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regarding Dune Part 2: i am obsessed with its consistent visual theme of self-destruction. the shot of paul surrounded by his new followers seems triumphant - until the viewer remembers that each crysknife is made from a tooth of shai-hulud, and paul is standing in a circle of them, in the allegorical mouth of the worm. he orders a missile strike, and the viewer sees them fly directly through his head. every victory for the prophecy is a blow to paul himself; he's killing himself with every step he takes towards his destiny, and we know that already, and the film is screaming it, but it's a hell of a thing to watch it happen, isn't it?..

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portugal 2010 vs 2023

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A thing that sticking with me about Dune Part2 [SPOILERS] once Paul takes the waters of life, he stops being the protagonist. The film isn’t from his POV anymore, we don’t see his visions, the camera rarely meets him at eye level. He’s not a character anymore, but a force people must navigate.

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“Your name is Siqinnaatchiaq.”

#true detective

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SECURE THAT SHIT, HUDSON .

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Making a comprehensive post explaining that Ripley is canonically bisexual (and that Lambert is canonically trans) because I’ve had like five people ask about it and THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW

On the DVD/Laserdisk extended commentary, Ridley Scott (director of Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant) talked about the romances planned for Ripley in the first movie. Since all the characters were written as gender-neutral because their details were not decided until after the script was written, a romance for the main could have gone to either a man or a woman. It was decided that Ripley would be a man, so a romance between male Ripley and Lambert was planned out, and the one between Ripley and Dallas was scrapped. However, an executive at Fox decided that it would be better to have Ripley be a woman so that she could fulfill the role of Final Girl. So they cast Sigourney Weaver in the male-intended role and changed literally nothing. Because of that, the romance between Ripley and Lambert went as planned. When asked about that, Ridley said that “a hundred years from now, that certainly wouldn’t be remarkable. I don’t mean these two women, but, relationships in space would certainly be discouraged. If one had the need, it wouldn’t matter if it was with a man or a woman.” And when referring specifically to Ripley, he said that “it was implied that something was going on between Dallas and she, but what I found much more interesting and much more probable was that there was something going on between her and Veronica (Lambert).” They filmed several scenes of Ripley and Lambert interacting in a romantic context, but they were all removed from the final film because it was 1979 and there was no way the studio was allowing that. Some of the deleted scenes are still available to watch on the Alien wiki, though! Highly recommend. So, to sum up that portion of this explanation, Ripley was written to have romances with either men or women, so, bisexual.

This is a post that has gifs of Ridley’s comments from that interview! I haven’t found the full interview video outside of my DVD set, but the digital extended content is all available if you purchase Alien on the Movies Anywhere app. My DVD set came with codes that unlocked all of the extended content on that app, so that’s where I’ve seen it. It’s definitely worth buying! It has A TON of behind-the-scenes content for all of the movies.

This is the most prominent deleted scene implying Ripley and Lambert’s relationship :)

This is another deleted scene, in which they are ✨holding hands✨

And this is the link for wiki’s deleted scene section if you want more :)

Even though the scenes were not included in the movie, Ripley was canonically in a relationship with Lambert. And in Aliens, she’s clearly shown to be interested in Hicks, a man. So, she’s canonically been interested in a man and a woman! Plus, in some novelizations and expanded lore, Ripley has had two failed marriages with men, the first of which resulted in the birth of her daughter, Amanda (who was confirmed dead in a deleted scene from Aliens. The scene, and several lines of dialogue referring to Amanda, are included in the director’s cut, though).

Furthermore, queer rep isn’t new to the Alien franchise. In Aliens, it was confirmed that Lambert is a trans woman. When Ripley’s being interrogated by the Weyland-Yutani board, the bios of the entire Nostromo crew are put up as a slideshow behind her. In Lambert’s bio, it says that she “underwent Despin convert surgery (male to female) at birth.” It was confirmed on the wiki years later, and she’s officially listed as one of sci-fi’s first-ever trans characters! The Alien universe is supposed to have looser constraints on gender, so relationships between the same gender, non-binary genders, and being trans are supposed to be more commonplace than in real-world society. This is shown in Lambert being trans and nobody caring, Vasquez being gay as heck and nobody caring, and a line of dialogue between the marines in which someone comments on a male marine being involved with a male “octurian,” to which the marine responds “doesn’t matter when it’s octurian!” It’s a theme that’s not at the forefront of the movies, but was still a consideration to the production.

