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remembertheplunge · 8 months

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TV

The TV is on from dawn to dusk. On. On. Always on. So great. To shut the TV off. The bright red pyracantha berries out the back window “return”. Last Sunday, stereo TVs in the living room and in the den. TV the brute soul sucker. Perpetual (E) motion machine. Under the guise of moral purity, it fuels the culture of desire.

February 1, 2004 7:17am. Super Bowl Sunday.

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I lived with my partner Jim in 2004 and he always had the TV on When he died in 2009, the TV “died” too. I just wasn’t up to dealing with it’s intensity. Later, 1n 2010, when Martin moved in , I got a TV for him to watch. He was 22 and loved it. I’d watch, too. Martin left in late 2014. I haven’t had a TV in the house since about 2016. I blog in the evenings instead of TVing.

I heard a song for the first time today, 2/4/2024, on Apple Play.It’s called “TV” and its by Billie Eilish. The lyrics remind my of a journal entry put to music. At the end of the song, she sings “Maybe I, Maybe I, Maybe I’m the problem” over and over. Then, it’s as if she blogged her “entry”, many voices are singing the “Maybe I” lyric over and over along with her.

#2/1/2004 #TV #having no TV #blogging instead #Billie Eilish “TV” song #The song TV is like a journal entry put to music and then “blogged”#when the TV is off #the world comes into view #TV as soul sucker #gay relationship #life changes when relationships change or end

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cozylittleartblog · 2 months

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Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

#columbo #knight rider #art #michael knight #kitt #comic #highlight reel #crossover #telebeast #there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public #this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy #if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo #this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them #niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet #not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao #stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio #cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps #this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march #is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool #ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN #COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page #i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier #action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write #more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3 #there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty #i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes #the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔

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spaceorphan18 · 3 months

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It's amazing to think about that in 24 hours time, Penelope Featherington has the following things happen to her:

Accepts her fate of having a somewhat lonely marriage that at least allows her freedom.

Has that said marriage prospect ruined

Finds out that her best friend and love of her life not only has feelings for her but has been pining for her

Gets fingered in the back of a carriage

Gets ENGAGED

Survives the whirlwind of the Bridgertons

Gets in a fight with her (other) best friend, who tells her she better own up to Whistledown before she spills the beans

Goes home and writes an entire Whistledown

Manages to get the Whistledown to the printers in time (seriously the turn around on this is bonkers.)

Waits for the Whistledown to announce her engagement to her mother - because she knows it's a little dig at her mother

Best friend/love of her life/now hot fiance scolds her mother and stands up for her

Loses her virginity so hard it breaks the furniture

GETS PREGNANT

And then has the Queen offering, like, a million dollars to find out her identity.

All of that in less than 24 hours. It's more like 12 to 16 hours. No wonder this girl needs a minute to, like, breathe... or take a long nap. Did she even sleep?

this show is wild...

#bridgerton #polin #penelope featherington #penelope bridgerton #i just needed to get that off my chest because it is crazy when you smush it all together like that #tv show timelines are crazy #polination

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zipsunz · 1 year

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a comic i did for sunny's birthday ☀️ 🎨

(art by me, script by @sunkitty143!)

#omori #omori sunny #omori mari #omori hero #omori kel #my art #cat collab #comics #a few notes just for fun:#we hc it was summer and mari and sunny were 9 and 5/6 respectively when they moved to faraway town #we also hc sunny as selectively mute! sunny and mari only moved a couple months ago #so the montoyas are still in the early stages of learning ASL ^^#sunny canonically used to stay up to turn off the lamp for mari when she finally fell asleep (who reads to help with insomnia)#the reason for the sleepover is mr. montoya getting the boys a SNES #bought an old tv off a guy who works for him and everything. it's a Big Event #ya that's it lol

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sugarcoatednightshade · 10 months

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thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

#humans are space orcs #humans in space #earth is a deathworld #earth is space australia #tagging this so that ppl can find it even though the space shit i write about always feels like its in direct opposition to all the pop tag #also my biggest pet peeve in all of writing - all writing. everywhere. not just in fanfic but books and tv and movies too - is when people #write off an injury by saying something like 'oh nothing bad just a couple of scratches some bruising and a minor concussion' like girl WHA #MiNOr ConCuSSioN is such an oxymoron and I hate it so fucking much. like i dont care how minor it was thats still brain damage.#especially when the same character does this more than once. like im sorry ms. but uh. you can no longer read. or talk eloquently. sorry #evidence: my brother has had two 'minor' concussions and now cannot read write or speak without tremendous effort. And like its totally #ruined my ability to watch action shows/movies because now i just sit there and count how many concussions there characters are getting #after a certain point it becomes totally impossible to believe that these guys are able to function. (still fun to watch tho im not a hater

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einaudis · 3 months

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"I could feel a presence in the theater. A familiar scent. The audience was leering and feral. We were on trial for murder. And all I could think was... he's coming."

