#Welcome to the Televoid

[makeartnotfriends23]

[thetelevoid]

“We know the risk, but we have to podcast…” (or some variation of that intro that will be constantly botched in the actual podcast… and I’m sorry for that — xoxo, Gossip Fergs)

Welcome to The AMPire Diaries: The Televoid’s Official Vampire Diaries recap and rewatch podcast. Hosted by longtime Vampire Diaries fans LaToya Ferguson (@lafergs) and Morgan Lutich (@LorganMutich), alongside first-time viewer Jill Defiel (@jiilbobaggins), The AMPire Diaries is all about The Vampire Diaries… and getting absolutely AMPED to watch and talk about it. Yep, that’s the pun we went with.

Based on no evidence but our own opinions on our conversations during these podcast episodes, this is the only Vampire Diaries podcast where you can find in-depth critical discussion AND completely unhinged horniness about the series. That’s right: One second we’re talking about race or consent or mental illness in The Vampire Diaries, then the next, we’re talking about our crushes or who we really want to smooch in The Vampire Diaries. If you have layers, then this is the Vampire Diaries podcast for you.

In fact, here is what you can expect of the podcast, according to all three of the hosts:

LaToya, who is probably the least correct, says, “1/3 horniness, 1/3 bits, and 1/3 intelligent conversation about TVD.”

Jill says, “25% bits, 25% intelligent convo, 50% horny.”

And Morgan, who is probably the most correct, says, “40% horny, 10% unrelated pop culture, 30% bits, 20% discussions about the episodes.”

For the next few weeks, we will be dropping two episodes of The AMPire Diaries a week — dissecting two Vampires Diaries episodes per AMPire Diaries episode — before (hopefully) settling into a more chill groove of one episode a week. (Heads up: We pretty much recorded all of Season 1 and, while currently in-progress, probably all of Season 2 in a quarantine vacuum.)

In pretty much most of these episodes, we don’t properly plug things like iTunes ratings (5 stars, please) or where to find the podcast… but if you are listening to this podcast, you probably already know where and how to do all that. The AMPire Diaries: We won’t insult your intelligence.

(P.S. The AMPire Diaries' theme song is "More Whiskey" by Tendinite.)

[kingfisherbones]

@brutalmoose

Welcome back televoid!

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[pikaflute]

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This was a commission for Kerry aka @rubybelladonna !!

It’s about Televoid, so enjoy!

Summary: The Void is a different plane of existence than our own. It traps a man called Ian, and along with him are people who share his face, memories, and personality. Ian and his many clones exist to carry out the will and experiments of the Void. You are one of these many Ians, Ian #433, and you're trapped along with the other hundreds of you.

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You know three things. Your name is Ian. And you like (at least you think it’s the only color you wear) purple. You also know that you exist in the Void.

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You woke up recently. The last thing you seem to recall before going into the void is a blinding white light. Now you exist with a couch, a tv, and a red chair. The chair feels hard as a rock when you sit on it, but hey it’s the best you got.

You also can’t recall any of your memories up until the moment you woke up. The memories aren’t fuzzy, it feels like the memories aren’t even there to begin with. Maybe the Void fucks with your mind.

Our maybe because, the only thing you can even remember, you’re a clone of someone. Someone named Ian.

There are many of you. Many Ians. You vaguely remember the number assigned to you. Was it 456? 439? You were in the 400s, at the least. You want to meet the original Ian, and at least ask why he was being cloned.

Was he in the void with you? Was he controlling this situation? These question plagued your nightmares and dreams.

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You remember turning on a TV once, antenna pulled out all the way, and that’s when you saw it. You, but it wasn’t a reflection. It was you acting out scenes in front of an audience, you were watching some sort of TV show. That Ian talked about bikes and safety, and he seemed happy. Not as lonely as you were. You angrily put the antenna down.

You were jealous of that Ian. How come he got to be happy?

--

You realize that you haven’t done shit since you were dropped in here. You wake up, see if the other Ian is on, then sleep.

The process has bored you to almost death. You don’t think you can die, maybe. You don’t know how this crazy place works.

Speaking of, recently, your dreams have been weird. You assume nightmares but you don

They’re scenes of you. Well, Ian, before the void. He seemed to have a pretty mundane life, he played video games, watched TV, and hung out with his friends. One friend (you think his name starts with a J) was super close to you. J had flowy short blonde hair which curled on the ends. He always wore blue, and seemed to sparkle around you. J most likely was Ian’s boyfriend you gather. He always wanted to know how you were doing, hung out with you at your apartment, and sometimes you two kissed.

