#spider-man: totd

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

saturday night’s alright (for fighting) || spider-man: turn off the dark peter parker fancam

[optimisticrunawaygalaxy]

*taps mic* Hello Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark community, i am throwing (a little bit of) food your way, I made a pixelart version of his symbol! its 72 x 60 without the outline, and with it its 74 x 62

Upscaled version

From top to bottom: Without outline, thin outline, thin outline with one/two pixel holes filled, thick outline, thick outline with one/two pixel holes filled

And all of them in one file! No line, thin filled, thin, thick filled, thick

Can be used for whatever, credit not required but preferred, can be used as reference, can be edited

[yourmusicmuse]

Dear Beyond The Spider-Verse Team:

PLEASE HAVE A REEVE CARNEY CAMEO/SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK REFERENCE IN THE MOVIE

One line!! That's all I need!! You have the chance to be so iconic here besties

You were originally gonna have a TOTD reference in ITSV, but it didn't fit- and that's okay! BUT PLEASE GUYS IT'S THE OPPORTUNITY OF ALL TIME 🙏

Also, Spider-Verse fans, if this is how you learn there was a Spider-Man musical? Please do have fun reading about it, it's an absolute train wreck and it's all the more reason to have a reference ❤

Sincerely, Ari the TOTD Advocate

[spidermantotd]

good god when the spider-man: turn off the dark hits.........

[mistconnections]

there is not nearly enough spider-man turn off the dark content

[eurydice-arachne]

Reeve Carney and TV Carpio being absolutely ADORABLE backstage (or are they at the stagedoor????) at Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

[ananas-pineapple-thing]

i dont know why last week i started randomly liveblogging me listening to spider-man totd like i never heard it before i actually listened to it 2 years ago and promptly forgot everything except for the DIY world chorus which has lived and continues to live in my head rent free

[teen-heart-throb-mr-hyde]

i could create a three-way venn diagram between j&h, tgwdlm and spider-man totd with surprising ease

[canaryatlaw]

