#hdm season 1

[banalhorrors]

Rewatching the his dark materials show so I can see the third season and, Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel are fucked up parents in such similar and opposite ways. The way Asriel is introduced dismissing Lyra and never prioritizing her even while being a benign protector, and then Mrs. Coulter lavishes her with attention even while attacking her home and family. Mrs. Coulter starts to get so attached to this idea of her motherhood to the daughter she initially left entirely, while Asriel continually rejects the idea of his fatherhood to the baby he (distantly) provided for. They both pull exactly the same stunt of refusing to sever Lyra from her daemon while continuing to do child murder to other people, even to her friends. They save her from their wrongs, because that’s their daughter! They wouldn’t hurt her, they love her. But they don’t change for her, because they would never put her above their ambitions.

#his dark materials #hdm season 1 #mrs coulter #lord asriel #asriel #this is all season one stuff they do kind of change #man I used to love hdm. I don’t want to reread it because it’s not very fast paced I don’t think I’d get very far right now #you know what I could reread? that wtnv hdm fic. #that was a sight to behold man

[fanaticforlife]

his dark materials | breath of life

We get to see this chaotic family back on screen tomorrow!!! Love this edit @oceanssapart <3

#his dark materials #hdm #breath of life #lyra sylvertongue #lyra belacqua #will parry #lors asriel #marisa coulter #hdm season 3 #the golden compass #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #asriel belacqua #hdm season 1 #hdm season 2 #tsk #tgc #tas #asriel x lyra #mrs coulter #masriel #marisa x asriel #asriel x marisa

[casualavocados]

We gotta make sure they don't win. We gotta go, Roger. All right? Me and Pan...are going to go into the skies and we're going to search for Dust.

Dafne Keen as LYRA BELAQUA/LYRA SILVERTONGUE in HIS DARK MATERIALS, Season 1: eps 5-8

#hdmedit #his dark materials #hdm #hisdarkmaterialsedit #lyra belacqua #lyra silvertongue #dafne keen #pantalaimon #hdmsource #userzhr #userplatinum #userjjessi #usernik #*cajedit #*gif #MY DAUGHTER!!!!!!!! #yes i only call her lyra Belacqua in her season/book 1 days and Silvertongue after iorek names her so #iiii loooove herrrrr #there is so much cyan in this gifset #and you would not believe how much i took OUT. i made it work! #i love giffing this show my god

[tragicotps]

Masriel + laughing with their daughter 💙 

#masriel #asriel belacqua #marisa coulter #lyra belacqua #asriel x marisa #asriel x lyra #lyra x marisa #i just needed an excuse to gif these moments #belacqua family being cute #i also love the lighting in season 1 #they just went downhill in the next seasons #those two middle gifs actually look like a cute masriel AU #someone write me a fic with it pretty pls #his dark materials #hdm #mine

[three-atoms]

"Roger Parslow, I am very pleased you came."

Asriel: "Do you know who your mother is?" // Lyra: "Your choice in women is almost as bad as your choice in bears."

Asriel: “What is the most important question we can ask?” // Lyra: “Where Dust comes from.” // Asriel: "There you are.”

Roger: “Lord Asriel, please!” // “I’m sorry this is happening to you, but in war there are casualties. And believe me when I tell you that this is a war, one that will free humanity forever!”

“I am pleased that you came, Marisa, to see what I have done.”

“The Magisterium have no power anymore, not once the world sees the possibility of all this. It is the end of the Magisterium. After hundreds of years. No more oppression. No more abuse. No more darkness or suppression of knowledge.”

