#vodt

[dawntreaders]

return of the king

(also proof that this piece is ~1.5 years overdue)

#caspeter #the chronicles of narnia #peter pevensie #caspian x #voyage of the dawn treader #tcon #narnia #vodt #fan art #my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #mlm #gay #lgbt

[fandomscraziness22]

Narnia parallels 2/?

#chronicles of narnia #narnia #edmund pevensie #peter pevensie #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #lww #the voyage of the dawn treader #votdt #vodt #dawn treader #swords #parallels #my gifs #sorry about the quality #just boys laying in hammocks getting startled #and pulling swords out

[and-lies-are-sweet]

susan pevensie + daffodils

the lion the witch and the wardrobe // daffodil, florence and the machine // prince caspian // daffodil lament, the cranberries // the voyage of the dawn treader

#susan pevensie #narnia #the chronicles of narnia #daffodils #lww #prince caspian #pc #the voyage of the dawn treader #vodt #florence and the machine #florence + the machine #the cranberries #cs lewis #look i am obsessed with the daffodil symbolism in susan’s costumes #the lion the witch and the wardrobe

[crazy-narnian]

ya know….for as underwhelming as the movie adaptation was for the voyage of the dawn treader book…a small part of me has always secretly wished that Peter and Susan came back to Narnia again and joined their siblings Edmund and Lucy on the voyage to the Lone Islands with their cousin Eustace and King Caspian just so they could mess the accuracy of the movie up even further and create a completely separate storyline where in the end all the Pevensies and Eustace get to stay in Narnia forever, Susan and Caspian would get married, and they’d all live happily ever after….or maybe not…given what happens in the silver chair…but that’s just my take and idk if any one else feels the same…?

#I know this is complete ludicrous but I felt the need to express it #narnia #vodt

[vault-of-dark-thoughts]

There are times that I think that my daughters would be much much better off if they had another parent like my wife instead of the fucked up mess they have with me.

#vodt

[its-captain-sir]

I wanna jump back into narnia so bad

#I'm due for a rewatch hsjfhskfnd #only lww and pc though. vodt does not exist to me <3 #megan.txt

[linkspooky]

Byakuya Kuchiki vs As Nodt 

Happy Bleach Monday! In the anime this week we see the beginning of the fight between Byakuya and As Vodt. Tite Kubo writes his fights as not just about power levels but the personal conflicts faced by the characters who are in the fight. As it’s a personal conflict, if a character wins a fight they have overcome some flaw deep within themselves, and if they lose it’s because they’ve succumbed to that flae. 

With that out of the way we ask, why did Bykuya lose so easily to As Nodt the first time they fought?

1. Reason vs Instinct

As opponents, Byakuya and As Nodt are an interesting compare and contrast. Of all the soul reapers Bykuya is the one most known for setting his feelings aside, and acting with a cool head in any situation. This seems like naturally a quality of his that would make him a perfect fit against As Nodt, someone whose literal weapon is turning ones irrational and uncontrollable fears against each other. 

In fact Byakuya’s entire character revolves around controlling his emotions. It is at the same time, his greatest strength, and his flaw. It’s most exemplified by his Banaki, he fights by turning his sword into thousands of cherry petals at once which he controls at the same time to wield as a weapon. He doesn’t fight for strength or the thrill of battle like Kenpachi, he doesn’t fight by taming his hollow side like Ichigo and turning it into a weapon, Byakuya is all about control. To the point where he even tells Tsukishima when he defeats him that he thought Battles were always fought after years, and years of discipline that he didn’t until just now experience fighting in the heat of the moment. 

Byakuya is all control. It relates to his character backstory, once a hot headed young man who after years and years of practice became the discplined young man we see today putting his duty to  the Byakuya Household above all else. 

Byakuya’s strength comes from reigning in his stronger emotions and remaining in control at all times. In fact, this becomes the point of conflict between him and Ichigo in the climax of the soul society arc. It’s not that Byakuya wants to hurt Rukia the last remnant of Isane, but rather having chosen once to betray his parents wishes by marrying someone from the poorer distrcits he swore on their graves he would uphold the duty towards his family and noble position from then on afterwards. 

His fight against Ichigo could even be seen as a battle between emotions and reasons. Byakuya suppresses his own individual emotions and acts in obedience to the law instead. He makes himself subordinate to the law. Ichigo however, is willing to fight the law on his own terms, he puts his individual emotions as more important even if it brings him in conflcit with the world. 

Ichigo says that Byakuya deciding to punish his own family instead of attempting to save Rukia is cruel, but it’s not carried out of malice towards Rukia. It’s cold, rather than cruel. Byakuya pretends to be... acts indifferent about Rukia’s personal suffering, because he’s suppressing what he really desires in order to serve the law. Byakuya’s ability to suppress his emotions like this is sometime a great strength, sduring the Zommari Rureaux fight he suppressed his emotoins in order to stay calm and win the fight while Rukia was injured, keeping a cool head in a crisis. Against Tsukihima, his ability to be cold and decisive allowed him to overcome the manipulative ability of his fullbring which allowed him to insert themselves in their past. 

