No One Is Told Any Story But Their Own

"What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself”

[blooooom]

there’s a misconception that grief only happens when we lose people. this is not true. we can grieve circumstances, relationships, missed opportunities. in fact, sometimes when you find yourself plagued with waves of emotion from sadness to melancholy you may be grieving yourself. the version of yourself that you might have been if things had been different, or if only you had said something, or if someone had stood up for you.

[jessmalia]

Prince Caspian + Letterboxd Reviews | (vtd)

[jessmalia]

narnia as text posts 4

[valiantqueen]

@narnianetwork voyage 15: dynamics - the pevensie sisters

[southernmarch]

[retvenkos]

once, they had been greater than the stars that shined from above.

but stars            b u r n        o u t

                                        and kings and queens become    l e g e n d s.

the chronicles of narnia by c.s. lewis

[wish-on-a-wing]

Listen y'all I'm just gonna say it: I rewatched The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe last weekend and Prince Caspian this weekend and these two movies are just hella underrated. They have managed to bring to life a beautiful magical world through haunting music and gorgeous costume design and astonishing locations and great visual effects. They manage to engulf the viewer in its enchantment within minutes and manage to stay beutiful and mystic even 15 years after the making. They have managed to take books that are extremely rich in world-building, but are a little simple with characters and ideas (I love the books, don't get me wrong), and make them a little more complex so that they are suitable for both children and adults (and everyone in between), while still giving great respect to the source material. The characters are lovable but flawed. There is something to be learned from each of them, something to relate to in each. The world is portrayed as kind and amazing and terrifying and cruel all at the same time. The movie makes you forget everything around you for two hours, but still make you think. They leave you feeling warm.

I just love these movies so damn much and will deffend them to my grave.

[southernmarch]

“I can go anywhere I want, just not home”

[ristelich-deactivated20240203]

I got caught up in the reading again, sweet

[southernmarch]

“Well, he’s only the king of the whole wood. The top geezer. The real king of Narnia.”

[athoughtfox]

"This puts Peter symbolically somewhere between father and Aslan for Lucy and - notably - closer to Aslan than their father, that is, closer to being the voice she loves best in the world. I think there is A Lot to be unpacked there" Oh man oh dude Oh Lord I really want you to unpack this please! If you can't or don't want to then thats okay! I love your writing!!

Well friend since you have asked HERE GOES

I think this scene where Lucy is trying to identify who is calling for her with ‘the voice she likes best in the world’, and her guesses go from her father to Peter to Aslan is one of the most interesting in the whole of the Chronicles. The order in which she puts them says a lot

Lucy’s actual father is a character we know almost nothing about. He’s father to her biologically and raises her early on, but he’s little more than that. At the other end of her list is Aslan. Christian lexicon is pretty strong on the idea of fatherhood, and in being at the top of the scale, Aslan is the perfect ‘father’ in a divine sense, but not a practical one.

Then in the middle we have Peter, suggesting that to Lucy, he’s the ‘father’ between her dad and Aslan who combines these things, halfway her practical parent and halfway divine leader. 

The fact that Lucy is revising her guesses as she listens to the voice suggests that to her Peter’s voice is closer to Aslan’s than their father’s is. Given how Peter raised her the first time and knows her far better than their actual father, it’s not surprising that Peter is closer to being the voice she loves best in the world. Probably that also means closer to being the person she loves best in the world (which turns out to be Aslan). In Conclusion - Lucy is more attached to Peter than to her father. 

What’s also important though is the fact that Lucy, when she’s at her closest guess, mistakes Aslan for Peter, and that has some serious implications about Peter. One thing the movies miss a bit is just how enormously powerful Peter is. He’s not just High King above his siblings, but above all Narnian rulers, forever - and in the books, Narnians are often obsessed with him specifically, over and above his siblings (this is also to do with his name and throne of St Peter, leader of the church, all that stuff - he’s also got a lot of similarities with King Arthur, for whom the lion is sometimes used as a symbol. To me Peter’s ‘High King’ character feels like Lewis went what if I combined King Arthur and...the Pope).

In terms of the chain of command, he’s one step below Aslan and above everyone else (which is why I’m obsessed with his book and LWW film characterisation being better than his PC film one, because I think a character who is burdened by that kind of power is more interesting than one who is possessive of it).

Lucy is traditionally the character who sees most clearly, and here she perceives her brother as being the closest thing to Aslan that is not Aslan himself, in a domestic sense of love and protection but also in a broader sense of overall authority and power. So that’s...something.  

[karasevdah]

So after days of pleading with other countries to spred awareness about the current situation in Serbia, a tweet with a video showing police brutality got spread:

And a lot of the responses were:

Apparently only problems worth talking about are those of first-world countries. And it seems that to a lot of people Europe will always remain just England, France, Germany and Italy. And let all of us living in small countries oppresed by totalitarian regimes rot ig.

I am sick of this selective activism.

And Fuck America.

[sydney-empire]

Serbia’s leader, Aleksander Vucic, is very similar to Trump in that he is more of a TV person than an actual educated politician. I think the two are even friends, or at the very least Vucic looks up to Trump.

Their issue regarding police in Serbia stems less around the BLM movement and more so around the pandemic and the country’s response to it.

When the pandemic began, they imposed what was essentially a military curfew on the people. Anyone caught outside for any reason was beaten by officers and thrown in jail. This didn’t even help flatten the curve overall because the leader continued to allow soccer matches and other big social gatherings to take place.

Not only that, but around the time of the election in June of 2020, Vucic made the abrupt claim that the virus was gone and it was safe again, and he lied about the number of cases and deaths. Obviously, this was a ploy for him to get reelected. In fact, they lied so bad that they messed up the distribution of data, so people caught on rather quickly. But either way, people believed him, he got reelected, and he immediately went back on his claim, continuing to throw people in jail if caught outside. The people were rightfully pissed and riots broke out.

So yes, Serbia does have it extremely bad. Just because it’s a small country doesn’t mean it’s issues are irrelevant, and anyone who feels they can dismiss this shit because these aren’t Americans can fuck off. You clearly don’t care about other people.

[sydney-empire]

Please reblog this version of the post because no one knows anything about Serbia and they are experiencing their own Trump reign.

[western-woods]

Edmund Pevensie + finding himself in very dangerous situations and giving his siblings heart attacks

[narniadiaries]

skandar's performance in the lion the witch and the wardrobe is SO good and im fighting anyone who says otherwise

[southernmarch]

their acting in this scene *chef’s kiss*

[narniadiaries]

the pevensies being typical siblings is the best that ever happened to me

[southernmarch]

The Chronicles of Narnia (2008) Dir. Andrew Adamson

“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”

[narniachronicles]

So I’ve been reading Weta’s book on art, creatures and weapons in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” and “Prince Caspian” movies and this is what I have learnt:

(I apologise in advance for how long this is, I ended up taking over two pages of notes to write this)

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