Asriel smiling in HDM Season 1 (2/2)

#his dark materials #hdm #hdmedit #asriel belacqua #lord asriel #asriel x lyra #masriel #james mcavoy #*mine #🧭 🧭 🧭 #reasons asriel smiles: #his plans are coming together #he's amused by lyra #he's pleased with lyra #he sees marisa #you can't see it well but: #he smiles broadly when he turns around and sees marisa #even though she had him imprisoned and left for dead #my guy this is not a healthy relationship lol

[clarabosswald]

anyway fuck bbc for deciding to release all of hdm s3 on iplayer at once... almost 2 weeks after it starts airing on hbo and in literally the rest of the world... and THEN it's also when they'll start airing it weekly on bbc 1... i get that it's the last season and the show didn't preform nearly as well as you hoped it to but it still deserves better than this. you've literally taken the netflix model and made it worse

#his dark materials #i cannot for the life of me comprehend what they were even thinking with this

[emmaswanned]

tagged by @cleoselene!

last song you listened to: brass band by jukebox the ghost

last movie you watched: i am watching kiss kiss bang bang right now! merry christmas.

currently watching: well as i said - kiss kiss bang bang

other things you’ve watched this year: eryn @swiftzeldas is dragging me headfirst into the x-files with her. i'm also 3 1/2 seasons into gilmore girls. also watched silo, band of brothers, rewatched all the saw movies of course,

currently reading: the secret commonwealth by phillip pullman and i am loving it so much i can't believe it - i almost didn't even pick it up bc i've heard nothing but negative responses to it?? i don't get why people hate it so much i really don't it's so good. but idk there's almost nothing phillip pullman could do that would make me stop reading anything in the HDM universe i just love everything about it.

currently listening to: the movie i am watching

current obsession: i am more obsessed with the x-files than i've been with any show in a long time, since eryn got me to start watching it idk a couple months ago. i am not quite done with season 4 and it has consistently surprised and impressed me and it's so much more than i expected it to be, somehow. idk how i never watched it before but i'm so glad i'm watching it now because it's the perfect blend of monster of the week and mystery box show and i am obsessed. if you see me on twitter complaining A Lot about how modern tv is not doing what tv should be doing this is fully why and the x-files is the type of show that made me fall in love with tv as a storytelling medium in the FIRST PLACE

currently working on: i am very intimated by the x-files fandom because it is 30 years old and birthed modern fandom so naturally i am working on an au casefic that mashes up txf and his dark materials (another fandom people famously have no opinions on /s) but on the bright side prior to this i'd been working on a psych fanfic for literally 2 years that i couldn't manage to get out of my head and onto paper so it's nice to be actually working on something else

no-pressure tag! @ageless-aislynn @dead-ghost-walking @christinedieae @thelikeness

#text post #tagged in meme

[moondal514]

A fic rec list of some of my fave Good Omens fics. Dedicated to a certain friend of mine who has developed Ineffable Husbands brainrot

Be As You've Always Been by gyzym

For six thousand years, Aziraphale did his best to exist within the strictures of Heavenly conduct. It wasn’t a perfect practice; his relationship with Crowley, just for example, was never exactly what one might call “officially sanctioned,” or even, “particularly wise,” but the important thing was that Aziraphale tried. He wasn’t a very good angel, but he did his best, more or less. Wasn’t that all anyone could really ask of him?

It doesn’t really feel fair, is the point, that in reward for saving the world, Aziraphale seems to be having something of an existential crisis.

Absolutely fantastic hypothetical post-season 1 fic that I love for its slow burn

Archangel of Healing by Nnm/ @mouseonamoose

Aziraphale susses out Crowley's pre-Fall identity, as the Archangel Raphael. With this, he must rethink everything he thought he knew about the last six thousand years, about his own identity and his friend's, and even the Ineffable Plan. There is a fight, expressions of fear and hurt, reconciliation, yearning and confusion, and the sorts of questions that by all rights should cause an angel to Fall.

Also, at one point, Crowley admits he once lied about breeding rats for demonic ends.

My personal favorite of the fics with the Raphael!Crowley headcanon

Thy Kingdom Come by ShanaStoryteller/ @shanastoryteller

Crowley is just following orders.

