Free Palestine 🍉

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
tlirsgender
tlirsgender

Intersex Paul Atreides is like. Ok. So he was supposed to be born a girl but his mother refused to force him to develop that way in utero. He's raised as a boy because the duke needs an heir but he is born with masculine and feminine traits, the latter growing more obvious as he matures into a very androgynous social role as both conqueror and psychic space witch. He can tap into both male & female ancestral powers. He's presumably really genetically quirky from being the culmination of the space eugenicist breeding thing. & this is just the plot of dune

tlirsgender

The thing about reading Paul as intersex is that he just is. In the text. Kind of allegorical about it cause psychic space witch powers aren't real but in-universe these are sex based. He's like really heavily coded

prokopetz
prokopetz

Video games have this fascinating middle ground between "not as good as you remember" and "exactly as good as you remember" that lives roughly in the vicinity of "its ideas are as good as you remember, but their actual game-mechanical implementation sucks ass".

prokopetz

(The corollary, of course, is that all the inevitable "spiritual successors" and "inspired bys" and what have you that crop up twenty years later have a reason to exist beyond pure nostalgia bait, namely "hey, what if that thing you love, except the gameplay didn't suck" – and occasionally they even succeed!)