Some nerds were doing that thing where 40k fans are like "OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!" when it's pretty definitively not and is basically one of the only things in 40k that isn't heretical (as long as you're not doing evil slannesh shit) and it got me thinking about repression of sex under "in bad country regimes".

And a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole fucking thing in 1984 was how liberating and humanizing it was that the author's grungy middle aged self-insert was boning a 19 year old member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and, like... America has several thousand different Junior Anti-Sex League and I'm not sure if the USSR ever had any? Like, yeah, maybe they did, but under capitalism Americans have literally convinced themselves they'll go to hell if they see a tiddy and the English famously just hate joy. So what the fuck was Orwell trying to critique with his "Junior Anti-Sex League" in spoooooky Stalinist England?

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Word. I hope there's a hell so he has been able to watch his beloved Capitalism turn in to the hell he thought Stalin's USSR was.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

One of those Isekais, except it's Orwell in a cyberpunk realizing "I fucked up I fucked up"

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Orwell gets Isekai'd to modern Britain and thinks Stalin took over until someone finally shoves a history book in his face and the last shot is just him standing in the British rain staring bleakly at nothing.