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Prazer tumblers, essa sou eu Ingrid Marinho, sou artista plástica e artista num geral, formada em produção multimídia pela Faculdade Impacta de Tecnologia, tenho um blog e uma empresa chamada Desartilus, tenho 27 anos, sou missionária de Jesus Cristo na vida, prego o envagelho através do dom do amor que Deus me deu.

Sou casada há 3 anos, faço terapia e passo por um tratamento psicológico mas isso nunca me impediu de ser feliz e Deus sempre me supriu e espero ser obra de Deus na Terra através dos meus dons, talentos e habilidades para construir um legado através do propósito e chamado que Deus tem para minha vida.

Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas! Neste blog em que me expus de maneira anônima faço desabafos e escrevo coisas do meu coração e mente sem intenção de prejudicar ninguém e somente ajudar, espero que gostem não só das minhas palavras como escritora, mas que através desse blog possam encontrar um bem em si mesmos para encontrar a cura e a salvação para o seus problemas, naquele que é grande o Senhor Deus. Você pode curar sua vida.

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[elipsi]

i'm at an ethical impasse. a bivio if you will.

[ellestra]

The mirror stance to this are the people who go "but the prophecy came true how could it be false".

Despite being explicitly told there was no prophecy. Despite knowing Lisan al-Gaib was a story manufactured by Bene Gesserit. Despite seeing Jessica and later Paul manipulating people into thinking Paul fits this story for their own power and revenge.

If anyone has doubts about how they manage to do it here they are in the real life - people who would believe Paul was the chose one. And this is how easy it is. They are why Missionaria Protectiva is so successful. And when you have so many who see the hero not wonder others can't see the subversion. And neither can see the warning.

[ellestra]

The Voice from the Outer World

Dune is a story of failure. SPOILERS for Dune Part 2 below

Power corrupts and all of that. We all know this. So we would be able to avoid it, right? If you know what happens you can chose another option. You would be different.

And here's a story that shows that even when you know all of this and more and can literally see the future it's still not enough.

I get why people often think that to avoid this the person in power shouldn't want that power. That this would make them somehow immune. And this logic has multiple faults (like - how can you be good at doing something you hate?) and one of them is that just not wanting to abuse power doesn't mean you would do right things with it.

We are reminded multiple times in the film (and the books also aren't shy about it) that Fremen religious belief in a saviour is not something that arose naturally. It's a belief seeded by Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva. They seeded superstitions and myths in different cultures so they could use them in a future emergency. Everything Fremen believe about their Mahdi was created so their faith could be used by a Bene Gesserit in need. And both Jessica and Paul are aware of this even before they even set a foot on Arrakis.

It's specifically made for the saviour to be a foreign one (Lisan al-Gaib is The Voice from the Outer World) because the people who made and planned to use this prophecy were ones from an outsider culture. Paul doesn't hijack Fremen beliefs to insert himself as their white saviour. These beliefs was specifically created for someone like him to use.

It was made with purpose of hijacking Fremen religion into protecting the foreigners who know how this prophecy was constructed. This is a parasitic belief (cuckoo-like faith) and the truth doesn't set anyone free. We see why with Stilgar as he wants to believe so much that everything becomes a sign. Even when he's told this has been fabricated and he was manipulated he warps it into something that supports his beliefs not undermines them. I'm sure you've seen this in real life, in real politics if not religion.

Jessica and Chani got changed the most from their book versions. They've become opposite sides of the ideological divide. Not between religion and lack of it - Jessica obviously not a believer - but between using people and letting them decide their own future.

Book Jessica is more apprehensive of Paul's choices. She's often more worried he may not survive the trials than pushing for them for power. In here she becomes the driving force for using the messianic belief Bene Gesserit implanted for Paul's benefit. She makes sure Fremen believe he fits the story. She doesn't care about Paul's wishes to avoid this burden. She knows it doesn't matter when he tells the people the truth about Bene Gesserit, their abilities and their manipulation techniques. Belief is impervious to proof and confirmation bias makes you reject all evidence to the contrary.

