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ovenproofowl · 1 year
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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.
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winter2468 · 1 year
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His Dark Materials where everything is the same except Mrs Coulter’s daemon is the stylish but illegal monkey
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babaknit · 1 year
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his dark materials really said heaven is not real and you will return to dust upon your death so you need to make your own heaven on earth by being a good person instead of wasting your time practicing a hateful religion headed by a corrupt church
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Return to the earth with me, my love. Death cannot do us part.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë | Bronze Age Couple | the Hasanlu Lovers | 'Strangeness and Charm' - Florence + the Machine | The Addams Family (1991) | tumblr post by @hopefulnerd25 | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) | The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman | Enemies, a Love Story (1989) | 'In A Week' - Hozier | the Lovers of Valdaro | the Lovers of Modena | The Castle, Franz Kafka
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chaotictoast · 5 months
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I love series where the main character(s) didn’t actually save the world to save the world.
They were just doing something else and happened to save the world at the same time.
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kirjavas · 5 days
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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
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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[…] memory’s a poor thing to have. It’s your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want.
Philip Pullman, from ‘The Amber Spyglass’
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clarabosswald · 1 year
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HIS DARK MATERIALS | "Lyra and her Death" (season 3, episode 4) bonus:
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asoftepiloguemylove · 9 months
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hello! your webweaves are beautiful. may i ask for a webweave about "even the moments that were boring, i wanna do it all again" tysm!
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Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass / Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert / Franz Kafka The Castle / James Joyce Exiles: A Play In Three Acts / Keaton St. James Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse / Young Royals (2021-) cr. Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung, Camilla Holter / Anaïs Nin A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 / Trista Mateer Honeybee
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dreamingpartone · 9 months
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They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling.
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destructorkitten · 1 year
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Season 1: Let's find Lyra's Dad!
Season 2: Let's find Will's Dad!
Season 3: LET'S KILL GOD 😡💀☠️😡
✨️I LOVE THIS✨️
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geekynerfherder · 1 year
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'The Golden Compass', 'The Subtle Knife', The Amber Spyglass' & 'La Belle Sauvage' by Takumi.
Cover art for the Japanese editions of the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, and book 1 of 'The Book Of Dust' trilogy written by Philip Pullman.
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casualavocados · 1 year
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HIS DARK MATERIALS | panjava + the circle of love, living, and death for @willsilvertongue​
vladimir nabokov, letters to véra || @filmnoirsbian​ || simone de beauvoir, diary of a philosophy student: vol. 1 || e.e. cummings, vision || clementine von radics, in a dream you saw a way to survive; “the fear” || philip pullman, the amber spyglass || andrea gibson, the madness vase; “two birds” || alejandro jodorowsky, what is love? || octavio paz, tr. by eliot weinberger, “letter of testimony” || claudia rankine, “some years there exists a wanting to escape...” || philip pullman, the amber spyglass || anaïs mitchell,  hadestown; "road to hell (reprise)" 
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mykashg · 8 months
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Marisa & Asriel + The Abyss
HIS DARK MATERIALS Season 3 (2022)
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clarisimart · 7 months
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Every single adult who comes into direct contact with Lyra and talks with her for any period of time (and is not related to her): I only had Lyra for ten seconds, but if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
Meanwhile, her bio parents: Excuse you, the only one who is allowed to horrifically mistreat my daughter and do unforgivable things to her and those she cares about, is me!
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queenofinys · 1 year
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Philip Pullman and Ruth Wilson on His Dark Materials | His Dark Materials, The Botanic Garden (S3E08)
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