#hit it Narnia Quote

[neosatsuma]

"..By the way, I suppose you know how to ride?"

"Oh, yes, of course," said Shasta. "At least, I've ridden the donkey."

"Ridden the what?" retorted the Horse with extreme contempt. (At least, that is what he meant. Actually it came out in a sort of neigh—"Ridden the wha-ha-ha-ha-ha." Talking horses always become more horsey in accent when they are angry.)

"In other words," it continued, "you can't ride. That's a drawback."

-- C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

[thathilomgirl]

[blamebrampton]

Books talk to each other. Mostly because practically every writer is also a voracious reader, but also because books arise out of times and places and we share a lot of our worlds these days. So it’s unsurprising that several novels I have hugely enjoyed over the past few years share the theme of the antiheroine who is past all giving of the fucks. Naomi Novik’s powerful dark sorceress kept on her own tight leash in the Scholomance books was a joy to follow; Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow slashed her way into my heart and now Sarah Rees Brennan’s Long Live Evil has added to a list of beloved antiheroines that probably started for me with Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair.

Coincidentally, when considering how to describe Long Live Evil without significant spoilers, I realised that it shared several major themes with Vanity Fair. Young woman unfairly treated by fate decides to embrace her slut era to survive a war zone – both very accurate and wildly inaccurate for both. LLE opens with main character Rae in a hospital bed, teasing her sister about a book series they both adore. Rae is taking refuge in the story they have shared over years because it is one of the few things they have left: she is losing her fight against cancer and has been losing parts of her life, family and memory as that fight has progressed.

My personal hospital experiences have all been to do with major traumas rather than illness, which I vastly prefer because if you don’t die in the first couple of days, you usually start mending and you can immediately make plans to make the best of whatever you’ve broken. Rees Brennan, however, famously wrote a very funny, very horrible, ‘Kids, you won’t believe what shenanigans your girl’s been up to now, it’s only stage four Hodgkins lymphoma!’ post on her Tumblr or LJ (someone who has been hit in the head with taxis fewer times than me will doubtless factcheck that in the notes) about seven or eight years ago and then faced the very serious business of trying to live. The hospital scenes are painfully authentic, as are the stories of people who have left Rae as she slipped further out of everyday life.

For Rees Brennan, a loving family and peer group were there to hold her as close as they could. For Rae, only her beloved little sister, Alice, and Time of Iron, their favourite fantasy series, remain. They read the books together, remember adventures cosplaying and watching the musical, they wonder about the final instalment; for Rae it’s a joy she can still share (even if she doesn’t remember as much as she should), for Alice, it’s her two greatest loves. When a strange woman offers a door into the world of the book and a possible magical cure to Rae, she wants it as much as she disbelieves it.

Stepping into Eyam, the land of Time of Iron, Rae finds herself in the body of a villain doomed to die the next day. No worries! She’s thought and fought her way out of worse scraps than this in her past as a head cheerleader, let alone while battling cancer. She can use her knowledge of the plot to change things! If only she remembered more of the books…

Portal fantasies are common enough, but not all play by the same rules. This isn’t Narnia, where the magical world is more real than our own, for Rae, the world of the book is nothing more a tool to get her hands on the cure. She doesn’t need to care about any of these people, they’re not real. Most of them speak in a formal language that relies on the conventions of fantasy literature (there is an ongoing, warm-hearted skewering of all Game of Thrones-esque texts running through both the story and the in-text ‘quotes’ from Time of Iron) and half the characters are known more by their descriptions rather than their names. So she will play the Beauty Dipped in Blood, with her questionable morals, impractical clothes and centre-of-balance-distorting boobs for the weeks that will pass until the cure is available. Whoever she has to shuffle in the plot to secure a place beside that cure, she will shuffle. While she’s not out to kill anyone, it’s not as though they were ever really alive. Not like her. If she has to be the villain to survive, she will be an impeccable one. The people will cheer evil on!

Obviously, little goes to plan. Rae’s illness has taught her cruelty, but she hasn’t forgotten what it is to be kind. Even as she manipulates her role into ongoing main character, she realises that’s not how anyone gets a happy ending. That’s not how she can live with herself. As she comes to think of the other people in the story as real, they become more so, both in how we read them and in how they impact the story. Rae remembers what it is like to make friends, which she never meant to, but, oh, the luxury after years of watching people slip away!

As in previous novel In Other Lands, Rees Brennan has a long list of fantasy tropes to embrace and undermine, and her deft touch with humour is as evident as ever here, but her publishers call this her first adult novel and there is a shift in tone from her previous works. Anger is more real and lasting. Consequences are more significant. Understanding is reached for, even if it’s bitter. One of my favourite things is that she lets her female characters rage, but never judges those who can’t, whether because they’re too powerless or just too tired, and her male characters are allowed to be people if they choose to be — which all but the most vainglorious do.

