#in my magisterium era

[callum-hunt-is-bisexual]

hot guy im talking to has read the magisterium series im going insane

[ashpkat]

i’m in my callmara era and just thinking abt how much they were screwed over? like instead of using “i pushed you out of the way because i LOVE you call” they could’ve used a B subplot where call helps guide tamara through accepting her choices, accepting that she was just a kid and it wasn’t her fault that aaron died — it was alex. we could’ve seen tamara helping call through his grief, and instead of abandoning him, she could’ve shown him that it was alright to miss aaron but it isn’t okay to try and mess with the dead. oh, and have i mentioned that their entire romance subplot was completely misplaced? TSM was not the place for that. TSM was the place for grief, anguish, and pain. but you know what comes after you work through all that? HAPPINESS. like think of the callmara fans that would’ve come out if they had started the romance in TGT!!! as things are wrapping up call thinks back to all the moments that tamara has helped him, gave him a second chance, protected him, and was there for him in his grief. his strong, courageous, beautiful best friend that was ALWAYS there for him, ALWAYS reminded him that he was lovable and that he was never and would never be constantine madden or maugris or any of his alter egos. he could’ve told tamara all this AFTER (wait for it) they let aaron’s soul rest, not in the body of alex, but in the afterlife where aaron could be happy. and tamara would’ve be right there for him, as she always had been.

so when people ask me if i’m upset calron was never canon, believe me, i am, but you also have to focus on the actual canon ships as well that were done horribly. no one was ever done justice and calron wouldn’t have gotten justice either. it’s a lose lose situation, where no one gets what they want. yeah. fuck canon callmara. we all deserved better than what canon gave us.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Against my better judgement, a not-very-original contribution to rattumb feminism discourse

Theres a common retort to complaints about feminism from rat-adjs, which when phrased politely reads like "You have the excuse of yr main exposure to feminism being 2010s era jezebel bullshit" and when phrased impolitely reads like "yr main exposure to feminism being 2010s era jezebel bullshit is not an excuse", which takes it for granted that the dumb shit that occupied seemingly 90% of the internets collective attention in 2011-2015 was some inane culture war drivel significant basically only insofar as it sucked up ppls attention or contributed nebulously to the "wider conversation" with distant and vaguely delineated consequences in the objective world

This is kinda funny, bc what i remember from the feminist resurgence of that time period was the massive, largely successful campaign perversely combining a bold expansion of the boundaries of "rape" and an intensified brand of punitive vitriol for alleged rapists. Criminal and quasicriminal consequences for rapists were ramped up, concerns about "due process" were dismissed (with institutional effect!) as antiquated patriarchal relics, judges bemoaning the eighth amendment were touted as heroes, protesters with ak 47s showed up outside the houses of convicts they thought got off too easy. Ppl would extol distant bands of vigilantes in public, and domestic lone assassins in private. Ppl lost their freedom. Ppl lost their lives. And all of this nancy grace nonsense in the most pristine of bleeding heart blue enclaves, under banners of deepest pink!

I could provide citations, but i wont, partly bc i am tired, partly bc all of these are things ive given concrete evidence about on this blog previously, partly bc we all know this to be true anyway

And what grates on me about that patronising reply to those of with the gall to carry trauma from this orgy of bloodlust is that these noose-tying fanatics and the avant garde against the gamergator menace were the same fucking ppl. Saying it all for the same fucking reasons. Again, no citations bc ive said this all before, but search yr feelings. Im not complaining about some more serious problem that gets mixed up with the way the internet collectively decided zoe quinn deserved to be pre-canonised by the magisterium of public opinion as a martyr for the true faith, im complaining about the same problem, of which the lynching enthusiasm was the worst expression. In the annals of the horrors of war, small losses in public life are placed alongside the lists of honoured dead, bc they are alike symptoms of the same overarching social disease

And if you hear more about the milder instances of this mass insanity of last decade, consider this might be bc famous "cancelled" performers and academics have access to more bandwidth than randos stuck rotting inside state prisons

[constantinemaddeswife]

That's actually how we got most of our food on the table. That and hunting together. (By which I mean he would tell the chaos animals to walk into our shitty traps so we could eat them). 🙃

Master Joseph, professional Enemy of Death impersonator. Bet he could make some money with that.

[constantinemaddentheenemyofdeath]

Copper Gauntlet final update:

OKAY SO A LOT HAS HAPPENED!!

