ok prefacing by saying I *don't* plan on writing this as of now but I have to say something. this is chewing my brain and I have to get it out of me.

It sounds insane but hear me out: uhhh Paul/Chani Hunger Games au??

Hear me out!!! So Paul is from District 4 (fishing/water related stuff etc. it FITS), he's the mayor's son and therefore not likely to be picked as a tribute but by sheer bad luck he is. Despite not being pro-games and very much not wanting him to be selected, his parents have provided him with combat training in the event that he is, because he is technically a "career tribute" and that's what you do.

Chani comes from District 6 (transportation - reference obviously to the worm riding from canon, spice used in transportation even if those aren't involved in this universe) and is secretly part of a resistance that's growing there. Maybe she volunteers bc she's got some plan to dismantle the games from within? idk

Of course, the arena is a desert. There's gotta be some kind of Capitol mutt-sandworm, probably not *as* fuckoff huge as they are in canon but Big Enough. Cursed sand that makes you hallucinate? Definitely could be another fucked up thing thrown into the arena.

Maybe Feyd is another career tribute who expects Paul to join up with him but he never does so he's got it out for him the whole time? Either way he's the final boss.

There has to be an "actually two can win" thing (as a rule change from the beginning maybe, not a surprise like in the original thg) because we're not killing either of them nope we are not. But since they're from different districts they'd part ways -- only Chani has told him in secret about the revolution that's underway so the implication is that he'll maybe find a way to join her in her efforts somehow. Or maybe he won't, it's ambiguous.

I don't know if this is cursed or brilliant

OP OP THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!! (I ALSO HAVE A HUNGER GAMES AU PLANNED FOR THEM SO I AM EXCITED TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE TAKE ON THAT!!! (MINE IS QUITE DIFFERENT 😅)

if you write this fic, consider me interested.

Two phone sketches

@brucelinas OH MY GOSH YOU'RE THAT ARTIST FROM TWITTER THAT MADE THAT BEAUTIFUL PAULCHANI SKETCH INSPIRED BY A PAINTING???!! I LOVE YOU!!! (I'm the user who asked abt why this choice of painting lol) anyway I love your art!!! . And welcome to the PaulChani side of tumblr lmao, very dry apart from shit post/meme post and the few unhinged shipper as myself🥰!!! (also I see you're a mara jade lover 🤭🥰ty for your service!)

Lead them to paradise

Dune🏜🌠

“‘My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.’”

My Thoughts on Dune 2

Spoilers Below

I finally watched Dune 1 and 2, and I have some thoughts that are probably controversial. But in the movie, I watched, Paul didn't have a choice. If he hadn't become the messiah, the Baron and Feyd would have wiped out the Fremen. The Baron literally said in the first movie to kill them all, and I think we all know Feyd would've killed them all! Not to mention, Jessica has literally been manipulating and grooming Paul his entire life. She planted the idea that he needed to drink the water of life, and she orchestrated all of that. Paul makes it clear he doesn't want to go south because he knows if he goes south, he will not be able to escape the path laid out for him. Chani's the one who convinces him to go, and I don't think it's fair of her to blame him when he clearly didn't have a choice. He drank the water of life because he was trying to see how to save her and her planet. He's seen glimpses of a terrible future, and he's trying to prevent it. The thing is we have no idea what Paul saw when he drank the water of life. He says he saw so many possible futures where they failed, but there's one way for them to succeed. After he drinks the water of life, after he sees these possible futures, his personality changes drastically. He fully accepts the role of the messiah, and he even sacrifices his own happiness. But why? I think it's because he's seen something about Chani. I don't know what, and I'm not sure if we'll ever get to know. But whatever it is, it's enough for him to do whatever it takes to protect her, even if he loses her in the process.

at one point in the movie (just before the sietch is bombed), Paul dreams and have a vision of Chani with her face quite literally burned, (one of the future in which he stays and doesnt go in the south i think), i think its that vision that decided him to fully accepts and chooses to go drink the water of life????, to be able to see which lifetime of horrors and monstruosity he has to take, just for a few more happy moments with his love (and to 'save' the others)...thats both selfish and tragic...