#realme tv

[ailithnight]

DPxDC Prompt #8

Danny was practicing shapeshifting with Amorpho when he felt the tug of a summoning and heard the distant words drifting into his mind.

Normally Danny would just ignore it. Or if it seems like this was a group that needed some sense scared into them, he'd shift into his Horror form and terrify them into never pulling this shit again. But then he heard them mention live sacrifices, and Danny just had to step in before that happened. So he let the summoning pull him on through, briefly forgetting he was shapeshifted into a... less than ideal form.

Danny lands in the circle right on top of one of the intended sacrifices, a group of people in weird outfits and, is that guy green? Irrelevant. Immediately Danny on knows something is very wrong. His powers feel muted and far away. His form suddenly feels, locked somehow.

He casts his gaze across the summoning circle and, to his horror, recognizes the binding ritual. These cultists wanted to bind and seal him in one of these mortal's bodies after they were sacrificed. But they fucked up the spell. Or maybe Danny fucked it up by coming in too soon? Irrelevant again.

What matters is the spell went sideways. Instead of locking Danny into one of the sacrifice's bodies, it locked him into his own form while pulling most of his abilities just out of reach. Now he's here. In the shape of- He's stuck as-

"Dude, is that a pigeon? Did the Ghost King, like, send you to voicemail?"

[poppetsisters]

Fake Reality Prison

[bionicboxes]

Give the comfort you never got (as seen on TV)

[dragonloanshark]

sometimes the pink opaque feels more real than real life

[chicafinal]

so sad that commentary tracks are becoming a lost art. they should lock up the iwtv cast in a recording booth so that we can have something that reaches the same level of magic as the cast commentary track from david fincher's the social network

[7seasofem]

user 7seasofem posts traditional art ‼️

[puppet-purgatory]

so let me get this straight, watcher:

An unknown party is planting VHS tapes on your own set weekly, containing ad reads by:

a self-proclaimed professor

who mentions unfortunate encounters with horses

who has an 'estranged wife'

whose jacket is tan and tie and red

who is a 'gamer'

whose image flickered in like a hologram in an earlier ad read,

and you want us to just like, not think Something Smells Fishy. OK...

[buttercuparry]

And what about the other Joe? Whose body is being used as a mere prop in this story to distinguish the before from the after? We, the viewers, are being told the story of a stand in. We saw our Joe asking Ming, if he wasn't just a sex doll for him when his frustrations over Tong got too strong. We sympathized with our Joe, when he realized that now he has to perform the daunting task of playing the stand in for this woman's son. But what about what we are doing as viewers of the story? What about the Joe who never was in the story...we don't know him and I don't think we really want to know him. Only in hospital mirrors and in puddles do we get see that there was this whole other person. A whole other life. A son, an aspiring star, a human being. And then are we not shocked into realizing that how easy it is to dismiss a person when we are focused on watching the story unfold for those of whom we care for? I mean we don't really care about the Joe who never was because the story doesn't give us that space. We are getting povs through Joe's subconscious(?), so onscreen we are watching our Joe going through this new life. I wonder if this is an unintentional parallel to Ming's treatment of Joe. We have a body but we don't care for the personhood of that body. The personhood that's now lost because it is our Joe, whose soul is occupying the body. So Joe who never was is a meatsuit for the viewers...a stand in through whom the story plays out. In the story, we see the actors/characters playing out their part, and only in backstage ( through glimpses in puddles) do we see the stand in.

[seventeendeer]

hrrr I Saw the TV Glow is still rolling around in the back of my mind. it's hitting me somewhat belatedly that what seemingly starts as mainly an identity story turns out - toward the final act - to also be a love story. two queer kids finding each other (again). the bond they forge (have always had). the feelings that start to grow (were always there) despite the lie they're living. one trying to save the other, and failing. the frail hope at the end that maybe what they had mattered after all, even if they never see each other again. maybe because they knew each other, someday things will be better.

idk. so much of the story feels so lonely. they're awkward with each other at first and they don't really "get" each other and they're absent from each other's lives for long periods and they don't have anyone else. but it's all a lie - they were best friends, they knew each other better than anyone, they are who they are because they knew each other, they were not alone. no matter how bleak the setting is, this fake world can't obscure the truth. they'll never forget each other. it will always have happened, it will always have mattered.

it's so hard to put into words but Owen/Isabel and Maddy/Tara make me so crazy, the way everything in the world works to drive them apart and yet not even losing their memories can destroy the connection between them. and it's not enough to prevent the world from tearing them apart but maybe it's enough to save their lives

queer love portrayed not as supernaturally resilient or invincible (god knows it isn't), but as a precious fragile thing that can and will grow back over and over in some form no matter what ...

