#t. discourse

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—Trevor Noah, ‘Born A Crime’

[narniadynasty]

Little angry aren’t ya? No need to get so bitchy. People are just pointing out that how you choose to interpret the series is annoying. Not to mention funny because we all know the truth: if it had been Peter who fell away you wouldn’t care at all. It’s just because it’s a woman that you feel the need to piss all over the rest of the characters and people who point out that your perspective is massively flawed.

The only one being ‘bitchy’ is you.

Yes I am angry. I have every right to be when someone comes on MY POST trying to push their OPINIONS on me as if they are facts. Yes I am angry when MY POST gets called ‘stupid’ or ‘literally the dumbest thing in the history of things’ just because I have a different OPINION. 

Why don’t you stop being a coward and come off anon? After all, I’m just pointing out how annoying YOU’RE being by acting all high and mighty and righteous under the anon option.

I find it annoying disrespectful and rude when people come onto my posts and try and push their annoying interpretations on me. I’m just pointing out that their OPINIONS AREN’T FACTS. 

You know what’s funny anon? You acting like it’s just because it’s Susan that I give a damn about the ending. If it was Peter I would think it would be just as horrible. Same with Edmund or Lucy. It’s not the fact it’s the woman that’s left behind but the fact that she loses her ENTIRE FAMILY for making a different choice that makes me so angry. It’s the fact that she gets excluded for liking material things more than Aslan. Why couldn’t she just end up in Real Earth with her parents? Why does she HAVE to go specifically to the Real Narnia? 

Where exactly did I ‘piss all over the rest of the characters’ anon? Was it when I pointed out that JIll and Eustace still had lives to live? Was it when I pointed out that Peter and Edmund were just recently into their adulthood and weren’t able to make Earth as great as they made Narnia? Was it when I pointed out Digory didn’t say anything despite knowing Susan since she was a CHILD? Or was it when I pointed out that Jill and Polly, two people who we’ve SEEN IN THE BOOKS have the least interactions (or none really) with Susan, cast judgements on her and her character all because she chose differently? Was it when I said that Polly, a woman who got to live to an old age, was acting like Susan was in the wrong just because she chose a different way to live (which Polly got to do)? 

The only person’s perspective that is massively flawed is YOURS for acting like you’re the only person who’s opinion is right. 

Get over yourself anon. 

[luffys]

Anon who was on Nat’s blog. My point was that since English isn’t her first language, she sometimes misreads things and misphrases things. It was nothing about you, I just wish people wouldn’t always jump to bad faith

There was NO WAY to mis-read the original post. It literally states ‘white Narnia fandom throw fits over a lack of blonde haired Lucy but then stay silent over the treatment of Calormen and calormene characters’. 

At no point did it ever mention fan creations. So tell me how she could mis-read that? There is no way and you trying to EXCUSE it, when I pointed it out to her, is really shitty. Especially in the wake of her shitty response and ‘apology’.

People don’t always jump to bad faith. They jump to it when they feel as if they have been wronged and as someone who is Indian-Canadian, who’s culture she chose to use for her depictions while at the same time saying ‘Honestly it’s really hard finding content’ despite admitting she knows what Bollywood is, I have a right to jump to my conclusion. I have a right to get angry and defensive or ‘jump to bad faith’ when she implies that we, coloured people, are not worth the extra effort. There was nothing in what she said that I misinterpreted so again, thanks for nothing.

[narniadynasty]

Okay, first off, @rangerelik, don’t tell me to calm down. You don’t like me defending what I believe then stop interacting with my posts. I have every right to get angry when people keep forcing their OPINION on me and acting like it’s absolute law or fact. IT IS NOT. 

Secondly, it’s not actually a Christian book. Just because Lewis used certain religious themes and beliefs from Christianity doesn’t make it Christian. First and foremost it is a FICTIONAL. FANTASY. SERIES. 

He has Greek and Roman aspects in it too. Does that make it inherently Greek or Roman? No it doesn’t because it’s a fantasy series INSPIRED BY different religions or cultures. 

Here’s an actual quote from Lewis himself on allegory and Christianity and Narnia:

“If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?” This is not allegory at all. So in Perelandra. This also works out a supposition. . . . Allegory and such supposals differ because they mix the real and the unreal in different ways.” 

So no, Narnia is not some allegorical book representing Christianity. Stop trying to say it is when he HIMSELF said it’s not. 

[narniadynasty]

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