AMC's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S02E07 - I COULD NOT PREVENT IT

#Interview with the Vampire #IWTV #iwtvedit #tvedit #tvgifs #filmtvcentral #filmtvdaily #cinemapix #mine*#mygifs #tv*#iwtvmine #the visceral reaction I had when he threw off that jacket. the visceral reaction I still have whenever I rewatch that part #this was painful to make though. cropping these gifs was a test to my patience. so was the caption #also this is the first gifset I make in months. as usual I felt like I forgot how to do this. but ok it's done. yay

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sudenlyanime · 11 months

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These two are GAY. They are PARTNERS. They are MARRIED. They decided to team up just so they could make it EVERYONE’S problem. No I do not take criticism.

#listen when Heigi said he would have liked Fowler’s painting in his room #and when Fowler said he wasn’t waiting on him for dinner #they just give off toxic married couple vibes #blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai spoilers #blueeyesamurai #tv: blue eye samurai #bes #abijah fowler #heigi Shindo

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robotpussy · 8 months

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#polls #personally i dont like it but thats only because i dont like fandom. the type of stuff that gets the most attention #in fandom usually just annoys me idk. how to explain it in a way that wont come off as me saying #fanfic or whatever is evil its just the fact that it just bombards alot of the conversations?#i prefer it when the thing i like has 10 fans and theyre all on one message board or forum #like for example mtvs downtown is getting popular but apart from annoying #'me and the mid nerd guy i copped by being weird and sexy' posts its not awful....#but then smth like... clone high or smth i suddenly cant remember ppl just got so annoying abt that show??#like i cant stand it i dont even bother watching it anymore plus its just weird to me now like i can't watch it regardless #im just rambling but personally i do not like it. like i dont want what i like to get a revival #i dont want anything new! i just want to enjoy the thing and move on 😭#fandom seems to prioritize shipping and memes over evaluating or simply just enjoying something!#this goes for anything. music film tv books....

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meidui · 5 months

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[concerned older brother mode]

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bentley0nfire · 11 days

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Watching psych is the ultimate form of procrastination because I get to watch other people procrastinate on more important things

#like yes gus i will do the dishes eventually but first we have to solve the murder iv been putting off #like of course they take time to make nachos when a literal murderer is on the loose #what else would you do???#television #tv shows #shawn spencer #burton guster #carlton lassiter #juliet ohara #psych #pineapple #psych 2006

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greenconverses · 8 months

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so the latest two episodes have perfectly showcased my main problem with the series and what i think is its greatest weakness. i truly could not care about absolute faithfulness to the source material as long as something fun and innovative is happening on screen and… it’s not! and part of that is because the show refuses to let there be any goddamn mystery about the greek myths and monsters of the week

all the episodes so far have had a formula: monsters must be immediately identified and exposition must be delivered. there is zero tension. we get boinked over the head with a lesson about something related to family. the monster is easily defeated/escaped with a poorly shot action scene. rinse and repeat as necessary.

medusa’s appearance is really the only one this formula worked for because they set up it right away in the beginning and she’s a greek myth most people could name, so making her a mystery is kind of a moot point.

but there’s no excuse to at least try to make everything else actually scary and strange and mysterious! actually let your show have some tension! let the audience work their brains for a bit! it’s fine!

(annabeth “knowing everything” isn’t a good enough reason either because she’s TWELVE and hasn’t been in the real world for years and these monsters have been clever enough to disguise themselves and kill demigods for years and years and MAYBE IT’S CHARACTER GROWTH TO LET HER BE WRONG)

anyway can we get some TV directors with action experience and a better script next season plz

#pjo tv show #jess watches pjo #PJO tv #i have Thoughts #someone get richard out of the writer’s room next season #the show is fun when they go off script for a bit and let the kids be kids

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cozylittleartblog · 9 months

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