#queer as a clockwork orange

[vintagelgbtqa]

[x-heesy]

𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗠𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘

𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙰𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚢

Pop Goes The Weapon by Prophets Of Rage 😂

A Clockwork Orange - 1971

[tkproductionz]

My first time drag kinging, yeah, I didn't have a chest binder yet. Please be kind it's my first time, and I'm excited to further hone my craft, edging towards a flamboyant and sparkly presentation of masculinity.

My performance is a mix of inspiration from Boy George, Librace and Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange

🌈🎩🌟🪓🏳️‍🌈🎉🏳️‍⚧️

[starwhofelltoearth]

ultra violence🍊

[rollforjackass]

advocating for good omen’s place as cult fiction in class today, wish me a very don’t punch straight men

[baileythebean]

I’m actually so so grateful to be in a private school - this school has educated me thoroughly about history without sugarcoating it, assigned books for reading that are banned in some states and we’ve put on 2 soon-to-be banned books as plays. High school theater did Fahrenheit 451 and the middle school did Animal Farm (I was in it.) They assigned us to read dystopian novels as summer reading last year, and there have been multiple times where I’ve addressed issues like censorship in front of the class and the teacher has very enthusiastically AGREED with me. We’ve got teacher rep for queer issues because we have queer teachers.

If you go to a public school, please learn lots and lots of history on your own time because you never know what they might be skipping over in class. Get educated and BUY BOOKS ON THE BAN LIST IN PHYSICAL COPY WHILE YOU CAN.

Here’s a little list -

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (I’m reading this one in class)

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Orlando - Virginia Woolfe

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Women Race & Class - Angela Davis

The Trial - Franz Kafka

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Emma - Jane Austen

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Looking For Alaska - John Green

Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman

Little Women - Louisa Malcott

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle

[transmutationisms]

on my last blog i had mutuals who were really into queer eye and this was when the new season was like coming out or whatever so i tamped down my haterism for the sake of the polity but good god i always hated that show and the premise and every gifset and screengrab i ever saw of it. using tumblr in that era was like being clockwork oranged

[homosexualmorelikehomiesexual]

sorry but the way saltburn forces the audience to chose between thinking with your dick or with your head is. so fascinating to me

like it actively invites you to choose between desire and repulsion, and then begs the question of WHY you favor one over the other at every turn. why is the bathtub scene hot when its technically nonconsentual. but conversely why is it disgusting, why are we uncomfortable w the juxtaposition of the sexual with the unhygienic when its an obvious allegory for rimming, if not for hearkening back to a fear of aids and, given the vouyeristic context of the dynamic, locker room panic. why is the vampire scene hot when its nonconsentual and actively fetishistic of venetias vulnerable mental health. conversely why is the period blood somehow the most shocking thing about it. why is the behave scene hot when its nonconsentual and arguably smacks of raceplay. conversely why is it the only actual gay sex scene in the movie and yet despite loudly ignoring the lack of consent and undertone of raceplay, nobody talks about it outside of how attractive oliver is to them in this scene, if not for the fact that farleigh is nonwhite, and the type of people who are willing to overlook the racial power imbalance here arent really into people of color anyway. fascinating!

not to mention the way this audience reaction parallels so perfectly how the cattons operate - ignoring the ugly that repulses you in favor of the beauty that you desire to the point your denial of the full truth is absurd. desire for the style of riches (embodied by sexual desire for oliver, felix, venetia, and farleigh respectively) vs repulsion at the substance of how privilege is acquired (boner killing discomfort at considering the lack of consent and bigotry laden power imbalance in every scene)

like i stg the next person who says sex scenes cant possibly contribute to a narrative im smacking them upside the head and forcing to watch this movie clockwork orange style until it clicks. the queer erotic romance and the class commentary are one and the fucking same emerald fennell made it so blatant ppl just do not understand allegory

[words-after-midnight]

THE DOTTED LINE 🐍💀🪞 | wip (re-)introduction

There are questions it seems almost every person alive has asked themselves at one point or another – some rhetorical, but many not: when will I die? What is the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? Why do I act the way I do? What’s for dinner? Is a monster born or made?

Image sources (clockwise from upper left): 1 2 3 4 5 6

Status: Reoutlining/zero-drafting

Genre: Psychological horror

Summary: [A CLOCKWORK ORANGE x THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION] A young, emotionally challenged inmate navigates the perilous world of a medium-security American prison while plotting his escape.

Features: Villain protagonist, experimental, survival theme, queer horror, prison setting, bizarre greek mythology references.

Excerpt (TBA) | Instrumental playlist | Playlist with lyrics | Inspo tag

[callmearcturus]

Punct: WAIT ARC ARE YOU STILL AWAKE?? I just realized, I've never officially asked you for a vibe check so: yay or nah on [REDACTED] being some kinda not straight? And if you chicken out and say you don't know enough about him outside of the character then I'm going to clockwork orange you into listening to a podcast he did or smth idek but we'll figure it out

Arc: i am awake. i am squinting at you narrowly I have never seen him out of character have you watched any interviews of him and gotten a Vibe

Punct: I don't GET vibes. I'm not quite colin hughes level of himbo over here, but I cannot distinguish between 'i like this person' and 'this person is queer'

Arc: hdu i am not a magic 8 ball of gay

Punct: no because you're more accurate than a magic 8 ball. a magic cue ball perhaps...

