Charlie Vickers and ‘Rings of Power’ showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are breaking down a fiery season 3 scene in which Sauron tries — and fails — to create the One Ring. ew.com/rings-of-power-season…

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Gustav Mahler

I call this “The Real Meaning of Dune”. Everyone is almost always wrong about Dune, so I’m here to set the record straight.

I'm "bad at sex"? You mean my deconstruction of sex that went right over your head?

I’ve been rereading some passages from Dune Messiah after watching this trailer. What more can you ask from an adaptation, than to lead you back to your love of the source?

RT @normal_jake_: People try to turn Paul into the evil mastermind to avoid white savior stuff and I get it but you actually make him more…

RT @eduardo_garcmol: Breaking: Newly released documents reveal the US administration laid off the Delphic Oracle last year who had predicte…

A translator, a localizer, and a fansubber walk into a bar, a mcdonalds, and an izakaya (note: an izakaya is a type of Japanese tavern that typically serves snacks and small meals in addition to drinks)

Why must a movie be “good” ? Is it not enough to sit somewhere dark and see a beautiful face, huge?

No need for snark, I'm literally agreeing with this guy that vanishingly few in modernity understand that Patriarchy meant Rule by Fathers

You’re telling me the disorder characterized by moral rigidity, compulsive honesty (even when rude and inappropriate), and difficulty empathizing with others has led you to think you’re uniquely moral and superior to everyone else for your compulsive bluntness? Amazing

RT @mcmansionhell: imagine checking out the opera for the first time bc of the chalamet discourse and getting oneshotted by Tristan und Iso…

When you hear men talking about how they want kids to “continue their blood line” but Nizar Qabbani wrote “Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all the reasons I loved you”

My teacher, John Barth, gave us this on the first day of our seminar. "Having identified your muse (i.e., your angle on the world and yourself in the medium), transcend the mere mastered algebra of your craft with the innate fire of your talent so that your scribblings will ascend from the table into the heaven of finished art."

The only sympathy anyone has for mental illness, neurological deficits, etc, is to the extent they go “wow you had to try so much harder than the average person to perform in a way that’s still acceptable to me; that’s very noble of you.”

oooh my name is raymun fossoway and i’m a knight and i have a beautiful wife and a baby on the way and i got a new horse from my best friend and i get to make cider all day FUCK YOU

The intercepted correspondence of the Russian Major General Demurchiev reveals that the Russian high command is quite aware of the atrocities committed by their forces in Ukraine and are encouraging them. He sent a video of soldiers murdering three Ukrainian POWs and dismembering them with shovels. They ordered that these war criminals be given awards. He sent a photo of cut off ears to his wife and in response to her inquiry if this was like it had been in Chechnya, he confirmed and promised to make her a necklace of them. There are multiple references to torturing Ukrainian civilians and murdering them. The Russians do not have an army but a horde of savages commanded by depraved war criminals.