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    206 months ago

    Frank Herbert telling us all to not buy combustion engines and to have an affair with the Earth in the fucken 70s has entered the chat.

    But he was apparently also a massive homophobe so.

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      126 months ago

      There are definitely some yikes moments in God Emperor if I recall. And after that book, it seems like sex was the only thing on his mind.

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        6 months ago

        The conversation was yikes but Herbert wasn’t being intolerant.

        Duncan was being a little bitch but Leto put him back in his place, it’s just that he did that with an incredibly wild take for why homosexuality is natural. However for an old straight man of the time period I think Herbert gets a pass.

        There’s also the whole thing with the Baron Harkonnen being a literal pederast but that was like peak Haye’s Code era so I can get over it personally.