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wyrd-author · 1 year
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His Dark Materials series all rebound. All three books were purchased second hand and rebound in hand-dyed blue leather with gold foiled pages and gold embossing. The Golden Compass book is even signed by Philip Pullman himself!
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biscottiarts · 1 year
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ah yes my favourite deeply problematic heretics-
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misterabit · 4 months
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show Serafina being soft for Marisa is one my favourite changes from the book
show Serafina: has a profound and meaningful conversation about grief
book Serafina: that evil bitch I will break her neck
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I have absolutely had this thought before while reading his dark materials but if I had an animal companion attached to my brain to keep me company for life I feel like all my problems would be solved
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hatters-workshop · 2 years
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Will Parry, trying to look on the bright side after having the worst day of his life having had to leave his mother in the care of his piano teacher, accidentally killing a person who broke into his house, and finally having some peace having escaped to a parallel world where it's warm and there's no one after him: we're gonna be safe! And we're gonna have a great time!
*a feral girl with hair like a birds nest, wearing the same clothes she's been in for like a week straight runs at him out of a door way with a weird looking ferret that talks*
Will: WHAT IN THE JESUS CHRIST WAS THAT!?!?!
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feral-and-chaotic · 6 months
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"He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge... The cat stepped forward and vanished." - The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman
Inktober: Golden.
Inspiration for the cat and area taken from my neighbour's cat:
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rabbitrook · 4 months
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Reviving my old hyperfixation for Phillip Pullman's series, HDM, by making daemon boards for me and my partner ( @loser-xx ). Mines on the left, and his name is Sorrellvanis, with Loser's on the right, their name is Ketzelahmi. We've taken a lot of assorted quizzes and added our own that feel like they resonate personally. I love assigning and deciphering peoples potential daemons. 🥺
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Thoughts on the His Dark Materials TV show
Warning Major Spoilers ahead... If you have not yet read the fabulous books or watched the entirety of the story through the long form TV series entitled 'His Dark Materials' or even the film called The Golden Compass, then bare in mind that this discussion might well spoil your enjoyment of Philip Pullman's masterpiece of fiction. I am going to try to take a major dive into the story and offer my critique, which given that I know very little about the critical theory of literature or even how to spell Asriel, might be a bit of a trial!
Still here? OK then, here is my hand, let's take a trip together into the worlds of Dæmons and Dust. From the outset, I cannot promise an impartial review of these works because I absolutely adore them. I may struggle with aspects of them because of the deep emotional scars they touch in my soul, but I continue to love both the books and the person that is Lyra and Pan. I read the books at least once per year and even though I know full well what the Amber Spyglass book is going to do, I always cry at the end because it is so beautifully heart breaking. The books are written for a younger audience than your horrifyingly close to fifty year old reporter and are based upon the work Paradise Lost, by John Milton, which I will admit to you now, I have never read. Maybe that is a task I can try to undertake this year? Hmmm, as if I had not already set myself enough tasks that I am going to struggle to achieve this year!
In 2007, Hollywood released the film, The Golden Compass, the first attempt to bring the story of His Dark Materials to the flickering screen. The first confusion for me was to rename the story from Northern Lights, or His Dark Materials, into The Golden Compass, however there are several reasons for why this was done, some of which include a reference to the original inspiring work of Paradise Lost. However, the film flopped, losing money and support of a wider audience, largely due to the fact that they tried to cram so much into the film from what is a pretty huge book. A young girl called Dakota Blue Richards was cast to play Lyra and she gave us a wonderful, believable representation of Lyra, which is remarkable when one considers what she was given to work with. Sadly this is a comment that can be made for the entire cast of the film to be honest, but the rest of the production was a shocking mess, with often incoherent scenes that rushed past in a blur with little time to digest the events of the book. It was a triumph in that it was even made at all, given the resistance and interference of the studio and even the religious intolerant who claimed the book to be blasphemous (rather proving the point of the book while they did it!). Basically, the cast and crew never had a chance and it was deeply saddening to see the resultant, utterly beautiful looking, film fail. No matter what, I will always be grateful to the crew and cast who tried so hard to make what was probably an impossible dream come true. What good can be taken from the films though is the wonderful portrayal of Mrs Coulter by Nicole Kidman (a person who has in the past had dealings with horrendous theocratic organisations. However, that is a story best left to others to tell.) and Lord Asriel as played by the future Bond, Daniel Craig. Both of them gave wonderful performances and gave Dakota Blue Richards the perfect parents to play Lyra against.