I hadn’t paid much attention beyond checking the release date for the book, so didn’t realise it was the first in a series. For me, it worked perfectly as a standalone novel, even with the unended threads, which would have perfectly balanced Rae’s unfinished life. That said, I am very happy to know we will spend more time with these characters in the future. I want more. I do want to know if there is a hope for Rae, if this is the fever dream of a fading life, if this is the story Alice has told to ease her sister from the world or something else. There are a dozen characters I hope for, at least three happy endings that would bring joy. But don’t wait for the next books: sink your teeth into this one and believe what it says about the importance of listening to stories rather than just falling in love with characters. Though if you find yourself cheering on Rae, or her servant Emer, the elusive Eric, Horrible Hortensia or almost any of the others, I am the last person who will judge you.

[miami-lolz]

In hindsight, this quote hits a lot harder considering “Mortyest Morty” isn’t even his Morty. And he’s not the “Rickest Rick”.

Does not include any spoilers for Season 7.

I feel like this quote is slept on a lot because it makes you wonder if he was even aware of the implications of what he said or if he said it knowing Morty wouldn’t understand. I don’t even think he would want to admit it, but he’s not “The Rickest Rick” mainly because he cares. Specifically, he gives a shit about a Morty that isn’t even his.

It’s shown subtlety throughout the show, like in the Season 1 Finale, Ricksy Business, when Rick got teary-eyed over a slide show showing Morty throughout his life. In A Rickle in Time, where Rick is willing to let himself die to save Morty, his last wish is for Morty to grow up better than him. As jaded and backward as he may show it, Rick definitely cares. Rick has had to switch to multiple universes and watch various versions of his family including his original Diana and Beth die throughout the show. Morty was his only constant, though, and he’s grabbed onto that. But for as much as he cares, Rick has a habit of pushing away, which comes into effect in the later seasons. Morty tries to help and relate to Rick to an extend. He constatly extends a branch to Rick, who almost always puts him down.

However, the more Rick pushes away, the more frustrated Morty gets. He starts calling out Rick on his BS and has even cussed him out several times. He’s threatened to stop going with Rick in the early season, but those were practically mute. Rick could easily force him or make him forget he started refusing. Rick only started taking Morty seriously when he began acting out. The more that Rick pushes back, the more the Prime part of Morty comes out, usually at the expense of anyone around him. I think that is the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back and pushed him to leave in Forgetting Sarick Mortshall with the two crows thing. Something that still upsets Morty if someone mentions it in season 7.

It also makes you think that the reason Morty has gotten progressively more aggressive and violent over these past couple of seasons is that the Prime part of him is getting more prominent. For example, in Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat, Morty got so obsessive over a future that he didn't brutally die; he quickly brushed off Ricks's death. It's somewhat out of character for him, though. He also attacked other soldiers and the general populace, just for him to find out it wasn't really worth much. Rick is getting more combative because he sees that part of Prime in Morty, which scares him. The episode Looks Who’s Purging Now was the starting point for his volatile behavior; Rick seems genuinely shocked and somewhat horrified as Morty's anger problems get the better of him, and he lashes out, killing many people even when they are hiding. Rick lied to Morty because he didn’t want him to know what he could do. Near the end of The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, Morty threatens Ethan with the machine Summer used after he ghosted her and messed with her body issues. In the after credit scene, we see a deformed Ethan stumbling in pain, implying Morty used the machine on him.

In Promortyus, Morty also showed little remorse for killing off all the aliens and went out of his way to cause damage, though he regretted it once he had to come back. A Rickconvenient Mort, Jerry was genuinely disturbed to hear Morty admit he murdered the Tina-Teers. And during the scene, Morty was extremely brutal. Its not the first time Morty has committed some diabolical crimes for someone he's interested in or generally cares about. In the episode Mort Dinner Rick Andre, his violent streak hits its crescendo. Once he got fed up with the Narnia people, he committed mass genocide out of frustration, and by the end, he didn't show much remorse.

I think the most damning evidence is the episode Rickshank Redemption, where during a stand-off, Morty is so fed up with Rick yelling at him during a standoff that he shoots Rick in the head. Not an arm or leg but in the forehead. He absolutely shot to kill. And yeah, you could say it was a spur-of-the-moment action based on frustration and impulse, but I think that was put in the episode not just a funny bit but a glimpse of what Morty is capable of. It was Morty basically saying "If were all going to die, Ive earned the right to be the one to take you out." There’s something symbolical about Morty killing both his best friend and the person that’s hurt him for years.

Its an interesting dichotomy as Rick seems to be mellowing out; Morty is slowly getting more comfortable with violence and generally more confident with himself. Rick is someone who gives off the bravado of a uncaring, cold hearted galactic criminal. However, the truth is Rick is someone who cares deeply for the people he's close to, and gets no enjoyment out of violence. Morty, on the other hand, is someone who tries to be caring, mercy full and forgiving. That being said, deep down he wants to stop having to constantly take the high road and give back all the pain and abuse he gets from others. These personality traits between the two constantly clash and the longer the live together, the more you see their original persona's corrode.

