F451 - Tumblr Posts
As I said, only post for November. See yall in December.
!!!TRIGGER WARNINGS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO ON YT!!!
Beatty: I was expecting a battle of wits, but you appear to be unarmed.
Montag, about to straight up commit a felony: Ur mom suck me good and hard thru my jorts
Guy Montag, after killing Beatty with the flamethrower: some of y'all bout to be REAL mad at me
If you romantically ship Guy Montag with Clarisse McClellan I will personally visit your house and burn your nipples off of your chest.
Fahrenheit 451 is unironically my favorite book. I decided to re read it because when I was a freshman I hated it and I actually love it now
I also chose to take notes, pink is how it started and yellow was me going back over stuff again. Because Montag from the near future has to be the narrator, it would make no sense otherwise especially with how much of a dick Bradbury is with inner monologues. Just italicize Montag’s thoughts damn it. Everyone remembers it was a pleasure to burn but I think that the second line is so much more impactful, especially with the ending bit in mind.
Montag is also surprisingly empathetic, he feels bad for the mechanically hound, guilty over killing his boss who has been shitty to him, and he does feel remorse for his actions. He says that he doesn’t love Millie but his thoughts and actions say otherwise. I think Beaty lied to him about Millie reporting him entirely just to make Montag’s day more shitty because that is the type of person that Beaty is. The book being written also has some great things. Like there is a part where the word was is italicized, which means it’s supposed to be emphasized. But the way in which you do that changes everything about the sentence. It goes hopeless to desperately clinging onto a lie to a weak cry of grief to bitter and angry to poetic. The way the firemen talk to Montag could go from being “Montag are you alright we are worried for you” to “hey Montag, your really scared of a mechanical hound? How fucking stupid” to “what is it now Montag, so tired of this guys shit….”
And that’s great! That’s what makes books so so cool, the fact that everyone will read it a bit differently. 451°F also isn’t really shitting on TV or even the occasional mindless show, it’s warning you to be critical of what you consume and to THINK about it. The characters aren’t thinking they are just mindlessly consuming things that say and do nothing. TV isn’t the problem, the problem is the fact that these people don’t think at all. And it’s not even their fault. They aren’t stupid they were forced into this roll. Given Montag said about being a fourth generation firefighter nobody in his generation even had the chance to read or consume something that wasn’t just mindless. They were born into a broken world and that’s not their fault. Millie and her friends are just existing in the only way they know how, no one has shown them an alternative that actually makes sense to them or makes them WANT to live a different way. Revolutions happen because the people are discontent and you can’t be discontent if you know no other way of life. You need good for something to be bad.
Anyway here’s 9 notes on two pages I’m so normal about this thing.
A fanart I made of the mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451. This is an older drawing of mine, but I still like it.
Bonus!
Here's the original full background, it's based off of the 60th anniversary edition of the book.
And here is my original concept. I still like it, but it was cute instead of having the intimidation factor is needs to really feel like the mechanical hound of the book. So I started over with a different design.