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Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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chani’s anguish when she shouts “you’re insane” at stilgar because the love of her life just died. paul just died and all people care about is the lisan al gaib, some story made up to manipulate her people and her life. she doesn’t care about putting faith in some story because all her faith was in herself and the people around her, including paul. and they killed her faith. they killed part of her by forcing her to ressurect the man she was mourning. everyone cares about the lisan al gaib but chani cares about paul and that was used against her like a weapon

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ZENDAYA as TASHI DONALDSON in CHALLENGERS (2023) dir.Luca Guadagnino

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Jennifer's Body (2009) // Arcane (2021-, 01x07) // Fredrik Backman, Us Against You // Arcane (2021-, 01x07) // boymiffy

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As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

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Still having Chani feelings, man. Because I think it is actually not that common to see a character (but especially a female character) whose main commitment in life is to a political struggle, and to have that be taken seriously by the narrative. Not painted as naive idealism or a trendy lifestyle choice or something the character eventually leaves behind for "real" commitments like marriage, career or children.

We don't see really anything of Chani's home life in the sietch, but it seems reasonable to infer that the fedaykin are what she's built her life around. The very first thing we learn about her, before we even know her name, is that she's a fighter. This is a core part of her identity.

She falls in love with Paul when he's willing to risk his life beside her as an equal, for a cause that she can't escape but he could walk away from if he chose. The question she asks him is not Do you love me? but Will you always be with me? Will you always be beside me in the struggle, fighting for the same things I am?

And as soon as the answer to that question is no, they're over. There is absolutely no possibility of love overriding that political betrayal, because her love for him is inextricable from coming to trust that he is committed to their liberation and not simply trying to use them. He said over and over again that he didn't want power, and as soon as he reaches out to claim it there is no way they can be together. The worst betrayal isn't watching him choose another woman, it's watching him declare himself emperor and send her own people off to slaughter others when he said he was fighting for their freedom.

So she leaves him, and we're never supposed to see it as anything but justified. There is simply no way she will turn her back on the most important thing in her life for him.

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DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve DUNE: PART ONE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve DUNE (1965) Frank Herbert

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Friendly reminder that Aang went from “Will you go penguin sledding with me?” in season 1 to absolute rizz god in season 3

The Headband proves that Aang was such an absolute chad.

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fire nation kataang my cutiepies

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thank you for the support on my last post-- here's more from my AU which doesn't have a name, feel free to suggest a name, lol I'm bad with that.

zuko and aang after a fight with the Yuyan Archers, Zuko barely misses an arrow to the head, instead clipping the ribbon that hides his identity.

aang suspects Blue is the banished prince with a high bounty, whom he saw in a cell inside Admiral Zhao's ship at the Southern Water Tribes. Despite being fire nation, and quite unkind, Aang releases him from his shackles only for him to vanish when soldiers showed to recapture them both.

Katara, Sokka, Aang & Blue travel together to the Earth Kingdom. Unfortunately, Sokka is stupid.

in case u didnt see the last post, TLDR of what it is: Aang was told he was the avatar at 16, after the war has already begun, gets frozen in ice, Ozai ascends to Phoenix King, succeeds in his plan to take over the world, the Blue Spirit joins Aang first (identity still 'concealed', although Aang is 89% sure he knows who he is after a while), and now Aang must save what's left of the world.

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HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BLAME PAUL FOR ANYTHING AT ALL?? TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A TOTAL VICTIM. BUT THEN I GUESS THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE HE SAYS QUESTIONABLE THINGS??? LIKE THAT SPEECH TO LIET IN DUNE 1 THEN SAYING I BELIEVE IN REVENGE IN DUNE 2. BUT I COULD RATIONALIZE THAT AS HIM BEING GREIF STRICKEN I MEAN HIS ENTIRE HOUSE LINE JUST GOT MASSACRED. IDK IS HE EVIL IS HE A VICTIM IS HE AN EVIL VICTIM???? HE MAKES ME SO CONFLICTED WTF I HAVE SO MUCH SYMPATHY FOR HIM BUT SO MANY PPL DONT SO IDK IF I SHOULD AND IF IM MISSING SMTHG FROM THE BOOKS (i havent read the books). AND ALSO THE FACT THAT I HEARD HE DOES SOME EXTREMELY FUCKED SHIT IN THE NEXT BOOK (smthg about drums made from enemys skin wtf paul) WHY HE DO THAT WTF SMH.

he is the kwisatz haderach. that is reason enough!!!!! he chose this as much as he didn't have a choice to choose anything this was over 10k years ago this was over when jessica chose to have a boy this was over when he chose to let this be the beginning of the end. it is entirely his fault as much as it isn't at all. do intentions and choices matter when the scale of destruction and death is that vast? does it matter if he was a victim or a reluctant participant or the instigator when the end results are that devastating? he consciously brought this about made it real even tho it was inevitable from the start regardless of the path he walked but walking the path he did made it so. he never stood a chance. but he did

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like. I get being upset about watcher pivoting to streaming but acting like these three men power walked into ur actual house shot ur real life pet dog execution style right in front of ur eyes and then demanded u pay them exorbitant amounts of money for it while bathing in ur tears feels a little dramatic. TO ME lol

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still thinking about this scene and these tags by @fuckyeahisawthat

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A fighter from the ‘Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades’ (The armed wing of the ‘Hamas’ movement) kisses the forehead of an ex-prisoner released by the Hamas-Israel prisoner swap

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guys hot uquiz was just discovered but I'm taking it about 100 yrs too late. anyways everyone share how wifeable you are.

THE WIFE RATING SCALE 1929

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on my hands and knees begging ppl to recognize platonic content. sometimes 2 guys r just friends . i dont mean this in the 'stop making everything romantic way' i mean this in the 'stop calling 2 friends who bicker siblings and stop treating any remotely caring remotely older character like a parental figure' ohhhh my god . they are not siblings they r buddies . u are all underestimating the power of having a buddy

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dune is so funny it literally opens like

CHAPTER 1

“It sucks that I understand Time Cube and as such cannot avoid becoming a genocidal dictator,” young Paul Atreides said to himself. “For me. Moral complexity is such a burden.”

CHAPTER 2

“Heard any good slurs for poor people lately?” asked the Baron Harkonnen homosexually, knocking back another shot of orphan tears.