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alt textPoster for Dune movie showing a sandworm. Text says: Space Fascists and Sand Penises (smaller text: Also worm poop is cocaine or something, IDK)

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[–] guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a nostalgia fave, it's got things in there I like (I'll never get over that ritual where Stilgar chants out the terraforming plan for Arrakis), but damn if the best parts of it aren't almost footnotes. To me, it works really well as the Tragedy of the Ecologists Who Almost Got the Point Across.

RIP Liet Kynes, may they put you out of earshot of your dad in the afterlife.