The weirdo in the back of your English class. Toxic yaoi enjoyer, but I’ll also post about my other things.
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tumblr is way cooler on election night than twitter cause at least everyone here is like i wanna die but don’t kill yourself
If I may, let me add a list of resources to support Ukraine as well.
I know that in internet/24 hour new coverage time it’s been an eternity since Ukraine was attacked, but we cannot forget them.
if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted
life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters
okay, but why is the Central Valley fucking the rest of California?
I know it's ~cringe~ and unacceptable, but a lot of voters are very much on board with "I love my country and want to make it better even though it's done some bad shit" moreso than any kind of active denigration and hatred of the country, and the former is more positive and effective. And I think that's what's helping Kamala a lot, in spite of the twitterati and punditariat. People want to not feel exhausted and drained and hopeless about the future.
Check your voter registration status - YOU CAN REGISTER AND VOTE IN PERSON DAY OF
Know your rights as a voter
Voter safety and resources for domestic violence survivors - you can cast a secret ballot at the polls
How to stay safe during civil unrest (PDF)
27/7 LGBTQ+ friendly suicide hotline that you can call, text, or chat
let’s get these depressed gay men trending
Election night really feels like a shitty, stressful adult version of Christmas Eve. Gathering with family and friends, going to bed and struggling to fall asleep, quivering with anticipation, except instead of joyous, youthful excitement you get dread, anxiety, and loss of faith in humanity.
broo this fucking sucks i'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] murder an old pawnbroker with an axe, act like the most suspicious person in all of st. petersburg while wrestling with my guilty concience, confess to it all within like 72 hours, and be exiled to siberia.
Good morning true blue Patriots, are you ready to start the steal?
here's what we know so far
Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.
See the Winston/Julia/O’Brien love triangle would never happen because having any kind of queer relationship would never be greenlit by any of those executives (especially if these are the same Netflix executives that decided to make Dorian and Basil SIBLINGS in the new podg adaptation). The homoeroticism would hurt marketability, we can’t have that 😣.
not that there wouldn’t be a love triangle though. They’d probably just write in a new female character.
Everything else about this is painfully accurate.
Just waiting for some braindead capitalists in Hollywood or at Netflix to announce they're producing an adaptation of 1984 "but with a fresh, modern take", and then they're just ageing down all the characters so they can have a dystopian YA story where all the kids get sorted into one of the four ministries and somehow Winston and Julia's relationship gets turned into a love triangle because the producers add O'Brien to the mix for "some drama", and then they have Winston and Julia start a violent rebellion to overthrow the system which is spread out over 4 movies (or 5 seasons on TV), just so they can sell tons of overpriced eyeshadow palettes while an insane amount of "Which Ministry would you be in" quizzes pop up on the internet and ppl make stupid Newspeak TikToks, completely missing the point.
Since u guys keep saying this book is actually about toxic/doomed yoai and not about the government
Can you imagine if Rodion Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment was alive today and asked about his hobbies?
Dude would literally say:
* sleeping on the couch
* fainting
* becoming manic
* definitely not committing murder
BITCH FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING
EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS INSANE FOR THIS BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL AP LANG
Aldous Huxley walked so that horny wattpad authors could run. What a king.
broke: a/b/o originated from a shitty study on wolf pack dynamics
woke: a/b/o originated from A Brave New World
I fucking love scrawny pathetic men
the great gatsby
realizing you hate Holden Caulfield because he reminds you too much of how you acted in high school.
@sluttish-armchair
Julia.
the urge to fuck him when he starts rambling about nerdy shit i don't understand
*squeezes him in my fist* *holds him close to my chest* … he’s perfect
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad"
rb if you’ve heard of/read watership down im trying to see something. it was such a big part of my childhood and still lives in my heart
OP i agree with all of this, but I’d also like to add that the “survival” theme Newman was going for goes against the entire point of the original novel. THE WHOLE POINT of 1984 originally was that through loving each other, Winston and Julia were able to do more than survive, they were able to find scraps of joy and meaning outside of the Party. In fact, that’s a major reason why the Party suppresses interpersonal relationships, because it exists by monopolizing the energies and activities and feelings of it’s citizens, and to do this, it keeps them in a state of mind where there sole focus is survival (via war, economic insecurity, repression, etc). By loving each other, Winston and Julia are able to transcend the survival mindset, until they are captured and tortured, which works because a total focus on survival, and the all-consuming fear that accompanies it, crowds out one’s mental space, leaving no energy for interpersonal love.
by reducing Julia’s motives to survival, Newman is denying what makes the Winston/Julia romance a meaningful form of resistance.