The season six finale, Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation, adds to this as Rick compares Morty to a “suicide bomber” because he was reckless and says he gets that from Prime. But C-137 is the only constant in Morty's life. He’s been through multiple universes and timelines but has had the same Rick for most of his life. Most of Morty's issues stem from things he had done or witnessed with Rick C-137. For example, the Vat of Acid Episode is what I would consider Rick at his absolute lowest. It's almost the kinda behavoir you would expect Prime to pull. Messing with Morty's head and killing a bunch of other Mortys just to say, "I told you so." Even going as far as gaslighting him by saying he COULD have listened to Rick tell him how it worked, even though Rick probably wouldn't have told him either way. It caused communication between these two to break down. At that point, you can tell Morty doesn't have much trust or faith in him, and when Rick replaces himself with a robot that treats him just a little bit better, Morty immediately notices. He even thought Rick was messing with him and brought up the vat of acid episode. This is another example of how the Ricks action leaves permeate consequences and effects on Morty. Don't get me wrong, Morty is far from perfect and flawed, but so is Rick. They have real emotions and conflict, and it's these factors that separate them from Prime (at least from the glimpses of him that we have seen)

However, Morty does exhibit certain traits unlike what we've been lead to believe is normal "Morty" behavior. In Rickmurai Jack, Morty tries to lie to Rick and even goes as far as to age himself nearly 40 years to get him to come back. Another example is in The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, Where Morty coaxes Rick into going on an adventure with Jerry to keep him from committing seppuku, though there's a good chance it was just to get a break from adventures. Rick can’t really blame most of Morty's behavior on Prime because any behavior he picks up past season one is from him and him alone. But even then I don’t doubt that there are behavioral similarities between him and Rick Prime. The Prime universe was everyone’s personality amplified.

Rick almost likes to pretend his the top dog, the Rickest Rick but as few others, including Bird Person and the toxic version of himself, has pointed out, he’s not. He’s highly capable but he’s also vulnerable. Season 6 ended with Rick getting Morty more involved in the search for Prime, forcing him to face the truth of Mortys origin. But regardless one thing is for certain, Morty is really the Mortyest Morty in the finite central curve, and that scares C-137.

[confessions-of-a-bookworm]

Narnia Incorrect Quotes 796/?

Peter: Go crawl in a ditch and die!

Edmund: I hope you get hit by a bus!

Lucy: *walks into the room*

Edmund: Aren't we the best of friends?

Peter: The best!

Lucy: *leaves the room*

Peter: I'm gonna push you off a cliff!

Edmund: Not if I push you first!

[to-the-western-wood]

Narnia characters as: iconic tumblr quotes (part 4/4)

rilian, while in underland: there are no gods here

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jadis: do i look like the kind of woman who dies?

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oreius: aslan is dead and soon we will follow

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edmund: impudent of you to assume i will meet a mortal end

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eustace: hell is empty and all the devils are here

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edmund, to eustace: one day you'll decompose and i'll be there to watch it happen

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peter, to miraz: what are you gonna do with that sword? gonna hit me? better make it count. better make it hurt. better kill me in one shot

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aslan, to lucy: there is not enough time to make all the things one's imagination can conjure

[lover-of-mine]

I am cry-laughing because I wanted to see if your BT anon quote was sth someone Buddie came up with sarcastically and the first hit I got was a vocal invisible string theory BT account on reddit which predates s7/all of queer Buck but is also extremely transphobic against trans men (different op asking abt why there's so much shit being posted differentiating trans men from men, this account going "this reddit is about GAY men") and idk man it just feels so fitting. In the worst way possible.

@misshiss727 the spec is from Narnia, the scary lands of 911 subreddits apparently. Also, that sounds like a horrible human. This is awful.

[always-a-king-or-queen]

For you Narnia fans... a few Narnia themed songs by one of my favorite bands ;) Many of them incorporate actual quotes from the books!

Silver: themed off of The Silver Chair

When the voices fell they broke the spell That tied us to our silver chairs

Endless Summer: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

They say we're in for an endless winter 'Til we're gone But when I search that sunrise Feels like I belong To an endless summer

Pale Moonlight: The Silver Chair

But maybe I’ve been sold a lie I can’t find a light Tell me how many go down and never return To the sunlit lands, heaven please Have I lost 'em for good

Tread the Dawn: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (obviously XD )

Had a dragon heart Chasin' foolish gold I met eyes like lion's They tore me apart I hit the water cold Like an endless summer now

Music From a Garden: The Magician's Nephew (creation of Narnia)

Back when they danced outside of time Before the stars would rule the night There was a Dove flew o'er the deep, deep water And that's when he heard The voice of the Lion start to speak And then there was light

Have You Heard: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Can you remember The seagull’s cry Oh, have you heard it Where the waves break

Rhythm of the East: It's not confirmed, but I think it's probably an allusion to the Utter East, or Aslan's Country :)

I heard a summer song, if I get it wrong you can find it in the east

[emyn-arnens]

LOTR Ask Game

Thanks for the tag @dreamingthroughthenoise!

How old were you when you were first introduced to LOTR?

Eight or nine. I'd read the Narnia books once or twice by then and had decided that reading LOTR was the next logical step. Only, I didn't have FOTR at the time and was too excited to start reading to wait to get it from the library, so I started with TTT, thinking that I'd be able to figure out what happened in FOTR (lol. lmao, even), and was just. so confused when some dude named Boromir died on page two and everyone started singing about him. I read it again at ten with FOTR and it made much more sense.

