Quartz sync: Jul 8, 2026, 11:19 PM

.obsidian/appearance.json

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.obsidian/community-plugins.json

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   "dataview",
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+  "obsidian-style-settings"
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.obsidian/core-plugins.json

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   "slides": false,
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   "sync": false,

.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-style-settings/data.json

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.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-style-settings/manifest.json

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.obsidian/plugins/quartz-syncer/data.json

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.obsidian/themes/Retroma/manifest.json

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content/hopefully helpful/Dragon Con map.md

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+---
+title: Atlanta Hotel Area / Dragon Con Map
+tags:
+  - map
+  - Atlanta
+  - dragon-con
+publish: true
+description: compiled by the generous users of r/dragoncon (particularly u/ghost_nugget2); hopefully a good reference for those in need of directions
+---
+![[dragon con map.png]]
+
+### Good to know:
+- MARTA runs from the airport to the hotel district, coming up through Peachtree Center Mall.
+- the CVS in Peachtree Center Mall will likely be open later during Dragon Con due to the increased foot traffic
+- "Coke Fish Rights Park" is:
+	- World of Coca-Cola (like $15/person, worth it if you haven't been)
+	- Georgia Aquarium (can be pricey but there are also events held there during con)
+	- Civil Rights Museum (also like $10~15/person, also worth it if you haven't been)
+	- Centennial Olympic Park (just behind all this, dedicated to that time the Olympics were here)
+- Joystick Gamebar in the Peachtree Center Mall will be open late during Dragon Con
+- Metro Diner will usually also be open very late, if not 24-hours
+- the skybridge extending from Peachtree Center running parallel to John Portman has a set of stairs about midway through that you can walk down to get inside the street-level parking lot between Peachtree Center and the Courtland St Parking Deck.
+- the Registration line runs down the hill along Andrew Young then turns the corner and walks up Piedmont before entering the hotel at the back. there are usually food trucks in the Courtland Grand's parking lot with some decent options.
+	- the carpool / valet area just in front of the Courtland is where people like to park their project cars (like an Ecto One or Batmobile) - especially if they have one that's going to be in the parade
+- if you make friends with a Hyatt Atrium Tower guest with a balcony overlooking Peachtree Street, you've pretty much got the best seats in the house for the parade (but it is also broadcast on DCTV and CW during)
+- DCTV is your friend if you're staying in one of the host hotels and can't/won't make it to a panel in time.
+- there is an *outdoor entrance to Trader Vic's* on the John Portman side. useful if you don't feel like waiting on an elevator or can't grab one of the 4 that actually go all the way down there.
+- **beware the liquor stores**. they know we're coming, and they jack up their prices during a convention because they know most of us are kind of a captive audience. but there's a Publix down the street a ways if you don't care about the harder stuff. just have your ID and don't try to get it before noon on Sunday.
+
+The **secret food court** is in the Marquis tower you *don't* end up walking through on your way to the regular food court. You access it by taking the skybridge path from the Marriott toward the Hyatt, but turn right and walk through the Marquis building and across another skybridge to get there. these places don't tend to stay open too long and might not be open on the weekends, but if it's busy and you need lunch, it's an option.
+
+> [!caution] Remember
+> You can no longer use the AmericasMart skybridges during the convention, at least since I last checked. 
+

content/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ description: a digital garden, but it might be full of weeds
 created: 2026-07-07T22:59:17.843-04:00
 modified: 2026-07-07T23:02:06.833-04:00
 ---
+> [!tip]- oh look
+> the [[Dragon Con map]]
 
 > [!quote]
 > In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
@@ -15,3 +17,4 @@ there exists, somewhere on this planet of ours, a group of individuals i'd call
 all i know is that i'd like to meet them some day. i hope i do. i know i've already met some.
 
 [[tv]]
+

content/movies/Dune.md

@@ -1,16 +1,38 @@
 ---
 description: bless the Maker and His water, bless His comings and goings; may His passing cleanse the world
-publish:
+publish: true
+tags:
+  - movies
+  - criticism
+  - analysis
+  - thoughts
 ---
 *sietchposting with the Fedaykin*
 
 i've got a lot of thoughts on *Dune*, but i'm not entirely sure how many of them are exactly...*original*. 
 
+anyway, here we go
+
 # the three Dunes
 there are three *Dune*s.
 
-the first, *Dune* (1984). David Lynch directed and gave quite a bit of art direction. Kyle MacLaughlan, Patrick Stewart, hell, even Jürgen Prochnow. poor Virginia was robbed. "stylistic" is a light way of putting it. extremely chopped up. watch the **Spicediver** edit with the deleted stuff cut back in if you can.
+## Dune (1984) - David Lynch
+the first, *Dune* (1984). David Lynch directed and gave quite a bit of art direction. Kyle MacLaughlan, Patrick Stewart, hell, even Jürgen Prochnow. poor Virginia was robbed, but at least she gives a great intro in the theatrical cut. "stylistic" is a light way of putting it. extremely chopped up for the theatrical cut because the studio complained it was too long. watch the **Spicediver** edit with the deleted stuff cut back in if you can - especially if you can find the one with the storyboard television intro. 
 
