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OH MMY GOD, THERE IS A MANGA FOR 1984??!??!??
i’ve been SEARCHING for the 1984 manga for quite some time, and finally acquired it as a christmas gift :3
i don’t see many ppl talk abt it, even though most of the panels are so funny 💀 i need more appreciation for this stupid ass manga i love it sm
I read 1984 and if Winston and O'Brien isnt doomed old man yaoi, i don't know what they are
Lil 1984 fanart i drew for a school presentation, cause i couldn't find a good picture for the starting / ending slide so i just... Made my own?? (<- for anyone who hasn't seen the book cover: disclaimer, this art isn't my own idea it's v heavily referencing one of the book cover versions)
Being an artist is such a wierd experience, like wdym i can just make my own shit for school projects n such???
Did you folks know that George Orwell is NOT just a character from the secret history who disliked Julian?he was A REAL PERSON. Donna thank you sm for inventing this man imagine not having animal farm or four pages list of 11 rules how to make a perfect tea. To live would be a torture…
Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
www.etsy.com/listing/1756964083/george-orwell-1984-wall-art-dystopian
Fascism is psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life … Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them, “I offer you struggle, danger, and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet … We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
George Orwell Cited in The Atlantic's 'What ISIS Really Wants?'
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell This edition available at: Leigh’s Favorite Books
TV Shoutout: Continuum
Another underrated series of recent years, Continuum.
What it is about: A cop (Rachel Nichols) from the year 2077 gets stranded in present time--making her the only one who can stop future terrorist group Liber8, with no way to go back home.
Why you should watch it:
Kiera, and basically every other supporting characters
We have Rachel Nichols in cat suit. Need I say more??? Actually, yes, because Kiera Cameron (Nichols) herself is a very interesting character. She’s a very skilled and determined policewoman, but born in a time a lot different than ourselves so she does have different values. She’s also a mother and a wife, and that makes temporal separation from her original time a little problematic, to say the least. She’s not perfect, but she’s perfectly relatable no matter what crazy situation she’s in.
But the rest of the characters are incredible too--both in terms of the actors, or the way the characters’ stories are handled. Throughout its 4 seasons, all of the characters changes and grows a lot, and it’s a beautiful thing to watch. Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen), the tech-wiz kid who helps Kiera out with her gadgets, has the single most interesting character trajectory ever written, but that’s like picking your favorite child. All of the characters are worth watching for.
No one’s a “good” guy
We thought we knew who the bad guys are, but we actually don’t. I don’t mean it in a doom and gloom sort of way, or in the “anti hero” sort of way--it’s just with Continuum, nothing has an easy answer.
Curveball, curveball, curveball Oh boy, those curveballs. Continuum has this amazing ability to give us twists that NOBODY SAW COMING. Repeatedly. They’re the kind of twists that don’t cheapen the story at all, instead enrich them. It’s damn good storytelling.
Those sweet, sweet tech Obviously, with Kiera and Liber8 coming from the future, we get to see some cool gadgets. Bulletproof suit? Cloaking device? Continuum got it all. We also get to see the future quite a bit, and learn why 2077 isn’t all fun and games.
But in the end, it’s all about humanity I might be a broken record, but I always say that the best science fiction are the ones that are, in its core, about humanity. This is one of those stories. Continuum never stray from the characters, never stray from how our decisions shape us, and never stray from the repercussions of time travel.
Who should watch it: Unfortunately, this is one of a few shows that I could only confidently recommend to those who are familiar with genre or science fiction. Not because it isn’t “good” enough for anyone else, but because it does necessitate the viewers to have a high level suspension of disbelief, a tolerance for timey-wimey plot, and willingness to be challenged about characters, plot, and even politics. I never want to be limiting about genre, it’s just that sci-fi fans are the ones I reliably know would love those qualities in their entertainment, but if it sounds interesting to you, definitely go for it.
Where you should start: It started out as a procedural, so I think anywhere in season 1 is okay. If you start too far into season 2 you’d miss a lot of its worldbuilding so I wouldn’t recommend that. But as with any show worth watching, I’d definitely recommend starting from the very beginning although the second season, for me, is when the show started to gel a lot better.