So to sum it up, Ripley is canonically bisexual because she’s canonically been in relationships with both men and women.

Here are some screenshots because I can’t screen record Ridley Scott’s interview off of the DVD set ;-;

I’ve also made a few posts about Ripley and Lambert that include a breakdown of all their interactions in the first movie, and that has a lot more on the deleted scenes between them :)

tagging @sowideasea because you were the most recent to ask, and I don’t know how to work tumblr replies so I don’t know if it actually sent-

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my hot take is none of phil's 'wild northern childhood anecdotes' are actually at all weird he just phrases things in a funny way. dan lost his mind abt the whole dog warden thing and the literal story was just 'i won a school contest as a kid and got to meet the mayor of a small town'. when i was that age i was in the newspaper for making a flute out of a sweet potato small english primary schools were just LIKE that. this is not a dig btw it's just proof phil is a comedy genius bc he makes all these very normal things sound absolutely bizarre just by stringing words together in a way no human being has ever previously managed

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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

#congrats <3

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i found the tenth circle of hell: it's where your fave blows up on tiktok

#hozier

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reminiscing on dan and phil's life story together always makes me feel insane because it sounds like the plot of a fanfic: two freakishly tall awkward british gays with matching emo haircuts. dan starts out as a fan of phil, phil encourages him to make his own videos after they start talking online. dan only started trying to get phil's attention online on his 18th birthday and within months they meet up irl, and the Q&A video they make together the first time they meet blows up. within a little over a year they are practically living together, then they are accidentally outed because of a freak YouTube glitch as well as fans discovering old posts. nevertheless they become pioneers in what YouTubers can do outside the platform itself - Radio Hosts/Celebrity Interviews/Touring Stage Shows/Books/Party Games/Disney Cameos. they eventually come out via a dan video essay with 12 million views. later they move in to their third place together, a luxury home they bought and designed with all the money they made over the years. then when Dan goes on a solo tour in 2022 they reveal they that they had never spent more than two weeks apart since 2009. And don't even get me started on the joint gaming channel or the cat whiskers...

BUT the wildest part, that knocks me out every time I remember, is how phil, who allegedly has psychic abilities passed on from his grandmother, used tarot cards in a video to predict that he would meet someone with personality traits that exactly match dan's, about three months before they ever began talking online. like. how is that a real sentence I just typed. do we live in a simulation.

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abandoned lot tumblr

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hey just gonna be goin back and forth for a while. hope nobody minds lol gotta get some practice in

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goddamn have you guys seen whats just growin out of the cracks here?? if nobody else wants em i call dibs

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fuck OFF everyone we're gonna make out for like 40 minutes. and then vape

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rustle clatter clatter rustle clatter rustle

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Really excellent workmanship. See the way they've steadily graded the surface to reduce pothole formation? Shame it goes both unmaintained and unused. Fuck this wasteful society

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anyone wanna meet under the old sodium vapor light and stand really close to me and then leave after 20 seconds

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yall mind if we just crawl around for a while

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this will easily shave 43 seconds off my morning run, giving me a little more time to enjoy a bowl of oatmeal before work

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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just parking here for a while. nobody look at me alright haha i get nervous if you look at me. im not doing anything im just parked here. be cool alright

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ANY fucking minute now.

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"we know each other so well"

"I think i am so comfortable around you that the brain to mouth filter doesn't work"

"and for the first time since I was a tiny child I actually felt safe"

"I am literally the only person other than you that i think is capable of keeping a secret"

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“final report of the commercial starship nostromo, third officer reporting…”

digital mock-up of a woodcut i’m still working on :-)

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