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...In Space!

     So my dumbass has finally risen from the dead (aka my severe depression) and I'm here to go OFF about Dune. Dune has been something that fascinated me since the first time I saw the tail end of the 1984 movie adaption and those blue within blue eyes caught my attention. Of course, the title was pretty easy to remember and I soon found myself reading through the 1,000+ page book painfully fast. And so when I saw it was an option for my class, we all know that's the one I picked because I'm a sucker for the universe of Frank Herbert's stories.      For those that don't know, Dune is basically politics but in space! Which makes it way cooler than it sounds, especially when things get WILD. But to save time, it pretty much focuses the Atreides family and their move to the planet Arrakis on the orders of the emperor. Of course, Arrakis is the only planet in which spice can be found but due to the difficulties associated with harvesting it, it is the rarest commodi

That New New Weird

Ah yes, if you'll notice, I'm making another post right on the heels of the last one. This means, it's midterm season and I'm trying to cover for my horribly depressed past self by working into a stress and anxiety induced frenzy. Mixed with more depression. And considering this was in my drafts for a week, that means that my depression has once again let me down and I'm turning in things late, surprise surprise. Anyways, I thought it would be exciting to read "What the Moon Brings" by H.P. Lovecraft because I'm a fan of of the new weird and I've never really had a chance to read anything by Lovecraft. So hey, attacking two birds with one stone. The first thing I noticed was how the prose was rather difficult to wade through, although I think it was more the choice in diction than anything else. So to make a short story shorter, the main character walks through his garden in his dream with the landscape becoming more distorted until he reaches an