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alphacrone · 1 year

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COLORS!

when i can't sleep i think about colors in netflix shows apparently and this has been haunting me

(ha! a pun)

*BOOK SPOILERS AT END.*

the primary color scheme of this show is blue&green/orange&red. it's done very obviously and veery intentionally.

blue is, clearly, Lucy's Color.

not only is it the only color she wears, she is the only character who wears it, with the exception of about 1/3 of the guests at the fittes ball. we will return to that. we will not return to that because i forgot my theory for why that was. aesthetics, we'll say.

similar to lucy, orange is George's Color. it's more or less the only color he wears, but he not the only person who wears it. joplin wears a good amount of orange and red as well.

Lockwood's color scheme is, for the most part, black and white. He does wear ties in shades of red and blue, but they're dark and muted. (also the gray hoodie of despair.) this could be to paint him as a colorless, "hollow" person, but could also be a reflection of his black and white approach to ghosts: they are not people, they are evil, they should be destroyed and thinking about them beyond that is a waste of time. if the show is renewed, it would be interesting to see if his color scheme changes over time. (possibly hard to do with his very specific outfit of choice)

(ok but sidenote, love that he wears versions of "lucy's color" and "george's color" over his heart ok bye)

(george and lucy do also sometimes wear bits of each other's colors as well and that also makes me happy)

this black and white, law and order, unnuanced approach to ghosts is also reflected in barnes and deprac as a whole:

now Fittes:

Fittes is gray, yes. That is their official color. Perhaps to represent iron and silver. Perhaps to represent the nuance between the black and white of DEPRAC. perhaps because marissa had boring taste. who's to say.

Fittes House also has quite a bit of red/orange in it. The uniforms have stripes of orange along the side.

making orange George's color could be a reference to him as a former Fittes employee. OR it could represent something that he and Fittes have in common.

i find it an interesting choice, given that Rotwell's color is red. you would think they'd want to use blue or purple or green to differentiate themselves. could mean something. could also just be that fittes had a zealous branding team.

are these rotwell agents? maybe! i hope that's a lion on their collars, that would be hilarious.

(tangent: i have a theory that, if the show is renewed, red would be holly's color. HOWEVER, i think she would either start red--as a "seductress" in lucy's mind or to represent rotwell--and fade to pink to show her true self, OR she would start a demure, feminine pink and dress in more reds as she lets herself be brave and a little unhinged. i'd take it either way. i love my daughter holly)

related: jacobs was red and yellow. perhaps a rudimentary version of fittes orange? a knock-off of the rotwell red? the costume department having a good time at the expense of these children? hard to say.

ghosts themselves come in shades of white, black, blue, green, and red. so far this hasn't proven to mean anything...unless??

yeah i don't know. i have ideas but i don't think they're sane or rational.

why did i include ghost pictures. their colors don't have meaning to me. i couldn't find a pattern. i am so tired.

but anna, you might be saying. who cares? it doesn't actually mean anything. they're just colors assigned to characters and lucy, as the main character, gets to be special and monopolize blue. it's just a stylistic choice.

that's what i assumed. but then i saw THIS bad boy:

i might be grasping at straws. that center light might actually be white. maybe it's a Portal reference.

(tbh, it might actually be a Portal reference)

but knowing what i know about Fittes from the books...it gave me pause.

so what is it that these colors actually represent? it's not as simple as humans vs. ghosts, because the ghosts aren't all blue.

let's look closer at the dichotomy of george and lucy. in a way, they're two sides of the same coin when it comes to Visitors. where lockwood has no interest in ghosts other than eliminating them, george and lucy both want to know everything about them. lucy wants to know them as sentient beings, as people to help; george wants to know the what and why and how of it all, wants to end the problem, or at least understand it. they're the head and the heart of the agency. which leaves lockwood to be the hands. (insert sex joke here)

so, orange/red--george, joplin, fittes. even rotwell, though we don't see them. these are entities who are, for better or worse, trying to understand the problem, trying to get to the other side.

the opposite color, blue? it is the other side:

lucy is our liaison to the world of ghosts. she can hear them across the veil. the only one in blue. the only one with this connection. (other than marissa)

SO. A BLUE CIRCLE IN A RED/ORANGE CIRCLE. WHAT COULD IT MEAN.

