The whole genetics project of the Bene Gesserit may have been dubbed a failure because Paul wasn't a girl but there was nothing stopping Paul and Feyd-Ruatha acting on that sexual tension they had in both book and film.
Paul could have taken Feyd as a third Consort. Just imagine Paul with his Empress Irulan and his wife Chani sitting at his side and Feyd just sprawled on the dais steps just wearing something scandalous like
You were right Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, wasted potential.
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love seeing everyone who enjoyed Dune Part 2 saying they've never read Dune Messiah and they'll have to read Dune Messiah. Yall are not ready.
I've read all six books. its an absolute mindfuck freak-show waxing-philosophical eon-sprawling walk in the park gang. Buckle the fuck up and plan to at least also read Children of Dune thank you
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You know what should have happened at some point in Dune books 4-6? Ghola Alia Atreides. This would benefit absolutely nobody in the story and probably make things worse, but think of the potential.
The God-Emperor probably wouldn't have allowed/accepted an Alia ghola because y'know. he saw what happened to the original. But the Scattering would be the perfect time for some Tleilaxu to attempt to recreate her, hopefully without the whole Abomination thing. Let's say they succeed. She appears to be a perfectly normal if rather quick child for a long time, until one day she disappears. Oops, looks like she got her memories back, and she hid that from everybody! Now you have an incredibly skilled and cunning young adult with Bene Gesserit skills in a universe that probably still has some cults here and there worshipping her. The Bene Gesserit themselves are also scattered, and the newly-transforming Honoured Matres are being shaped by outside influences. What does she do? Who knows? Does she want to start another Empire under her control? Does she want to be powerful, feared, revered? Or does she want to just finally live in peace? And what about her Other Memories, have they awakened as well?
Maybe she finds Duncan Idaho (number ????) and they run away and travel together, or she turns the Honored Matres into her own society, or she unifies various cults and reforms her base of power, or she just finds a place where no one knows her and she can finally just be accepted. Regardless, it would be interesting.
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No one will care about this but I finished the last book in the Dune series today and my brain feels like mush.
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The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away.
-The Zensufi Master
(From Chapterhouse: Dune)
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Now that I have polls:
For the record, if you vote for Homophobic Duncan I’ll bite you
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But there are weapons you cannot hold in your hands. You can only hold them in your mind.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
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“Histories focus on confrontations. Some truth in that but it hides more persistent things that go on in spite of upheavals.”
“Persistent things?”
“What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?”
“Why is that persistent and more important than ...”
“Her babies at home need food. Man’s away on this perennial madness? Someone has to do the plowing. She’s a true image of human persistence.”
“You sound so bitter ... I find that odd.”
“Considering my military history?”
“That, yes, the Bene Gesserit emphasis on ... on their Bashar and elite troops and ...”
“You think they’re just more self-important people going on about their self-important violence? They’ll ride right over the woman with her plow?”
“Why not?”
“Because very little escapes them. The violent ones ride past the plowing woman and seldom see they have touched basic reality. A Bene Gesserit would never miss such a thing.”
Chapterhouse Dune, by Frank Herbert
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chapterhouse: dune fans are the most oppressed group in our society. even if someone says they like dune if you bring up futars or chairdogs or something they’ll still look at you like you’re insane
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