OKAY so today was a lot of course. I had my alarm set for fucking 3:45 am but OF COURSE kitty decided to jump on me at precisely 3:31 am and I was like really kitty?? really???? that she proceeded to bite things while I tried to lay down for ten more minutes until I just kicked her out of the room, then sorrowfully dragged my ass out of bed when my alarm went off. Didn’t have to do much to get ready of course so I was good to go by 4, went on uber and put the first stop as Jess’ place so we could pick her up then to the airport, and so we did. the airport was fairly chill lol nobody all that awake since it was like 4:45 am. we needed caffeine so we did a fairly ridiculous starbucks order (and by that I mean I goaded Jess into ordering a soy chai with two espresso shots which they then made as a soy chai with three espresso shots and I was so thrilled with myself) then walked down to the gate. We waited like 20 minutes or so till we started boarding. Jess SOMEHOW managed to get upgraded to “comfort plus” which is coach but slightly less shitty, so she got to be like 3 rows ahead of me while I was in coach with the commoners. Apparently they gave her bananas and several snack choices, whereas when they handed me a cranberry almond breakfast bar and I was like “do you have anything that doesn’t have nuts in it?” they were like “no” which made me want to pretend I was allergic to nuts and write to delta complaining about this. but during the actual plane ride I spent most of it reading the complaint I got yesterday about the torts issues I forget if I talked about this or not?? I’ll get to it at some point lol. I got sorta sleepy at the end and was kinda fading in and out of sleep when we landed. Upon landing we found my bag rather easily, then went on a wild goose chase trying to find where you can get to the ubers, then was like oh fuck that’s a really expensive uber but guess we don’t really have any other choice??? so we took our really expensive uber over through manhattan to where our airbnb is in “West New York” New Jersey, because staying in Manhattan is like upwards of $250 per night and that’s not happening. so we’re in a bedroom of an apartment which is fine. we got changed and then took another uber over to where NYCC actually is, which got caught in traffic around like construction getting out of new jersey and took forever. but THEN we got to the con center. it’s huge, of course. Oh, we’re cosplaying Gary and Ava, last minute change from our Riverdale plans because Jess wanted to be able to carry her Beebo around all day and I hear that was a massive hit. So she got a signing with the Titans cast at like 1:15, so we walked around a bit and then I went to get food because I hadn’t eaten since 5 am starbucks because I wasn’t seated on the nice section of the plane, so I went out to the food trucks and waited in a very long line for some second rate mac and cheese from a food truck (I was disappointed) while Jess got to go to her lovely signing. then I ate the food, then I went to the bathroom which also had a long line and tried to make the wig that I hate look semi-decent and idk if it worked, but then Jess was done so I tried to guide her to where I was and just ended up going to find her anyway. Once we were reunited we went through the show floor for a while, then the artist alley, and this was about the point where Facebook informed me they reached a verdict in the Laquan McDonald murder trial for former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. Imma go off on a bit of a thing here, but like, you cannot underestimate how much this case has effected the public to police relations in Chicago. Basically, short story, a white cop shot and killed a black teenager (who happened to be a foster child, which I know because people I worked with knew him) when there are like 7 other cops on the scene and right away goes on the record saying Laquan lunged at him with a knife so he had to shoot him in self-defense, and the other cops on the scene all backed up his story. Case closed, right? It would’ve been if a certain dashboard camera hadn’t surfaced with the entire incident on video with Laquan walking AWAY from Van Dyke and Van Dyke just shooting him in cold blood, and every. single. officer. on the scene lied to protect him. like, if that isn’t a gigantic message to minority communities that they can't trust the police, idk what is. But that was 2014, it took them a full year to release the video and finally bring charges, and up till now that they actually tried him. I’ve been following the trial fairly closely thanks to a podcast called 16 Shots (oh yeah, did I forget to mention that Van Dyke put 16 bullets in this 17 year old foster child?) which had been recapping the court coverage every day. At first hearing the jury had a verdict after about a day and a half of deliberation, I felt kinda worried because it felt to me like it would take more than that to convict a cop of first degree murder. the outcome though was one I was halfway expecting, they convicted him of second degree murder, which is known as a lesser-included offense, meaning it’s something the jury can decide on if they don’t feel like the full charge is warranted but he’s not innocent either. second degree murder in this case is following the imperfect self-defense rule, which is when a person believes that they need to kill the other person in self-defense, but that belief was unreasonable (whereas a reasonable belief would potentially get you acquitted). So I wasn’t terribly shocked when the verdict came back with that. The interesting part for me at least ended up being that they convicted him of 16 counts of aggravated battery (one for each shot) and that has sparked some conversations among law students/lawyers on my page as to whether those sentences would run consecutively or concurrently, because if it’s the former he may very well die in prison, being as the mandatory minimum on the charge is 6 years (which would place him at a total of 96 years, on top of the murder sentence) so we’ll have to see how sentencing plays out. but of course they immediately revoked his bail and he’s sitting in prison tonight, the first of many nights to come, and that is at least some justice to what has been such a divisive incident, even when I personally feel like there were enough aspects of premeditation (such as before he got to the scene hearing what the cops were saying and remarking “I guess we have to shoot him then”) to warrant first degree murder. but anyway, back to con world. we walked through artist alley for a bit and then ended up meeting up with a new friend who is gonna be one of the co-hosts with Jess and I on the upcoming Batwoman podcast, so we just sat and chilled for a while to talk and get to know each other and it went really well! So I’m definitely looking forward to that adventure. After that we wandered the show floor some more until it was 4:30 and I could line up for my funko buying slot. they have a lottery to be able to purchase any of the NYCC exclusive funko pops, and if you get a slot you can purchase them but only one of each type. At first the booth was kinda a mess and there was like a huge people traffic jam but I waded through it and found the actual line. I ended up talking to this kid behind me who was from Scotland who was pretty nice (I say kid because I was like “you’re a baby right?” and he was like “well I’m about to turn 21″ and I was like “yeah that’s what I thought” 😂😂) but we just talked about the pops and the options and some of the shows, so that was nice. he ended up buying like 21 of them I think because he was bringing a bunch home to different friends. I ended up buying four, killer frost for a friend, the Supergirl one that I may or may not resell at some point, Aquaman just because I wanted him, and one of the characters from New Girl for Jess because the main character is named Jess and she has a friend (”friend”) with the characters name so she really wanted that. the line took a bit but once we got up to the counter they were super quick. they then proceeded to give me the biggest bag known to man, made out of those like reusable shopping bag material but like, maybe about 4 feet by 4 feet in height and length? it’s fucking huge lol. but after that I met back up with Jess and we headed out, ended up taking the subway one stop up to times square just because we weren’t sure if the neighborhoods we would have to walk through if we did walk would be safe. Once we got there we needed food so I suggested Juniors because I always end up there and they haven’t let me down once. I of course got my favorite matzo ball soup and a potato pancake, and it was lovely as always. After we finished dinner we walked up to where the theatre was and got in line for the very first preview of King Kong, the broadway musical. We had seen the theatre marquee for it back in July when we saw mean girls (which was right around the corner) and Jess really wanted to see it, and it just so happened to start while we were already gonna be in NY so clearly that was fate. So we lined up, the opened the theatre a little earlier than usual so we got to our seats and waited for a bit. Now of course, as an actor and someone with a degree in Theatre, I automatically analyze just about every element of a show, whether I’m trying to or not. I basically expected it to be a dumpster fire, and there were definitely some cringeworthy moments, but they were fewer than I expected. I of course expected the technical elements to be phenomenal and absolutely groundbreaking as far as broadway goes because this has definitely never been done up till this point and they absolutely nailed every element of the technical side of things. Sadly what was lacking was what would classify as the heart and soul of any broadway musical- the book and the score. It reminded me a lot of Spider-Man: TOTD in that they invested heavily in technical elements but lacked in actual story and musical quality. I will say, the lead woman absolutely carried the show, and she was fucking phenomenal, so I will definitely give her credit for that. Now I haven’t actually seen the old movie from he 30′s that this was based on so I can’t say for sure, but I don’t believe the character of Ann Darrow was originally a POC, so I liked that they went in that direction. but as far as music goes, I can recall like, maybe a few words and a few stanzas of music, but the rest of it was very forgettable. again, though, the technical elements were absolutely phenomenal. So they definitely get credit for that. I couldn't help but thinking man, they’re gonna sweep on those technical effects Tonys they never actually air on tv 😂😂😂. I feel like the appeal is very similar to spider-man as well, and their main patrons are gonna be tourists, which I mean is a fairly good model to work off in NYC, so I predict it’ll run for a few years then quietly disappear, and not many will miss it. so when it was over we got an uber back to our airbnb, showered and got ready for bed and now I’m here and OY am I tired as I’m sure you could assume from the beginning of this post, but consider this me signing off for now. Goodnight loves. Happy weekend.