WHAT COULD FITTES POSSIBLY BE UP TO.

in conclusion, i'm tired as fuck, i think i just ranted about a basic color scheme for too long, and i think there was no reason to try and figure this out.

this might have just been a reason to ramble about how these two complement each other and they're best friends and i love them.

in conclusion: colors!

#lockwood & co. tv #lockwood & co.#lockwood and co #book spoilers sort of at the end #lucy carlyle #george karim #ok to rb

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kathaynesart · 1 month

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REPLICA PLAYLIST

MUSIC UNDER CUT

I have been receiving requests for any songs that inspired Replica, so here, have my personal playlist. Sorry it’s not Spotify/Soundcloud but they don’t have some of these songs available so uh… guess you’re stuck with YouTube vids. For fun I'll include my personal titles for them (which might give a few hints of what to expect in the future/end).

Replica Main Theme - “Die for You” by Grabbitz Like Father Like Son Like Brother (Omega and Shelldon) - "As Above So Below" by Alistair Lindsay Mikey's Theme / The 1st Vision - "Suzume no Tojimari" by Nanoka Hara Military (Mad) Dogs / Central Park Colony - "Imperium" by Madeon Shanghai - "Icarus" by Madeon Boom Goes the Donnie-mite (Mikey/Donnie vs the Sweeper) - "The Red Zone" by Mitsuoto Suzuki The Day the Sky Bled Red - "7 Seconds Till the End" by Nobuo Uematsu Going Out Like a Boss (Raph and Leo) - "Agape" by Nicholas Britell Remembering the Right Way (Mikey and Leo) - "The Souls of Many" - by Alistair Lindsay Mystic Hands / The 2nd Vision - "Am I Dreaming" by Metro Boomin x A$AP Book 2 Trailer - "Sea Dragon" by Covet 7 Years Later - "Iron" by Woodkid Leo's Theme / Attack on the Labor Camp - "Ego Death" by Polyphia Omega's Theme - "Touch" by Daft Punk Flat Lines (Omega Alone) - "Die Toteninsel Emptiness" by 1000 Eyes Spear - "Monsters" by Tommee Profitt Final Protocol - "The Kraken" by Katie Dey Rise / Epilogue - "Close in the Distance" by Masayoshi Soken & Tom Mills

I will admit, it's a little embarrassing since you can easily see the patterns of what I've been listening to for the past year or two. I swear I listen to more than just videogame OSTs, these songs just jive well with the story and I often find lyrics distracting when brainstorming scenes. Regardless, the music I listen to is such an important part of my creative process and some of these songs really defined the scenes I now have locked in my head. So I figured it was only fair to give them the credit they're due.

I will continue to add to this playlist, and will note in comic updates when one of these songs is applicable!

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natjennie · 5 months

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i think mostly we as a culture need to stop pretending media is for us and instead recognize that it's for the people making it. "the show didn't do the thing I wanted it to" is so not the point. did it do what the people making it wanted it to do? did it tell the story they were trying to tell? than it was successful. if that doesn't align with what you wanted to happen, don't get up in arms about it. don't badmouth the creators and throw a tantrum. that's what fan works are for. the text is the text, and it told the story it was telling. you wouldn't be like "ugh shakespeare is insane for act v btw like there was no reason for juliet to kill herself she should've just waited and then her and romeo could have been together wtf this ruined the whole play" like no!!! the themes were there the set-up was there the foreshadowing was there shakespeare did what he intended to. just because it wasn't a happy ending and just because you thought it should've went differently doesn't mean it was bad. read a fic where juliet lives and move on.

#this is about ghosts but honestly fandom in general #stop pretending the creators of things owe you certain story lines. they're making it not you #i explained it like this to my sister:#imagine you're reading a book and there are sort of hints and scenes that you take to interpret a character as gay #you cite quotes and talk about the themes and the impact of your interpretation #and then at the end of the book the character comes out as asexual.#and then a lot of those scenes and quotes that you were using as evidence for your interpretation-#now they could be construed to have been pointing towards them being ace all along #just because it wasnt the end you fabricated in your head based on your understanding of the hints #doesn't mean it wasnt always the writers plan from the beginning.#AND it doesnt mean you can't keep imagining a world where they're gay instead #it just means that the writer was leaving those clues to point you towards the ending #and you interpreted the clues differently #bbc ghosts #ghosts spoilers #bc like. if last resort was the ending #you could 'read' the whole series with the understanding that they weren't going to leave the house #and the foreshadowing would add up #but now with the special. you can go back and 'read' the series with the understanding that they leave #and it still all adds up. the foreshadowing was there it just meant something different than you thought.#stories have beginnings middles and ends #you predetermined the ending while still in the middle and got mad when you weren't right.#does that make sense?