[owl-house-facts-i-just-made-up]

OWL HOUSE FACT #72: Willow is convinced she could easily single-handedly beat the entire cast of Wizards of Waverly Place in a fight.

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (10/30/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[dungeons-are-too-cold]

just got home from i saw the tv glow...

SPOILERS FOR I SAW THE TV GLOW

thats gonna need a rewatch

and a long long long long nap

because i am not entirely sure how to deal with everything i saw and the ending and my emotions???? I did not cry (its been a weird day and i am cried out) but like im kinda stunned by it ya know? it was really hard, and really rewarding, and really hard. like not depressing just, sobering? like really hard lmao

like theres something about it thats not frustrating or difficult but like dry and bland (the plot and the feeling not like the movie was bland, but like the emotions within the movie were emmulating a sort of bland unmoving everyday feeling that the characters were feeling) and like overwhelmingly mundane. Just the whole experience owen has throughout the film is so quiet and deeply shameful and protectively mundane, like how he says hes too scared to look inside to check if something is missing... like thats, holy shit man. ya know?

and that's not to say that's bad, i don't want that to be what people think i think, cuz its very very very the opposite of bad. its an incredible piece of cinema in general, but especially queer cinema. I am absolutely dumbstruck by its brilliance. Its just hard. and that's good and the point and okay that its hard. its supposed to be, because it is.

i feel like an asshole in away though because i didnt cry. But I think i was just like, stunned by it more so. Like i was sobered by it, and i have this quiet sort of emotional hollowness in relation to owen and maddie and their friendshipn and their journeys and everything. I feel at a loss for words. I feel like i dont know what to do or say or how to live my life now? like i feel like im in the midnight realm. but the pink opaque feels so incredibly far from my reality that there is almost no attachment to it. I know its real, i just cant get there.

I feel like, in my queerness, i cant see a pink opaque for me. But not in the same disbelief and fear and insanity owen has for maddie in the planetarium like it cant be real at all, but idk like in a resigned kind of dead ache on the inside of me kind of way. I know its real, i just cant get there. And i think that's whats so unsettling and terrifying and humbling and subduing and solemn about it i guess. Its just like, its hard

im sorry I keep saying its hard, its the truth.

as u can see i am unwell about this film in a very scary way i think.

[roydeezed]

Spoilers for "I Saw The TV Glow" by Jane Schoenbrun

I feel like there's an interpretation of the ending that is optimistic while also not being disingenuous. At least I think my interpretation of it is. Essentially, that it is a TV Show. And that it all is real. That yes they do need to fight Mr. Melancholy and yes they do it in the format of a TV Show. And what endings like the ending of the movie are reminiscent of, and playing on the framing device of TV, are cliffhangers. So if we are to take that interpretation to it's natural conclusion what we witnessed was something akin to the end of the first part of a two part season premiere. Where after coming back from a hiatus and a terrifying cancellation, the show comes back with a two parter. How else to explain Owen's relief at opening himself and finding static inside and then going around timidly apologizing for existing. While Schoenbrun doesn't give us a fully optimistic answer, they do give us hope because "There is still time" still rings true for what appears to be an end of life Owen. What we get is hope because Owen has taken the first step into realizing very concretely, that everything is not okay. And yet that sealing back up and hiding and apologizing mirrors existence in such a real way. That it is a stumbling and humiliating existence until you escape. What we saw were those first stumbling steps. Owen might still fail. But what's most important is that for now Failure isn't the end. It's just a step along the way. And. What's important to realize is that Owen might still succeed.

[ilikedetectives]

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[lostandbackagain]

is this anything

[painehell]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Niko Sasaki, Crystal Palace/Niko Sasaki Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Crystal Palace (DCU), Original Characters, Niko Sasaki, Charles Rowland (DCU), Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives) Additional Tags: Family Reunions, Meet the Family, Ghosts, Sibling Bonding, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Autistic Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Touch-Starved Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Touch-Starved Edwardians, References to Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, references to The Shining, Implied Relationships, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Torture, Bullying, (Referenced) - Freeform, Implied/Referenced Murder, References to Edwardian society & culture, Implied/Referenced Teen Marriage, so many ghosts. Summary:

Crystal noticed how withdrawn Edwin had become, how he'd sit there staring into space with no flicker of life on his face. He was dead, so he had no life, but it was still weird to see him not emoting. She was busier since moving back to London, busier since Niko came out of the hospital and requested to be sent to a school in London by writing a letter to her mother. They both had re-enrolled, both had attended the same school now. She didn't have much time to spend with the boys anymore., but still, she noticed this.

Or, the Dead Boy Detectives go to the haunted Payne manor.