so how come no one told me that Dune's plotline is just a significantly better more well-developed version of Tatooine star wars.
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OBJECT OF OBSESSION.
as a child, danny's entire identity was constructed by his father, to imitate his father's. as an extreme (partly subconscious) act of rebellion, and ultimately because danny felt that there was no other rational option, he killed him. it was his first premeditated murder. his first "design". but daniel johnson senior was a tough son of a bitch. danny was younger, faster, trained to be lethal in every sense of the word. it did not matter. daniel had more experience. he was meaner. daniel was not shocked, when danny finally initiated his plan to murder him. "finally got it in you, huh, danny boy?" — "is that all you got, maggot?" — "can't even sneak up on an old man?"
admittedly, it was a violently emotional act. a crime of passion. the first time danny had ever felt any real passion, at all. his father's mocking words stirred an anger inside him, opened the proverbial floodgates of every feeling danny had compartmentalized and internalized. danny beat his father to death, bludgeoning daniel's head into the ground until it was just meat and mush. and daniel was still mocking him, still laughing at him, as the blood obscured his face. until there was no face at all. just a gaping hole.
finally, danny's horror story was over. finally, he made the horror stop.
and, consequently, the ghostface’s horror story began.
danny, and by extension his persona as jed olson, now exists to facilitate the ghostface's long and complex story. a perfect design. a more perfect truth. a more perfect version of themself. danny is obsessed with control, because he had no control of his life as the child of a murdering fascist. the ghostface is an ideal. a personal ideology, poisoned by his father's ideologies. better than flawed, emotional, human danny johnson.
he is, first and foremost, obsessed with the ghostface.
but danny will always have his personal obsessions, tempted by his human parts; envy. loneliness. love. yearning. validation. rage. rage. rage.
danny can become obsessed with people he feels "empathetic" towards, or else he imagines and fantasizes that there is a connection between himself and the object of obsession. he may view them as a friend, or rival, or lover (or varying combinations of these relationship-forms; fundamentally seeking a complimentary companion, overall). completely removed from the machinations of the ghostface and their brutal, solitary designs. completely danny. a liability to the ghostface— which danny eventually, inevitably kills (or, the rare alternative: the obsession kills him, by design, forfeiting his existence for theirs. because someone has to die. and he enjoys being morbidly poetic).
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accents are such a funny thing to me, or at the very least my own accent is funny. mostly because it only sometimes exists.
see it’s like this: despite having lived in The South(tm) my entire life, i do not have a southern accent. to me it sounds like i have no accent at all, so i assume i have the Standard American Accent. it is definitely not southern though.
this makes some sense because for most of my formative speaking years, i didn’t really interact with people outside of my family much (an unfortunate result from homeschooling). and as neither of my parents are from the south, one from the north and the other who spent their formative years in the west, i just didn’t grow up with the accent.
out of 6 of us, only 1 of my siblings DOES have a southern accent... most of the time. they are older, but not the oldest, and really we have no idea how it happened.
however, like i said, it exists sometimes for me. and this is never because i intentionally speak with a southern accent, it just sometimes comes out.
it’s most obvious when i sing country music -- if i know a country song and start singing along to it, i will inevitably be singing with a heavy accent.
the second most is when i am with my family -- despite most of us not having the accent, we somehow tend to bring it out of each other
also occasionally if i get really excited -- although definitely not every time, it has shown up
and then, there’s the times it shows up for 1 word -- this amuses the shit out of my friend, bc i won’t notice it and they’ll end up pointing out how southern i sounded for no reason
but mostly, there is no accent. which makes only some sense. it’s the fact that i do have a southern accent and it just only rarely shows up that’s so interesting.
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