Dune crack!au (4)
Irulan: Hey, Feyd.
Feyd: Yes, princess?
Irulan: I’m bored.
Feyd: Do you want to play smash or pass again?
Irulan: Fremen Edition?
Feyd: Atreides.
Irulan: Fine. You go first.
Feyd: Duncan Idaho.
Irulan: Obviously, smash.
Feyd: Same. Now your turn.
Irulan: Lady Jessica? She’s
part of House Atreides, right?
Feyd: To be totally honest with you, she’s a closeted Harkonnen at heart but I’ll pass.
Irulan: Why? She’s very pretty.
Feyd: I don’t like space witches. They’re weird and very mean.
Irulan: Like mother, like son.
Feyd: She’s also my evil creepy uncle’s super secret daughter.
Irulan: *sighs* And our monster mother-in-law.😔
Feyd: Don’t remind me.
Irulan: Fine. Thufir Hawat.
Feyd: Pass. Mentats freak me out.
Irulan: Feyd, babe, I thought you like math?
Feyd: Of course I like meth. I even started selling a ton of meth to some of Chani’s fanatical Fremen friends for a very good price.
Irulan: Let me guess, Stilgar?
Feyd: He’s my business partner.
Irulan: Nevermind. Your turn.
Feyd: Doctor Yueh.
Irulan: Does he still counts as part of House Atreides?
Feyd: He tried to kill my creepy uncle and brother. So I guess, yes?
Irulan: Pass. He was married.
Feyd: Your turn.
Irulan: Duke Leto.
Feyd: NGL, I’ll marry, kiss, and smash that one.
Irulan: But isn’t he like your distant uncle or something?
Feyd: You do know that we’re all related to one another, right?
Irulan: Right. We’re all married to Paul. So let’s play another game.
Feyd: How about we annoy and ruin our husband’s very important, very crucial business meetings again?
Irulan: I wish we could, Feyd, but the last time we did that, Emperor “I’m so special, I’m the Lisan Al Gaib” Paul punished us severely-
Feyd: Severely?! He just forced us to water all of his “sacred” arrakis palm trees for 2 weeks!
Irulan: Well, he’s currently talking to that angry looking Gurney Halleck guy. So-
Feyd: All the better!
Irulan: Better? For you?
Feyd: Gurney Halleck hates me. So I want to ruin his day as well.
Irulan: To be fair, Feyd, Gurney only hates you because you’re a living breathing Harkonnen.
Feyd: No, he hates me because I’m obviously perfect and pretty.😌💅
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I'm NOT writing but my recorder brain is really tempted to just to come up with an excuse for. medieval music knowledge being required of the librarians and Jacob is like WHY are you all looking at me! Not really within my expertise! and besides do you have any idea how difficult it is to trace specific folk tunes beyond, like, the 18th centur-
and canonically-at-the-club Jenkins to go hold the phone up. oh i loved that one.
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As an avid little nightmares enthusiast, what are your serious beliefs on the often overlooks Wax Bellman? Any theories or headcanons?
Frankly? I don't really have anything.
Don't get me wrong -- I find it very sweet that the fandom has always tried to involve him into the fan content, making him part of the crew of the Maw even though he was cut in the end. Considering how involved he was in the marketing of the game up until 2016 we have good reason to believe that the guy was also beloved by the crew; he must have been a "last second" cut.
(Pictures from the previously mentioned con.)
His situation is really a sad one because it would have been awesome to have him run around in the game. Would have made the runtime longer.
HOWEVER! His presence is still tangible in the Maw, in spite of him being gone. This is something I will gladly get into: bring little details to light is something I am very fond of doing.
We see him directly in a couple of paintings owned by the Lady, both in the Residence and in her own quarters. She has a habit of keeping pictures of her employees; this is a good indicator that he was on the Maw during her reign. Might be an obvious statement, but you never know with the Maw... In all of these instances, he is found hanging by his neck; considering his jack in the box is also in a room where a Nome is swinging aggressively on a lamp attached to a long wire, the "cord around neck" part is a prominent aspect of this character.
