#I. I can’t count

[evarenity]

So uh, how’s everyone’s month going so far?

[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

[alluralater]

on my knees fucking them hard. the bottoms of their thighs resting across the top of mine. perfect angle to rut up into them. fingers like a vice grip on their hips, forcing them to take every inch of my strap. fast deep thrusts while they moan and whine. telling them how good it feels to pound that wet pussy as their eyes roll back. and right when they’re completely out of it, right when they’ve surrendered to those brutal strokes, given it up for me, perfect and willing to take everything— i fucking stop. ceasing all movement and staying buried inside them to the hilt. you’re so good for me. you want to take it hard, don’t you. softer just isn’t enough for you now. watching them whimper and shake their head. trying desperately to move their hips but i’m holding them too tight to allow any real friction. oh you want to move for me? mmm that pussy is pulsing around my cock, i think you want to cum for me. but maybe i’ll leave you like this. so close. so fucked out. releasing one hip and rubbing their clit with my thumb. shhh. be good. show me your tongue. biting my lip and tapping my thumb on their warm tongue before using my other fingers to pull their jaw closed around it. mmm there you go. just like that. you just needed something in that mouth. good. now roll those nipples and moan for me. pulling out half of my length before slamming back into them. you’re going to cum in ten seconds. 10. nodding and moaning, hands on their breasts. 9. pinching their nipples hard and whining between strokes. 8. pulling my thumb from their mouth and taking their other hip in my hand to fuck them harder. 7. let me hear you. 6. oh you can do better than that. look how wet you are. taking me so well. be loud for me. 5. there you go. 4. speeding up my thrusts. 3. are you going to cum for me? smiling and fucking into them harder, mocking tone. 2. oh i know honey. i know. 1. cum for me. now.

[penbensie]

HAPPY DANNYVERSARY!! 💚👻

[enobariasteeth]

okay but reminder they hated this little guy enough to put his life up to a poll

[bbbbbbbbatman]

After Superman reveals his identity to the JL but before Batman reveals his, Clark and Bruce being in a public relationship and everyone in the JL asking Clark what exactly he sees in an idiotic spoiled rich playboy and Clark trying so desperately and earnestly to defend Bruce saying he’s not as dumb as he seems and he’s really compassionate and caring and it’s mostly a persona, and Bruce as Batman, serious on the outside shit eating grin on the inside, having the time of his life trashing Bruce Wayne every time he gets brought up and Superman throwing murderous glares bc ‘what are doing I’m trying to defend you why are you like this’

[fandom-hoard]

Obligatory reminder that Dick Grayson did not ever even consider sending Tim to Arkham

This is what he said-

He wanted Tim to talk to a therapist. One from Metropolis no less, so not even Arkham adjacent in any way.

And for more context here, these are the other things Dick said-

I’m not saying Tim was wholly in the wrong for not explaining himself or anything like that. And I understand that sometimes it’s fun to woobify Timbo a bit by writing fics and things were everyone was against him during this time and all of that. I get that.

But I also want everyone to know that Dick did not ever canonically do that.

Dick did not do everything right by any means, but he never wanted to send his little brother to Arkham. That is purely fanon.

[nachocheezos21]

attended the sigaw ng kuwago gig yesterday. also saw @yaelokre for this very reason 😭

transparent imgs under the cut + an uh-oh

bonus:

I GOT THE SKIBIDI SIGNED LOL 😭😭😭

and also it got onto the group pic 'cause me and my friends were behind yaelokre (AND THEY NOTICED IT)

[literallyjusttoa]

We always talk about Lester-core but we never talk about it’s scarier, more fucked up cousin, Pre-ToA Apollo-core

[mechanicalchickens]

Dang, is that a pun in the ominous background conversation? Very dadly wordplay.

[yourlocalabomination]

I am not immune to funny crackships.

+ Bonus

[keferon]

*clasps your shoulders gently and looks you straight in the eye*

Keferon. Please read Ninth by Kyn on AO3. I think you would love it very much. It has a large chapter count, but don't be intimidated, it's very easy to get into. It is currently unfinished, but is being updated regularly.

You are the seventh person that recommended this fic to me so ahahahaha yeah

I’m doing great Help I hate some parts of it but I love the other parts I’m spinning in the blender

…..I made the moodboard….

[bingqiv]

RUSSELL?!? DO NOT PLAY WITH ME LIKE THIS.

[saintmalosunsets]

Band of Brothers but it's just Speirs stealing stuff

[lonelystarbuckslover13]

Do you guys ever think about how crazy it must feel to be the girl who started 123 let’s go bitch??? Like she just said something funny at a concert once and posted it online, and now she’s started a fandom tradition that millions of people participate in across the world, and even 5 years later ​we all still scream it at every show and Taylor quotes it on social media??? THAT’S a real fucking legacy to leave

[river-bottom-nightmare]

bruce “piles my entire moral framework onto dick’s shoulders and blames him when either one of us buckles under it bc i know deep down he’s the only one that’ll forgive me for it” wayne