very strange to be a fan of a "classic" thing bc like. its overrated. its underrated. everyone knows OF it but its a toss up if theyve actually ever engaged with it. you want to talk to everyone about how good it is but its so culturally ingrained that everyone waves off your glowing review as "well duh, its [classic thing]". its dismissed and overlooked BECAUSE it is so good. you cant find anyone to talk to about it except for deranged ppl on tumblr bc the masses havent actively thought about it in 30 years. its been referenced in every form of media since it released. no one gives it a second thought. youre going crazy.
On the edge of tears listening to 1984 by George Orwell (this is my first time reading it) and hearing the words “By 2050, earlier, probably, all real knowledge of oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron. They’ll exist only in newspeak versions; not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be” whilst living in a world where people are using AI to summarise books into paragraphs to read them.
The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way.
On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster
with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of
those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow
you about when you move
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
the caption beneath it ran.
George Orwell, 1984
Comic adaptation of 1984 done for school work, more fun than expected
The year is 2046, MrBeast has announced the 20th Hunger Games on his Death Star with the winners of the last 24 Squid Games. According to the Minitrue the Games will prelude the annual Hateweek and mark the first time since last year that proles will be allowed out of the Matrix. Meanwhile the dinosaurs have escaped the MrBeast Jrassic Park and invaded Western Europe. The AI piloted robots sent out to subdue them have instead closed ranks with the beasts, determining humanity as the biggest problem.
Mike Walters (WOE.BEGONE) vs Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)
Mike Walters (WOE.BEGONE)
Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)
Voting ended onJul 19
WOE.BEGONE is an audio drama without official character designs, so one of its cover images has been used to represent Mike Walters. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel without official character designs, so one if its covers has been used to represent Winston Smith.
Please let me know if I used the wrong image or tags for either character! I do my best, but I'm not in every fandom.
Propaganda for Mike Walters:
He struggles a lot with identity, and woebeone has a lot of what I’d describe as “what if one person was multiple guys/what if multiple people were one guy”
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there are hundreds of this guy
Propaganda for Winston Smith:
rip winston smith the party couldnt hated you for your dissociative swagger
Some propaganda for Mike Walters is considered spoilers for WOE.BEGONE and is below the cut.
Spoiler propaganda for Mike Walters:
Woe.begone is a podcast that centers on time travel and what people do with it. Mike Walters is the protagonist of this podcast. within woe.begone, there is a time travel concept that mike and his friends refer to as "iterations." Iterations are, incredibly dumbing this down, versions of people from a certain period of time. in woe.begone, an iteration can be made using a preset on technology to take a person from 1 second prior 1 second into the future and now theres two of them. these iterations can be "consolidated" back into the same person but otherwise continue to exist unless killed or corrected by using time travel technology to make it so they were never made with the technology.... woe.begone itself as a podcast has a lot of ideas about what it means to be a person, so consolidation isn't actually that simple of an idea. Mike Walters eventually comes to the belief that he calls "iterative personhood" which means that he believes iterations of himself removed through time are worth empathy and consideration, and that they aren't all exactly what he thinks of as "himself." This is visibly true in many ways.
When Mike forms his time travel organization "base" with his friends, two versions of himself from the future provide him support via the project known as "satellite base." These versions are referred to as mike and Michael. Michael decides one day (for a myriad of reasons) that he is going to be a cowboy. I can't explain it any other way than that, but Michael isn't the only one that just decides to pick up a persona and start acting differently from the rest of Mike Walters. Another iteration, "Mdawg" is depicted as acting like a laid back hippy, for example. Oftentimes, in Mike Walters's circle these iterations serve different roles, like the other half of the two from the future, who is sometimes also referred to as "Latvia mike" to keep things straight. Latvia mike takes it upon himself to be "the reasonable one" of the mikes, believing the Mike Walters of the past (mikey) and the one in his future (Michael) to be incapable of this. Michael himself tries to be the strong one and protect everyone as well.
In woe.begone season 17, a concept is introduced. A new type of consolidation known as "cross consolidation." Cross consolidation is a special type of consolidation of iterations that while also having other new capabilities creates an effect between the iterations that have been consolidated that instead of being/feeling like one person, the end result is someone that feels like two+ people, one possibly leading more than the other and switching back and forth. This is audibly shown by switching voices and speech patterns, even if in the reality of the show the other people don't hear it that way. many people have viewed this season with a more plural reading, and I agree that its a very intriguing way to view it and mike himself. theres a lot more I could say but I don't have my woe.begone analysis license so we're keeping it like this. end rambling listen to my badly done not the best of the evidence rushed audio clips three.... and vote Mike Walters...
