Okay but I've been thinking about this more, about how the Aes Sedai are so similar to the bene gesserit.
It is so amazing to me all the media that has taken inspiration from dune so directly
Now I have not read the books, and do not know in what ways the show diverges from the source material
But I got to say, the wheel of time season finale was a play by play of dune (of which I have read)
Like, the foretold chief of a desert people, who was not raised amongst those people, yet swiftly learns their ways, who can wield great powers and see the history of that people, and brings water to the desert
That IS Paul Muad'dib Atreides
Omen
Armand and Daniel for XY magazine
Angel
"Nephilim" by Emile Corsi, 1889 🪽
macrodata department: man it's so hard being a teenager
gemma the whole time:
Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 1 July 1918, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol.I: 1915-1919
Thinking about IWTV, as I often do, and I think for me Lestat is Claudia's mother, in a sense. There is a real toxic mother/daughter vibe to their relationship - both of them being jealous of each other over Louis' affection, how Louis begs Lestat to make Claudia a vampire - kind of analogous to a man pressuring his wife into having a child when she's the one who's got to actually go through the pregnancy. The fact they piss each other off in part because they're so similar - they dislike their own reflection in each other. But Lestat does love her, so deeply, but by the time he can actually get past all of that petty bullshit, it's too little, too late.