Alastair isn’t actually evil which I’m glad of cuz now he’s back in my top 3 favorite characters. But what I’m not glad of is that there’s a spy in Magisterium. I’m not exactly worried abt the spy but about what the spy wants. They clearly don’t work for Joseph since the wild elemental tried also to kill Call which means that there’s an another evil guy who is probably even stronger than Joseph and is also from Magisterium which means that there will be a betrayal. To be honest i have two suspects and one of them is Celia(NOW HEAR ME OUT!) she knows everything about everyone and just feels a little too innocent and kind just like Drew did and he ended up being Josephine’s son. Also I think Celia doesn’t like makars because of Constantine. She also showed her darker side to Call when she said that she would murder Constantine if she ever met him. But here’s the problem with this solution: Celia doesn’t have an access to the wild elementals nor does she have the power to command them which can explain why the elemental started attacking everyone and not just Aaron(or maybe she’s just evil). Or maybe she tried to kill Call cuz she somehow found out who he is and she hates him. But why did she kiss him then?(it should’ve been Aaron) My other suspect is one of the Masters or even Rufus himself since they have the power to access the elementals. But why would they kill their students? The answer remains to be seen.

But what I actually came here to talk about is Call…where should I even begin?

First of all, the severed head was a slay move(literally)(talking abt Constantine not about Verity)(I really don’t understand how they said that a book with severed teenage girl’s head as a door knocker is for children)

Second, the more important thing, the secret is out. In the whole book it was my favorite moment, especially when all the chaos-ridden people followed all his orders. He also unlocked his chaos magic which means nothing but problems. I’m so happy that Call’s friends were so much more chill abt it than I expected. I kinda want to see Call in his evil era tho…

(Yaaay Jasper is getting his character development!!)

I just remembered that next to Drew’s body there was a picture of him and his dad and someone else but that person was ripped out of the picture. Sus.

I’m so sad they Jericho’s body was destroyed because it was so cute how he has all his important stuff around him😭Constantine really loved his brother🫶🏻🫶🏻

[three-atoms]

Aurora Borealis (1865), oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church

A masterlist of my completed HDM fics (mostly Masriel):

The Day Before (M, 12 100 words) A Nutcracker-coded Chaos Family Christmas story The Space Between (E, 12 300 words)

The only thing more destructive than Asriel and Marisa going up against each other is them collaborating. (The Magisterium has a new research station in the North and Asriel is curious.)

There is a Sea (M, 79 100 words)

Marisa centric. Marisa's childhood backstory

Memento (E, 28 000 words)

How Asriel lost Lyra / why Marisa started wearing a locket for Lyra (Plus lots of Masriel being dysfunctional soulmates)

Son of the Dawn (M, 63 100 words)

Asriel centric. Asriel's backstory, from his childhood to the airship crash that took his brother's life, with prophetic dreams/a thread of destiny throughout. (He was always destined to change the world, just not in any way he would've imagined.)

In Winter, in Oxford (T, 47 600 words)

How Asriel and Marisa met

Unholy (E, 24 800 words)

Masriel Affair Era. Lyra is conceived in the North

A Nativity Scene in Late Summer (M, 7 900 words)

Baby Lyra's arrival, from Asriel's POV

Clemency (M, 11 400 words)

Why Marisa spared Thorold's life at the end of S1, from Thorold's POV, with an appearance by baby Lyra

Your Fortress (E, 17 100 words)

Based on book canon: Asriel and Marisa's missing scenes in the Adamant Tower

In-progress fics and any new fics I write will be added as they're completed

[lidathedefiant]

After much research on the Plan of St. Gall and Benedictine monastic life, I have completed the first floor of the monastery as it would've looked during its height of operations, roughly 200 years, give or take, before Lida et al. find it on their travels. I will be making another floor plan showing it in ruins.

Something to note is that this is where they encounter the terror-feeder, because the Northern Reaches really was the gods' DeviantArt page. Though I modeled this on Christian monastic life, the experiences of these monks are fundamentally different and far less ascetic so I made some fundamental changes.

Let me take you through some of the design choices I made!

Directional focus is the Overlook of the Gods, so southwest. The cathedral points in that direction as do both chapels.

Original Benedictine monasteries had very limited access points to the inner sanctum. I modified this with a few extras, but I still maintained some separation between the acolytes and monks.

Which leads me to the big main storage room. This was actually a surprising distance from the kitchens in the Plan of St. Gall.

