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in puzzlevision, instructions for contacting ghosts is readily available on the internet, and is regularly performed by people when bored
unfortunately, the ghosts are often bored too
unfortunately, the ghosts are often bored too
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everyone alive became a furry, so any ghosts or fae with human disguises were suddenly very noticeable
it was in 1970 though, so we've had a very long time for furry ghosts to
art still often uses human figures because people have trouble letting go
3d human animation is a very popular genre
it was in 1970 though, so we've had a very long time for furry ghosts to
art still often uses human figures because people have trouble letting go
3d human animation is a very popular genre
Let me see if I've got this straight: in the Puzzlevision setting, supernatural phenomena such as ghosts and fae are not only real, but easily accessible if you just try (which, I'm guessing, many people do not do because of built-in psychological filters that typically strengthen with age - either that or the supernatural is just hiding, but doesn't try too hard).
One of these phenomena is the mysterious and probably dangerous-to-its-contestants game show Puzzlevision (probably only watchable by performing a reasonably simple ritual). The show has an episodic format wherein the contestants are gradually whittled down - via either elimination or a tournament format - to a single winner who gets to have a single wish granted, no matter how outlandish or far-reaching.
The winner of the 1970 season wished for all humans to turn into anthropomorphic animals. It is likely that because of this, the furry fandom never existed (since in our reality it began in the 80's). I wonder what if anything took its place - the furry fandom has played an important part in queer culture, with tons of young queer people seeking safety in it.
One of these phenomena is the mysterious and probably dangerous-to-its-contestants game show Puzzlevision (probably only watchable by performing a reasonably simple ritual). The show has an episodic format wherein the contestants are gradually whittled down - via either elimination or a tournament format - to a single winner who gets to have a single wish granted, no matter how outlandish or far-reaching.
The winner of the 1970 season wished for all humans to turn into anthropomorphic animals. It is likely that because of this, the furry fandom never existed (since in our reality it began in the 80's). I wonder what if anything took its place - the furry fandom has played an important part in queer culture, with tons of young queer people seeking safety in it.
In Puzzlevision, when the new wave of science in the 1800s caused people to try to apply science to the supernatural, in THIS world, it worked. Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contacted faeries. Ghosts were proven to exist and follow certain rules and were folded into understood natural phenomenon. Cryptic beasts, faeries, gods, supernatural things demonstrably exist, but they're still RARE enough that it's not like you see them every time you go outside. A lot of them still keep to themselves, too.
But you can get a degree in ghost studies, and work with ghosts... but it's not a very high-paying career, and ACTUAL hauntings are a lot more rare than people mistaking leaky houses and infrasound vibrations for hauntings are.
You can get help from a lawyer who specializes in fae law if you end up afoul of one... but you probably won't get into trouble with a faery if you're just a normal person.
Magic IS real, but it's esoteric Levay/Crowley magic and most people don't bother with it, because, I mean, how many people do that in our universe?
All those creepypasta games like the elevator game that lets you go to the alternate universe, SOME of those are real, and kids do them for fun, and sometimes kids die doing them, but most of the time it's something tame and stupid. Like how most highschools have a year where you do health class, they also have a supernaturals class where you learn that you shouldn't try to summon a demon, yes demons are real but most of the summoning rituals you find online are fake but if you DO summon one it's dangerous, watch this video made in the 80s about a kid who summoned a demon.
Bigfoot IS real, and yes, he runs a podcast. Anubis--or at least a fae dog pretending to be Anubis, or maybe the entity Anubis was based on, or SOMEthing like that--is real, and yes, he's a CEO of a major corporation now. Teapot, a kamaitachi, IS a super popular Twitch streamer. But it isn't like the world is full of that--those things are still exceptional and unique in Puzzlevision, just not impossible to its ontology.
A very bad sideways comparison is to say it's like transpeople were in our world, a few decades ago, maybe. Like, Janet's a vampire. We know what vampires are! But the average person knows nothing but stereotypes and rumors about vampires. Janet goes to a doctor for her vampirism, but medical science is still struggling to catch up to the reality of it. You see a vampire in public, and it's something you know exists, but holy shit is that a real vampire? That's wild I've never seen one before I'm going to go ask it if it really drinks blood!
Puzzlevision is one of the things we know 0 things about still. It just took over ALL television for the entirety of 1970, and a million people disappeared from their homes and were contestants on it. After a year of eliminations, the winner, someone into that real early furry shit, ended up winning and wishing we were all funny animals. The world has still not recovered from the trauma and the winner was lynched within a week.
But doing that also made racism really HARD. There's no external signifiers for race other than, like, maybe language and dress, and even then like, no that's not guaranteed. It's HARD to be a white nationalist when "white" isn't a thing anymore. There's still shitty people in Puzzlevision, there's still ethnonationalism and all that, but racism has become a lot harder to rally around in general. On the otherhand, it's made positive cultural/racial identity somewhat more fragile, too.
Queer relationships got Slightly Better already because everyone being animals made sex weird for everyone. And then in 2000, Puzzlevision came BACK. And the winner wished for superheroes to be real, and he was one of the superheroes. He's basically Superman, not just in power-set but in like, outlook. The GOOD superman, the one who hung out with the suicidal girl on the edge of a skyscraper for hours until she was okay. That kind of Superman.
