#fahrenheit 451

[cosmomatic]

when i read a book that's called a classic for a reason

[mayalikesliterature]

I like a lot of things…. @rizz-penguin @ajaxlikesliterature

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[ciryuven]

[laddersofsweetmisery]

I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.

[fuckyeahsciencefiction]

[dionysian-mystery]

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille / An Oresteia by Anne Carson / Art by Scott Donaldson (@/underwaterlad on ig) / Art by Anthony Cudahy / YOUR FATHER MY FATHER by Mal Fawzy / Quote from Ash by Tracy K. Smith / Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk / Dearth by Deborah Stevenson / Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[justafewberries]

losing my mind. I knew there had to be symbolism of a dandelion beyond just spring in thg. collins slipped yet another Fahrenheit 451 reference past me. i cannot believe i didn't notice.

in Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse explains if you rub a dandelion beneath your chin, you're in love.

When Katniss sees Peeta for the first time after the bread, she sees a dandelion. right under her chin. the first one. her first spark of love for peeta.

[remusjohnslupin]

LITERATURE SERIES: Dystopia

“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever… And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon." ― George Orwell (1984)

[soracities]

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]

[stove---top]

she would have loved my little pony

[gingersn4pp]

Little inked comic I did from a section of Fahrenheit 451, for an assignment. Traditional, besides a couple minor fixes and some light greytones added in post.

I did actually burn the edges of the paper with a lighter on the last pages, haha! it doesn't really look like burnt edges in the end with all the black ink, though...

[rjwonderlair]

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

A quick illustration I made in my sketchbook :)

[sidecast]

that burning guilt you feel

[laddersofsweetmisery]

This afternoon, DOGE fired every employee at the Institute for Museum and Library Services, deleted their emails, and vanished federal funding for public libraries and museums.

They won't be so bold as to burn the books, but they will greatly limit your access. When the good learn, so do the evil.

When you really think about it, it's financial abuse. Institutions are being held hostage financially to bow to the whims of another or risk no longer existing. I don't even know if I feel angry at the institutions that have decided to bow because, at the very least, they are still available and able to help others with the few resources they have left. It's fucked all the way around.

We should bring back independent/community-supported pamphlets. (See: political pamphlets of the 1800's and Jstor's collection of 19th century British Pamphlets) Most of these efforts now exist on social media but are heavily censored via algorithms. What we need is something offline that can't be limited with the push of a button. Something tangible.

You can literally leave them behind anywhere like a lost glove. There's a lot of power in that. We could even offer QR codes on the physical copies so that viewing it online is still an option. I think the internet is too volatile a place at the moment to remain our sole source of information. It's too easily manipulated, the algorithms keep us in a vacuum, and there are too many bots proven to incite rage and prevent productive discourse. We need something people-oriented. I think zines would be perfect. They want the old ways back, so let's give it to them along with all the revolutionary efforts that come with it.

[mudwerks]

(via Ray Bradbury Wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a Coin-Operated Typewriter - 

...Ray Bradbury's iconic novel Fahrenheit 451, he composed the original version of the story at some point in the late 1940s (the precise date appears to be uncertain) when he had a newborn baby at home and wanted peace and quiet in which to write. He went to the basement of the Powell Library at UCLA and used one of the rental typewriters for 20 cents an hour. $9.80 later, he had a functional draft.