#duneverse

[rain-carradine]

We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive, by being Harkonnens.

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

[milky-beans]

I'm glad ppl are finally(?) recognizing how good feydpaul is..thanks Dune p2 for igniting that

Frank Herbert you coward and homophobe fuck u for writing literally the best trope for them...the endless possibilities of them being destined lovers...rivals to lovers...lovers on the battlefield..literally *chefs kiss*

saddens me that like Feyd is such a good antagonist and fucking has to die in the end for Paul to "live long to become the villain" ://

there was sooooo much potential for them to be rivals...just being like "well well well...if it isn't YOU!!!" but whatever...

[arkatrine]

if i lived in duneverse id call the bene gesserit gen bennies and theyd explide me with their minds

[cassatine]

most terrifying thing in the duneverse is the inertia

[scientologisabethmoss]

i have never read nor seen any dune media, and i really don’t know what the fuck actually happens in the duneverse, but why do all the characters have such painfully normie names. what gives.

[makimacult]

imagine kids in the duneverse jumping rope to this

[therandomshitstormercxvii]

I saw this shi thousands of times already and I’m as hooked on this clip like a duneverse navigator is hooked on spice

[crazyprompts4asoiafdune]

Aemond in Dune

Aemond is Leto's younger brother in the Duneverse. What does he accomplish?

[hellsbellschime]

Hi :) would you be making videos on dune anytime soon? Would love to hear your thoughts on the books/movies!

(I had sent this before but tumblr showed me that it didn’t send so if it has, please ignore the other thnx)

Hello! And I don't think I will super soon but I want to! I'm freaking obsessed with the Duneverse and it's just so cool and weird, I really hope that after Denis Villeneuve does his three movies that they continue and make it into a longer series or maybe adapt it for TV or something. It's also wild to realize how much modern sci-fi has been influenced by Dune, LOL and it's even wilder to realize how much modern sci-fi seems to have been influenced by a misinterpretation of Dune.

[rain-carradine]

The expression of terrible longing with which she gazed at Otheym strengthened Paul. Chani must never look at me that way, he told himself. — Dune Messiah.

DUNE: PART ONE (2021) / DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

[electricnik]

Time to load the headcanons.

The Spice in the Duneverse appears to provide some sort of force sensitivity as well as being a drug.

The Chiss were born with an inbuilt force sensitivity but at some part in their history decided to suppress that ability, with only really sky walkers using it. It appears that the Chiss originated in their distant past on a mostly water planet and developed their navigating skills to follow the ocean currents and migrating animals. That talent became useful when they stepped into space. From there they spread out and evolved on different planets and the Ascendancy Chiss have suppressed most use of the force and knowlege of their origins.

when they said in Dune that they needed spice for space travel i thought it was used as some sort of fuel but no apparently it's just because your pilot needs to be hight out of his mind to be able to safely navigate big ships into space

[letoscrawls]

Given that you're still drawing Dune art, would you mind doing the Baron? Would love to see your take on it.

omg hiiii yes i've wanted to draw him since forever but never got his design quite right. i feel like he looks bad in all adaptations besides maybe the miniseries (even tho i haven't finished it so i'm not really sure) and we deserved to see more of his fashionista side (that he totally has and passed on to Feyd)

[cassatine]

LONG BEFORE MUAD’DIB, in the last days of the Old Empire, humanity lost its drive. Terran civilization had spread across the stars, but grew stagnant. With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream…or truly live. Then came a man from the distant Thalim system, a visionary who took the name of Tlaloc after an ancient god of rain. He spoke to languid crowds, attempting to revive their human spirit, to no apparent effect. But a few misfits heard Tlaloc’s message.

a) there is one (1) form of polity in the duneverse and that's empire. you'd think the bh/kja books would have anything to say about that!!

b) ok ok admittedly i am only one third into the butlerian jihad and i barely remember anything from the last time i read the book/trilogy (it is not. shall we say. memorable.) but so far we are apparently just supposed to accept that the archconservative pseudo-messiah totes nailed it when he delivered every classic reactionary banger (as extrapolated from other passages in the book: Equality Is A Lie Social Darwinism Only and We Used To Be A Country and We Used To Have Morals and We Used To Have Real Men and Only In Adversity Are Real Men Forged and the rest of the archcon top 40 you KNOW this is what he was preaching this is the vibe. zero points for originality). and lbr it's fine as the ideological bedrock of pretty much all of the characters. obviously the cymeks liked and suscribed a while ago and the league of nobles elite shitheads buy into their own narrative of noble resistance to the cymeks / machines. but not only is there no character that thinks otherwise, the text itself leaves no room for disagreement. the old empire *did* fall because it was stagnant hedonistic slothful complacent what have you. that's just A Fact.

beyond the writers' own ideological blind spots, part of why that's there and unquestioned is (i suspect) that in frank herbert's books 'machines took over because humans got complacent' very much was the accepted narrative (unsurprising. herbert senior was a conservative. leaning liberal on some issues but a conservative all the same). the issue here is not that this book isn't leftist enough for me. it's that it's fucking boring and unimaginative. in other words: the problem is not that ten thousand years before the og dune books a bunch of people already buy into that narrative about the fall of the old empire. that's fine. dune is one of the few universes in which complete sociopolitical & technological inertia accross insanely long stretches of time actually work imo; the way i see it that's exactly what the landsraad/corrino empire era is all about: maintaining that inertia (out of fear). and so: the problem is that bh/kja have zero interest in the question of how did that narrative about the fall of the old empire became the prevalent (the only) one. it already is. why would there ever have been another narrative? it's boring!!

c) the bit that makes me go oh you people are such liberals. no it is not solely that neither the text nor the characters ever consider that maybe what the archconservative pseudo-messiah preached was drivel, and unimaginative drivel at that. it's also that:

“Tlaloc grew up in the Thalim system, on an outer colony world where life was difficult, where labor was not accomplished without sweat, blood, and blisters. He had to fight his way and earn his position.”

so... the archconservative pseudo-messiah was literally from the imperial periphery. obviously labor there would not have been accomplished without sweat because it would have been where the imperial core outsourced the labor necessary to maintaining its luxurious standards of living, and that very fact would have been obscured both by distance and the convenient fiction that all labor was fully automated. the metaphor writes itself: it's space!global south and space!global north. and the text blithely passes by and does nothing with it. again: boring.

[ladypepperofdavenshire-archives]

Dune self portrait!!

...I was gonna do it eventually

[dragongirlwizard]

We will not escape the cinematic duneverse

Time for Geoff's summer slop stream

[makimacult]

getting executed in the duneverse for the crime of making pornos with muad'dib lookalikes