But then, in the film, Jessica is kind of possessed. Stilgar warns Paul not to listen to the djinn but neither he nor his mother can stop listening to the voices. The film removes Alia's book doings but replaces them with foreshadowing of what she becomes. She whispers the truths about the future to her mother even before she is born. Funny, how this change makes her, not Paul, the first fully prescient Atreides. She is manipulating the events when Paul refuses to and that's a foreshadowing too. When Jessica took the Water of Life while pregnant she did it for the power this new position among the Fremen would give her. Alia never stood a chance. She was pre-born into this.

The only one trying to stand in the way of succumbing to the power corruption is movie version of Chani. She was never believer in a saviour. She wants her people to save themselves. They already have a plan for a better future that doesn't involve killing worlds for the Empire they never wanted anything to do with. They were not supposed to be warriors of the prophet. She sees this for what it is - a way to control her people. She understands this is just another form of enslavement. The only difference is that this one is embraced. No one listens to her when she tells them the truth. They only see what they want to see.

The power that comes from being close to the rule is just as blinding when you stand close to the throne as it is when you sit on it.

And the sad part is she knows she played a part in this happening to as she convinced Paul to give this a try. She didn't see the visions he saw so she hoped he can remain the person she fell in love with. When he submits to the way prescience shows him and takes over the faith we feel her heartbreak. She watches him becoming what he feared and everyone around him stops her from trying to save him because they get something out of it (not just the other Fremen or Jessica - Gurney puts atomic arsenal in Paul's hands).

Paul doesn't bring freedom. He just changes who holds the power but in the end the structures of power remain (the similarities between Saudarkar and Fremen are not accidental). And billions die so it can happen. But billions is a an abstract number. It's much easier to feel the consequences when they hit close and personal.

Everyone around Paul gets to gain something - Gurney gets revenge on Rabban, Jessica and Stilgar get to destroy the Harkonnens and the Emperor. They are on top now. The power corrupts before you even hold it. Just the promise of power is enough.

This film version of Chani doesn't let us forget that this is what we watch. That what is happening is not a good thing. We as humans have tendency to gloss over big numbers of deaths when it's some unseen people with whom we have no emotional connections. Through her eyes the loss is so much more personal. She loses her Usul to Paul Muad'Dib. And he takes her people and her planet too.

As Paul says - they are Harkonnens too. And they do what Harkonnens do too. The difference was always cosmetic.

And one more thing. A lot is said about Arabic and Muslim influences in Fremen culture and religion but they aren't the only ones. One other is the word used for the places where Fremen live - Sietch. It comes from Zaporozhian Cossack name for their fortified encampments - sich.

In the West the name Cossacks invokes the cruel Russian Imperial forces that tsars used to pacify conquered territories. But this is not what comes to my mind first. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth they were free people living in the borderlands of the Commonwealth on the territories often attacked by the Ottomans. The constant raids from the Turks meant they were warriors and constantly moving. But this also allowed for a lot of freedom as there wasn't a lot of direct control over these territories for the same reason. This meant that they were often joined by anyone wishing to have that freedom - from peasants escaping indenture to nobles escaping the law.

The dissatisfaction with the Polish rule eventually lead to an uprising and this part of Ukraine joined Russian Empire. That Empire destroyed all the freedoms Cossacks had and those independent warriors became just another enforcers of conformity for the Empire. They've become exactly what they fought against. I often wondered if Herbert chose the name Sietch intentionally to invoke this turn of events.

