#farad’n corrino

[sloanedodson]

the gangs all here

[amethystmercury]

AU where Paul is Feyd’s concubine and has Leto II with him. Even with Leto having preborn abilities and memories, he uses Paul as his anchor to help with not losing himself. Because of this, Leto II liked to cling to Paul all the time when he was younger. Paul feared for Leto with the enemies around them and does what he could to protect him, checking for poison and having Leto sleep with him in his quarters. As he got older he liked to Feyd, his other anchor, around and watch his fights. Leto’s mix of training from Feyd and Bene Gesserit practices has made him a dangerous threat. He also has his own visions of being emperor and asking Paul to train Farad’n Corrino as a Bene Gesserit because he knows that will be his bride soon.

[booksandwormm]

ok here it is folks . . . yeah i need to be sedated i think someone Kill me umm.... if you know the reference of the title u get 1 million bucks.

[theboywhocan11]

There's always a prevailing mystique in any civilization. It builds itself as a barrier against change, and that always leaves future generations unprepared for the universe's treachery. All mystiques are the same in building these barriers-the religious mystique, the hero-leader mystique, the messiah mystique, the mystique of science/technology, and the mystique of nature itself. We live in an Imperium which such a mystique has shaped, and now that Imperium is falling apart because most people don't distinguish between mystique and their universe. You see, the mystique is like a demon possession; it tends to take over the consciousness, becoming all things to the observer.

Leto Atreides II in his conversation with Farad’n Corrino who is given a new name as Harq Al-Ada (Page: 472-473. Novel: Children of Dune. Author: Frank Herbert)

[crownedpatriot11]

Farad’n Corrino

1980's painting Gaddafi looks straight out of Lynch's Dune

[incorrectdunequotes]

Alia, walking into her house: Hello, people who do not live here.

Farad’n: Hey.

Leto: Hello.

Ghanima: Hey!

Alia: I gave you the key to my place for emergencies only!

Farad’n: We were out of Doritos.

[muaddibstyleguide]

farad’n “harq al-ada” corrino’s poetry instagram

[letoscrawls]

Aaah your art is simply amazing!🥰🥰🥰 I love your design of Irulan and Farad’n, they are my favourite in the Dune saga🥰 may I ask other members of the Corrino "clan" (as Shaddam, Wensicia...)?

Ty anyway ❣️

HMMMM okay thanks for asking bc you gave me a reason to actually do some research and find cool hairstyles for the Corrino sisters

So i like to imagine them wearing shades of grey, black and gold mostly (which are House Corrino colors) and if i remember correctly both Irulan and Farad'n are said to have green eyes (actually they wear colored lenses to hide the spicy eyes which i think is so cool) so i headcanon ALL of them with green eyes

Wensicia's hair and outfit reflect her strong and resolute personality, while i like to imagine Irulan with a very soft and kinda over the top style that kinda contrasts Chani's simplicity?? if that makes sense?? If Frank Herbert didn't have this vision i did i am sorry

As for old man Shaddam, i still haven't got to his parts in my re-reading of Dune, and i always had a hard time imagine him young, it just doesn't make sense to me :/// So i'm conflicted and i'll have to come up with a convincing design for him

ALSO it's said that he looks like an hawke and i can't possibly draw all the men in Dune like freaking hawks, i think Frank Herbert had a type and couldn't come up with other features 😭

[buthappysoverrated]

Thank you @tyalangand so much for tagging! This is such a hard one lol and I really don’t know how to define “media” here, like, does different universe in DC counts at different ones???

Deacon, Fallout

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

Riddler, Gotham (as in not Ed, strictly the Riddler)

Adrian Chase, Peacemaker

Jack Rackham, Black Sails

Farad’n Corrino, Dune (I have a strange obsession with this character that have appeared on about 10 pages. Idk. He’s somehow very well written and I have no idea why)

Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones (lol)

Jayce, Arcane

Will Graham, Hannibal HBO

Ada Thorn, Peaky Blinders

No pressure tagging @purrvaire @residentdormouse @iamanonniemouse @ziggyrocket @claveldelaire @holathewhale @thrillingdetectivetales @dosmit-raeh @rynnaaurelius @petrichordiam