Favorite LOTR character?

Choosing a favorite feels like putting a gun to the head of my other faves, so have my top five: Eowyn, Faramir, Frodo, Merry, and Boromir.

Books or movies?

Books! I love the movies, but the books hit me on another level.

Which location in Middle Earth would you want to visit?

Ithilien, Rivendell, Lothlorien, Evendim, Dol Amroth...let me go on a Middle-earth road trip please.

Favorite movie?

ROTK. Its emotional beats hit perfectly. I'll never not cry during the Grey Havens scene.

Favorite scene?

I don't know if this means books or movies, but from the books (a non-exhaustive list because I can't choose just one): Frodo's decision to take the Ring, the hobbits meeting Gildor's folk, A Conspiracy Unmasked, Glorfindel's introduction, the lament for Boromir, Pippin seeing Faramir for the first time, Eowyn calling Aragorn out on his sexism, Eowyn and Merry killing the Witch-king, the entirety of "The Steward and the King chapter"....it goes on and on.

Favorite quote?

One among many favorites: "And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.” It just does something to my heart each time I read it.

What Middle Earth race would you want to be?

I'd make a good hobbit. In both height and appetite.

Favorite LOTR ship?

[looks at URL, blog title, and header]......I don't think I need to say.

Tagging @hobbitwrangler @starry-mantle @haleths @esgoraths if you'd like to do this!

[beardedmrbean]

"Next up they're going to explain how Chronicles of Narnia was actually CS Lewis exploring his furry side and not anything to do with Jesus at all,"

I thought it was about struggles with one's faith, along with enjoying fantasy as you grow up and feeling too grown up for all of it? Hence, his famous quote ("Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.")

Then again, it can be two things. Still two more than what tumblr concludes?

It's a big Christian allegory too as well, Aslan being the sacrifice who rises from the dead in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a dead giveaway there for that one.

Some of it also was written because Lewis and Tollkien were friends but liked to take literary jabs at each other too.

There's a whole lot of Christian themes throughout the whole series most aren't as heavy handed as the whole Aslan sacrificed by Jadis only to rise again, but they're there.

I do think Lewis also wanted to remind the readers that whimsy is good and should be enjoyed, we should all remember that, but

Didn't remember this one came from here, been forever since I've seen it

We all have to get past the "age 11 - 14" stage here, not hard and fast rule on the ages even for stickers, but most all of us had that point like Susan, where whimsy here substituted with stickers, ceased to be all that great and then something hit and while you're not sure where or how stickers started to be cool again, even if you had to pretend that you only liked them ironically.

Embrace the cringe, go watch Spice Wold and enjoy it for the masterpiece of cinema that it is.

[lauriel816]

Pairing/Shippy list!

I was tagged by @1337wtfomgbbq :) already hyped up I’m sensing there’s gonna be a lot of fun 🤩

Here's the rules:

List your top seven ships.

Put all of them in order of your love for them; 7 to 1, 1 being your favorite.

Name their fandom.

Supply photos for said people.

7) Peter Pevensie & Edmund Pevensie (Narnia)

Geez. Is there even a proper tag for this?? Not many people ship these two I get it but I just, well, tend to drive down to an end off the beaten track. I really like their interaction in the first film and come to think of it, this was the first movie I’ve seen in movie theater so it kinda hits different.

6) Rogue/Shadowcat (Xmen: Evolution)

They clearly had some issues at first but ended up getting along really well. Enemies to roommates to friends in combat and… let it hang in there for a bit bcs there could certainly be a lot of possibilities so who knows :D I really enjoy watching them bickering like an old married couple. Could do this all day

5) Hiccup/Astrid (httyd)

Best anime couple ever! I love how their romantic relationship unfolds in rtte. A slow-burn, took a whole movie, plus three spin-off for it to blossom. Burns slowly but naturally and beautifully.

4) Logan/Scott (Xmen)

When you talk about Scogan there's no way you can get around talking about that scene where Logan flipped Scott off and Scott just acted cool and cracked a smile. It's all you need to board this ship. Ugh it's shame the writer decided to kill off Scott in The Last Stand. But fortunately it was rectified in DoFP (Don't mention Logan (2017)) and Logan still got years to beef (and highkey flirt) with his frenemy :D

3) Magfam (Cherik + Speedyson) (Xmen)

What I wouldn't kill to get more wholesome magfam content? For once can we forget about the angst and pain and just sit down and enjoy something of a rom-com, something light, a cute story of how a remarried family getting together. A remarried couple and their teenage son, who hasn't lived with his father for a single day before, try to work out together as a family. Isn't that what we all deserve?

2) Harry Osborn/Peter Parker (Spiderman(raimiverse))

Quality angst. Their story has everything you need for a classic tragedy. Geez, I remember crying my heart out watching Harry die in Peter's arms as a kid. It left such a massive impact on me that I'm still not over it to this day. I really hate it that NWH did them dirty, Peter out of character, and implying that Harry, being someone vengeful, died of his tomfoolery, making him a cue for some meaningless joke. That's not how they should be. They deserve so, so much better.

