restless

they/she

[visenyaism]

all of the suspiciously blonde dragonseed peasants in flea bottom inheriting the haunting prophetic targaryen dragon dreams of the long night and the comet and the death and magical rebirth of the dragons reverberating back from Dany’s miracle but having literally no context for what’s happening so instead of committing summerhall about it they’re just like. ugh had the dream where the bald girl walked out of the fire again🙄 what’s the point

[ferretteeth]

artist's interpretation

[lemarechaldefer-deactivated2015]

Incredible interiors by Eduard Hau (1807-1888)

[artfilmfan]

About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

[anneemay]

They need more esims!

[tvromance-deactivated20260101]

ID: Instagram post by mirna_elhelbawi. The text reads:

We only have 300 e-Sims left...

We connect more than 1000 to 1200 everyday..

Donating e-Sims is literally life saving.

Donate a QR code to [email protected]

"Connecting Humanity" is in handwriting at the top left corner, and "Connecting Gaza" is written in a different handwriting font near the bottom right.

/End ID

[obi-wann-cannoli]

eSims For Gaza

They have easy to follow instructions for how to purchase, and the esims themselves are a range of prices (nomad has options from $9 -$32)

[iysure]

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?

[lady-inkyrius]

[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

[pangur-and-grim]

just saw Dune, and I think its extremely funny how in the books the evil Baron has anti-gravity suspenders to help support his body weight, giving him a strange bouncing gait, but in the movie they went “fuck it, he can fly and he wants to fly. he’s 24/7 hovering like a parade ballon. where’s the Baron you ask? why look up, he’s clinging to the ceiling like a mosquito”

[chunlo]

I like Dune: Part 2 PRINTS

[kpfun]

Dreams are messages from the deep. DUNE 2021 • dir. Denis Villeneuve

[krokonoko]

friends I am absolutely obsessed with the way Arrakis is introduced in the different adaptions of Dune. up until now, they all started out with Princess Irulan going “okay so here is this super hostile desert planet, it’s where we harvest Spice which gives us ALL the money. also my dad has the power to decide who governs it, everyone’s fighting over it, and whoever wins is gonna get super rich! :DDD”

1984:

2000:

I’m p sure it’s not even intentional, but what a perfect illustration of whose point of view the movie makers automatically defaulted to. what a perfect distillation of an imperialist outside perspective that sees the planet as desolate, dangerous, a resource to be fought over and harvested.

and then the 2021 movie just straight up overhead kicks that shit into the trash can.

we are not seeing Arrakis from outer space, as an outside observer would.  we are not othered from it like we are in the other adaptions. we are right there, on its surface. and the movie opens with Chani narrating: “my home is beautiful.”

you’d think it’s just a small, insignificant change, but the difference in framing. the awareness. the fact that Arrakis gets introduced to us not as a dangerous material resource, but a beautiful home…! that shit is meaningful.

for so long this story about imperialism has been told by people who barely seemed to grasp the concept of structural critique at all. (I don’t think I have ever seen anyone miss the point as spectacularly as the guys who sat down and thought “Hey, let’s make a Dune RTS!”

“join one of three houses, whoever harvests the most Spice wins! :DDD” … just. incredible 🤣)

and I could go into more detail about how the other adaptions have a tendency to depict the Fremen as proud but primitive desert creatures and passive onlookers in their own subjugation, while the 2021 version makes it clear right off the bat that these are independent, capable human beings very well aware of their complex situation.

but I’m gonna stop ranting now cuz this was just supposed to be a quick lil meta on how the first couple lines change the entire meaning of everything, and how 2021 Dune displays a very welcome new awareness on the filmmakers’ part that has been sorely missing from previous adaptions.

[ciearcab]

how do you live?

[oldpaintings]

The Singer (La cantante mondana), c.1884 by Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842–1931)

[flanbolt]

I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something

[flanbolt]

FOUND IT

[kummatty]

His love for Gaza shone through in his photographs, seen in his steadfast portrayals of joy and beauty. Whimsical compositions by the sea depict young boys jumping and playing. In a series of works focused on his grandmother, a survivor of the 1948 Nakba who was displaced from her native village of Isdud, Arandas portrays her as a symbol of strength and perseverance in Gaza, zooming in on her weathered hands harvesting olives against deep fertile earth. Traces of personal and cultural histories can be seen in the crisp light of ripe olives and the details of intricate embroidery adorning her hanging dress.

“Where can I begin talking about Gaza and Palestine, and how can I begin when I know that I am the living dead? Everyone who writes about Palestine has prepared himself to be among the dead, but despite our prior knowledge of our fate when we write and write about this land, we do not stop or for a moment hesitate to inhale her love,” he reflected.

Remembering Gaza Photographer Majd Arandas, Killed by Israeli Airstrikes

[zegalba]

Andrew Wyeth: Wind from the Sea (1947)

[lo-hi]

The Power of the Dog (2021) dir. Jane Campion

[art-mirrors-art]

Cover of a mirror from Greece (c. 400 BCE, bronze, ± 17cm diameter), and detail depicting a scene with another mirror.  The woman also holds alabastron (perfume jar).