#Johnny Got His Gun

[deepdeepsleepoftheinnocent]

the most challenging part of being autistic that they dont want you to know about is being hyperfixtated on a 1939 anti-war novel and its subsequent movie adaptation and its metallica fansong

#autism #johnny got his gun #one #metallica

[distantsonata]

"Want me to be a slacker, huh?" "Yes."

#70s #johnny got his gun #dalton trumbo #cinema #film #50s #60s #B&W #Colorized #1971 #timothy bottoms #kathy fields #old movie #vintage #filmedit #gifs #my gifs #gifset #gifedit #I love this movie #it's a little strange but #I always find myself coming back to it #doyouthink #ifisay #give me love #on my gifs #it'll work :O

[cry-bastion]

DONALD SUTHERLAND as JESUS CHRIST in Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Let us begin by assuming that everything is a dream, which, by and large, it is. When we’re awake, we have one kind of dream. When we’re asleep, we have another. The difference is that we control our daydreams. And the dream that comes at night controls us.

#johnny got his gun #i'm the boss this is champagne merry christmas #donald sutherland #merry christmas #terrible film #but he did look lovely as Christ #70s #film #dalton trumbo

[meegadeeth]

i just finished johnny got his gun & i’m so sad like wtf. the nurse was so sweet with him ☹️☹️☹️ & i can’t get over how much he missed kareen it’s literally horrible. the nurse really tried to help him at the end too☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ or when she spelled “merry christmas” on his chest like bro all she wanted was to help im so upset over a movie rn.

(me drowning myself after watching this. JKJK I WONT)

- 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 💿🎸🎥👽🎱🎧🥁🎫

#johnny got his gun #dean’s rants 💢 #dean’s thoughts 💭 #what???? #i’m so sad #wtf #axl rose #axl gnr #guns n roses #gnr

[avatarchai]

"Joe dear darling Joe hold me closer. Drop your bag and put both of your arms around me and hold me tightly. Put both of your arms around me. Both of them." You in both of my arms Kareen goodbye. Both of my arms. Kareen in my arms. Both of them. Arms arms arms arms. I'm fainting in and out all the time Kareen and I'm not catching on quick. You are in my arms Kareen. You in both of my arms. Both of my arms. Both of them. Both. I haven't got any arms Kareen. My arms are gone. Both of my arms are gone Kareen both of them. They're gone. Kareen Kareen Kareen. They've cut my arms off both of my arms. Oh Jesus mother god Kareen they've cut off both of them. Oh Jesus mother god Kareen Kareen Kareen my arms.

[2022] Illustrating Johhny Got His Gun

#my art #school stuff #2022 art #blood #gore #limbless #johnny got his gun #dalton trumbo #book illustration #fanart #original work #ig

[breathofgod]

#dalton trumbo #johnny got his gun #anti-war #trying to scream out their grief from throats that were cancerous with gas

[nudesnoises]

#alternative #noise #industrial #electronic #drone #johnny got his gun #Bandcamp

[ruiniel]

"It's Morse code."

"... for what?"

"SOS... Help."

"What's he saying?"

"He says 'kill me'. Over and over again. 'Kill me'."

#cw death #txt #johnny got his gun

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for March 18th. It's an Animorph. The Animorphs book series is infamous for its creepy covers. I know the series was pretty popular, but I've always felt those covers were a real turn-off which kept me from even trying out the series. I was a Goosebumps guy, first and foremost.

Of course nostalgic fans now say Animorphs was a better series. More mature and better written, with a more interesting plot which evolved from book to book. And with more didatic elements.

And if the covers were creepy, that's cause the writing inside them was creepy too. The description of the morphing scenes were pretty gross, and there was a lot of heavy stuff going on. For instance, this passage from book 5:

"I saw Rachel, too. She had a dark look in her eyes. Like she hadn’t slept. Like something was really wrong.

Even Cassie seemed grim. It had gotten to all of us. It’s not so easy to just forget terror. It’s not easy to just ignore the memory of your leg being ripped off.

Of being dismembered. Torn apart.

One of these days, I thought, one of us is going to go crazy. Totally, lock-me-up-in-a-rubber-room nutso. It was too much. This wasn’t how life was supposed to be.

