𝜗𝜚 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓁𝒹𝑒 𝜗𝜚

20 | she/her | italian | audhd brain is 50% lyrics, 50% scenes of my ocs acting, gaming, violin, piano, lyre, singing, writing, art

[gooseinsoup]

[moonlittales]

Esker: Thank you for visiting me, little buddy. And for telling me about your friend.

...

Esker: Hey, promise me something? When you return to your friend, tell her how much she means to you.

Little Prince: She knows that I love her very much!

Esker: Yes, she definitely does. But it's beautiful to hear it and be reminded of it.

Little Prince: Ok, then I will tell her!

Esker: That's all I could possibly ask for. You have my gratitude.

[cannibalchicken]

[lesbinewren]

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

[lesbinewren]

it’s really this at the end of the day tbh

[closet-keys]

[ID: tweet by @/spinny_3000 Bae Blade reading "The greatest stumbling block to media literacy is how many people think of stories as just documentaries of fictional worlds."]

[therealelrondhubbard]

[beardedmrbean]

[sugar-petals]

what’s crazy is that DUNE 3 won’t be a movie but a cinematic documentary on recurring historical patterns kicking our ass. what we’ll see on screen in december is breaking world news right now. it’s always a battle for spice and its power, one of many wars, as nature’s resources are topics of more and more conflicts over regional hegemony, genocides, money, infighting, and exploitation (e.g. water will become a big one soon by all accounts, which the dune universe features so very prominently). many movie and book fans already know this and in even greater detail at that but i’m putting this out there for new and adjacent audiences if anyone’s interested: put simply, the author literally predicted oil economics with its protagonists in the 60s way before the first crisis struck. “Arrakis”, the desert planet as a central setting, sounds like “al-ʿIrāq” / “Iraqis” with good reason, world religions and reproductive politics are heavily involved as well - so many current discourse themes it’s insane, no need for podcasts just a public dune reading - and the butlerian jihad (where people take a stand against machines who took over their thinking) literally was about AI, which he also anticipated, which is just insane. everything is on the nose in the dune books, and nothing much has changed. frank herbert remains the most relevant sci-fi author across several decades. he had the depressing future sight of his book characters.

[elvisomar]

[formerlychalamet]

i'm trying to fight the second one but THE VOICES-

[pleasant-plant-x]

LEO XIV HAS DECLARED BUTLERIAN JIHAD

[radicalgraff]

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly

me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It

[muaddibstyleguide]

This is currently doing numbers on the hell site.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[tuulikki]

If you want stickers, I know a cool Etsy guy:

[skodasforge]

*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.

[wrongplaceworsttime]

thinking about outer wilds again, how it's a game ultimately about grief and loss and endings, and how you deal with that

how the game takes your knowledge of how video games work into account and is able to subvert expectations to make you feel that crushing weight when you realize that no, actually, this isn't a game about saving the day. there is no way to save the sun, to keep your friends alive, like you assumed, expected, there to be. i mean you're in a time loop with a horrible ending, why wouldn't the game be about preventing it?

but you talk to chert. you watch the stars explode in the sky. you reach the sun station. you realize there isn't anything to do, that there's no way to prevent this ending. and then you learn where the eye is and how to stop the loop. you have to make the decision to face it - to accept the end of the universe with no knowledge of what comes next. you can't escape this loss, not really. you have to confront it, or else you'll be stuck forever

the dlc is about that - how if you hide from it, refuse to face it, you'll be stuck. the inhabitants of the stranger are forever stuck in their simulation, not experiencing anything real, languishing in their loss, never moving on. how they tried to block the eyes signal, tried to stop the possibility of new life forming. how they're a warning. the universe would never have been reborn without finding the eye; you can't live meaningfully if you never move on

so you remove the warp core and navigate to the nomai vessel and reach the eye. it's scary, it's hard, but it's necessary. and you get the ending sequence - you talk to your friends and hear about regret and acceptance and curiosity over what happens next. you can't stay here, things can't stay the same. you have to face it. then, the post credit scene where time passes and life begins again. it's different, but it's there. loss will happen. grief will happen. but you have to keep going, and eventually it will be okay. it'll be different, but it will be okay. the universe ended, and as it was will never be again, but a new one formed and it's still beautiful and life still exists. you will change, you won't be the same you as before, but you're still beautiful and alive and worthwhile

[myeteore]

say hi to a hearthian solar system au! the idea popped in my head back in august when i made the drawings for this post and thought 'hey, what if instead of cosplay this was their actual home' and everything derailed from there.

each planet has its specificities and each population has its quirks and its own assets it either shares or trades with the rest of the solar system.

the hatchling now gets to not only discover new planets but also the people living there, as their role of emissary doubles as an archeological and a diplomatic mission ::-)