apple heart: lucy pevensie x lyra silvertongue one-shots collection
paradise dropped: a small town/high school au panjava fic where will and lyra sit on a bench at the park, drink wine, allude to an accident lyra was involved in that caused the death of her best friend roger, but most importantly we learn will has a huge crush on her.
it's a long way out to reach the sea (but i'm sure i'll find you waiting there for me): au where lyra isn't captured at the end of the subtle knife / one-shot
novaturient: lyra in the aftermath of the amber spyglass... but make her aroace
symbol no.14: bird: a small fic where pantalaimon and lyra talk about their travels (and especially the land of the dead) instead of letting it fester. yes, this was written angrily in response to the secret commonwealth
this peppermint winter: written right after the finale of s1 of the show, a holiday fic following lyra on her first christmas after her travels and dealing with roger's absence
within walls: set in lyra's world, it follows an original cast trapped in a facility that performs human experiments
possibly upcoming...
multi chap
spoonful of gold: dark academia au. the one where i rewrite the secret commonwealth into being a whodunnit dark academia murder mystery ft. lyra x tony
dust bunnies: a mixture between novelising the show and remixing it a bit more with the book canon. includes: dust bunnies in the wind (nl), dust bunnies in your eyes (tsk), dust bunnies in the sun (tas)
the hand of hermes: lee lives au. as it says on the tin: the one where serafina is just in time to save lee's life and he joins the kids of prophecy on their journey
through the ribs (4 chaps): enemies au. the one where lyra is fighting against heaven and will is fighting with heaven and they are racing to find eve.
universe au: small town au. it's called universe au because... because there's no multiverse... get it. includes: paradise dropped (panjava gets together), paradise glowed (shenanigans during lyra's 18th birthday party), paradise beyond (this one's multichap, the plot of tsk but twisted to fit a modern day world and also panjava is like 20)
martes, canis, felidae (6 chaps): roger lives au.
subjects of the fates (3 chaps): greek mythology au. the one where lyra is pandora and will is prometheus.
one-shots
sunshower: a rewrite of the dust falling scene where the multiverse is saved because of the love between adam, eve and their daemons
phosphenes: a companion piece to NOVATURIENT where lyra spends the weekend with dame hannah at her family's estate. there's a ball.
aura mediocritas: the anti dust au. the one where lyra realises the angels (dust) are manipulating her and she decides to make her own destiny
frost bitten some serafina x lee set after he crashes in the aftermath of the wraith attack
marsh lights: a rewrite of the gyptian chapters of tsc except lyra and tony are a couple
hearthwarming: my lyra x tony manifesto
narnia x hdm
we'll be old enough for fairy tales again: the last battle!susan and the secret commonwealth!lyra have a talk at the pevensie's funeral
daughters of eve: narnia except lyra is there
original
the fairy theory: inspired by WITHIN WALLS, human experiments done on people with multiple dæmons
the animal's belly: adapting an old book idea to be about dæmons. could this be done with canon characters? maybe. and maybe i will go that route. but who knows.
Iorek: god you’re so fucking stupid. Lyra isn’t dead she’s *in* the land of the dead. Also I fixed that knife because I am a smith beyond measure and a better dad than you.
My favourite thing about His Dark Materials's world building is that characters will just reference or talk about something completely wild and just not fucking elaborate.
Like what the fuck do you mean Lee Scorsby is "a New Dane from the country and Texas" what the fuck is new Denmark
Then occasionally the narrator breaks in the explain big super important stuff, like the majestuirum but start it with shit like "After the death of Pope John Calvin" HELLO JOHN CALVIN WAS POPE WHAT THE FUCK
What a daemon is is literally never explained the reader just has to take in the vibes of how character talk about them
It would be so out of character for a person in real life to just exposit history or explanations about how the world works because everyone already knows, barring situations where a person might not know some vital information and the fact none of the characters do this is genius.
(if you can pardon the ramble, whenever I see the daemons mentioned, I remember my theory about them, and also potentially another "metaphor" of the series; we know a lot of it is biblical, some very obviously, but stay with me on this... another big part of the story is the concept of childhood/growing up. one of the most important things is a substance known as "dust". through the northern lights, characters are able to see "other worlds in the stars". Pantalaimon's nick-name is "Pan". all this made me think of the story of Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up, who flies with pixie dust, and lives in Neverland- second star to the right. so all THAT made me think of the quote about where fairies come from- “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” so... I wondered if maybe, in Lyra's world, Daemons, which are an extension of a person's soul, first appear when a baby laughs for the first time. or, perhaps when a baby is first capable of experiencing more complex thoughts/emotions, maybe even as a form of comfort in great distress, and the Daemon takes an outward physical form. there, that's all~)
Not only is having worldbuilding threads that are mentioned once and never picked up again not a flaw in fantasy media, I'd go so far as to say that a lack of such threads is a flaw. If everything ties up in one neat little package, you're missing the point of fantasy worldbuilding. Like, don't do it on every page, or your setting is going to be an overstuffed mess, but every so often you are not only allowed but obligated to casually drop some utterly batshit worldbuilding detail and then just never follow up on it. Maybe some rocks are sentient. You don't owe your reader an explanation. Just fucking go for it.
"Come on, I'll make a new bandage, I'll put some coffee on to cook, I'll make some omelette, whatever you want, and we'll sleep....We'll be safe now we've got the alethiometer back, you'll see."
HIS DARK MATERIALS • 2.05
— The Subtle Knife, Chapter Nine: Theft
"Where's my free will, if you please? And this child seems to me to have more free will than anyone I ever met. Are you telling me that she's just some kind of clockwork toy wound up and set going on a course she can't change?"
"We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair."
HIS DARK MATERIALS • Season One
— Northern Lights/The Golden Compass: Chapter Eighteen, Fog and Ice
