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studio qb, strangerville

#decorating wip #studio qb #purchased a bigger retail lot for q's studio #so much space to fill 😩 #thinking cafe restaurant bookstore and??? #all ideas welcome #gotta look at some of my fave builders #and see if i can copy-paste rooms #do we think bailey will let q hire an assistant? #i can see her sitting in on all interviews smh #he's gonna end up picking lyric or legend LOL #dassit

[sanjisblackasswife]

heyy once again!!

i dont realy ship zolu, but i rlly do think all the fanart is adorable <3

im more of a zosan and lawlu shipper but ofc thats only in fanfics

what r some non-canon ships u think workout well?

oooh ok i gotchu.

yeah i will say ive seen some Zosan art that was so cute ngl but i still dont care for the ship HOWEVER

the only non canon ships i like is

and a canon one is kaya and usopp😗🫶🏾

#dassit

[thepatronsaintoffilth]

current preoccupation: thick juicy men on top of me, upside-down facefucking me in 69

#dassit #that's the post #if you guys could see how many open tabs i have right now #lavender snowe is truly living my dreams #be sure to donate to her OF

[chrvstenpress]

#dassit #i cant stop laughing

[thekrazykeke]

My brain is stuck on the idea of Sin x Detective fanfics. The angst potential could be incredibly appealing to write about. Probably a slow burn…. 👀

#the wayhaven chronicles #book 3 #sin #listen he’s tall with wings #and muscles #I’m enraptured #dassit #out of context

[rxvonna]

meh.

#⏳ ooc. #dassit

[13thpythagoras]

why Dune is crap

Tolkein and this English lit scholar explain my pov quite well

"

Martin Turner · BA in English Literature and Language, University of Oxford (Graduated 1988)

Tolkien stated “I dislike DUNE with some intensity,” but he did not give a reason why.

However, you don’t need to look far—only as far as Tree and Leaf—to understand Tolkien’s views on story and artistry.

Tolkien was interested in stories that were good for their own sake. Even in dark moments, the story should be a delight to the reader. By Tolkien standards, Dune is quite gratuitous in its bloodthirstiness, violence and corruption. Herbert takes a positive delight (it would seem) in describing the debauchery of the Harkonnens.

On a similar level, Tolkien always wrote in a way which was suitable for children. He discusses this in Tree and Leaf. He did not see any benefit in filling out his stories with sex and gore.

Tolkien’s world is ultimately a world of grace and kindness. These, to Tolkien, were the marks of the true hero, of whom Gandalf and Aragorn were the contrasting pinnacles. These are qualities almost entirely absent from Dune, which is much more focussed on power and revenge. This is somewhat like the difference between Shakespeare and Webster. The Duchess of Malfi has a very similar milieu to Dune. Tolkien’s own heroes were Gawain and Beowulf, rather than Machiavelli.

Tolkien describes world-building as an imaginative journey. He discusses the difference between simply writing ‘the green sun’ and thoroughly imagining it. To him, the imagination was the main thing. Dune, by contrast, is ‘Lawrence of Arabia in space’. Herbert was reportedly[1][2] very taken by the film,[3]and transplants the milieu wholesale into a science-fiction setting.[4][5] To Tolkien, this was an unacceptable shortcut. Remember that he criticised his friend CS Lewis for borrowing and mixing in Narnia. Herbert’s method is far more heinous, from a Tolkien point of view.

Tolkien loved language. He plays with it endlessly, and there is an extraordinary sound to his prose if you read it aloud. Herbert has a superficial reference to multiple languages, such as Chakobsa, but it is quite evidently that of the non-linguist.

Tolkien didn’t like preachy writing. It wasn’t just allegory he was opposed to. Dune is full of little asides telling us about ideal societies, and what it means to be human. It would have grated Tolkien on most pages.

Tolkien did not like modernism. Dune is a child of modernism in a much clearer way than, say, Foundation or Islands in the Sky. Its philosophy is a blend of existentialism, proto-New-Ageism, nihilism and rationalist scepticism. All of these would have seemed barren to Tolkien, and Herbert lets them go unchallenged.

Tolkien is concerned with heroes. Dune is concerned with anti-heroes. Herbert is quite explicit about this: “Here lies a toppled god / his fall was not a small one / we did but build his pedestal / a narrow and a tall one” (Tleilaxu epitaph, Dune Messiah).