[ginnysgraffiti]

Paul Atreides x reader? Where the reader does not believe in the prophecy of the Lisan-al-Gaib or in any god or Messiah that they say will come, to which Paul is interested in her but also feels anger because the reader does not show fear or submission, and when inquiring about why she has no faith in anything she reads or gods is because she went through many horrible things and when she prayed for it to be a nightmare but it never happened, and that's why she believes in nothing but herself.

thanks for the request! sorry if i hadn't answered before :(

PAUL ATREIDES x yn.

your people lived on arrakis under one name: the fremen. people who have inhabited arrakis for many millennia, originally arriving after an interplanetary diaspora.

your planet became the center of immense interests of the empire following the discovery of the powerful drug called melange or spice, capable of significantly extending the length of human life and increasing.

you have been trained in guerrilla warfare since childhood, reason why you're considered among the best fighters in the universe, the only ones capable of holding your own against even the emperor's ferocious sardaukar.

people can comfortably call you interstellar nomads who follow a particular philosophy, people who live together in desert tents and who are more like a big big family or army.

therefore, you don't hide the fact that you get along very well, despite the fact that fremen have challenging, ambitious characters, and you often want to prove our superiority by fighting or calling sandworms.

if someone has already heard the famous prophecy "blessed be the creator and his water" well, that's you, these are the fremen. that's your prophecy or the thing people think you believe in. or at least, your people believe in.

you worship shai-hulud, the sand worm, a gigantic and dangerous creature that populates the deserts of arrakis and is the source of the spice cycle. your religion, like almost all those of the primitive worlds of the empire, was profoundly influenced by the bene gesserit missionaria protectiva.

if you ask stilgar, he will answer you by saying he believes in the arrival of the messiah, of the lisan al-gaib. so please, don't ask stilgar.

lisan al-gaib, in your fremen language, "the voice from the outside world".

in later use the name messiah specializes to indicate the "anointed one" par excellence, sent as a savior of the fremen, the chosen people, and to turn the desert into the green paradise it used to be. this is how stilgar would happily explain it to others.

bullshit.

the biggest lie you've ever heard.

you have waited ages for the messiah, and the only conclusion you managed to get was that even foreign people made fun of you all by saying they were the famous messiah you had been waiting for. really funny, right...

"the walker of the golden path" they say, just they don't know how much you have suffered or how different you feel about your people's adamant beliefs.

you know paul since a few weeks, and you hated every second of it, and you knew he did too.

at first you avoided him, dodged him or threatened him with your eyes as if he were an harkonnen. or, if you were in a bad mood, you ignored him completely, especially when he entertained stilgar with inappropriate and absolutely not funny jokes but that made the whole for-dinner-tent laugh.

you knew that everyone was at his feet, that they would even lick the sand he walked on.

you often heard your fremen friends talking or chatting about him, and you could have sworn some of them even wondered out loud of it would be to have sex with him.

you had never thought of paul as someone to have sex with, mostly because you hated him on principle.

for the first week you loved showing off your fighting moves when he looked, or throwing barbs at him to shut him up.

you knew that he was intimidated but also angry towards you, that he was curious about your people, and therefore you could show yourself superior anyway. you wanted to crush it like a desert fly and rejoice while it dies under your sole.

then, everything changed.

it was afternoon, and the wind was gently blowing, but not enough to make the sand rise.

he was a little too snuggled up next to you, on the highest dune you could reach from the fremen camp.

at first, you didn't even like the idea of starting a conversation, but paul was the one who talked first.

he told you about his visions first, about his nightmare correlated, about the mental torture he had to kneel upon when he used to live on caladan, because everyone thought he was the kwisatz haderach.

he told you about his training, his father's death and how he felt so alone, abandoned by the little people he loved and betrayed by the ones he barely knew.

something about it woke up a new feeling inside your chest. you felt understood.

and he was not there forcing you to go on your knees and pray the messiah and his rise to power.

he was simply chatting, his eyes almost tearing, playing with some sand in his right hand.

he wanted to understand you, to understand why you were the only one who refused to believe the prophecy and yet the only one who captured your attention.

your mind returned to the morning where a few of your friends wished to have sex with him, but right in that moment, when the sun was melting under the dunes, far away, you could only wonder how plump and soft his lips could become against yours.

that same evening, you got confirmed paul atreides was the best kisser you had ever known.

in your tent, with a slight scent of spice and body

skin and sweat, he held you close as if you were

his only lifeline, as if you were about to become

small microscopic grains of sand, and he would no longer be able to hold the right ones in his hands.

you stood there, under his slim and perfect body, stroking his curls in a slow and sleepy gesture, until he closed his eyes and let his cheek rest against your breasts.

messiah or not, you believe he was the love of your life.

