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crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

[ID: tweet by @/spinny_3000 Bae Blade reading "The greatest stumbling block to media literacy is how many people think of stories as just documentaries of fictional worlds."]

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.

*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.