Super interesting concept and a fantastically written fic that left a huge impression in my brain

pull towards heaven by JRaylin441

Gabriel says that it feels like an empty house.

Crowley always thought of it more like losing a tooth.

Really lovely portrayal of the Lucifer!Crowley headcanon in the context of season 2

such high zest by TobermorianSass/ @tobermoriansass

In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth and saw it was perfect. Then sin entered the world and shook the very universe to its foundations.

Perfectly imagined HDM daemon au

the wine-dark sea by drawlight/ @ripeteeth

Even love stories must have a final chapter.

Gut-wrenching and heartbreaking and some of the most gorgeous prose I’ve ever seen in my life

#good omens #fic rec list #fic rec

[kirjavas]

hdm season 1 rights

#rewatching from the beginning and i honestly have no shame in declaring that this was maybe the best season #yeah the pacing is wack but the characterisation and writing is so much stronger than the rest of the show #watching it first in 2019 just hit different #his dark materials #hdm #bbc his dark materials #s1 #alice’s rambles

[caddy-crystal-queen]

Moon Knight and Daemons

So I'm losing sleep over something and I wanna hear honest opinions.

Been back on a moon knight kick as well as a His Dark Materials kick. That being said, I've started to wonder: what daemon(s) would the Moon Knight system have? Now I have no idea how someone with DID would work in the world of HDM, so I'm kinda going on a limb here and assume that a system's daemon would also have alters and alternate forms. I don't actually know if that's how it works, so please please please PLEASE do not take my word for it. I'm literally just doing this for fun.

So...what daemon would each alter have? Well, I'm glad you asked. Let's get into it

1. Steven Grant

Daemon: the Kestrel

This bird is small. Like really small. I believe it's actually the smallest of the raptors, but I could be wrong so don't quote me on that. Either way, the bird is small and folks tend to underestimate it, the same way Steven is rather underestimated by his peers as well as the system at first. The kestrel, despite its size, is still a bird of prey and important to the environment, just as Steven is still important to the moon knight system.

2. Marc Spector

Daemon: the Timber Wolf

Yeah I knew this one right off the bat. Marc's daemon is a wolf and no one can convince me otherwise. Here's why: wolves can function fine on their own, but they work best when in a pack (something we'll also see with Jake's, but we'll cross that bridge in a minute), which I feel is something Marc learns throughout the Moon Knight series. Wolves are also highly misunderstood animals, being depicted throughout history and lore as monsters and villains. Who else have been depicted in a similar way? People with DID unfortunately. These people aren't monsters, they're human beings who deserve to be loved and understood. And again, like the kestrel, wolves are important to the environment (they're actually a keystone species if I recall correctly), and Marc is, arguably, the most important personality in the moon knight system (a keystone, if you will).

3. Jake Lockley

Daemon: the Meerkat

Before you get your torches and pitchforks out, let me explain, as I had a REALLY hard time figuring this one out. Primarily because we haven't seen much of Jake at all in the series, and I personally have not read the comics. Please take it easy on me yall. So I chose the meerkat for one pretty big reason: they are the most murderous mammals on the planet aside from us, and Jake is the most bloody of the Moon Knight system (as far as we know). However this does not mean that he's not important to the system, or can't work well in a group. Like the wolf, a lone meerkat can, and often does, function well on its own but it eventually does need a mob. If you've seen Meerkat Manor, you're probably very familiar with meerkat society and how it functions, and just how brutal it can be. I feel that Jake, if we're ever gonna get a second season of Moon knight, is probably gonna go through a similar arc as Marc, where he learns to get along with the other two in the system rather than pushing them away like he seems to. Honestly I'm all for it, so bring it on Marvel (well, after the strike of course). And seriously, I just love the idea of seeing someone like Jake with something small and kind of adorable. I'm a sucker for that trope, and plus I think he'd find a meerkat to be pretty damn useful.

