Dune, or: "The House of Atreus continues to be mega-cursed even in the distant future in space"

on identity, healing the inner child, fursonas, and cringe culture

"it's okay, i can peel back the layers of you until i find the soft and gentle core of you you've had to work so hard to hide"? no. no, it's okay, i know you're hollow; i'm here anyway. you don't have to pretend it isn't masks the whole way down. whatever face you want to wear, i still love you. i don't need you to be good or unflinching or the antonym of violence. if i did, i wouldn't be here. i wouldn't ask that of you.

yeah your rituals may be intricate. But have u ever placed a real gun in the hands of your eternal and fated enemy, watched his hands shake as he points it at you, and trusted that he will not let the bullet touch you, all for a magic trick that was your idea in the first place? have u ever seen true fear in his eyes and still known that even without miracles, he will let no harm come to you, even if that harm is only a ridiculous amount of heavenly paperwork?

Beware the Mountain's King

I'm absolutely LIVING for the increase in luke and percy parallels, but something that's been rattling around my brain since I last listened to the lightning thief musical is that without luke, percy WOULD become him. I think that it's seeing the example of the cruelty and betrayal in luke that prevented percy from following the same path. he's horrified at how luke betrayed his friends, but luke believes he's doing it for the good of the demigods, just as percy would believe he's doing it for the good of his friends. percy is regularly disloyal to the gods by being loyal to his friends. he is saved from luke's fate simply because he came second and watched it unfold before him. I'm so sorry luke but you really are doomed by the narrative. you were always going to turn against the gods, even it it wasn't you. it had to happen.

I LOVE THEM !!!!!

ID: three drawings showing from left to right, jet, zuko and sokka from avatar the last air bender as children from the waist up. Left jet is slouching with his arms crossed, body facing left, head angled looking to the right. He has a licorice wood in his mouth. Center is zuko frowning, looking to the left. On the right is sokka about to trow a snowball, small pink tongue peaking out of his mouth. "chiptrillino . 2023" is written faintly on the bottom of sokkas parka. "please don't repost" is written on the left side of the green square behind jet End ID

dug these up again after the nice anon ask

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i think "tell me you said no. tell me you said no." will play on repeat in my head for the rest of eternity, burned into my frontal lobe until i'm ground to dust or fossilized millions of years from now. thank you neil

“Nice.”

What did they do to you

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.

Toni Collette and Monica Bellucci | Mafia Mamma (2023)

Keep Him On a Leash

N) "Well done, Killer. As promised, you can spend the rest of the day with your little lover. Luckily, I ensured they were nearby and ready to receive you as soon as you finished your mission."

K) *sweetheart!

K) *(no no NO no what are you doing here? no RUN go LEAVE don't look at me no STOP)

N) "What's the matter? You should be grateful. Now they know exactly what you are. Isn't that what you wanted?"

-- Nightmare by jokublog

-- Killer by rahafwabas

im never gonna be able to stfu about this scene

like tommy goes to bucks to apologize so buck goes "its wtv im just a jealous guy" and tommy 100% validates his feelings by talking abt how he gets it and that hes jealous of buck and the 118 but buck obviously cant let that happen so he starts complementing the shit outta tommy (and he looks uncomfortable and completely unused to it???) and then tommy gets all heart-eyed when buck says he just wants to get to know him??? and tommy starts flirting back??? staring at bucks mouth????? then buck starts another tangent so tommy shuts him up by kissing him???????? sets up multiple dates??? THEN FIXES HIS SHIRT BEFORE LEAVING??? OH MY GOD BRO