#maddy isttvg

[ewwww-what]

I remember playing in the snow.

[remixablix]

Day 26: Maddy - “Little Dark Age” by MGMT

“The feelings start to rot, one wink at a time / Oh, forgiving who you are / for what you stand to gain / just know that if you hide, it doesn’t go away”

“I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange / I know that if you hide, it doesn’t go away / if you get out of bed and find me standing all alone / open-eyed / burn the page, my little dark age”

[ghoulzencrypted]

“I sae the tv glow” means so much to us, and to us its gender horror and represents two sides of the same coin

Cw for spoilers of “I saw the TV glow”

Maddy confronts her issues, she attempts to figure out who she is and pushes forward; she escapes the town and after the the buries her alive, she emerges to who shes supposed to be, she tried to convince owen to come with her, but she knows she can’t force owen if owen doesn’t want to, cause thats not what being LGBTQ is, you can’t force anyone to be who they want or could be.

Meanwhile; owen only pushes herself furthur into the closet, she represses that part of herself because shes afraid, as well as society trying to squish and put her in a box; she would rather be someone shes not and deal with that, then be herself, she has no desire to figure out who she is; she projects herself so heavily onto that show. In the end as she withees away and begins to break, she accepts who she is somewhat, seeing the TV static inside of her.

Even though owens mom doesn’t understand whats going on, she still tries to protect owen at least a little when owen asks about staying up later to watch the pink opaque, when her dad says “isn’t that show for girls?” Her mom tried to protect her by ignoring her dad.

This movie is so bitter as a trans person but it completly represents what being trans is, at least to me.

[desire-mona]

i saw the tv glow (2024) dir. jane schoenbrun

[c17spacefriend17c]

I Saw The TV Glow Stickers I made gahsgwhahwh :3333

[canislupusangelus]

Horror girl collage!!!! Some aren't horror but they have the same energy(mental illness)

[in-this-essay-i-wont]

I think what a lot of ppl r missing abt maddy/tara leaving Owen/isabel behind in their old suburban town is the fact that when maddy/tara left, they didn’t thrive and find themselves per se. I mean, they had the freedom to express themselves a bit more outside of their parents seemingly a bit suffocating hold, but it’s not like they were in queer paradise or anything. They wanted to die. They wanted it to end because they couldn’t survive, metaphorically speaking. Maddy/tara skipped town thinking everything would magically feel better. They didn’t. They still felt suffocated and odd in this life, the same way Owen/isabel did. Only when maddy/tara ‘escaped’ into the show and found her true self within the escapism of this show did she want to live again, and find Owen/isabel to take her with them into a world where she could finally feel like herself. Maddy/tara didn’t leave Owen/isabel for dead in this suburban town- they left to find a world they could both finally live in together as themselves.

[buglover77]

What if you were an aroace coded trans woman who had a television for a heart and I was a nonbinary-coded lesbian who buried myself alive and we autistically held hands and were happy and no longer trapped in a moon-juice-induced hallucinogen metaphor?

[snarttt]

does anyone want to hear abt the paralells between links awakening and i saw the tv glow? no? i dont care take them anyways

THE TITLE: the most obvious paralell is the titles. i saw the tv glow and links awakening are both titled about coming to a realization

THE DREAM: the pink opaque and koholint island are both representation of the "ideal" reality, with few struggles

DESTINY: Link, being the chosen one, was destined to come to this island and wake the Wind Fish. Isabel was destined to be Isabel, as that is herself, manifested in the form of the Pink Opaque

THE GIRL: Both Link and Isabel have a girl in their dream that guides them through their journey. They are both implied to be love interests

THE GIRLS' WISHES: They both wish to escape. Marin wishes she was a seagull (metaphorically or literally), while Tara is escaping reality.

"If I was a sea gull, I would fly as far as I could! I would fly to far away places and sing for many people! ...If I wish to the Wind Fish, I wonder if my dream will come true." - Marin "

"Time wasn't right. It was moving too fast. And then I was 19. And then I was 20. I felt like one of those dolls asleep in the supermarket. Stuffed. And then I was 21. Like chapters skipped over on a DVD. I told myself, "This isn't normal. This isn't normal. This isn't how life is supposed to feel."" -Tara

THE BIG BAD: In Link's Awakening, Link finds the true mastermind behind all of the chaos on Koholint Island, the Shadow Nightmares who have the power to transform. The monsters were created by the Shadow Nightmares to prevent Link from awakening the Wind Fish. In isttvg, the big bad is Mr. Meloncholy, a monster who torments the Pink Opaque and reminds Isabel of her troubles.

WAKING UP: Both Link and Isabel "wake up" from their dream, with Isabel throwing out her TV and "moving on" (although u cannot move on from yourself) from the pink opaque. Link awakes the Wind Fish, therefore destroying the island in its imagination and freeing the Wind Fish

THE GIRL DISAPPEARING: After the ending of the dream, both girls disappear, never to be seen again

THESE QUOTES: Something abt these two quotes

"TO THE FINDER... THE ISLE OF KOHOLINT, IS BUT AN ILLUSION... HUMAN, MONSTER, SEA, SKY... A SCENE ON THE LID OF A SLEEPER'S EYE... AWAKE THE DREAMER, AND KOHOLINT WILL VANISH MUCH LIKE A BUBBLE ON A NEEDLE... CAST-AWAY, YOU SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH!" - Link's Awakening

"Sometimes The Pink Opaque feels more real than real life." -Tara

IN CONCLUSION:

Link's Awakening and I Saw the TV Glow are very very similar to each other in the ways listed above (and a few more minute details), and I love trans girl Link from Links Awakening. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Another comparison is they both have peak soundtracks.

theres prolly more but im brain farting

[ewwww-what]

Stay right where you are, cause I followed this far!

[rosemary-frog]

this movie ruined me

[kitabasis]

(Lyrics from If I Could from the I Saw the TV Glow OST)

I’m sure there’s multiple interpretations/meanings of this but right now I’m just hit with…oh my god Tara loves Isabel so much…

[angelesse]

athems for a seventeen year old girl

a psd 📺

rules ; do not copy layers, credit is mandatory, and do not claim as your own.

download here

adjust to your liking if needed

[cleverpaws]

sigh the horrors of trying to make one of those The Parallels posts with a text-based horror game and a scene from a movie where the character does not move at all. hold on

The Teller's Fortune for Ben, The Founders Game Chapter 3 / Maddy, I Saw The TV Glow

[sewerratzz]

pretty little things

the song is (You) On My Arm by Leith Ross !!

[vi0l3tluvsu]

You will find moonlit nights strangely empty.

Because when you call my name through them

There will be no answer.

[ I love this movie so much I’ve spent the past hour looking for the right song lyrics for this!!!!! I’m probably gonna make another one later :) ]