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That's why it's written directly on her face instead of mirrored. So that when you look on this powerful, terrifying Reverend Mother YOU are immediately reminded: I MUST NOT FEAR.

Because you need the reminder.

i just found out that jessica's face tattoos translate to the litany against fear which... wow. (for those curious, david j peterson, the linguist behind the chakobsa in dune part two, posted it to his twitter account.)

we can see jessica recite this litany during the water of life scene in dune part two, but also during paul's gom jabbar scene and the desert storm scene in dune part one. it goes as follows:

"i must not fear. fear is the mind-killer. fear is the little-death that brings obliteration. i will face my fear and i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the fear has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain."

here are her tattoos:

and here is the chakobsa translation:

david j peterson is also the one behind a bunch of other conlangs, like the dothraki and valyrian languages from game of thrones. i was so hyped to hear he'd partnered on with denis villeneuve for the dune movies and he did not disappoint! you can thank him for the realism of paul's chakobsa scenes in part two, especially his final grand speech.

#dune #dune part 2 #I love this series

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Really says something about a guy when his mind is so toxic that the brain eating parasite, the parasite evolved specifically for eating brains, eats it and dies.

I have notes for whomever is writing my life.

You're telling me that the lunatic conspiracy theorist had an actual worm in his brain? An actual brain worm? The thing conspiracy theorists accuse people who see through their bullshit of having?

Sorry. That's way too on the nose; you have to cut that. We're already stretching credibility in this reality as it is.

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I'd be interested to see if the period of dormancy lined up with the removal of lead in paint.

One thing most people don't realize about Gazebos is how bloodthirsty they used to be until the 1930s or so. It used to be that in order to appease your average small town gazebo you had to feed it 4-5 marching bands a year, or roughly 2 dozen barbershop groups. Noaways? Throw it a steely dan cover act every 6 months, maybe a bridal party every few years if you're actively trying to court its favor, and you're pretty much in the clear. And the crazy thing is nobody knows why they calmed down, or that their appetite for flesh won't return to its 19th century heights one day. It's actually an increasingly popular theory among modern Gazebo researchers that we're at the tail end of a period of dormancy and it's only a matter of time until they start howling for blood again. And if/when that does happen there's the question of whether our modern zeeb-keepers are really ready for the task of booking enough sacrificial acts to meet that increased demand. Guild policy has gotten lax in the century since the heyday of Dark Pavillionism and a lot of local keepers refuse to even look at newer research that threatened to upsettheir status quo. Kind of scary to think about

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I know I'm going to be insane about Lisa Frankenstein for the rest of the year and I loved every bit of it. Today, I want to talk about female rage, especially teenager female rage portrayed in the movie.

I was a teenage girl not that long ago (notably in the late 2010's, when I hadn't even known I was non-binary), and what I remember about it is that people, (family members, teachers, adults in my life) never wanted me to be angry. I was a ball of emotions, but I had to be the rational one. I had to be the centered one. Not my little brother, or even my older brother, not my male classmates, just me and the other teenage girls. I couldn't lose my head or I was a bitch. I couldn't cry or I was a sensitive baby. I had to be happy or I wasn't worth the attention of others.

Lisa has the same problem every other girl has. If you have complex emotions, like grief or anger or sadness, nobody wants to see them. You can deal with that stuff on your own. Taffy gets the attention because she hides those "unsavory" emotions behind smiles and mascara. When she finally shows any kind of trauma, she is ignored, thrown away like a piece of garbage.

That's why I love Lisa and the Creature's relationship. The Creature can tell that Lisa is struggling, and he knows the consequences of what it is to be a woman whose emotions are different or hard to hide. He saw it in the early 1800's, where woman were considered crazy or filled with hysteria if they didn't conform to the standards men wanted them to be. They had wandering womb syndrome, or they were old maids, or they were locked up, literally hidden from society.

He sees Lisa struggling, and does everything in his power to make her feel validated in her struggles. Her rage doesn't make him hate her, just the opposite. Her sadness is his vindication to go after the ones that hurt her. When she feels happy, true happiness, he does too. He accepts her for the flawed human being she is, and in return, so does she.

Everything she does for him only changes him physically. His emotions never change for her. He doesn't get mad at her when she acts irrational. He's jealous when she goes to Michael's, but still drives her anyway and protects her when she gets hurt, literally shielding her with his body.