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lifeof-pink · 4 months

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kdj trying to kill himself after seeing the OD is such a visceral and gut wrenching part of the book—

“Something was wrong. A blade… I, I needed to find a blade.” <- this scene (chapter 515) actually broke my heart, i genuinely felt sick reading it. he’s so desperate to die that it’s honestly palpable, it’s like finally seeing that truth behind the snarky mask kim dokja always wears. it took me until this point to realize that every time he tried to sacrifice himself for his companions, it wasn’t just a well thought out plan but a true, genuine suicidality and the acceptance that he might not come back. that he isn’t worthy of living a good, happy life with a happy ending. (which maybe i’m just slow, but i really fell for dokja’s lies, every single time i thought to myself “everything’s going to be fine because he has a plan to survive this,” and almost every single time i was right. except for the end i suppose.)

and fuck, it hits so, so hard.

#tw suicide #like i know thats already a big theme in the book but in this case i feel the need to very explicitly tag that #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja #the oldest dream #i wasnt planning on writing a sad post today but alas.#‘are orv fans allergic to being happy’ yes sorry #dont go into my replies like ‘you’re thinking too deep about this’ or whatever #i know i am!! i know its probably not that deep #i know that he probably did see himself having a happy ending probably #but when i think about his character #and when i think about his actions #i cant help but see a bit of that sort of undercurrent of ‘i don’t belong’#that sort of undercurrent of ‘i want to die’#his character feels relatable to me #take that statement as you will i guess #not that ive sacrificed my life for anyone #lol #but that passive sort of way he approaches the topic #all jokes and smiles and such??#and other people are like ‘uhm. no i think you need help.’ and he cant see it #thats so????#he needs therapy #*i* need therapy #sorry for traumadumping in main orv tag LOL #feel free to get mad at me in replies i understand #this could be a total mischaracterization of kdj #probably is tee bee atche but OH WELL. also i hit tag limit oops. 30 tags is the limit apparently

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mazojo · 6 months

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I want to thank dark academia based media for changing my life for the worse

#makes me SICK. I a see any sort of morality. talk about romanticizing languages. the villains and hero complexes. and I go SICK #I am reading if we were villains and oh guys how this book is about to change my entire life narrative I fear #james and Oliver are like. in love right? I am not being delusional right ? oh James how I know you will be dead by the end of this #I wrote notes at the end of each act as I go with my predictions and starting act 2 the second I realize #james wasn’t mentioned or wasn’t the FIRST at the door at Oliver’s release it meant we were fucked #also the fact I ranked him my fav in act 1 and all my favs are destined for death so that’s that #no spoilers btw I am just spitballing here but oh how I know I will be devastated in a hundred more pages or so #if we were villains #dark academia #also applies to ths #the secret history

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problemswithbooks · 21 days

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BNHA 423

So, I can't say I feel much of anything reading this weeks leaks.

I'm not shocked that Shigaraki died, nor would I be surprised if his death is taken back next chapter and he gets brought back to life in some way.

The thing is despite people saying Shigaraki dying messes with the themes of the story the themes have always been more then a little shaky. IDK if it's just a difference in culture, but Hori has a way of setting something up as being a big deal/theme and then doing something that completely contradicts it.

It's really no surprise he might have killed off most of the villains including Shigaraki despite setting the story up in a way where saving villains seemed to be a theme. He did the same thing with self-sacrifice being portrayed as bad, but later showing it as good.

I will say I don't necessarily agree with how some people are framing Shigaraki's death as throwing abuse victims under the bus. I do get the frustration because Hori did focus a lot of how Shigaraki was used by AfO and in a lot of stories that would be used to absolve him of guilt for all the destruction he caused. But Hori never had Shigaraki change his mind. His last words are him continuing to wish he could have destroyed more and wanting Izuku to relay to Spinner he never stopped fighting for destruction.

I think if this had been a more thought out and focused story you really could make it a great tragedy. It feels unfair that he couldn't be saved, that despite Izuku's effort, at the end of the day Shigaraki wasn't able to break away from the destruction he was manipulated and groomed into believing.