Byakuya is coming off of two relatively easy victories, when he faces As Nodt. And he loses to him for essentially the same reasons he lost to Ichigo. 

As a brief aside, I believe the way Byakuya and As Nodt parallel each other relates to the way Ichigo and Zangetsu do. The king and his horse metaphor that Zangetsu uses is about the division of consciousness, specifically Jung’s interpretation of it. He divides consciousness into two, the consicous mind where thought and reason reign supreme, and the subconscious mind or the shadow which is made up of all of the aspects of consciousness and ourselves we are not aware of. 

WHat’s the difference between the king and his horse? Ichigo and Zangetsu represent two aspects of Ichigo’s mind, Zangetsu looking like Ichigo’s literal reflection. What makes one the ruler then?

Zangetsu’s answer is instinct. If Zangetsu represents the shadow, then the only way to be in control of your shadow is to be aware of it. Zangetsu threatens if Ichigo doesn’t rule over his instincts, that he’ll take control instead. 

You either rule over your instincts, or you’re ruled by them. If you’re not aware, you’re caught by surprised and kicked off your horse. Which is exactly what happens to Byakuya. 

Byakuya lives by constantly trying to rule his instinctual side and keep them suppressed, and in contrast As Nodt exists in an almost perpetual state of fear even back to his origin. If Byakuya is rational at all times, As Nodt is irrational by comparison, if Byakuya exists in a constant state of calm, As Nodt believes that living itself is to feel fear. 

Which is in line with his backstory, if Byakuya has years upon years of training and grooming to become the successor of the Kuchiki clan, a young prodigy nurtured into an adult, As Nodt’s backstory is one where he only remembers living in a constant pain, where death was his only relief. However, even death itself brought with it the fear he might go to hell and experience even more pain. 

As Nodt was reduced to his illness until there was almost nothing left, a shell, and now even with Ywach’s power having resurrected him he still acts as a creature of instinct. There’s barely anything human about him, he mutters constantly, he speaks strangely, he acts irattionally, he’s constantly lashing out from his emotions. When he first approaches Rukia while chanting like a maniac he is also stepping out onto a pool of water, water being the symbol of the subconscious mind. 

Byakuya is the representative of the conscious mind of logic and reason, while As Nodt is the animal-like untamed subsconscious. As there’s no order or higher consciousness commanding As Nodt’s actions, he acts at all times disordered, out of control, with very little rhyme or reason for why he does the things he does besides following his instinct. 

It seems natural someone who is as good at controlling his emotions as Byakuya would win against him, buy emotions aren’t things that can be completely controlled. 

Which is what As Nodt draws attention too, that Byakuya believes that through years upon training and discpline he has completely conquered fear, whereas AS Nodt lives constantly feeling that fear so he is at least aware of it while Byakuya has become blind to it. 

This relates back to the Soul Society arc, both Byakuya’s first and final fights deal with his tendency to try to suppress his own emotions completely which makes him blind to his true feelings. In the Soul Society arc his desire to save Rukia was stronger than his desire to fulfill the law, but Byakuya ignored that in order to try to serve the wishes of his dead parents. 

Once again, Rukia is at the center of Byakuya’s conflict with his own emotions. This time is the opposite, while Byakuya in the Soul Society arc ignored his desire to protect her to enforce the law. This time Byakuya knows full well of his desire to protect her and has long since reconciled with Rukia, only to fall victim to his fear of losing her. 

In both times it’s because of Byakuya’s tendency is to push Rukia away, that leaves him unaware of his own feelings. Byakuya’s particular obsession is control, but the same control is what leaves him unaware of his instincts. As Nodt’s words are almost a mirror to Zangetsu’s in this regard. Fear is just as much of a part of life as bravery, a person cannot exist without their shadow, and they can’t ignore their instincts. The same way that there’s no happiness without pain, and no living without death. 

Byakuya loses because he ignores that truth  that As Nodt existing in a constant state of fear and pain has been living with his whole life, and while he is not in control of his fear, he is knowledgeable of it. Until Byakuya learns about that aspect of himself that is afraid, until he learns there is no true control, he cannot win. 

