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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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quotespile · 2 months
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Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
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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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casualavocados · 5 months
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"Well, this was a mercantile city. A city of traders and bankers. We thought we knew about bonds. We thought a bond was something negotiable, something that could be bought and sold and exchanged and converted....But about these bonds, we were wrong. We undid them, and we let the Spectres in."
HIS DARK MATERIALS • The Subtle Knife — 2.04 / Chapter 8: The Tower of The Angels
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fox-croquis · 7 months
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Dr. Malone in the TV series: Ohhhh you came over from another world to learn about dark matter? 🥺 You dear little thing. Let me get you a cookie and I'll give you the worldbuilding exposition dump you've been waiting for 🥺
Dr. Malone in the books: (Throwing Lyra out the window) Why the fuck does this twelve year old CHILD know more than me about physics? I'm quitting this job immediately. Please just let me die.
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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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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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deadpanstudio · 5 months
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Title Transfer http://dlvr.it/Syj825
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three-atoms · 11 months
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Japanese paperback covers of His Dark Materials and La Belle Sauvage
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rufousnmacska · 9 months
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Happy Philip Pullman rips your heart from your chest and gleefully stomps it into the ground Day!
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beasanfi1997 · 5 months
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His Dark Materials the best franchise
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derangedrhythms · 11 months
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[…] she saw [the angels] as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.
Philip Pullman, from ‘The Subtle Knife’
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fieldsofwax · 1 year
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Let go of Harry Potter, it was never even that deep. Read/watch His Dark Materials- THAT’S the mind blowing, perspective changing fantasy series you were looking for and should have had growing up (if the Catholic Church hadn’t taken that away from you). Remember that movie about the little girl and the polar bear in 2007, “The Golden Compass?” Yeah, it was boycotted and censored by the church. I’m so thankful to have been introduced to it as a child so that I could have a childhood special interest series that wasn’t Harry Potter- because I’d be heartbroken and coping rn if Harry Potter had been my favorite. HDM is feminist, supports queer rights with queer characters, it teaches metaphysics, and is against religious fascism.
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casualavocados · 5 months
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HIS DARK MATERIALS 2.04 | Tower Of The Angels
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