In that way I can understand the anger of some fans, because the story is essentially a tragedy framed as a simply triumphant narrative. It always felt like it wanted to have some deep meaning, and always seemed on the verge of it, but never stuck the landing. The one thing I've always been left wondering is: what is Hori trying to say with this story?, and IDK if the ending, given what's on the page right now will really give me an answer.

If anything I think perhaps Hori was trying to say to much at once. I'm sure a lot of it gets lost in translation and cultural differences, still part of me thinks he bit off more then he could reasonably flesh out. Thinking back many writing choices feel like he had an idea or passing thought and added it because it was cool or thought he'd have time to do more with it latter but due to shitty writing conditions couldn't implement properly.

#mha #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha 423 #boku no hero academia #bnha leaks #idk #im sick and rambling #at this point i check in on bnha to see how it ends #because i genuinely have no idea how it's gonna end #it does sort of feel like a story that was so much cooler in Hori's head #like I honestly wish I could just have him explain it to me #cuz I do think alot of stuff got cut or dropped because he didn't have the energy to draw it #I think it's a huge lesson in why working conditions matter #and why some stories and authors don't do well when released chapter by chapter #let alone weekly #over years of time #I think One Piece is a huge outlier #and should not be counted #i guess I feel like BNHA could have been really good if it had been released more like a novel series #like one book every year or two #because I think Hori needs time to edit and really pick a direction sometimes #which a weekly schedule did not give #and as disappointing as it is I can't help but give the man props #I can barely start my stories #let alone finish them #and I don't draw them ontop of that #like his art is fantastic and I loved a lot of his characters #never would have bothered to keep checking back if I didn't like something about it

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gwydionae · 2 months

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Never have I been more grateful that time travel exists in the X-Men universe.

#marvel #x-men 97 #spoilers #...don't read my tags XD #most of the spoilers will be down here #i liked the x-men cartoon since i was a kid in the 90s #but i can't lie i mostly watched it for specific characters #if an episode didn't have any of those characters involved the chances of me enjoying it went down significantly #wasn't universal but a pretty darn good bet you know?#they gave me morph back for which i am grateful #and rogue has been my Best Girl TM for decades #but i swear i would be developing a sudden loss of interest after the latest episode if not for the whole #'this sort of thing almost never sticks in comics' and we literally saw cable right before crap hit the fan #now maybe it won't be time travel #maybe there's some other comic book story that could be used here that i'm unfamiliar with #(i know very little in regards to x-men comics - my heart resides with the batfam)#but either way being Old and Jaded is seriously working in my favor right now so i'll take it XD #(the end totally got me though like uuuuuuuuuuugh noooooooooo whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy *cries*)

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umberpath · 2 months

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it's too bloody soon to be fantasizing about writing a prequel novel when we aren't even sure it needs one...

#I think it would murder us if we started it right after. could you imagine.#alderhill #I think we need to consider short stories or other sorts of things in the meantime #the main book spells out some of the timeline in pieces and scraps but to delve into it fully....that would do it justice #but it could also go strangely.#for one we don't want to write so many forest scenes they all blur together #or rehash information that's already there #the main draw for *me* at least would be getting a glimpse into the blue coats and cairn's beginnings; how it all came around #and amelia ronan's story.#it could end with her escape and giving up one of her children: elliot's uncle #as well as cairn being endowed the title of king #but gods. NOW I'm fantasizing about another story following elliot's uncle's side of the story. a Nameless' child. how the dichotomy--#--between fairy and Nameless is nothing more than a matter of perspective #aughhh............#aughghh #I think we're actually Falling Hard for this setting #I'm getting those tugs and pulls of inspiration #musings #alderhill spoilers #(for these tags)

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asteroids-and-tractorbeams · 1 year

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Anyway I need to know what happened between Bo Katan and Satine’s father’s rule and Satine’s RIGHT NOW

#if they had at least one daughter public ally performing rituals and swearing herself to the creed #in the name of getting the public’s support!!#then what the hell happened to that culture when Satine and her policy of pacifism had the public’s support?!?#I swear if Satine and her father somehow ended up on opposite sides #i hate how confusing this is but at least sort of interesting #I am NOT reading any legends books but I might rewatch those episodes of tcw #the mandalorian #the mandalorian spoilers

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likethecastle · 8 months

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It was hard to focus – he was a dazzling blur. Where he was, even his face and body, nothing stayed fixed long enough for her to be sure of it. The possibilities and the details of his past must be thrashing around like mad, shifting and overlapping. He was every single Doctor you could ever imagine at once. But he was still there. Even without a fixed face or name or body, even if his past contradicted itself from moment to moment, that didn’t matter. There was still something there, not just un-pinned-down but impossible to pin down. Something that even revelled in the fact that he couldn’t be easily understood. That said more things were possible than a simple explanation would allow. Something laughing.