((This is, most likely, one of the reasons why they ultimately cut him out. I cannot imagine how hard it would be to animate a guy walk around with a cord around his neck all the time. Adding to that, his face looks hard to model and keep consistent, so that's a point against him as well.))
Keeping his profession in mind, one could really call him a dog on a leash. A bellman is a person who helps the guests carry their luggage inside their place of residence and shares information about the establishment and its services. From what we can discern from the first painting, we can also see that this particular Bellman was also the one in charge of the booking and the tickets, so doing check ins and things of the like.
Generally, he'd be the one to look after the Guests more closely, which lines up with the traces of him we are left with...
You see, in the 2016 con, the Wax Bellman was shown hiding behind a two-way mirror. He could only be seen once the light was turned on, on his side of the mirror. Meaning that the two way mirror we see in LN 1 is most likely one of the places he would have resided in.
That in itself is not too obscene considering the other customs of the Maw, but the mirror is in a bathroom. And he has a chair. With toilet paper.
... Yeah, uh. Very interesting, Tarsier Studios! 😁👍🏻
About Tarsier Studios, actually! This ask reminded me of something they said in regards to the Ferryman and the Wax Bellman. A few years back, LN twitter referred to the Bellman as "Ferryman"; for this reason, it was believed for a while that the two characters were either the same person, or that one replaced the other in the lore. This was confirmed to not be the case!
(From this awesome interview! I suggest you go listen to it, because this screenshot is hard to read + it reveals a LOT of Maw lore!)
So we can finally put a stone on this lost soul. He is lost to time, but never forgotten. Keep the fan content of him coming!
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Isabel Lovelace as Odysseus… Lovelace a long way from home for seven years. Desperately trying to protect her crew and get them home even as they die one by one. Lovelace as god-touched but still fundamentally human, Lovelace both aided and buffeted and sent back and back and back due to the whims of a power higher than she can reasonably challenge. Lovelace as the Captain who finally returns home as the only survivor out of her crew. Is this anything
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No cause, if the second I turn 30, 22-year-olds are gonna start calling me an "auntie" and a "queer elder" I'm crashin' tf out and takin all you niggas with me.
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(small rant about show alicent)
I’m sorry (I’m not) but i HATE people who are like “oh Alicent should’ve told Rhaenyra, its her fault she didn’t”
Alicent was a 15 year old girl who was pimped out to a man 3x her age by her father. Alicent quite clearly did not want to marry Viserys. Alicent was not stupid, she knew immediately when her father asked her to ‘comfort the king’ what it would probably lead to, but Viserys SPECIFICALLY ASKED HER to not tell rhaenyra. Now maybe im alone in this, but if I was given two options- tell rhaenyra and face unknown consequences by the king who i barely know and my father who is my only parental figure, OR, not tell rhaenyra and hope my closest friend would empathise with me, understand this is not my fault and be there to support me. I would obviously fucking pick the second option.
Especially because so many ADULT WOMEN seem to believe that Alicent is a “whore” and they are so ignorant to her situation. It disgusts me how they blame this child for what happened, have some goddamn empathy.
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castiel would go to a bar, wanting to surprise dean because they haven't seen each other for a while and sam told him he could find him there and then he would sit down where dean can see him, call a waitress over and say "can you see that man at the bar, over there? I want him to pay for my drinks" and the waitress is looking at him weirdly and that's when castiel realizes that's not how they do it on dean's movies "i mean i want to pay for his drink, sorry, human customs are still so new to me." and you know the waitress would go tell dean all concerned for his safety like "that weirdo over there wanted you to pay for his drink and then he wanted to pay for yours, watch out" and dean is already turning to look at cas and he actually gets a bit mad because that weirdo she is talking shit about is, in fact, his one and only, all time favourite, weirdo
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