The Menagerie

thank god for female characters who have something wrong with them amen

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

people who get excited about stars, moon & sunsets are my kinda people

"Messiah-era Paul wouldn't be able to get sick/sleep deprived/have headaches/stress fevers/chronic pain etc because he has Bene Gesserit training and therefore has complete bodily control and could prevent any of those things from happening" ok well what if I raise you: he's got A Lot going on and his brain is living in like a thousand timelines simultaneously so what if it got Overwhelming and he like. Forgot.

what’s crazy is that DUNE 3 won’t be a movie but a cinematic documentary on recurring historical patterns kicking our ass. what we’ll see on screen in december is breaking world news right now. it’s always a battle for spice and its power, one of many wars, as nature’s resources are topics of more and more conflicts over regional hegemony, genocides, money, infighting, and exploitation (e.g. water will become a big one soon by all accounts, which the dune universe features so very prominently). many movie and book fans already know this and in even greater detail at that but i’m putting this out there for new and adjacent audiences if anyone’s interested: put simply, the author literally predicted oil economics with its protagonists in the 60s way before the first crisis struck. “Arrakis”, the desert planet as a central setting, sounds like “al-ʿIrāq” / “Iraqis” with good reason, world religions and reproductive politics are heavily involved as well - so many current discourse themes it’s insane, no need for podcasts just a public dune reading - and the butlerian jihad (where people take a stand against machines who took over their thinking) literally was about AI, which he also anticipated, which is just insane. everything is on the nose in the dune books, and nothing much has changed. frank herbert remains the most relevant sci-fi author across several decades. he had the depressing future sight of his book characters.

i apologise in advance for the person im going to become once dune 3 is out. it's happening again, folks. strap in.