#glimfeather

[noybusiness]

@headspace-hotel Yes, that's a really devastating concept for the children's return in Prince Caspian.

My mother and I both always found the image of all the unexplored pools in the Wood Between the Worlds exciting.

Are you thinking of the Telmarines? The Telmarines came through a portal on an island. The Archenlanders are descended from King Frank V's second son and his followers. The Calormenes are descended from Archenlander bandits.

Yes, there are Roman gods in Narnia, like Bacchus and Silenus, not to mention all the river gods, wood gods, nymphs and fauns. C.S. Lewis considered paganism the precursor to ecstatic Christian spirituality and didn't have an issue with nature gods subordinate to Capital G God.

Yes, stars in Narnia are sentient. The protagonists meet Ramandu, a resting star, and Coriakin, a somewhat fallen star, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Ramandu's daughter, who appears to be half human since she's said to have the blood of the stars in her veins rather than to be one herself (unlike in the 2010 movie, where she's a star and named Liliandil). Ramandu's daughter marries Caspian and is the mother of Rilian; she's murdered by the Lady of the Green Kirtle's serpent form. In The Last Battle, the protagonists see all the star-people come down to earth at the end of the world.

@queen-of-carven-stone Lucy or Susan didn't almost marry a star. Are you thinking of when Lucy was forced by the Dufflepuds to go into that manor and reverse the invisibility spell cast on them (by themselves) after they were changed from regular dwarfs called Duffers into monopods by the magician Coriakin, who is a former star being punished for prideful ways by having to govern foolish subjects? There was no forced marriage aspect, though.

I'm not sure whether I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in book form first or saw the 1989 TV serial first. The 1989-1990 TV serials of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair were very faithful to the books and I recommend seeing them if you're able to, actually. Most scenes are transferred straight from the page to the screen. Great imagery, intros and music, too, very mysterious and evocative, and I can still hear the music as we speak. The same composer did the Brideshead Revisited TV serial, Geoffrey Burgon. I especially loved the winged panther and cockatrice in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) played Puddleglum in The Silver Chair. Warwick Davis (Willow in Willow and Nikabrik in the 2008 Prince Caspian film) played Reepicheep in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Glimfeather in The Silver Chair.

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

[best-bird-bash]

Speaking of owls... Submit Glimfeather from Narnia !

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[damnedtreasure]

please do say some more about your favorite sweater patterns i recently learned how to do cables and boy am i excited for the possibilities that the future holds now

Ooooh! So many possibilities! Cables are so satisfying, especially the patterns that look impossible to follow that really are much simpler than they look.

Okay, so! I got a bit carried away looking through patterns, as I always do, but! Here's a whole bunch of pretty patterns I've either made myself or have had my eye on for ages. I'll start with the sweaters, because that is what you actually asked, and then move to the honourable mentions that aren't actually sweaters.

So for your classic aran sweater, the Moby Sweater Man by PetiteKnits is delightful; it's a dk weight pattern, so it's a little thinner and lighter weight than a true aran sweater, but the cable pattern is fantastic.

The Handsome Chris Pullover by Caryn Shaffer was reverse engineered from the sweater Chris Evans wears in Knives Out, and I'm so glad someone beat me to figuring out this pattern so I didn't have to.

Now, if you're just learning or wrapping your mind around cables, I recommend the Antler by TinCanKnits. (I can never recommend their stuff enough) Their patterns are fantastic, always, and very beginner friendly. There's also a free hat version, so that you can see how you like your yarn with the cable pattern, or see if you like the cable pattern at all before you lock yourself into buying sweater quantities of yarn.

Also by Tin Can Knits, and we're diverging from the classic aran sweater fully by now, but Hush is a really interesting design.

Quick aside to say that the pattern that got me loving cables is the Travelling Cables Handwarmers by Purl Soho, and if you're looking for a sort of one-step-past-beginner pattern, those are fun. They also are a good example of how cables really tighten a garment up, not dissimilar to how ribbing does.

The Seaway Pullover by Ozetta is a really good example of using cabling for texturing, which gives it a really interesting look.

I've been wanting to make the Wool + Honey by Andrea Mowry for ages now... it's not really what you think of when you think cables but look at it...... it's so pretty......

The Field Sweater by Camilla Vad is another one I've been eyeing for ages, same as the Wool + Honey. I just need to make it for someone sweaterworthy someday.

Honourable mentions time because I can't help myself:

The Ranger Cowl by Michael Vloedman is so very perfect for renfaire or DnD vibes.

Glimfeather by Sunidesus Knits is a shawl that I just know is the warmest thing in the world, and one day I will own twenty of them.

