#murbella

[letoscrawls]

Haven't drawn much these days but have some sheeanaposting

[lemonomelette]

Hey~It's the Honoured Matres!

[muaddibstyleguide]

Duncan Idaho and his knife Murbella

[spiceblueeyes]

All the Duncan and Murbella scenes bore me out so much. Like yeah we get it, you fuck and you talk, you fuck and you talk

[wulfhalls]

FLORENCE AND ANYA AT THE LONDON PREMIERE!! IT’S GIVING ALIA AND IRULAN <33 THE CONTRASTING BLACK AND WHITE HOODS!! THE JOINT SLAY. we won so bad

irulalia real confirmed. to me. here is how they can win messiah and liberate us from that fucking duncan idaho ghola thru lesbian love and their maximised joint slay

[assorted-things]

For what it's worth, I think someone far cleverer than me could get a really interesting academic essay about the way that the Horny In A Weird Way bits of Frank Herbert's work interact with the views on gender and sexuality expressed in the text... I have Thoughts on this but I'm nowhere near articulate enough to actually put them into words coherently...

[onewomancitadel]

People can change. This much is evidence: on my most recent reread of Dune Messiah I enjoyed Duncan Idaho's presence.

[weirdgirlfriend]

i just finished chapterhouse dune and i really honestly don’t know how to feel 😖

[wizardlyghost]

chapterhouse dune!

- first page and we've already got a miles teg ghola a la duncan, and odrade (now mother superior) quipping about presiding over the birth of her own father. anyone who's made it this far into the series isn't gonna be put off by immediate wild weirdness i guess, and i'm sure not.

- the honoured matres have been going on a death star rampage for several years now, and the bene gesserits are racing to terraform chapterhouse into a dune planet.

- ...fed to captive What, Now??????? frank, is this just outright turning into a porno at this point????????

- there's something bittersweet about how odrade's raising young miles teg as her own, in a way that's still pretty distant and sisterhood-ey but lightyears better than the typical bene gesserit way, all because she's a broken reverend mother - she's got a crack in her chassis that lets the humanity out, just a little, in a way that would never normally be allowed of someone in her position.

- if there's any hope at all for the bene gesserits, it's in odrade and young miles.

- somehow, at some point, scytale has joined the party! i was hoping this old shapeshifter wasn't just a name drop in the last book! they're apparently the last tleilaxu master, though, so that probably implies why they're here.

- duncan and murbella's ♠ thing is apparently still going strong. good for them?

[sunshinemoonrx]

chapter house dune is 300 pages of interesting but kinda dry introspection from different fictional philosophical schools, then the worst thing you've ever read, then 100 pages of pure kino 5D political chess, and then murbella wins five martial arts deathmatches in a row by kicking people so hard they die

[letoscrawls]

So I absolutely loved the first two books and really liked children but I've been struggling pretty hard to get through god emperor. In my opinion this is the low point in the series so far. Does it get easier/better in the last 2?

I'd say that's a very common experience. I had a hard time too because i didn't really like the sudden jump forward and all the changes that happened to Arrakis and the empire. Not to mention the god-emperor is creepy af and most of the time you don't get what he's saying.

Just hang in there, the book gets realy weird and i didn't really understand it the first time but rereading the plot on wikipedia and other sources helped me figure out what was going on in that little worm head of leto ii. it's not my favorite either but it has its charms and most importantly it's crucial to understand what happens in the final two books (another time skip incoming)

The last two books are not everyones favorites but personally i liked them, especially Heretics of Dune. They are very much focused on the bene gesserit, with the main characters all being part of the sisterhood, so if you liked them you're in for a ride! and also i like to imagine the atmosphere more gloomy and kind of gothic? but there are also worms and the desert and a lot of elements from the classic dune :)

[nitewrighter]

I was musing on how Gency might work out in an Infinite Seer!Mercy AU and had to slap myself in the face before I accidentally recreated Duncan Idaho/Murbella.

[infirmux]

murbella is subverting the bene gesserit ❌ mother superior is injecting some much needed lightness and originality into the proceedings by threatening to turn people into a fine red mist for minor offences ✔️

[runningonmarvel]

reading the entire dune series is weird because now i can’t even get that excited about the new movie when i just want to see miles teg go full quicksilver mode on some honored matres and then eat 10000 calories and also murbella karate chop people’s head off with her feet

[wulfhalls]

Hate how Duncan lusted after Jessica and then his clone got with Alia, probably because he couldn't have the mother, even in God-Emperor of Dune hooking up with a Jessica look-alike. No wonder even Gurney has more of a chance with Jessica than Duncan does, something must've instinctively told Jessica that there was something off about Duncan.

reason 38372829474783 why duncan idaho is the worst character in all of literary history ever. stay away from her!! DIE