One of us would snap. One of us would lose it. It could happen, even to strong people.

I knew. It had happened to my father. I used to think nothing could ever destroy him. But my mom’s death had."

Jesus Christ, did I pick up a copy of Johnny Got His Gun instead of a kid's book by accident?

Still, I never read them when I was a kid, and, as an adult, they don't hold a lot of interest. It's kind of unpleasant to revisit stuff you loved as a child once you're older, because it can feel rather empty and small. And checking out the stuff you weren't interested in when growing up is even worse. There's no bittersweet memories there, just nonsense aimed at an audience you're no longer a part of.

Which is kind of why nostalgia is kind of a dumb thing. Sure, I could say the books and movies of my childhood were the best ones in the world, but only the ones I actually happened to check out. If I missed a movie in theaters when I was a kid and only see it twenty years later, I might not be too impressed. No good memories of it, after all.

That's not to say there isn't quality work being done, even in the baloney-factory that is kids' entertainment. It's just that nostalgia goggles can make even stuff that's unmemorable feel a lot more interesting, and not having nostalgic feelings for something can make it seem bland and hollow, just because you're no longer the target audience.

And it's a pity because, the Animorphs books aren't bad by themselves. They're just not interesting when the person reading them is an adult who knew nothing about the series other than "that thing with the creepy covers I saw in libraries when I was a kid".

Which just goes to show one should never judge a book by its cover. Or, to put it another way, publishers need to be careful when choosing covers for their books. Can you imagine a What If world where the Animorphs covers were painted by Tim Jacobus? Would look amazing.

Speaking of the covers themselves, today's Buddy was traced from this book's:

It features Marco, the most Buddy-like of the Animorphs. I originally made a mistake in the background that made it looks like this:

I think it looks better, even if it was an accident, but it breaks my rule of only using three colors, so I had to make a quick fix. Oops.

#ab4es #drawing #books #children's book #children's books #children's literature #children's entertainment #animorphs #K. A. Applegate #trace #Goosebumps #Johnny Got His Gun #Tim Jacobus

[beardedmrbean]

#doge #le cease and desist from lars ulrich has arrived #johnny got his gun

[rainonmyhands]

I would rather work in a coal mine deep under the earth and never see sunlight and eat crusts and water and work twenty hours a day. I would rather do that than be dead. I would trade democracy for life. I would trade independence and honor and freedom and decency for life. I will give you all these things and you give me the power to walk and see and hear and breathe the air and taste my food. You take the words. Give me back my life. I’m not asking for a happy life now. I’m not asking for a decent life or an honorable life or a free life. I’m beyond that. I’m dead so I’m simply asking for life. To live. To feel. To be something that moves over the ground and isn’t dead. I know what death is and all you people who talk about dying for words don’t even know what life is

#Johnny got his gun #dalton trumbo

[hammy-fan]

johnny got his gun but joe is a lizard

“Somewhere just below his hip joints they had cut both of his legs off. No legs. No kore running walking crawling- oh shit nevermind haha”

#johnny got his gun #dalton trumbo

[ilomilosystem]

"Hurry, mother. Hurry and wake me up; I'm down here in the darkness, and I'm having a nightmare!" -Joe Bonham (Johnny got his gun quote)

-Randall

#tw depressing thoughts #did system #didosdd #plural #system community #actually did #actually multiple #autistic system #actually dissociative #actually plural #adult bodied system #johnny got his gun #fictive

[galtchild]

I read these back to back and I'm different now.

I always wondered why Lord of the Flies was considered YA and Pincher showed me what happens when Golding writes for adults. You can feel his utter disdain for survivalist fiction.

Calling Johnny Got His Gun scary or anything like that does it a disservice. I need to go watch videos about Aardvarks.

#william golding #dalton trumbo #johnny got his gun #pincher martin #literature #books #booklr

[macaronis-telegraph]

- Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

#wwi #book quotes #world war one #dalton trumbo #johnny got his gun

[joshcockroft2]

Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo 

5.8.2022

A strong premise and it’s a story that’s retained its relevance, although the writing is a little unsophisticated. 

#Dalton Trumbo #Johnny Got His Gun #book #books #fiction #read #reading #modern classic #booklr #bookblr