More movies need to show that teenage girls that are flawed. Teenage girls are angry. They aren't pretty little flowers. They feel rage and anger in a system when their pain is mitigated.

I want more teenage girls in film to fight people, get angry, chop off abuser's hands, or just allowed to show those "bad" emotions. It doesn't make them villains. It doesn't make them horrible people. It makes them human.

#lisa frankenstein #female rage #all of this

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CON O'NEILL as IZZY HANDS OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 2.05 The Curse of the Seafaring Life

#izzy hands #our flag means death #con o'neill

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Izzy cries out for help (in his own way). The crew answers.

#con o'neill #izzy hands #our flag means death

[child-of-dolora]

My only question, as always, is: can I still fuck? If so, then we're good.

[child-of-dolora]

Yup, you'd be talking about these pretty boys.

[child-of-dolora]

"Sovenha vos a temps de ma dolor" -- Be mindful in due time of my distress!

Making Queer History tags are poetry to me

#arnaut daniel #dante #queer #purgatory

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brb, committing like... *a lot* more atrocities.

Are you a whore ,a nun, a whorish nun or a nunish whore?

I’m celibate, waiting til I find the worst person alive to have nasty sex 🙏🏻

[child-of-dolora]

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN.

GIVE NOTHING BACK. (and cancel your streaming acct.)

ofmd 2160p torrent links

follow up to my previous post about how to torrent ofmd in ridiculously high hd, since some people couldn't access the website where i got the torrent links. i uploaded them to my google drive, you should be able to download them and open them directly in qbittorrent by going to file -> add torrent file. if anyone has any issues let me know!

#ofmd

[child-of-dolora]

Deep breath.

I am a solidly middle-aged fangirl, and my last real fan community before OFMD was the X-Files. (I feel like I am not the only one here who fits that description).

The news that we aren’t getting a new season of Our Flag Means Death is hitting me harder than I expected.

So I am thinking about Scully.

There’s this X-Files episode called “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.” The plot is about a guy who can see into the future and tell people how they die.

Scully asks him, "How do I die?"

And Clyde Bruckman replies, simply, "You don't."

I've seen fans speculate that Scully winds up becoming immortal by the end of the series. But, 22 years after the end of the show's original run, that line has taken on a new meaning for me.

Scully doesn't die, she can't die, because I still think about her. Scully is immortal because there are fans still writing her into stories, still making art, still getting inspired by her and pursuing medicine and science.

You cannot truly kill a story. You can cancel a TV show. You can, if you're an asshole, make fun of fan creators and their ideas. If you're really an asshole (and a media conglomerate), you can send them cease and desist letters and tell them to stop making art that breathes new life into that story. But the story will not die.

I draw a lot of hope from the long, long history of fandom. The people who loved stories enough to keep them alive, even when it wasn't clear that there would ever be another "official" work in their lifetimes. The Sherlock Holmes fans. The Star Trek fans.

How does a story die?

It doesn’t.

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It's so great when authors have social media they use to interact with their fans. I wish Neil Gaiman had something similar.

Are you really Chuck Tingle? Or is this a fan account?

both. i am a huge fan of myself

#neil gaiman does not have social media at all ever

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Despite the fact that Creature wasn't familiar with 80s clothes or styles, he managed to make Lisa the most girlboss slay outfits out of what he could find in her closet and if that isn't the ideal relationship I don't know what is.

#lisa frankenstein

[child-of-dolora]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024) dir. Zelda Williams +IMDB Trivia (insp)

#lisa frankenstein

[child-of-dolora]

it's genuinely so funny to me that the creature never once experiences culture shock after coming back to life. he figures out how to use the shower and drive a car easily. there's neon lighting and electronic devices and different fashion and food and he doesn't blink twice at all. the only thing he's in wonder of is lisa 🥺

#lisa frankenstein

[child-of-dolora]

no actually lisa frankenstein is the most book accurate adaptation of frankenstein bc lisa being a weird quirky 18 yr old goth girl listening to the cure, bauhaus, and crying over sylvia plaths poetry while sewing up her creature boyfriend for deathbed sex is much more canon to victors nerdy college dropout ass than any “old mad scientist” adaptation will ever be.

#lisa frankenstein #they understood the assignment