#Bijaz

[antinarratives]

“no children will spring from my loins, for i no longer have loins”

- frank herbert

[j-august]

"I don't speak," Bijaz said. "I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."

Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

[7andaswitch-blade]

short little ditty

[selfiesforalgernon]

Hey, Dune casuals close your ears for a sec this is for real book fans lol but I just finished Dune Messiah and... was Bijaz implied to have been the ghola of the Tleilaxu Kwisatz Haderach? He seems full of angst, wants desperately to remember his past lives (all of them, he says, with all that THAT implies) has prescience or at least it's suspected by Paul that he has prescience, and in general has, as Hayt sees, not only control but a "certain charisma" that would be in line with the natural talents of a Haderach that would be inherited through the ghola body.. Also as we know, the Tleilaxu do not waste anything, it makes sense then that would keep the body of their created Haderach (I finished Messiah but haven't started the 3rd book yet so apologies if I'm jumping the gun and they explain it in later books lol)

[thesound-of-myvoice]

“She is the virgin-harlot,” Bijaz said. “She is vulgar, witty, knowledgeable to a depth that terrifies, cruel when she is most kind, unthinking while she thinks, and when she seeks to build she is as destructive as a coriolis storm.”

[butchsaint]

“To attack Alia is to attack her brother,” Hayt said.

“That is so clear it is difficult to see,” Bijaz said. “In truth, Emperor and sister are one person back to back, one being half male and half female… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!”

[khelinski]

"I don't speak," Bijaz said. "I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."

Frank Herbert

[trainedchimpanzee]

BRB reading the stoneburner sequence again to try and decipher Bijaz's riddles

[tagnoob]

Thoughts on the Path to Dune Part 3

Just out in front of all of this I am going to say if Peter Dinklage doesn’t get cast as Bijaz I am going to be extremely disappointed.  I mean, he can’t get ALL the dwarf roles, I know.  But I also think his body of work shows him to be well suited for this particular part. So yeah, it has been confirmed that Denis Villeneuve will be bringing us a third film in the Dune saga based off of the…

[ferretteeth]

$5 say they cast Peter Dinklage as Bijaz in Dune part 3

[thefalkon]

can’t wait to see Bijaz bandy philosophical with [REDACTED] on the big screen

[pristina-nomine]

Dune Messiah character portraits by Marc Simonetti

[incorrectdunequotes]

Bijaz: Change is inedible.

Hayt: Don’t you mean inevitable?

Bijaz: No, I did not.

[joan-deactivated20230204]

im just so enthralled by dune messiah coming off of this heroic narrative with a kind of foreboding ending in dune and saying “now lets watch how this played out over the next decade and some years”, taking the hero character and forcing him to keep inhabiting that role as the mythos around him grows beyond his control, forcing him to come to terms with the overwhelming pressure of being someone defined entirely by the role placed on him... so while it starts as this almost noir-like political drama, paul’s prescience forces him to understand the inevitability of his own downfall, and that casts this shadow over the whole scheming of paul’s enemies where you have to ask how much any of this matters when paul himself has accepted his eventual death. and this is reflected intersetingly through the shift from events-based storytelling focused on the complex politics, to a more tonal narrative that evolves through the way paul and alia and hayt grapple with their changing roles in this drama. and this culminates wonderfully in the 3rd act when paul lets himself be lured by scytale to otheyms home to collect bijaz, climaxing in pauls blinding and his total submission to playing out the role in the future he saw that would guarantee safety for his children... i know none of this is really coherent but its just. the way this book launches off of dune to break down the heroic narrative and the way that book structures itself as this anti-drama where the events are all ordained through prescience... man its the most joancore shit imaginable. this book kicks ASS

[blue-mint-winter]

They call her Hawt, the Fish Monster, on the out-worlds

Bijaz about Alia

Looks like Herbert had Fish Speakers planned pretty far back.

[willpottorff]

The Blind Preacher from COD, I’m totally keep drawing my favorite Dune characters now. Bijaz I’m looking at you! • • • #art #illustration #frankherbert #godemperor #comicart #warmup #monster #worm #dune #paulattriedes #creaturedesign #scifi #childrenofdune #spice #pencil #duneart #artwork #horrorlife #creature #artoftheday #horrorart #willpottorff #loveyourself #arrakis #thespicemustflow #fearisthemindkiller #scifiart #dunemovie #illustrator #studies (at Chemical Dog Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxHQe6rBbx/?utm_medium=tumblr