Julia by Sandra Newman is a terrible book and here’s why
“Julia never actually liked Winston Smith, she actually thought he was pretentious and annoying.”
So why does she repeatedly tell him she loves him
“She’s lying.”
But why
“She was a honeytrap by the Thought Police.”
But she acts surprised when the Thought Police come to arrest her
“She’s been told to act surprised.”
So she’s just doing as she’s told for the entire novel and never makes any decisions for herself
“Yes! It’s what she has to do to survive! That’s the point of the book!”
Really because she never once says that when she’s being used as a whore for the Thought Police, if anything it seems like she’s motivated by the prospect of getting a new flat, plus she seems to put actual effort into adopting the party’s ideology, so clearly it’s not just about survival…
“Okay so Julia’s motivations are a little confused, but this book adds so much that Orwell didn’t consider in the original!”
Like what
“The Holodomor.”
Jesus Christ…
“No, but it’s the survival theme again, she sells her mother out in order to escape the famine!”
Okay, and how does she feel about that?
“She doesn’t, she was only a kid, she can’t hold herself responsible.”
Really? Because Winston held himself responsible for the deaths of his mother and sister, and he was only a kid, it’s part of what makes him so complex…
“Well that wouldn’t work here anyway.”
Why not?
“Julia’s mother makes her do it.”
Are you serious? Does Julia make a single decision in the entire story?
“Of course! She runs away at the end.”
What, when she’s seven months pregnant and has been tortured and starved for months? I thought this was supposed to be about providing a woman’s perspective on the original; what woman would choose to go for a cross country run in that physical state?
“Julia’s built different. She doesn’t even get scared when the rats jump onto her face.”
Why would she? It’s never established that she was scared of them in the first place!
“She bites one of their heads off.”
Cringe, then what
“Oh, then they just let her go.”
You cannot be serious
“Of course! They’ve got to use Room 101 at least a hundred times a day, so she just runs out the clock.”
And how does she figure that out
“She doesn’t, someone…”
…tells her to do it, quel surprise
“No but this character is a super cool badass female OC who O’Brien plagiarises because he has no ideas of his own.”
Are you aware of the irony of writing that in a book that wouldn’t exist without Orwell’s original
“Yeah but Orwell’s protagonist is so whiny!”
He’s a victim of a totalitarian regime, what do you expect
“Yeah but he’s so self-important!”
And that’s his downfall, in his hubris he falls into the most obvious trap in the world, O’Brien lures him in with the masculine power fantasy of being a resistance fighter and Smith pays the price by being carted off to the Ministry of Love to be tortured to death.
“The Ministry of Love isn’t that bad, Julia makes it out okay.”
Yes, that’s the problem, Julia survives everything
“She does get a nasty scratch off one of those rats…”
In the original it’s implied she got lobotomised
“That wouldn’t work in this version.”
I shudder to ask, but why not
“Because she needs to live long enough to see the regime fall.”
And how long does that take
“About six hours after the end of the original.”
Are you fucking serious
“And then she meets Big Brother face to face!”
Big Brother isn’t fucking real
“In this version he is.”
So you have a protagonist who survives the horrors of a brutal famine, the Ministry of Love and Room 101 with barely any emotional or physical damage, then after a heavily pregnant hike she gets to meet the final boss of totalitarianism face to face, and you think Winston is self-important?
“Did I mention that she’s queer in this version?”
Is that supported by the text of the original in any way at all
“No.”
Then why. Why to any of this. If you hate Winston so much and you have to change every single aspect of Julia to shoehorn her into your batshit headcanons, why write a book about them, why write a book about 1984, why did this get published, why is this getting good reviews. Why. Why. Why to any of this
if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.
