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queenlucythevaliant · 7 months

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make your choice

Digory didn’t think much on making choices. The whole world would be over when his mother died anyhow.

Of course, this didn’t keep him from being curious or adventurous. It was exciting to meet new people, exciting to go exploring and to speculate about whatever mischief his Uncle Andrew was up to. Being a lively young boy was perhaps the best distraction from being a boy about to lose his mother.

Going after Polly was so obviously right that it might as well not have been a choice at all. What else could he do? It was easy to be righteous in the face of an evil old magician who said things like "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."

Yet once they were there in that rich, in-between place, with all the worlds there were splayed out before them— ((Make your choice, adventurous stranger)) Well. What sort of lively young boy would he be if he turned back now?

Digory could feel the bell’s magic ((strike the bell and bide the danger)) beginning to work on him. There was no use in resisting. He felt tendrils of magic sinking deep beneath his skin, laying claim to any free will he’d ever had. He said as much to Polly, but she wasn’t listening.

Polly said ((or wonder till it drives you mad)) that he looked exactly like his uncle when he said that.

Jadis’s whole world had ended. Everyone had died, and she’d just gone to sleep. She might have stayed sleeping forever if he hadn’t woken her. Sitting outside his mother’s sickroom, Digory wondered ((what would have followed if you had)) if that was really so shocking. Hadn’t he been preparing for just such an end? Were Charn and Mabel Kirke so different?

Narnia was not an end. It was a beginning.

And face to face with the Lion, Digory was forced to admit that the bell had not been magic. Nothing had caused him to strike it. Make your choice, the writing had said. Digory had chosen.

I’ve spoiled everything. There’s no chance of getting anything for mother now.

The enormous Lion asked him, "Son of Adam, are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done?" and Digory sputtered his maybes.

"I asked, are you ready?" the Lion said again.

At that very moment, an ultimatum flashed through Digory’s mind. If I salvage your beginning, will you prevent my end? If make amends, will you save my mother? He thought of refusing, of holding his choice hostage until his future was secure. Could the Lion be bargained with? Could Digory twist his arm, as he'd twisted Polly's?

But what Digory said was, "Yes."

Jadis conjured such lovely visions of the future. His mother's face would lose its gray sheen and she would say, Why, I'm beginning to feel stronger. There would be no more morphia, no more of the terrible drawn look about her when she slept. She would rise from her sickbed, vibrant and whole ((Come in by the gold gates or not at all)) rise and walk to the door and fling it open and then Digory would go running into her arms.

He gasped as though he'd been mortally wounded. Perhaps he had been in a way. After all, had the gate not said ((take my fruit for others or forbear))?

Jadis ((for those who steal and those who climb my wall)) called Digory the Lion's slave. Years later, he would think back over all that those words implied. The Witch seemed to think that Digory had no will, if he was willing to subordinate himself to Aslan.

But was it not Aslan who made Digory realize his own culpability ((shall find their heart's desire and find despair)), and in the same breath gave him a way to repair it? Had not Aslan given his will back to him?

And at the foot of the tree, Aslan gave Digory his future back as well.

He was old, but now he is young again, watching as the stars fall headlong across the black of the world-that-was. The world is ending at last, but Digory does not fear such things any longer.

#'let's get some half-finished stuff done and posted before the Inklings Challenge' challenge #i'm not 100% satisfied with this but I quite like all the concepts. we'll see #i actually have a bunch of these type of character study things from back in the day that i'd like to keep revisiting #anyway. i have always always always been fascinated by the writing on the bell #curiosity would totally be MY fatal flaw in a fairytale/myth so i can absolutely see where Digory is coming from #like of course he has to strike the bell. of course #but the way it gets frames in relation to Choice and Will and Responsibility is just really cool #a neat counterpoint to all the stories of those overcome by curiosity whom the narrative justifies #it was your fault. you need to own that #curiosity for its own sake is not inherantly a good thing #and then of course i can't write about Digory without pulling in the dymanic with his mom's impending death #that is by far the most compelling aspect of MN it is the linchpin of the whole thing #so yeah #founded in song #the magician's nephew no longer #narnia #leah stories #pontifications and creations

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drumlincountry · 6 months

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I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

#Gaza #Palestine #I talked to him a bit afterwards but god what do you say!!#he said he found the gig helpful anyway. Supportive. So that's good.#I'm gonna see if I can find his friends band and share some of their songs #Me Fein

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aaronstveit · 4 months

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if you’re cold, she’s cold. let her in your window

#song of all time i’m afraid #music #kate bush #wuthering heights #hit post #to everyone wondering if i upscaled/yassified her i did not! i didn't even take this screenshot i saved it from google images #but there was that big thing recently where artists found youtube upscaling their videos w AI without their permission so that's :|

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just-french-me-up · 9 months

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psssst... add that Florence + The Machine song to that playlist. Add that Hozier song. Add that Mitski song. Add that popular bop. Someone's art touched you to your core and relates to you, as it did with millions of other people

that's not cliché

that's the fucking human experience, gorgeous

#music #i guess imma tag this #hozier #florence and the machine #mitski #just add it #who cares if it's overdone #it's what it means to YOU #you carry the meaning #you carry the serotonin #add that song to that character playlist who gives a shit #you found meaning in it as did thousands of people #that's a testament to how GOOD it is #not how cliché it is #mine