10 characters, 10 media, 10 tags–tagged by @insane-ohwhyfandoms

This is so hard!! I can’t put the entire Merlin cast, so here we go

1. Merlin - BBC Merlin

2. Peter Pan - Peter Pan 2003

3. Athelstan - Vikings

4. Anne Bonny - Black Sails

5. Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist

6. Raven - Teen Titans

7. Selina Kyle - The Batman 2022

8. Kaz Brekker - Shadow and Bone

9. Jinx - Arcane

10. Azula - Avatar: the Last Airbender

Tagging @aziraphalesbookkeeper @thenerdyindividual @mayapleiades @merlins-butterflies @paintedpigeon1 @milkwands @hazelands @one-fond-mortal @tyalangand​ @inkmyth​ 

[cominy-kiwami]

im thinking about house corrino. it would be really easy to write them off as stock Conspirator characters but they have a really nice dynamic around them. they are engaged in high level espionage that involves the murder of prepubescent children, sure, but there’s a nice bright-eyed earnestness to them. they don’t really engage with the high level chess-like conversations, they wear their hearts relatively on their sleeves.

farad’n is like the edgy teenage son, hating on his mom for no reason and wanting to ditch his responsibilities to go make art, wensicia is right there for all of his emotional targetting and chides him exactly like a mother would, and tyekanik is like the stepfather who tries to be the voice of reason and bridge them together in compromise, but still sides with the son more often than not.

when compared to the drama going on in the atreides sphere with the religious prejudice/tensions and vengeful revenants, it’s a nice change of pace. and when they draw direct parallels, like when wensicia mentally cleared farad’n of suspicion in the exact same way alia cleared duncan, it provides a nice contrast and reminds you of just how nightmarish the atreides situation has gotten.

[poems-quotes-etc]

Children of Dune Quote 71

Many forces sought control of the Atreides twins and, when the death of Leto was announced, this movement of plot and counterplot was amplified. Note the relative motivations: the Sisterhood feared Alia, an adult Abomination, but still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides. The Church hierarchy of Auqaf and Hajj saw only the power implicit in control of Muad’Dib’s heir. CHOAM wanted a doorway to the wealth of Dune. Farad’n and his Sardaukar sought a return to glory for House Corrino. The Spacing Guild feared the equation Arrakis=melange; without the spice they could not navigate. Jessica wished to repair what her disobendience to the Bene Gesserit had created. Few thought to ask the twins what their plans might be, until it was too late.

Page 396 paperback

(Frank Herbert)

[number63liveblogs]

Children of Dune, part 48

But it already was too late. Jessica’s words and all of the preparation which had gone before had done their work. Farad’n no longer was Corrino. He was now Bene Gesserit.

What.

No really, what?

If this is something that can be done in a month why don’t they use more of it? They could turn whole courts into their thralls, especially if the new Bene Gesserit can do it too. There could be exponential growth, they could have everyone in the world on their side in like a generation or two. Even if it’s something that the person needs to want for themselves, there are stories about what the Bene Gesserit are capable of, and we saw in the first book how the Fremen jumped at the chance of having one teach them.

And if it isn’t something that the Bene Gesserit use there must be a good reason for it. These are, after all, the people who are running a eugenics project. That feels like it’d go against Jessica’s stated goal of wishing to “repair what her disobedience to the Bene Gesserit had created.” This is, after all, yet another Bene Gesserit male, like the one Jessica had given birth to previously.

…unless this was something extraordinary that Jessica was told to do in that one letter that Farad’n let her read. It still doesn’t explain why they don’t use it more, but from Jessica’s point of view it would fix some of the discrepancies.

[amethystmercury]

AU where Paul marries Chani, Irulan and Feyd and gives birth to Leto II, Ghanima, and Farad’n through them

[theboywhocan11]

My mind controls my reality!

Farad’n Corrino during his training with Lady Jessica Atreides in the Bene Gesserit Ways and in the topic of prana-bindu balance. (Page: 320. Novel: Children of Dune. Author: Frank Herbert)

[prizmaticjewel]

i know the reference bsw!!! its times tod ie!!!! me!!!! mee!!!!!!!

ok here it is folks . . . yeah i need to be sedated i think someone Kill me umm.... if you know the reference of the title u get 1 million bucks.

