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Reverse Mother Mary Lady Jessica character of all time I fear. She’s an orphan made to be the armless mother-vessel to a mother-vessel, she defies her order for the first person she’s ever loved. She’s afraid of Paul’s visions, she walks him straight to them, she saves him from the desert, she takes the water because she can’t die and leave him alone (how forced was her hand?) but Leto is gone (Leto didn’t believe in revenge) so she stands on his grave and strangles the life out of their son. Here is her sword hand, long live the Messiah.

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Something I really love in dune part 2, is the juxtaposition of chani's reaction during the war council scene and the ending scene.

In the war council scene everyone is on their knees but when Paul declares himself the mahdi and says he'll lead them to paradise, they all jump to their feet and shout lisan al gaib, chani however is the only one to stay on her knees, kept there by her disbelief and devastation along with her refusal to exalt him like everyone else.

Then you have the end scene where paul becomes Emperor which both compliments and contrasts with the council scene, here everyone was standing and they all sink to their knees, but this time chani stays on her feet, she's all anger and defiance, paul promised to be her equal and she'll never willingly bow to him.

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just rewatched Dune Part 2 and noticed something, when Feyd Rautha enters the area for his birthday fight, and after he wins the fight, the people in the audience of the arena are chanting his name in a very rhythmic and quite frankly terrifying way - "Feyd Rau-tha! Feyd Rau-tha! Feyd Rau-tha!"

And after Paul kills Feyd Rautha, takes Irulan's hand in marriage, and declares war on the great houses, the Fremen people around Paul begin to chant - "Lisan al Gaib! Lisan al Gaib! Lisan al Gaib!"

They chant for Paul with the same rhythm and ferocity with which the Harkonnen audience chanted for Feyd Rautha earlier in the movie. If that doesn't show Paul's transformation and loss of humanity then idk what does

(also FeydPaul parallels in general yessssss I love every connection between these two fucked up boys, it's tragic that they barely even get ten minutes of screentime together)

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For everyone who acts like Lucien is all soft and docile…need I remind you that in book one, when he thought Rhys was evil and might kill him with half a thought, he STILL talked back, called him a whore, SPAT at him, and threatened him with a sword. My man is so feisty.

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Lucien glowed once as a child while he was with his big bro Eris and Eris knew from then exactly who his father was.

It was also the day that Eris decided Lucien could never be happy enough to glow again.

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When Feyd-Rautha sneers that Chani is Paul's pet, he's doing the clichéed thing where the villain makes a thinly veiled rape threat towards the love interest, inspiring the hero to rally and defeat him.

But it hits home because Feyd-Rautha is not wrong. By declaring his intention to marry the emperor's daughter and become the new emperor, Paul has essentially reduced Chani to the position of a pet.

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Really love that after Paul drinks the Water of Life, we never see into his visions again. We see the vision he has of Alia, and we see two brief flashes in the scene where he's talking to Jessica after he wakes up: an image of baby Jessica and a very brief flash of Paul's hand on the knife stabbing Feyd. That's it.

When he says, "I see possible futures, all at once. Our enemies are all around us, and in so many futures they prevail," it would be an obvious choice to show flashes of those futures. But we're just looking at a shot of his hand. We don't see what he's seeing in the visions for the whole rest of the movie. We only know what he tells us he sees.

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whatever you do, don't think about 12 year old Sirius Black becoming very suspicious as to why his new friend disappears from school periodically and returns looking exhausted, sometimes with bruises and cuts riddling his body.

don't think about him getting worried when Remus lies, "Oh, it was a family thing".

don't think about him trying to do research on abusive households out of concern that perhaps his friend is living in dire circumstances.

and please don't imagine him coming to the realization that Remus isn't the one in an abusive household... he is.

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Spicy Elucien Solstice Scenario

Elain gives Lucien two wrapped gifts at Feyre and Rhys's Solstice celebration. One of them seems to be completely empty, and when he removes the wrapping paper, he finds a box with a small envelope, the latter of which says, "Open discreetly" in her writing.

He shoots her a mischievous, questioning look from across the room while she nonchalantly sips her drink, and in the envelope, he finds a folded note with one simple line: that inside this package is what she's planning to wear later.

He cracks open the box to find the pearl earrings he'd gifted her in a previous year...and only them.

It takes him a minute to understand, but when it sets in, she gives him a subtle, coy smile and goes right back to talking with Feyre and her family.

Lucien temporarily has to leave the room and counts down the minutes until they can leave the rest of the night.