These books are huge and deeply immersive which is one of the problems facing those trying to turn them into other forms of entertainment. I have listened to the Radio play that aired on the BBC a few years ago and enjoyed it to some degree, but again it was limited by the time it had to tell the story. If you are clever with the internet and don't mind listening to a play, this can still be found on line, albeit with some slightly naughty Detective skills. If you want a hint... Try looking for the Internet Archive. Who knows what you will find?
In 2017, the first of The Book of Dust was released by Pullman. Like many of you, I always find that the end of the Amber Spyglass leaves a hurt feeling of grief in the chest when the last page in turned. Yes, some short stories have been released by Pullman, in particular Lyra's Oxford does go into some small detail of her life post His Dark Materials, but this new trilogy promised further adventures for our beloved Lyra. What we got however was thus far something of a mixed bag, with La Belle Sauvage being more of a prequel that fills out the story of Lyra's birth with details of the great flood and goes on to explains how a young Malcolm Polstead and, his often enemy, Alice come to care for the infant Lyra. Along the way they encounter agents working against the Magisterium (the theocratic rulers of Lyra's world), faeries and other complicated beings all of whom have an interest in young Lyra. It was an adventurous enough read, but it did not really fulfil that desire to discover more about Lyra and her adventures after her return to Oxford.
Two years later in 2019 (just before the world went tits up with covid!), Pullman released the second in the Book of Dust trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth. It was from the outset, a deeply disturbing book and anyone hoping to find a happy and peaceful Lyra and Pan, were instead given a broken and severely depressed Lyra, who continually argues with Pan, right up until in a silent mood, he leaves her. As I was reading this, I had not long finished a course of therapy that had helped me come to terms with my own past and mental health, so seeing Lyra and Pan as wounded as they were carried a lot of extra grief that I could understand. I knew what it felt like to be at war with oneself and I could feel both of their pain in the difficult story. This was a more mature story than Northern Lights or even The Amber Spyglass, as such the themes were more mature and darker. It is a sad fact that young people suffer, often undiagnosed, with mental health problems and this book does not shy away from this fact, no matter how painful it can be. Desperate to see Lyra and Pan come back together as a whole person once again, I sped through the book, missing the finer detail and at the end was left heart broken and hanging onto a cliff with less hope than my favourite cartoon Coyote!
With my second reading of the book, I went more slowly and absorbed the prose and its meaning. I followed Lyra as she travelled, following her heart trying to locate Pan and meeting people along the way who had also lost or even due to horendous poverty, sold their Dæmons. The lore of the Dæmon has changed with this book. The bond can be broken, when not fully severed and a replacement can be found. If there is a sadder parable of our money obsessed society, then I am yet to read it. Hidden deep within the despair of Lyra and Pan, there is a beauty in the world and towards the end, we see Pan helping a child who has suffered a terrible loss. The child in the book is named after one of the victims of the Grenfell fire in London and in many ways, this is a beautiful eulogy to her.
As heart breaking as the book is, it continues to bring a taste of blood to the mouth as Lyra goes from place to place searching for Pan. The worst part of this journey is no doubt when Lyra is sexually assaulted on a train, by soldiers who have no respect for a woman, let alone a woman without a Dæmon. If you did not cry reading this book, then you are a stronger reader than I because I cried several times during both my first and second reads of this book. You may ask why, but the reason is simple, Lyra is our beloved heroine. She may have started out as a deceitful, unwashed brat, but she ended the story with a broken heart, but somehow still full of love and wisdom. In some regards, it is hard to correlate the exhausted, heart worn but hopeful Lyra of the Amber Spyglass with that of the closed off, angry Lyra of the Secret Commonwealth. Yet given the political nature of these books, I am sure that even the most disinterested of readers can feel the depth of despair for our modern times ringing like a funeral bell through out the prose. It has been nearly four years since we were left wondering if Lyra and Pan would reconcile and every day when I look up at my copies of these books, I feel a little pain in my heart.
