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i think the duffer brothers got confused about which show they were writing because this was supposed to be ‘stranger things’ and not ‘straighter things’

malyen0retsev

thinking about the fact that max writes letters to her family members, to the other five members of the party… and to steve. yes sure, steve himself shows exasperation with how he’s ‘always the god damn babysitter’, and the kids all wind him up endlessly; but out of all of the older teenagers, max only writes a letter to him. steve isn’t just an annoying supervising teenager to the kids. he’s their found family, their found big brother, and the reason they’re so comfortable winding him up is because they know that they have this next level of understanding with steve. he’s their friend, he’s the one who looks out for them and cares about them, the one they know they can go to about absolutely anything, and he’s their big brother. and nothing can highlight that more than when max wrote letters to her closest loved ones, letters saying goodbye because she thought she was about to die and didn’t want to leave words unsaid, she wrote one for steve too. just as the party are max’s found family, so is steve.

sexwithstilinskiandhale

me reading a slow burn with an idiots to lovers trope

ideaofnorth

Boreal: I’ve always admired women with a strong work ethic

Mary: *gay silence*

inbirdsandflowersanddragonflies

Can we talk about my feral children not even trying to open that door and going straight to kicking it down?

capnclem-deactivated20240818

would add will too but he's always half annoyed he's just like god OK fine 🙄

hisdarkjsjsjwisbdbfndksj

lyra: my dad killed my best friend

everyone in that damn movie theater:

evocatiio

will and lyra bonding over their trauma whilst watching paddington together this is perfect television

torvagatai

Lyra was in front of Will when he took the photo of the tower, so that picture’s definitely going to come back in season 3 to cause us pain.

amazalina

The moment when Lyra asks the alethiometer whether Will is a friend or an enemy and it answers “He is a murderer” reveals a beautiful aspect of it - and of the Universe - that I think we tend to overlook, even though I think it is essential.

The alethiometer tells the truth, but it also often gives advice and opinions. It cares, which means the fabric of the universe cares. And that’s beautiful. But Lyra has a destiny to fulfill; some things are already written before they happen, and so not only does the fabric of the universe cares, it supposedly nudges you towards what you were always going to do, towards who you were always going to become. It suppresses time, and it draws a path for you - therefore putting free will in danger.

But that answer “He is a murderer” is brilliant: the alethiometer does not answer the question Lyra asks, because ultimately, what Lyra asks can’t be answered. What the novel asserts is that the bonds human beings form are beyond any universal truth. Yes, Will and Lyra’s destinies are intertwined, but the alethiometer can’t (or won’t) say in what way. And this breathes back free will into the narrative, in a way that lets you know that love belongs to us, that relationships depend on us. Moreover, that answer makes the whole narrative refuse to give in to the idea that destiny is written very simply, straightforwardly and univocally. Destiny isn’t any of these things, and the only way we are able to experience it properly as human beings is by looking back on our life and recognizing all the coincidences and choices that brought us here, perhaps on purpose. And it is necessary for Lyra’s path - as it is to any of our own paths - that she cannot know what her destiny is.

I also love that this line questions the very idea of what a soulmate is. Will and Lyra are textbook soulmates: their fates are intertwined; they both wield metaphysical weapons important to their main quest; they balance each other out,… but the universe cannot speak on their relationship. On what they are to each other. Is he a friend? No, or not yet. But he’s not an enemy either, or he isn’t yet. Is he a soulmate? They only become soulmates once they decide that they are; only when their chosen paths and the mythology that they build for themselves make them become soulmates (”every atom of me and every atom of you…”). Defining relationships depends on us, and it’s based on actions and feelings (reactions) concerning these actions. Will can only be defined by what he sees himself as, by what he did, because Lyra is not important in the definition of his character yet. In other words, I believe that the beauty of this scene is that it highlights how the bonds that tie us to other people are about what we make of them, that they are complex and inextricable, and how love is such that it is both about chances and choices.

TV!Lyra: According to the alethiometer Will's a murderer, but don't worry, it specified that he's "the good kind".

Book!Lyra: The alethiometer told me nothing about Will except that he killed a guy. I'm relieved, I thought he was a weakling.

sthuntress

“She matters more than she can ever know. The fate of all in this world depends on her.”

cityskyylinee-deactivated202001

why lyra travelled through the portal: i have no one left in this world, i can’t trust anyone, i am on my own. i must travel through this portal

why will travelled through: kitty cat :)

it only took me four years to figure out that the writer of About Time and Doctor Who's episode Vincent and the Doctor is the same incredible man named Richard Curtis.

and those two are my favourite things ever!

#doctor who #about time #richard curtis #vincent and the doctor