It was nice. It kept you warm against the cold clutches of the void.

--

You’re lonely. The only thing that keeps you company in the dark abyss is a plant, a small red chair, and a TV that doesn’t even work correctly. The other Ian occasionally comes on, sometimes talking about walking, and babies? (you didn’t get it either)The other Ian seemed to be more active, getting gifts from the Void.

From watching him, you realize that you two are trapped. The Ian gets cut off by glitches, probably the Void. Yes, he looks happier and he has an audience to talk to, and but you can clearly see him pained to speak sometimes.

His room also has many cameras. You saw Cam 23 flash once in the latest episode. You don’t know if this Ian is under strict surveillance or that the Void is torturing the watchers by showing other Ian rooms.

You gathered that TV Ian has at least 4 cameras on him. Why so many, you wonder. What did this Ian do? Isn’t he the star of the void?

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You hate the quiet. The only Ian that seems to get any attention was TV Ian. The stifling silence of the Void plus the addition of nothing ever showing up on TV, was making you go crazy.

You sometimes, if you slowed your breathing enough, you could hear others. Not the Ian you know, but other Ians who were going through what you are going through. It was faint,  but you heard yelling from the other parts of the Void.

Messages to no one. That phrase feels familiar to you, but you can’t place it.

--

A new episode was released. It felt wrong. Very very very wrong. This Ian was being kept happy. He had a band, and the Ian you know doesn’t have a band. He also was unsettling.

“Death could happen at any moment.”

A chill ran down your spine when you heard that. It was a sinister sounding voice. Like the Void was issuing a warning.

Something also bothered you about this Ian. It was the white background. A blinding white light. The same white that welcomed you when entered this hellscape. This Ian was sent by the Void, your Ian was hurt in someway.

Your Ian? Don’t be ridiculous. He’s an Ian and so are you. You collapse to the floor in defeat.

You hate this place, if only there was some way to leav-

Then, through your body a sharp pain shoots through you. Words flash quickly on the screen, then disappear. Unstable. You don’t know what it means. But the word flashes when you close your eyes now.

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You start crying. You start sobbing. A nightmare came to you last night. J and you were arguing. You don’t know what it was about, the voices were too muffled to hear the exact words, but it ended with J closing the door on you. You woke up sobbing.

The warm feeling was gone. You were alone. The coldness settled in.

Pain shoots through your body, making you more stationary than ever. The only IAn that you connected with is dead.

You hate this. More pain shoots through you.

You never asked to be made, why do you have to suffer? You wince again, you’re becoming more unstable. It’s hard to stop through the tears.

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Your name is Ian. You don’t have a number, because you are the original Ian. You feel blood dripping from your mouth and you head is throbbing.

You’re unstable. You want to escape. You tried to kill yourself and it didn’t work. This stupid place keeps you alive.

The TV is playing. Not a show, you think. They won’t be here if you’re like this. Speaking of, you probably won’t see your only friends ever again. Way to go Ian, you fucked that up.

The TV was playing footage from Cam 433. It was an Ian crying in front of his TV, he looked like he was in pain and crying. You feel bad for him. He doesn’t know what’s going on. And probably never will. More and more Ians are becoming are unstable. You hear the screams clearly every night.

You miss Jared, you want to say sorry to him.

You miss your friends, even if Jim was prick sometimes.

You miss your video games, you miss your computer, and you miss your fans.

You miss home most of all. Even if some aspects were crappy, you still want to be home.

But instead you’re here. In the Void. Suffering. Being cloned for shitty experiments that won’t do anything.

You know three things. Your name is Ian, your favorite color is purple, and you exist to suffer in this plane called the Void. You and all of your many clones.

[cinna-minute]

Hello and welcome to Televoid!

[alchemyst-studios]

welcome to the brutalmoose fandom, where even if you think you’re not in the fandom for awhile, we all collectively lose our shit when a new televoid comes out.