So it was that in 2019, the BBC and HBO released their attempt to put His Dark Materials onto the big screen, well the big TV screen in my home anyway, with eight weekly episodes of the first book, cleverly combined with aspects of the second so that the meeting of Lyra and Will happened sooner than we would otherwise have got. Now it is cards on the table time and I have to be honest here. I did not go willingly into the show. I had a sore heart from the film and I desperately did not want to witness another botched attempt or see another young Lyra broken by process of telling her story. This time Lyra was portrayed by a young Dafne Keen, whose father portrayed the undeniably vile, Father MacPhail. I did not want to get my hopes up and was promptly treated to some things that as a dedicated reader of the books, I found strange or in some cases not fully truthful to the letter of the book. However I persevered and struggled through some aspects of the series such as the Gyptian culture which was explored far more visibly and audiably than I was expecting and come the end, I was left with mixed feelings. Dafne Keen is undoubtedly a very good Lyra, within what her script gives her. Amir Willson makes an interesting Will and seeing him as mixed race makes him a far more interesting person and does give an extra depth to some of his Mother's suffering. But it did not have the Lyra and Will I wanted. There was also the concerns over how they were going to film some of the later scenes, because as actors, both of them were still children when filming the series.
Series two came upon us quickly enough and was one episode short of the first series (or season for those of an American culture), but given the source material, some of which had already been covered in series one, this was not a surprise and it gave us again a few changes and differences. As with series one it was hard to fault the choices, given how hard it must be to make a show about something as expansive as war with God across the multiverse! I purchased the two seasons on DVD as soon as they became available (something that DisneyPlus really needs to think about for those of us with incomplete Clone Wars DVD sets!) and binge watched them through, enjoying them more and more with each viewing. I understood the changes and why they had been made, the show was utterly beautiful and the sets used were fantastic. The Dæmons were beautifully animated, with puppets used on set to make the interactions with their people more believable. Pan was wonderful, the Golden Monkey terrifying and Stelmaria was beautiful. I was at peace with the series and I was looking forwards to the third and final season.
The third season seemed to hit the airwaves almost unannounced. It almost felt as if the BBC were somehow ashamed of their beautiful series. I have been following Pullman for some time on Farcebook and the only update I saw from him was an advert for a re-release of the original trilogy and then an actual paper version of 'The Collectors', a short story about a very curious pair of artefacts from Lyra's world. I caught episode one and instantly felt the bad taste in my mouth of wrongness. Changes yet again, Mrs Coultier was hiding in a cottage on the coast and not a cave in the Himalayas. The young child who helps her was deaf and not Asian. Will did not meet the scary paedophile priest... Actually, that was probably a good thing! Asriel was jetting about gathering troops, rather than them answering his call to arms. All of these changes probably made the show easier to follow if you have not read the books, but as a close to obsessive reader of the books, some of the changes felt wrong.
However the BBC in their wisdom put the entire series on their i-Player service and I was able to sit through a couple of episodes, rather than wait weeks at a time to get where I wanted to be. (Again, Disney, I know why you do it, but one episode a week... Really?) The misery of Solstice, Christmas, Yule or whatever we choose to call this time of year, got in the way and despite having the joy of my friends around me, His Dark Materials got put to one side until I had a quiet day to go through it. That was when I caught the flu and lost my voice. Even as I type this, I am still not able to talk above a whisper and trying to do so, seems to make things worse. Getting old sucks.
So sat in bed, unable to speak, sick with a winter cold, I started to watch episodes three to eight and it was traumatic. There was a lot of changes and again I understand why some of them were done, because not every viewer will have torn the books apart the way I have over the years. However, enough remained the same that I could still follow the story and I did wonder at some of the changes made, until you think about how much visual effects cost and what the budget would have been for this whole show.
The actor Simone Kirby, portraying Mary Malone, was perfect and she has been since she first appeared in the series, so much so that I completely believed that she was Mary. Yet when it came to her major discoveries about Dust and the importance of the Mulefa and their world, so much was cut away, it was almost like a crude orchidectomy done with rusty scissors! Mary meets and then spends time with Atal, her friend among the Mulefa. They share time together, chat about the nature of life, the universe and everything... Sorry, wrong book. But Mary and Atal are important, it is together that the pair of them help Mary find the answer to Sraf, first in seeing Sraf and then in discovering why the trees are dying because of a lack of Sraf. Mary as the serpent must have knowledge to share with Eve, yet the time allotted to her on screen meant that a great deal of her story was trimmed away or flashed over in seconds and we never got to know Atal, one of the truly beautiful souls of the story.
