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god emperor of dune (partial) fancast.

he had heard the fish speakers chant the god emperor into their presence many times since that first explanation and had even added his own meanings to the strange word. it means mystery and prestige. It means power. It invokes a license to act in the name of god. " siaynoq! siaynoq! siaynoq! "

I'm normal about lord Atraides and all his male friends and teachers

My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

-The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Saint Malthus | Our Lady of Sorrows

Hilda Furacão (1998)

Baal, Lucifer, and Michael by @zayajima (posted over on Twitter)! Huge huge thank you to Minty because I'm really obsessed with this art :') It's gorgeous !!! Ahhhh

Wish I was dying of end stage alcoholism in a Tunisian monastery

Alia Atreides, St Alia of the Knife

“She is the virgin-harlot - witty, vulgur, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.”

reading children of dune and almost in tears at the tragedy of sibling-hood from both fronts

(we speak the same ancient languages that only we understand. we fight together as tigers and scheme against the world hand in hand. we bring out the ghosts of our past and then exorcise them from each other in the dark. we are the only bastion of empathy and understanding of each other. when we part i am in agony over my solitude but i will walk on and fight, warp fate and myself in order to return.)

(i am standing in the shadow of your long-gone presence. i haven't seen you in years but i hear your name spoken from all corners of the world and instead of a comfort it is a weapon that i must wield to stay in power. i stood in a crowd around you as a stranger when you spat at the temple of your legend and wished i would run to you and beg you to save me from myself but the fear gripped me too tight to move. you walked away and i realized i have no one left who will love me.)

leto ii one of the characters of all time. woke up one day age 9 and decided to fake his death and become a giant sandworm. declares himself emperor and then marries his twin sister. keeps resurrecting one specific guy who has attempted to assassinate him multiple times. zones out during at least one assassination attempt and almost dies. uses his dead ancestors voices to mess with people. announces to everyone that he doesn't fuck. part of his life plan is to eventually get assassinated. he is an over 3,500 year-old 7 meter long worm-man hybrid.

"You have observed that I am the ultimate alien. Do you not wonder if I also can be a loser?"

"The thought has crossed my mind."

— God Emperor of Dune

Golden days

I'm glad I only get recommended the important news

Le mystère de la vie n est pas une question à résoudre mais une réalité à vivre.

I’ve been reading Dune and I can’t help but imagine it in old Studio Ghibli style…. Also if the lighting looks weird just remember that Arrakis has two suns. So.

Hi David! I was wondering what the Chakobsa (and the transliteration) is for "As written" aka Stilgar's favorite phrase. Thank you!

The phrase is qithlas'ha. Now, regarding the apostrophe, it's written there to distinguish between a sequence of [s] and [h] sounds and [ʃ], which is written sh. I didn't make this distinction in the first movie or in my original documents. I think it was Jessie (@quothalinguist) that pointed out that it could be confusing that sh was sometimes pronounced [sh] and sometimes pronounced [ʃ]. This was accurate. Anyway, here's what it looks like:

Thanks for the ask!

I need everyone to understand about the fremen.

They do not cry. Ever.

To give water to the dead is the most sacred honor that anyone could give but they rarely and never do that because it's ingrained in them to not waste water from birth. A single tear could mean life and death for them. To give water to the living? Unheard of.

Paul crying over killing Jamis in the book was a moment that astonished the fremen around him. Jessica ponders their reactions and knows that this is a holy moment.

Jessica then forcing Chani to cry for Paul(this was not in the book btw but I love it) is the ultimate betrayal of her autonomy. To force her to give what is essentially a piece of her life to him without her consent is sacrilegious and she knows it.

Water of Life indeed.

*in a masc way* hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Dune fan art by concept artist Kentaro Kameda

regarding Dune Part 2: i am obsessed with its consistent visual theme of self-destruction. the shot of paul surrounded by his new followers seems triumphant - until the viewer remembers that each crysknife is made from a tooth of shai-hulud, and paul is standing in a circle of them, in the allegorical mouth of the worm. he orders a missile strike, and the viewer sees them fly directly through his head. every victory for the prophecy is a blow to paul himself; he's killing himself with every step he takes towards his destiny, and we know that already, and the film is screaming it, but it's a hell of a thing to watch it happen, isn't it?..

You may be good, but are you "fucked a man so hard he created genre re-defining art so incredible that it has reached across multiple mediums and impacted them for generations to come" good?

I Drew a pickle Xenomorph. I think this explains their acid blood. They’re all just pickles.

artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

disengage, disengage, disengage

So Paul went blind-

I am very disappointed in the people praising the censoring / editing of Roald Dahl’s books.   Let me tell you a little story.   About five years ago I decided to re-visit Treasure Island.  I found an unabridged version.   I was surprised to discover that Long John Silver had a black lover.   Because the book used the term “n–ress” the mention of her was removed from many American editions of the book when I grew up.

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

doodle (🥺)

what if you‘re alicent hightower and you gave birth to all your grief and your pain and your broken dreams and he wears your face

Inside Interview With the Vampire’s Most Tragic Hour: The Trial Explained