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https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

#you guys need to watch more Eurovision (not this year though) #however mine crashed halfway through and the first time it forced me to say Czechia and the second time it only accepted Czech Republic? #idk what that’s about

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ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

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Dune: Part Two, dir. by Denis Villeneuve // A Panathenaic amphora (Greece (Attica), ca. 365BC - 360BC) (x)

#dune

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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Dune: Part One (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

#dune

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So there is this thing that the two Villeneuve Dune movies do together that I cannot stop thinking about, where they will present something (often, a weapon) in a context the first time around where it looks a certain way (often, very sexy and cool). And then they will present it again in a way that doesn't exactly negate your reading of the original context but makes you recoil in horror from the new context.

Paul and Jessica using the Voice to escape from their Harkonnen captors? Very sexy and cool. Look at them working together, mother and son, a couple of space witch badasses.

Jessica using the Voice on Chani to force her to participate in reviving Paul after he drinks the Water of Life? Horrifying. Saying you will be part of this myth that has been created to serve political ends that have nothing to do with your liberation, and if you don't do it voluntarily to save the person you love then I will make you do it.

Chani and Paul working together to take down the ornithopter gunship using those little shoulder-fired rockets? Very sexy and cool, we love guerrilla warfare against an occupying army. (I'm not being facetious here, this sequence is extremely satisfying to watch.)

The much later image of Paul silhouetted against the blast from the missiles from his family's private nuclear arsenal blowing up the shield wall? Nightmarish.

The way the climactic battle to retake the palace at Arrakeen extends into the night so that it begins to look very very much like the initial Harkonnen attack on the same place? I'm sure this is intentional; the whole third act is about taking a giant sledgehammer to the idea that the Atreides are the better or more civilized imperialists.

Perhaps my favorite example of this is the Atreides signet ring. When Paul first puts it on in the first movie, it's a symbol of him accepting that Leto is dead. It's a melancholy moment, but it's also a sign of Paul accepting the responsibility of his birthright as the new Duke.

Early in the second movie, when he is trying to be equal to the Fremen, he takes the ring off. And you just know that when he decides to put it back on again, that will be the sign that everything's about to go to shit. And when it happens it's a very similar moment--it is Paul accepting his birthright, just a different kind. But the accompanying feeling is oh no.

#dune

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just saw dune part 2 :)

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Sense and Sensibility (1995, dir. Ang Lee)

#sense and sensibility #jane austen #austen

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Dracula voice: I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for my lawyer, his wife, his wife’s girlfriend, his wife’s girlfriend’s fiancé and their extra boyfriends the Cowboy and the doctor and the doctor’s thesis advisor who knows how to kill vampires for some reason!

#dracula

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u know seeing regulars on my notifs makes me happy it's like i run a cafe and there's regular customers who stop by 😭

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Girl who really likes broccoli: I really like broccoli

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Bad Atheists are “annoying” but Bad Religious People commit a genocidal holy war

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#dune

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hello please can I sleep in a studio ghibli bed it’s urgent

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this is the only shit I open TikTok for

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#i’m gunning for that dr 🫡 got my eye on you #but miss for now I guess #I don’t think about it very often tbh

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nine people i'd like to get to know better

Tagged by @streussal

Last Song: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones

Favorite Color: It vacillates between purple and yellow

Last Book: Last, or current? Right now I'm reading "Our Share of Night" by Mariana Enriquez, and before that I read "Lent" by Kate Cayley.

Last Movie: Went to a late-night screening of The Thing, which is one of my favourites.

Last TV Show: Working through season one of Perry Mason at the moment. It's mostly Matthew Rhys making a >:[ face, but it's compelling for all that.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Always sweet.

Relationship Status: Single

Last Thing I Googled: Don't remember exactly, but it was probably something for the @haveyouseenthishorrormovie blog

Current Obsession: I've been burrowing under a pile of Rogue One fanfiction for . . . oh, four months, now? Mostly to stave off a breakdown, but y'know. It is what it is.

Looking Forward To: I'm seeing a musical dramatization of De Profundis next month that I'm really excited for.

tagging: @astromechs @susandsnell @lanepryce @steveebarnes @tindog @tafadhali @lukecastellan @moriemur @princessnijireiki

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I’ve seen five different authors take down, or prepare to take down, their posted works on Ao3 this week.  At the same time, I’ve seen several people wishing there was more new content to read.  I’ve also seen countless posts by authors begging for people to leave comments and kudos. 

People tell me I am a big name fan in my chosen fandom.  I don’t quite get that but for the purposes of this post, let’s roll with it.  On my latest one shot, less than 18% of the people who read it bothered to hit the kudos button.  Sure, okay, maybe that one sort of sucked.  Let’s look at the one shot posted before that - less than 16% left kudos.  Before that - 10%, and then 16%.  I’m not even going to get into the comments.  Let’s just say the numbers drop a lot.  I’m just looking at one shots here so we don’t have to worry about multiple hits from multiple chapters, people reading previous chapters over, etc.  And if I am a BNF, that means other people are getting significantly less kudos and comments.

Fandom is withering away because it feels like people don’t care about the works that are posted.  Why should I go to the trouble of posting my stories if no one reads them, and of the people who do read them, less than a fifth like them?  Even if you are not a huge fan of the story, if it kept your attention long enough for you to get to the bottom, go ahead and mash that kudos button.  It’s a drop of encouragement in a big desert. 

TL;DR: Passively devouring content is killing fandom.