[the-fatal-impact]

Can you imagine that their desired outcome of this whole Paul-Emperor situation was Feyd-Rautha on galatic throne, so they can control him? Yeah, sure, whatever you say Gaius Helen Mohiam. I'm pretty sure it would not backfire the same way Missionaria Protectiva did not...

[justinforprez]

all girls do this. god forbid women do anything

the honored matres are exactly the same and are about how girls will fight because someone else is doing the same thing as them but its wrong because it is

[divorceblogger]

hey love of my life, you've read dune right? can u explain the kwistaz haderach scheme like im 10 years old

I willll <3 people aren’t wrong when they say that the ‘kwisatz haderach’ is just a very, very special boy that a white guy was writing about in his silly sci-fi book before he decided to write more seriously about the dangers of imperialism and colonialism in the subsequent sequels. but really, the kwisatz haderach’s most narratively important role in the story is as the messiah-ruler figure of a despotic, genocidal empire; and he’s still a victim of the story he creates, a helpless product of his bloodline’s imperial ambitions and generations of political scheming.

where the definition of kwisatz haderach gets more complicated is when you start to pay more attention to the worldbuilding side of things apart from just looking at the role he plays in the larger story.

in the books, the bene gesserit essentially begin a breeding program to develop a biological product who’s supposed to have superhuman capabilities - capable of training in the bene gesserit way & developing the ability to peer into ‘male avenues’ which are beyond a bene gesserit’s ability - as well as ‘female avenues’ (which the bene gesserit are restricted to). the ‘female avenues’ referred to here are probably mostly in reference to the inherited biological memory of the past, and the reverend mothers (who inherit the memories of previous reverend mothers) probably possess the most heightened state of a bene gesserit’s powers. I suspect the male avenues refer to the ability to peer into the future although it’s never clarified - but to summarise, a kwisatz haderach is supposed to have mental powers that enable him to explore time, access the past and sort through different possible futures which can enable him to shape/choose what form it takes (dune messiah deals with the tragic consequences of losing your free will and expands more on the concept). spice and its various forms are the drugs which enable bene gesserit to train and develop these powers. the significance of the kwisatz haderach to the fremen is more complicated, although you probably already understood what was happening there - the bene gesserit plant ‘prophecies’ and superstitions through its branch of the missionaria protectiva to develop a mythology and faith that a trained bene gesserit - ideally the mother of the kwisatz haderach - can exploit to her advantage to protect the product of several centuries of breeding in case the necessity arises. and jessica and paul do actually exploit the fremen to their advantage in the books and the movies, if more explicitly in the latter.

the movie obviously simplifies this concept more to its benefit. the bene gesserit, with their own political agendas, vaguely describe the kwisatz haderach as someone capable of leading the universe into a better future, which sounds too good to be true for a reason. jessica tells paul that the bene gesserit tried to develop a mind capable of bridging space and time and those are words also used in the book - the movie just does away with most of the weird, inane gender stuff.

[noosphe-re]

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto), Chapterhouse: Dune, by Frank Herbert

[jophielll]

Missionaria Protectiva (children make a chain)

[cregan-starks]

Fic Recs (July 29-August 4)

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@arcielee - she walks in starlight (ao3) [greek mythology au, hades!aemond targaryen x persephone!oc]

@sunkendreams - wolfsblood, dragonsblood [cregan stark x reader, nsfw]

@aemondtargaryen - wedding day [au/canon divergence, jacaerys velaryon x baela targaryen]

@targaryen-dynasty - object of desire (ao3) [aemond targaryen x reader, nsfw]

@targaryen-dynasty - high tides [addam of hull x reader, nsfw]

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artist shoutout: @aemondtargaryen (ko-fi)

[talesofesther]

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I'll tag below a few regular readers/people who had previously asked to be tagged, just so you know of this.

