The amount of narrative heavy lifting being done by the 20-second scene of Paul taking off the Atreides ducal signet ring. Because this is his moral high point in the movie. This is as close as he comes to getting it.

He's just experienced this entirely different set of social relations where he's valued not because of his name or bloodline or connection to a prophecy but for his contribution to a shared political struggle. And he's just fought and won a battle against the Harkonnens in this environment.

He's already been accepted by the fedaykin--not as a duke or a messiah but as their brother-in-arms and an equal. He knows there's a place there for him if he wants it, and he's deciding that yeah, actually, turning his back on all his inherited power and privilege for this way of life is what he wants to do. Taking the ring off is the last step of his allegiance shifting from colonizer to colonized.

"Father, I found my way" being such a great callback to that scene in Part One, where Leto says whether or not you're the future of House Atreides, you'll always be my son. The self-awareness of Dad, if I'm going to be the kind of person you wanted me to be then I can't be a ruler. And Paul's right. He is right about himself in that moment.

It's such a simple, understated scene. He's alone, sitting on the dune at sunrise. This isn't a performance for anyone. (Contrast that to when he puts the ring back on, as part of a demonstration of power in front of thousands.) It's just a quiet moment of self-reflection and clarity of purpose. Ah. This is exactly where I'm supposed to be.

And it also immediately sets up the tension that runs through the second act of the movie. Because we know, as soon as he takes that ring off, that this is one half of a setup and payoff. We know there's gonna be a scene where he puts it back on. And that will be the moment when he's committed to doing and being the exact opposite of all this.

THAT FUCKING SCENE IN EP 12 WILL ALWAYS HAVE ME ON A CHOKEHOLD IM FUCKING TELLING YOU

have i mentioned that i'm actually kind of insane about the fight scene in the sauna test?

lore accurate teen soukoku. the worsties ever

i see this jason todd who actually looks his very young age (instead of the 30yr old man that comics like to portray)

and feel my heart breaking just imagining bruce beating him up, almost killing him, mind-breaking him, and just overall being a total piece of shit father towards him.

a huge chunk of the reason why people don't view bruce's actions towards jason as abusive or wrong is because jason doesn't look his age. he's drawn to be this 35yr old father of three who looks even older than dick (and way too on par with bruce) that people see their fights as one between batman and any of his regular rogues. when they fight, it just looks like batman is fighting a man his age and not an actual young person. it doesn't look like batman is fighting his son who's barely even drinking age (and who def wasn't drinking age in utrh). their fights are portrayed in a way that eliminates the very real power struggle between them.

this applies to jason's entire character as well. a lot of people don't sympathize with how he died or his actions as robin or his fights with the other bats because he doesn't look his age. he always looks older and scarier than everyone else. tim has many sympathizers from the titans tower incident because jason just looked like a grown man fighting a 12yr old (even tho i disagree, tim was built and like 17 lmfao).

anyways, i just wish comics would actually draw jason to look his age, which literally ranges from 19 to early twenties. he's young- so young, and it's so annoying to see him drawn and written as someone older than even bruce.

I'm sorry I'm still not over Riz taking the High Fantasy Equivalent Of Speed except no one remembers he weighs 25 pounds soaking wet so instead of Calming The Hell Down like we all know in our heart of hearts Riz would do if he actually took properly dosed stimulants he just sprints through all 9 phases of hyperfocus and ascends to neurodivergent godhood and starts solving mysteries you've never heard of and then becomes paranoid that someone's gonna take his memories so he goes up to a pirate and asks them to tattoo his red string conspiracy board on his flesh

if i can just reach him,

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)

this came to me in a dream

Floyd's emo ass and a techno troll could make scene kids...! Do you see my vision??? . . . Ravin is Happy Hardcore and Eddy M is Synth-Pop, that's how troll genetics work, right?

anyway...

i don't think floyd leads a proud life

snippets from my miraculous Fruits Basket au :))

FUCK!!!!!!!! FFFUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIRACULOUS LADYBUG GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

..i've had this semi-finished in my drafts since october, but i cant procrastinate anymore- they have beautiful new outfits i want to draw <3 i need to catch up 🙇🏻‍♀️

One thing to know about me is that I also have an annotated copy of the illiad. It’s an abridged version from my childhood and every time Hector’s name is mentioned it’s surrounded by glitter-gel pen hearts bc he was my first crush as a child.

But whose heart would not take flight? Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

“jensen wouldn't be able to differentiate between me and cas” misha my dude jensen is not even able to differentiate between dean winchester and himself so

It's alright

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