It's been 5 years since I met some of the most wonderful people I've ever met. Yet, I didn't appreciate any of it at the time. When you're young, everything is easy. You think friends will just fall into your lap and love will sweep you off your feet at every turn. With age comes knowledge. This can be knowledge of certain death, which is something ( Read more... )

I recently watched a fan edit of David Lynch's version Dune by an editor named Spicediver, called Dune: The Alternative Edition Version 2. It was pretty good, a measurable improvment over the Alan Smithee 'official' extended edition. I'd recommend it to fans of the movie; it's something to hold us until Lynch warms up to the idea of doing his own ( Read more... )

( Cut for a spoiler from the original novel... although... who would be here now if they hadn't read it? )

i have lots of dragons. two of them, Duncan Idaho and Alia Atreides, gave me a water dragon egg. since they never had any children in canon... what would be a good name for their son or daughter?
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since there's a few going 'round during the hiatus, i thought i'd post mine! :D fill out the answers as much or little; or as snarky or serious as you want - and it's multi-fandom! enjoy, make new friends....and feel free to plug and promote and pimp - and spread the squee!


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I finally finished the original six book series, plus Hunters and Sandworms.

( Minor spoilers? )

Rewatching my DVD of Children of Dune and I am not sure how I didn't see this before, but the actress playing Alia is AWFUL. Every line reading she does is with his peevish tone that is supposed to be angry or troubled or messed up. But it's just peevish. Like she's kind of annoyed that someone took her favorite toy ( Read more... )

I am re-reading The Machine Crusade. I know that the admission for many of you is tantamount to saying "I am sticking sewing needles in my eyeballs", but I liked the books the first time I read them ( Read more... )

Do any of you know someone who could make a replica maker hook, or where I could find one?

I am leaning towards the former because to most people it would be pretty random.