HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019–2022) — Season Two

Ruby’s band in the new dw special just casually having a Transfemme lead singer just mmmm….

Yes!

Like sure she’s only a bit part and that kinda sucks but the fact she’s just there casually because RTD has the balls to depict a world where trans people can just exist casually, just…

Yes, yes, yes. More please. It means so much to just SEE people like myself on my favourite show you have no idea. I hope she becomes a regular supporting character.

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.

in my feelings over the way the ending of his dark materials said all that matters is love and stories and working hard to live full lives. that the act of falling in love was enough to bring dust back into the world. that curiosity sparks love and the imagination that makes us human. that playing the serpent just meant telling a simple story all along. that the ease and grace of childhood can be regained through work. and that living for love is more romantic than dying for it

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.

Mary Malone is finally a canon lesbian. We won!!!

Dust is beautiful... I never knew. HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019-2022)

Good lord it’s over -- I am destroyed so here are some more text post + mygifs (to take away the pain) + one at the end that just made me cackle. 

final thoughts, this show is underrated, Marisa arrhhh ruth wilson still has me in a choke hold, i loved it with my whole heart. 

Text posts from the following <3

@ta0xu @nerdyfangirl23

@languesbians @shivspinky @lyraasskywalker @rubivana @everyatomofmeandyou @mxrisabelaxqua @sybilius

HIS DARK MATERIALS S3E08: The Botanic Garden

HIS DARK MATERIALS + ALETHIOMETER SYMBOLS (1/6)

“And I thought, will anyone be better off if I just go back to the hotel and say my prayers and promise never to fall into temptation again? And the answer came back. No. No one will. And I realised there was no one there to reward me for being a good girl or no one there to punish me for being wicked. There was no one. And it was… it was liberating. And it was… It was a bit lonely. But I just knew I wanted to experience everything the world had to offer. I wanted to experience love.” MARY MALONE in HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.08 

Close up – not five steps away – she could see much more about their appearance, but her attention was held by something lively and aware in their gaze, by an intelligence. These creatures were as different from the grazing animals nearby as a human was from a cow.

Chapter 7 “Mary, Alone”, The Amber Spyglass

I wanna make sure Mary Malone gets her flowers for her part in the Doctor Who episode as the singer in the band Ruby is in. Listening to her sing was like hearing the fucking heavenly host, and I hope she gets more chances to be in the show.

She also has a gofundme for her transition:

So shoutout to you, Mary Malone, you absolutely killed it 🙌🏻💜💜

what really gets me about the phrase "tell them stories" is that what humanised the harpies were childhood memories, of the days lyra and roger spent together inside an oxford college and on top of its roof. it wasn't anything grand and extraordinary (the word lyra's parents kept insisting on her) but just the happiness of being with an old friend. lyra's journey to the land of the dead was rather extraordinary, but only the simplest of stories brought her home. i think there's an important message there that while you can choose to live a life full of danger and adventure, the most mundane moments such as your friend baking you a birthday cake or a time where you stayed out in the sun until you burnt can create a life worth telling stories about... only emphasised by the serpent sharing the simple memory of falling in love

'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.

"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