I know that it was just a crush, that feeding the dream felt incredible
But even a dog looks like a goddess on a high enough pedestal
Now I know, I know you're just a jackal
I know, I know you're just a jackal
I can be a goblin, or a gremlin
Your own personal Rumplestiltskin
Something from a fairy tale
The kind that makes your skin turn pale
#goth#backlit#cape#trans
One has to wonder what the Ottomans were thinking. They created a military force capable of easily defeating every other force in their empire, but composed it entirely of racial enemies and deliberately chose not to fully convert them to Islam.
You would think there might be negative consequences for doing something like this - and there were! Roughly every five minutes, the Janissary corps, who were raised specifically to care for nothing but money, would decide they weren't being paid enough, and would ravage the entire empire, execute half of the government, and order the Sultan to double their wages at saber point.
It was perhaps the most foolish system ever devised, but the Sultans were simply too scared of the Janissaries to ever do anything about it. One of the greatest self-owns in all of human history.
Question; is it really treated as 100% for sure narrative fact that Paul and Leto II are definitely 100% right and justified in everything they do? Like the books seem to mostly be from their viewpoints but it seems like theres lots of people who go "hey thats fucked up" in them
Herbert attempted to sell his books as anti-messianic: a narrative caution against deifying political or religious leaders for fear that they might turn out evil.
Unfortunately, he created a world in which a messiah—and a tyrannical one at that—is metaphysically necessary for the survival of the species. Paul Atreides and his scions can see the future, and are compelled to commit grave evils for the sake of a greater good that they alone can foresee. This is the claim every strongman makes, but in the case of the Atreides, it is actually true.
Herbert constructs the one world in which blind political messianism might actually be merited.
It was so weird watching this in theatres sitting between my two friends, and when Ribbit talks about being ex-Mormon I can just feel them both turn to look at me
People also forget that Ribbit is an ex-Mormon. She left a religion notorious for ostracizing ex-members. She mentions regretting cutting off her parents, and then Jax makes her relive that trauma by forcefully cutting her off. No wonder Ribbit wasn't reaching out to anyone else.
In the longrun it is probably for the best that the older more experienced trans girl I was into turned me down but god damn I wanted her validation so bad