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I completely forgot to post the next chapter of my FeydPaul magnum opus longfic on my blog! Welp, here it is now: seedy Giedi Prime club escapades continue.

Please read tags + chapter trigger warnings before diving in :)

~Chapter Excerpt~

Having nothing more to say between them, Feyd used the hand of his unoccupied arm to pick up the mouthpiece of the hookah, encaging it within his deft fingers as if holding it captive. Then he brought it to his lips and withdrew the first puff of the night from its hose. With the effortless ease of experience, he inhaled long and deep, holding the smoldering melange in his chest before exhaling in a silent sigh.

Flowing fluidly out of his nose and mouth, the warm-toned smoke lazily swirled in front of him, completely clouding his line of sight. It flooded the space between them, rising ever higher, only to be trapped within the den's drapings.

Even through the billowing haze that enshrouded them, Paul's sharp eyes remained intently focused on him, as if he could learn the same casual way Feyd inhaled the spiced smoke just by watching.

“Will this be your first time?” Feyd asked with both mischief and genuine curiosity.

“Yes,” Paul admitted without a hint of shame in his voice. “But it can't be that difficult.”

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Jessica, you gave me a son. And from the moment he was born, I never questioned you. I trusted you completely. Even when you walked in shadows. Now I'm asking you this one thing. If anything happens… will you protect our son?

Duke Leto Atreides & Lady Jessica DUNE: PART ONE│2021

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OSCAR ISAAC as Duke Leto Atreides DUNE (2021)

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requested by a friend :)

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more stupid dune memes brought to you by yours truly

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Feyd Rathua be like :

My contribution for the dune fandom, bc I find it too hysterical to be only posted at my side blog

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save me, feydpaul, save me,,

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I want to talk about the loincloth scene

So the more times I watch Dune Pts 1 & 2 and the more I hear other people talk about it, the more I realize how much Denis Villeneuve has made every single scene incredibly intentional, if not layered with meaning from the books as well as other classic visual language.

And gang? I think we got distracted by Austin Butler's killer abs and radiating mad vibes the first time we saw this scene.

First, there is no other scene in either Dune movie that directly and explicitly sexualizes a character like this. It's a PG-13 franchise. Even the love scene between Timothy and Zendaya is very, very tamely framed by the standards of PG-13 MPA censors, and that includes the characters who are literally concubines by role in the books and films.

Okay, so we have a single piece of eye candy, what of it? Well, this isn't just a gratuitous scene, this is an establishing character scene. The first time we're introduced to a character that has been mentioned briefly but never seen on screen before. The first shots, images, or scenes, will cement the character and a lot of thing about them into our mind. And Feyd-Rautha? We don't start with a shot as a whole, or from a distance, or his face, or hands. We don't even do the traditionally feminine panning shots that objectifying women in an introduction like this would usually bring (think starting from the legs and working up).

No. We start zoomed in, on his stripped bare chest, as ceremonial paints are applied by hand by servants all over his torso. The very first place we see the paint applied is over his ribs where Paul will ultimately stab him and kill him, his most vulnerable spot. His breathing is fast, but controlled, and seems almost animalistic, which we're to expect given everything we have just heard about him from Irulan. He doesn't seem aroused though? If anything this feels like an animal under stress, forced to show its soft parts and stay still. (An animal, caught in a trap, waiting for a hunter, one might say?)

We could assume that he's stressed about the big day. It is his coming of age, there are thousands of people watching, etc. But we see him strut out there and OWN that arena. He's confident, delighted, even in a fight.

This is where the things changed from the book, and things maybe left out come in. Feyd-Rautha in the book (and Sting in the 1984 Dune) takes to the Arena in a leather battle thong, similar to what we see him wearing as he's being painted. But in the new movie when he fights he wears full battle armor. Is the eye candy outfit just a reference then? Or… did Villeneuve find a way to showcase exactly what kind of character Feyd-Rautha is in the book with his opening scene?

I think it's the latter. I'm certain of it now, because while I've noticed the strain he seemed to display while being painted, on my most recent watch I realized:

He only kills the two handmaids who were rubbing their hands all over him, then noticeably relaxes.

In one scene, Villeneuve shows us Feyd-Rautha: a character who has made his body into a weapon, but one he holds no true autonomy over. In the scenes that follow that day he wears severe black robes that cover him from half his neck all the way to the ground, leaving only half his hands exposed. It's in these robes both his uncle and then Margot Fenring manipulate him for their own purposes, with Margot explicitly sexually manipulating him with the Voice, and his uncle… well, Villeneuve has read the books, and I'm saying 'manipulative Feyd who has been abused his whole life' is meant to be canonically coded, not just that one weird kiss and the look of pure delight every time Feyd sees something happen to the Baron by someone else's hand.

On a lighter note to end, as always, Feyd's battle armor (both gladiatorial and desert) is less severe, and shows more of his throat and wrists and other vulnerable places, as well as the fight scenes being the only time he explicitly reaches out for physical contact (except that kiss with the Baron) and seems to receive it as well with great exuberance and abundance something something revealing more of yourself while fully armored my baby boy <3

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No brain just Feyd and Paul rn.

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So I gave up on this drawing, but I spent too much time on it 🥲

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may my sanity chip and shatter 🫠✨

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he's a babe

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did this for my bestie <3