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Every time I watch Dune I forget about it but I'm foaming at the mouth over how Paul has a vision of himself as a powerful, respected, divine figure with millions worshipping him and he just says "Somebody help me"

#AND NO ONE!!!!!!!! DOES!!!!!!!! #HE LIES DOWN IN THE GRAVE OF HIS OWN LEGEND AND HIS OWN FRIENDS AND WORSHIPPERS ADD DIRT TO HIS PIT #HIS OWN MOTHER SINGS HIS PRAISES AND BUILDS HIS PEDESTAL WHILE HE LOSES PARTS OF HIMSELF #EVEN CHANI CAN ONLY WATCH #eternally fucked up how Jessicas response to his “thousands worshipping at the shrine of my fathers skull” is essentially just #“yes you are my son! you are Duke Paul Atreides! this is your birthright #“i am so proud of you!” NO YOU EUGENIST FREAK YOUR SON IS FUCKING DOOMED #prev tags! #this this this #paul atreides #dune

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And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad’Dib. That must not happen, he told himself. — Dune, Frank Herbert.

#WOOF #the thing these gifsets in comparison make me think about #is how denis said when he was directing part one there were moments where timmy kept reaching for more gravitas and intensity #than he thought paul would have at that point #and he had to keep telling him to like. reign it back in #'you are not muad'dib yet. you are still just paul' #'we are not there yet. but i promise we'll get there' #and boy did they #prev tags! #paul atreides #dune

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Anybody around who knows of a good, easy to learn software to edit video essays? A la Rowan Ellis or Sideways? Or like that one video fo A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest? Should I get over my fear and battle it out with after effects? Or is the whole process way less hard than I'm making it out to be in my head?

#please send help #any tip/recommendation/advice is welcome on the making of video essays #video essay #editing software #after effects #rowan ellis #sideways #advice needed

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All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing...

#oh #aang #atla #tsedit

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

merch concept - a patch/magnet for every track (click for full quality)

#wow op this is incredible #i love it #ts #tsedit #the tortured poets department

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ODYSSEUS SCREAMING “WHO?” BUT IT'S HIM. THE HAUNTED MAN WITH A TRAIL OF BODIES STANDING BESIDES HIS WIFE IS HIM.

#screaming crying etc #odysseus #epic the musical #epic the underworld saga

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okay I haven't gotten around to the comics yet but with the news from season two and dead boy detectives arriving on friday the brain is shifting back on sandman mode and i feel like i must ask, do we get more Hob on season two, do i get to see him again, please say yes

#this is not ship related i just miss ferdinand kingsley #and the charm he brings to the character #hob gadling #the sandman #.txt post

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The thing about Paul is that he is legitimately kind of unhinged in his willingness to throw himself into physical danger and risk getting hurt or killed in a fight that matters to him.

The way he goes NYOOM the second he realizes that Duncan is about to fight a fuckton of Sardaukar. No shield no weapons no plan no hesitation, ready to take on the most fearsome soldiers in the known universe in his pajamas. And he would have if Duncan hadn't locked the door.

Fly through a sandstorm because it's the only escape route? Never done it before but sure. Crawl under a moving harvester the size of a building with chompy bits on the end? Worst plan ever, let's go. Bait the ornithopter gunship into shooting at him so his crush can blow it up? It was his goddamn idea. Hide quietly when the Harkonnen soldiers show up during the eclipse? Oh hell no, he is looking for a way to escalate that situation immediately. He just killed someone for the first time like yesterday and did not enjoy it. But as soon as the Harkonnens are there he is ready to throw down.

The absolute trapped raccoon energy of him just grabbing the knife blade when Feyd's trying to stab him the second time, because it's probably over but he's not gonna make it easy, and maybe that gives him the extra second he needs to pull his own knife out. That teeth-gritted look he gives Feyd when he is on his knees, beat to shit, two stab wounds, blood all over his face, and is still like bitch you THOUGHT you could out-crazy me.

Like many things about him, it's a double-edged blade. Because it's what wins him respect among the Fremen, that he's willing to go to the front lines and not afraid to take risks. It's the most potent expression of his fierce protective streak, that he'll jump into danger to defend those he loves. And it's also fucking terrifying. It just adds such a chaotic energy to all the other ways that he is scary, that he doesn't just command armies of fanatics and have the power to make the Emperor of the Known Universe bow at his feet, but that this blood-streaked feral little gremlin might show up personally at any moment and stab you in the neck.

#paul atreides #dune

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#dune #film

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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 #paul atreides #meta

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god I'm so happy we got the tiniest of Dead Poets Society reunion in the new taylor video

Dr. Anderson and Dr. Overstreet my beloveds <3

#i just wish it had happened for a better album #dead poets society #ts #.txt post

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Oh my lord 💀

#ts

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go here and let me know what your short term top artists from spotify (within the last 4 weeks) are in the tags!

#everything everything #the last dinner party #the beaches #olivia rodrigo #in the tags

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Luke Castellan should've been at the club

#luke castellan #percy jackson and the olympians

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if rma has a million haters, im one of them. if rma has 5 haters, im one of them. if rma has 1 hater, that 1 is me. if rma has no haters, im no longer alive. if the world is against rma then im with the world.

#football

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[ 1 - 0 ]Daiki Hashioka (OG)｜Manchester City vs Luton Town

#how this goal came to be i still don't quite get it #i'll take it tho #man city #football

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from what i understand this was basically the movement right

#film