[bellamysgriffin]

@pscentral EVENT 43: CHILDHOOD FAVORITES

[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

[dragonsareawesome123]

The Artful Dodger (2023-), 2x08 - "Change Of Heart" // His Dark Materials (2019-2022), 3x07 - "The Clouded Mountain"

[casualavocados]

"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

[casualavocados]

"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

[starminsters]

hi beth!!! just wanted to send you aome love. thinking of you!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH JULIA❤️❤️❤️❤️

[starminsters]

HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.03 | 3.05

[csevet]

you say to me here is a woman. she's insane and irreparably broken and probably a danger to herself and others. and i say yay yippee woohoo! and things of this nature

[teridax-the-467th]

Day 23: Celestial

[alethiosr]

I think there’s something so symbolic about people who have daemons who settled as animals not native to where they grew up. People who are so far from where they belong but often don’t even realize it or give their daemon’s form a second thought. Do they long to go to where their daemon would be more at home? If so, do they chase that feeling or do they ignore it?

Lee Scorseby ended up far in the arctic simply looking for work, not even aware that Hester was an Arctic Hare until Iorek told him. He had assumed that Hester was a Jackrabbit and only realized that the arctic meant something to him after speaking with Iorek. He could’ve found work anywhere else but he somehow ended up where he needed to be anyways.

Lord Asriel is probably the most interesting example of this though. He was always traveling, always looking for something, never being content to relax and exist in one place for long. The first time we ever see him he’s described as looking like a wild animal trapped in a small cage, totally out of place with his surroundings. When he finally stops moving is when he creates the Republic of Heaven and the basalt fortress is built. It’s in another world with vague geography, but it’s likely roughly within natural snow leopard range. The last place Asriel ever lives is where he and Stelmaria might’ve finally felt some sense of belonging.

It’s not something given much depth and thought within the books, but in a way it doesn’t need to be. We get to see it naturally in a way that isn’t forced. It’s beautiful and real just like many of the other intricacies regarding daemons. It adds to these people as people instead of becoming something too fantastical and bizarre.

[starminsters]

WILL PARRY & LYRA SILVERTONGUE — 3.08 "The Botanic Garden"

[starminsters]

SERAFINA PEKKALA and RUTA SKADI HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019 - 2022) — 2.02 "The Cave"

[lordbelacqua]

lord asriel appreciation gifsets (4/?)

[starminsters]

RUTA SKADI in "The City of Magpies" SERAFINA PEKKALA in "The Dæmon-Cages"

[starminsters]

How did you get here? I crossed through a window... that my father made. You?

HIS DARK MATERIALS — 2.01 "The City of Magpies"

[malglories]

just thinking about his dark materials and how lyra can read the golden compass perfectly as a child, but as she gains more experience — as she truly experiences the world and what it means to live and lose — her natural, effortless interpretation of the compass fades away. it’s not that she can’t read it, it’s that the pure childlike interpretation of it is buried under all these adult experiences. and how she has to then teach herself how to do it all over again, but this time not through instinct but study and diligence and critical thought. and how that’s a good thing because it means she actually understands it more deeply.

[lordbelacqua]

Well, if the thinking was clever enough, it would find a way to obscure itself from the Magisterium. Wouldn’t it?