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Aran@aran.bsky.social |
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Part time medieval potato merchant, full-time Constantinople enjoyer. Co-creator of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast
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Paul isn’t literally nonbinary or trans or whatever, but Frank Herbert was clearly interested in gender and gendered forms of social control. Admittedly possibly for sex pervert reasons but hey
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Paul is so disruptive to both the Bene Gesserit and the Fremen because he is able to syncretise male and female forms of power! And the reason he can do that is because he’s not the gender he was “supposed” to be
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Probably my most unhinged take about Dune (the book) is that it’s about using the power of being nonbinary for evil
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It’s also a stronger adaptation than part 1 for one important reason: it’s waaay hornier
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Chani is an actual character, and the deaths that had almost no weight in the book are reworked to be much more interesting
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As someone who loves the book AND thinks the third act kinda sucks, I thought Dune Part 2 was basically the perfect adaptation
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Whenever I go on LinkedIn my notifications are like “You’re one of several experts asked to answer this question: what is suffering?” and “Congratulate Heinrich Glockenspiel on starting as Executive Paid Marketing Submanager at Advanced Digital Solutions”
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Emily Herring
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Al Kennedy
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They so nearly got this right once before. Here's hoping they don't screw it up at the last hurdle this time
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more mr. nice guy
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we should save up all the leap days and then every hundred years have Huge February
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Am trying to gradually abandon twitter and post more here so uuuuh let’s see here have a Bonnie for the road
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Thank you so much!! A novel is definitely not on the works anytime soon but he for sure deserves one
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Like cmon this is just Ray Purchase
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Saw Poor Things. My most unhinged take about it is that it feels like it takes place in the Toast of London universe
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Men's rea activist
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Bluesky is cool but I wish it showed me ads like "Is honey FAKE?" and "We've invented a bra for titties"
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In related news I’m about to chuck a heads worth of chopped garlic into this chicken traybake… if this is a bad idea this is the moment to stop me
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Doing my kitchen chores and listening to Baba O’Riley I’m JUST LIKE HIMMM
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Recording a podcast on medieval Florence today so it’s a good time to remind everyone that Netflix tried to pass Richard Madden and - Christ above - BRADLEY JAMES as Medicis. Those men have never seen a damn tortellini in their lives!
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weird medieval guys
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