1) Neuller (Men's Football RPF)

My emotional support. My safehouse I could escape to. They are the reason why I'm here in the first place. Decade partners and soulmates on the pitch, two dorks who are always on the same wavelength and always seen together. For Thomas, Manu is the best goalkeeper in the world and the wall of steel behind him, always out there to defend so he could go full throttle forward without worrying; and for Manu, Thomas is his spokesperson on and off the field, leading the charge and helping him organize the defense. Together they grabbed almost all the titles they could. They complete each other, as quoted from Manu himself, Thomas is more than a teammate and he can't imagine a world without him.

Honorable nominees:

Silvercyclops (Xmen (movieverse)): It's a shame they never thought of exploring their friendship. What a waste of the chemistry between Evan and Tye.

Rogue/Gambit (Xmen (all media types excluding movieverse)

Lincoln/Alternate Lincoln (fringe)

Tagging: @manuelmueller @cincydrawing and whoever interested consider yourself tagged by me :D

[bedlamsbard]

I totally understand your rage quitting now, although it's exactly the opposite for me! I was *very* into the Asgardian storyline in MCU and I hated Ragnarok with a passion - and the fandom sure made certain I knew everybody who didn't like the movie was an Idiot. Then IW and EG happened and killed all my joy for the MCU. I kinda sorta look at it without flinching nowadays, but it took somewhere around 5 years...

I think I know more people who went MCU --> Star Wars than the other way around! Weird couple of years for both fandoms. I'm a little bit of a weird outlier because I got back into Marvel well after Endgame, but a lot of what people criticize about the MCU is what I find interesting (the puzzle piece aspect). I am well aware that if I'd been consistently in Marvel since 2014 (which is when I drifted off) I'd probably have had the same rage reaction as like...everyone else I know.

I guess it's been a minute and my SW history isn't common knowledge to people who weren't around here between 2013-2021, so the lingering fury is probably confusing to people who only know me from the MCU. I was big into Star Wars from 2013-2021, from 2013-2015 on the PT/TCW side, then from 2014-2021 on the Rebels side (there's crossover), though I was also familiar with...everything. I have forgotten more about Star Wars than your average SW fan has ever known. (I was also in and out from 2007-2013, which is when some of my earlier fic like Oxygen and Rust dates from, but this is a period of time when my big fandom was actually Narnia) I'm quote-unquote "known" for Wake the Storm and Queen's Gambit in the PT/TCW, which have very consistently garnered negative responses since Wake started in 2013, and On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone in Rebels; I also used to do liveblogs of TCW and Rebels and the comics, for a while, so some of those posts are still floating around. I had a very, very bad breakup with a close fandom friend in 2016. I bounced off the ST, had an extremely negative reaction to Rebels S4 (to this day I have refused to do a full reaction post because I hated it so much I can't think about it coherently, and there were years where I couldn't think about it without spiraling), was okay with Resistance, R1, and Solo, hated Mando, hated TCW S7, hated the comics, hated the High Republic, and was still grimly hanging onto the fandom in utter misery in 2021 when the combination of hating TBB's sheer mediocrity (and the way they retconned Rebels) and the first episode of Loki hitting all of my favorite tropes like a fucking train finally knocked me out of Star Wars, to the extreme relief of everyone who knew me.

to this day I have fannish friends (who I met through Star Wars!) ready to stage an intervention if I ever seem even vaguely interested in getting back into Star Wars. I am the only person I know who looked at the Marvel fandom post-Endgame (and the Loki subfandom at any point in time, but especially while the show was airing) and went "this seems like a nice soothing place to immigrate to!" and honestly it is, people aren't as crazy anymore as they were around CW and Endgame. (Except in the Loki subfandom, which has made even me go "hmm. that's a bit much," but then I remember the egg genocide and you guys are fine, actually.)

very amusingly I actually speed-ran the Rebels experience with the Loki show -- really liked the first half, really disliked the second half -- but by that point I'd already gotten back into the rest of the MCU. I hadn't had a dramatic MCU breakup at all; I'd kept up with the films from 2008-2014 (CATWS was the last one I saw in order), but I just hadn't gotten around to seeing more than three odd ones out between 2014 and 2021 (Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and then I saw WandaVision early in 2021). I fandom osmosed some weird stuff that turned out not to be true.

anyway for those that don't know, that's the short version of my sordid Star Wars history! also sorry, you didn't actually, uh, ask for this.

[kissingghouls]

20, 29, 30 for the identity ask :3

MY BELOVED 💖 HELLOO I LOVE YOU

20-would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else? I’ve been having a pretty good time in Baldur’s Gate lately 😆

29-three songs that you connect with right now. The way (G)I-DLE’s Super Lady has invaded my brain..I can’t remember to take my meds, but I can remember the dance. Thats kinda the only “new” song I know. But I’ve been hitting repeat on The Wombats - Greek Tragedy a lot lately aaaand I’m still totally in my Ghost-Zenith phase.

30-pick one of your favorite quotes.

“This is not for you.” - it’s the dedication in House of Leaves and it’s stuck with me just as much as the book has.

[radellama]

29, 42, 58?