—Unnatural History, Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum

#i am So abnormal #they get itttttt this fucking Gets It #doctor who #eighth doctor #sam jones #**#unnatural history #<- for sort-of spoilers i guess? as much as a 20+ year-old book can have those #idk feel odd posting a semi-specific quote from near the end w/o some sort of tagging in case someone might care #but this just like. encapsulates much of why this is making me go so insane yk #also haunting me is dark sam. jesus christ

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stylishanachronism · 9 months

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*grump grump*

It’s a novel about discovering you’re queer in your twenties what the fuck are y’all talking about.

#was trying to remember the name of A Fistful of Sky’s….. antagonist? second protagonist? secondaryish romantic lead? (it’s Altria)#except my copy is….. somewhere so I couldn’t just grab it #and like all the reviews are both a. trash and b. Missing The Point #like if I had to point at a novel that defined my teenage relationship with being queer this is like top two #(the other is A Stir of Bones which are less blatantly queer than it’s…. later chronological books but for thematically correct reasons)#anyway the two major complaints are ‘this doesn’t wrap up with the family resolving their issues’#and ‘not mature enough for adult fantasy’#and it’s like (spoilers and/or death of the author) this is a novel about coming to terms with yourself for being queer #and coming to terms with coming to terms with your family about being queer may never be an option #and also about taking love where you find it and how it is not how you’d like it to be #(the main character is both explicitly bi by the end (…..sort of)#and in a relationship with a nonhuman shapeshifter who uses female pronouns and wears a woman’s body but doesn’t actually care about it #I’m going to fight all these middle aged moms like what the fuck #also fuck you too mature for ya I was thirteen and it was difinitive and I got way more out of it than my mom did too

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mxcottonsocks · 1 year

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It's been a couple of months since I finished reading Adam Bede so I'm less angry about Dinah Morris's ending now...

I don't think she made a bad choice, per se, I just think that out of the three options she had, she chose the worst one ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

#like i dunno #i think that after all that #if she was going to end up in a romantic relationship with anyone #it should have been the one i liked better lol #if you're not going to give me an aro ending at least give me a ship i like 😔#i suppose it made me appreciate seth even more though so there's that #adam bede (book)#dinah morris #adam bede spoilers #sort of #queue

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godhasforsnakenme · 2 months

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BOOK REVIEW 📖

This is the one for February – I was reminded of this book half way through the month and decided to reread it again because I couldn't remember how it ended; plus a short mystery is always nice to read (side note: this ended up as an ebook read bc I couldn't remember where in my storage boxes I have my copy – it's in storage because it's a paperback edition and old and I don't want it to die on me yet lol)

#ben picks up reading again #dania rambles about shit #hewehewhehehewhehw I've forgotten to upload these for the last two months LMAO #not to worry I am at least still reading :D #alrighty this is for the most part spoiler free (execpt where indicated)#it is a very entertaining mystery that feels like a game of cluedo and you really enjoy how everything comes together at different points #so much that it has you going back to see how the hell you missed a detail and going AHA #but yeah counts as a reread but it was so long ago and I'd forgotten practically everything about it that its like a new read #which is a bonus bc I like figuring out mysteries in books and going along with stuff to see if I'm right at the end #not to much analysis in this review like the last book as I feel it didn't need it #each character is pretty likeable with some unlikable moments sprinkled in #also I really love how the POV switches and flows easily between each of them which is what makes this book so easy to follow along with #insight on when i first read it #i was in fifth grade and we had a reading club sort of thing that our teacher picked us for #like a greatbooks fishbowl sort of thing instead of just our regular reading/comm arts time in class #i think it was the last one's we read for that year because I don't remember any after it #anyway we had to staple the last couple of chapters together so we wouldn't be able to know the ending nor the stuff leading up to it #that way we could play along and try to solve it ourselves #we had a betting pool sort of thing going with candy to see who could guess correctly #just a box full of sticky notes with whatever theories we wanted to include with the bet #and a whole wall with those large paper pad sheets that teacher's would have for their easels in order for us to connect the dots on things #yeah we went into it #kind of wondering if we ever got to the end or if something came up that we couldn't finish the book like i sort of remember #our tutor missing a couple of weeks and then state testing and then it was just the end of the year and we were turning in the books to her #anyway just more admin lore

