life is like a box of timelines

kelso, 30ish // female, she/her // writer of some things, watcher of many things, trying to be a reader of even more things

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[lordofchips]

I just found out that y’all are calling him “Bobby Apartment”

I’m fucking crying that’s so fucking funny

[depsidase]

[rylandgracie]

“your father never started a war” after manipulating him into starting a war is diabolical lmao

[15-lizards]

Please listen closely to the music playing in that dune trailer. Starts with Paul singing a soft Fremen hymn and his men join in, then the change from a quiet chant to a full on war cry, with Paul's voice screaming over the others. He's completely bastardized their culture and turned it into something exponentially more fanatical and cruel for his own gain...TAKE IT HOME MR ZIMMER

[letsduneit]

paul, late at night: hey chani would you love me if i was a worm chani, whose dad was an ecologist: well, worm brains don't always produce hormones to induce love. a better question would be whether or not you would love me if you were a worm. paul, who keeps having worrying visions of a worm-man hybrid: don't play with me right now please just answer the question-

[threecatsonatrenchcoat]

Chani, please Chani it's a yes or no question Chani-

[lostonmyroad]

jessica really said “god forbid women do anything” and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cult’s 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda

[hyped-up-on-girl-pills]

[yesthisiszuzu]

I've never watched Dune so just assumed this was actually the plot to Who framed Roger Rabbit and I probably js didn't remember

[narse-tantalus]

I mean her twink son was also an actual prophet. That was a pretty significant thing that happened. Like I understand where you're coming from here, but he very much was an actual prophet.

[bestenemys]

She and her brother could not be people. They had to be something more.

PAUL ATREIDES and ALIA ATREIDES in DUNE 3

[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

[mckitterick]

techbros trying to bring on the end of computers (or civilization, depending who wins)

[wulfhalls]

anya taylor joy as alia atreides

[depsidase]

[danseuse-de-ballet]

“The Party” (Stranger Things), iconic duos

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

[the-big-mood]

Walter White in Mario Kart Wii

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheChiptuner

[flustered-darcy]

Quietly but intensely obsessed with parallels and contrasts between Hank and his kids, even if the show refuses to be

Lucy has his same moral rigidity, despite her morals being based in real decency; Norm has the same capacity for social manipulation, even as he keeps its use limited to his own survival. They're both scientifically minded, just like their dad. They're both insightful, just like their dad. Lucy sticks to her proverbial guns, just like their dad. Norm sees through people to pull on the exact right thread, just like their dad. Even seen through a gamified lens, they both boast his Intelligence, and Lucy is their father's Charisma while Norm is their father's Perception.

It's like Hank split himself in half, hoping that with two concentrated versions of his own "best" qualities, he'd have two perfect little Vault-Tec managers ... but instead, his kids had the audacity to care about other people.

Lucy's right: He did a good job raising her and Norm. And if Hank had seen Norm again before the mind-wipe -- the Norm won't stop pushing for answers about his reality, just like his sister is -- he would be so disappointed that neither kid is quite the kid he wanted.

Even if Reclamation Day is bullshit, the 31/32/33 breeding program is still a thing, and that makes Lucy and Norm among the closest to Hank's ideal for humanity. And even then, they missed the mark, because they turned out to be kinder than him.

Hank probably didn't love Rose. But Rose -- who knew there was a safe world on the surface that could welcome her and her children in a way the Vaults never could -- left her intractable mark on those kids anyway.

[lmaonade]

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[niuniente]

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[hihogandalfaway]

(from @ruffboijuliaburnsides)

[liberalsarecool]

We are not moving on. Criminals don't get to decide their own investigations.

We are just getting started.