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#lottienat #yellowjackets

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“i want you to know, i will love you as long as i breathe.”

dune part ii / ojibwa / waiting for this story to end before i begin another, jan heller lev

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corrupted godhood. reluctant false messiah. prophecy as a creeping all consuming malady. does the oracle see the future or make the future? the horror of trapping yourself inescapably on purpose. the chains of destiny dragging you towards the path you are fighting tooth and nail to free yourself from. there never having been a chance to begin with. no other choice to make. but making that choice regardless.

#dune #dunetwo #dune part two

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#dune #I'm CRYING over this #obsessed

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jessica really said “god forbid women do anything” and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cult’s 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda

#dune #dune part two #dune 2

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the scene where jessica uses the voice to force chani to use her tears to resurrect paul is SO fucking crazy to me. true love's kiss only it doesn't save the day, it destroys everything. the fact that she literally has to cry to bring him back, the way his eyes immediately snap open, her horror and devastation when she realizes he came back changed. it's a fairy tale and it's a fucking nightmare.

#dune

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correct me if i’m wrong cos i don’t watch dune.. but i’ve seen people call paul a tragic character. except isn’t he a whole white coloniser tricking indigenous poc into believing he’s a prophet to serve his own interests? that’s inherently evil that cannot be a tragic character imo

so yes that is correct that is what happens. the tragedy is that he is a sixteen year old boy who gets a vision of this happening and he is TERRIFIED and absolutely does not want this to happen at all. He does not want the holy war he does not want to be the chosen one he initially very much wants to fight alongside the fremen as equals trying to liberate themselves from their current colonizer without becoming the messiah because they have common political cause.

And then the entire second half of the first book (and the second movie) are about the concessions he makes to himself bit by bit by bit (well it’s the only way to save his mom and sister. well it’s the only way to prevent nuclear war. well he does want his revenge. well maybe he IS special.) Until by the end he has lost 100% of his humanity, fully wants to be the messiah and is willing to manipulate people into thinking so, and has declared himself duke of arrakis in his father’s name and made a play for the imperial throne.

you’re right that it’s evil. the book and these movies agree with you. the tragedy is watching a child who desperately wanted to avoid this slowly completely lose himself to it anyways. i don’t think “tragic” and “evil” are inherently mutually exclusive.

#dune #this is actually a fantastic explanation #I can't help but sympathize with Paul. But that does not mean I think he's RIGHT

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#twitter #frank herbert #dune

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Lead them to paradise.

#dune #dune part two #I'm in love with this op #like genuinely??? obsessed

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#dune #dune part two

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You've heard of the Chinese Zodiac, let's make a Tumblr one. 12 creatures with the most votes win.

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the black widow movie gave me maybe a quarter of a second of gross old hoodie beer drinking isolated cabin natasha and it was the coolest and the sexiest she's ever been. why did they ever make her anything other than a complete wreck of a person

#so real #literally they ALL have insane stories and then are... lame??? #I think we DO see Thor be a major loser with fortnight at some point #but I need that man to try to talk to Steve Rogers about who he mains in league

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(shaking my 14-year-old self) I was so mean to you but I love you, I love you, love you

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we put your girl of color in the fandom and they made her a big buff amazon mommy with a hair trigger temper. yeah she only exists to attend to the emotional needs of and/or step on a dainty white lady character now. sorry.