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keefechambers · 16 days

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drop the rabban/piter ship manifesto Please

okay okay okay okay okay all right here we go

point the first: dave bautista and david dastmalchian are hot and therefore we are fully justified in wanting to smash them together like ken dolls

point the second: the 2021 scenes

rabban and piter never interact on page in the original books but denis made the choice to have them in scenes together because narratively they kind of fit as opposite sides of the spectrum of house harkonnen and that is fun. their canonical film scene having the vibe of "this fucking guy" on both of their parts fits the characters and belies a necessary amount of shared history, which is interesting.

plus, things that were deleted: bautista describes a scene where rabban is essentially trying to intimidate piter (i'd guess after their sauna scene with vlad). dastmalchian says there was a short scene of piter and rabban together where he's torturing a prisoner. this is probably the same scene. torturing a prisoner in proximity is basically a date for a mentat i think.

the choice to extend their screentime (even if for the pragmatic reason of not having to cast feyd until he'd have more than a minute of screentime and because denis loves his daves) creates a dynamic that is really cool! the slavering, entitled, shrieking manchild of house harkonnen and the coolly sadistic mentat? it's very hot to think about.

(please see this fanart for a summation of that Vibe)

point the third: narrative functions.

isn't it hot when foils kiss?

within the realm of dune, not speaking to the prequels/graphic novels, just the first book, rabban and piter essentially function as the top tier of baron harkonnen's operation - they are equal opposites, like real actual narrative foils. piter is a mentat and assassin and therefore serves a more subtle, back-end function while rabban is front-facing; he's the older of the nephews, he's a count and he's been ruling arrakis for a while.

the baron literally has an evil plan that involves taking back arrakis, installing piter as the ruler and then killing him and putting feyd in his place. when piter dies, he just does the same plan but with rabban. he treats them as interchangeable despite how different they are. they're at the top of vlad's list of "guys everyone fucking hates" together!

piter is also power-hungry. it makes sense that he'd see the most susceptible to manipulation harkonnen as an appealing target to sink his claws into. piter would absolutely treat rabban like a meat shield against the baron and, conversely, i think rabban would try to use piter to figure out how to keep his uncle happy. neither would succeed, but they would absolutely get wrapped up in each other trying.

additionally, they can't kill each other. neither of them have that boundary with anyone else, and could murderfuck their way through giedi prime, arrakis and lankiveil and the baron probably wouldn't care. but piter can't kill his boss's nephew, even the stupid one, and rabban can't damage his uncle's property. so even if they did hate each other, they would kind of be trapped in this state of flux where they couldn't do anything about it, anyway, so why not just fuck about it?

plus, with piter being a spice addict and rabban nominally in control of arrakis, there's a certain amount of poetry in the idea of piter being attracted to the source of his vices.

i conclude the manifesto with this excerpt from the novel:

like the baron thinks rabban is afraid of him but he's actually angry at him? come on.

#imagine if you would the baron forcing them to rule arrakis together to soften it up for feyd #dune #glossu rabban #piter de vries #it's the ship of the decade!#also comedy beat required: the baron constantly drones on about how fugly and stupid rabban is but actually he's not either of those things #which piter was not anticipating #it's very funny.#anyway write the fics! post the arts! feed this weird little ship #my birthday is june 29 so

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braxiatel · 7 months

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Honestly Cleo walking up to Bdubs - canonically her ex husband - and calling Etho Bdubs boyfriend only to then go and off and - in their own words - marry Etho? Absolute legend. Their power is unrivalled.

