#sheeana

[hlblng]

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange waters" - Dune cycle, Frank Herbert

Costume Design concept for the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert's Dune, particularly inspired by the latter books and even more particularly inspired by Sheeana

[letoscrawls]

Haven't drawn much these days but have some sheeanaposting

[spiceblueeyes]

Sometimes Frank Herbert thinks of wonderful inspired names, and sometimes it's like... One of the key characters of my book is named Leto. His murdered baby grandson is also named Leto. The key character of the following books is also named Leto. One of the main characters in the 4th books is Siona. One of the main characters in the 5th book is... Sheeana.

Come on dude. I know you can come up with new names.

[fandomlife-confessions]

[super-hero-confessions]

[dreadbirate]

I love Sheeana so far, accidentally rides the worm that killed her family, thinks she’s going to be killed, curses the worms out so they leave her alone, and then immediately asks for the high priests rooms

[anneapocalypse]

Dragon Age Femslash Recs!

Happy Femslash February! I got thrown off the rec wagon the past couple months for Life Reasons but I'm back and I've got a whole pile for you.

Ordered from shortest to longest. If there are other ships, I have noted those as well. Ratings and major warnings are listed; as always, please check AO3 for the full tag list.

These Moments Given by Mytha. Cassandra/Leliana, 1200 words, rated T. The Left and Right Hand take comfort in one another after the explosion at the Conclave. This fic really brings to life the terrible events we don't see in the game.

Vulnerability by @ziskandra. Isabela/Female Hawke, 1200 words, rated E. Hawke and Isabela deal with the aftermath of the Qunari invasion in their own way. I love how this explores Hawke's insecurities and fear of losing those she loves, lots of complicated emotions and uncertainties.

Right Hand by @ziskandra. Female Trevelyan/Cassandra, 1400 words, rated T. The Inquisitor works to adjust to her disability and a new role at the side of the Divine. I like the way it explores some complicated feelings on the part of Trevelyan about ability and agency.

Coin Tricks by @chocochipbiscuit. Isabela/Merrill, 2200 words, rated G. Merrill and Isabela talk about luck, carrying it with you and making your own. Choco writes both characters and their dynamic so, so well and it's a delight to read.

Arcane Deflection by @settiai. Harding/Dagna, 2600 words, rated T. This charming fic explores a growing relationship between Harding and Dagna while also digging into Harding's inner life and experiences in the Inquisition in ways I love.

Aeducan Pride by Cartadwarfwithaheartofgold. Rica/Female Aeducan, Rica/Bhelan, 2900 words, rated M. Warnings: Unhealthy relationships, power differences, dubious consent. Sereda Aeducan takes everything from her brother: the crown, his son, his plans, and finally, his wife. My favorite thing about this fic is Rica, her cunning and shrewdness and her focus on keeping herself and her son alive, and I also really enjoyed how a conniving and manipulative Sereda not only keeps Rica close but gains her affections as well.

Close at Hand, Friend and Foe by Cryptographic_Delurk. Anora/Cauthrien, 3000 words, rated T. A sharp and incisive character study Anora as well a story as two very different women fleeing the kingdom that has cast them aside. I really enjoyed the tension between Anora and Cauthrien as they struggle to find common ground.

bound up by your thread by @chocochipbiscuit. Isabela/Female Hawke, 3400 words, rated E. Some good old bondage, an old favorite of mine! and Hawke not having to make decisions just for a little while.

Birdsong by @montpahrnah. Isabela/Female Hawke, 6000 words, rated M. Warnings: Major Character Death. Isabela struggles to come to terms with Hawke's death in the Fade. An incredible, moving exploration of grief I'm not ashamed to say I ugly-cried my way through.

Her Beacon and Her Shield by Sheeana. Female Cousland/Anora, 8500 words, rated T. Political marriage to lovers, a trope I adore! I loved watching Anora and Elissa's foundational respect for one another as allies progress to fondness and affection. A bittersweet conclusion, yet with a sense of hope.

Dinner Time series by @fireferns. Dalish/Skinner, six short fics totalling 18000 words, ratings G through E. I love the author's prose style, and the loving attention to both these minor characters, developing their personalities and backstories; a truly wonderful read.

Happy Femslash February, friends, and happy reading! 💜

[approximateknowledge]

these movies coming out is having people suddenly dune-post all over this site and it's reawakening my old dormant hyperfixation with the books

and this isn't a good thing because to me the first 3 books feel more like an extended prologue to the *actual* core story happening in the latter 3 books, and mostly the last 2 at that

because i just *know* they're not gonna adapt beyond book 3

God-Emperor is not a cinematographic book, and both Heretics and Chapterhouse would have to be mangled beyond recognition before they have any chance of getting adapted by hollywood (for a bunch of reasons) (seriously whatever you think happens in the last 3 dune books from looking at the first 3, i guarantee you're wrong. they're *different*, they're *weird*, and i personally like them despite their flaws)

and nobody who only saw the movies will know the Peace, or the Famine Times, or the Scattering

no No-tech, no batshit memetics and instinct-manipulation-based population control, no genemodded horrors, no weaponised sex, no mind-transfer

no Siona or Sheeana, or Taraza or Darwi, not the inner logic of Leto II, not Miles Teg who was a child twice

you'll only ever know a paltry 2 Duncan Idaho-iterations

the first 3 books are like a warm-up for the truly weird shit

if you only saw the movies you don't really know Dune

[dorminchu]

Heretics of Dune I found, wasn't badly written, but Herbert's choice in topics was, uh, not always what I expected. Felt like he ran out of major characters to explore and develop in favor of worldbuilding, which isn't always a bad thing I suppose.

Most of the characters were just kinda there. Tension between Lucilla and Miles was interesting, as was Odrade's dilemma about Sheeana + the comparison of Paul and Jessica's choice in love/partners to her own lack. My favorite character was either Miles or the Idaho gestalt.

[tehaspy-spec-evoposting]

As they say, Fuck it, we ball.

Last time we saw into our future, I told you the Tale of Tasha. But the thing is, I never finished the timeline. I've yet to tell you about the final age of humanity. The Omni Age. First, I'll tell you how it began.

Warp travel works by warping space. So, to use the rubber sheet metaphor, when you stretch a rubber sheet for a while, it permanently deforms. This manifested in the universe as stretches in space where you would go faster than if you didn't go through there. For our purposes, we'll call them Cracks. Cracks started forming late in the High Space Age, more specifically the routes where hauler ships went most often. Scientists quickly learned that these Cracks were formed by warp travel, and they decided to do an experiment. If extended warp travel permanently deforms spacetime, then what happens when these Cracks get too deep? I'll say what happens, it makes a hole in the rubber sheet that is spacetime. Scientists only found it out after 50 years, and that is because they saw it happen. They made a hole. It wasn't like a black hole, nor was it like a white hole. There was no singularity to speak of. It was more like a portal than anything we've seen thus far. So somebody threw a camera in there to see what there was. Suprisingly, the camera could still send video. And that was the first case of Exposure to True OmniSpace Syndrome, or ETOSS for short. I'll tell you the symptoms after I tell you what an "omnispace" even is, let alone why exposure to it's true form is a plague.

Little did they know, these scientists were the first to discover Omnispace. Now, I have to clarify a few things first.

This world is in a multiverse. It's full of bubble universes, where each universe is a bubble in an infinite* sea of them. *omnispace may seem infinite, but it's actually finite, albeit bigger than human comprehension.

In omnispace, the laws of physics are actually a placebo, so if you think that e=mc^3, then it will be that way in some sort of radius (this is also malleuable via the placebo).

If you see omnispace without a placebo applied, like through a camera, then you will get ETOSS.

Now let's go over the symptoms of ETOSS. When you see omnispace without a placebo applied, it transfers to you. It then puts you into a coma. During this coma, brainscans reveal that the fear and confusion parts of the brain are the most stimulated. It's a game of chance if you survive this coma. Those that do survive (which are only 40% of those infected), often kill themselves shortly after. Do NOT ask those patients why, as that's another mode of transmission for the plague. If intercepted in time (or if they don't even try to kill themselves), therapy can and will help with their condition. Those infected, sadly, will never fully recover, and may even go into suicidal relapses.

For a hundreds of years, **Omnispace** was the final frontier. People colonized hundreds of universes, and all was good. Hell, someone named Sheeana Dubois discovered a more potent source of energy than even antimatter factories. (It'll get it's own post).

But then people started to run out of room. There was still thousands of universes out there, but none of them were habitable. So they built omnispace stations. And kept building them. This is when the age splits. We now enter the Late Omni Age, defined by humans losing their humanity, and the grand city of Omnitropolis (please give name suggestions I know it's a bad name and that's why it needs to be changed). For sixty-five million years, humanity kept building up this grand city. They even destroyed universes to make room for it.

Little by little, humans forgot about the Placebo, because they made a device to keep physics in place. It was derived from other humans, who were bred (and modified) to be constantly thinking about our laws of physics. After just a couple of centuries, it could think of nothing else. And after a couple thousand years, nobody even **knew** that it was once a person. It could only be thought of as a "physics anchor".

Unmodified humanity changed too. Or maybe I should put that "unmodified" in quotes, to show that they were modified also. These humans knew that evolution would change them, so they did all they could to stay the same. They did plastic surgeries and GMO's galore, yet they still changed. They would become, uncanny to us today. Which is why their scientific name (by me) is Homo Sapiens Homunculus. It is that way because they tried so hard to retain their humanity, that they lost it near entirely. They look like what a shapeshifter from andromeda (the galaxy) would imagine humans to look like.

I'll talk about the end of humanity later, as this post was written in the course of >2 hours, and I'm tired of it. Questions are appreciated though! Please, I want to talk about it more.