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depresseddepot · 11 months

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daydreamed about embroidery all day, played animal crossing, had a little peach beverage, and then finished tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica. what whiplash

#i read it mostly bc i saw a lot of reviews abt it being fucked up but it was actually a very good book #absolutely suspend your disbelief bc its meant to be a reflection of society and not like. a bulletproof alternate reality #but the pacing felt sort of like someone grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you #i haven't decided if that was good or not but it was certainly very effective #no spoilers but the ending was. certainly something #the part with that guy in the interview and the very end were the only two parts that really made me feel ill #but i think that was more a result of the good writing over anything else #the main characters ''theory'' is a very heavy implication too #i read the book in two sittings and had a nightmare the first night so. here we go! lmao #anyway i made this post because i was surprised about how much i liked it #i do feel slightly sick to my stomach from the ending but frankly i read so much that anytime a book can evoke a physical reaction from me #(good or bad)#means that it was a good or at least successful book #anyway don't read this book if you have triggers because it has them all. also probably don't if you have a weak stomach

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fuckyeahisawthat · 3 months

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There are so many places in the Villeneuve Dune adaptations where he just...takes all the narrative pieces that Frank Herbert laid out and subtly rearranges them into something that tells the story better--that creates dramatic tension where you need it, communicates the themes and message of the book more clearly, or corrects something in the text that contradicts or undermines what Herbert said he was trying to say.

The fedaykin are probably my favorite example of this. I just re-read a little part of the book and got smacked in the face with how different they are.

(under the cut for book spoilers and length)

The fedaykin in the book are Paul's personal followers, sort of his personal guard. They show up after his legend has already started growing (the word doesn't appear in the book until chapter 40) and they are people who have specifically dedicated themselves to fighting for him, and right from the moment they're introduced there is a kind of implied fanaticism to their militancy that's a bit uncomfortable to read. They're the most ardent believers in Paul's messianic status and willing to die for him. (They are also, as far as you can tell from the text, all men.)

In the book, as far as I can remember (I could be forgetting some small detail but I don't think so) there is no mention of armed resistance to colonialism on Arrakis before Paul shows up. As far as we know, he created it. ETA: Okay I actually went back and checked on this and while we hear about the Fremen being "a thorn in the side" of the Harkonnens and we know that they are good fighters, we don't see anything other than possibly one bit of industrial sabotage. The book is very clear that the organized military force we see in the second half was armed and trained by Paul. This is exacerbated by the two-year time jump in the book, which means we never see how Paul goes from being a newly deposed ex-colonial overlord running for his life to someone who has his own private militia of people ready to give their lives for him.

The movie completely flips all these dynamics on their head in ways that add up to a radical change in meaning.

The fedaykin in the movie are an already-existing guerrilla resistance movement on Arrakis that formed long before Paul showed up. Literally the first thing we learn about the Fremen, less that two minutes into the first movie, is that they are fighting back against the colonization and exploitation of their home and have been for decades.

The movie fedaykin also start out being the most skeptical of the prophecy about Paul, which is a great choice from both a political and a character standpoint. Of course they're skeptical. If you're part of a small guerrilla force repeatedly going up against a much bigger and stronger imperial army...you have to believe in your own agency. You have to believe that it is possible to win, and that this tiny little chip in the armor of a giant terrifying military machine that you are making right now will make a difference in the end. These are the people who are directly on the front lines of resisting oppression. They are doing it with their own sweat, blood and ingenuity, and they are not about to wait around for some messiah who may never come.