The Superman exists, and he's gay. The effects of one of the most powerful, morally-pure people on the planet saying "gay rights" means in modern Puzzlevision, it's a lot easier to be queer than it is in our world.
Puzzlevision is expected to take over all streaming services in 2030, and everyone's very concerned about it.
But you can get a degree in ghost studies, and work with ghosts... but it's not a very high-paying career, and ACTUAL hauntings are a lot more rare than people mistaking leaky houses and infrasound vibrations for hauntings are.
You can get help from a lawyer who specializes in fae law if you end up afoul of one... but you probably won't get into trouble with a faery if you're just a normal person.
Magic IS real, but it's esoteric Levay/Crowley magic and most people don't bother with it, because, I mean, how many people do that in our universe?
All those creepypasta games like the elevator game that lets you go to the alternate universe, SOME of those are real, and kids do them for fun, and sometimes kids die doing them, but most of the time it's something tame and stupid. Like how most highschools have a year where you do health class, they also have a supernaturals class where you learn that you shouldn't try to summon a demon, yes demons are real but most of the summoning rituals you find online are fake but if you DO summon one it's dangerous, watch this video made in the 80s about a kid who summoned a demon.
Bigfoot IS real, and yes, he runs a podcast. Anubis--or at least a fae dog pretending to be Anubis, or maybe the entity Anubis was based on, or SOMEthing like that--is real, and yes, he's a CEO of a major corporation now. Teapot, a kamaitachi, IS a super popular Twitch streamer. But it isn't like the world is full of that--those things are still exceptional and unique in Puzzlevision, just not impossible to its ontology.
A very bad sideways comparison is to say it's like transpeople were in our world, a few decades ago, maybe. Like, Janet's a vampire. We know what vampires are! But the average person knows nothing but stereotypes and rumors about vampires. Janet goes to a doctor for her vampirism, but medical science is still struggling to catch up to the reality of it. You see a vampire in public, and it's something you know exists, but holy shit is that a real vampire? That's wild I've never seen one before I'm going to go ask it if it really drinks blood!
Puzzlevision is one of the things we know 0 things about still. It just took over ALL television for the entirety of 1970, and a million people disappeared from their homes and were contestants on it. After a year of eliminations, the winner, someone into that real early furry shit, ended up winning and wishing we were all funny animals. The world has still not recovered from the trauma and the winner was lynched within a week.
But doing that also made racism really HARD. There's no external signifiers for race other than, like, maybe language and dress, and even then like, no that's not guaranteed. It's HARD to be a white nationalist when "white" isn't a thing anymore. There's still shitty people in Puzzlevision, there's still ethnonationalism and all that, but racism has become a lot harder to rally around in general. On the otherhand, it's made positive cultural/racial identity somewhat more fragile, too.
Queer relationships got Slightly Better already because everyone being animals made sex weird for everyone. And then in 2000, Puzzlevision came BACK. And the winner wished for superheroes to be real, and he was one of the superheroes. He's basically Superman, not just in power-set but in like, outlook. The GOOD superman, the one who hung out with the suicidal girl on the edge of a skyscraper for hours until she was okay. That kind of Superman.
The Superman exists, and he's gay. The effects of one of the most powerful, morally-pure people on the planet saying "gay rights" means in modern Puzzlevision, it's a lot easier to be queer than it is in our world.
Puzzlevision is expected to take over all streaming services in 2030, and everyone's very concerned about it.
Headcanons:
There are rumors about Puzzlevision having a 'test run' in the early years of television; following the start of the 2000 search, the rumors all agree that the year was 1940. It's believed the 1940 season was much shorter and had far fewer contestants. Details are scant, at least partly because of the era it happened in, but the government may be keeping some details under wraps, such as the wish at the end of it.
Because of the proven existence of supernatural animal-people, the furry fandom began as part of 60's counterculture.
The Superman comic story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way (aka Superman vs. The Elite), in which Superman goes up against a team of edgy, ultraviolent antiheroes and shows them their was are cruel and unnecessary, never happened in the comic; it instead happened in real life. Instead of the comic being published months before September 11, the events happened months after it; September 11 was in fact one of the team's cited reasons for being formed.
There are rumors about Puzzlevision having a 'test run' in the early years of television; following the start of the 2000 search, the rumors all agree that the year was 1940. It's believed the 1940 season was much shorter and had far fewer contestants. Details are scant, at least partly because of the era it happened in, but the government may be keeping some details under wraps, such as the wish at the end of it.
Because of the proven existence of supernatural animal-people, the furry fandom began as part of 60's counterculture.
The Superman comic story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way (aka Superman vs. The Elite), in which Superman goes up against a team of edgy, ultraviolent antiheroes and shows them their was are cruel and unnecessary, never happened in the comic; it instead happened in real life. Instead of the comic being published months before September 11, the events happened months after it; September 11 was in fact one of the team's cited reasons for being formed.
oh, and the human-fandom exists in the furry fandom's stead, with people making humansonas of what they think they would look like if they were human
anime still uses human forms predominantly, and cgi-humans are popular because, like, most humans still respond to human faces that part of us didn't change.
anime still uses human forms predominantly, and cgi-humans are popular because, like, most humans still respond to human faces that part of us didn't change.
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