[letoscrawls]

Probably unpopular opinion but I think Leto II becoming a worm was stupid; I don't care how many philosophical excuses Frank Herbert has for writing that; I think he was snorting crack out of his ass at the time and his editors should have rejected that idea. Kinda made me lose interest in the series (and was already kinda losing interest after Chani died). I might pick up Heretics again though because Sheeana sounds cool and Heretics Duncan sounds like the only Duncan I would like (Duncan from God Emperor sucks ass).

I mean it IS weird but it made sense on the long run! In order to guarantee a future for humanity someone had to control the unfold of events for thousands of years, and the only way to do it was to merge with spice and the creatures who produce it that also have a long lifespan.

Leto II was able to live a very long life, manipulate everyone and everything to make sure his plan moved forward and also shield himself from possible assassination attempts (it is stated in the book there were plenty over the years by Duncans only lmao imagine all those other organizations) thanks to an impenetrable armor. He also harvested the genetic line of the atreides so that Siona could be one of many people completely free from the prescient vision.

Basically someone had to stay there for all these things lol Paul didn't have the courage (and altruism i'd say?? Even though leto ii did terrible things and was a dictator, he prevented humanity from going cuckoo bananas -the scattering lol- before its due time) to do it.

It was weird definitely and funny and meme worthy though

[spiceblueeyes]

Okay but honestly I love how Sheeana trolls the priests. She KNOWS that everything she says will be analyzed for deeper meanings and, possibly, be held as a gospel. So she takes advantage of that situation to the FULLEST. She calls Tuek by his first name, knowing how much this fucks him up, for no other reason than to just watch him struggle to understand her motives. This whole situation is hysterical, I love it

[termiteconsumer]

ok here it is my thoughts on heretics of dune [SPOILERS]

(help im still new to tumblr can you hide text if somethings a spoiler?)

taraza and odrade shouldve kissed

other than that very good it asks very important questions like what if we removed two letters from arrakis wouldnt that be fucked up? and honestly it would tbh if i were mother superior of the bene gessirit and that happened i would also plot to destroy rakis. teg is cool i like to imagine that hes kinda what leto i could’ve been under better circumstances. hes like the pinnacle of the atreides ability to get people fanatically loyal to him half of his plot at the end is him just going around gammu and random ppl being like “hey bashar u saved us at [insert battle that took place] if u need me to die for u dont hesitate to ask.” this is cool and probably ties into herberts themes abt how charismatic leaders are evil but idk teg seems like a good person so maybe charismatic leaders are awesome and herbert was baiting us the last time. anyway herberts anti-government and anti-powerful ppl stance comes out a lot more here. both teg and taraza comment on power at points teg thinking something about how domination makes both the dominant and the subservient like soulless or some shit i forget 😔 and taraza talking to i think sheeana abt how dominating forces always create a counterforce - ie a rebelion or revolution of some kind. these are both moments i will say that. i added commentary there shut up.

i like how throughout the dune series frank herbert is able to examine the different ways power is enforced and critique them regardless of how such power is represented. for example the atreides rule by building a sense of trust and fanatic loyalty among those they rule, and that fanatic loyalty is a tool they use to establish hegemony and maintain power. in heretics the honored matres are introduced who “rule through sex” this could potentially be an analogy for pleasure in general i think. evidence? shut up shut up shut up. anyway if so it could very much be about consumption and consumerism as a tool to establish hegemony. theres probably an essay abt capitalism to be had there. unfortunately shut up.

there was one last thing i wanted to touch on: someone needs to find where the tleilaxu keep all their duncan cells and set off an atomic device there. it would be better for everyone.

in conclusion i give heretics of dune a chairdog/10

[super-hero-confessions]

Even when Chani Kynes has been played in the past by white actresses, I still maintain the opinion that Gaius Helen Mohiam was racist to her. Before becoming Paul's concubine, Chani had already borne a healthy son. She was a healthy woman and a strong warrior. Mohiam didn't want Chani to "taint" the Atreides bloodline with her "wild genes" so she virtually sterilized Chani by having her be unknowingly fed poisonous contraceptives, similar to ethnic cleansing which is why Chani wasn't able to get pregnant again for years despite her and Paul being healthy. But Mohiam was perfectly ok with the idea of Paul having sex with his little sister Alia to produce a child despite thinking Alia was a genetic abomination. She also had misogynistic thoughts about Irulan being useless and a shrew despite preferring Irulan to Chani and Irulan being both intelligent and educated. You could argue that it was because Alia and Irulan were of the Bene Gesserit bloodline and Chani not. But Chani was able to learn Bene Gesserit powers from Jessica's training. The only other explanation for Mohiam not wanting Chani to be mother of Paul's heirs and Paul reserving his erotic feelings for a foreigner would make him harder to control. But either way, Chani got the last laugh since racist cunt grandma-in-law gets Fremen-blooded descendants and one descendant, Sheeana Brugh, resurrects Chani and Paul together because they're considered more useful than old fart Mohiam.

[dreadbirate]

The parallels between Kid Duncan and Sheeana are so great in this, if Herbert sticks the landing (and if he has them get together at all) this could be the first great romantic subplot in these books