From a character standpoint, this is really the best possible environment you could put Paul Atreides in if you want to keep him humble. He doesn't get any automatic respect handed to him due to title or birthright or religious belief. He has to prove himself--not as any kind of savior but as a good fighter and a reliable member of a collective political project. And he does. This is an environment that really draws out his best qualities. He's a skilled fighter; he's brave (sometimes recklessly so); he's intensely loyal to and protective of people he cares about. He is not too proud to learn from others and work hard in an egalitarian environment where he gets no special treatment or extra glory. The longer he spends with the fedaykin the more his allegiance shifts from Atreides to Fremen, and the more skeptical he himself becomes about the prophecy. This sets up the conflict with Jessica, which comes to a head before she leaves for the south. And his political sincerity--that he genuinely comes to believe that these people deserve liberation from all colonial forces and his only role should be to help where he can--is what makes the tragedy work. Because in the end we know he will betray all these values and become the exact thing he said he didn't want to be.

There's another layer of meaning to all this that I don't know if the filmmakers were even aware of. ETA: rescinding my doubt cause based on some of Villeneuve's other projects I'm pretty sure he could work it out. Given the time period (1960s) and Herbert's propensity for using Arabic or Arabic-inspired words for aspects of Fremen culture, it seems very likely that the made-up word fedaykin was taken from fedayeen, a real Arabic word that was frequently used untranslated in American news media at the time, usually to refer to Palestinian armed resistance groups.

Fedayeen is usually translated into English as fighter, guerrilla, militant or something similar. The translation of fedaykin that Herbert provides in Dune is "death commando"...which is a whole bucket of yikes in my opinion, but it's not entirely absurd if we're assuming that this fake word and the real word fedayeen function in the same way. A more literal translation of fedayeen is "self-sacrificer," as in willing, intentional self-sacrifice for a political cause, up to and including sacrificing your life.

If you apply this logic to Dune, it means that Villeneuve has actually shifted the meaning of this word in-universe, from fighters who are willing to sacrifice themselves for Paul to fighters who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their people. And the fedaykin are no longer a group created for Paul but a group that Paul counts himself as part of, one member among equals. Which is just WILDLY different from what's in the book. And so much better in my opinion.

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assign yourself a new role

i know people can find states of consciousness a bit confusing, so here's a super simple exercise you can do to locate (and then be and persist in) your ideal self.

imagine somebody comes to you and says you can be anybody, instantly. you think--in terms of manifestation--well, i want to manifest my SP, so i guess that means i want to be SP's girlfriend?

ok, but what does that mean? what does that look like for you? what does that feel like?

well, i want my SP lovingly obsessed with me, spoiling me, blowing up my phone 24/7, buying me flowers and gifts and a ring, taking me on all sorts of fancy dates and trips, racing home to me at the end of the work day...

ok, so your new identity is "obsessed over, spoiled girlfriend."

i want you to imagine, now, you're on a movie set, and the director comes to you and says, "your job is to be THE obsessed over, spoiled girlfriend. i'm not giving you any lines, though. i'm not telling you how to dress or how to act. you gotta adlib, you gotta do it now, and you gotta keep doing it. that's it. that's the task."

you say ok, and you feel a switch go off within you, right?

you're no longer the person who's obsessively manifesting an SP. no. your SP is chasing you. you cannot get this man to stop texting you. you're thinking, "oh my god. he is such a simp for me, it's almost funny. he'll do anything he can to spend every second with me." you get home from shopping and--he left flowers on your doorstep? and a note? holy shit. your SP wrote you a love poem?!!?! and bought you tickets to ITALY?!

you probably feel...different...in your body, too. energetically. much more secure, powerful, maybe even sensual, a bit savage. focused on yourself and your goals, other areas of your life like friendships and work. all that neediness and yearning and pain just--dissipated. you're no longer the desirer. you're the desired.

feels good, doesn't it?

well, you just shifted your state.

that all took place in imagination, but it felt real because...spoiler alert...it is real.

you're not imagining to become.

you imagine and you are.

instantly.

so you continue imagining. not because you want to "get" your SP (though you will, by law), but because "obsessed over, spoiled girlfriend" is the identity you've chosen, and you love being her. it feels right to you, natural, effortless, authentic. feels like who you are, like your truth.

(also, you don't want to get fired by the movie director, who is the most badass person alive...oh, right, that's you, too).

this applies to anything, and doesn't need to be a singular identity. you can be "obsessed over, spoiled girlfriend" and "rich as fuck powerhouse crossfit champion of the world" and "the most sought after dog walker in all the land" and "baker extraordinaire" and "bestselling author with a three-book deal." these are all just states of consciousness, and your ideal self is all you assume you are, all wrapped in one.

have FUN.

be because it feels good, because it's true, because it's you.

your world will--because it must--re-shape itself around you.

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