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wistfulwatcher · 2 months

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Criminal Minds | 5.06 The Eyes Have It

#criminal minds #criminalmindsedit #mine #edit #*#scene*#hotchnissedit #the way i beamed when i hit this on my rewatch?? EMBARRASSING #i was just as giddy as i was the first time ajflakjf #otp: you seem to do ok #otp #this decade is really gonna be me rediscovering every old otp huh #(for the record i ship everything on cm but hotly is THE cm otp)#q

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wollstonecrafted · 8 months

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favorite genre of character…. absolutely delicious trope…

#as delicious as one’s own toe 😍#the bitchiness #the decades long devotion #despite the abuse or neglect #idc it’s toxic and it gets me EVERY time #I’m losing my mind #and yes I’m brave enough to su post in 2023 #need more of this character type pls advise :)#ofmd #izzy hands #edizzy #ps I loved Izzy from the start sorry he’s funny #guillermo de la cruz #wwdits #nandermo #also I love the character type more than the relationships themselves #I don’t ship the ships per say I just love tragedy #💞💞💞#mine

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assiraphales · 9 months

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one of the funniest things is during all nine episodes luffy did not actively have one single plan except "become the worlds greatest pirate and find the one piece". he spent at max a month? less? at sea and everything he accomplished (taking down FOUR feared pirates in like a week, stealing the grand line map, finding a faithful and loyal crew, getting a bounty of 30 million on his head, etc) was mostly by accident. he stumbles into trouble and then proceeds to become the trouble

#one piece #opla #one piece live action #one of ur men pick up a barrel in a raid and a manic stowaway convinces ur henchman to turn against you and then destroys your ship. some k #you want the grand line map so u kidnap this kid and he takes ur dismembered body parts and traps them in trunks and scares ur crew off #u spend a decade running a long con to get all the money from a ship yard and this rando shows up on the night of your big plan and foils it #literally sends u packing by flinging u out a window #ur a feared warlord fish man but ur pet cartographer just happens to be friends with the one person willing and capable to destroy #everything you have. His friends kill all ur men. turns ur base into ruble #and he walks away without a scratch #luffy doesn’t have problems he’s everyone else’s problem lmaooo

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shadow0-1 · 2 months

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Adrenaline through your veins

and hands that fit in mine

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armoralor · 6 months

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Emily Swallow’s face when d*nbo shippers in the crowd started yelling at Katee Sackhoff for saying Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin have "no romantic undertones:"

Please don’t harass actors. Katee has been humoring inappropriate questions about a fictional romance for MONTHS. She has made jokes and played along to diffused awkward fan situations; ship what you want online but please don't bother actors with it (image from a different angle of this panel).

#Katee joking about having a good rapport with Brendan Wayne on set while filming does not give you the right to tell the professional actor #who has been playing this character for a decade that *they* are wrong in how they interpreted the scene THEY ACTED IN JFC #no means no. move on. you don't need the actor's blessing to ship something. go have fun by yourself and stop trying to get actors to agree #with you headcanons. if actors choose to talk about it or take part in fandom shipping discourse themselves- great. but DO NOT harrass them #for the answers you want and get mad when they disagree with you. fucking wild.#din djarin #bo-katan kryze #bo katan kryze #the armorer #the mandalorian

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normystical · 11 days

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ATTENTION ALL ALASTOR SHIPPERS:

uniromantic

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. PROCEED

#it means you only experience romantic attraction to one person in your life ever!!#some people get their only crush SUUPER late #sooo a few decades or centuries works out fine :3 #just as long as it's not a poly ship lmao.. two crushes makes you NOT uni because. uni. like. u know ur root words right #also IT IS NOT “fixing” one's aroness it is an aro identity of its own and not superior to any other identities !!!#just saying that bc fandoms fucking suck #anyway i think it'd be cute. especially with his disgust for even platonic affection. tryna be all intimidating #then THAT all of a sudden?? the agony. such silly billy blissful agony. not blissful for him but for the viewers of his suffering like us #tehe #uniromantic alastor #arospec alastor #aro alastor #alastor #hazbin hotel #FML what if i secretly put a hamburger emoji in tags 🍔 yeah that's right fuck you society #radioapple #radiostatic #duckiedeer #charlastor #what other fucking ships are there uhhhhh #idfk i headcanon him as full-on stereotypical aro whatever you call that i don't even do this bullshit #voxal #radiodust #alastor x oc #i think i am cringe.#i sincerely believe i am cringe and terrible. mayhaps social anxiety. who tf knowssss #P.S. as long as HE is not the one with multiple crushes i know polycules are whack #but ofc he could be grayro but where's the fun in that (there is lots of fun in it i am sorry)#radiorose

