#pullman crit

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pullman should have instead committed to making an enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers between olivier bonneville and lyra in tbod. yeah he wants to kill her but honestly i see that as the lesser evil when malcolm is our only other option

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listen the moment authors get so big and famous editors can't tell them no anymore should be the moment we take the pen and keyboard away from them (this is about the secret commonwealth)

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waiting for phil to manifest in my room to shoot me for this.

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pullman talking shit about the chronicles of narnia is the funniest thing. like ok dude you wrote 700 pages of racism and misogyny and published that in 2019 what's your excuse

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you might think i am exaggerating but may i refer you back to the alethiometer not telling lyra abour roger but it chose to tell her about tony makarios when she hadn't even asked about him. it can tell her whatever it wants but chooses not to. and while it is thematically sound for lyra to lose the ability to read it, pantalaimon settling should have fulfilled that purpose but the scene didn't have enough emotional power to carry it so here we are

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pullman's omniscient narrator is a very good choice in many aspects of his dark materials. using it to develop the romance is not one of them. it made the emotional development feel detached because it wasn’t brought up until it had to be instead of weaving it in through how will and lyra feel and react to each other organically

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“young girl smell” pía i had almost completely forgotten why would you remind me of the existence of that line again. speaking of women being written exclusively from men’s perspectives, i notice the only time it’s from lyra’s perspective is when there isn’t a main guy character around, so when will (beloved) or malcom (beloathed) is around whatever they think about lyra or worse whatever is going on gets told mostly from their perspective and their feelings the most. like i was re-reading the land of the dead scene from TAS. and um. lyra has known pan her entire life. but will gets the most description of how much is hurts to loose someone he hasn’t met yet. and lyra rejecting pan gets told through his eyes and not lyra’s own (at least not in depth) as he’s watching it happen. and lyra is the main character of the series....i might be angry. 🧂

this is why northern lights is the only good book

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the way pullman wrote about lyra in tsc, especially from malcolm's pov, could be found in the how men write women subreddit. what the Fuck is "young girl smell", pullman. i'll kill you