you never believe them when they tell you that hdm will end up obliterating you emotionally you just read the books and/or watch the show thinking "hey this looks cool" and now you're crying because its the end and this bear just ate his dead best friend as a symbol of honor, this girl had to leave her literal soul behind to save ghosts from suffering, two of the most high - chemistry asshole parents ever just fell down a hole for eternity to give their kid a future and two preteens who finally understand they're in love just had the literal universe tell them "lmfao u thought" and split them apart forever

but yk it's fine because at least we got to watch a lesbian scientist making friends with wheel elephants and climbing trees while thinking about love and marzipan.

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

So His Dark Materials had a bad movie and 10 years later it got a good show. Percy Jackson had a bad movie and 10 years later it got a good show. What both of those examples also have in common? Lin Manuel Miranda! LMM is the answer to everything. If we want Eragon adaptation to be good we need Lin to play Brom

Wish everyone saying that Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't able to play a deep character very shut up and watch His Dark Materials.

Out of the little grove, away from the baffled Specters, out of the valley, past the mighty form of his old companion the armor-clad bear, the last little scrap of the consciousness that had been the aeronaut Lee Scoresby floated upward, just as his great balloon had done so many times. Untroubled by the flares and the bursting shells, deaf to the explosions and the shouts and cries of anger and warning and pain, conscious only of his movement upward, the last of Lee Scoresby passed through the heavy clouds and came out under the brilliant stars, where the atoms of his beloved dæmon, Hester, were waiting for him.

The Amber Spyglass, Ch. 31 "Authority's End"

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Happy birthday to Lin-Manuel Miranda! 💙🤗

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HIS DARK MATERIALS S3E05: No Way Out

Feeling sad about the fact that like. Lyra had nobody waiting for her when she came back to Jordan. Yeah, Iorek said that she's always welcome at Svalbard, but as we saw in season one, that's pretty far away, it's not like she can just pop over for coffee and a catch up whenever she feels like it. Serafina goes through with her, but she's got a whole clan to be queen of, she's got shit to do- and, with the prophecy resolved, she can consider her duty to Lyra done, she doesn't need to keep watching over her anymore.

She had Roger, but he's dead and dissolved into atoms, same with Lee. Her parents jumped into oblivion, so it's not like there's even the hope of reconciling with them at some point. The only people she still has in Oxford, really, are the Master, Ma Costa, John Faa and Farder Coram, who would probably like to see she's okay, but we don't see any reunions with any of them. And at the end of the day, it's not really the same as Will reuniting with Elaine. For all we joked in the first two seasons about Lyra collecting parents everywhere she goes, when all is said and done, she doesn't really have anyone left- nobody on that level, at least.

And that's honestly really sad to me.

Never underestimate a man's ability to have beef with a sassy pre-teen orphan

You love her. Of course I do. It’s not enough though, is it? Love. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt her. It doesn’t mean she’s safe with you. It doesn’t work that way.

shoutout to the guy who jumpscares me everytime i find him on a piece of media

Once Upon a Time in the North

Illustrated edition by Chris Wormell

Me reading terrible fic on ao3, because I'm desperate for a certain man and I have nothing else left: I'm a survivor. I'm a warrior. I can do this.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9

tbh still angry at the complete miscasting of Lin Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby. He was far too poor an actor for the role.

There. I've said it. A weight off my mind.

I binged his dark materials like a month ago