And those are the Daemons for the moon knight system. This was actually pretty fun to write but I think I'm gonna try and get some sleep now! Leave honest thoughts in the comments or reblog if you feel so inclined! Have fun ^.^

#moon knight #his dark materials #marvel #literature #the golden compass #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #crossover #marc spector #steven grant #jake lockley #daemon #daemons #kestrel #wolf #meerkat

[pia-writes-things]

Okay, so, I've been watching Luther for the past couple of weeks, I finished it yesterday and I'm absolutely going insane over it. And since the only person IRL around me that has seen it can't remember the last season, I have no one to scream about it with so I'm gonna annoy all of you instead.

Of course, major spoilers ahead so if you haven't watched it yet and plan on watching it, don't click on read more ^^

First of all, the opening credit is completely and only about Alice and Luther, right ? "Love is like a sin, my love/ For the one who feels it the most" -> this is textbook Alice and Luther, this is how they live their love, sinfully

I mean, directly related, but the parallel when Alice, in season 1, says that love isn't supposed to make you sinful and alone and then in season 5, Luther ends up arrested and alone because of his "love" for Alice ? I'm shaking, crying, throwing up !!

By the way, RUTH WILSON AND IDRIS ELBA, am I right ? They have the most insane on-screen chemistry I have EVER seen, and their acting is just- Yeah, no I don't have the words, they deserved all the awards for their performance because MY GOD !

Also, Ruth Wilson does love characters who die falling from high points, does she? (Yes I am also still in a HDM rabbit hole, hence my intense emotions those days)

Can we appreciate the parallel between between the first episode, when Luther could have saved someone from falling but didn't, and the last episode when he wanted to save someone from falling but couldn't ? Because it's killing me. Both persons were criminals but he loved one and not the other and -

The fact that in season 1 Luther says to Alice she can't know what's love AND SHE TURNS IT AGAINST HIM IN THE LAST EPISODE BECAUSE HE BETRAYED HER TRUST !! They way basically their entire dynamic is reversed emotionally speaking in those last moment 😭😭😭

How Benny said he thought Alice would be the end of John but actually she would be the end of them all AND THEN SHE WAS !!! Pain, pure pain.

Mark' attempt to help Alice, and her almost accepting it ? I was lying on the floor at this point.

And last, but not least, the fact that John and Alice tried, they really tried to make it work, but they just don't live in the same world, nor have the same values and objectives in life so it wouldn't work, and they love each other BECAUSE of that and not in spite of !! (And again, there are huge parallels here with HDM and Masriel)

Anyway, like I said, I'm going insane, and I have too much emotions about them, and the show.

#luther #john luther #alice morgan

[akajustmerry]

overall I think the his dark materials tv series is a very good adaptation, but if I have one major critique it's how they filled time with so many scenes of Evil Plotting Cardinals. sure, it's fine to have the necessary scenes about the prophecy, maybe even one showing how hypocritically snakeish they are to Mrs Coulter - but you can really tell when they stopped being able to pad out the series with scenes from further books they just opted for reminding people the magistirium is evil. I said this about season 1 as well, but hdm isn't long enough to justify 8-9 hours for every book. they knew that in season 1, which was why they included a build up for Will rather than introducing him cold and that was great. But season 2 and 3 has so much filler that's just Magistirium Is Evil™ which is time that could have been better spent on literally anything else because the magistirium seeming faceless and omniscient is the point. All these scenes with conniving zealous bald bitches are so fucking boring. like yeah thanks I'm aware the catholic church as an institution sucks because I live in reality you don't need to beat me over the head with how it also has found a way to suck in the fantasy world where people's souls chill out with them in animal form.

#his dark materials

[casualavocados]

i was tagged by @iressails months ago to do "a year in gifs" game, and instead of doing it for the half year i decided to leave it in my drafts 'til december so here it is!! thank you very much for thinking of me 🧡

rules: link my favorite and/or most popular creations from each month of 2023.