Above everything, Dune had been very publicly compared to and described as the science-fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien would have been aghast to see what people thought was an equivalent to his writing, which was opposite in almost every respect.

Ultimately, Dune is full of the things that Tolkien detested, and having the book described as the equivalent of his own book must have irked him deeply.

Footnotes

[1] 

“Going Native” with Dune’s Paul Atreides

[2] 

Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world

[3] 

Dune (1984) - IMDb

[4] 

Interview with Frank Herbert and Beverly Herbert by Willis E. McNelly

[5] 

Frank Herbert’s Dune and the Dune Series

"

Watching Dune is like watching a documentary of gratuitous violence rather than an actual story, even the director of Dune (2021) states this, Denis Villeneuve: "I tried to do a sci-fi movie like a documentary." [Nerds of Color]

Calling Dune punk-anything is like calling Godzilla a rom-com...

Dune's white savior complex is stinging and constant, and there is no defense, even as we see director Villeneuve attempt to defend on this point as:

"There is a storytelling trope called the White Savior where a Caucasian will go into a foreign land and act as a rescuer or messianic figure to the indigenous people there. And Herbert’s work has been criticized for falling into that trope. So how do you contemporize the story to avoid falling into the problematic areas that trope may potentially present?

That’s a very important question. And it’s why I thought Dune was, the way I was reading it, a critique of that [trope]. It’s not a celebration of a savior. It’s a condemnation and criticism of that idea of a savior. Of someone that will come and tell another operation how to be and what to believe… it’s a criticism. That’s the way I feel it’s relevant and can be seen contemporary. And that’s what I’ll say about that. Frankly it’s the opposite [of that trope]." -[Nerds of Color]

Is it though? It seemed to me like Paul Atreites frees the fremen and re-establishes his dynasty, this time as ruler of the universe. How is that anything except a huge shining perfect example of the white savior complex? Villeneuve and Herbert just kind of wave their hands and say "ehh it's the opposite" and walk off from the topic, and I'm just over here with an actual soul, left wondering, what in the goddamn fuck was that gaslighting?

Villeneuve and Herbert are like "Well it didn't end well for Paul, we fucked him up pretty bad in the end so therefore it's a critique of the white savior model"

and I'm just over here like,

you can't just kill the white savior and assume he's gone and you're rid of it, the Romans tried that and it didn't work out for them...LMAO fuck dune... sorry not sorry!! Long live liberty, democracy, education, justice, and Tolkien, not that glorification of fascist racist bullshit called Dune. /rant

#I'm in Tolkien's camp #100% #why Dune is not solarpunk #or punk anything #Frank Herbert is gross #soul cringe #don't watch Dune seeking enlightenment it's a dead end #watch / read dune expecting the white savior complex and you will be gratuitously rewarded #note I'm not saying Dune should be banned #I'm not saying it's immoral to read or watch it #I'm just saying Dune romanticizes fascism and capitalist exploitation #dassit #no big greater truth under all that sand

[albaqae]

I’m bored, send me asks w a doodle idea! :)

(Or just comment here, whatever you’d like)

#I’m tagging with w everything so ppl actually c lol #rottmnt fanart #tmnt #rottmnt #moomin #moomin fanart #snufkin #2012 tmnt #tmnt 2012 #doodle #doodle ideas #dassit #artists on tumblr #alba asks #alba landfill

[virgovirghoe]

today was one of those i don’t feel like eating days

#i had fruit #homemade pizza #more fruit #a bunch of tea #kombucha #dassit

[machinecreature]

liam payne's fall from grace (i guess one could call it that idk) still makes me upset lmao but i guess he just wasnt meant to have a career outside of one direction. i just love his VOICE. loved it the most then and love it the most now. and yet his album suuucks. ughhhhhhh

#child throwing tantrum dot gif #strip that down is a banger tho. #and that polaroid song #and bedroom floor #dassit

[dewisnation]

your favourite mclaren driver: lando norris

#dassit #10/10 would run him over #ask.txt #adri the bestie

[romanticistsims]

Sims for me is just buying expansion packs that I rarely use lmao.

#out of context #at this point idek #i just need to stay updated #dassit

[iammartelo]

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