[the-kipsabian]

welcome to the mad house that is the new episode of televoid cause hOLY SHIT

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okay but like

ian clearly died at the end of the last episode if we go with what is going on at the end here

safety woman brings him back to life

does that mean the things taking place in the “white room” of this episode are in his mind, possibly part of the limbo stage hes in as hes dying?

also he has the terrible eyebags and the blood running from his mouth after hes brought back

he looks disappointed

hes trapped in the void and he just wants release but safety woman brought him back and its too much

..am i reading too much into this cause man oH MAN

[asagaoluke]

ANOTHER sm i wrote for televoid a while back but never posted… oh well

- YOU find an OLD TV in your attic that does not seem to work. the DIALS do not TURN. it cannot be PLUGGED IN to any OUTLETS. it is a squat, ugly thing, clearly rejected from days gone by. what do you do?

> LEAVE IT ALONE

- YOU LEAVE IT ALONE. it’s getting dark outside, anyway. maybe it is best to retire for the night. what do you do?

> SLEEP

- YOU go to SLEEP. in the dead of night, YOU are awoken by strange bursts of noise coming from the OLD TV. static flickers across the screen, morphing and twisting to form the face of a MAN. he seems to be in distress, and his hands are pressed desperately against the screen. it looks like he is calling to you. what do you do?

> ACHE

- welcome to televoid.

[xendraenyx]

Welcome back, I mi--

a televoid inspired thing, also a copinglink/id/kin thing. glitching is really tedious but it’s fun. also an experiment in art style; kinda don’t starve, kinda my old scribbly style.

please don’t tag my art as #me/#kin <3

[transisstor]

WOAH WHAT IS THIS

okay so I maaaaaay have gotten Super Inspired by @the-euglassia-watsonia‘s “the Ian in the Televoid is actually Very Evil” concept and I... kind of decided to try and draw my own version, I guess?

I like to think that this is the same version of Ian who sends those omnipotent jerkass letters to Caddicarus, honestly. it just kinda seems fair.

[asagaowallid]

More about Recall Au + Televoid-inspired (I'll say now that I don't have the biggest grasp on the creepypasta theory beyond a little bit of the asagao AUs but this last video really got me thinking) The game doesn't appreciate having it's rules broken, but more than that it doesn't appreciate a glitch. When Ian had his memory for the first time, needless to say it was jarring. He sees Hana going through the same thing that happened when she joined Hidden Block and he decides that this is too wierd but goes on, shrugging that well nothing particularily weird happens. Except when the route ends, the world doesn't repeat for him. Rather, he is in a vast emptiness. He sees a light and goes towards it, but is dragged away. "Well" he hears "you're not welcome here." In an instant, he sees everything. All the routes, all the choices, it doesn't stop. Finally, he's released from it, color drained. That's when Ian wakes up for the first day of school, but something in him had changed. The changes seemed small, but it added up. The resets were changing him. Every reset it was something new. One time he starts eating spaghetti with a spoon. Another he starts speaking with a resonance that didn't match with the world. But along with the wierdness comes an awareness of the world. Rather than gaining all of his memory, he starts every route with a deep sense of deja vu. If there are enough resets, the entity IAN will not exist. There will only be five members of Hidden Block. There is, however, a way that Ian has instinctively found that delays or avoids this fate. The more that he involves himself with Hana, the more pulled together he feels. The first time he realizes this, he actually took the initiative to become as close to Hana as possible, but the game shut it down as soon as the story went too off it's course. Ian's plan was interfering with Hana's choosing to interact with the Normal Boots boys in CH1, taking the story too far from it's intended path. Not being a main character, Ian has no right to be changing the story. The game changes the entire Hidden Block club, to Ian's horror, to punish him. The next route, he finds everyone in the club had become more aggressive and focused on the tournament, something that they were only interested in to play video games with the Normal Boots initially. When he sees that Wallid had tried to sabotage Hana in the tournament, he decides that he needed to step back and stop risking himself and the club. He balances it by making himself Hana's rival, where originally PBG had just recruited her after hearing from Mai that she started puzzle gaming. The game accepts this, but bombards Ian with warnings from then on about following the rules. When Hana asks him out to the Flower Festival for the first time, it was perhaps the most pulled together that Ian had ever felt in a long time. But throughout the date, he couldn't help but think that something was going to go wrong. Hana was supposed to go with a Normal Boots boy, why is she with him? After the festival, he is on the edge from waiting for the other shoe to drop. When he returns to the Hidden Block clubroom and finds the party waiting for him, the rest of the club looking like themselves more than ever and Hana beaming, he couldn't help but relax.