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rapha-reads · 7 days

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Things from IWTV episode 10 (s2ep03) I noticed:

- the French is good this time! I still wonder if it's the actors themselves or dubbing. But it's actually understandable for a French-native person, and the language itself is exquisite. Wondering now if those lines are picked up from the book in Anne Rice's own pen, the translation of the books, or they're original lines written for the show by a French writer who has a splendid style.

- I just really loved the Armand flashback, both because of the language, and because it opens up the veil on the history of vampire covens throughout the centuries. Also we get to see more Lestat, this time Armand's Lestat and that's always a win.

- Armand is right about both Louis being broken and Claudia being pushed to the limits of how long she can accept this life of hers. I absolutely do not trust Armand, he's twisting the narrative for his own purpose (that I don't know because I haven't read the books yet), but still, he's a good judge of character. Can't not be one and survive for 500+ years I guess.

- the Loustat scenes, on the quai de Seine, in the bar and in the park, were insane.

- was that Sartre? Did. Did they just cameo'd in Sartre for the lols? Man, Paris.

- speaking of Paris, I know it was actually filmed in Prague, but man, I felt like I was back there. That Seine promenade, that's the one I walked countless times in my years living there. I could recognise the pavements like I was still there.

- Santiago's fed uppppp with Louis' BS. And he's definitely laughing at Claudia. Calling her "puce"... It's funny because in French, "ma puce" is a term of endearment, like "my darling", but indeed literally it means "my flea", so for an English-native like Claudia, it could be seen as literally being called the smallest, lowest member of the coven (like Delainey says in the episode insider), but for a French-native, it's like the coven is calling her sweetheart. And then they give her that dress and tell her she's going to play a kid for the bext 50 years, the one thing she hates being reminded of the most, and you go "ooooh. Oh, no, honey. They bad. This is bad." Clau's about to Break. Knowing how her story goes, I'm not sure I'm ready for that.

- Danny boy felt subdued this time. Like he's still reeling from Louis' invasion in the last episode, and now that Talamasca agent invading his laptop, he's feeling attacked on all sides and he's floundering to get back up again. That said, the scene with just him and Armand was particularly intense. You can sense how yearning Armand is, and how destabilised Daniel feels under Armand's gaze. In other words, that vampire really wanna fuck that old guy, and the old guy doesn't know how to feel about it but he's definitely feeling the intensity.

Need to read those books yesterday.

#rapha talks #rapha watches shows #interview with the vampire #iwtv s2 #amc iwtv #iwtv spoilers #iwtv no pain #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #armand the vampire #daniel molloy #claudia de pointe du lac #loustat #loumand #armand x daniel #armandiel #armandaniel #(what's the actual generally accepted ship name for these two you can't tell me there's no consensus for a canon ship #that's been in existence for actual decades?)

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tarutaruga · 1 year

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kiss kiss fall in love (literally)

#naruto #tobimada #madatobi #madara x tobirama #madara uchiha #tobirama senju #tarudraw #i update this blog once every 3 years and each time with increasingly confusing ships #like yeah im into naruto now :)#even tho im probably a decade too late

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yeh-shuhua-realone · 11 months

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poor girl in her 30s had to deal with traumatized teens posessed with other traumatized teens trapped in a time loop who were tricked into it by dead ww2 soldiers. nuts!

#i think i drew her the exact way i wanted to #i think #art #oxenfree #oxenfree lost signals #actually it's wild that og crew were living through all that shit that happened again and again all that time #like all the deaths and bone cracking and trying to escape #and people from ship probably were sinking again and again for decades #no wonder they ended up mad and wanted to kill everyone

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booasaur · 1 year

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