#orwell who

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Brazil (1985)

(Yes. Real movie dialogue)

[by-gray]

trailer for my favourite doctor who story of all time (the natural history of fear) using just stills from eight’s movie, other paul mcgann movies and pinterest aesthetics

[sparkoflena]

Some book reccomendations for absolutely no reason today:

[Standalone Dystopian & Fantasy]

- The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins (prequel to the Hunger Games but the Hunger Games also applies here)

- Babel by RF Kuang

- 1984 by George Orwell (and everything else written by this author)

- The Spear Cut Through Water by Simon Jimenez

- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

- She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

- Unbecoming by Seema Yasmin

- The Women by Kristin Hannah

[Fantasy & Dystopian Series]

- The Blood Trials by NE Davenport (a duology)

- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (a series)

- The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (a trilogy)

- The Bone Season by Sammantha Shannon (a series)

- A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair (a series)

- Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent (a trilogy)

- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (a series)

- The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi (a trilogy)

[Nonfiction]

- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

- Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga

- The Color of the Law by Richard Rothstein

- The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, & Gail Hudson

- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis

- This Book Will Save The Planet by Dany Sigwalt (and the rest of the series by Quarto Publishing)

[peachymcqueen]

Lightning trying to flirt with Sally:

[possessedbydevils]

[reneeub]

The thing about Paul is that his dislike for musicals is totally normal.

He doesn't hate them. He just doesn't like them. He doesn't get them which is totally normal. Most of the people I know don't like musicals. He's just some normal guy.

Yet the hive makes it look like it's an unforgivable crime. What an ass! What a bitch! What a cuck!

The hive makes Paul into some kind of Orwellian level of public enemy number one. He's the worst because he won't sing. It's the end of the world, Paul, if you don't sing! It acts like he's the only one who's refusing the apotheosis, while Emma is doing exactly the same!

The whole intro is like a hate chant dedicated to Paul that's also stating that he must learn. He won't like this but it's crucial. Maybe because if the hive can rehabilitate him, the ultimate musical hater, it can save everyone?

[absolutelyzoned]

so called "free thinkers" when george orwell is mentioned (jorjor wel)

[mishkakagehishka]

I think reading 1984 will radicalise me to the end tho

[larphis]

Everyday the realist and the romanticist inside me fight.

The realist thinks that MBTI doesn’t hold any scientific evidence of being more reliable than astrology or lie detector tests.

The romanticist blossoms because I share the same personality type as my favorite classical literature authors, painters and musicians.

I think the romanticist wins most of the time.

[lovefromrita]

[write-it-like-disaster]

[pineconecowgirl]

made the mistake of browsing #1984 george orwell forgot this is a hell site and very few people have critical thinking skills

[edtriestowrite]

when he's against big brother and the party 🫦

[nouveauxamoris]

shocked by how i was changed, i remain paralyzed / until i have the chance to find my own paradise

[beatricebidelaire]

Georgina doesn't understand what Esme see in Olaf.

Wait, correction - Georgina doesn't understand why Esme continue to hang out and associate with Olaf, why there seems to more than just an arrangement of mutual benefits of working together and using each other between them. If it's just a physical attraction thing, while she couldn't ever say she feel the same, she can probably understand it from an objective standpoint. It's Esme and Olaf's allyship and sometimes even friendship, albeit how twisted and bitter it gets sometimes, that Georgina doesn't understand.

Esme doesn't really blame her - after all, Georgina Orwell doesn't know what it feels like to be betrayed by Beatrice Baudelaire.

Despite Olaf's annoyingness and selfishness and how difficult it is to tolerate him sometimes, despite their constant arguments every time they have to work closely together for too long, there has always been a certain understanding and camaraderie between her and Olaf, as two people who have been deeply wounded and betrayed by Beatrice. Two people who had once at least sort of trusted Beatrice - she's the oldest childhood friend to Olaf, and once upon a time, when Esme was younger, she'd idolized the ever so charming and perfect Beatrice, both slightly jealous of her and undeniably pleased to get close to her at the same time. That feels like forever ago. Not exactly simpler times, not really better times either, and in fact she'd call it her more naive era and despise it and never wants to look back, but - it has, unfortunately and undoubtedly, shaped the person who she has become afterwards.

Better. Smarter. Far more calculated, far more focused on herself, far more powerful. Maybe some people would say she has Beatrice to thank for this, and maybe in a way that's true, but Esme is herself despite of Beatrice, not because of her. She doesn't have to thank Beatrice for anything. Some people - foolish people - would also say that living well is the best revenge, and Esme knows that she's living splendidly, excellently, perfectly, so great that even Beatrice would be jealous - but this is hardly appropriate revenge. The best revenge is destroying those who has wronged her, as any clever person would know.

And Esme is exceedingly clever.

That's what she and Olaf have in common, that's what they bonded over - their mutual desire for revenge and their understanding of what Beatrice had taken from the other person. Georgina, bless her, perfect as she is, can never really understand. Georgina is coolly calculated and ice cold and doesn't even need to be condescending for other people to feel condescended to, and she has never trusted Beatrice. Never liked her. Never charmed by her, like more than half of the VFD. She's never envied Beatrice Baudelaire, never trailed her gaze after her, never even cared much for her in the first place. Never put her trust in her. Never considered her a friend.

So, in turn, Georgina could never be betrayed by Beatrice Baudelaire - because in ordered to get betrayed, you have to trust that person first.

And that's why Georgina would never understand why despite their entangled history that has more bad than good, despite their arguments, despite their break ups and make ups - deep down, beneath all the messiness, all the sex, all the using each other, Esme and Olaf are friends. Sort of. More than that. Two pieces of puzzle that are only able to fit together so perfectly after the cuts Beatrice left on both of them.

But it's fine. Esme doesn't need Georgina to understand. It's a vulnerable, raw, wounded side that she doesn't want anyone else to see, anyway.

[cup-and-chaucer]

can't stop thinking about the parallels between 1984 and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold....the way human connection is inevitable and overpowering and how beauty can be found even in the cold, grey crush of the state