So fun - I just read that Warner Bros will be adapting this book into an animated series! I am so glad it will be animated, I really don't think there's any other way to do it. I reaaaaally hope the artists can do all these characters justice with the depiction, there's some great potential cuteness.

Anything y'all especially do or don't want to see from this adaptation?

I can’t help but note the homoeroticism of these male relationships. Endlessly fixated on masculinity in appearance and expression. We see this expression of hyper masculinity and fascism expressed now too with gym culture, building hyper-masculine bodies not to appeal to women, but to appease a male gaze. Winston’s fixation on O’Brian feels connected to this. Winston is portrayed as his opposite, un-masculine, weak, with his visible and irritating varicose vein, a signifier of his inferiority. This is also why there is so much misogyny. Within this context, women are not considered relevant except as trophies to gain favour with other men.

It’s also why this image of buff manly O’Brian is directly contrasted with Goldstein. Unkempt, bearded and intellectual (as opposed to physically powerful) the perfect expression of the kind of radical Eastern European Yiddish Jew that was the core of anarchist, communist, and union organizing in the mid-twentieth century. These Eastern European radicals were the target of the holocaust, and rejected by all western nations, because of anti-semitism, but also their politics. They were also roundly rejected by the developing settler-colony that would become the state of Israel, in favour of the “muscular jew” or new Jew that was seen by zionists as a better vehicle for their settler-colonial protect and acceptance into whiteness.

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a friending meme to meet new people on PB. This week, I want to put up a thread where people can shout out the people who have made their experience on PB great. It can be people you’ve talked to, people whose updates make your day, or people whose reviews are fascinating/hilarious/informative/etc.

Obviously this thread is not meant as a slight to anyone, but to celebrate the many people we have met on PB!

(I will do mine in the comments.)

Hey everyone! I'm currently starting to read the Chronicles of Narnia! I think my copy of it has all the stories and I was wondering if anyone wanted to group/buddy read it! I've never read it before and it seems a wee bit overwhelming so if anyone was interested totally let me know!! I'll probably be starting relatively soon but I'm really flexible!! 💜