#prophet!paul

[riverfelloff]

"bill/paul, ted/paul, and bill/ted are all awful ships," the crowd is silent as i speak, "bill, paul, and ted are actually all in love with each other and work together to raise richie, pete, and alice."

the crowd boos and throws tomatoes as i shed a single tear.

two voices echo across the room, stopping everyone in their tracks.

"she's right!" one says, "no one else has cracked it before!" the other says

the spotlights quickly move to illuminate the two voices, and it's shown that they came from nick and matt lang themselves.

#i am the only true hatchetfield prophet #bill paul and ted told me themselves #do i main tag this #of course i do #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #team starkid #npmd #peter spankoffski #black friday #the guy who didn't like musicals #paul matthews #bill woodward #ted spankoffski #do they have a ship name? #chai caramel coffee #<- ship name i just made

[dk-thrive]

I don’t believe you, she says, the world around you is made up of lies, where will we be if you start lying to me also?

— Paul Lynch, Prophet Song (Atlantic Monthly Press, December 5, 2023)

#lies #lie #truth #politics #paul lynch #prophet song

[wulfhalls]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BLAME PAUL FOR ANYTHING AT ALL?? TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A TOTAL VICTIM. BUT THEN I GUESS THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE HE SAYS QUESTIONABLE THINGS??? LIKE THAT SPEECH TO LIET IN DUNE 1 THEN SAYING I BELIEVE IN REVENGE IN DUNE 2. BUT I COULD RATIONALIZE THAT AS HIM BEING GREIF STRICKEN I MEAN HIS ENTIRE HOUSE LINE JUST GOT MASSACRED. IDK IS HE EVIL IS HE A VICTIM IS HE AN EVIL VICTIM???? HE MAKES ME SO CONFLICTED WTF I HAVE SO MUCH SYMPATHY FOR HIM BUT SO MANY PPL DONT SO IDK IF I SHOULD AND IF IM MISSING SMTHG FROM THE BOOKS (i havent read the books). AND ALSO THE FACT THAT I HEARD HE DOES SOME EXTREMELY FUCKED SHIT IN THE NEXT BOOK (smthg about drums made from enemys skin wtf paul) WHY HE DO THAT WTF SMH.

he is the kwisatz haderach. that is reason enough!!!!! he chose this as much as he didn't have a choice to choose anything this was over 10k years ago this was over when jessica chose to have a boy this was over when he chose to let this be the beginning of the end. it is entirely his fault as much as it isn't at all. do intentions and choices matter when the scale of destruction and death is that vast? does it matter if he was a victim or a reluctant participant or the instigator when the end results are that devastating? he consciously brought this about made it real even tho it was inevitable from the start regardless of the path he walked but walking the path he did made it so. he never stood a chance. but he did

#most beloved tragic self fulfilling artificial prophet he doesnt want to be but does #paul atreides #character of all time forever #dune #thats my sweet darling angel baby boy despotic genocidal religious figurehead who never did anything wrong ever 💖 #asks

[cartoonpigeon]

thinking about how (I mean I haven't gotten to far into the book and I dont remember too much of the 1st movie but) there's probably Bene Gesserit mad at Paul for being a boy. he the most transmasc coded cis character ever oh my god

#obviously for other reasons too but this is just stuck in my head #boy stop living in a desert environment and being trans coded and having your mother tell you your dreams are prophetic. I relate to you to #much already!! #disclaimer i am aware he would probably never be able to be transmasc in canon #but a boy can dream (<- sorely lacks the rep he wants) #carts rambles #does anyone wanna see the annotations I've made so far in dune? #this will probably flop but whatever #paul atreides #maud'dib #dune #dune spoilers #<- ig?

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Eruth, Tormented Prophet

Artist: Paul Jackson TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.17 #paul jackson #eruth tormented prophet #innistrad: crimson vow #legendary #creature #human #wizard

[brian-in-finance]

Caitríona in conversation at the 2023 Booker Prize presentation

Caitríona’s conversation starts at 21:41

Video 📹 clip from YouTube (link above clip)

Remember… ever since I remember, my mum brought us to the library; that was our weekly thing. We went in and picked four or five books. I grew up in a very small village and it was just having this window into so many places in in the world. — Caitríona Balfe

Brian’s Post from Sunday

#Tait rhymes with hat #Good times #Prophet Song #Paul Lynch #Winner #2023 #Booker Prize #YouTube Live #Old Billingsgate #26 November 2023 #London #YouTube #My screenrecording

[americanprometheuss]

blue gatorade from the shell gas station is now the WATER OF LIFE because i said so and the bene gesserit have confirmed it

#every time i get one i’m gonna chug it and pretend that the voice of my fetus is speaking to me #oh what did you say evil fetus? manipulate your brother into becoming a false prophet and then have him kill our enemies? #if you couldn’t tell i watched dune 2 and its my personally now #paul atreides i love you but i hate you at the same time #either way i WILL be sat for dune 3 #dune part 2 #dune movie #paul atreides #feyd rautha #harkonnen #austin butler #timothee chalamet

[clytemnaestraes]

Lady Jessica Atriedes and Lady Catelyn Stark

> husband killed after betrayal by someone they trusted (littlefinger and dr. yeuh)

> misled by "sisters" (lysa and bene gesserit)

> young son has to take on his father's mantle

> she would do anything for his survival

> "died" & resurrected as darker versions of themselves

#catelyn stark #lady jessica #asoiaf #dune #dune part two #dune part one #lady stoneheart #someone pls make a more comprehensive post i feel like there's something here idk #also i feel like robb would've become like paul atreides had he lived #he was elevated to the position of king by his men #the whole cult of personality surrounding the young wolf #ik there are other more compelling false prophet/chosen one storylines in asoiaf #but yeah

[trashvampiree]

Paul: you must be Humpty Dumpty from the 1983 (UK) Kinder Surprise commercial if you think we're fucking

My ass:

#im sorry #tlb #the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #paul the lost boys #paul tlb #god please this is so specific #was wallowing around and this came to me like a prophetic vision #the lost boys x reader #x reader #it punched me in the face #CHOCADOOBY #ME UNSCRABBLY!!! #sex penis?!?!?!?!?!?

[fencecollapsed]

the ol Hatchetfield Prophet Theory is outdated as fuck at this point but like what if I revamped it anyway for funzies

#more fun little Prophet Titles like i gave paul and hannah a few years ago u see #do i think anyone is an actual canon prophet other than linda. no not really. shh <3 #cj says stuff #hatchetfield

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

I know this is very much not canon (or maybe it...is kind of? I haven't read the book in a while and maybe I'm super misinterpreting something), but I think it would've been neat if the movies had played around with the possibility that Paul like...can't actually see the future at all. It would be interesting imo to establish him early on as someone who's hyper-observant of details and really good at pattern recognition, and can therefore just "guess" stuff about people and future events. And then when he does actually start having prophetic visions/dreams there would be like...a seed of doubt. For the audience, for him and for everyone who knows him, just that hint of "well wait a minute, how much of this is him having psychic powers and how much is just...him being him? Where is the line?"

This is gonna go on a bit of a tangent so hear me out. Last year I read a really fascinating book called Hild, which was a fictionalized early life account of a real Anglo-Saxon saint, St Hilda of Whitby. In the book, Hild is portrayed as being highly intelligent in a way that, in the context of early Medieval spiritualism, is mistaken for precognition. Her mother, due to them being in a dangerous political position, uses this to essentially scam the king into believing her daughter is a prophet, and her position as a "seer" ends up winning them much political gain.

But Hild can't actually predict the future. She's extremely pattern recognizant, and can take educated guesses about people and nations' next moves politically based on details that are usually overlooked, she makes connections many others don't -- but she's not a seer. And obviously now, looking at this book in retrospect, the whole "mother installs her child as a false prophet for their safety but also for political gain" thing is giving me some Dune brainrotty parallels.

So while I don't remember this strictly being in the source material, I still think it would be neat for an adaptation of Dune (or just me, playing around in fanfics because I might do that) to have more hints towards that possibility. That maybe Paul isn't super smart and intuitively knows things he shouldn't and can see the future - he is actually just super smart. Not confirming 100% that that's the case, but leaving room for doubt. Leaving you wondering up until the last minute where it turns out it doesn't matter anyway; if he's believed to be what he is, then he is. Idk. Just a thought.

#dune #paul atreides #??? does this makes sense #and maybe the books do actually do this more idr #and while i know him being Special is like. the whole thing. i kind of love the thought that every Weird Thing abt paul #actually just has a really normal explanation #and on one hand this is also kind of the whole thing right. that he's a false prophet. #so i just think it would be cool if . hm. there was an even deeper layer to that? #idk

[jellyfish-perspective]

Denis Villeneuve is a coward for cutting out the fact that Paul wakes up from the near-fatal spice agony and immediately comes out as non-binary to his mum and girlfriend.

#diversity win! the false prophet responsible for the death of billions has a fun gender #dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides

[dk-thrive]

It is impossible to see the true self, he says, you can only see what you are not or what you want to be—— … The real is always before you but you do not see, perhaps this is not even a choice, to see the real would be to deepen reality to a depth in which you could not live, if only you could wake up——

— Paul Lynch, Prophet Song (Atlantic Monthly Press, December 5, 2023)

#paul lynch #prophet song #mask #truth #self awareness #awaken #wake

[wulfhalls]

lottie yellowjackets 🤝 paul dune : being man-made prophets and leaders caused in part by their environment, a Weird relationship to water and a healthy dose of multiple love interests. heralding from a 'civilized' world into untamable nature and being forever changed by it

#anon ur brain is so sexi #asks #yellowjackets #paul atreides #dune #false prophets!!!!!! my beloveds

[postpunkblunt]

#i have had a prophetic vision and made it into reality #interpol #paul banks #daniel kessler #sam fogarino #carlos dengler #why are you dressed like that

[daecaerys]

META , 𝑫𝑨𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝒀𝑺' 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑰-𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑯𝑬𝑻, 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑰-𝑴𝑬𝑺𝑺𝑰𝑨𝑯, 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑯𝑼𝑴𝑨𝑵 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑵: often talking with @ruingod and the tropes around characters, i realized how of an antithesis dany is to the common messianic trope ( unlike paul who absorbs himself in it to gain power ) and since recently there has been going on a discussion about it as if she's the same trope as his ( sigh ), i decided to come here and express my opinions ( which are just that, opinions and interpretations ). well, daenerys does not see herself as anything but a queen, a ruler, and she views it as a duty and not a priviledge. she sees ruling ad a responsability to protect those around her ( coming from the sense that she often wasn't protected ), and does not use their dependance on her and their views of her figure as means to create prophercies or even propaganda about her rule. she never sees herself as above her people, as their savior, but a member of their reality/society with the power of bringing change. daenerys did not conquer the free cities to gain numbers to battle, or to rule them with her iron first of ideals ( in fact, one of her issues is that she did not count with that part and is falling under creating her own ruling ). daenerys conquered the cities to free the slaved and their oppression. she had no need to do it either, with enough gold and ships to sail to westeros before doing so.

there's no questioning that daenerys is doing what she does because she believes in the good, not in vengeance, not out of need for power. she's there to serve the oppressed, and not the opposite. she's not their messiah. there's a reason why mhysa resonates with her: she's mother, she's freeing, amidst the fear of being the opposite due to her roots ( remember the valyrians were slavers themselves ). like dragons, there's no cruel inner nature. there's the singular thing: dany is good. intrisically. she struggles in understandig that good intentions do not make a good realm - it only, sometimes, makes it weak. and to be ruthless to protect those she swore to protect is what makes her shake in fear of becoming entirelly ruthless. losing herself. becoming what people believe dragons to be: monsters, and monsters only.

daenerys does not use speech to gain support. her actions did so, and she did not do them out of the selfish reason: yes, this will have me be their queen. i'll become their god. no, dany did it because she loathed to see such suffering. she acted out of her heart. when she freed the unsullied she did not do it knowing they would follow her afterwards, nor when she fred drogo's slaves. their freedom was theirs, just like hers was hers. they followed her because they saw it as just that, someone worth it, someone who did it because it was right, and not someone who used them.

her iron throne goal becomes secondary in her mind as she decides to stay in mereen to keep things under control. to not let those people back in chains and in even more pain before she met them. if she wanted just to control them, dany would become the tyrant that season 8 wants you to see her as. she'd burn her enemies, and make others follow her with the disguise of being their savior. make them cross the sea and fight in her name only. she'd be flawless before their eyes, she'd see herself as flawless, she'd see herself as righteous. daenerys does not do it, in any moment. she constantly does what sacrifice is needed to help others and not herself. staying in mereen is proof of that, still, we constantly read she's a selfish person who only does what she does out of greed. when speaking of paul, for example, and the parallels, it is just a mirror of different perspectives of similar situations. one leaning towards the opressed for power, and the other leaning towards power to help the opressed.

#𝕍𝕀. DEV. › … i have never been nothing. #/long post #not me @ those saying dany is the paul of the asoiaf universe #she's not !!!!!!!!!! #grrm does not like dune btw he said in a forum once LOL #and he is NOT the bitter person you think he is where everyone is shitty and the ending will be EVERYONE DIES *tragic song* #not everyone is corrupted and the world is dark yes but there's hope #arya jon sansa dany brienne all of them represent that #i love writing w yerin bc we scream abt the parallels but also about how they LOATHE each other since they are the antithesis of one anothe #dany is not a prophet dany is NOT a messiah to anyone #she's a queen and just that #she's mother and her titles are only a symbol of her ACTIONS they are not propaganda #she does not use them against people at alll............. #cmon