#owen i saw the tv glow

[ewwww-what]

I remember playing in the snow.

[dukeofdadykes]

Finally got around to watching I saw the tv glow and I’ve had an incomprehensible sense of dread ever since 🙂‍↕️

[the-lonely-crow]

there is still time

Look guys they’re okay i swear

(were all going to be okay)

[mythsoil]

I love you, be free

[navysealt4t]

the lyric “sleep on the floor, dream about me” is insaneeee considering owen used to sleep on maddy’s floor every saturday night after watching the pink opaque. like. yeah okay he will. he will. he did. he dreamt of maddy when they disappeared. he dreamt of isabel and mr melancholy and tara . he dreamt of that pink dress around his rib cage. a knife in his hand. the night sky

[psychopompp13]

rip dean winchester, you would’ve heard owen from i saw the tv glow say “when i think about that stuff, it feels like someone took a shovel to my insides and there’s nothing in there” (referring to if he likes boys or girls) and had to leave the room immediately

[fablestar]

What if I really was someone else?

Someone beautiful and powerful. Someone buried alive and suffocating to death.

[sunshiny-rants]

when Owen’s dad is holding her in the shower and light is flickering on him in the same way the tv would every time we saw him, and he looks like a bit like Mr. Melancholy???

[c17spacefriend17c]

I Saw The TV Glow Stickers I made gahsgwhahwh :3333

[potion-junkie]

Getting someone to bury me alive so I can awaken as my true self but I keep eating the dirt too fast so I’m still trapped in the midnight realm

[filmbroandy]

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) // The Terror (2018)

[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?

[timespiralgarden]

burn alive - the last dinner party

[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

[eggrolls-and-fandoms]

I’m still haunted by the scene where Owen is walking through the school while all the tapes are drawn over the screen. I’ve never seen such an accurate representation of what it feels like to constantly think about a show/book/game just to get you through the day.

[theworldsfairchallenge]

⭐️🌜⭐️- 🌚📺🌚 -⭐️🌜⭐️