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i think what I liked most about Dune was how smart and capable our hero was. He just KNEW what to do, he thought before acting, and he was incredibly talented. It was honestly refreshing

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When is a gift not a gift?

Dune (2021) // dir. Denis Villeneuve

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a good papa

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the “was it a movie or a music video?” moment

DUNE (2021) Dir: Denis Villeneuve, DOP: Greig Fraser

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That moment in Dune where Paul has his hand in the box of pain and he goes from being in INTENSE agony to staring down the Reverend Mother...

My body was not physically ready for such feelings

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Ben Barnes Reads Thirst Tweets

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Ben Barnes as the Darkling lives rent free in my brain. I’m not mad at that. Not. At. All.

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Anyway in the war room Aleksander was kissing Alina like he'd never get the chance again. And he was right 🥺

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Shadow and Bone | Season 2 Announcement | Netflix

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Inej: Are you ready to commit?

Kaz: A felony or to a relationship? Cause the answer to both is yes

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“the literal human definition of the comic sans font” fucking sent me

can we for a sec talk abt how the darkling and mal are characterized in the books. (spoilers below the line, obv)

while she tired to write the darking as the big bad wolf in the first book, instead we got a really fleshed out character with a phenomenal backstory and a generally interesting character. then after the first book, all of it goes down regarding his characterization. he goes from complicated character to storybook villain just like that. and don’t even get me started on how perfectly ben barnes portrayed the darkling in the show. and it hurts bc ik it’ll be put to waste unless we get some sort of a scene where he’s really conflicted with himself and his choices, or maybe even get a scene where he generally explains to Alina why he wants to expand the fold, and then have her calmly explain that is not the way to help Grisha be treated better.

and then we have mal, the literal human definition of the comic sans font. he’s supposed to be a perfect character, with no flaws. and that is my problem. the simple truth (to me) is that the Darkling is simply a more interesting CHARACTER than Mal. It’s completely washed over how Mal just shamed Alina for actually liking Aleksander (before she knew) while he was off tumbling like 10 different women in a week. it’s washed over that he has “experience” and he isn’t shamed and she is. Mal would be a generally good character, if not for the fact he’s, quite frankly, over shadowed by the Darkling. even then he’s lacking in a few areas. and it really bothers me because i cant think of a single thing that was canonically acknowledged as a flaw in Mal. oh wait. maybe that time when Alina realized that the one thing keeping her from being her true self was Mal? and the second she figured that out, BOOM. she’s happier and more confident that she’s ever been. and then ofc it’s all uprooted because OH THE FEMALE CHARACTER IS FINALLY COMFY WITH WHO SHE IS OH WAIT NEVERMIND.

whatever leigh tried to do with the whole good romantic interest vs evil romantic interest generally backfired in a whole host of ways.

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I read the first sab book and i was neutral about malina and darklina but then the show made me really hate malina and begrudgingly ship darklina. The entire time i was like God they're so cute but also no i know he's manipulating her but jfc he's so in love with her and ughhhh

Honestly, like, Ben and Jessie’s chemistry was off the fucking charts, and I really love that Ben in particular was able to bring this humanity and this depth of feeling to his character, despite the bad things he did later on. You can really believe that he has genuine feelings for her--feelings which caught him off-guard, which he wasn’t expecting, and which he didn’t realize the depths of until it was far too late--and my frustrations with Alina’s characterization and the storyline aside, they make me want to believe that love can survive anything, even though the part of me that isn’t in clown shoes knows we’re never actually going to get that pay-off.

Malina, though, like... it just does nothing for me. I know they’re supposedly the ‘healthy’ option, and even if that were true (it really isn’t, if you actually look at their relationship, how unbalanced it is, and how unhealthily attached Alina is to Mal), you can have healthy relationships that aren’t boring but... Malina isn’t that. Their dynamic doesn’t excite me, their actors have chemistry but the writing just doesn’t support it (and it doesn’t hold a candle to Jessie’s chemistry with Ben), and it’s not even that I don’t like friends-to-lovers because I have plenty of ships that qualify--but usually there isn’t a much more interesting enemies-to-lovers option right there.

I will grant that Mal isn’t nearly as insufferable in the show as in the books, and he isn’t as awful to Alina, but it wasn’t really replaced with anything substantial. It’s clear that Alina has an unhealthy attachment to him--she mutilated her own hand so that she wouldn’t even risk being taken away from him, and it’s established that she was happier and healthier once she stopped denying her Grisha power and started actually using it--but that attachment isn’t really reciprocated. Mal had no problems separating from her when he was the one leaving, for instance--it wasn’t until Alina was the one leaving that he seemed to care. And it really felt (especially with the random letters in eps 2 and 3) like the show was trying to force me to believe that Mal and Alina were in love without really showing my why they would be.

Meanwhile I got to see Alina lighting up like a firefly around the Darkling, smiling in wonder and awe at her own power, relishing in a self-satisfaction she’d never known before in her life. And I’m supposed to rejoice when she’s reunited with the reason she was subconsciously denying herself all of that for her entire life?

Yeah, no thank you lol. Luckily, there will be fanfics galore to soothe my wounded heart, and I very much look forward to them.

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Me, 6 episodes in to Shadow & Bone: Kirigan can‘t be like an UBER villian, right? I mean, he basically asked Alina for verbal consent before attempting to get jiggy with her. Right?

right?

guys?

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I am slowly turning into Ross Lynch trash as I am a piece of Noah Centineo trash. 

Someone send help.

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I’m here for this. Give these boys all the shows.

So…

first Noah Centineo…

then Ross Lynch…

Alright Netflix. Which teen romance are you putting Calum Worthy in. I’m ready and waiting.

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I wanna give it up for Ross Lynch.

He went from a goofy rockstar on Disney channel

To infamous serial killer

To a loveable and deep character on Sabrina.

Everyone give this boy a round of applause, he’s talented and amazing👏🏽