Status: Just ended last season. It had 4 seasons total, with the final season being a shortened season (only 6 episodes).
if chiikawa did a 1984 collab, my input is julia would have to be rakko, no debate TRUST 🙏
here’s my artist rendition of julia rakko, i have a list of 1984 characters paired to their chiikawa counterpart so hopefully ill get around to drawing the rest 🫶
posted this for tiktok a while ago, but might as well post this edit here too :-) (that’s why the user is different in the edit)
thought the song fit her very well lol
i’ve been SEARCHING for the 1984 manga for quite some time, and finally acquired it as a christmas gift :3
i don’t see many ppl talk abt it, even though most of the panels are so funny 💀 i need more appreciation for this stupid ass manga i love it sm
I finished animal farm last night and GOD did boxer break me 😭😭
Humanized animal farm yaoi anyone??? Boxer and Benjamin commie revolution yaoi??? (I’m normal about this book I’m normal about this book I’m normal about this book)
I know I should make a separate blog for my art only but I don’t wannaaaaa
[image description: drawing of human versions of Benjamin and Boxer from Animal Farm by George Orwell. Boxer has an injured leg. behind them there is text that repeatedly says "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Description end]
THE ANIMATED WHAT WITH WHO VOICING WHO FROM WHAT.
I find it funny that in the new animated Animal Farm movie coming out this year, we will get to see Wallace Wells play a pig (the pig being Squealer)
(Note that the image of Squealer is from the original Animal Farm movie where he was voiced by Maurice Denham)
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OMGOMGOMGOMG I JUST BOUGHT 1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL FOR 99 PESOS ONLY AHHHH IM SO HAPPY
Names: orwell, orwellyanfloydian, (im literally george orwell) probably will use my name at some point.
Pronouns: she/her
Star sign: Virgo (i’m so like Roger😍, kill me)
# of siblings & facts about them: I have a half brother. Facts:? He’s 18yrs older than me.
# of pets and their names: 1. Ringo. (Ziggy Starr Dust) (just ringo but its so funny to give dogs ridiculously long names)
Fandoms: I may not finish this ever. Pink floyd, Beatles, Frank Zappa, The who, Rush, Cream, Hendrix, Bowie, Doors, Jethro tull, Black Sabbath, GG, The cure, Supertramp, Zeppelin, orwell, Kafka, Alfred Hitchcock, The X Files, ella fitzgerald, Tim Burton, Ghibli, James Stewart, David Lynch, Fincher, so many movies and directors and books and more and more.
Favorite color: idk anymore. But when I was a child I used to say “water green” so ill go with that.
Favorite song: i dont have one. I love so many. But since i’m listening to Flaming by Pink floyd, let’s say flaming.
Favorite Author: Right now George Orwell. Some books I like(Not just by Orwell): The trial, The player, Animal Farm, Clockwork Orange, Misery, Steppenwolf (minus the ending) The Stranger, 1984 (as basic as that might sound) LOTR😭.
Favorite Fic Type: Roger Waters and David Gilmour getting married and getting a concept album out about the trials and tribulations of love.
Favorite holiday: I would say halloween (If only I lived in a country which celebrated it :() It seems like great fun.
Do you have any partners: Georgeroo roger waters
Fun facts about you —‘skskakak: im studying international relations?
IDK WHO TO TAG IDK ANYONE HERE I GUESS. ALSO THANKS FOR THE TAG.
I got bored so here's a little get-to-know-you tag game I think could be fun :3
Name(s)
Pronouns
Star sign
# of siblings & fun facts about them (if you have any)
# of pets & their names
Fandoms
Favorite color
Favorite song
Favorite author (of anything readable-- books, fanfics, zines, webtoons, whatever!)
Hobbies
Favorite fic type
Favorite holiday
Do you have any partner(s)? (romantic, qpp, anything!)
Fun facts about you / anything extra you wanna share!
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Name(s): Loki (highly preferred), Elye
Pronouns : they/them mostly, he/she okay too
Star sign: Pisces
# of siblings: I've got 2! An older sister and a younger sibling. The fun fact about them is that they're also both queer; in fact, my mom is too. The only non-queer person in my immediate family is my dad.
# of pets: 4 cats! Phoebe & Frankie are our girls, Lenny and Murray are our boys :3
Fandoms: MCU (kind of), BSD, OFMD, Ranboo (does his fanbase count as a fandom?)
Fav. color: Don't have one
Fav. song: Aurora Borealis by Lemon Demon
Fav. author: Alice Oseman
Hobbies: singing, acting, drawing, writing, procrastinating
Fav. fic type: Fluff, definitely. I am a sucker for well written coffee-shop and flower-shop aus, too. Smut's fine, but only if it's romantic. I can't do angst if there's no comfort.
