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Holy shit, that's funny

*dick

Bless the Barista and his foam. Bless the lattes and chai teas of him. May his Venti cleanse the world. Oh, and may he leave a little room for cream. #Dune

Essentially, it's searching for a circumstance where Leto II is justified, and it's only if his vision is correct, otherwise, do not, do not do that shit. Also, even if it is, is it worth it man, is it really worth it to save humanity on that long a timescale if you have to become the worm tyrant?

Ive transformed myself into even more of a dick. Ya get it now?

Look, cant we all just go get high in the desert?

Sending to my bookclub... They have thoughts...

For a sec I thought that said "Paul is Dead" and was like huh?

I...dont know. =(

well he was the Baron’s grandson, and there’s a pretty good argument that he was as bad as if the Harkonnens won, just in a different way

Eventually. I think the old movie, and the early 00’s sci-fi channel mini series may have colored it too, until I was older. Neither of them did much to give it the depth and perspective to make that as clear, and I’m sure they all overlapped in my brain until I circled back in my 20s.

Reminds me of that timeless Lewis volume bsky.app/profile/phil...

laughing heartily, and I read that book 50 years ago

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Bingo. Behold, I have become a dick. From Beyond, eat your heart out.

What, he's just an ordinary—oh my goodness! Squidward!

For me it's Book 4: Okay??? Book 5: Okaaay... Book 6: Fuck This, I'm Out

Thankfully, we live in the dumbest timeline, so if Dune 3 is profitable, whichever conglomerate owns the studio will greenlight a second trilogy and we'll finally get Actually, What the Fuck the big screen adaptation it so richly deserves.

How have people not realized that in every single Sci Fi book where a guy tries to take control for himself, that that’s the bad guy in the story.

My thanks, @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and Donna, for cheering me up.

And what of the velveeta?!

Hold up

I always thought Herbert understood Dune pretty well, and he wrote Dune Messiah to make his point clearer to all the people who didn't understand Dune.

Look, if I make myself look more like a dick, would you get it then?

This made me lol

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My favorite random dune fact is that the thing that apparently inspired Herbert to write a book about how evil the messianic archetype can be was… JFK. He was scared of JFK.

One of Herbert's big points was that messiahs are bad. Paul isn't bad because he's Paul, he's bad because he's the Kwisatz Haderach and the Mahdi. It's his actions as those things that make him literally worse than Hitler, a comparison he makes himself.

Oh so you incite one holy war that kills 60 billion people so you can rule the galaxy and suddenly you're the bad guy

This is great…stealing it!