What grass starvation does to the perma-online
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This is just a sad take. The writing is brilliantly grounded in reality for a fantastical story. It's fricken weird AF, but many of us are here for that. It's not for everyone, and that's okay if you don't like it, but calling it poorly written is infantile.
I actually really like the story of Dune, but I kind of have to agree that the writing leaves a lot to be desired. The fact that Herbert constantly switches perspectives with no indication in the middle of chapters, or sometimes even in the middle of paragraphs, drives me up the wall. I almost couldn't finish them because of that.
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Surely, you've heard of "tabloids"?
They earn money off of it. This guy probably doesn’t
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I remember when it was common knowledge that you never go ass to mouth... time are a' changing.
There was a time when oral sex was considered atypical and deviant. Same with anal sex. So it's understandable that "the norm" might change quite rapidly.
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Educate an old and out of touch person please:
Is anus licking standard practice now? Is this presumed as obvious currently?
Anus licking is what holding hands used to be
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I've noticed a lot of infantile and absurdly maximalist takes on Lemmy lately. it's kind of souring me on the project.
People post bad takes on social media - the Lemmy project is clearly failed!
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Since when does Spider-Man takes place in California?
Since he found out he can web-sling from palm tree to palm tree.
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Both parties enjoy it, in my experience.
I’m very clean and so is my partner. I’ve eaten their ass after a rave before, it ain’t no big thang
People really draw this line with sexual things like bodily fluids aren't coming out of these holes.
Anyone who wouldn't lick the sweat off their partners face is a coward.
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I'm confused. Who is supposed to enjoy it, the licker or the lickee? It just seems like a nasty experience for everyone involved, especially with the enema I would require to get near the poop hole with my tongue.
Yes. Even my asexual ass gets pleasure as the giver. Quick way to make them squirm.
If it's a woman you're like right there anyways. Guy takes a bit more effort tbh.
What are you gonna look at it and not evenbsay hello?
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It’s a relief then that Dune is one of the dumbest fucking stories of all time and casting doesn’t matter.
Ō great maker, subsume this guy right here into the sands.
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People really draw this line with sexual things like bodily fluids aren't coming out of these holes.
Anyone who wouldn't lick the sweat off their partners face is a coward.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The difference is that this hole contains a lot more E. Coli and my nose has evolved to be extremely sensitive to the smell of it because of the very real biohazard
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The difference is that this hole contains a lot more E. Coli and my nose has evolved to be extremely sensitive to the smell of it because of the very real biohazard
Nah that's gay
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It’s a relief then that Dune is one of the dumbest fucking stories of all time and casting doesn’t matter.
I'm curious what you think the greatest story ever is. I hope it's not The Bible.
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Zendaya was great in spiderman but she's the absolute worst choice for chani. Her "too cool for school" sarcastic persona doesn't fit with a primitive tribal religious fanatic at all.
Isn't Chani a non-believer in the movie, at least at first?
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Isn't Chani a non-believer in the movie, at least at first?
Even if she is, she was raised in the same culture as stilgar and the others
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Although the movies are better than the books, the actual story is spectacularly awful. Have you ever had someone try to explain it to you? It’s unhinged. And the book is so poorly written from a literary perspective. Dune is Twilight for Gen-X’ers.
Frank Herbert is such a narcissist he actually accused Star Wars of ripping him off.
Don't you mean boomers. Dune was published in 1965.
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Don't you mean boomers. Dune was published in 1965.
Yes, but the book also became really popular among the Gen X crowd, whose hunger for sci fi was fueled by things like Star Wars.
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I'm curious what you think the greatest story ever is. I hope it's not The Bible.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is supernatural nonsense written by a misogynistic homophobe who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.
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Even if she is, she was raised in the same culture as stilgar and the others
I was raised in a deeply conservative fanatically religious culture and I put out a sarcastic and "too cool for school" energy a lot of the time. What do you think counterculture is? I remember in the movie she's got a whole social circle of people who are on the same page as her.
Personally I think Zendaya plays Chani pretty well, and her character doesn't feel out of place to me.
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Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is supernatural nonsense written by a misogynistic homophobe who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.
I'd not looked into Frank before now, but I've read 2.5 of the dune books. It's weird to see he was a self described conservative and libertarian. The whole dune story seems to mock everything he stands for politically. It's like he was completely unaware of the power structures he was writing about exist across all US (and non-US) political parties.
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I'd not looked into Frank before now, but I've read 2.5 of the dune books. It's weird to see he was a self described conservative and libertarian. The whole dune story seems to mock everything he stands for politically. It's like he was completely unaware of the power structures he was writing about exist across all US (and non-US) political parties.
The story glorifies a eugenically engineered monarchy and waxes poetic about the evils of homosexuality.