The end of the second series left us with Mrs Coulter taking Lyra away in a trunk on a ship. Will had found and then lost his father while Lee Scorsby had died defending the very same man. We find Mrs Coulter hiding in her little house, Will arrives, they talk. He rescues Lyra during a raid by the Magisterium and while cutting an exit, the subtle knife breaks as Lyra's Mother pushes him to think of his own lost parent back in the human world. It is different enough to grind my gears, but close enough to keep me watching. The calls of Roger are hinted at, but never really clear and it is with some surprise that Lyra announces her quest to enter the world of the dead to find Roger to apologise for his death. Again we have the strange arguments between Lyra and Will, a conflict that never happened in the books. They believe in each other and as they journey, they are falling in love, not overcoming each other. These slightly argumentative scenes felt like sand in a gear box, things work, but you know damage is being done. Iorek agrees to mend the subtle knife, but the discussion between him and Will is almost nonexistant. The warning about the nature of the knife had none of the brevity that it has in the book, but the reforging of the blade was at least a pretty moment. The biggest problem though was that it was horribly rushed and yet they filled in the episodes with stuff that we did not need to see. Why did we need to see Asriel gathering an army... of mainly one man who he took an eternity to persuade, when in the book he raises his call to arms and they simply come. At the cost of important detail, they gave us chaff.
The land of the dead was bleak, sad and grim. Again there were differences, but until the boatman, nothing of consequence. Lyra meets her death, Pan is scared and Will remains stoic. That moment on the boat though, the first heart break between Pan and Lyra when she is told that Pan cannot enter the land of the dead. That was there, but the boatman was more human, which in some ways gave it a softer edge. Making the boatman a well dressed man in his early sixties took away the fear of the cloaked Charon, the creature that may have been a man, but could have been something far more aged and far, far worse. The betrayal of self as Pan is ripped from her soul and Will loses the Dæmon he never knew he had, is still heart breaking, but where in the book time is given to Pan attempting to keep Lyra with him, making her sacrifice all the more important, the show quickly edits past it. Again, time, technical effects and expense cannot compete with the imagery of a few words in a book. To even come close to the scope and the detail of the book, the show needed at least ten hour long episodes per book and a budget of billions. Such things were never going to be possible, so instead we can only be grateful for what we got and the river crossing was still heart breaking as Will and Lyra clung together in agony.
The land of the dead was truly haunting, the sad broken spirits of those trapped there, taunted and berated for every terrible thing they had done, by the impossibly ancient Harpies. The term Harpy comes from ancient Greek and Roman myths, being a form that is half woman and half bird. Basically a bird with the torso and face of a woman. What was presented here was so much more creepy, a scaly filthy tortoise like winged creature filled with hatred and bile. The scene of Lyra telling tall tales was cut for time, but we can assume that she had by this time learned that lying was bad for them. We did have some moments of true horror as she is forced to confront her loss of Pan and the awful fact that there is truly no way out of the land of the dead. The book makes a deliberate choice to have the spirits unable to touch, embrace or hug. Yet again, the horror of finance raised its head and we see actors with grey scale make up and lots of red eye shadow hugging Lyra. As lovely as it was to see Lyra reunited with Roger, the subtle difference gave this a more bleak, angry feel than the loss and love of the book. The difficulty for the production team was also the casting of children for the roles of er... children. Roger has clearly grown up and his buck toothed smile of a ten year old boy has been replaced by the teenage cool of a lad who is nearly a full grown man. They did as well as they could within the budget and Roger was there. Death has clearly broken his voice and made him a foot taller though!
The weaponisation of Mrs Coulter against Lyra, using the tuft of hair she took from Lyra's head was terrifying. Having written out some of the more helpful moments of the book, such as the Galivespians, the energy bomb was never not going to explode. Within the constraints of the TV show, they did it very well and the chasm that opens is destructive in ways that I never connected in the book. The Dæmon that flies above the opening and is sucked down, causing the death of Queen Ruta Skadi was tragic. She did not so much die as simply fall into nothingness and cease to exist. It was utterly brutal. The spectres raided the camp of Asriel and the defence against them was to have Mrs Coulter who had escaped once again from the Magisterium, having come and gone like a welcome guest between camps. In a moment of pure film magic, Ruth Wilson raised her hands and gave the spectres a force shove that Clone Wars ere Obi-Wan would have been proud of. The result was that the entire army of spectres evaporated, never to be seen again. Once again this must come down to cost. The spectres were beautiful in their oil like liquidity. Animating an army of them, fighting see through ghosts who have no Dæmon would have run into the millions of Dollars. So I forgive them for their use of the force, even if for a brief moment, Mrs Coulter became a Jedi!
The fight with Metatron, AKA the Regent of the Clouded Mountain, ruling in the name of the Authority was fabulous. The deception by Mrs Coulter was a dark moment in the book, but she carries it well, hiding what little goodness she has left to fool not a God, but a man who lusts after her. The fight in the show was almost as brutal, Asriel is not as broken as he should be, but with the love of his life, Mrs Coulter, they both drag the Regent into the abyss. As with Ruta Skadi, this is not death but something far, far worse. This of course leads to Lyra and Will finding the casket that contains the withered remains of the authority. In the book it is stated that cutting him free of his prison is an act of kindness for a being so ruined by age as to be insensible. With his atoms reaching the gentle air currents, the Authority is gone forever, along with his regent.
At this moment in the book, the two children find their lost Dæmons and Will cuts through into the world of the Mulefa, grabbing a Dæmon each, they jump through. It is at this moment that they realise that Will has grabbed Pan and Lyra has taken Will's unnamed Dæmon. The thrill of excitement, of something beautiful between them hits them both hard as Will seals the window after himself.
In the series, things are done differently and Will tells the Dæmons to jump through and they will follow on later. Sure enough a short while later they do jump through, but only after Lyra witnesses the death of the Mother, as the Golden Monkey turns to particles. I do not know why they felt that Lyra needed that moment of finality, because in some regards it felt cruel. Once in the world of the Mulefa, there is still a mild hostility between Lyra and Will. They have been through so much together, but do not have that trust of each other yet, which seems strange and almost heretical compared to the book. Their love does grow, but only after a few misjudged moments between them. The book explains that from the moment Mary finds them, she can see the love, the powerful bond between them. She knows that they must heal and save the worlds so does her job, she plays the serpent teaching them about growing up, finding a meaning in life and love. Again there was a slight change in the series from the book, but for me this one worked far better. Mary recalls how she knew that she could not be a Nun any more and it was when a woman showed her an act of love by passing her a simple sweet. This was a moment that awoke something in Mary and it is implied that Mary investigated this attraction. In the book, the tempter was a man and to be honest as a rainbow person, who knows how the Church at large feels about people like me, making Mary a lesbian or at least not fully heterosexual was the right move.
With rather a lot of narrative exposition, Lyra and Will learn that they must not only return to their own worlds, they cannot create new windows and all of the old ones must be sealed to prevent the loss of Dust into the endless void. In the book, Pan lets out a howl of pain that frightens small animals in their holes for ever. Defeated at last, Lyra cries, comforted only by the one soul who can do so, but who she must lose forever. The TV show does allow this to play out and it is painful to watch. The acting of Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson was superb and I genuinely believed their tears as my heart was broken.
The insight of Pullman when he wrote this scene is not to be underestimated. Lyra and Will are forced apart, their sacrifice is explicit. They could stay in the world of each other, but to do so is to lose health and to die, leaving one with the unbearable horror of watching their love die. Leaving the window open will bring an end to Dust and everyone dies. They sacrifice their love for each other to save those who inhabit every realm, including the world of the dead, for every soul that has ever existed can be free from the horror of purgatory and they do so, while their own hearts are torn apart.
Whenever I read the Amber Spyglass, I need a moment of silence when the last page is turned. It feels somehow reverential, as if I too have lost a part of my heart and the grief I feel is very real. It stirs in me every loss I have felt throughout my life, whether that be of parents, lovers, mentors or friends. Every fibre of pain is stirred, every wound cleaned out and shown love. There is however one loss that I dread with all of my being, a loss so great that every person in love fears it. Yet as Maarva Carassi Andor states so bravely to her Son (in the fantastic Disney Plus Series Andor), “that's just love.”