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it's wild to me that people act as if chani's primary reason for leaving paul was bitterness about being a concubine like girl..... i promise that did not even register in her brain compared to the realization that paul had chosen to become her people's oppressor, to become her oppressor, to destroy the equality that was very foundation of their relationship. i promise her agency and her loyalty to her people, things which existed before paul and will exist after him, were more important to her than how "official" her relationship would be considered within a system she did not care about.

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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

—FROM “COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Dune & Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert / Dune: Part One / Dune Part Two / Dune (1984) / A Thousand Suns, sponsored by BLACKMILK STUDIO

#paul atreides #alia atreides #dune

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One aspect of the story of Dune that the movies don't make super clear is that, before Paul, the Fremen already had a central leader figure in Liet Kynes. In the book, Kynes has a generations-long plan to gather enough water to transform the environment of Dune (this is why the Fremen have those big pools, they never get super clear about that), then retake the planet for the Fremen and create paradise. Paul showing up and then leaning into the whole Lisan al-Gaib bit pretty much directly gets Kynes killed, creating a power vacuum into which he assumes himself with the aid of his previously-unheard-of levels of white privilege. While Kynes was an ecologist, however, Paul comes from a family of colonial military aristocrats. All Paul can offer the Fremen is all he understands: revenge. Bloody revenge for everything they've endured in centuries of oppression by the Imperium, temporarily in line with the revenge he craves for the Imperium's attempts to control him and his family, and spiritually in line with the resentment built up all across this socially stagnant feudal space empire.

#dune #dune part 2 #dune part two #paul atreides #movie talk #book blog

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Elucien headcannons of mine cause I can’t wait for the next book

(if it’s not your cup of tea, don’t drink it)

- Elain gets pretty vivid dreams cause of being a Seer so Lucien always comforts her and cuddles her while sleeping.

- Whenever Elain gets anxious she wants to hold Lucien’s hand since his hand is so warm

- Lucien will workout a lot more since Elain keeps feeding him all her baked food and who is he to deny? But it leads to even more smexy time when Elain sees him all sweaty and bulging muscles.

- Has pet cat that she adopted when she found it at the streets of the Day Court.

- Date night by flying Pegasus

-Lucien takes her travelling all of Prythian as his mating gift and Elain collects native flowers of each court and continent. Which she than displays in her room.

- Makes little trinkets for Elain to her baking easier in the kitchen.

- Constantly hugs Lucien back cause she drawn to his incredible warmth.

-Braids Lucien hair with flower that she picked from the garden.

-Would actually be the first person to see Eris as a good guy after spending so much time with Lucien’s Mother and repairs the bond between him and Lucien

-and maybe, just maybe becomes the High Lady of the Day Court 😚

That’s all. Can’t wait for their book❤️

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This is just a thought that I had but I like that we get a different side of Elain with Lucien.

Not only was their conversation together one of the only times we got a glimpse inside her mind and her struggles, but we also got the glimpse of her ruthlessness. She’s usually very tame and tries to not hurt people but when it comes to Lucien we feel her anger, even if quiet, it sizzles.

She’s not sorry for breaking his heart. She raises her voice to Feyre when she asks her to give him a chance.

Lucien brings out her rebellious side, her non-conformist side, even in spite of his happiness I guess, but she doesn’t owe it to him and he knows that. She did shrink to herself after he gifted her the pearls, but I don’t think it means she is complying to him, in fact she’s not, she’s dominating the situation all the time.

The other times we see Elain become this bold is when she wants to do something and people keep coddling her. These two issues go hand in hand.

It makes me think about when these two triggers collide, when Lucien has the opportunity to also coddle her and she’s about to go off on him but instead he aids her. I would like to see how her anger tries to come out anyway, unable to accept that he, the one who was placed upon her, is undeniably the one to see her. She will be so angry at that too.

This is the tension I want.

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Okay but we all know Eris and Lucien are very specific about their appearances and what if for the longest time they both had long, flowing hair and when Eris had to chase down Lucien and force him out of Autumn, when he came back to tend to his wounds he’s consumed by grief and guilt over the fate of his baby brother and he rashly cuts his hair because it reminds him too much of his brother I-

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Honestly, Billy would be type of boyfriend to literally never question his girlfriend, he'd be just a total ragdoll to her. If she grabbed his suspenders and started pulling him somewhere, he's happy to go along. If she kisses him out of nowhere, he's not gonna question it. She lays down or sits on him, he's gonna wrap his arms around her and bring her even closer. If mid conversation she pinches his cheek, he won't stop whatever he was saying, but he will have the cheesiest smile as he continues.

don’t have anything to add but I read this last night while I was doing bad and it made me smile very much so thank you :)

this is all correct and true because Billy is just such a lover boy :(