January most popular: this set of father gomez and balthamos and the crowd cheered (we are all the crowd) personal fave: broke my own heart with this quote i chose for gun (msp). im still really proud of how that set came out, it was my second time blending. & special mention to this panjava web weave

February most popular & personal fave: tell them stories <3

March most popular: tinngun compilation set personal fave: also that compilation set!!! but bonus my boy li ming and chinzhilla

April most popular & personal fave: my school president fashion yeah this just deserves both of those <3

May most popular: tinngun dance at the pool personal fave: lyra and will being vulnerable for the first time in s2

June most popular: the little mermaid 2023 kiss the girl sequence personal fave: lyra in the first half of season 1 (thats my DAUGHTER); fourth acting appreciation

July most popular: my last msp gifset personal fave: panjava "look at me, will" hrhrdfhhrbdfhsdkfj chewing on this still. i love this set so much, im also still in love with the coloring

August (everything i giffed this month was andor) most popular & personal fave: thats what a reckoning sounds like

September most popular: pjo teaser trailer gifset personal fave: these two hdm season 2 rewatch sets because im in love with how the colors turned out, especially that second one; you would not believe how difficult balancing the cyans was

October most popular: mat cauthon getting his shining moment personal fave: will parry, character of all time - i didnt make the rules, philip pullman did.

November most popular: pjo official trailer set personal fave: the best gifset ive ever made for my favorite episode of hdm season 2, and this set of lyra emotions

December most popular: the rituals are intricate in last twilight personal fave: sally and percy hug; and panjava skipping rocks (sobbing into my hands about it)

tagging: @daymork, @bo-kryzze, @coredrill, @grapejuicegay and @cal-kestis if you guys want to and have time to! 💗 here's to another year of creating!

#tagged #*mypost #long post

[secondbetrayer]

it will always amuse me that HDM season 1’s finale aired just a few days before christmas sjhdjhd

“here, have this child getting straight up murdered and the best friend who’d tried to save him holding his body and crying. merry christmas. happy holidays. :)))”

#behind the prophecy | ooc #child death tw

[three-atoms]

"We have it!"

"Thorold, this is the one!"

"It’s finally time for us to put on a show for the scholars. We’ll head south in the morning. But we’re taking a friend. If I can’t convince them, he will."

Lyra: "I don't want a job!" // Asriel: "I want you to spy on the Master. Everything he does but particularly whenever Dust is mentioned. You think you can do that?"

Lyra: "Can I see the man's head?" // Asriel: "No. Why would I let you do that?!"

Asriel smiling in HDM Season 1 (1/2)

#his dark materials #hdm #hdmedit #asriel belacqua #lord asriel #asriel x lyra #james mcavoy #*mine #🧭 🧭 🧭 #reasons asriel smiles: #his plans are coming together #he's amused by lyra #he looks maniacal in the 3rd one lol

[h-i-raeth]

The Shadow of Dust for WIP Wednesday! BECAUSE HDM MEETS STRANGER THINGS YES PLEASE.

Once again it turns out that I am a liar because I was thinking about Lore Things & a snippet came to me (even further into the plot than the last one, this is season 4 territory & this AU firmly has its start in season 1. RIP)

“It’s rare for a witch to have twins. Rarer still for them to be different sexes. A witchborn child who shares a womb with a witchling won’t age the way a witch does, but there is magic in them. They can be taught the texture of moonlight. They’ll bear the lengthening rite with as much ease as a witch. They’re like as not to Settle in a form with wings. 

“There’s a great deal of superstition surrounding the phenomenon. My mother’s tribe held a belief that such children were cursed. They’d have drowned my brother, if they’d had the chance. We might have been better off if my mother had let them.”

#anyway Henry's deal is WAY different in the HDM AU. This is only a small part of it #& the Creel survivor is shifted from Victor to Alice because her daemon wasn't settled when the Creel Murders went down :) #Make Of That What You Will #WIP Wednesday #The Shadow Of Dust