etruscan boar, ceramicDune sicko on main kind of day
I’ve said this here before but I was so scared it was going to be horrible until I watched that first trailer and saw the headboard of Paul’s bed was exactly as described in the books, if someone was going to have that level of attention to detail I knew I’d love it. Also seeing the ornithopters in the trailer completely took me out, that design is so good
Dune sicko who read the book at least once a year since I was 11 or 12, watching the gom jabbar scene: 
Thinking about the portrait and the bull 😭
It is absolutely the funniest thing imaginable that Frank Herbert wrote a book about how you should never trust charismatic messianic leaders and how people like Paul are the bad guys and the hero’s journey is bullshit and he got so incensed when everyone said “wow! Paul!! What a great hero!!” that he immediately wrote a second book calling them all dumbasses
words of encouragement
@carithlee oh this is so good
jtav4@checkervest @carithlee Wait until they see Paul’s son!
Tobias 🌒🌕🌘@carithlee @checkervest Book 3: Would you still think I'm bad if I was a worm?
MannyCartoon@carithlee @checkervest this is great...i find the books impenetrable (my own shortcomings) but I've heard the Herbert was very specifically trying to tell the messiah bad storry...and no one followed it. On a similar level Lucas mad a story about Space faciest and i always felt the public never truley got it. Vader is HUGE in cosplay and the 501st is a HUGE charity org...butbtheir the baddies?
Evelyn Estelle@MannycartoonStudio @carithlee @checkervest
One more from the misunderstood sci-fi list: Robert A. Heinlein: Starship Troopers
@dragonfi @carithlee @checkervest
On a deeper level ive always disliked that most popular space stuff is military. Even trek thats supposed to be about exploration military based. Mot sure why...but it does.
@MannycartoonStudio @carithlee @checkervest
I always found it funny, how federation ships are overpowered for not being "military vessels".
No, no you misunderstand. This is an exploration and science vessel. We designed it with minimal weaponry. The fact that it's stronger than your dedicated warship is merely coincidental.
@dragonfi @carithlee @checkervest
Yup. Im slowly hatching lil story and I'm avoiding that aspect. We'll see how it goes.
ARGVMI~1.PIFIt's quite the flex, though, isn't it? “We're the Federation and we're so awesome that even our cushy flying hotels can kick your ass.”
@MannycartoonStudio @carithlee @checkervest
I was thinking about this, not only for sci-fi, but also for other genres: I think this boils down to violence being the lowest level conflict resolution you can always fall back to.(That doesn't mean that it's wise to do so.)
In a story you usually want to escalate until the stakes are at their highest. If there are opposing factions, it is very hard to avoid at least one side picking violence, and it's usually hard to write a believable non-violent reaction to that.
Chris