-the second, *Frank Herbert's Dune* and *Children of Dune*, both Sci-Fi Channel productions. mini-series, both. "stupid hats Dune" as I refer to it. this Baron Harkonnen always ends his scenes in a rhyming couplet like he's in a Shakespearean drama.
+biggest departure from the text in the Lynch version is the "weirding modules" they created to depict the "weirding way" the Bene Gesserit practice in the book. i'd always thought it was more about the whole *prana bindu* training regimen that allows them to have minute control of every individual muscle in their bodies. sort of like Neo's thing. ("I can do kung fu...") but this seems to have been a combination of the "secret Atreides battle tactics" and the weirding way; or someone at least thought it would look better in the movie.
 
-the third, Denis Villeneuve's *Dune*, *Dune: Part Two*, and upcoming *Dune *
+## Frank Herbert's Dune & Children of Dune
+the second, *Frank Herbert's Dune* and *Children of Dune*, both Sci-Fi Channel productions. mini-series, both. "stupid hats Dune" as I refer to it. this Baron Harkonnen always ends his scenes in a rhyming couplet like he's in a Shakespearean drama but *doesn't* fly about like a parade balloon with a leak. this Jessica is a bit more confident and headstrong than Lynch's. because it's a miniseries, we get a lot more time to dig into the story and let things really play out. this is where we get our first depictions of the Count and Lady Fenring (of whom the Lady Fenring is a Bene Gesserit) and the "backup plan" to use Harkonnen's nephew (and heir) Feyd-Rautha to sire the *kwisatz haderach*.
+
+we also get our first adaptation of *Dune: Messiah* and *Children of Dune*. these books give us the immediate fallout of Paul's coup, the plan set in motion by Lady Corrino, Irulan, the Tleilaxu face-dancer, and the Guild Navigator... and then the attempted interference with the ultimately successful births of Leto II and Ghanima Atreides, fraternal twins both born to Chani. She dies in childbirth, leaving Paul, Irulan, and Jessica to raise the children.
+
+we also get early James McAvoy playing Leto II, who eventually turns into a giant sandworm after following a vision of his father out into the deep desert. (but that's more *God Emperor* territory)
+
+the production values are...mixed, but the story is there, and is damn accurate to the text. if you watch after you've seen Lynch's version, you'll be able to pick out which lines are taken verbatim from the novel almost immediately. both Sci-Fi miniseries here would be the ones i'd show a literature class if *Dune* came up as a subject of study.
+
+## Villeneuve's Dune Trilogy
+the third, Denis Villeneuve's *Dune*, *Dune: Part Two*, and upcoming *Dune: Part Three* (so inspired). much-hyped and much-memed. ("...LISAN AL-GAIB!!") Chalumet plays Paul closer to how i expect him to act for his age in the books. (he's supposed to be like 15 when they leave Caladan)
+
+Villeneuve was honestly smart to cut the first movie in half so he could add more content, but the scenes he chooses to focus on are markedly different from the first two adaptations. both Lynch's and Sci-Fi's adaptations spend at least *some* time in the early story going over Shaddam IV's very obvious plan to send the Atreides to Arrakis with the intent of getting rid of them. Villeneuve chooses not to show the Emperor *at all* until the second film. we make a lot more out of the ceremony handing title and fief over to Leto than either of the other adaptations - and we name drop Kynes as Judge of the Change but don't explain what that means. Kynes also shuffles off this mortal coil more or less as depicted in the novel, which i definitely give props for. it seems at least somewhat *implied* that Chani is Liet's daughter, and that Liet was extremely high up in Fremen society, but not much is made of this, at least in the first two installments.
+
+Villeneuve does manage to get a lot more out of Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck than other adaptations, but i think that was tied pretty heavily to both actors' star power. we don't get as much time with Dr. Yueh to establish that he's supposedly incapable of rendering his noble lords harm...so it's more of a betrayal and more shocking when he turns out to be the saboteur later on. we also get maybe one or two scenes with our Mentat, which is honestly a damn shame, both given the missed opportunity *and* the lost dramatic tension between him and Jessica. (he initially suspects her to be the Harkonnen spy, without knowing she is herself Harkonnen in ancestry)

content/thoughts/on ai.md

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+---
+publish: true
+tags:
+  - AI
+  - art
+  - tech
+---
+yesterday, my beautiful husband sent me a [video he saw online](https://fixupx.com/lepapillonblu2/status/2074621269534707943?s=46) that he swore "won the internet" for the day. it showed a single Patriot Front member running away from a group of protesters wearing full fursuits. the newscaster in the voiceover seemed to be rather excited about the whole thing, sounding a lot more like a race announcer than a newsreader. and for some reason, this was taking place on the streets of Washington, D.C., while throngs of people stood on the sidewalks just watching and recording with their phones. at first glance, a hilarious and somewhat cathartic video.
+
+but it's a lie.
+
+look closer at the lower-third graphics and you'll notice  the text begins to garble and distort. the smaller newsticker underneath is all gibberish and unrecognizable glyphs. then let the rest sink in: the improbability of the situation, the fluid movements of the runners, the helicopter shot the news team is giving us ... it all seems artificial when you really sit down and dissect it.
+
+don't get me wrong, this world has morphed and changed in ways i could never have predicted. no one figured that a group of politicians would confuse *The Handmaid's Tale* and *Idiocracy* with instruction manuals.
+
+i guess it does say *something* that someone earnestly wished for that to happen badly enough they felt compelled to make an AI model create a fake video of it. would've been so much nicer and more cathartic if it were true.

quartz.config.yaml

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