#tbc...

[stickersocks]

Ok so ignore the freaky poses but continuing on from my last post, so elijah (sleeping) is Ethans bestie (for now idk yet) and is a very very very negative emo person, idk why he is like that. Xavier (white shirt) is quiet, nonchalant (😎) troublemaker ig, and lowkey not really good at a lot of stuff, but ppl just kinda gravitate towards him if that makes sense? And Ethan is also like a troublemaker (Ethan and xavier probably start talking in detention or smth) but he is very loud, funny and can be kinda obnoxious sometimes. Ppl like him and he's good at a lot of stuff ig but he cam be kinda a lot sometimes you know what I mean. Soooo yeah

[carnifernous]

Deadly sins au Lustberry

(Generous size difference included in packige!!!)

[ace--of--swords]

Good old friend biggus.

[4nsync]

Universes where *NSYNC is canon:

The Simpsons.

Barbie

Ted Lasso.

[silverview]

psa

[valleycore]

am I the only one who thinks that the lightning was ashfur’s way of Getting In?

[nikidanger]

I seriously woke up at 4:43 this morning and am still functioning somehow???

[warriorsproject]

Strikestone

[todoga]

[dykekarkat]

the ideal aaron neil dynamic is one where they're constantly bitching at each other like feral cats who hiss and spit whenever they're in the same room. i do not want them to be friends i want them to be mortal enemies that have to play nice at thanksgiving dinner for the rest of their lives. neil sends aaron a picture of an apple once a day for the rest of his life type dynamic do you guys get me

[phantasmicfish]

So I saw Dune Part 2 yesterday and I was initially super crushed because of the deviation from book canon but the more I think about it the more I sorta like it…

So without further ado here’s a list of stuff I liked about Dune Part 2:

- all the scenes initially of Paul growing closer to the Fremen. You can clearly see that they become friends, accept him as a Feydakin, that they’re laughing, joking, hanging out. (And contrast that to the end of the movie, where Paul has no more Fremen friends, only followers. In the book, this is echoed, where Paul recognizes that he has lost his friends to the Muad’Dib religion. Take book Stilgar, who truly embodies this… by the end of the book, Paul says: “I have seen a friend [Stilgar] become a worshipper.”

- giving Chani explicit rejection of Paul’s messiah status was an interesting choice. Chani’s main thought over part 2 is that they don’t need religion to save them, that through Fremen power and desert power, the Fremen can save themselves. She recognizes that this fanatical worship can be a vehicle to control and enslave her people, and I sorta wish we saw Paul lean into that more… that they found a way to stay together and ‘fight’ the prophecy together based on Chani’s ideals…

- also, I love how engrained this rejection of religion and prophecy is in her character. Book Chani takes no issue with her Fremen name, Sihaya (desert spring), but movie Chani hates it “because it’s part of some prophecy.” Later, we see that despite her rejection of prophecy and religion, that the prophecy does indeed come to pass— the tears of desert spring save Him aka, Chani saving Paul after he drinks The Water of Life. (Interesting how Jessica has to force Chani to save Paul using the Voice… another example of Jessica explicitly forcing Paul to become the messiah).

- adding more depth to Fremen culture— the South being the more religious fundamentalist tribes vs the North being more secular. Early on, the movie paints this immediate divide between the tribes of Fremen who accept Paul and Jessica versus those who treat them as offworlders (who murdered Jamis). In the books everyone accepts Paul and Jessica after Paul bests Jamis and Jessica quotes some scripture, but I think it makes more logical sense that there’d be friction over these two random offworlders coming in

- I love love loved Paul speaking at the meeting of the Fremen tribe leaders in the South. He fully accepts his messiah status, exercises his power of the Voice + his prescience as a way to command all the Fremen under his name

- I’m a big fan of omitting the two-year time skip, so with that I’m glad Leto II was skipped over entirely. I always felt that Leto II was an unnecessary character addition to the book, especially when he just dies and everyone sort of goes “oh well” and moves on, so I’m glad it’s omitted.

- another interesting choice was to paint Jessica as a straight up villain in comparison to the way her book counterpart was not. The movie Jessica we see here is seemingly corrupted by the Water of Life: she walks around talking to herself (Alia) and scheming Paul’s ascent to Lisan-Al Gaib. She knows about the Holy War, which is the very thing Paul is trying to prevent, yet she expresses no concern about bringing it to fruition. (Probably because Jessica knows it’s impossible to prevent, but still.) The very last line of the movie, where Alia asks Jessica what’s going on and Jessica says “The Holy War has begun” is just total villain in my mind— explicit acceptance of the Holy War, like it’s just another stepping stone in her plan. Plus, the fact that Paul has visions of Jessica leading him into this period of great starvation totally cements her as a villian.

- going off of that, I like that we see Jessica undergoing actual agony when she takes The Water of Life. When book Jessica and Paul take The Water of Life they accept it calmly and without obvious pain (book Jessica was sitting with her eyes closed, as if sleeping), so this physical reaction that Jessica has to the poison adds to the idea that The Water of Life did change her in a negative way.

- I feel like so far we’ve been introduced to Alia as just a weird talking fetus who’s been consorting with Jessica, so Paul’s vision where Alia says “I love you” really strikes home, that she really does care for Paul which we might not have understood otherwise

[appleciders]

trinity santos being a former gymnast is one of the word of god pieces we've gotten that i'm really attached to, honestly. like i really think it adds so many layers to her storyline with langdon and to the context of her sexual trauma. to have come out of such a predatory, hierarchical, and structurally abusive environment that pressured whistleblowers into silence, where those in charge found every reason to ignore or discredit the reports that were made about so many men in power who were exploiting young girls.

and then to come into this hospital on her first day and hear not only that there was a girl being likely sexually abused but that they couldn't do anything because it was considered hearsay? (it wasn't, actually, and they SHOULD have reported it, which is a big hangup of mine as a mandated reporter - i think the show should have gotten that right but whatever.) and then to have to decide whether she's going to look the other way, as people are telling her to do, about a popular senior male doctor who she suspects of putting patients at risk? dude.

and also. said with love. i think being a gymnast tracks with why she socially engages Like That <3

[hannahevemusic]

Episode 3 of TBC... (Tiny Bedroom Concert) is out now!

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https://x.com/tommchenry/status/1428891618770407428/

[mysterycitrus]