#& i will be 5eva

[arkeresia]

do I look like your girlfriend? 🦋

[mitchmotch]

they're happy together forever and nothing bad happens. ever.

(a birthday present for @revalito ^^ happy birthday!)

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Said I was not gonna make Dune Messiah predictions but here I am making Dune Messiah predictions. Because I've been thinking about how smartly Part Two used all the characters around Paul to embody the different forces pulling on him, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a similar thing in Dune Messiah.

I think Irulan's role will be more or less the same as in the book--she'll be plotting against him. She represents the interests of the Bene Gesserit and the other Great Houses--all the various other imperialist powers that Paul pissed off by upending their carefully laid plans.

Chani will definitely be there but she will not have spent the intervening years with Paul. It's much more of a punch in the feels for her to pop up as a plot twist partway through the story and for us to see their reunion happen in real time. I've seen some predictions that try to like...bend Paul and Chani's relationship back into a shape approximating what's in the book and I am saying now that that ain't gonna happen. Spending years hanging around the imperial palace trying to get pregnant and soothing your dictator bf's existential angst makes no fucking sense for movie Chani. She will be organizing against him. If she "forgives" him and spends any amount of time with him it'll be a ruse in order to spy on him or something like that. I think it would be a great source of internal conflict for her to discover along the way that she still harbors some compassion for Paul as a person, but there is no way she will compromise her political principles; that is the bedrock of her character. She will serve much the same role as she did in Part Two: she gives voice to Paul's conscience, his better instincts, and the interests of the Fremen independent of what various imperial powers want from them.

The twins will still be born, because that is central to why Paul does what he does at the end of the story, and that is part of "leaving the door open" for any fool who might take a crack at directing Children of Dune. (I think Children of Dune can work just fine as a movie but anyone who does it will be Not Denis and therefore setting themselves a formidable task.) But like...Paul and Chani only have to have sex once for that to happen.

The role that Chani plays for a large chunk of the book, of being Paul's loyal confidante and the person he allows himself to be most human around? That role is gonna be filled by Alia.

Alia...doesn't really have a lot to do, plot-wise, in the book of Dune Messiah, and this is the perfect place to put her. She is the only person in the Known Universe who maybe sort of a little bit understands what Paul's experience of reality is like now. She's the perfect conduit to voice all the philosophical stuff about prescience that's in the book but hard to work into casual dialogue. The book is full of people saying stuff about how Paul and Alia are so close they seem like two halves of the same person but we don't really see it that much on the page, and this is the perfect chance to add that stuff in. (I could very much see them borrowing not necessarily the actual plot points but some of the weird incesty vibes from the Children of Dune era.) I wouldn't be so surprised if some of the moments that happen between Paul and Chani in the book get handed off to Alia (blind ornithopter ride maybe??) and Chani gets a whole new storyline, independent of Paul, that's not in the book at all.

It kinda fits with the rhythm of the films, too. In Part One Paul's most important interpersonal relationship is with Jessica. In Part Two, he's in conflict with Jessica and his most important relationship is with Chani. In Messiah, I think he'll be in conflict with Chani and his most central relationship will be with Alia. (And ghola!Duncan probably, but I think that will be another surprise reveal that happens later in the story.) And at the end of Messiah, he won't end up in conflict with Alia exactly. But he will leave her behind.

[frogayyyy]

silly little drawings <3

send me a little doodle

here are ones i've got so far! they are all my beloved children

starting off with the frog collection

then we have some beautiful spirk art

there are many more which i'll add in reblogs!

[castle-behind-the-rocks]

Happy Birthday Bilvy! @mrghostrat

"Yo, I did some Fanart to the Au Fanfic of the Fandom you invented for the alternate Univers Fanfiction that you're writing"

(Watercolour and a touch of Gouache ;)

Thank you for the Joy of Reading and Viewing and alllll the Inspiration :D

Hope you have an excellent Birthday! Joy, Health and Luck for the Year and all to come!

Shout-out to @eviebane for organizing the Kudoboard!! <3

[ladyinthebluebox]

i'm at this point of an obsession in which i can spot within a split second when someone uses a complexion mod for the Beloved.

[tomatette]

The Starkiller Boys

[r0zzk1ll]

"this man, is weird.. CRAZY weird.." "he was always very bright.."

[illwynd]

Reblog if your personal interpretation of Thor and Loki has nothing to do with any recent marvel nonsense and never will.

[pensivebathtub]

we never go out of style ! ☆

[steel-nageyari]

a collection of speed doodles from @crebbyhermit's fic on ao3 [here].............

"tsubaki notices it right away when they step into valla - lady sakura has a new retainer."

it is a beautiful 5k+ words character study of my retainer swap au subaki. i may have unironically shed a tear or two, if you like deranged freak subaki (affectionate) please consider giving it a read!!!!! im serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theninjazebra]

Because of The Stresses and Horrors I've the very specific brain thing where there is only one (or two) things I want to listen to, on repeat, every moment I'm conscious.

Unfortunately that thing is 2000s nu metal and/or club bangers (2000s defined roughly mid 90s to mid 2010s. It's a vibe not a strict definition of time).

Anyway. Humbling to be "oh this song! The new song from - nope, minimum 12 yr old song." Fml.

[elphabaoftheopera]

if I had a nickel for every time a member of the Shrek the Musical OBC was cast as the husband on a musical tv show but barely gets to sing themselves I'd have two nickels

which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[spaciebabie]

fuck em earth

BASYA HOLY SHIT

[bedeliainwonderland]

I wish season 3b had featured a Bedelia who decides that enough is enough, she is sick and tired of Hannibal's little "I shall sit in my cell and wait for the object of my obsession to return to me" shtick, and so she's going to do something about it.

She would have kicked all their asses.

YES! ❤️ Bedelia getting her man out challenge! She would have played them all and got what she wanted (her husband back). If she set her mind to it, no one would know what hit them. Hannibal would be beyond enamoured by it all.

Bedelia would still make him work for it after all his stupidity (you’re an idiot Hannibal) and all he put her through and he would eagerly take to it.

[drasticbookishsoda]

WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME ACOTAR ISN'T FINISHED?!

dammit, now I have them all in paper back...I can't switch over to hard covers when we get what I assume will be Elain's book.

Anyway.

A Court of Silver Flame made me actually cry. I don't cry anymore. About anything. Ever.

Reading that book felt like going to therapy and yet also made me feel awful, and just so, so many things.

It was really just a lot, but also I loved it