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no no god please can we talk about how maddy/tara finds her heart. their hearts. locked away and still beating. and we have to assume, even though she dug herself out, she’s still dying without her heart. but she left it there. she left it there with isabel’s because she needs to go back in, they need to get out together. she left her heart. they’re both still beating but she left her heart. to go back.

guess who just got out of the theater

thinking about how maddy/tara mentions working at build-a-bear in the monologue. thinking about how the most important part of the bear-stuffing ritual at build-a-bear is giving your stuffed animal a heart. thinking about tara and isabel's hearts in the freezer that mr. melancholy took from them. how the beauty of the pink opaque came from owen and maddy bestowing meaning upon it. can anyone hear me.

"There is still time" is the hardest I've been hit by a line since "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you"

in honor of me seeing one (1) post about this movie, here's some old art I made immediately after viewing it. transition or die.

[click for better quality good lord || also my review for the movie under the cut]

the first real dialogue we hear from the pink opaque is isabel's narration in the intro - "tara is my imaginary best friend. and i'm hers." which seems like the setup for...frankly a cooler show, you instantly think, oh, are they from different dimensions? different worlds?

and then you learn that they live in the same town, just on opposite sides of the county. it's implied that they don't meet up in person after the pilot for safety reasons (mr. melancholy could get them both if they were in the same place - as he does in the s5 finale) but it's so close. it's such a self-imposed kind of thing. why does nobody else in isabel's life believe that tara exists, and vice versa? is it a girlfriend in canada kind of deal? do they have no mutual friends, do they never run into the same monsters? where is double lunch?

but that's the rub of it, isn't it? the suburbs are forever. and also the "imaginary best friend" thing is the twist of the movie. this person, this world, can't possibly exist. there can't be someone who understands you that well. "i've traveled a long way to see you," tara/maddy says. the other side of the tv screen is so close. it's so far. this life is right there if you want to grasp it but it's also unimaginable. god.

maddy saying very intensely "don't apologize." in the beginning after the first time they watch the pink opaque and owen is embarrassed by not knowing much about it -> owen's continuous apologies at the end

I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

When you think back on watching The Pink Opaque, how do you remember it?

I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

one thing im noticing abt ‘i saw the tv glow’ at the very beginning is how beautiful it is that maddy loves tara so much. that she says tara is super hot and badass and how she cries when tara beats the shit out of the monster of the week. how she loves this version of herself so much and she does not yet understand that it is her.

yellowjackets ship names are so boring so i’ve proposed some alternatives:

jackieshauna: coldcuts

lottienat: antlerqueen

lottielee: faithhealer

mistynat: prescription drugs

(adult) taishauna: affair partners

travnat: fatherless

LMAO the funniest thing about toa is that little haikus on each chapters

they usually go on like this:

ohmygods is that a rat

wait im one of that gods haha

btw i hate reptiles

at first you read it youre like wtf is this about

and at the end of the chapter you understand them

watching the scene where maddy draws the symbol on the back of owen’s neck was like. oh. Oh. this is Such an intimate experience and even though, physically, we are watching a boy and a girl exist on screen, it is SO MUCH a representation of a young queer person’s first experiences of intimacy with the same gender that it almost physically hurts. i felt like i was intruding. how much she touches him, pushes his head forward, the slow drawing of the pen, fingers drawing softly over her shoulders afterward. it was so tender.

just for the record I cried at the end of 'i saw the tv glow' but I also cried at the part where all Maddy's labels on the tapes are showing up on the screen and it's talking about Maddy taping the episodes for Owen. because that's such a specific type of love and it made me weep.

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

when i first saw the scene with maddie drawing the sigil on owen’s neck, i was like “why does this seem like it was shot in a romantic way? maddie made it very clear she liked girls.” and then i realized. she does like girls.

man. tara went back for isabel and it’s like such a plot that Would happen in one of those shows like one of the best friends is trapped in a simulation and the other has to pull her out but IT DOESNT WORK!!!! that is so fucked up that’s insane

something about how we watch in excruciating detail how repression suffocates owen over years and years and the only escape is fiction and then nostalgia. and maddy comes back to save him but he can’t let himself be saved because the midnight realm is so unforgiving and mr melancholy has buried him deep deep underground and we have to watch and contend with the fact that we live in that unforgiving, suffocating world. and this message is so raw and painful and sad and horrifying but then the creators of the movie speak to us directly to tell us that there is still time. and by reaching out through the horror they do something so powerfully gentle and kind because they knew what this movie would do and the impact it would have and they knew how essential it is to say that there is still time. i saw the tv glow is truly such a labor of love and it makes me cry

i think that one of the reasons i saw the tv glow is so compelling is that the story at face value, before even considering the trans metaphor (which enhances the story over-all), is just fucking cool. A Story about two people who May or May Not be from an alternate universe where they have superpowers and are currently being buried alive, only able to to know or see their previous lives through a tv show? where they're being forced to live alternate, worse lives that are slowly killing them both metaphorically and physically?? dude it's just cool it's cool all the way down

no no god please can we talk about how maddy/tara finds her heart. their hearts. locked away and still beating. and we have to assume, even though she dug herself out, she’s still dying without her heart. but she left it there. she left it there with isabel’s because she needs to go back in, they need to get out together. she left her heart. they’re both still beating but she left her heart. to go back.

i saw the tv glow is a cautionary tale that is as horrific as it is hesitantly optimistic. it is a movie that tells us that so long as our heart is still beating there is still time. that you can uncover the buried parts of yourself and face the truth inside that you have denied. finally waking up from the pitch black to a sound like rain / static; and you are in the pink opaque - finally able to take steps towards living as the fully actualized version of yourself.

i saw the tv glow, dir. jane schoenbrun // the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

So what did yall think ab this movie. Personally I think it was one of the most gut wrenching types of a wake up call you can ever hear

did you guys know that the tv shows you watched when you were a closeted queer teenager are real and they can save you

hadestown art dump cuz im on the grind i fear. gods this musical has consumed my being

on the sixth day god created white tank top with no bra and he saw that it was good

nobody wants to write 6-8k heartwrenching introspective one shots that rehash the events of canon but insert romantic moments between characters that make the inevitable conclusions of canon even more painful anymore.... all they know is abo, modern au and lie