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patient dying in the name of toxic yaoi as it should be

cant believe a bunch of english kids go through a fuckin cupboard and find a magical kingdom full of wonder and they go “yeah we’re the royal family now”

typical english behaviour

adventures-in-asexuality

I think what’s more creepily imperialistic is the reaction of everyone in Narnia to the Pevensies.

Like, the Pevensies end up the royal family in large part because everyone’s like ‘it has been prophesied that you will come and rule us and everything will be great!’ and, well, in-universe I can’t really fault them on that; if I were a young teen or pre-teen in a completely foreign country, I too would probably just go along with whatever seem to make people friendly to me.

But the reaction of the Narnians, in almost ubiquitously welcoming these foreigners as obviously destined to rule them even though they know nothing of the country and the culture… now that is some creepily imperialist writing.

renebriller

This is the only good reblog of this post in it’s entire 3 year hellscape existence

roachpatrol

if four foreign kids popped out of a magic box and deposed trump by the express wishes of god’s fursona, i’d crown ‘em. this winter already fuckin feels like it’s lasted 100 years.

cardassiangoodreads

This is why people recommending them as a “less problematic alternative” to Harry Potter drives me INSANE. And I don’t even dislike the books or anything but… have you even read them at all recently, or just like looked at a summary on Wikipedia for that matter? Everything problematic about Harry Potter is magnified tenfold in the Narnia books, and then some. Again, I don’t think they’re bad books and I am generally not a fan of saying “children shouldn’t read this” but it’s just bizarre to say that the alternative to the modern low fantasy with some troubling (but likely unintentional) choices of worldbuilding and imagery should be a book series from midcentury that is imperialist and Islamophobic and misogynistic in a way that is like integral to its actual themes, written by a dude who was famous for his Christian apologetics

I’m sure @peterdyckmancampbell has some Thoughts on this)

renebriller

Thank you @honey-bee-fangirl and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

#10 reblogs #tumblr milestone #thank you #10??

powerburial

sleeping flat on my back with a 315lb weighted blanket and i have to have a spotter help me get out of bed in the morning like i dropped the barbell on my chest

70sscifiart

Remembering the best quote tweet I ever got.

straycatj

hi landlady, have you ever thought of making mr j a little frilly collar like this? I think it would be very dashing and some cats don’t seem to mind…