#bleach meta #byakuya kuchiki #bleach tybw #bleach thousand year blood war #kuchiki byakuya #as nodt

[tarvha]

narnia age rant

on god this is the last time i’m ever going to talk about it but i just wanted to list it here; please let it be known that this is not an interpretation, everything i’ve listed here has been confirmed.

book ages (based on c.s. lewis’s official timeline):

peter was born in 1927, making him 13 / 14 / 15 through lww / pc / vodt.

susan was born in 1928; which means she was 12 / 13 / 14.

the book states that edmund is only a year older than lucy, but lewis has his birth dated at 1930 (perhaps he’s a december baby?), so we have 10 / 11 / 12.

lucy was born in 1932; 8 / 9 / 10.

caspian was born in 2290; during pc he is 13, and in vodt he is 16-17.

film ages: 

lucy’s adventures in narnia, a lww film tie-in novella, mentions that lucy is 8 and edmund is three years older, meaning that she is 9 in pc (recall “it’s been a year” from peter) and 10 in vodt, assuming that only one more year has passed.

edmund is 11 / 12 / 13 across the three instalments. 

susan is 15 / 16 / 17.

confirmed by ben, peter and caspian were both 17 in pc, meaning that peter was 16 in lww. this also means that caspian was 20 in vodt.

don’t be weird. stop shipping characters with disgusting age differences. if lucy were the “mental age” of a 24 year old in pc, she wouldn’t act like a child: all four pevensies are quite mentally mature, yes - but that’s because they grew up in the middle of a war. while it’s really interesting to talk about the implications of being thrust back into a different body after years of ruling (because you can have this trauma and these memories without suddenly being an adult), even william, for example, confirmed that peter is still ultimately a stubborn teenager in pc: 

if that’s not compelling enough for you, try edmund’s “we are kids.” in no circumstances is it ever okay to pair a 20 year old with a 13 year old; even if edmund is older than this by vodt, caspian still met him when he was 17, and edmund was 12. let’s not start with lucy/caspian. writing transformative works or ageing them up in your own material doesn’t suddenly remove this source context. 

not up for debate on this one because there’s really nothing to argue about considering this is canon material - i just wanted to make it clear that there are confirmed ages among the characters (across both popular iterations, at that!) and you cannot justify your pairing choices with this defence.

#tcon #the chronicles of narnia #narnia #casmund #lucian #caspeter #suspian #lucy pevensie #susan pevensie #edmund pevensie #peter pevensie #caspian x #:|

[prettylittlelifeforms]

i vodted :)))

#and i got a veggie sausage :))) #referendum fun #hope we get a majority yes from all the states & territories

[hopecomesbacktolife]

changed my avatar for the first time in years (omg)

will potentially switch it back later, we’ll see— I’ve had the vodt Lucy one since… at least like 2018? and wanted to try this one out bc it’s super cute ♡

but if it feels too weird after a bit, we may go back to fantasy world blorbo billowing linen shirt on a sailing ship avatar ⚓️

current/new avatar is from the trek picrew i reblogged earlier!

#personal

[dawntreaders]

anyone else remember this tcon: voyage of the dawn treader (2010) deleted deathwater island scene where caspian’s greatest desire turns out to be peter the high king or was that just on the four-disc extended cut

+ bonus crop & bts

#caspeter #caspian x #peter pevensie #the chronicles of narnia #tcon #voyage of the dawn treader #vodt #fan art #my art

[and-lies-are-sweet]

let’s settle this once and for all.

#narnia #the chronicles of narnia #cs lewis #clive staples lewis #lww #pc #vodt #sc #hahb #mn #lb #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #prince caspian #the voyage of the dawn treader #the silver chair #the horse and his boy #the magician’s nephew #the last battle #narnia reading order

[crazy-narnian]

Anybody else wish Caspian called out to either Lucy or Edmund at the end of the vodt film as they stepped into the water portal to go back to England with Eustace and say, “Give Peter and Susan my best”, BECAUSE I DO!

Granted, Peter and Susan did already say their farewells to him and Narnia in pc, but friends can pass along their fairest greetings to one another even if they’re worlds apart. Plus, Caspian must have been thinking about them during the first three years of his reign (as I like to think) because why else would he rebuild Cair Paravel, hmm?

#sorry for the word vomit #but I’ve been thinking about this lately #and the previous post triggered me to say this #anyways can anyone else agree or relate??? #Narnia #voyage of the dawn treader #caspian x #lucy pevensie #edmund pevensie #susan pevensie #peter pevensie #eustace scrubb

[vault-of-dark-thoughts]

For the first time in a while, suicide really has felt like an appealing option.

#vodt

[fandomscraziness22]

Georgie's reaction to Ben Barnes' birthday is everything to me

#i giggled so hard you have no idea #narnia #narnia cast #ben barnes #georgie henley #prince caspian #lww #vodt #votdt #chronicles of narnia

[tarvha]

the voyage of the dawn treader + letterboxd reviews 

#prince caspian #caspian x #edmund pevensie #lucy pevensie #peter pevensie #susan pevensie #eustace scrubb #reepicheep #aslan #voyage of the dawn treader #the voyage of the dawn treader #the chronicles of narnia #narnia #jadis #the white witch #vodt #tcon #narniaedit #letterboxd reviews #disney #idk how to tag this just take it #if you see me collecting pc reviews for a caspeter edition next . no u dont <3 #tarva edits