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[moonwaterstories]

The chronicles of Narnia illustrations

-by Pauline Baynes x x x x

[jessmalia]

I’m curious about this so,

* You may interpret this as you want. Like, Peter and Susan both certainly have older sibling syndrome and eldest daughter is kind of a category of it’s own, so if you’re a woman and the eldest child in your family and your favorite is Susan that can still count as birth order aligning. But there’s probably eldest daughters who act more like Peter in the family dynamic and vice versa, so then the interpretation would be different.

This poll is mostly to see, since Narnia is so intrinsically about sibling relationships, how much the character you like the most have to do with them being relatable to you in the family dynamic. Or, alternatively, if a lot of people don’t like the character aligned with their birth order because they see too much of their flaws in them.

Please elaborate on your thoughts in the tags!

[terrified-spider]

I got to participate in the Secret Strahd/Santa on the Misthoppers Discord Server! (:

I was lucky enough to draw @irishandrogyne's Caspian! A reincarnation of Alek!

This was super fun to be a part of; Irishandrogyne, I hope you like it! (:

[mary-maud]

She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

[whats-in-a-sentence]

He wore a tiny little rapier at his side and twirled his long whiskers as if they were a moustache.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

[queeringclassiclit]

Prince Caspian

from The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (1950-1956)

[supernovasilence]

Thinking about how the books introduce us to Narnia as this vibrant, beautiful land and then make us watch it die piece by piece. If you read in publication order you start with Narnia a place of wonder and magic even under the Witch's power and then the Pevensies save it and we get "the Golden Age" and Narnia is really something; if you read chronologically you start with Aslan making Narnia and everything so full of life and song that trees grow from everything that touches the earth and people laugh to be the butt of a joke because they (and everyone else) have never heard a joke before in the history of the world and jokes are fun! And then you read LWW and get to see what Narnia has grown into and get the Golden Age.

And then you read about a Narnia where people are in hiding and magic is a legend (even under Jadis, there was magic) and Cair Paravel is in ruins and lions and beavers are extinct. Cair Paravel can be rebuilt but lions and beavers can't be revived. The characters restore Narnia but it will never be quite what it was. It will never be another Golden Age.

We watch Caspian, boy hero of the last two books, die, grieving and broken and old before his time. Narnia is saved again and it's time for a coronation, just like in MN, LWW, and PC! Yay! Except this coronation will happen alongside a funeral. Underneath Narnia swims a dead kingdom and caves full of monsters waiting for the end of the world. Remember children, all things die.

The next time we open a book, we become the Pevensies, returning to Narnia to find centuries have passed and our magical home has become warlike and worn. Aslan has not been seen in ages; guard towers have been built around Narnia's borders for the many battles. Where are the clearings full of moonlight dances that Mr. Tumnus spoke about, back at the beginning? Tirian assures us Narnia is like that, in times of peace, only visitors from Earth tend to be brought over when Narnia is in trouble. We will not see it. Narnia was like that; good and beautiful and wonderful things did happen. Narnia is death. There will be no after the battle this time, no awakening land or Golden Age after cruelty is stopped. Cruelty and war have seeped into Narnia itself. Guard towers must be built: not a temporary war, but long term militarism. People turn on one another. Everyone dies. Narnia dies.

"I saw it begin," says Digory/the Professor. "I did not think I would live to see it die." Neither did we.

"I did hope that it might go on forever," says Jill. It could have. This is a story. Turns out it's a tragedy.

[marlinspirkhall]

I assumed the reason Logorhythms was trying to make sure Caspian's life mirrored Stephen's as closely as possible was because they wanted to download Holstrom's UI into him & didn't want his brain to reject it, but their actual plan was much stupider.

[tomorrowusa]

It's probably not a good idea to fly anywhere near trigger-happy Russians. We remember how in 2014 pro-Putin Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 killing 298 people.

This time an Azerbaijani airliner crashed after apparently being hit by Russian air defense fire.

An Azerbaijani lawmaker said there is a "very strong" possibility that the crash of a passenger jet earlier this week was caused by Russian air-defense systems on alert for Ukrainian drone attacks. Speculation has mounted that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which was headed from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya region, may have been hit by an air-defense missile before crossing the Caspian Sea and crashing near Aqtau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 passengers and crew. Lawmaker Hikmat Babaoghlu told RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service in an interview on December 27 that such an explanation is most likely "closest to the truth."

The Embraer E190 was on a regular flight from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region.

Evidence points to a Pantsir-S self-propelled antiaircraft system built and operated by Russia.

White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on December 27 that the United States has seen signs suggesting that the jet could have been hit by Russian air defense systems. U.S. experts "have seen some early indications that would certainly point to the possibility that this jet was brought down by Russian air defense systems," he said. Kirby added that Washington has “offered our assistance…should they need it" to the ongoing investigation being conducted by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Evidence, yet to be corroborated by authorities, includes footage from inside the plane before the crash, images of the hole-pocked tail section after the crash, a survivor's comments, and accounts indicating there was a suspected drone attack around the time the plane apparently tried to land in Grozny. Reuters quoted an Azerbaijani source familiar with the investigation as saying results indicated the plane was hit by a Pantsir-S air-defense system, a self-propelled antiaircraft gun and missile system designed by Russia.

Air travel site AeroXplorer reported that the plane was denied permission by Russia to land on its territory after Russians damaged the plane.

The aircraft was not allowed to land at Russian airports despite the pilots' requests for an emergency landing and was told to fly across the Caspian Sea to Aktau in Kazakhstan. The aircraft's signals were jammed on the way to Aktau. The aircraft reappeared on radar minutes before impact.

So the damaged plane had to fly across the Caspian Sea to attempt to land at Aqtau in neighboring Kazakhstan. The plane crashed before reaching the Aqtau airport.

It's a miracle that 29 people survived – no thanks to Russia which wouldn't let the damaged plane land on its territory. Because the crash took place in Kazakhstan rather than in Putin's Russia, there's less chance of a coverup in the investigation.

[roseyjustice]

My apple pen died but ! I got this done before it did lol

I've had major bg3 brainrot lately so here's my tiefling s/i, caspian ! Im still in act one and my tav rn is a drow named Gywn, but I'm sooo tempted to restart with Cas 😭

He's a plucky warlock with trauma and he's holding Astarion's and Karlach's hands c:

[nilsford-prattle]

[reformedfaerie]

“‘You have listened to fears, Child,' said Aslan. 'Come, let me breathe on you. Forget them. Are you brave again?’”

— Aslan; Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis

[jessmalia]

REPOSTED POLL

(Accidentally only set one of the narnia polls to one week so I had to delete them and start over 😔🙄)

Okay I’m super curious about how the general ranking of the Pevensie siblings is in the Narnia fandom, cause I think this fandom is pretty unique in that all of them seem to be pretty equally appreciated.

Putting all the ranking options in one poll will not fit so what I’m gonna do is make four separate polls, one to vote for your favorite, one to vote for your second favorite etc. etc.

SECOND FAVORITE POLL

THIRD FAVORITE POLL

FOURTH FAVORITE POLL

[comfortablynumb]

Actors I think would be incredible in Narnia (despite their age meaning it’d be impossible)

Paul Mescal as Peter Pevensie

Joseph Quinn as Edmund Pevensie

Margaret Qualley as Susan Pevensie

Sophie Nélisse as Lucy Pevensie

Heath Ledger as Prince Caspian (rest in peace king)

Sarah Snook as the White Witch

[mary-maud]

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

[cantheywinthehungergames]

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