#his dark materials

[any-history-billion-religious]

#muslimah #before and after #أدب #kingsley #jessie j #chris wood #one punch man #gamecube #penny dreadful #cuckhubby #his dark materials #Lydia Martin #Cuba

[draconym]

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

#his dark materials #for the record I do think daemon-blind casting is the way to go #theater is all about suspending your disbelief after all

[hashtagloveloses]

the equivalent exchange of your favorite childhood book series (his dark materials and percy jackson) getting the adaptations they finally deserve but the price is that one character must be played by lin-manuel miranda

#original post #percy jackson #pjo #his dark materials #hdm #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson series

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Who's dark materials

#mine #his dark materials #1k

[redfagdiver]

#Literature #children's literature #books #Goosebumps #Babysitter's Club #Animorphs #His Dark Materials #A Series Of Unfortunate Events #Warrior Cats #Lord of the Rings #Chronicles of Narnia #Hope I didn't miss any better ones

[foldingfittedsheets]

My little book club is reading His Dark Materials and daemons came up while my betrothed and I were cuddling in bed.

They said to me, “Do you think anyone’s daemon is a mosquito?”

“What? No way, that’s way too small!”

“No,” they countered, “We see beetles and butterflies, Pan turned into a little lightning bug, and a moth.”

I digested this information in silence, and then my betrothed started shaking with laughter and pitched in two different voices. “‘Where’s your daemon?’ ‘Oh, it’s a tick.’”

I let out such a guttural sound of amusement and horror that I scared the cats. I couldn’t stop laughing and repeating, “It’S a TiCk!!!”

I escalated in hilarity to choking out, “The only blood it can eat is it’s own persons! They JusT gO aRouNd with a TiCk on their face!”

“I don’t think daemons need to eat, do they?” They asked.

“IT’S A tIcK!!” I responded, tears rolling down my face, hyperventilating at the best and worst concept I’d ever imagined.

#his dark materials #hdm #daemon #ramblies

[craycraybluejay]

When you try to consume a media but it consumes you instead:

#rick and morty #ofmd #supernatural #arcane #the witcher #the bartimaeus sequence #his dark materials #heathers #batim

[arealtrashact]

Boadicea

#marisa coulter #lyra belacqua #his dark materials #the golden compass #my art #this song reminds me of Mrs.Coulter.... #Alluring and beautiful with an ominous (sinister) undertone

[lonicera-caprifolium]

"... What I thought was that if you-- maybe just once a year-- if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-- because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world..." "Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Wherever I am in the world, I'll come back here--" "On Midsummer Day," she said. "At midday. As long as I live. As long as I live..."

(from Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass)

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #his dark materials #both the books and the tv series are GORGEOUS #I highly recommend if you've never given them a chance #HDM

[ovenproofowl]

His Dark Materials is a franchise that tackles so many branches of physics and even creates a universe where the main course of study is experimental theology which is all about identifying and explaining dark matter while also adding dimensions to string theory, the multiverse theory, and the very concept of the human soul. At the same time, it aggressively calls out the problem with the state being controlled by the church, how people are condemned for being different and religious fearmongering stops the chance at growth both on an individual and a societal scale. It’s a franchise where the heroes of the story are two children who aren’t allowed to know the prophecy they’re a part of, who save the world unwittingly simply by doing what they believe to be right. Meanwhile, the person who thought he was the hero all along, the person who rallied an army from multiple universes to FIGHT. GOD. HIMSELF. is ultimately consumed by his own ego and forced to take a back seat when he realises he’s just one tiny piece of a much larger story that’s true heart is his own daugher. The child he abandoned, the child he didn’t know or care to know how to look after. It’s a franchise about finding love even when your biological family abandon you, it’s about looking evil in the eye and seeing your own mother, it’s about good and evil not being black and white but instead a complex and cruel mixture of both. It’s about the two worst people you know banding together at the last second to save their daughter with their final breaths. It’s about exploration and learning how to grow through experience, it’s about kindness being shared across the multiverse, exchanging stories with strangers and saving the whole world by doing something perfectly ordinary and receiving no reward.

Oh, and it’s also a franchise rich with fantasy, with giant talking polar bears, witches and ghosts, angels and daemons, and a mammal-like species from another world that travels exclusively on roller skates. 

And it fucking. rocks.

#his dark materials #phillip pullman #hdm #lyra belacqua #will parry #marisa coulter #lord asriel #mary malone #northern lights #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #i feel like i didn't even scrape the surface. the universe created here has fascinated me since i was a kid #but as i've gotten older i've really learned to appreciate all the scientific theories that are expanded upon using fantasy and philosophy #as someone who has a weird obsession with theoretical physics hdm scratches a very specific itch 😂 #anyway that's my little rant over. i'm done now.

[animentality]

#polls #fantasy #lord of the rings #lotr #chronicles of narnia #his dark materials #discworld #stormlight archive

[draconym]

Still thinking about theater in the His Dark Materials world re: the tendency for people with certain types of daemon to end up in certain professions: butlers with spaniels, sailors with seabirds, carpenters with woodpeckers.

I expect there would be a decent diversity of daemons among actors, especially in community theater where folks tend to have (or be retired from) day jobs. But (from experience) the kind of people who are drawn to theater tend to be highly social, brainy but flamboyant, and a bit weird.

So I'm thinking that the daemon most over-represented in the theater would probably be parrots.

#his dark materials

[schoolsoutmp3]

It's happened to Becky Albertalli, who wrote a book about how terrible it is to be outed.

It's happened to Keiynan Lonsdale, who starred in the adaptation of that book.

It's happened to Kit Connor, who starred in a show that makes it clear you don't owe people your sexuality.

This list will only ever get longer, because you are weaponising the concepts of authenticity and "own-voices" to creep into strangers lives to find out some of the most personal things you could find.

"Queer actors for queer roles" is a right idea until all you can focus on is harassing anyone who's not stated they're gay. Forcing them to tell their parents, their whole extended family, their neighbours, their old pre-school classmates, and thousands of people who will never ever even see them in person let alone interact with them.

#heartstopper #heartstopper comic #heartstopper tv show #love simon #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #love victor #leah on the offbeat #kit connor #his dark materials #queer #gay #bisexual

[wizard-legs]

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

#my art #the golden compass #iorek byrnison #lyra silvertongue #lyra belacqua #kids lit art #book illustration #book cover illustration #children’s book illustration #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #art #illustration #painting #digital painting #philip pullman #his dark materials #typography #winter illustration #hdm

[transvioletbaudelaire]

the lee scorseby “you love her but thats not enough is it” line is also like at the very heart of the story. the fact that mrs coulter loves lyra doesnt stop her from treating her cruelly and it doesn’t stop lyra from rejecting her. the fact that lee loves lyra doesn’t stop him from dying and leaving her. the fact that lyra loves pan doesnt stop their separation. the fact that john parry loves his wife and his son doesnt stop him from leaving them and it doesn’t bring him back. the fact that will and lyra love one another doesnt stop them from being torn apart. love never conquers loss in hdm the way it usually does especially in kids media and thats what makes the ending so jolting and devastating because you keep believing until the last second before will closes the window that there's going to be a happy ending, because how could there not be, they're in love…. but then they lose each other anyway

#his dark materials #hdm spoilers

[winter2468]

His Dark Materials where everything is the same except Mrs Coulter’s daemon is the stylish but illegal monkey

#this is not a his dark materials quote #his dark materials #hdm #mrs coulter #marisa coulter #stylish but illegal monkey #the golden monkey #the northern lights #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #daemons