[muaddibstyleguide]

OK so let's agree that the Bene Gesserit are super-feminists, and the guild is super-menninist, according to the original novels and prequels. looking at the sex-political overtones already in the series, what's applicable to modern sensibilities on sex/gender politics? what can we draw from here? ....... i guess i dont really have a take, but wanted to bring this up for discussion after watching the super nerd-tastic extended (but also missing scenes??) version of movie for the up-teenth time

Whoo! This is some spicy discussion! 

::cracks knuckles::

Okay, let’s dive in. Keep in mind that my analysis is coming mostly from the state of the universe in the original series, not the prequels or sequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Here we go!

Labels like “feminist” and (ugh) “meninist” are slippery in this context, primarily because it seems clear from Frank Herbert’s novels that that the sexual politics of the Imperium are a few centuries behind our own, not more advanced; they’ve reverted not just to a feudal political structure but to the attendant patriarchal gender expectations. Men are the heads of families, succeeded by their sons. Men hold every powerful position, and daughters are bargaining chips in diplomacy (tellingly, Farad’n must renounce his family to marry Ghanima, in order to make it clear that he is not the new Corrino Emperor - the implication being that Ghanima is not under normal circumstances a legitimate heir to the throne). Same-sex attraction, especially between men, is linked by the author to degeneracy, perversion, abuse, and violence - and it seems likely this is how people feel within the universe of the book, as well. We can infer that ideals of feminine behavior haven’t changed from a few hundred years ago from the particular attributes Hwi Noree is designed with to appeal to Leto II. The Bene Gesserit are called “witches” and, while respected, are also feared and treated as repulsive in no small part because they are powerful, mysterious women. 

The Imperium’s attitudes and norms regarding gender are not ours, but they’re recognizable. As such, it’s not clear an organization like the Spacing Guild is more devoted to patriarchy than any other organization in the Imperium - it seems like there are few if any powerful women within the Guild because there are few powerful women in official positions outside of the Bene Gesserit generally. In other words: it may just be another male dominated organization in a male dominated universe. 

The Bene Gesserit are interesting in this discussion in that it’s not clear they’re meaningfully “feminist” in any way we’d recognize, except maybe that they’re powerful women. They’re gender essentialists, they hate birth control and assisted pregnancy, they’re rigidly hierarchical and seek to control the lives and choices of their adherents, they’re megalomaniacal, they often use their sexuality to enslave men, they manipulate “primitive” cultures, and they engage in eugenics with the ultimate goal of creating a super powerful man they can use for the purpose of furthering their secret control of society. (Sure, they want to control that man, but it seems relevant to the discussion.) It doesn’t seem like a goal of theirs is the advancement and societal equality of women; instead, they seem content to use the patriarchal systems of the status quo to their ends.

As for other organizations: in Dune Messiah it almost seems as if the Bene Tleilaxu are being set up deliberately as a male organization almost in opposition to the Bene Gesserit, but this focus seems to shift as Herbert’s idea of what the Tleilaxu even are seems to shift. (It seems relevant that the entire power of the Bene Tleilaxu rests in using women’s bodies but eliminating their sentience, while the Bene Gesserit have never done anything so horrific to male bodies.) The Fish Speakers and Leto’s musings on why they make a better army are really interesting while also managing to be super sexist! 

For better or worse, Herbert’s novels place an enormous importance on biological gender. While characters within the novels are not always subject to the biases and constraints of the society in which they live - the Fish Speakers, the Bene Gesserit, Lady Jessica’s defiance of her order - in many ways the outlines and limits of their destiny and abilities are determined by the bodies they’re born with. This is even true to some extent for the Kwisatz Haderach’s offspring. (It’s true that there are hints of feminine influence on a number of male characters, and this is welcome.)

While I’m not sure the novels’ gender politics hold up, I will say I’ve always admired the idea that the Kwisatz Haderach was a centuries old breeding project meant to fuse the essences of the masculine and the feminine. I also think, in the Bene Tleilaxu, we see a dangerous extreme in the dismissal of womens’ personhood in favor of a focus on their reproductive capabilities. 

Oh, here’s something: the Bene Gesserit represent, for me, a fascinating look at an organization created by and populated entirely by women for the express purpose of subverting and influencing a society that would otherwise deny them power and autonomy. In other words, in order to become respected equals, they had to build something entirely new. So they did.

I’m curious: what about watching the extended edition made you ponder this topic?