#dune novels

[thecoffeelorian]

The original "Dune" novel showed two villains, Piter De Vries and the Baron Harkonnen, having a well-drawn out conversation around the next events of the story; not reducing them to any moustache-twirling monologues close to the end.

It also showed Feyd-Rautha as the typical teenager, because he was clearly getting bored and wanting to go play a round against Rabban on the Space X-Box.

#dune #dune novels #dune series #frank herbert #house harkonnen

[amyjsoba]

Finally completed my nice (and old) Dune book collection, which is relief because for the longest time, I had really shitty editions.

Shoutout to Messiah, who never a got a hardcover release with the “Dune” font.

#dune #dune novels #dune books #dune messiah #children of dune #god emperor of dune #heretics of dune #chapterhouse dune

[newgodpho]

Dune Part: 2 (2024)

#dune #dune part two #film #cinema #florence pugh #zendaya #princess irulan #chani kynes #novel #book #literature #frank herbert

[thirstywaffles]

Quick paul doodle

#I'm blaming my friend who managed to not only drag me to reading the novels but also ship feydpaul 🧍 #anyways. i think we all should start drawing paul as pretty as possible y'know with that griffith vibes #doodley #artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #paul atreides #dune

[noosphe-re]

There exists no separation between gods and men: one blends softly casual into the other.

Proverbs of Muad'Dib, Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

#quote #Dune #Dune Messiah #Frank Herbert #Herbert #scifi #novel #Muad'Dib

[hasellia]

The Process of Frank Herbert writing the Dune series (from my very vague memory of a video essay).

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. watches Lawrence Of Arabia (1962).

It becomes his problematic fave, and he writes fanficion; “Lawrence of Arabia IN SPAAAAAACCEEE.”

Franklin needs money and decides to send his fanfiction to a publisher. The book becomes an unexpected hit.

He wants to rewrite Dune to repair the ethical problems of his favourite movie, but the publishers tell Herbert that a rewrite or a clone will be seen as a lazy cash grab that would lose them trust.

UH OH! RENT IS DUE!!! If he wants to pay rent and eat a nice dinner, Frankie better write a sequel!

Sequel 1; The story continues, but the supporting characters pine for a better version of their world by vocalising the problems of the MC’s colonialism.

The audience doesn't get it. Maybe it’s too subtle.

Sequel 2: The MC commits major atrocities, including a horrific genocide. He’s not a god or a messiah. He’s just another worthless cog in the machine of colonialism.

The audience feels bad that their hero is seen as a worthless cog. Maybe he just needs Jesus. That way, he can make up for the irreversible loss of millions of lives! God finds a way.

RENT IS DUE

Sequel 3: The MC has a son to carry on his legacy. The son loathes him. He channels his inner cool rebel, angsty Sasuke energy to tell the audience of children that “pot is cool, genocide drools!”

The audience is vaguely offended that Sasuke said pot is cool and still thinks genocide is okay. Or at the very least, the colonialism was okay in the circumstances of the Dune universe.

Patrick is out of patience.

Sequel 4: Sasuke huffs all the pot in the universe and becomes the king god of worms. With his infinite wisdom, he writes a Martin Luther style manifesto of every bad thing his father did. Point for point, sin for sin. The manifesto is within the novel itself and is roughly 97.8% of its reading. Repeated throughout the novel and manifesto and the novel itself is “Colonialism and genocide is NEVER okay. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE , IN ANY WORLD , IT IS N E V E R OKAY.”

The audience’s main take away is that the king god of worms is cool.

Herb is out of pot to keep the Jesus in him. He is so tired of trying to just F I X these people. He channels every ounce of energy he has left to figuring out a concrete way to explain to his audience how colonialism and genocide is bad. In his late middle-aged life, it’s the only way he can stop himself from picking up a phone book to find and throttle some nerds.

Sequel 5: Out of the sand and ether, Sasuke Luther King God of Worm’s long-lost never mentioned before normal human descendant appears. She walks up to the audience, hold their eyelids open, stares directly at them within a cm of distance from her own, and says; “Colonialsim bad. Genoicide is a bad. Do not do. Is bad. Alway. O.k.?”

The remaining audience says. “ye. ok.”

Franklin Patrick Herbert Junior finally has a win and dies promptly on the spot from exhaustion at the ancient age of 65.

That’s just my guess, though. Most of what I know about Dune is from Jack Saint's video and a 10-second glance on Wikipedia.

#Dune #literacy #Frank Herbert #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune part 1 #paul atreides #leto atreides #leto atreieds II #dune part one #jack saint #wrting #books #novels #scifi

[ungoliantschilde]

some Bill Sienkiewicz paintings.

#Bill Sienkiewicz #Painting #Comics #Art #Illustration #Master Class #Dune #Blade Runner #Ruth Bader Ginsburg #Judge Dredd #Doctor Doom #Medusa #Marvel Graphic Novel

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

He is Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, Duke of Arrakis. Lisan al Gaib & he will lead you to paradise.

#dune part 2 #dune movie #frank herbert #dune #denis villeneuve #timothée chalamet #movie #cinema #novel #art #paul atreides #paul muad'dib #benimpost

[ricisidro]

#DunePartTwo (2024) #scifi film focuses on Paul (Timothée Chalamet) reunites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Paul must choose between the love of his life and the fate of the universe.

It is based on #FrankHerbert's epic novel (1965) of the same name and one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels of all time.