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puhpandas · 4 months

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HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY FNAF SECURITY BREACH!!!!!!💜💜🐻🐻

god this game means so much to me. drew gregory and freddy because man they’re one of the best things to ever come out of fnaf. their relationship is so beautiful and i’ll love it forever and ever. i’ll love THEM forever and ever. this is a tribute to the best relationship in fnaf!!🐻🐻

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kicktwine · 4 months

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#fhsy #animation #my art #fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #aelwyn abernant #adaine abernant #anyways. siobhan and brennan i was; fully; just like tears running down my face etc. crying weeping ETC. ouch. ouch #procreate dreams #!! found out that grouping is SO helpful. ive been discovering a ton of hidden QOL things which i dont think should be hidden #but theyre doing a patch soon with destructive lasso tool so i forgive them for everything #HAPPY NEW YEAR HERES TO JUNIOR YEAR IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS (POPS CHAMPAGNE)#the background song - I took out brennan’s voice and replaced the bg audio with ‘everywhere and nowhere’ from ffxiv #which is a LOVELY song it makes me feel things

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theromanceofaffliction · 2 years

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#clara found this comment on an electronic song but she isn't on here rn so she said i could post it #spit.post

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shorthaltsjester · 9 months

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the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

#also with softer vibes. i offer They #every silly little brainheart found family deserves a to build a home edit #the mighty nein maybe most of all. thats my family #also the lyrics deliciously well suited to m9.#when jester pulls that. stupid tarot card for fjord. home or traveler. and there's a carnival wagon. and veth says Thats Us! . them #i just think about . the tower is their home the xhorhouse is their home the lavish chateau is their home the balleater. the mistake.#the nein heroez. veth and yezas apartment. the dome. fjord and jesters living room floor.#a bar with a silly name on rumblecusp #also like. the song has stone and dust imagery. gardens and trees.#the inherent temporality of life and love and how that holds no bearing on how greatly people can love. im losin it okay.#ive been making this edit for days straight with my computer screaming at me for trying to shove 143 episodes of cr into a 2min20sec video.#crying becuase. theyre a family do you get it. they were nine lonely people and most of them had given up on seeing their own lives #as something that might be good. something that might make the world a better place. and in the end they're heroes.#and it doesn't matter if no one else knows because They know they're heroes. and they wouldn't've believed that was true when they met.#rattling the bars of my enclosure. to be loved is to be changed #posted on twitter and want to get in the habit of posting here too bc.#general reasons but also bc . i have noticed some of the ppl liking/sharing it are also ppl who shit on my ops by vaguing about my posts #which is in general whatever but does leave a funny taste in my mouth.#critical role #the mighty nein #cr2 #caleb widogast #caduceus clay #jester lavorre #fjord #veth brenatto #yasha nydoorin #beauregard lionett #mollymauk tealeaf #my posts

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juniper-clan · 2 months

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Moon 17: Life Is But A Dream

PREVIOUS l NEXT

#I’m now doing a thing where music I listened to is included in the moon title #and this song makes me feel very nostalgic on behalf of these cats #especially the last page #right when you’re at the chorus #tfw when you see your dead found family in your new found family #life is but a dream #it’s what you make ittttt #warrior cats #clangen #clangen warrior cats #warriors oc #jcmoons #wc oc #wc

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v-albion · 5 days

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World’s Greatest Actor

Song: worlds greatest actor by Terminallysilly

Masterpost

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queenlucythevaliant · 1 year

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You know, one thing that I will say for Jadis: if I knew the Deplorable Word, I would live in perpetual fear of saying it by accident.

#i think it would really stress me out #narnia #founded in song #pontifications and creations

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nouverx · 11 days

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WHY SO SERIOUS?? 🎉 Nika is here to party!!

A little unfinished project I started on flipaclip last year while the Luffy and Kaido fight was still happening in the anime :D

#one piece #one piece fanart #luffy #monkey d. luffy #animation #2d animation #2d animator #gear 5 luffy #gear 5 fanart #flipaclip #completely unrelated to hazbin lmao but I've working on this for a WHILE #It was sleeping in my file bc I didnt want ro post it unless finished but also never found the motivation to finish it #better posted unfinished than not posted at all I guess #also yes I'm an animator eheh I just dont animate that much outside of work #I'm a 3D and 2D animator and I sold my soul to the animation industry #also I love gear 5 so much my looney toon little blorbo #maybe one day I'll finish it.... who knows #song is crayon by G-Dragon #I thought the chaotic vibe of the song fitted for Nika but the lyrics arent that related ahah

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why-does-this-happen-to-me · 8 months

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I like the song Sugar in my coffee because coffee is something that I haven't tried, but I have the feeling that I wouldn't like it, but also because it feels like a story about asexuality in a way. Like, the guy doesn't like coffee, but meets a "coffee guy" that calls them a child because they says that they are more of a hot chocolate guy themselves. The coffee guy drives the other to his coffee warehouse because surely his coffee will make them change their taste. Before they drinks it the singer is like: Yes, this is it, I'll be able to relate to other people about this and talk about it. They hate it. I don't think I have to explain what my brain understood in this song. (I know that he goes by they/he, but in the song the other is referred only as he, so I only used they to make sure it was easy to undertand who I was talking about every time).

I thought about searching the song in google before posting this and this is the third thing that shows up: