#cs era

[chained-spirits]

A drawing will come out of this, I've been itching to do personality polls, so BOOM

I'm gonna turn this into weekly polls

[thenmichael]

Dabbling in HW art (wip)

[chained-spirits]

Hehehrheheh

More doodles! Including @chained-spirits

[whewchilly]

carlossainz55 First week of training camp 🚴 ☀️

[stolligaseptember]

happy, carefree laurent, my beloved

[laur-the-cat-prince]

angst. so much angst.

[dranka]

The Betrayer ✨

[sweetnnaivete]

mad scientist pandora evil surgeon evan hot professor barty and weird man off the street regulus

[the-ronan-cycle]

Okay but Will was so (fairly) angsty about how his blood killed Katherine, but she purified the sword!!! It was the Lady who killed Katherine because she wanted Visander to resurrect

[mccallhero]

and so it goes, and so it goes and you're the only one who knows

[chained-spirits]

I heavily doubt there will be an update this month, I've been preoccupied with Artfight, and LM Twili, so I apologise

I still want to post something this month, so here are some Chained Spirits doodles I did during exam season !

[thenmichael]

UPDATE !!!

I’ve decided to call the comic Chained Spirits, like a lu or lm type schtick, and I am working on chr sheets as we speak.

I hope this will eventually see the light of day, however long that takes

When I finish making character sheets I will post them and then start with the story / lil introductions of relationships an’ all!

(Though this will mean actually learning anatomy instead of ‘fuck it we balling’ it)

Edit: I will be pinning this for now, once I get all the chr refs I will make a master post or smth

Prolouge (Coming soon)

Chained Spirits

Timeline

Am I thinking on starting a comic???

Perhaps, the new year and my motivation will hopefully pull thru

[butchstabu]

engel @ brussels - august 5, 2023

[abiglifeinsurancepolicy]

adding champagne problems is gonna be a mistake isn’t it

[chained-spirits]

YIPPEE

I still love ur drawing of cs vio smsmmssmms AARRRG

More white board doodles! Including some art from @chained-spirits

[starr-angelofnarnia]

Some Things Should Be Left in the Past

I'm trying to distract myself from the hellscape that is my home country, so let's talk about Narnia.

I see things every so often in my Google suggested articles about the Greta Gerwig adaptation of Narnia and if fans think it's a good or a bad thing, what they'd like to see or not, and if more of the series will be adapted this time around.

Personally, I'm indifferent. I grew up with the live action (I guess from Disney?) film version and it'll always have a special place in my heart. (And Skandar Keynes will forever be my first celebrity crush). Before that, I had no idea there was another adaptation (BBC TV series apparently). So I really don't care either way.

The more interesting question to me is if more of the series will be adapted. The BBC series adapted The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and the Silver Chair. The Disney/Walden Media adaptations covered the same books minus the Silver Chair. As a child, I had a few picture book adaptations of only The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. And I think, if you asked the average person (not a fan of the series) what they know about the series, they would most likely be most familiar with LWW because it tends to stand alone.

Okay where I'm going with this now: I don't think any of the other stories beyond the three that feature the Pevensie's adventures in Narnia will be adapted because the rest of the series just kind of sucks.

Disclaimer: From here on out, there WILL be spoilers for the entire seven book series. I'm analyzing the plot and sharing my opinions on it. If you don't want anything spoiled, you should probably stop here.

Still here? Okay!

LWW will forever be one of my favorite stories. And it's because I loved the story so much I decided to read the entire series. But I found the rest of it (again, outside of the class 3) to be disappointing. And I think there are a few reasons for that.

LWW is the strongest book in the series because it was the first. It was written as a children's fairy tale. The book is even dedicated to C. S. Lewis' goddaughter, Lucy (I believe Lucy Pevensie is named after his goddaughter as well). And the religious connections, the fact that its a Christ-like tale is blatantly obvious. But the story works. The metaphor is clearly there, but you can enjoy it without being religious. Because here are these children who leave behind the tragedies of World War II and find themselves in a magical land, one they quickly become royalty in.

I honestly think from there though, Lewis sank too hard into the religious metaphor to make it believable. As a stand alone book, LWW is the story of Christ. But the more he adds on, the more it becomes apparent that this isn't just a metaphor but some type of parallel universe. From LWW, we get to Prince Caspian where the oldest two are now told they cannot return because they're too old. Then comes Voyage of the Dawn Treader where Lucy and Edmund are finally told the same thing; that they are too old. And at some point, Lucy expresses how much she will miss Aslan if she can't come back.

And now, its no longer a metaphor. Because Aslan tells Edmund and Lucy that he does exist in our world, but he goes by a different name. At this point, Aslan is no longer a metaphor for the Christ story, he expresses that he IS Jesus.

From there, the series takes a weird turn as it attempts to fill in gaps in the established lore. The Silver Chair is still chronological but I honestly don't remember much of it because by this point, I didn't care. I was just trying to earn my AR points. But after SC, the books aren't chronological. The Horse and His Boy takes place in Narnia during the Pevensie monarchy but this book isn't about them--they only appear briefly because of a plot against their country of Narnia. The Magician's Nephew finally establishes how Narnia came to be and sets up where the Wardrobe comes from that will eventually get the Pevensies to Narnia. And then the Last Battle sees the world of Narnia come to an end.

So, problem number 1: Lewis has established the four Pevensies as the protagonists, the heroes of the series. And by book three, we've cut out two and added a new one. While spin offs are lovely and expansions of the world, trying to expand on the same plot with a new cast of characters doesn't tend to sit well. This is why I think the SC isn't memorable. The Pevensies have no place in it; only their cousin who's just been introduced in the book prior. I don't care about the cousin.

Problem number 2: It's great to have an expansion to the lore of a fictional world but the following novels don't really do that. The closest thing to an expansion of the lore of Narnia is THaHB. But again, the Pevensies aren't the center of the plot. Introducing a new character in a familiar world without focusing on the familiar characters takes away from the enjoyment. The Pevensies are RIGHT THERE, but I'm following the story line of some random kid.

Out of the last four books, the most memorable to me is the Magician's Nephew because there is a lot of world jumping. In this book, we get to see the end of one world, the establishment of a new one (Narnia) and we get to see where some of the most memorable elements of LWW come from (the lamp post, the wardrobe, the professor, etc).

The Last Battle? I hate it. It shouldn't exist. In my [not so humble] opinion, LB ruins the series. And I've seen analyses into this that are fascinating takes, (that the train crash could make sense in a historical context; that the problem with Susan is she demonstrates that sometimes remaining alive [alone] is worse than death) but I think this just attempts to fix problems that are unfixable.

There is so much more I could say on the problems with the series but I'll save that for now. I'll conclude this accidental essay by saying there is a reason the book to screen adaptations have occurred as they have. The stories we know and love, those that persist and stand the test of time, do so because they remain relatable, they give us a glimpse into times past, and they have cultural significance. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe does show up on lists of Classic literature (it was required reading for me as a sixth grader). The rest do not. And there is nothing wrong with leaving the other books in a series behind; Lewis' Narnia would not be the first nor the last to have one story persist while the rest fall into a bit of obscurity. And that's okay.

If I can find them, I may go watch the currently available adaptations, both the BBC series and the films (though, again, I'm partial to the films). As Greta Gerwig takes up the mantle of readapting the series, of course LWW will be there and perhaps PC and VotDT as well. I think it would be fun to see the creation of the world we know and love with an adaption of the Magician's Nephew. But I think the rest should stay in the past.