#The Subtle Knife

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[alethiosr]

I feel like His Dark Materials doesn’t fit in with other children’s books. I first read the series when I was around 12 and I couldn’t understand much of it. It was only when I reread it at 16 that I could really absorb all the information within it.

I understand why it was put within that category, but the complexity is so much greater than other books listed for the same ages. I’m an enjoyer of YA fiction but most I’ve read don’t even have a tenth of the worldbuilding and complexy as His Dark Materials.

This is all just my opinion but I think it should be more acknowledged that this series isn’t just for young kids. It’s a rich world full of information and messages that deserve to be analyzed and understood. It fundamentally changed me as a person. It’s much more than just a simple children’s series.

[the-wanderer]

[sankta-wraith]

His Dark Materials has such a beautiful depiction of love, because in the end love is what saves every world, but the rest of the series is almost a lesson in all the things love can’t save. Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter loved Lyra, but it doesn’t stop them from abandoning her and using her as a pawn in their respective schemes. They loved each other but it doesn’t stop them from manipulating and hurting each other, and it doesn’t save them in the end. Lyra loved Roger but it doesn’t stop her from getting him killed, and it doesn’t bring him back. Will and Lyra loved each other, but it doesn’t stop their separation. John Parry loved Will and his mother, but he still left them. Lyra loved Pan, but she still left him behind in the world of the dead. There’s no absence of love, but it’s not the cure all other books often make it out to be. The love is there, but it doesn’t change anything. And yet in the end it’s Will and Lyra’s love for each other that saves every world. It’s Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter’s love for Lyra (and each other) that lets them defeat Metatron. In a series where love has consistently failed to save the character, two of the most important and seemingly impossible feats are accomplished solely through love. And yes that means that the story inherently contradicts itself, but that’s what I love so much about it. Love is by nature contradictory. The point of the story isn’t to show that love is all powerful or that love achieves nothing. The point is that love doesn’t usually doesn’t solve anything, but that we should continue to love, and that every now and then, love truly will save it all.

[internetfriend-movedmoved]

[casualavocados]

I actually think it's more complicated than that. I think, if bad people think it's bad, then, maybe it's good.

HIS DARK MATERIALS 2.01 | The City Of Magpies

[unchangingwindoww]

Adrianne Lenker - Not A Lot, Just Forever

[chaotictoast]

I love series where the main character(s) didn’t actually save the world to save the world.

They were just doing something else and happened to save the world at the same time.

[quotespile]

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

[meltedbrains]

I love the simplicity in Mrs Coulter's design. In a world where everyone's soul is able to think and speak on its own, in a shape with clear connotations about your own personality and mindset, here is a woman whose very essence is unnamed, completely unwilling to communicate, in a shape with unclear associations (in western and northern Europe at least) that has the most similarity with an engineer but with an unfamiliar beauty that is both off-putting and entrancing. I just think it's neat story telling.

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Customized His Dark Materials Funko Pops by @ocriadordearte on Instagram

[teridax-the-467th]

Day 5: Binoculars

[sankta-wraith]

The golden monkey is probably the funniest change from the books, because in the books he’s literally Satan incarnate, and then in the show he’s the most adorable little shit ever, and he spends half his time staring at Marisa like an abused pet.

How can you expect me to hate him when he looks like this?

[leftycharacters]

Today's left-handed character is Iorek Byrnison from His Dark Materials

[casualavocados]

You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

Amir Wilson as WILL PARRY HIS DARK MATERIALS 2.07 | Æsahættr —The Subtle Knife: Chapter 15

[canismajorastronomy]

got sucked back into the his dark materials fandom. forgot how much i love it