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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#speaking voice gets louder and louder? I do that already #it’s my fatal flaw that my volume rises the longer I talk #I actually chose glowy freckles bc hell yeah vibes

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NIKO SASAKI AND EDWIN PAYNE Dead Boy Detectives (2024-)

#I adore their friendship! #dead boy detectives

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We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive. By being Harkonnens.

#dune

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Well, how old are you Grant? Smartypants, Episode 1

#smartypants #dropout tv

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please give me all your thoughts and tell me all about your process, i'd love to hear about all of it, and yes i am procrastinating agonizing trying to outline a potential story, why do you ask

#depends in part on structure #if my povs switch between people in a specific order #then I stick to that unless I want to make an impact by skipping someone or focusing on someone else #fic I’m working on right now is mostly from one point of view with less frequent scenes from other povs #so I need to make sure those less frequent ones are very meaningful #and generally speaking #focus on the character who is having the most internal change (character arc wise) at the moment

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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#april 25th

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Okay to reblog to help sample size!f

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RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!

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#santa clarita diet #gosh I miss this show

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Paul: “may thy knife chip and shatter”

Feyd, internally: what the fuck? He’s got a signature gang sign before a fight AND a catch phrase? I usually skip straight ahead to killing people. Does he always do this? Is it weird I’m not doing this? Okay what is my response going to be? You know if I win this fight I’m absolutely using this on the next guy. Oh shit everybody is looking at me, quick say something

“May THY knife chip and shatter” fucking nailed it Feyd…

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I was watching a reaction on YouTube to dune part 2 and when I looked at the comments section there were a few people saying that they didn't understand why chani was angry and felt betrayed at the end of the film, that she should have recognised that Paul's proposal was political and been OK with it. Honestly I was a bit flabbergasted because how do miss the point that badly, how do you get to the end of the movie and not understand why chani is so angry and why she feels betrayed by paul?

Like to me it's very obvious why she's rightly upset and heartbroken and it actually has little to do with paul proposing to irulan, like chani knows it's political and this isn't a jealousy thing, its what the action represents, that paul is making a play for more power. Throughout the film paul makes a series of statements or you could even call them promises that he then breaks.

The first is that he is not the mahdi and that he doesn't want to lead the fremen. He says this at least twice, the first time after his mother drinks the water of life and the second after he and chani make love. He then breaks this promise at the war council when he publicly declares himself the Lisan al gaib and says he will lead them to paradise, making himself their leader.

Speaking of when they made love, in that scene he also promised her that he would always be with her, as long as he breathed, then when he drank the water of life he risked her losing him, she went through that moment of grief and trauma when she thought he was dead. Also he couldn't guarantee before drinking the water that he would survive it, so understandably, she is angry about him taking that risk.

He also promised her that he didn't want power and then he grasped for power again and again, he took on the family atomic arsenal, he took control of the fremen fundamentalists, he made a grab for the throne of the Known Universe when he proposed to the Princess, this was the issue that chani had with paul proposing.

Finally he promised to be her equal. Right before their first kiss she tells him that here on arrakis they are equals and what they do is done for the benefit of all. His reply, his promise to her is that he would like to be her equal but come the end of the film he has placed himself in a position of power over her and her people as the Duke of Arrakis and as Emperor of the Known Universe. Not only that but by asking for the princess' hand he has placed a foreigner, another woman in a position of power and control over chani and her people. The cherry on top is that paul also then commits her people to a holy war that most definitely does not benefit them.

I think the fact that a few of these promises made were done at vulnerably open and emotional moments between them, their first kiss, after they've just made love, makes him breaking them even more painful for her. It's like it now taints those moments because now whenever she thinks back on those moments she'll be reminded of those promises he broke.

I think the situation is so much more complicated than just the man I love has proposed to another woman and now I'm smad and I think that was made really clear in the film. If a guy made you a series of promises and then broke everyone of them you'd be upset. If that same guy had found his way into your heart, if he knew how passionately you felt about your people and how much you hated this prophecy and then still embraced the role of prophet and used your people for his own gain, you'd be upset. Him proposing to another woman was the least of her concerns. Sadly I think the only promise paul does/will keep is the last one he makes her, that he'll love her as long as he breathes, but it's not enough.

And I'm saying all of this as a die hard paulxchani fan who hopes they somehow find their way back to each other.

#all of this #the tragedy of their relationship in this movie is so so beautiful #dune part two

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i'm gonna be honest - between the glitches, the episode's premise, and roscoe the clown...i think that if i didn't already know grant had tested positive for covid (because of the bingo bts stuff), i would have assumed that getting zac to play grant was always sam's plan (in order to add to the surrealness of the episode)

#game changer

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is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

#always reblog inDEED

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EVISERATED he STEPPED on my MOM

sorry i cant stop watching this

#very important people #I think this might be my fav interview yet

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Yaaaaas 😍