Arc: see this is bait because you know i can recite a massive amount of his lines and i refuse because I am not an excellent host

Punct: I mean I know how to check this

(MEANWHILE, IN ANOTHER CHAT)

Punct: hey tree, is arc a good host

Tree: yea, an excellent one u could even say

Punct: thanks tree, knew I could count on you buddy <3

Arc: jkadsflkasdj god DAMN it tree

(BACK IN ORIGINAL DM)

Punct: Sorry arc, assigned doc scratch by friends and family

Arc: I'M STILL NOT TELLING YOU IF HE'S QUEER, PUNCT

[autolenaphilia]

"Furthermore, where guitar rock was dependably masculine, synthpop’s presentation of gender was distinctly hazier. Reynolds argues that within American indie scenes, the predominantly English synthpop surge was associated with queerness – detractors scorned the genre as mere “art-fag” music, and an indignant response to the Trouser Press article characterized its performers as “elitist closet queens.” The genre displayed unabashed sensuality, sometimes through instrumentation alone – for instance, “Don’t You Want Me” and Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” both feature chilled, slinky riffs that suggest the push and pull of selfish desire. But these themes could be made lyrically explicit as well. Depeche Mode’s “Master and Servant” declares, “Domination's the name of the game / in bed or in life / They're both just the same” over wonderfully unsubtle whip-and-chain sound effects, while Soft Cell’s campy “Sex Dwarf” goes even farther with its yearning for “you / on a long black leash” and moan-laced titular refrain.

Artists also challenged the era’s sexual orthodoxy through their public images – ranging from Martin Gore sporting skirts and leather bondage gear to Marc Almond and Phil Oakey’s penchant for eyeliner and lipstick and Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns’ chameleonic, surgically augmented appearance. Androgyny was a common motif for female artists as well, evident in Annie Lennox’s signature suits and the strikingly Amazonian airs of Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Alongside the synthesizer’s ability to evoke space-age sonic precision, these aesthetics suggested a utopian future – specifically, one where gender performance could be a free and unconditional choice.

While more chauvinistic purists could cite these representations as further proof that synthpop was somehow unnatural, the “gender-bending” nature of the genre encouraged female and/or LGBTQ audiences who felt alienated from the machismo of mainstream rock culture. It seems fitting, too, that new wave and synthpop directly stemmed from the contributions of Wendy Carlos – a transgender woman who, in addition to popularizing the Moog synthesizer with the revolutionary classical-electronic 1968 album Switched-On Bach and composing the scores to A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron, was also one of the first public figures to disclose undergoing gender reassignment surgery and later spoke openly about her dysphoria. For all synthpop’s connotations of Reagan-era corporatism and homogeneity, any closer look at the genre would place it firmly on the opposite side of the culture wars."

-Aline Dolinh, 2017

[princesspierpaolo]

my favorite first watches of january❣️❣️

a clockwork orange (1971) dir. stanley kubrick

the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch

two of us (2000) dir. michael lindsay-hogg

medianeras (2011) dir. gustavo taretto

atlantique (2019) dir. mati diop

queer (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

[undertow1993]

"As queer as a clockwork orange" isn't even a real expression Anthony Burgess just overheard some drunk guy say it in a pub and decided to change my life personally

[doom-gender]

Sad to see you using your kink to bash other queer people

im not in your GSA i dont care about your feelings, this isnt clockwork orange nobody is forcing you to look, and ive said multiple times that everything posted here is just fantasy

[enlitment]

For the ask game, what are your favorite fiction books?

I appreciate the plural in the question, I think narrowing it down to just one would not have been possible

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray always makes the list. Dark themes, queer, beautiful prose - but I think that one needs no introduction, especially on Tumblr.

I also really like Margaret Atwood - as for my favourite book of hers, it's probably a tie between Alias Grace and Blind Assassin (both are quasi-historical, with psychological themes and complex female characters).

And last but not least Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. I was obsessed with the book as a teenager, which, looking back, may be a bit worrying. But it's just so fascinating. It touches upon some really important philosophical questions (like morality and free will), it is partially written in a language/slang invented by the author himself, and it has the unreliable narrator trope which I can never get enough of.

[sapphic-allure-haze]

Also bit of history nut but Blank space is inspired by parts of Stanley Kubricks a clockwork orange … basically a guy who committed terrible crimes was conditioned to feel pain every time he tried to do something bad or even think it .. as we can see Taylor is wearing the head gear like shock therapy , which could also link to the way women were treated in the Victorian era, pretty sure they were lobotomized more than men for things that were just caused from emotional stress or hysteria and not actual insanity.. which from my own views could be improper or Queer thoughts as well .