All of these are ravelry links purely because that's the database I use primarily, but most of these designers have their own sites as well if you prefer that. I do love ravelry though, and using the filters in the advanced pattern search can be so very useful and also so very tempting due to how many pretty patterns there are.

Best of luck on your cabling journeys!

[siena-sevenwits]

Fell asleep listening to The Silver Chair last night. It made me so happy to revisit.

I rather defeated the purpose of falling asleep by getting chills more than once, most notably when Aslan tells Jill the signs. This book’s been graved on my heart a mighty long time.

I was able to envision Jill’s flight to Narnia more clearly than ever I have.

Aslan is there at the edge of the cliff when Eustace falls. Would he have spoken to them both there at land’s end, giving them the mission, and blowing them to Narnia with great immediacy if Jill had not caused the struggle? Time was of the essence to get to Caspian, and we have his word for it that it would have been easier had they both heard his words and arrived sooner. Yet he called them to his country when time was short too, when he might have brought them days in advance and ensured the meeting with Caspian, or brought them to Cair Paravel directly from Experiment House. He did greater things with the way they muffed the signs, but it’s interesting to consider such things. Imagine Aslan telling the signs to them right at the precipice and sending them off suddenly - a kind of “Follow me” moment.

I never caught the humour of the fact that Trumpkin is saying “Who?” over and over to Glimfeather.

[tenth-sentence]

There was Glimfeather the Owl and Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, and King Rilian the Disenchanted, and his mother the Star's daughter and his great father Caspian himself.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Then an old owl, not Glimfeather, related the story.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

@stealingmyplaceinthesun GLIMFEATHER IMAGINE GLIMFEATHER DOING THIS

How owls dance to music

[demigodofhoolemere]

Reading through The Silver Chair...

- “His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn’t a bad sort.” This lovely progression from the opening line of VotDT 🥺

- Happy crying that Trumpkin is here but devastated crying that Eustace was too late to meet Caspian again. His reaction to realizing this and thinking about his old friend is way too much for me, I can’t 😭

- Also I will fight whoever stole Caspian’s son and made him live with that loss for all this time

- My other kids!!

- Oh my word, taking his son wasn’t enough, his wife had to die, too. Leave Caspian alone, he doesn’t deserve this.

- I love Glimfeather and I love Puddleglum. I happily accept my new children.

- This journey is very dark. I know Narnia can be but this feels maybe more than usual? Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of coming after the loveliness of VotDT? But between the man-eating giants and the talking stag horror and the dark misery and hopelessness of the Underland, so much of this journey is A Lot to take in.

- I KNEW IT. I KNEW THE KNIGHT WAS GOING TO BE A KIDNAPPED AND SILENCED RILIAN. I KNEW IT WHEN HE FIRST SHOWED UP WITH THE WOMAN AND I BECAME MORE AND MORE SURE OF IT WITH EVERY PASSING SECOND THAT THEY INTERACTED WITH HIM IN THE UNDERLAND. I KNEW HE WAS BEING CONTROLLED BY HER AND I KNEW SHE DIDN’T WANT ANYONE AROUND WHEN HE GOES THROUGH THIS PROCESS BECAUSE THEY’D FIND OUT THE TRUTH. I CANNOT DESCRIBE MY SATISFACTION OF BEING SO VALIDATED ABOUT MY INTERPRETATIONS OF ALL OF THE LITTLE HINTS IN THE DIALOGUE. I’M ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

[potpourrifandoms]

More Narnia Stuff

I am not having a fantastic day, so I was looking through my sketchbooks seeking small comforts and I found more Narnia drawings. It’s mostly Puddleglum because he’s fun to draw, but Glimfeather and Eustace and Jill are there. And a bat. And another owl. Sorry the quality is not great, these ones are just quick doodles and not as polished as some of my other drawings.

[art-of-narnia]

Na Runia Koku Monogatari Shinyaku 4 by Saku Kawai Shoichiro & Yaku Nardack

Artwork found here.

[pennypyro]

Glimfeather cracks me up. But he’s just being an owl.

Oh if the kids are making fun of Jill Pole’s name they would definitely make fun of Eustace Scrubb’s name

[raspberryzingaaa]

I need one more arm! Just one! I can't hold my tea AND my knitting! My book is on my lap so I don't need a hand for that but wjat to do what to Do

[forestofdragons]

When the clan’s alchemists create a potion that let one breath underwater, Glimfeather leaps at the opportunity. Literally. 

But she soon learns why fire dragons stay out of the water.

[thelonelyrainbowguy]

Meet Agaricus B. Glimfeather, Druid of the Circle of Spores and my first ever DnD character! High in smarts, low in people skills, and the B stands for Bobert, but don’t you dare tell anyone.

(Please appreciate the fungus-covered bone wand.)

[carewyncromwell]

10 facts about your ana? <3

My dear Ana-Banana! ^.^

1) After being introduced to the Victorian language of flowers by her older stepbrother Jasper (who’s into the Gothic Victorian subculture), Ana has taken to sending her BFF Robin Isherwood @cursebreakerfarrier special bouquets with secret messages for Valentine’s Day. Naturally a lot of people assume the flowers are from some anonymous secret admirer, but Robin always knows that the bouquets featuring yellow roses (meaning “friendship”), sunflowers (meaning “loyalty”), and/or pink campanula (meaning “gratitude”) are from his best friend.

2) Ana is very fond of many different kinds of books, but one of her greatest loves is Japanese manga. Her OTL is Sailor Moon, but she’s also huge into shoujo titles like Cardcaptor Sakura, Ouran High School Host Club, and Fruits Basket. Her favorite characters from each are Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon and Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter; Sakura Kinamoto and Yue; the Hitachiin twins Kaoru and Hikaru; and Yuki Sohma.

3) Despite her quiet, bookish affect, when it comes to disputes, Ana is interestingly the sort of person who prefers to “take it outside” and settle it with a good old-fashioned wizard’s duel rather than share in witty banter. This is because, even if Ana is an amazing writer, she’s not very good at public speaking or coming up with clever retorts on the fly. She’s also straight-forward and honorable enough as a person to prefer putting any problems out in the open and address them directly, rather than playing mind games.

4) On the note of wizard dueling, Ana is a formidable opponent. She learns how to do non-verbal spells before most of her classmates and is very good at using Charms and Transfiguration creatively to take out her opponents. One of her favorite tricks is levitating herself up off the ground before her opponent’s spell can land and then attacking them from above where they can’t as easily reach her.

5) Ana’s favorite band is Nightwish, a symphonic metal band from Finland which is also one of my favorite bands of all time! Ana’s favorite song of theirs is “Dead Boy’s Poem.”

6) As an INFP Gryffindor whose stepfather is a pro-Muggle-and-Squib-rights advocate, it’s unsurprising that Ana has her “activist” side too. She not only attends some of her stepfather Bradley Pinkstone’s events, but she also attends LGBT+ events as an Ally for her friends who are part of the community and protests against racial discrimination.

7) As an INFP as well, Ana is a lot more romantic than her “strong and silent” affect would first suggest. After marrying Charlie Copper @drinkyoursoupbitch, Ana takes to writing him love notes and leaving them in his lunch for him to find, as well as doing things like surprising him with a breakfast picnic on Valentine’s Day. (Hey, straight dudes could use some proper romancing too, sometimes!)

8) Ana is very self-conscious about her weight, thanks in large part to her mother Bonnie‘s subconscious weightism that prompts her to constantly “express concern” about Ana’s health and discourage her from wearing certain clothes so as to not look like (in her words) “a sack of potatoes tied in two.” This particular aspect is something I took from one of my mum’s own experiences with her mother as a girl.

9) Charlie Copper first met his at-the-time fiance Ana’s absent biological father, John Read, when Ana suggests visiting him at the military base where he worked. Ana had never gone to see her father at the base before, and she was understandably a bit perturbed when no one at the base knew who she was, claiming that John Read only had  a son. Ana tried to explain this away to both herself and Charlie as them just being confused, since she knew John did have a son with his new wife -- but when she arrived at John’s office and found his new wife and son there, she was proven horribly wrong, as neither of them knew who she was either and John’s wife looked very angry upon hearing that John was still in touch with his daughter from a previous marriage. Ana, who up until that point had been in denial about how little her father really wanted to be in her life and had made excuses for years about him being busy when he only answered a fraction of her letters, just barely managed to keep herself from bursting into tears in her father’s office, forcing a broken smile onto her face until she and Charlie had finally left before completely breaking down. The event is one of the only times in Charlie’s life he felt the urge to break the Statute of Secrecy, wanting to hex John Read in the face for how much his lack of caring had hurt Ana. When Bradley Pinkstone found out what had happened from Charlie, he also wrestled with the feeling of wanting to hold Read accountable for how he’d treated Ana, but refused to act on his anger and sense of vengeance out of respect for Ana and her feelings. Bradley ended up walking Ana down the aisle in her father’s stead, a decision both Ana and Charlie never thought twice about.

10) Ana names just all of her pets after characters from books. Ana’s first familiar was a black kitten she named Luna, after the character in Sailor Moon, and as an adult, she adopted a snowy owl she named Glimfeather, after the owl character in C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair.

10 Facts!

[tenth-sentence]

"It's only this," said Glimfeather.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis