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tyler being dramatic about a tragedy of his own design <3

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it’s a new week!!! let’s do this!!!!! (cries uncontrollably)

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What’s about to happen? What’s about to happen?

Twenty One Pilots - Next Semester (Official Video)

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Do you think there is inherently more hatred or love in the world?

ummmm more hatred but the love that is there is more pervasive and insistent

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When your card declines at therapy so they start reading to you allegiant chapter 50

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i'm sorry i said i wanted to slit your throat i just don't know how to flirt. it will definitely happen again btw

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"Lead them to paradise" was such an insane, jaw-dropping, horrific line and it wasn't even in the book.

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i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

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words by @starpeace

#fav

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correct me if i’m wrong cos i don’t watch dune.. but i’ve seen people call paul a tragic character. except isn’t he a whole white coloniser tricking indigenous poc into believing he’s a prophet to serve his own interests? that’s inherently evil that cannot be a tragic character imo

so yes that is correct that is what happens. the tragedy is that he is a sixteen year old boy who gets a vision of this happening and he is TERRIFIED and absolutely does not want this to happen at all. He does not want the holy war he does not want to be the chosen one he initially very much wants to fight alongside the fremen as equals trying to liberate themselves from their current colonizer without becoming the messiah because they have common political cause.

And then the entire second half of the first book (and the second movie) are about the concessions he makes to himself bit by bit by bit (well it’s the only way to save his mom and sister. well it’s the only way to prevent nuclear war. well he does want his revenge. well maybe he IS special.) Until by the end he has lost 100% of his humanity, fully wants to be the messiah and is willing to manipulate people into thinking so, and has declared himself duke of arrakis in his father’s name and made a play for the imperial throne.

you’re right that it’s evil. the book and these movies agree with you. the tragedy is watching a child who desperately wanted to avoid this slowly completely lose himself to it anyways. i don’t think “tragic” and “evil” are inherently mutually exclusive.

#dune #dune 2

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Lightning over Almeria, Spain (x)

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going insane

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not people thinking they can escape heartache. avoiding it at all cost is itself a form of it

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no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity

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“i want you to know, i will love you as long as i breathe.”

dune part ii / ojibwa / waiting for this story to end before i begin another, jan heller lev

#oh #love was there #it didn’t save anybody #dune 2

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corrupted godhood. reluctant false messiah. prophecy as a creeping all consuming malady. does the oracle see the future or make the future? the horror of trapping yourself inescapably on purpose. the chains of destiny dragging you towards the path you are fighting tooth and nail to free yourself from. there never having been a chance to begin with. no other choice to make. but making that choice regardless.

#dune 2

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Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography"