yeeticheep

a narnia sideblog 

[iliveinnarniaandstudyathogwarts]

2005 - 2025

[lasaraleen]

Someday I’ll finish my one-shot about how Digory looks like Andrew, and he doesn’t like it, but Polly can’t even see it anymore because despite the fact he has similar facial structure, he has spent his life spreading so much kindness that his wrinkles and eyes are entirely different.

[lasaraleen]

So sorry to become someone who steals tweets but this is so funny

[yeeticheep]

aravis and shasta are so girlboss x malewife

[live-a-thousand-times-deactivat]

If you asked the High King what courage is, he’d tell you it is a thing hard to come by.

Of you asked the Gentle Queen what love is, she’d tell you that it’s a rare but beautiful thing.

If you asked the Just King what loyalty is, he’d tell you that it’s a hard thing to stand by.

And if you asked the Valiant Queen what faith is, she’d tell you it’s something not everybody has.

But the High King would also tell you that when the one that you love most dearly is in trouble, you might just find that you have some.

Then the Gentle Queen would tell you that it’s also at times a very easy thing to let happen, and sometimes even harder to let go of.

Before you could walk away the Just King would also tell you that if you exercise it enough, it soon becomes as easy as breathing.

The Valiant Queen will smile then, and say it is a fragile thing, and that it has to be taken care of, and in some people it never stops growing.

[digorykirke]

do i want a dilf? no. do i want a dlf? yes

[yeeticheep]

wow the last time i posted on this blog i thought i was straight 

[narniachronicles]

Concept Art of Cair Paravel by Ben Wootten of Weta Workshop

[lasaraleen]

So uh. Narnia content on Tik Tok exists

[lasaraleen]

@shurislut to be fair to me, I found the stuff and then in a wth induced stupor immediately came here to announce what I’d found 😂

[lasaraleen]

Also here are a few I found

[katjazart]

Edmund! I've been rewatching the narnia movies and I don't think I draw the Pevensies nearly enough. As always, let me know what you think :)

[monk-core]

Shamelessly yoinked from facebook, but it’s hard not to see our current pandemic panic in these words from C.S. Lewis:

“How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.” … “the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. 

They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

From “Present Concerns” New York: Harcourt, 1986

[nothinggold13]

I need you to understand that I'm dying for you to spend four hours talking about Susan Pevensie

This ask made my day when I saw it, because it was obviously in response to a tag I left on a recent edit: “I am fully capable of spending another 4 hours ranting about Susan Pevensie but I’m trying not to.” Which is, in itself, a reference to the time I wrote this essay on Susan, which I think took me between 3-4 hours to write. And just imagine if I also counted the time I spent on Flowers For Her Grave; my 10 chapter fic on Susan’s life leading up to and after the events of The Last Battle. 

And the worst part is I am also absolutely DYING to spend ANOTHER four hours talking about Susan Pevensie, because that is one of my favourite subjects. But it is currently 9:10pm, so I do not have time to talk for 4 hours. That would be Irresponsible.

BUT I AM GOING TO RANT A LITTLE ANYWAYS.

So the edit which inspired that tag featured lyrics from “Kingdom Fall” by Claire Wyndham, and the specific lyrics are the chorus: “I’d rather watch my kingdom fall. I want it all, or not at all.”

Which connects to Susan SO MUCH, and also contrasts her to her siblings in a significant way. Because, of course, Susan always had a hard time with the faith aspect of her time in Narnia, but I have no doubt that she loved Narnia while she was there. But when she couldn’t go back? Well, then she didn’t want it anymore. It wasn’t enough to cling to the remnants that lived inside her. Instead, she let go completely of the world she lost, and took hold of the only world she could reach. For her siblings, it was different, though. Because they did believe, and they knew they had Aslan to look for back in England. They had things to hold on to. 

For Peter, Edmund, and Lucy, they know that Narnia is not completely gone, even if they can’t get back. They have their memories. They have the lessons they learned. They have their strengths and bravery. And they have ASLAN. They never completely let go, because they understand that they don’t have to. Remembering helps them in their true purpose of growing closer to Aslan in our world. But Susan doesn’t share that.

Sometimes she still has a glimmer of something Narnian about her. Some days she is still more queenlike than childlike. Some days she is braver than she believes herself capable. But she doesn’t choose this. If ever she is aware that this stems from her time in Narnia, she rejects it. Because she can’t just have some of Narnia. It’s not enough for her to have a piece. She only wants what she can touch; what she can hold. She puts her walls up the moment it gets taken away from her. She clings to that false degree of control, because it’s all she has. 

She lets go. Gives it up.

She’d rather watch her kingdom fall. All, or not at all.

[yeeticheep]

Susan was always the neutraliser in a family of catalysts. When she was younger, people said she was the sensible one, which made her feel very grown up, but not always in a good way. When she was older, people said she was the pretty one, which also made her feel very grown up. Even when she forgot about Narnia because it hurt too much to remember, Susan never forgot how it felt to really be grown up, to live with a crown on your head and the world on your shoulders. Maybe that is why the nicest compliment she remembered was a woman who was friends with their mother who told her she was the gentle one.

[crazytom666]

[mxgxn]

Edmund Pevensie is the Loki of Narnia

[multismusa-deactivated20170218]

What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: I understand the Chronicles of Narnia was at its heart a fairytale with theological analogies for children. But why did Lewis never address how they had to adapted to life on Earth again. Why does no one talk about how the Pevensies had to grow up with a kingdom of responsibilities on their shoulders, only to return to Earth and be children. Take Lucy, she was youngest and perhaps she adapted more quickly-but she had the memories and mind of a grown woman in an adolescent body. Edmund literally found himself in Narnia, he went from a selfish boy to mature and experienced man. He found a purpose and identity through his experiences to come back as just Edmund, Peter’s younger brother. Did people wonder why the sullen, sour boy came back, carrying himself like a wisened king? Did his mother wonder why he and Peter suddenly got along so well, why they spent so much time together now? And Susan, the girl of logistics and reason came back with a difference in her. She learned how to be a diplomat and ambassador, Susan the Gentle had to live to endure not-so-gentle circumstances. She had the respect she wanted, only to be just another teen girl. And Peter, he entered the manhood and maturity he so wanted. He earned the responsibility and stripes he yearned for. He learned to command armies and conduct the menial tasks demanded of a king to rule a nation. But he came back, appearing to be just anther glory-hungry boy. Not to mention the PTSD they must have struggled with. Especially Edmund. How often did he wake up in a sweat, screaming a sibling or comrade’s name? His parents believe it’s the war, but it’s an entirely different one he has nightmares about. How often did he have trouble with flashbacks and mood swings? And how many times did he and Peter sit over a newspaper or near the radio listening to reports on the troops. How often did they pour over lost battles and debate better strategies. Did their parents ever wonder why they seemed to understand flight war so well? How long was it before they stopped discussing these things in front of people? Why does no one talk about this??? 

[cocoartistwrites]

Why am i fucking crying

[limblogs]

Why does no one talk about how the Pevensies had to grow up with a kingdom of responsibilities on their shoulders, only to return to Earth and be children

It’s not addressed because it’s understood. It was the shared experience of the generation. You are describing coming home from World War One, battle wearied and aged beyond belief, but walking around in the body of a youth. C S Lewis went to the front line of the Somme on his nineteenth birthday and went back to complete uni in 1918 after demob.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Not seen it with this very very pertinent addition before

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

Oh man, all art really is a reflection of the society it comes from, isn’t it?

[kaunis-sielu]

If I wrote a Narnia fic would people read them?

[yeeticheep]

YES