Dusty Mustelid

A His Dark Materials/Dæmon sideblog. I tag spoilers for the TV show but leave book spoilers untagged, beware!

[one-with-the-tree]

Okay one thing I absolutely WILL give the show credit for is that they really focus in on the relationship between Roger and Lyra. It's very clear that they're best friends and that they love each other a lot.

I'm also re-reading the book but at times Roger kinda feels like an afterthought, and his friendship with Lyra isn't as well-developed as in the show. Heck there's parts of the book where Lyra just straight up forgets about her best friend, who just got kidnapped? The series meanwhile makes it VERY clear that even while she's with Mrs. Coulter she's constantly thinking about saving Roger in the back of her mind.

So yeah props to the show for doing something better than the book.

[clarabosswald]

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked the alethiometer and it said ☼☼☼, 🍎 🍎, 𝚨𝛀 𝚨𝛀, 🕯🕯🕯, ⚗️⚗️⚗️, 🐜, 🍎, 𓆈𓆈

[tragicotps]

Lyra's Marisa coming out 😈

[tvarchive]

HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.08 “The Botanic Garden”

[monsieurenjlolras]

Crying weeping sobbing about how at its very center His Dark Materials is a story about childhood best friends who love each other so much that one of them literally rips the universe apart because she promised she'd save the other one and she refuses to abandon him. "I told them you'd come, just like at bolvanger" yeah okay okay okay even in the world of the dead Roger never for a second questioned that his best friend would show up and help because she promised. the way children love is strong and pure and more powerful than anything in the world its okay I'm fine its fine.

[casualavocados]

Will had begun to turn and call out, to keep them quiet: "Now you must keep the bargain. Look after the wounded people and start repairing the buildings. Then let the boat tie up and refuel." He knew that it would take a minute to translate that and let the message spread out among the watching townsfolk, and he knew, too, that the delay would prevent their relief and anger from bursting out, [...]. The bear watched and saw what he was doing and why, and understood more fully than Will himself did what the boy had achieved.

— The Amber Spyglass; Chapter 8

[visdiefje]

Thinking that part of the reason why "love yourself, you are beautiful, adore yourself" falls completely flat on me is because I can't do anything with abstract instructions and it simply means nothing to me. But very funny is that I'm accidentally getting there anyway by entirely unconventional means (mind animal)

Love yourself: okay. How? What does that mean? How can I love something I have no particular feelings for? It just is. How do I have feelings on purpose? How do I make myself care? Am I supposed to pretend to have feelings I don't until it's real? I end up not doing this because it doesn't feel like an actual thing I can do

Dæmonism, apparently: okay, so imagine the other half of your mind voice, the one you bounce your inner dialogue off, as a person. Name them, find out what they're like, and now their opinions hold more weight. What do they want you to do? Would that benefit you? Is it possible that this part of you knows how to take care of you? Imagine them as a companion of your own, that is always with you wherever you go. Isn't it nice to be in your own company sometimes? You can represent them visually through an animal. There are many ways to determine what animal would fit. You see qualities of yourself in this animal, don't you think this is a creature worth of admiration, respect and love? Then why wouldn't you be? Build a relationship with this part of you, make a way of living with them, grant them kindness and feel love for them. But remember! They are you and you are them! OOPS you've been tricked into caring for yourself and holding yourself to a higher esteem!

[theyreaten]

She's a 10 but she separates children's souls from their bodies for religious reasons

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Which book from the original trilogy is your favorite?

Northern Lights/The Golden Compass

The Subtle Knife

The Amber Spyglass

Voting ended onApr 7, 2023

[moosiala-deactivated20250927]

dust is my biggest enemy why are you everywhere and where do u even come from can u not leave me alone for just one day

[cozcat]

(via @maandarinee)

[xephia]

[transvioletbaudelaire]

[toxicshipsincorporated]

i kno everyone has forgotten about his dark materials but I saw this and couldnt resist.

[queerbrujas]

okay but making mary gay in the show is SUCH a choice I’m so impressed

she’s the serpent. she’s temptation, the cause of the fall, of eve sinning. in the magisterium’s—the church’s—view, she symbolizes evil, the corruption of innocence.

but the point is that they’re wrong.

the point is that the fall was a good thing, and it is her telling her story to these children that heals the entire world. and so having a gay woman and her experience of love be the catalyst for that, maligned as she is by the people in power, just…

AAAAAAAA

[queerbrujas]

okay but making mary gay in the show is SUCH a choice I’m so impressed

she’s the serpent. she’s temptation, the cause of the fall, of eve sinning. in the magisterium’s—the church’s—view, she symbolizes evil, the corruption of innocence.

but the point is that they’re wrong.

the point is that the fall was a good thing, and it is her telling her story to these children that heals the entire world. and so having a gay woman and her experience of love be the catalyst for that, maligned as she is by the people in power, just…

AAAAAAAA

[casualavocados]

Then we are on the same side. No, we are not. 

HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.08 | The Botanic Garden

[kirjavas]

[coralfancroissantmug]

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