[thoughtsonthedead]

You Know Why They Call Him "Spider-Man," Right?*

You Know Why They Call Him “Spider-Man,” Right?*

Now, Enthusiasts, you know how much TotD loves Spider-Face. He leaps about gaily and quips for justice; he roots for the Mets. I loved Spider-Man: Homecoming, and anxiously await the new big-screen installment of everyone’s favorite wall-slinger’s adventures.

But just look at this bullshit:

Did you see it, Enthusiasts? Did you see…

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

Advertisement for Rise Above 1 the promotional single for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark [featured on the Carney band website circa 2011]

since the wayback machine may potentially end up going defunct i've been spending time trying to capture and archive stuff from older version of reeve carney's website alongside the carney band websites, this was a flash advertisement (i have an emulator) that couldn't be saved from site so i screen recorded it and then turned it into a gif so now anyone can use it for their pleasure. i'll be posting stuff here and there that was saved from the wayback machine in the future as well.

[optimisticrunawaygalaxy]

just learned that totd is also a acronym for a bunch of other things, including "thought of the day" and a fandom. i am sorry to those people for flooding the tag with incredibly cringy spiderman live posting but unfortunatley i reallly dont feel like writing out Spider-Man: Turn off The Dark every time

[bushwickbear]

                                HEY, LETS HELP A SISTER OUT

     So, my job doesn't really pay that well and I have to pay for school and food and looks like a have to use my last resort.. selling my babes. 

PRICES:

Tour/On/Off Broadway are $2 each

Closed Broadway Shows are $5 each

Signed/Exclusive Bills (ex. Pride) are $10 each

Shirts and other Memorabilia are $10-$25

 *= I do have a signed version for sale

What’s in Stock

  *B&W Cinderella Revival (Keke Pamler as Cinderella, Sherie Renee Scott as  Madame)

 Colored On the Town OBC

Kinky Boots ( Billy Porter as Lola, Andy Kelso as Charlie Price, Jeanna de Waal as Lauren)

Hunchback of Notre Dame at Papermill Playhouse (Ciara Renee as Esmerelda, Erik Lieberman as Quasimodo)

Colored Something Rotten OBC

Pride Finding Neverland

Anastasia at Hartford Stage (Derek Klena as Gleb, rest the same as OBC)

Tour Sister Act (Ta’Rea Campbell as Deloris Van Cartier)

Signed Pippin Revival ( Carly Hughes as Leading Player, Josh Kaufman as Pippin)

Signed Matilda (Queen Lesli as Mrs. Wormwood)

Aladdin OBC

Little Mermaid ( Chelsea Morgan Stock as Ariel, Drew Seeley as Eric)

Tour Newsies

Merch

Spider-Man TOTD Pop! Doll

Wants? Just Cash or playbills from Godspell, Cats, or CATCF

If Anyone needs more information, make an offer or has questions you may message me here or send anything to my email autumn.greenidge@icloud.com and we can chat there :) Thanks for helping!

[spidermantotd]

so i’m aware that i am literally the only person in the spider-man turn off the dark fandom, but since bullying by numbers isn’t on the official soundtrack, it doesn’t have written lyrics anywhere i could find

so. i wrote them down myself

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

happy 10th anniversary to spider-man: turn off the dark!

i don’t make my own posts on here often but it’s one of my all time favourite musicals and it genuinely brings me so much joy and even though most people hate it, i’m gonna love it like no one else and it means so much to me even if it seems corny as hell to everyone else.

the show got a lot of criticism and a lot of people genuinely wanted to see it fail but the cast and crew cared so much and put in so much effort, every performance was genuine and they wanted it to be good and it shows even in the crappy bootlegs. i can’t remember where i saw he said this but whenever i think of the bad criticism and all that, i always think of reeve carney saying that he ignored all that and thought instead about the young kids in the audience who were gonna get to see spidey fly over them and how he wanted to put on a good show for them and i think that’s incredibly special and encapsulates how much they all cared.

and if they didn’t care, if there wasn’t genuine joy and love for this show, then a loser like me wouldn’t be here loving it still, the songs continue to get me through rough times, the characters mean so much to me, yeah it’s silly and it’s probably a mess but it has HEART and LOVE and that means everything to me and i’ll take that over something soulless any day.

so happy 10 years to totd, thanks for existing and helping me to rise above 🥺💝

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

peter parker and arachne in ‘love me or kill me’ - spider-man: turn off the dark (version 1.0)

“you threw the best part of you in the trash”