#DuneMovie #dune2 #WarnerBrosPictures #timotheechalamet #zendaya #RebeccaFerguson #JoshBrolin #FlorencePugh #DaveBautista #christopherwalken #StellanSkarsgard #charlotterampling #SouheilaYacoub

#dune part 2 #dune movie #dune 2 #scifi #movie #novel #frank herbert #timothée chalamet #zendaya

[weldnas]

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#Seeing the dune part 2 american centric red carpet and as a devoted aficionado of the books and yk a moroccan person here are my 2 cents #Dune was one of the few Western works inspired by MENA culture that that felt genuine and respectful #But ofc despite the profound symbiosis with Middle Eastern and North African culture evident within the pages of the novels #the movie adaptation lack of substantive representation from these communities both in on-screen portrayals and within production roles was #very much disappointing in part 1 and i doubt there are any change now #While drawing inspiration from the Amazigh peoples of Algeria and Morocco #the film barely skims the surface of its MENA influences leaving substantial potential untapped #Herbert openly acknowledged the profound impact of Islam and MENA culture on his noveIs #from the metaphorical representation of Spice as oil #to the allegorical parallels drawn between the occupation of Arrakis and real-world MENA geopolitics #By marginalizing Arabs from the narrative fabric of Dune the essence of the story is being undermined particularly its anti-colonial core #the irony of this is kiIIing me because this was a direct resuIt of us impérialism on the middIe east #But the reality is that Dune is an American production tailored for an American audience so it makes sense for it to be what it is now #a big production running from its original essence #What adds to my disappointment is the fact that I liked Villeneuve's adaptation of Incendies and I had what you call foolish hope hfhg #Dune feIt Iike a squandered opportunity to authentically depict the cultural milieu that inspired it #Given the narrative's inherent anti-colonial themes #the omission of Arab and North African voices dilute its message if any of it is even left #without representation from Arabs and Amazigh people the cultural essence becomes another appropriated resource watered down to an aestheti #rather than serving as a critique of the destructive actions of colonialists seeking power and dominance #the narrative becomes susceptible to distortion and co-option by the very entities it was intended to condemn and hold accountable

[guaca-and-her-sonder]

Redraw of page 40 from the WoF graphic novel! Made for the gn redraw project

original/without text

#wings of fire #wof art #redraw #wof clay #wof kestrel #wof webs #wof dune #wof graphic novel #my art

[newgodpho]

“It’s not a prophecy, it’s a story.”

Dune: Part 2 (2024)

#austin butler #timothée chalamet #film #cinema #knife #dune #frank herbert #dune part two #paul atreides #feyd rautha #novel #books #2024 #imax #movies #denis villeneuve

[dreadbirate]

i want to be very clear that i dont really mean this to disparage Dune, but just as a way to unpack why its story functions the way it does.

You can tell that Frank Herbert was a conservative, not a religious one to be sure, but its there. The idea that suffering will make you stronger and more capable inherently, that sort of "weak men create hard times, hard times make strong men etc etc" energy. Theres an idea that the Jihad is inevitable, and at a certain point it is, but really Paul creates all of the circumstances of it in trying to prevent it, because he thinks its inevitable before it is. I think this might just be Paul rationalizing how every step hes taken has been building towards this, but then again his future seeing powers are real, so Herbet might have intended it to be the truth. However, despite some of the...misleading ideas about human nature, it doesnt slip into Fascism, it doesnt validate Paul or his Jihad, it still recognizes these as terrible things which should be prevented. Paul is a monster of his own making, and he has forged a nucleus which will cause all the death he once wanted to prevent, he almost seems to embrace it gladly at the end, not regretfully.

#dune novel #dune spoilers #paul atreides #j reads dune

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Short video for #InternationalWomensDay (look make it a month why only a day), Dune 2 month, and how one woman's contribution goes overlooked in how influential she was to Herbert creating Dune.

This is a primer about a little novel called, The Sabres of Paradise, and the research and writing Lesley Blanch did that Herbert free inspiration from to create his legendary SF epic!

#writers life #writing advice #novels #novel writing #scifi #sci fi and fantasy #scifi books #fantasy books #dune part two #dune movie #dune 2 #dune #dune part 2 #dune part one #dune part 1 #timothy chalamet #lesley blanch #Sabres of Paradise #women's day #international women's day #international women's month #recognize women #women's contributions #female writers #women writers #creative writing #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writerscommunity #writers and writing

[ghostwithstrawberries]

Made this bookmark for my boyfriend for this year’s Valentine’s Day

I’m not used to painting with watercolor, but I think it turned out alright

Scale: 2 x 6 inches

#my art #artists on tumblr #art #my artwork #traditional art #paint #painting #traditional painting #watercolor #bookmark #dune #dune messiah #dune movie #dune part 1 #dune novel #frank herbert #studio art #bookish #watercolour art #watercolourpainting #watercolour #fanart #dune fanart #dune fandom #dune 2024 #dune 2 #dune part two #sand worm #worm #wyrm

[doolallymagpie]

been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

#not really sure what possessed me to wanna make this post but here it is after percolating a bit #there’s several centuries of in-universe history and three decades of real history to go through #you don’t need to know who Amanda Cameron is to know Bobbie is one ‘Mech away from being the average BT novel protagonist #battletech #the expanse #actually you could enjoy BattleTech thoroughly never knowing who Amanda Cameron is. she’s a largely extraneous detail. #basically the setting’s Anastasia Romanova. right down to the conspiracy theories. #although House Cameron is a bit more Atreides than uh the Tsar. #so like any good ‘classic flavor’ space opera there’s also a lot of Dune #but again. there is too much. let me sum up. #i will also warn you that that primer doc though official is SLIGHTLY out of date but you really don't need to know what an ilkhan is yet