#emilio.txt

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if i were a director, i would make a horror movie that wouldn't obviously be a horror movie at first. it would start as a drama about the life of an abused kid while showing them slowly planning to kill their parents in a way that the audience doesn't understand until the end so when the kid finally kills their parents, it would be super vindicating and you completely understand why they're doing it

#i would write this as a book #but it would be extremely visual #so i don't think it would work as a book #emilio.txt

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really do Not see where the people who say this book is bad eds representation are coming from. also like...the author has eds????? so????? shut up maybe if you don't have it???????

#why do people think this is bad representation????? #like they're constantly talking about how her worth isn't defined by the things she can do #and that just bc she needs extra help bc she's disabled doesn't make her less than her peers #not to mention the whole bit where the author frequently brings up how eugenics is bullshit #and there are different kinds of strengths not just physical #how is any of that bad???? do you know how RARE that is with disabled characters??? ESPECIALLY in fantasy novels???????? #like yeah ofc the author is taking creative liberties #but uhhh 1) this is a fucking fantasy book so i want to know what you expect #and 2) the author has eds!!!!!!!! i would understand why that would bother people if the author herself didn't have the disease but!!! #she literally does!!!!!! #emilio.txt #fourth wing lb

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there is so much potential in samjohn's relationship for the traumatized girlies and yet everyone think that kind of relationship only applies to dean and john.

#arguably there's more potential for the traumatized girlies with sam and john than there is for dean and john #but we all know that everyone in this fandom doesn't treat sam fairly #so i'm really not surprised #emilio.txt

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being in a relationship that's freak4freak really is so soul healing. wishing for all of my mutuals to have that too <3

#anyway i love my wife and i love u guys <3 #emilio.txt

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the five basic food groups

incest

necrophilia

cannibalism

age gaps

mutual noncon

#and honey i'm a binge eating #emilio.txt

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no one likes age gaps the way they used to :/

#we used to be a proper country #emilio.txt

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i can't stop thinking about the scene where rust shows up with flowers and looks like he just lost his daughter all over again, but i think the most heart wrenching part of that scene isn't even the look on his face when marty first opens the door.

it's the way he stumbles back a step and turns away when marty's daughters appear.

#true detective #rust cohle #the way his eyes barely widen and his lips part #and he turns away #you Know he sees sofia and what Could've Been #emilio.txt

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thinking again about the scene where marty tells rust getting laid was good for him and rust calls him a moron. they never say why he said that, but i think i know: marty still doesn't understand after all this time rust's trauma surrounding the death of his daughter and the dissolution of his marriage (and likely all that came after it too [the undercover work, the drugs, the horrible things he saw people do to children because they were high, etc.]), and i think rust realizes in this moment that if marty can't understand it now, can't figure out why he wouldn't want to be involved in the writing up of a deposition he already had to hear about a woman killing her kids, then he's never going to

#true detective #marty hart #rust cohle #emilio.txt

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everyone on booktok being like "i just started reading 9 months ago :3" "i just started reading a year ago" no wonder you people think the crap you read is good!!! you've never read anything else!!!!!!!!!

#i promise there are better books out there than the stuff they're reading i need them to know that #emilio.txt

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it's chani's importance in the story being completely erased that's the most unforgivable i think, and yet no one else is discussing this. i've talked about this before, but they're going to have to completely revise anything they want to do next in the story because of how significant she is (and how significant her and paul's lovestory is) to the main plot. everything happens the way that it does because paul is so deeply in love with and devoted to chani and refuses to give her up and removing that is going to change absolutely EVERYTHING about any future films they want to make. there is absolutely no way anymore for them to remain faithful to the books!! none at all!! even if they try to fix it in the next film, it isn't going to mean anywhere near as much because of how badly they wrecked things in this film!!