Fav. Holiday: Hanukkah or Halloween! I love autumn and winter
Partners?: Yes! I have a girlfriend (queerplatonic) who I love very much, and a boyfriend (romantic) who I love very much :]
Fun facts:
- Even though I'm a cat person, I really, really want a dog.
- I actually used to play sports. Because I don't do gendered leagues anymore, I don't play, but I've been looking for mixed/gender-neutral/queer sports teams. Baseball and basketball specifically!
- I started questioning my identity in 2019; I'm no closer to finding a label now than I was then. The difference is, now I don't want a label. I just am. :]
tags: @neonganymede @cha0ticlesbian @x-chiara @exceleo @brinnybee @autistic-katara @gandalfthemorallygrey @ohboyanotherlokiblog @roachandrenfri @ourflagmeanslokius @exceleo @edettethegreat @swiftlyspidey
nineteen eighty-four / twin peaks, "the path to the black lodge"
A Illustration by Abner Dean for Life Magazine for some articles over George Orwell’s Novel “1984”.I may be alone in this camp but personally I think Dean’s art style suits Orwell’s novel perfectly it’s cartoonish and has a slight unsettling feel to it just fits the vibe of the book perfectly I wish he illustrated the full novel he did a couple more illustrations for this article though.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
— George Orwell
Rebloging again because this is important
HEY PLEASE READ !!
if you guys AT ALL enjoy using the internet whether it's for news, entertainment, or communication purposes there is a bill floating around right now that has a good possibility of being passed that will influence the way we ALL use the internet. this bill is called KOSA and it presents itself as "kids online safety act" but in reality it is and will try to sensor SO much important information out there about LGBTQ+, POC communities, feminism and women's rights, and so much more. the bill targets mainly people under 17 but this bill will affect adults too. your favorite social media and websites will become highly cleansed from anything the government deems as "dangerous" to children online. one of the ways they are trying to ensure kids aren't accessing content that is "dangerous" enforces EVERYONE to upload private information or a photo of your ID to access social media apps and websites. IF YOU CARE AT ALL ABOUT PROTECTING FREE SPEACH ON THE INTERNET AND THE WAY WE USE IT TO COMMUNICATE PLEASE HELP ENSURE THAT THIS BILL DOES NOT PASS.
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God he’s such a bastard (affectionate)
…Also this drawing is giving massive tumble sexyman vibes
"They got me a long time ago." - O'Brien
Quote and character from the book "1984" by George Orwell
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.
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
I’m going to be so honest, my ideal date would consist of sharing illegally obtained chocolate and tea, cuddling, and reading dense political theory in an antique store in a run-down, sketchy part of town.
so, I’ve been getting a lot of trump x Biden (triden????) content recommended to me across socials recently. It’s been absolutely wild, and I know many of you have been eating it up (ironically or unironically? Who cares, irony is dead anyway)
however, I would like to give credit where credit is due to the 1984 fandom for being the first people to latch onto the trope of Frail Sickly Old Man x Compulsive Liar. We were truly Ahead of Our Time.
Just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell.
I think I'm brain-dead rn.
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
- George Orwell, 1984
I want to write a narrative piece about censorship. When I was younger I thought it was something only in books, I never would have imagined that it would be something I would encounter in my real life. Why do people want to ban books? Books provide knowledge, they help us step into worldly perspectives other than our own. We hear stories, we learn, and we grow.
I read Fahrenheit 451 in eighth grade for the first time, and I was throughly shocked by the content. Why would a society be so afraid of books, and literature that they wanted to burn them. In my fourteen year old brain it felt like an act of immaturity, and completely unnecessary. Let the people read! Let them grow their horizons and read!
It wasn’t until I had read 1984 that I truly began to understand the point of government censorship. When I read Bradbury the year before, I was reading a required book for class, and my brain didn’t think much past the fact that I thought it was wrong. However while reading Orwell I really started to grasp at what was the reason and why it was so wrong that people were banning books.
I’ll probably come back to this later, but I am starting to write a narrative essay on this, and I needed a place to just blurt my thoughts.
need attention from a certain someone of the erik dracula victor frankenstein zach varmitech anakin prince hans mr hyde gordon comstock eric northman pedro pascal henry winter dr gregory house persuasion