"No light, but rather darkness visible"

His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust fan blog. I like and write adult fanfiction. Minors are not welcome.

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[unspeakablearchives]

[animentality]

[god-holes]

Can’t overstate how much i appreciate writers who post “controversial" fics in fandoms made up predominantly by people who hate acknowledging taboo subjects. avg of 30 people will want to read your fic, even fewer leave kudos/comments, and theres a high likelihood tht someone will make an adverse comment about how theyre “disgusted” they were “forced” to see the pairing/tags while they were scrolling, but th fics still prevail. thank you

[externalmonologuedeepposting]

Olivier Bonneville is so funny.

He's like a cartoon of himself. Self inflicting slapstick.

He's such a vicious little cunt that I'm wrapped back around to liking him. Buddy stop hitting yourself.

[precision-instrument]

Tumblr user, even if your fixation fades, do not delete your sideblog. Someone out there just as obsessive as you is going to be deeply sad about losing that archive of material

[no-light-darkness-visible]

I've had occasional crying time after The Rose Field, thinking of how Aleppo is in the book versus how it is irl. One of the oldest cities in the world.

[emikodd]

i follow some narnia freaks but where are the his dark materials freaks

mamas thinkin about the importance of building the republic of heaven where we are etc etc

[hyperpotamianarch]

In case anyone is wondering how my Judaism in His Dark Materials project is going: I'm still trying to reconstruct the last five centuries of Jewish history without accidentally getting Sabbateanism and Frankism to replace mainstream Judaism (they probably won't. It's not likely. But I have no idea what's going on). Of course, last you've seen me I've been talking about a different pair of false messiahs. Things change, however.

In actuality I've been thinking of altering the very basis of the modern Yeshivah structure. I have zero idea if it makes sense. I just honestly don't know how one can completely reconstruct five centuries of history with so little details!

[lizardsfromspace]

Tom Hooper directed the pilot to His Dark Materials the same year he dropped Cats & i really wish he had used the same technology for the dæmons. Just a naked furry human Pan following Lyra around all the time

[otherside-picnic]

even if God were real, it would be necessary to depose him

[otherside-picnic]

With your help, we will bring an end to the Kingdom of Heaven and enact the People's Republic of Heaven

[weird-tea]

Lord Asriel is on Tumblr everyone

[neko--hime]

Re-reading the Golden Compass and wow Lyra’s internalized misogyny is so realistic. She knows so little of university politics but picks up that the people around her look down on the women’s colleges and so she then also views them as inferior.

Also I can’t believe as a little kid I kinda assumed Jordan college/ Oxford were fictional places

[jaqobis]

truly think one of the other lowkey funniest moments in hdm is when mrs coulter says she and asriel should've kept and raised lyra. like it's such a poignant scene, and i see where she was coming from, but also she was completely wrong. oh god. if there are two people who should not be around a child it's asriel "child killer" belacqua and marisa "child torture, for science" coulter. like, mostly staying away from lyra for a lot of her childhood was in fact the best thing they could've done for her. good job team. that is not the thing to regret here

[strix-alba]

Look at the little beaded mulefa that I designed and made! The lack of diamond bauplan in the TV show was my single biggest beef with the art design. I'm very pleased to present the version of them that lived in my head when I read the books in middle school.

It is made up of 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, 30-gauge wire, and two red jasper beads for the seed-pod wheels.

[valtsv]

☕ His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

this one's a little bit personal, but i hope that philip pullman knows just how many kids' lives he's saved by writing books telling them that not only is it okay to say no; to question and to go against what adult authority figures tell you is necessary and right, but sometimes it's the greatest good that you can do. that parents are not infallible gods whose choices about how they treat their children should never be challenged. that being taught to believe that disobeying or lacking respect for institutions of authority betrays a wrongness within you on an existential level that needs to be cut out of you to save you is an appallingly cruel and self-serving lesson to attempt to instil in a child. while they already have a justified reputation as baby's introduction to atheism, i would argue that they don't get enough credit for not only acknowledging that children are an oppressed class whose interiority and basic human rights are often denied them, but taking a fairly radical stance in opposition to the fact.

[no-light-darkness-visible]

BTW, I am an assistant mod on @anti-intercision , a blog that shares photos and other art of people with animals that could be interpreted by the viewer as pictures of people with their daemons. In the spirit of how "Lady with an Ermine" inspired Pullman.

[no-light-darkness-visible]

I imagine that in Lyra's World, humans have never gone to the moon or attempted to leave the atmosphere. Not only do they not have airplanes or jets, but the existence of daemons is a nightmare logistical issue for space travel.