Clockwork Confessions!

A Clockwork Orange confession blog that's actually active!

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Psst! Over here!

Are you a fan of A Clockwork Orange? If so, you definitely have shameful thoughts in your brain!

No need to worry though, your secrets are safe with me! Just send them in and I’ll broadcast them across Tumblr!

Ask box status: open!

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Do YOU have any headcanons you want to share? 👀

I went through my files and found this. This is ancient. Little Lexi and Baby Basil. It was from some crack AU I made a year ago where Alex was literally part orange. He was an orange seed in da womb

This literally changed nothing about the story because by then his flower was already gone. Themes and such

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y'all sleeping on dim/alex!!! their relationship is really the only interesting one, the only one that makes any sense! I don't see what people see in the other pairings.. dimalex will always be superior haha

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Does anyone know any authors in Tiktok who post content with Billyboy? My hashtag function is not working, thanks

After February of 2025 I stopped interacting with ACWOTok sorry

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Deltoid touched Alex in the film and Alex touched some kids in the book. It's an endless circle

I thought the cycle was obvious when Alex lost his power and became the helpless person who gets regularly assaulted by the same system that used to benefit him

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Ofc is Deltoid a creep, but the point of the headcanon is that Alex was neglected, can't anyone not read anymore? Did the brain shut down after reading the middle part? But what do I expect from acwo fans on Tumblr

Advice for the younger fans out there

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I think the idea of Alex being into oil painting is super interesting, I’ve always thought about it but I don’t think he’d ever finish a painting. He’s the type of guy to just paint on random shit like maybe wood offcuts or bits of cardboard but he never has the patience to finish the paintings. Can’t decide if a weird fucked up abstract looking style would suit him or if simple landscapes would. He just has a pile of unifinished paintings somewhere in the corner of his room or under his bed

Adderall could fix him (no it wouldn’t)

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Sometimes the way dim acts, specifically in the book, gives me really bad second hand embarrassment like sit the fuck down dude

Dim

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Teenage clockwork orange fans will look you in the eyes and tell you that Alex would be obsessed with chiikawa or something

The two parts of the fandom feel like this

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Billyboy spiritually American

Billyboy

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People will act like saints for hating deltoid even tho their fav droog literally beats, rapes, murders and steals from people 😭😭😭😭😭 like shit I hate deltoid too but my favs Georgie and Pete aren’t a lick better than him 😭😭😭😭

Things are heating up in the molester rapist fandom

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I think Georgie and Pete would like Michael Jackson’s music, there’s no way they like the same shit as Alex. Aint nobody listening to classical but Alex. Dim listens to whatever’s on the radio, maybe owns a few odd vinyls and cassettes. I can only see Pete owning a few singles on vinyl and a couple of casettes, he doesn’t seem like the type to buy full albums whereas Georgie seems like the type to buy a full album on vinyl or cassette just for one song he likes.

Also I feel like Pete wouldn’t own a working record player or cassette player so he has to bring his stuff to Alex’s or Georgie’s places to listen to it. I can see dim owning a beat up record player that skips a bit but not a cassette player, I can see him buying cassettes and just never using them. I know tons of people who collect physical media without a way to use it or even intention to use it so it’s not outlandish to assume some of these lot would fall into those categories.

Records were far more common than casettes in the 60s-80s but I think they’d all own a mix of both considering Alex liked a good cassette in the movie. I do wonder what records Alex had in his room because we were never shown… surely it can’t ALL be classical.

How the other droogs felt being forced to listen to Alex’s music taste

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Acwo AU where everything is the same except from the fact that Snoop Dogg follows them around and delivers witty, comedic remarks whenever they do something

And Snoop Dogg just let the crimes happen?

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I’ve always thought it would be funny if Georgie was like ridiculously afraid of basil but tried to front like he wasn’t. Saying yeah when Alex asks if he wants to hold him and he just tenses up and kind of stands there while Basil just hangs out in his hands and maybe slithers up his arm. I think he’d crack if Basil slithered up to his neck though and tell Alex to take his snake back.

I think dim wouldn’t be bothered by basil’s presence but wouldn’t like the idea of holding him because he heard that snakes are slimy, even if alex says they aren’t slimy dim still refuses. Probably says Ew if basil brushes up against him if he’s too close to Basil.

Pete would feel a little awkward around Basil because he’s never been around a snake before, he’ll hold him but won’t seem thrilled by it. He’d just linger by Alex with basil in his hands until Alex takes Basil back. I think if Basil slithered up around his neck he wouldn’t be scared but he wouldn’t want to leave him there either.

I’ve always pictured Alex as the type of snake owner to just walk around the house with the thing around his neck which really isn’t that responsible but come on we’ve seen he isn’t a responsible snake owner. He forgets to feed Basil sometimes (considering basil’s size I think weekly feedings would be standard iirc) and tells himself it’s fine because snakes can survive a while without food. He’d buy frozen mice and rats for basil and defrost them in a cup of warm water before feeding them to Basil and his parents would always tell him off for leaving a cup of warm water with a cold, dead rodent in it just out on the counter.

Deltoid would probably be disgusted by the idea of a snake,pulling faces whenever Alex mentions Basil. Alex wouldn’t offer to let him hold Basil and deltoid wouldn’t have held Basil either way.

Are some of these a little unrealistic and out of character? Maybe. Do I care? No.

Honestly I just wanted to see some basil related headcanons from someone who actually knows how snakes work because I have a pet snake and it’s so frustrating seeing people who aren’t snake owners try to speak about basil. Mine probably aren’t perfect, like I only own a snake I’m not a professional when it comes to snakes But I just wanted to share ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Basil!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A few years back I used to have this headcanon that Pete’s family had a cat named Dorothy and she was one of those cats that looked pissed off all the time. Looking back on it I don’t really see Pete as an animal person but I think it was kind of cute

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Sometimes when I’m looking for something clockwork orange related on Google I’ll see links to things where people are like let’s make a female remake! Or whatever because they thought the movie was misogynistic and I fear that’s kind of the point but not in the way they’re interpreting it. To me it shows just how violent misogyny can be, the scenes where Alex assaults mrs Alexander and kills the cat lady obviously aren’t done with the intention of being sexually gratifying 💔

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Whenever I’m watching the movie and it gets to the flatblock marina scene I get so mad at Pete like bro fucking do something! Do something! Just standing there looking silly for what. Absolute fool 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

How Pete felt lowkirkenuinely