I’m reading Dune for the first time and I cannot BELIVE the level of queercoding going on in this first scene with Harkonnen, Piter and Feyd-Raytha.
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Who let straight men start writing. Who gave them permission.pic.twitter.com/4KXBt0OBy3
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the phrase “her body tortured by the winds of puberty” is HIGHLY cursed and should be stricken from the record, please and thank you
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so like, does the Bebe Gesserit schtick get less... eugenics-y at any point,,
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what is it about straight male science fiction writers and their weird obsession with magic space twinks
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“behold, I have created a Straight Action Hero!” bitch that’s a whiny gay in a tunic
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WHYST THE FUCK IS THERE AN ACTUAL DUNE CHARACTER CALLED DUNCAN IDAHO
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Paul was just described as being “wide open for an underhanded counter with a slip-tip” and I’m fairly sure that’s the title of at least three videos on cockyboys
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I never want to hear another dude complaining about Mary Sue heroines in SFF/YA when literally the first five chapters of Dune are just other people explaining to Paul (and us) how awesome and special he is while Paul essentially stands there being sassy and asking questions.
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“Not since the day when the Duke’s buyers had taken her from the school had she felt this frightened and unsure of herself” okay, WHAT? Leto *bought* Jessica? And from school, so presumably when she was still a teen? w h a t
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“It’s a crysknife” WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY TO ME I AM *WHEEZING*pic.twitter.com/y1pkkgwNqA
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Paul was just described as having “lime-toned eyes” and all I can picture is this kid with actual lime wedges instead of eyes
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I’ll say this for Dune: once it gets past all the initial infodumping, weirdness and As You Know, Bob-ing, it’s very readable. But I’m still waiting for the next bit of unexpected WTFery to whap ms across the temples.
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OK. Jessica has been with Leto for 16 years, and was taken to him from school, so assuming she was 15-19 when that happened, she’s now somewhere between 31 and 35.
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WAIT I just remembered (and checked) that the Reverend Mother said Jessica had been her “serving wench” for fourteen years at school. So does that mean Jessica was 14 when Leto bought her, or that she came to the BG school as a kid and THEN spent 14 years there??
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Not gonna lie, a part of me thinks the book could’ve easily started at this chapterpic.twitter.com/HPcLoARCAe
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Like. There’s a few good bits from the earlier chapters that you could chop back in as flashbacks or in a different order, but were I an editor, “His first encounter with the people he was meant to betray left Dr Kynes shaken” would make for a vastly stronger opening.
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This chapter gives us multiple POV, neatly shows Paul as a child of prophecy in an intriguing way without belabouring it, and introduces major significant details in a natural way, all while progressing the plot. This should’ve been first! We didn’t need to see Caladan!
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OK, that’s it for today, but I’ll come back to this thread when I next pick up reading!
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I'm armed with hard seltzer, so you know what that means: IT'S DUNE TIME, BITCHES!
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Cackling at this accidental self-own about Herbert’s female characterspic.twitter.com/i9TayikRBq
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Duke Leto: gotta convince my concubine I suspect her of treason even though I totally don’t and there’s no good reason she couldn’t be in on the pretence! Also Duke Leto: she’d be prettier if she smiledpic.twitter.com/bI40SaNIrY
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I cannot get over the fact that pretty much everyone in this book has more traditionally SFF name - which is to say, a made up name, or at least an unusual one, as per Idaho and Wellington - except for the two protagonists, who are Paul and Jessica. IT'S SO JARRING.
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Paul: I was handling it correctly. Why do they interfere?" Me brain:pic.twitter.com/V09JODKuiL
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