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what really gets me about the phrase "tell them stories" is that what humanised the harpies were childhood memories, of the days lyra and roger spent together inside an oxford college and on top of its roof. it wasn't anything grand and extraordinary (the word lyra's parents kept insisting on her) but just the happiness of being with an old friend. lyra's journey to the land of the dead was rather extraordinary, but only the simplest of stories brought her home. i think there's an important message there that while you can choose to live a life full of danger and adventure, the most mundane moments such as your friend baking you a birthday cake or a time where you stayed out in the sun until you burnt can create a life worth telling stories about... only emphasised by the serpent sharing the simple memory of falling in love
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bookishable · 3 months
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just saw the newest hunger games movie and thinking of the four (4) teens that took down snow
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love how people talk about his dark materials because it is every time without fail like
“it’s about good and evil it’s about innocence and experience it’s about the evils of the church it’s about how science and religion intersect its about if part of your soul was external it’s about how the hubris of man leads to environmental disasters it’s about living with a culture so different from anything you could have imagined. and get this. there’s a fucking armored bear”
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bookishable · 3 months
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neil gaiman singlehandedly cured my inability to devour books in 2 hours like i did when i was a child
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there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too
suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.
all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.
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bookishable · 3 months
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FLEABAG (2016—2019) cr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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bookishable · 4 months
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Just revamped this Golden Compass illustration I did about two years ago, and wanted to post since I’m kind of in a winter mood! hand drawn typography by yours truly :P
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bookishable · 6 months
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the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them
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bookishable · 6 months
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behind every mediocre film or tv show with a massive budget there is always some score composer who is like possessed or something
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lyra 🫶
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bookishable · 7 months
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“I still don't understand the play.” ASTEROID CITY (2023, Wes Anderson)
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bookishable · 7 months
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HIS DARK MATERIALS → SEASON 1
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bookishable · 7 months
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billie eilish's "what was i made for?" hits so hard in ways i can't explain. it's about girlhood and growing up. it's about leaving your childhood behind and the sadness that comes with knowing you will never be a child again. it's about the ease with which you floated through the world as a little girl before suddenly becoming aware of yourself and the space you take up around the age of 12. it's about the impossible duality of existing as a woman and and it's about losing passion for an activity you loved as a child and learning to find joy in it again. anyway
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bookishable · 7 months
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Katniss, when you’re in the arena… Remember who the real enemy is.
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE 2013 | dir. Francis Lawrence
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this paragraph from an asteroid city review has me on my knees clutching my chest
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seen a lot of these with your favorites, but reblog with the CURRENT book you are reading, show you are streaming, the last movie you watched, and any game/puzzle/crafts you’re working on 
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Did you bring your rollerblades? I literally go nowhere without them.
BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig
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