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Dune art by rezaafshar.art

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ruckus on arrakis

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Dune art by Oscar Pena Gonzalez instagram.com/oscarpenagonzalez #dune

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Dune by Luke Oram

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@inn0cencestrained ASKED: ❛ so you’re her. ❜ (IRULAN)

The way the words leave her mouth sound like the striking fangs of a snake. It was as if she hadn't just unseated the balance of Chani's life in the name of political advantage.

it wasn't as if non-monogamy was anything of a taboo in her society. The casting aside certainly was. Some women never entered into the marriage of youth and continued to flit from partner to partner. When a child came into the equation she would call together her partners and pick who would be best suited in the nature of rearing to benefit the tribe.

Some men had multiple wives, won or wooed, and the nature of the combined family manifested in many ways. He may go between Yali's or sietches to visit his wives. They might all live under the same roof.

Non-monogamy was perfectly normal. The amount of women alive far outnumbered the men. What was more rare was monogamy itself. Whey else would it be so labeled a marriage of youth. The young were fools. They had not the age nor the wisdom to understand the complete capacity of bettering the tribe. Very few stayed so isolated in themselves.

The common thread, which Chani felt thoroughly denied, was the respect of conversation. The acknowledgement of another entering the group. Wooed or won, the first wife held the power of acceptance.

Usul would have followed the social rules. She knew he would have. The Atreides did not. No, he took by force and shamed them both in more cultural faction than one.

In some other life, Chani would have accepted Irulan. To the ways of her culture, her pride. Irulan was as much a ghanima as she was a wife. So what did that say of Chani herself?

"And you are her." she responded calmly. What else was she to do?

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I Walked with a Zombie 1943 | dir. Jacques Tourneur

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@intcthatgoodnight ASKED: they can't take you away from me. (PAUL)

"And they will not, beloved." she said softly with a hint of amusement. her hand gently rested on his forearm as if to channel some sense of calm.

"Does he frighten you?" She spoke softer then, as if more to the concept of God than to her man. She had not known him to lose yet. the mere idea seemed foreign, as did the concept of his potential for fear.

She had seen Usul afraid. Usul was flesh and blood. Usul was kind and loving. Muad'Dib was some divine prophet, perhaps something more divine than that. Where the man began and the myth ended, she wasn't sure.

It was the Atreides that frightened her. A being such as that was something else entirely.

"Nothing will happen." she spoke again, less confidently and more cautiously.

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@impercre ASKED: “I have seen us giving love to one another in a time of quiet between storms.” (PAUL)

How many years ago had it been since she whispered those words to him in the midst of spice ceremonies? The changing of the waters was something that brought everyone together.

it had brough him to her. She had seen what he had, yet she only saw him. She loved him then as she did now. It did not matter the paths or the roads walked, he was her man as much as she was his woman.

He came home to her, "Usul my strength," she whispered lacing her fingers behind his neck, her forehead pressing against his, "It is quiet enough for us now, isn't it?"

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Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides

DUNE (1984) - dir. David Lynch

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@nightmarefuele ASKED: "you must learn to rule. it's something none of your ancestors learned." (FEYD)

"The tradition of survival leaves little room for conquering." Her ancestors had traveled the stars over searching for peace and settling in the most hostile of environments just for the instance to breathe freely.

Still, it seemed hardly the case. If it was not the planetary pull to live each day with a survivalist mindset, then it was colonizers who thought her people, her culture, and any legacy of tradition as vermin worthy of extermination.

Resistance was inevitable, but ruling? that seemed a distant dream.

"You speak so easily, what suggestions have you then?"

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Visions of a falling moon must be measured against other legends,other visions in a universe where even the seemingly eternal stars waned, flickered,died ——-What mattered a single moon in such a universe? // IND & SELECTIVE Chani Kynes FROM FRANK HERBERT’S DUNE.

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Send "What if they kissed?"

and I'll write a scene where our muses kiss, even if they aren't shipped together. it is it's own thing and doesn't have to lead to an official ship. a "what if scenario"

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Beware the false savior

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