The original kitchen had no outside access, iirc, but was separated from the main building by a hallway. I maintained this here, as it was a pragmatic and not religious decision; kitchen fires wiped out a hell of a lot of monasteries and abbeys before they moved the building off. Now they still maintained zero outside kitchen access, condemning anyone trapped in the kitchen to death, but I digress.

Monasteries were fully self-sufficient. This bad boy would’ve had crops and livestock and breweries. I did not want to design all that out because it would be gone by the time Lisa et al. arrive, but I did keep chambers for the brothers-in-service.

This place would have had an old men’s rest home to account for. Remember, part of the reason this monastery is so popular and well-maintained is because there’s too many men born in the Northern Reaches. (Don’t ask me why, I’m working on it.) So they would’ve had services for old impoverished men who couldn’t marry and had no families. I’m giving them three men assigned to the role and then an additional six that are cycled through the ranks to fulfill the mitzvah (for lack of a better word) of caring for others.

I eliminated the Benedictine conversation rooms, as Lida monks are free to talk, but kept the warming room out of practicality. It would be prohibitively costly to maintain fires everywhere. In monasteries that had dormitories, monks typically slept over the warming room, which will happen here. But unlike the ascetic Benedictines, I’ve given the brothers-in-service and others sleeping in beds far from the warming room little furnaces.

The conservatory is also not a traditional Benedictine room. My boyfriend asked the question of whether the era (roughly modeled on the Middle Ages) would’ve had such tech, which is absolutely valid, but the gods gave them a lot of knowledge. Also, greenhouses in general date back to 30 AD, when the Romans did it before it was cool.

Now we get to the big question: what the hell is up with the arcana rooms? Well, I may have jumped the shark. In constructing this on Inkarnate, I saw they had summoning circles, and I wondered, what if they had been practicing forbidden magic? Not magic outlawed by the Magisterium, but the one form of magic outlawed by the gods? What if they had accidentally summoned the terror-feeder from cryo underneath the Overlook of the Gods and this was their downfall?

I don’t have all the answers yet and I have a whole second floor to build before I can demolish it, but it’s interesting to think about and damn this was fun to make.

[indigo-flightly-falls]

My friend wanted a list of middle school era books I've read that either have explicit queer characters or characters that could be read as queer if you try so I'm making this

Ok getting a couple of obvious ones out of the way:

Wings of Fire by Tui T Sutherland It's a middle grade series focused around dragons. You can't skip any books but the second and third arcs have so many queer characters. We've got a nb human, an on page lesbian relationship including a major protagonist, a trio that most like to headcanon as poly with one of the characters being hinted at being bi, a background lesbian relationship as two characters being the moms of a protagonist, and other assorted characters! It's also a rather fun read that dives into some deeper topics then you might expect. Heavy trigger warning for the following topics: Arc 1: war, death, genocide, starvation, rather unsanitary eating habits, mild child abuse, using a child as a weapon, rather graphic deaths/wounds, a pov character being blinded at the end of a book, and probably a few things I missed. OH YEAH WAIT sorry the murder of unborn babies by smashing their eggs specifically for the second book Arc 2: referenced gore (specifically making someone gut themselves, it's all in the past), mentions of a massacre, unhealthy relationships, child abuse, child neglect, again using a child as a weapon but this time it's the aftermath, really bad trust issues, manipulation, war again, illnesses, improper use of magic that kills lots of dragons, graphic deaths/wounds, genocide, and probably a few other things Arc 3: war, war and more war, child abuse, attempted genocide of an entire species, a rather dystopian world, mass murder, execution, what could be called slavery, kidnapping, possession via a plant, abandoning those in need to die, uh there's some spooky cult stuff going on as well. Honestly this arc is pretty dark

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Rodian While I know mythology isn't for everybody, this aint the worse series. It's based on the norse gods, and it basically a comedy! It's a trilogy told by a sixteen year old ghost who's the son of a norse god. It's very chaotic but has it's serious moments as well. The protag is implied to be pan, there's a very prominent genderfluid character (although she's not the best representation, it's still representation and I mean, that's pretty good). Also the single most queer coded characters I have ever seen (Blitz and Hearth, you meet them early) Trigger warning for the following topics: Death, the afterlife and conflicting beliefs, homelessness, mentioned transphobia, severe child abuse, ableism towards a deaf character, mentions of intestines being used as ropes, murder, as well as general norse mythology things

Now some less obvious ones!

