@coriander sad white boy traumatized by the death of a parent stumbles into incredible powers, some of which include the ability to see through time. he forsees a future where he enacts great violence on all of living existence and proceeds to do exactly that

@wallhackio What I will say is that I know AOT ends up being weirdly fascist and Dune is specifically (and more clearly in the sequels because people didn't get it) a critique of the kind of white-saviour fascism Paul is doing

@coriander Dune had much better intent than AoT but that didn't stop the worst kinds of fan to reading the wrong things out of it

@wallhackio If nothing else, you should also read Messiah, it makes it much more explicit that Paul is the bad guy

A ton of people hated it when it came out because of this =P

@coriander yeah I put a hold on it through the library when I learned this information

@wallhackio I would also recommend keeping going with the series but that's because I adore Frank's weirdness and by the time you read God-Emperor you realize that the first book was extremely normal by his standards

But not everyone is up for Frank's weirdness

@coriander I probably won't read the whole series because life is too short but still noted

@coriander anyway, aside from the fatphobia and homophobia surrounding the Baron I also had weird feelings about the idea that the Fremen are the most powerful fighting guys ever, it has some "hard times make great men" energy

@wallhackio Oh yeah the fatphobia and homophobia are fuckin awful, Frank did NOT like gay people lmao

There's a scene in God-Emperor where Duncan Idaho goes on a rampage because he saw two girls kissing, it's hilarious and it's NOT meant to be

@coriander LOL

@coriander yuri is too powerful to be seen by the weak-hearted

@wallhackio SO true

@wallhackio Also did you already know the stupid thing about Duncan Idaho later in the series or are you just rolling with that?

@coriander I have no idea what you're talking about

@wallhackio Oh, Duncan Idaho comes back in the later books

They keep cloning him

@wallhackio God-Emperor takes place like hundreds of years after Dune and Duncan is just there

@coriander Somehow, Duncan Idaho returned!

@wallhackio The vats of Ix is how

@wallhackio OH CALEB DO YOU KNOW THE THING ABOUT THE PLANET IX

@wallhackio This is my favourite piece of Dune Lore

@coriander nope

@wallhackio So, the planet's name is pronounced like it's written, "icks"

But it's the 9th planet from its sun

Humanity has gone on for SO LONG that they have entirely forgotten Roman numerals and just call the planet Ix

@coriander more like Vat of Icks

@coriander @wallhackio weak ass loser needs to keep getting cloned because he’s too fragile handle the yuri