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#graphic design is my passion

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You said it was a ghost story. It isn't. It's a love story. Same thing, really.

#from my other blog #the way all my fave media surrounds this quote

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Out of the dark the little boy came, hopeful and frightened, whispering over and over: "Lyra—Lyra—Lyra..." Why did the little boy keep calling Lyra's name? Hope.

— THE AMBER SPYGLASS

#op u are doing the lords work #the amber spyglass #quotes

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#art

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Thinking about that one Sunday a few years ago when my parents and I were watching His Dark Materials on TV, and my sister came in thinking David Attenborough was still on, and was very alarmed when the polar bear started talking

#yelling haha

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thinking about how lord asriel believed it was his life's purpose to change the world and defeat the authority and his arrogance caused fractures in the fabric of the multiverse, but lyra belaqua saved possibly billions of souls stuck in the purgatory, returning their essence to the multiverse in the form of dust, offsetting the authority's response to asriel's provocation, not because she wanted to be a hero but because she wanted to help out her friend

#lyra belacqua

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let me see

#art #just some guys

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Media that makes you wander around your bedroom contemplating life and kindness and the power of stories.

#the amber spyglass

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moodboard: @asteriim + the his dark materials universe

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#aesthetics

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golden compass / subtle knife / amber spyglass

#I LOVE THESE #art #you really captured their distinct looks

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never not thinking about iorek byrnison eating lee scoresby's dead body, so as not to let it rot but instead allow it to sustain an old friend on his journey. and how this act fulfilled lee's dying wish to help lyra by giving iorek the strength to go on and find her. thinking about consumption as a form of love, loving someone in their entirety and wanting to eat them whole but also love and grief being something you carry inside of you that guides you forward

#this. #it's such an interesting take on war/honour as both iofur and lee died in battle #the essays i could write on panserbjorn lore #reblog #iorek byrnison #meta

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never not thinking about iorek byrnison eating lee scoresby's dead body, so as not to let it rot but instead allow it to sustain an old friend on his journey. and how this act fulfilled lee's dying wish to help lyra by giving iorek the strength to go on and find her. thinking about consumption as a form of love, loving someone in their entirety and wanting to eat them whole but also love and grief being something you carry inside of you that guides you forward

#girls when cannibalism is used as a metaphor for love #when i read this at 15 i thought pullman was a right weirdo but now im grown up and i Get It #genius writing #his dark materials #hdm #the amber spyglass #iorek byrnison #lee scoresby #hdm spoilers #hdm book spoilers #meta #alice’s rambles

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So one thing I've been thinking a lot recently, regarding His Dark Materials, is the way Lyra and Will's last kiss, the one with the doorway between worlds, parallels Marisa and Asriel's one in Northern Lights, in the sense that they are the complete opposite of one another.

Aside from the fact that they both happen in front of a portal, and that it is heartbreaking because neither of them would pass together thought it, think of this :

The odds have always been against Marisa and Asriel's relationship. First because she was married, and then the whole scandal and the shame that came after, and the hate and all that. There was not one time when the odds were on their side. Meanwhile, Will and Lyra's romance was written in the stars. They were tied together by fate, and so there was never any chance that they wouldn't be together.

And then comes the point where they are both standing in front of those gates, together, and suddenly there is nothing that's keeping Marisa and Asriel from being together. They have managed to get there on their own - now, they have the chance to continue together. Will and Lyra, on the other hand, are standing there for the sole purpose of the fact that they can't, after all, be together, even thought it was written in the stars and it was their destiny.

Marisa refused to go with Asriel because she doesn't dare to, or because she wants to find Lyra, according to either the book or the TV show. Asriel doesn't protest to that because he has a war to wage. They let each other go and missed the only chance they had at a fresh start because they loved other things more, because they would not put each other first.

However, Will and Lyra didn't want to join one another because their lives would be shorter, and their death would pain the one who survived, were they to live in the same world. They accepted that they couldn't be together, and let each other go, because there was no one else they loved more.

#IM UNWELL #meta #lyra and will

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never go on goodreads. i just read the reviews for the amber spyglass and there’s people multiple people giving it one star because ms coulter used to be such an “fun evil villain” and now it’s “unrealistic and boring” that she… loves her daughter. i just can’t comprehend seeing her love for lyra as out of place at all. it is so important. peoples who do bad things can feel and in fact be very motivated by love.

#marisa coulter #!!!

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watching His Dark Materials is like. god is an absentee parent who has done nothing to earn your love or respect, and we cannot make a better world if we do not start with love for what is in front of us over love of the abstract. anyway are you ready for the cutest red panda you have ever seen.

#textposts

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tbh still angry at the complete miscasting of Lin Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby. He was far too poor an actor for the role.

There. I've said it. A weight off my mind.

#i love lin so much but this is so real #hdm cast

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Sometimes the stories with the most awful and dark undertones are the ones that make me believe love and friendship are real in this world

#the amber spyglass