Let me know if you'll want to be tagged for any upcoming chapters :)

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[mutsubaki]

Paul’s grief when he says “Lead them to Paradise” to Stilgar is one of the most powerful moments in Dune pt.2, in juxtaposition of all grandure of the movie, poweful by subtelty. And it’s not only the implication that Paradise can be interpreted as a place in the afterlife, granted to dead. One thing about Missionaria Protectiva is that they implanted an innatural, impossible dream.

Arrakis is a desert planet. It has always been a desert planet. Fremen culture is build around survival in harsh desert conditions - and fremen are adapt to those conditions.

The dream of Green Heaven is not something that would naturally develop in those conditions - unless it substitutes the dream of a free planet. Fremen are sufferings because they are opressed by outworlders, the Harkonnen - but the promise of messiah is constructed around changing literal climate conditions, which is destructive to the culture and ecosystem, rather than around changing the power structure. Lissan Al Gaib just replaces the Harkonnens.

And when Paul says, “Lead them to Paradise”, to a foreign, destructive path, which image was constructed by the oppressors to benefit them on the fremen behalf, he leans into the Bene Gesserit ways. And it’s tragic, because it doesn’t matter how much he tries to resent those ways, the inertia from a thousand years plan drags even him, the most powerful creature in the universe in that moment.

[i-must-not-fear]

Chani

I've thought about my problems with Villeneuve's interpretation of the character of Chani and I've come up with some significant changes that to me absolutely reduce and distort who she was for me:

In the books Chani is set up as Irulan's mirror, much as Feyd is Paul's mirror. Like princess Irulan, Chani is also from nobility, as she is Liet Kynes daughter (who is a man in the books). No idea why this was changed in the movies. Chani could easily have been female!Kynes daughter with her fremen warrior lover (though dont get me started on that line).

In the book Paul gets with Chani in a rather difficult situation. After killing Jamis, Paul has to take care of his widow Hara and 2 children, if he wants to follow fremen tradition. Of course that freaks him out at 15, so he turns to his peer Chani, daughter of the fremen leader. Being the same age, she somehow grounds him in this strange new world he's thrown in, helping him to assimilate. She is also of mixed, not pure fremen descent as Kynes wasnt a fremen himself. So she understands how strange and difficult things must seem for Paul. At the same time the association with her protects Paul and legitimizes his rise as fremen leader. By making Chani just some fremen girl Villeneuve removed all this and I absolutely dont understand why.

In the book, Chani has also received Bene Gesserit training, like Irulan. She is a sayyadina and might even become the new reverend mother of the fremen. Thats one reason Jessica sees her as a rival.

Having received BG training is the reason Chani stays with Paul as his concubine when he marries Irulan. She understands the nessessities of power and self-sacrifies to a greater good.

But to me the reason she was in Paul's dreams is also connected to her being BG. The main purpose of the BG is securing the bloodlines of the noble houses. The Atreides bloodline is in danger as they get send to Arrakis. Paul is the sole heir. The missionaria protectiva is in place, but that wont necessarily secure the bloodline. So the BG influence Paul to fall in love with the fremen girl they kinda project into his dreams, who is conveniently also a fellow BG. Should he end up with the fremen this could be a way to create Atreides offspring. As the BG have created his dreams that explains how the reverend mother and Jessica know about them. And Paul falls victim to their manipulation. Should he be the kwisatz haderach they can still subtly control him via his fremen BG girlfriend. The BG dont take chances.

But Villeneuve cut Chani being BG as well. In the movies she is just a fremen girl Paul meets with whom he happens to fall in love. How she came into his dreams, all those plans within plans within plans, we will never know...

Oh, and she didnt lose her son. She and Paul never had a baby in dune 2. But this is such a powerful bond between them. Something he will never have with Irulan. Thats the reason Chani feels secure as Paul's concubine. And again, we dont get this from Villeneuve.

To me he hasnt elevated Chani's role. He has reduced her.