maplemood



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  1. Summary

    To the Fremen she is the False Wife, a minor deity beside her offspring and other relations. She is two-faced, a prowler of city streets and Pyon wastes, ever-veiled. Her true nature is hidden beyond human sight. Irulan is both the virginal bride and the duplicitous whore; she represents indulgence of the flesh and the pull towards water-fatness, laxness in the face of the old desert ways. She is foolish longing and loyalty bestowed too late. It is she, rather than her husband, stepson, or daughter, who has come to represent the ultimate Imperial invasion of Dune.

    Another path, another possibility.

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    Yeah, yeah, it says "Petra" on her birth certificate. That doesn't make it her name.

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    Lisa Castle survived the massacre at Central Park; Laura Kinney is still running from Transigen. Together they fight crime.

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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    Careful what you wish for. Careful who you are becoming.

    [The search for Holly leads back to the beginning.]

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    14 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    Everything’s wrong, but you live in Mike’s basement now.

    You live in Mike’s basement, but it isn’t enough.

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    14 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    “You do realize that like, we don’t need to solve every problem of the world this week.” Robin speaks around a pencap that she has pinched between her teeth.

    “Was I trying to?” Nancy says. She has the capless pen in her hand, and ink on her hands too, from marking every xerox-printed map of Hawkins she can get her hands on. The model needs to be perfect. That’s not Nancy being a Type-A neat-freak, that’s Nancy being practical.

    (She has a feeling that’s not what Robin’s talking about.)

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    14 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    Holly knows what it is to be not here. It’s not the same as dying. It’s something kids dream about, something that monsters know.

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    08 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    You are different. You are going to be different.

    [Nancy, at the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end.]

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    07 Dec 2025