Posadas [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 1 year agoFinancing is the mind-killer. Financing is the little-death that brings total obliteration.imagemessage-square131 fedilinkarrow-up1167file-text
arrow-up1167imageFinancing is the mind-killer. Financing is the little-death that brings total obliteration.Posadas [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 1 year agomessage-square131 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpiderFarmer [he/him]hexbear19·1 year agoNo lie, Herbert saw the name Harkonnen in a phone book and thought it sounded Russian. He wanted a scary Russian name to suit the evil, Machiavellian, despotic homosexual villain that was Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. link
minus-squarekeepcarrot [she/her]hexbear5·1 year agoOf all the names to sound Russian, it looks Nordic to me link
minus-squareSpiderFarmer [he/him]hexbear4·1 year agoIt's actually Ural-Hungarian, if we want to be pedantic. link
No lie, Herbert saw the name Harkonnen in a phone book and thought it sounded Russian. He wanted a scary Russian name to suit the evil, Machiavellian, despotic homosexual villain that was Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
Of all the names to sound Russian, it looks Nordic to me
It's actually Ural-Hungarian, if we want to be pedantic.