#the fact the woman of color was pushed aside in favor of the white girls AGAIN is going to piss me off until the day i die #fuck you denis villenueve #why the fuck did you make the first movie the way you did if you were only going to ruin everything in the second movie??? #emilio.txt #dts

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g-d had to nerf me with chronic pain and trauma. i would be far too talented and completely unstoppable otherwise

#also had to humble me with chronic pain and trauma too bc i would be way too arrogant if i weren't like this lol #emilio.txt

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i miss when movies were good instead of pretty

#the obsession with perfection in our society is rotting it #emilio.txt

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okay i'm gonna be very frustrated and angry probably but none of this is directed at you guys i promise!!! i'm just!!!! upset!!!!!!!!!! (tagging you so you see this emily!! 💕 @thesparrow1996 )

let me start off by saying i am not a book purist by any means, but when visual media is being made from a book, i would like it to, at the very least, be telling the same story and that isn't what happened here. it wasn't even telling the same story as the first film in the series.

in the last film, it seemed pretty apparent that paul's visions were going to become a reality and then in this one they Sort Of did that, but Not Really but that isn't even my biggest gripe with it. my biggest gripe is that the last film was telling the story of the book and this film was telling a different story altogether.

my other issue is how chani's character was completely changed. and think is probably because i've been obsessed with her character and the lovestory between her and paul (which is CENTRAL TO THE PLOT OF THE WHOLE SERIES BTW) since i first discovered dune when i was in high school.

in the book, she's supporting paul. she agrees with everything he's doing. she and the fremen all support him because the fact that the bene gesserit are controlling things from the shadows is NOT!!!!! a well known thing!! in fact no one knows that except the bene gesserit!!! OF WHICH CHANI IS CANONICALLY ONE!!!!!! (and even then the bene gesserit are very much a 'knowledge divided' kind of people so no one knows everything about the society) she and irulan are literally narrative foils!!!! like the entire reason i made this web weave was because of how much i fucking LOVE chani's storyline, and because i really love how it shows even the most well meaning of people can fall into the trap of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. but i suppose it makes less sense to anyone else who hasn't read the book because they also entirely erased the existence of paul's first son.

in the books, paul has a son before he has his twins and that son is murdered by the very last of the harkonnens in a last ditch effort to erase the atreides bloodline. before this, paul is refusing to take the water of life because he has a family and he doesn't want to jeopardize that!! after his son is murdered, he takes the water of life, so he can enact revenge on the harkonnens and start his holy war. by then, he his so distraught that he really doesn't care if his visions become a reality and, while they tried to do this with the destruction of sietch tabr in this film, it does not have anywhere NEAR the same emotional impact because of how it was done (without paul really ever spending any significant time among the people there).

also, as you can imagine, i've got an issue with how they leave this film especially since this isn't even really the full first book and chani and paul's lovestory seems to not be anywhere near as central to the main plot as it is in the books.

all of this is an issue if they want to make further films because they've literally wrecked the storyline with this film. as i said: paul and chani's lovestory is central to the plot. everything happens the way that it does because paul is in love with her and treasures her above everything and, without the existence of his son, without him really seeming to truly care about her, the rest of the story is just going to come across as cheap by comparison.

i wouldn't have had as much of a problem with this if they'd started out the last film by steering it in this direction, but they so very much did not do that. this film really feels like denis villenueve was writing his own fix-it fanfic and that's what i hate about it most.

as for things i did enjoy:

everything on geidi prime; the black sun was so fucking cool. i completely forgot that was a thing from the books. i also loved how the fireworks looked like ink blots

stilgar!!! he's not really like that in the books, but i didn't even care bc it was genuinely funny and i had a good time whenever he was onscreen.

the way chani refused to bow to paul because they're supposed to be equals (you deserve so much better, babygirl, i'm so so sorry for what they've done to your story)

florence pugh did exactly what i thought she would and made me like irulan a WHOLE lot more than i do in the books and the miniseries.

crazy paul and jessica and alia!!! deeply obsessed with their evil family slay

also all the weird family stuff in general, including when feyd and harkonnen made out in front of the whole population of geidi prime

the whole bit with paul learning to ride the sandworm!! that was so fucking good

the part where paul is walking toward rabban out of the fog of the sand on arrakis after he tells muad'dib to come face him. that literally was my fav scene and it was only a few seconds long.

#BUT IT'S WHATEVER!!!! IT'S WHATEVER!!! #I'VE ONLY WANTED THIS PART OF THE BOOK TO BE FILMED RIGHT SINCE I WAS 17 BUT IT'S WHATEVER #emilio.txt #dts

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me and my mutuals

#we're all just the sicko guy #emilio.txt

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incest is a beautiful name for a baby girl

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can i say something

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