduce the high cost of operating the migrant shelters, which have stretched the city’s budget. 

"We are shifting to a more cost-effective, equitable, and strategic approach that addresses homelessness for all who need support in the City of Chicago," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a press release announcing the plan on Monday. "This transition is in line with the sharp decline in migration to Chicago and our current budget realities." 

The press release states that the OSI is a "unified sheltering system to serve all Chicagoans" which will take effect by the new year.

Johnson took a swipe at Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott who began busing thousands of migrants to the Windy City in 2022 because of its sanctuary city status as Texas struggled to cater to an unprecedented surge of migrants arriving in the Lone Star state under the Biden-Harris administration. 

"We fought back and showed the world just how welcoming we can be," Johnson said at a press briefing, per WTTW.

"The efforts at the Texas border by Republican Governor Greg Abbott were meant to destabilize welcoming cities like Chicago, but the city responded with community care in welcoming nearly 50,000 new arrivals," the press release states. "The Johnson Administration is proud of the City agencies, community partners and government entities who successfully responded to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis."

Chicago has received more than 50,000 migrants throughout the current crisis, many of them families, according to CBS.

With the city still housing nearly 5,000 people in its migrant shelters, concerns are being raised that there will not be enough beds for migrants once the new system is in place and the sharp Chicago winter bites. But migrants who get into a homeless shelter will no longer face evictions.

Johnson had attempted to raise $100 million by hiking taxes on properties worth more than $1 million in his "Bring Chicago Home" ballot measure, which ultimately failed. 

The crisis has so far cost Chicago taxpayers nearly $200 million since the crisis began and the city is facing a $982.4 million shortfall in 2025, according to WTTW.

"Instead, we can only encumber what our budget allows," Johnson said, per WTTV. "But imagine the increase in our capacity if Bring Chicago Home had passed."

"Could this lead to people on the street? Look, I’ll be remiss if I did not acknowledge the financial straits that we are experiencing right now and the impact that that’s going to have on this mission," Johnson said.

[livesinyesterday]

David Strathairn Appreciation: 

WTTV interview for Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

[authoralexharvey]

what do your book acronyms stand for? new here sorry

No worries! Welcome aboard! I have a lot of works and thus a lot of acronyms, so I'm not going to list them all rn. However, the most common ones you will see are:

ASMLP - A Sharper, More Lasting Pain, my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel about two Casters at a magic college and the tragedy that befalls them. This one is currently up for pre-orders ;)

ATHD - Across This Hollow Distance, my gothic fantasy novella inspired by the myth of Eros and Psyche! This one I plan to have out by April of next year.

ABTB - A Bitter-Tasting Blade, my dark fantasy novella about a monster hunter and a monster woman who are forced to work together on an escort mission.

WTSWB - When the Stars Were Brighter, my short story collection that I published! I may also refer to shorts from this collection individually, such as YANTPA (You Are Not This Person Anymore), FANS (Following A Northern Star), TTOCH (The Temple on Cicaro Hill) and WTTV (Within These Twisted Vines)

TWEfA - Those Who Emerge from Ashes, my dark fantasy novel about a Goddess, a runaway, and a Scholar from a cult whose paths all cross thanks to an 800-year old living corpse.

Hope this makes sense! Most of these have tags that can be perused for aesthetics, inspo, and my infrequent jabbering about them!

[welcome-to-the-v0id]

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Welcome to the WTTV (welcome to the void) blog! This blog is the main account for WTTV and is where I will be posting the most of WTTV content. If you don’t know what WTTV is, it is an original series that me and a friend of mine have made and hope we can share with you. production of this project will come out at least 2-5 times per month, that is all for now.

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My main blog

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Bye Bye!

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[vaultboyenthusiast]

For the discord thing, what do you mean safe from THOSE™ fallout fans?

I'm genuinely asking, no hate. 😅😅 I don't think I understand.

There are some fallout fans out there (especially in fallout discord servers) who are extremely bigoted (and also maybe fascists iirc) so the WTTV server is meant to be a safe space away from like. the kind of people who treat Honest Hearts like it’s their bible and make/use weird shitty mods that turn black characters white!

[lizzum]

[bestfrozentreats2]

Horror Hosts

This was from a 1985 "Bloopers and Practical Jokes".  The Horror Hosts identified are as follows:   "Sammy Terry"  WTTV - Indianapolis, IN "Count Scary"  WDIV - Detroit, MI "Macabra"  WOWT - Omaha, NE "Zacherle"  WOR- Seacaucus, NJ "Darcinia" KGSW - Albuquerque, NM "Elvira" KHJ-Los Angeles, CA "Count Gregore" KAUT-Oklahoma City, OK "Spookman Dan" KVIQ-Eureka, CA "Chilly Billy" WPXI-Pittsburgh, PA "Melvin Clumpton"and "Mom" ? Elroy "Buzz" Towers KNXV-Phoenix, AZ "Crematia" KSHB-Kansas City, MO "Big Chuck & Little John" WJKW-Cleveland, OH "Lucretia" KOKH-Oklahoma City, OK "Mr. Svengoolie's Neighborhood" WFLD-Chicago, IL

[total-television-productions-act]

three guys from my next Underdog fic: Olive Pug, Candy Valentine and Dulcet White. if you remember, Valentine is the owner of WTTV, Polly's news studio. Dulcet is Valentine's valet, and Olive is her secretary :]

i lifted Olive from an oldddd fic because i adore her