Out of the dark the little boy came, hopeful and frightened, whispering over and over: "Lyra—Lyra—Lyra..." Why did the little boy keep calling Lyra's name? Hope.

— THE AMBER SPYGLASS

“she didnt do this why are you making stuff up 😡” in my free time i like to get on the internet and spread lies about people i hate. Hope this helps

And while im on the subject the way jk rowling straight up stole dementors from philip pullman’s specters but removed all the thematic and allegorical weight from them before copy pasting them into her stories is so funny like of course you would do that

Mr. Handler (far left) has turned 54. Let's congratulate him for his devotion to noble and befuddling endeavors.

We don't know what is going on in this picture.

specters in his dark materials are a symptom of destructive capitalistic greed and an allegory for the threat of nuclear weaponry. And dementors…..well they make you feel sad :(

And while im on the subject the way jk rowling straight up stole dementors from philip pullman’s specters but removed all the thematic and allegorical weight from them before copy pasting them into her stories is so funny like of course you would do that

And while im on the subject the way jk rowling straight up stole dementors from philip pullman’s specters but removed all the thematic and allegorical weight from them before copy pasting them into her stories is so funny like of course you would do that

so backbiter the magic double sided blade opens portals now and the "You wanna be his dark materials so bad" allegations remain unbeaten

If you start behaving like a grown up, the spectres will get you. I'm just trying to imagine what you'll look like when you're older.

send me a number between 1 and 53 and i'll give you a song from my his dark materials inspired playlist that i've recently finished cultivating 💛

“So in my defense, when he touched me, the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense, spring.”

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from “Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same As Doing Something Right” in her book, The Year of No Mistakes (via heartcountry)

lets all drill holes in our heads for more room for God

the thing about the garden of eden is that while eve was partially deceived into eating the fruit of knowledge, she primarily did it of her own volition because she wanted to know. whereas adam only ate it to be with eve. she's everything he's just ken

Lin manuel miranda wrote the scuttlebutt in between takes of filming that line so nevermind this post is cancelled

the lee scorseby “you love her but thats not enough is it” line is also like at the very heart of the story. the fact that mrs coulter loves lyra doesnt stop her from treating her cruelly and it doesn’t stop lyra from rejecting her. the fact that lee loves lyra doesn’t stop him from dying and leaving her. the fact that lyra loves pan doesnt stop their separation. the fact that john parry loves his wife and his son doesnt stop him from leaving them and it doesn’t bring him back. the fact that will and lyra love one another doesnt stop them from being torn apart. love never conquers loss in hdm the way it usually does especially in kids media and thats what makes the ending so jolting and devastating because you keep believing until the last second before will closes the window that there's going to be a happy ending, because how could there not be, they're in love…. but then they lose each other anyway

I am a witch! I don’t forgive!

Philip Pullman, from ‘The Subtle Knife’

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. ‘Til I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again. 

philip pullman was crazy for putting the word rhododendrons in the very first sentence of his book marketed to 4th graders like good luck and godspeed sounding that one out