29. favourite film(s)

Whenever people ask my top choices, it's always these:

Gattaca - beautiful character driven narrative, low concept sci-fi, and dramatic all at once. I really liked this movie the first time I saw it as a young teen when there was a run of it on TV, and then we had to watch it for year 11 English and I was like 'yoooo I love this movie!' (but unfortunately we had to compare it to a piece of shit play called cosi which I was lowkey offended by the way they handled the subject matter, but I digress. Worst thing to write a comparative essay to🙄) I also took the opportunity to write the scene analysis I wanted to in uni while studying film, which is so fun cause there's such evocative imagery in the film, even if it's a bit in your face at times haha. I watched it a lot during lockdown, I think at least 20 times in the latter half of 2020. It's just a nice film I like it. And Andrew Niccol (writer/director) also wrote The Truman Show, which adds a fascinating layer when you look at both films together 😉

Napoleon Dynamite - this is just such a funny and quoteable movie, and every other moment makes me laugh, either at a visual gag, the dialogue or delivery of, or just out of endearment. There's some interesting points at just watching a slice of life type of movie like this, and when they're pulled off in such an entertaining way like this I reaaaally love the mundanety of it!

Daddy Day Care - childhood favourite, what can I say. I could probably quote 90% of the movie off the top of my head, so much is ingrained in my mind lmao. Like any time I come across anything laminated, or this iconic scene, or the 'loser, loser, looooser!!' that I do to my siblings often. Another down to earth, slice of life type movie. Also all the licenced songs in the soundtrack I associate with this movie, and being a Trekkie enhances the experience but isn't necessary lmao

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan - brilliant fucking movie. I know most Trekkies say this is their fave, but I think this is mine for the series. I started a new tradition when I trans gendered and now watch it every year the night before my bday with some apple crumble and ice cream. Been going strong the past couple of years! I just love how tense the story can get when there's the chase and circling of each other when Khan decides to get his revenge, and the emotional highs and lows of the movie just hit. It's the perfect kind of drama for star trek, and I'm so glad Nicholas Meyer chose to bring back Khan as an antagonist and create such a rich and layered narrative to enjoy

42. favourite book(s)

Unwind - Niel Shusterman

I read this in the library of my last high school, the one I graduated from. I had already moved a couple of times and was incredibly socially anxious (still am, but not that bad anymore.. Usually) and didn't really try to make any friends cause I couldn't be bothered LMAO. Before I ended up with a nice couple of friends, I'd just go through the sci-fi and dystopian sections in the school library, and amidst all the schlock, THIS stood out and was genuinely a great read. I bought the box set for a past bday gift to self, but haven't had the time and remembering to read align to go through it again. The topics explored here are so fascinating and get dark and confronting in ways that were really great and harrowing to read as a 16/17 year old, and I look forward to reading it again.

Levius - Haruhisa Nakata

This is a manga I just took a chance on, seeing it on the shelf and really liking the art style. Flicking through the pages just confirmed that it was fucking gorgeous, and after buying and reading it, I'm soooo glad I did. Although I enjoy the sequel/continuation levius est as well, there's just something about the original run that hits harder, and it was sad to see some details of it changed and undone in est. Still, great manga and I wanna go through and read it again soon and try draw stuff for it maybe

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

Childhood favourite, I read and reread all the Narnia books over and over as a little kid. I don't remember much anymore cause it's been years, but I should really pick them up again and see what changes now I've lived a bit more life. I remember really liking the horse and his boy in particular when I was a kid, which is funny to look back on... But I'm saying the chronicles as a whole lol can't stop me

Noragami - Adachitoka

Na na na na naaa I'm saying the whole manga series! I need to finish catching up with the manga (I was doing well reading them but then some health issues popped up and I couldn't read for so long and it made me sad, I'll get back to it soon hopefully 👊😔) but seriously. What a fucking fantastic story, I love the kind of.. religious inspired fantasy here, it was my favourite anime as a teen (and probably still is) cause a lot of the drama and plot points just feel so good. The characters are all so fun and I loved the main trio of yato, hiyori and yukine so much, but the extended ensemble cast are so great and it's really fun getting to know them and their histories...

58. description of my best friend

Reverse jerk off time 😏

We've been friends for so long and it's funny to think about how different the dynamics have been over the years. I remember when we were in every single elective class for some reason in year seven, even tho all the electives were supposed to have rotating students so we all got a chance to meet each other and not have the same students all together. We didn't talk to each other until a mutual friend at the time introduced us, but I remember we got along singing Smosh songs and would discuss (and argue) almost everything LMAO. We also got on due to our mutual interest in writing, and I remember a lot of times where we'd share little bits of our stories and even try write some stuff together.

All these years later and we're still doing that. It's been fun seeing how much you've changed over the years, and how that reflects in your story telling (tho you should write more) cause you've had some really interesting ideas for characters and stories and it's fun hearing them grow into what they've become. We definitely need to write and film stuff together at some stage, even if it takes a few years to get going lolll

You're funny, a bit cheeky, clever and way too tall. Can't wait for the next phone call where we just make noises for a few hours and then once it's 2 am start discussing deep character motivations, like "do you think they get horrrnnyyyyyyyy???" And make up silly shit that is not at all canon to our stories. Unless it is, just depends 😏

[confessions-of-a-bookworm]

Narnia Incorrect Quotes 713/?

Caspian: What are your instinctive reactions to danger?

Lucy: Fight or flight

Edmund: Run, hit, talk shit

[cature]

🏹 ) NARNIA. an ongoing collection of snippets that drive me absolutely bonkers. i think susan pevensie should be allowed to skin that lion-who-is-god. i think lewis had nothing worth listening to to say about her, about how she mourned and packed up and lived without the loss of her country and people a second time over, about her rejection of the innocence of youth and the wisdom of age, and about what that means for the kingdom of heaven. loadbearing “i was raised catholic and repressed 99% of it” elaborate mind palace. all i ever do is listen to lion’s teeth by the mountain goats and spiral psychologically. when being the final girl is a condemnation, and being the first girl is an anointment to lead the rapture. spits.

🧭 ) COMPELS ME, THOUGH. speaking of delusions, psychosis, visions from oracles and beggars alike, prophecy, reincarnation, and soulmate theory. a collection of lines and images that were designed atomically to have me pacing the house for days murmuring “the kingdom of god is within you because you ate it” like a maniac. the closest i will get to talking about when the line is crossed from a normal interaction with a story to a flicker of a moment stood before the throne of the jewel of all-desiring. something something nausicaa of the valley of the wind something something the ballad of tam lin something something the tempest. a homesickness.

🗡️ ) MARTYRDOM. being alone in being chosen, being too pure or too bright or too unyielding to ever suffer the ignomity of touch. it’s about the enforced inhumanity that can turn you into an angel or an animal depending on the day. how isolation changes the way you view yourself and your existence. the oracle writing on the floor predicts that winter will come again in its turn and everyone holds their breath. that quote about joan of arc not being shocked that the arrow hit her as predicted, but shocked that it should hurt. burning alive feels like nothing else ever will again.

🦇 ) BURY ME SHALLOW. being cast aside, and devoting your heart forever after to clawing down the walls that were built to keep you out. it’s about making eye contact with your own death after the fact and refusing to lie down and rot obediently, about making everyone who would avert their eyes see every worm and every piece of bone. a resentful collection of the obvious vampire aesthetic that i never see elsewhere: fabric in strips, slick from the too-dark earth of your own grave, hair growing after burial not as an urban myth but as a small warning.

🫀 ) WAR OF THE ROSES. being bitter at your miserable fate and choosing it whole-heartedly anyway, walking to the gallows with your face clean. it’s about outclassing everyone around you and being stoned in the street for it. it’s about pathetic jealousy having more weight in the world than any work to establish a future worth living in ever will. it’s about a years long parasocial relationship with a dead woman formed as i was studying to become an investigative journalist so my “inevitable” death would be one with weight that retroactively justified my existence in the world.

🍞 ) TAM LIN. people focus a lot on the comedy aspects of janet falling pregnant and returning home, and not enough on her desperate lonely mission to pick a rose that could kill her quickly. it’s a story that starts alone and afraid and resigned and asks her to do a thousand impossibilities both magical and personal in her effort to carve out a real lived life. and yeah, okay, it is also about me losing my mind at the idea of keeping what you hold onto. “you are forever responsible for what you have tamed,” and so forth. i like when fairie tests are easy enough to win if you mean what you promised and cannot be put off from it by temporary pain or risk.

🦪 ) RUSALKA. this one is right on the middling line of wisher (theurgist, fatalist) thoughts and identifying an alarming amount with being a selkie. what are those swans of myth without their feathered cloaks? what would you do, forced to be human without flinch or reprieve? why not the reverse? why not walk into the river and see what it can make of your mutton fat heart? the catacombs of paris are dry, the tower of london airy, carterhaugh beautiful. the river is none of those things. the bolton strid runs deep and dark but ends in pondscum all the same.

🧵 ) CRANE WIFE. and then, on the other hand. there is the tower. in shalott, in myth, in fairytale sung. girls weave straw into gold in the tower. girls weave hair into rope in the tower. girls weave nettles into shirts for swans, their hands blistered and burning. girls creep down beneath the bough of the earth, giggling, and dance their shoes to bloody ribbons. girls glide across the river beneath the moon with beautiful wings. girls glide across the river beneath the opera house in beautiful boats. the girlhood in these myths is required, for the opal shine, and removable at any time.

🪦 ) PENULTIMATE GIRL. girl dead before the story starts, girl dead in the final act, girl helping the killer who needs to be disposed of (by him or by his prey), girl who lives to the end of the film and remembers it next time, girl trapped in a web, girl trapped on a stage, girl trapped in your memories, girl trapped in the vcr player as you rewind her, girl who knows what will happen as if it came to her in a nightmare, girl who exists as a polaroid in evidence, girl in the freezer in the attic in the walls in the garden in the well in the basement, girl whose spirit must be helping us to escape, girl whose spirit must be cursing us to her same fate, girl next door, girl from school, girl who lives down the street, girl you know, boring girl, dead girl, forgotten already.

🌙 ) STILL LEFT WITH THE RIVER. god ok this is a doctor who tag. bang gavel death penalty etc. i made it so long and so far without cracking. you have to give me credit for that. cmon. that has to could for something. eugh. anyway! soulmate theory gone wrong! soulmate theory gone completely right if you look at the facts of what it means and not the propaganda! soulmate theory gone, just gone, connection knotted up and rotting and tugged on again and again without mercy, connection red-raw from over-use, connection unhealing and unhealed in equal parts. when every part of your heart has been cut up and used and cooked and eaten in turn, when you have been every and each thing you can be to another to just one person, when it is unwordable and unthinkable but utterly humiliatingly knowable.

🦷 ) FREEZER BRIDAL. depression untreatable , future unobservable, high risk low reward pussy. drawing stained glass effigies of myself being hanged in my attic or burned at the stake or discovered in the crawlspace. flies all over everything in the corners of my vision. blame my distractions for the rotting milk in my sink and ignore the boundless lonely years before i had them when i would sit in silence and dream up a life where i was somehow still hated and alone and isolated from the places i desperately wanted to belong. maladaptive daydreaming so unexpectedly onset and severe that it nearly killed me still echoing down my bones convincing me to try again, to just lie down a little longer, to nap instead of eating, to eat until i’m sick and then sleep again, to drink, to give up.

🪞 ) TOWNHOUSE HEART. kind of a shattering. a thousand ways of being one person that feel so bisected and distinct in the moment - but which will, hopefully, come together into a cohesive whole. east and south may feel like strangers on a compass, may feel seperate, or estranged. but they have more in common with one another than they lack. dissociative trauma responses are similar, to me. i expect i will find out what this reflection means years after i begin to assemble the pieces. six blind men inspect an elephant.

📻 ) TAKE OFF YOUR COLOURS. homesickness that doesn’t exist. a deliberately dug-out garden pond to fill with tears. a home shrine to the concept of grief, made up with intent and abandoned by chance. what does it mean to spend almost all your life grieving, not in a metaphorical or allegorical sense, a man who is still alive? what does it do to a person to be without solid ground or a safe place to confide anything in for upwards of two unbroken decades? nothing good, i bet! unrelatedly, here’s a tag for when you make yourself cry just to access the hormonal balancing that comes after the main event. for always being able to pack it all up and quietly leave, and never truly belonging where you are as a result of that. for being lonely.

🎻 ) I WASHED MY HANDS OF THAT FOR THIS? okay fine you win it’s an angel tag. there are no bright points of light in the sky and the blood on the floor never dries. jeanne d'arc is stained glass and fire. this is dante and odessyus and alexandria. this is the lion pits of rome. this is every dead myth in the classics registry being corrupted in their retelling by catholic motifs. the lamb, the lamb, always the lamb, the lamb slain and sacrificed and the wool stained with blood from it. the holy in the viscera, salvation as a type of surgery. your soul a necrotic limb with the still living veins being pulled from it. divine visions become indistinguishable from the reddit rabies post.

🕯️ ) WHICH IS MOST FAINT. juliet in the wings my beloved. polished pearls and silvers all alike. cosette, and miranda, and johanna barker. it’s the light reflecting off the water, and lace gathered up like seafoam, and aching in such sweet bright ways, and a thousand songbirds, and rich fabrics that purr to the touch, and silks in colours that rival any jewel, and glass bells all ringing. turkish delight. the very first flute. maypole ribbons. snowdrops. in many ways you will always be odile, and she will always be dreaming of a life she could have had if it were truly her white feathers in the moonlight.

☀️ ) LOVE ME, BECAUSE LOVE DOESN’T EXIST. a love that is too much. too intolerable, too unbearable, too much. a piece of hot glass in your chest that threads through your veins and is an agony to breathe around. a yet-untapped capacity the kind of loss that myths are made on. a thousand secrets. a thing that makes you more than you were without it. every song written just for this. every bird hatched just to fly across your sky. salt flats when the stars come back out. nobody could live like this. nobody could want this, or be comfortable within it. these feelings exist for the stage, and for books, and for anywhere else they can be quarantined away. comfort me with apples. tell me the fire would hurt if i touched it. let me ignore the ache.

🩸 ) SWORD DANCE. i don’t need a prince, i need a huntsman. and what then? what does that promise eats you alive? what do you do when your teeth are too sharp and your jaw too easy to snap and your eyes too sharp? what do you do when someone smells the blood in your mouth and does not look away? the vampire rips into you and you stay anyway. can that love exist here? can the animal instincts that led you out of your childhood like a guiding light truly be tamed, or at least kept? adored, but not enshrined or forgiven? what a thing you are, when alone in the dark of the moors.

💧 ) THIS IS THE KINGDOM. wouldn’t it be beautiful, though? wouldn’t it taste like the first clear breath of spring? wouldn’t the blood refuse to stick to your clothes? wouldn’t every step of the dance be a perfect bell ring of clarity? like a dream unblurred. “the unicorns gazed back, and knew themselves in her eyes. she understood why they demanded the pure in heart: because, being creatures that did not know choice, they could only recognize someone for whom need and desire had fused into absolute certainty.”