yushi

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

[lunamonchtuna]

— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” (1967) (via lunamonchtuna)

[adviceformefromme]

There is so much peace in clearing the energy, in saying what you need to say. In speaking your truth. In being human and not trying to be a robot with no feelings. The truth is when you speak from your heart, when you let him know how you truly feel and you’re out of your ego you remain in your truth. It feels freeing, there is liberation. Holding everything in, your words, your feelings, this is how you become congested. This is how your mind stays consumed. You want to speak up but something is blocking you, maybe you don’t feel safe, maybe the dark feminine advice that says play it cool, go ghost on him, but the truth is you are someone with feelings, you are someone with a soul. One thing I have learnt is the more courage I have to speak what’s on my heart, the more freedom I feel. Give it a go, and watch your energy transform. 

[ritikajyala]

and nothing helps, no amount of rest, no green teas, no walks in nature. I bleed on paper and it smells like roses, roses full of thorns, thorns digging into my chest, and I bleed on paper. And the next morning, I find the words too cringe and the roses look like dried blood, clotted into me, heart full of clots. And the night comes again, and you ask me how I am. I tell you nothing helps, not the walks, not the teas, no rest. And I bleed on paper.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[misguidedvibes]

[ophelia-is-not-okay]

‘‘Red flag” this “Green flag” that

white flag. i just want peace. i surrender🏳️

[asshatproductions]

Can’t stop thinking about that moment in Dune 2 where Chani is trying to show him the proper way to sand walk and Paul’s sheltered-space-catholic-white ass immediately goes “according to my research 🤓☝️” like boy if you don’t-

[mutsubaki]

I cannot stop thinking how House Atreides has really died with Leto. All the inhibitions from Lady Jessica’s hunger for power and passion were removed and she truly became her father’s daughter. The further Paul was from the times his father was guiding him, the more he leaned into anger and cruelty. Reverend Mother Mohiam doomed them all when she advised to wipe out that line. Atreides and Harkonnen were supposed to balance each other, and her fear of Atreides incomplacency lead to full loss of control. Maybe Lady Jessica and Leto actually made someone who’d be able to become a saviour, but everyone who was involved in the making of the saviour has fucked him up beyond recognition - because the balance was lost.

And on this note, I can’t stop thinking about how Feyd-Rautha and Paul are really meant to be for peace; war is a result of many centuries of a feud between their houses, and an alliance - a union of resources, mind you - would change the political landscape in the universe. Sure, it makes sense why House Corrino fuiled that rivalry, because such alliance would drastically shift the power dynamics in the Lanstraad.

And it doesn’t matter if Paul, or Feyd-Rautha, or their offspring would become Kvizats Haderach - an all-knowing being would rise to the throne and elevate Fremen with less blood then a desert prophet if they had this power.

But Jessica is her mothers’s daughter because she seeks power before purpose, and is her father’s daughter because she doesn’t care about the cost of power, so; their love story with Leto could be described as something you would leave as a warning on a nuclear waste site: love was there. It didn’t save anyone. On every chance it could save us, love only lead to more destruction.

[thetownsendsw]

A thing that sticking with me about Dune Part2 [SPOILERS] once Paul takes the waters of life, he stops being the protagonist. The film isn’t from his POV anymore, we don’t see his visions, the camera rarely meets him at eye level. He’s not a character anymore, but a force people must navigate.

[timotheecontent]

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Really digging the subtle little arc that Paul goes on from when he and Jessica arrive at Sietch Tabr and he says "I must sway the non-believers" (I don't think he means convert them to the prophecy; I think he means convince them to follow his lead politically; but still seeing the Fremen as a tool to be used in his personal revenge quest), to when they're talking before Jessica leaves for the south and he says he's staying in the north to fight but that "they deserve to be led by one of their own" (ie. I'm in this fight because I believe in it but I don't expect to gain anything for myself and actually I probably shouldn't).

The fact that Paul is only becoming more convinced that he is nothing special at the same time that people are starting to worship him. The fact that his own mother is doing everything possible to accelerate that process and the two of them keep moving further and further apart (literally, he is going north and she is going south). The fact that people keep telling him he should just reach out and take the power that's available to him (Jessica with the prophecy, Gurney with the nukes), it's so simple, look, it's right there waiting for you, it's your birthright, wouldn't this makes things easier? The fact that he resists all of these arguments right up until the attack on Sietch Tabr, and that it's his best, most human impulses (grief over watching his home be destroyed again and guilt that he should have seen it coming; if he'd just seen more clearly or understood the visions better--) that make him finally decide to step onto the path that dooms him and everyone else.

[highwaylife]

DUNE: PART ONE (2021) #theforeshadowing

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

There's a scene - and I've seen the footage out there, but they cut the scene - in the first...film where, when our characters are kidnapped, right before we get thrown on the ornithopter...Paul and Jessica. Then there's a scene where Jessica is lying with her arms bound and her legs. And she's lying on this huge open space, it's a carpet, and you see it from a bird perspective, I think. In this tiny little fetal position, right? Now what the scene is that they cut is, all of a sudden, you come down to her face, and this thing in the background is just lowering himself, on top of her, and rolls his body on her. And you see that it is Vladimir Harkonnen. And he's pushing air out of her, so she can't breathe. And literally her eyes are nearly popping, and he whispers something in her ear. And it was cut.

And my sadness is the fact that when you find out [Jessica is Baron Harkonnen's daughter], it becomes a really odd dynamic, that scene, because it's oddly sensual and sexual and weird. And also it left us wondering what this relationship was, and I wonder if that's why he cut it. Because it did link us. That private moment really put us in a room by ourselves. That's one of my favorite scenes, which I was sad, but it always happens, right? - Rebecca Ferguson on ReelBlend podcast

Rebecca Ferguson and director Denis Villeneuve on set of Dune (2021) photographed by Chiablella James | Dune: Part One : The Photography

[meep-meep-richie]

“ I found my own way to it. Maybe you'll find yours.”

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Ok but crucially in this scene where he says "Father, I found my way"...he takes the ring off. It's right after he gets his Fremen names and--unlike in the book--he doesn't insist on including Atreides in the naming ceremony. He's just Paul Muad'Dib Usul. And right after that we see him taking the ring off because he's saying Father, I figured out how to be the kind of person you wanted me to be. And that person is not the Duke of Arrakis. Because there should be no Duke of Arrakis.

And when he takes the ring out later and puts it on again...that's exactly when you know he is losing his way.

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Paul and all the different names and titles that follow him around. Atreides. Muad'Dib. Usul. Mahdi. Lisan al-Gaib. Duke of Arrakis. My lord. Kwisatz Haderach. Always the implicit question of Who are you? Are you Paul Muad'Dib Usul or are you Paul Atreides, Duke of Arrakis? Are you a fedaykin of Sietch Tabr or are you the Lisan al-Gaib, the Voice from the Outer World here to lead everyone to paradise? Because you can be one or the other. But you cannot be both.

[kneworder]

man everyone in the first movie told him he'd get stabbed in the side while going for the throat. and what did he learn.

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

I fucking loved Paul's feral chihuahua energy in that final fight scene though. He's just going for it. From like, both an acting perspective but also a character thing, he clearly gives zero fucks at that point and it is FASCINATING to see. The image of him staggering around with two knives in him still like "fuck you I fucking won" is so powerful like??? this is a dangerous dude and you SEE that