The themes of the book are truly epic, especially for a book aimed at youthful readers. The contemporaries of the time were the likes of Harry Potter, which I am sure touched some people's hearts. Like His Dark Materials, Potter was accused of turning children away from faith, but if it ever did, it was not through clever writing. With His Dark Materials, Pullman asks the young readers to question why they must bow down to theocracy. He tells them to give thought to dogmatic faith and he gives them a parable with which they can understand how religion can destroy love and hope and understanding. The big theme of the Magisterium is how they want to stifle conscious thought. When it takes the Vatican four hundred years to apologise for the destruction of a man who put forward the idea that the Earth is not the centre of the solar system, we can see where the ideas of a toxic theocratic system comes from. With every Holy War, with every hypocritical theologian and with every repressed adherent to religious law, we can see Pullman's point. His Dark Materials is a story of young people on an adventure, but it is also a story about the importance of innocence not corrupted by dogma, just as it is a story about fighting for the liberty to think for oneself. It is my firm belief that Pullman's work is an important piece of youth literature, it is also more than that and is worthy of the awards it has won. The TV show may not have stuck rigidly to the book, but the message remains the same and that is the important part. So I applaud the series, I think that it achieved great things and it did this despite the corruption that killed its big screen predecessor.
As for the cast of the TV series, not one of them did anything less than their best. The budget and the time constraints are nothing compared to the importance of the message and for that reverential quiet that we needed when the final titles stopped rolling. It genuinely took me almost an hour before I was capable of speech. My eyes were raw with tears and my heart ached as I lay in the arms of my wife, knowing that we are both mortal and one day, we to will enter the land of the dead. Thankfully, we know how to find our way to the exit. Thank you Lyra and William. Also thank you Philip Pullman for a piece of work that speaks directly to my heart.
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Astronomy Inspired Design in Media: Part 6
The Golden Compass (2007)
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Been too long since I have read these books, but based on observation appears to be a mix of a pocket watch and maybe a volvelle because of the sheer number of options on the outside ring that the single hand rotated between
With 36 elements in the outer ring this is too many to predict moon phases (28-30) but the same general rules apply
Importantly, a watch typically has two or three hands that you use to tell time. With only one to designate the direction of the “compass” it reminds me more of a volvelle, where the interior hand rotates in place and the hand points to relevant information. A Lunar Volvelle can work out the position of the Sun and Moon based on time of year. Think of them as a simple type of astrolabe
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“Astronomy Inspired Design in Media” is Wednesday (as I find them)
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missewoodhouse · 2 years
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For the Dracula Daily crowd: Lee Scoresby is the Quincey P. Morris of His Dark Materials.  Discuss.
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wyrd-author · 1 year
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His Dark Materials omnibus. Originally paperback, I’ve rebound it with the hardcover treatment it deserves. This book is all three of the His Dark Materials series books in one. I designed the cover to be reminiscent of the title intro of the tv show Adaptation of the series where it shows all of the worlds sandwiched on top of each other. Now available on my Etsy shop at the link in my bio.
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mendicant-bi · 1 year
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I think I may have repressed just how devastating the end to His Dark Materials was after I'd read it, because the series finale hit me like a bus. I was left blubbering like a baby, inconsolable for weeks.
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Although I have yet to hear whether Toby ever read any of Philip Pullman, I do believe that His Dark Materials was probably a major influence on Unrelated, because we have both a character named Asriel and a knife-wielder who uses their knife to open dimensions.
Also, I can't help but notice that Queen describes Determination as "the power of the will", and the boy who wielded the Subtle Knife in His Dark Materials was named Will. I would almost bet there's a connection there.
Frankly, I will be extremely surprised if someone was to ask Toby if he was inspired by Philip Pullman and Toby says he's never read any of him. I mean, Asriel's name could be a coincidence- we know "Asriel" is a combination of ASgore and toRIEL, not to mention that "ASRIEL DREEMURR" is an anagram of "serial murderer." And I guess Asriel was also the name of an angel, hence the prophecies about the Angel. So that could be a coincidence, and I often wrote it off as such before DR Chapter 2. But man, when you bring that dimension-opening knife into the picture and say it has "the power of [the] Will", I'm having trouble believing it's not a Philip Pullman reference.
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daydreames-blog · 1 year
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Just finished his dark materials on the BBC and what can I say, I’m devastated. Truly beautiful series 🤧
I’m heartbroken 💔
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redhoodgirl91 · 1 year
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Subtle knife his dark materials 
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