#minitrue

[countrypapers]

"Some books are missing. —Minitrue"

Author's comment:

"Alright so, i know i'm supposed to be on break but something really horrible happened. For those who don't know: Due to the Internet Archive losing Hachette v Internet Archive case, many books has been removed by publishers, this includes many dystopian books like 1984, Brave new world and, unironically, Fahrenheit 451. So, if you have any digital copies of these books, KEEP THEM SAFE! And if you have a physical copy, KEEP IT SAFE ASWELL!"

[rastronomicals]

2:29 AM EST January 21, 2024:

Hugh Hopper - "Minitrue" From the album 1984 (1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

The first solo album from the Soft Machine bassist

[bonnieventure]

orwell set up the magical girl team premise of the century, and no one was brave enough to deliver the brief

[astrodizzius]

★Jashtober day 7, Entropy★

[sluttish-armchair]

My little Minitru exterior model 🥺it’s so cute and tiny and finished

The interior model is three times as large and a fucking nightmare to design because it’s the exact same thing over and over again, and Particubes has no copy-paste function so it all has to be done by hand

[t00thpasteface]

Hiiiii₍⁠₍⁠◞⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠௰⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠◟⁠₎⁠₎

Could you explain the hipster Vs fandom war. I've been on here for like four years and I never knew that existed lol and btw I really really love your art and you are one my biggest inspos for how I imagine and draw my Clark.

i'm not sure i can explain it in a way that makes sense, and certainly not in a way that makes you say "i understand why this was such a big deal", but gl'bgolyb knows i can try.

first, let me take you on a sensory experience... picture in your mind the following things... skinny jeans... nerd glasses... a weirdly dapper fashion sense in a time where everything is baggy and neon... boom, you have 2010-2014 online tumblr hipster culture. and also 70s elvis costello, oddly enough.

although admittedly i don't know his stance on pumpkin spice lattes.

anyway. now that that's burned into your brain, consider a significant population of this exact type of person that has already been well-established on this microblogging platform around the turn of the decade. tumblr doesn't really have an app yet because smartphones haven't taken over everyone's life yet, and online fandom culture is still largely dominated by deviantart as the main "fandom hub". most people, myself included, are getting their main meme fixes from facebook (which your parents were not yet on) or the icanhazcheezburger image-aggregator network. THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE FANDOM NATION ATTACKED.

somehow, a huge crowd of people who considered their favorite books/movies/games to be core personality traits began to set up shop on this fair slate-blue isle. i number myself among this crowd, having been lured here by google-image-searching for miscellaneous fanart in 2011. the "old guard" largely belongs to, and continuously attracts new bloggers within, a burgeoning subculture that 100% defines itself by bucking popular trends and social expectations... whether or not this is actually accomplished by purchasing beverages from starbucks and putting old film filters on every photo, i cannot say.

you may be seeing an issue already arising: hey, if the hipsters hate everything that's popular and gatekeep all their interests, and the fandom bloggers are obsessed with extremely popular franchises and are hell-bent making them even more popular, isn't that going to cause a little friction?

well, yes. it caused a fuck ton of friction. a division arose early on between "the fandom side of tumblr" and "the hipster side of tumblr." some people, like myself, played both sides. others abstained from the rigid dichotomy and considered themselves to be on another "side," like the science side of tumblr, known for explaining relatively straightforward STEM concepts in large essays that began with something like "listen up fuckers."

ahhh, unfriendable. such a narrow little window in time where cheezburger sites and facebook had equal sway in the online zeitgeist.

interestingly, as someone who trawled a LOT of aesthetic tags, the most popular of which was simply #aesthetic (it was shockingly consistent in there), i never actually saw hipster bloggers complaining about fandom bloggers. it was always the other way around, with fandom bloggers bragging about how much they're freaking out the squares to get cool points with other fandom bloggers, all while never actually engaging with the hipster bloggers because their tags rarely overlapped.

hi, marge! we're freaking out the hipsters!

regardless of whether there was any material reality to it, or if it was simply a Minitrue level of entirely fictional warfare, this concept entrenched itself into the fandom bloggers, likely as a way to still feel "edgy" and unique while, again, obsessing over extremely popular and mainstream things like doctor who, pokemon, avatar the last airbender, the brand-new mcu, and other decidedly non-counterculture media. even with things it felt like no one irl had heard of, like hetalia and homestuck, those were online juggernauts nonetheless, the former of which had dominated deviantart for years and the latter of which prompted hotels and convention centers across the world to implement very strict rules about unsealed body paint. people treated fandoms like they were some sort of exclusive country club with membership fees and a dress code. and dunking on hipsters became an entire genre of Fake Internet Story, which were already pervasive on this website.

what's the point of being in a clique if there's no outgroup to flex on? #swag

this whole phenomenon ran concurrently, even symbiotically, with other tumblrisms like "tumblr university" and those horrendous "not like other girls" memes...

which means, of course, it was absolutely dead in the fucking water once DashCon happened in 2014. i don't need to tell you what happened at DashCon (there's a million essays and videos about it if you're one of today's lucky ten thousand who's never heard of it), but all across the fandom side of tumblr, it felt like finding out your parents lied about santa claus. turns out the fandoms you're in don't actually say anything about who you are as a person, a bunch of tumblrinas can't just will a fully functional micronation into existence just by wearing tacky merchandise in a public venue, and magic probably isn't real.

i wish i had some grand way to end this story, but really the moral is the same as it ever was: online drama is eternal, inescapable, and completely fucking worthless. if you only post to get mad at shit, especially if you're just making up a guy to get mad at, cut that out. touch grass. look at images of cats. i don't remember any of the enemies i made from this era, but i fondly remember all the friends, and i'm richer for making those positive connections. that's all for today's episode of Tumblr History with Toothpaste Face... remember to tip your waitress and stay minty.

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

Mucka Blucka has ended up foreshadowing two non-CCCC CJ songs/covers

Ode of the Cog - “Winston trudges through Minitrue’s Minutiae”

Cage - “There’s probably subtext are you picking it up? It’s a metaphor for ha who gives a fuck (I’m in a cage)”

[itsnotjustgibberish]

GUYS THAT. THAT WINSTON REALLY DID TRUDGE THROUGH MINITRUE’S MINUTIAE

[high-school-lit-tournament]

High School Lit Tournament Round 2B

Pride and Prejudice: Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle (source).

1984: To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.

[countrypapers]

MINISTRIES OF INGSOC

[rastronomicals]

9:08 PM EDT June 2, 2024:

Hugh Hopper - "Minitrue Reprise" From the album 1984 (1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

The first solo album from the Soft Machine bassist

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[cj-lyric-a-day]

And Winston trudges through Minitrue's minutiae

[nothings-wholey]

And Winston trudges through Minitrue's minutia

and like an archaic cuckoo clock, i'll chirp, chant, and cock in complete disregard for my future...

[sluttish-armchair]

Thirteen desks complete; now onto the tubes

[kennak]

速水先生は言葉が優しいけど、信念がなく、流されやすく飽きっぽく、器の小さい不誠実な首相だったという評価に同意。身内ではないと見なした人には極めて冷淡な一方、自分や身内は何が何でも守ろうとする小心な凡人

[B! 安倍晋三] 安倍首相辞めはりますか - MINITRUE

[poke-irs-real]

fuck it. poke-minitru-real