The Magisterium Series (I can never spell it so I call it the Iron Trial series) While not having any queer main characters, there are at least two canon gay relationships between background characters. At the very least it's an interesting look at a world of magic and how it interacts with humans Trigger warning for the following topics: Death, murder, mass murder, attempted murder of a baby, child endangerment, honestly I don't even know how to warn for this. It's dark, be warned. There are very few punches pulled.

The Skyborn Series by Jessica Houry Sadly no canon characters, but like. There are two that give off such strong qpr vibes in the 3rd book. It's a good series to read anyways, does a good job at subverting some expectations on how things will end! (also, I like to headcanon the characters are queer. Gussie gives off aro lesbian vibes) Trigger warning for the following topics: Corrupt king who screws over people, a rather corrupt system in general, slight gore, death of a pov character, mild world is ending talk, the hunting down of a child (several times), kinda implied child abuse? at least neglect, death of a parental figure, kinda implied genocide? basically the king wants to kill every last phoenix and it is stated that another villain wants to kill everyone so-

Warrior Cats Alright this may shock you, but while we don't have canon queer characters, there are two very popular gay couples and a very common headcanon of a trans character. I do not recommend reading the whole series! The first four arcs are all you need if you're really interested, but if you just want the queer characters here you go: Tallstar's Revenge: one of the almost canon gay couples is shown. It's never called that but it's easy to see Tallstar and Jake's relationship through those lens Ravenpaw's Path/Ravenpaw's Farewell: a manga and a novella respectively that showcases Ravenpaw and Barley's relationship! They're both decent reads if you want something quick! There's nothing specific for the trans character, uh Rowanfur I believe. He's not even close to a main character sadly. That being said, there are a lot of people (myself included) who have headcanons for other characters or ocs who are queer! I am not listing all the trigger warnings for Warrior Cats. but for the few books I suggested: Child abuse, child neglect, death, near death, really bad injuries, lasting effects of childhood trauma, unhealthy coping meconizums, not great parent/child relationships, and some other related things

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I'm so tired I'm posting this and calling it a night. I'm so tired I'll rb and add more if I think of them

@10piecechickenmcnugget here ya go sage :D

[kostantina]

When you get this, publish 5 songs you like to listen to, then send it to ten mutuals!!

Thank for the message <333 I love sharing about what I love, so I'm very much happy :D

I Want You To Stay (Victor Lundberg) - it's like a lullaby love song. The voice is so soothing. And it's a beautiful song to listen to when imagining soft scenarios with my favourite pairings. Listening to it again, I think it fits Female HRE and France from a sad fanfic I read about them. 「相杀组」赠路易莎小姐 by Nivio.

War of Hearts (RUELLE) - my theme song for characters who have love-hate or complicated relationships (currently looking at France and older!HRE).

Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Lana Del Rey) - so relaxing and ethereal. Just like with the first song, I can't help but imagine soft/domestic scenarios.

Sex, Drugs, Etc. (Beach Weather) - my theme song for England, for the song gives me the feeling of freedom, of doing anything that one wants without caring about what others think. I like to think that he had been more social back then and would engage in different vices or dangers. But there are times when he just prefers having a quiet and reclusive life, which is pretty evident in the Modern Era.

The Water is Fine (Chloe Ament) - my theme song for HRE!Germany and France because of their shared connections to the Kingdom of Francia. The song makes me imagine two people who had a very close bond but eventually fought one another, which fits the pairing I mentioned. I like to imagine Holy Rome and France having a brotherly bond during their time under Francia. They ended up going their own separate ways that when colliding would result in them fighting. Bonus: METAMORPHOSIS (INTERWORLD) - ignoring the lyrics, it gives me otherworldly vibes, makes me feel badass, and spurs me to imagine power-related scenarios with my favourite characters in AUs. - England in 1984 AU. I personally imagine him representing INGSOC (English Socialism), and that the war that had happened weakened America enough for his people to rebel against America's hegemony over them and form INGSOC to take power over Oceania. - Holy Rome in His Dark Materials AU. I personally imagine him representing the Magisterium, along with the Papal States. He represented its temporal authority, while the Papal States represented its spiritual authority.

I have other songs I wish I could share, but I only needed to share five songs, which I did, and even have a bonus lol.

[livvyofthelake]

now that i don't have to worry about filming every second of every day i can finally make all those long ass posts in my drafts.... coming to your dashboard THIS WEEK: 1989 tv as a tda concept album. at least one long ass post about the magisterium series as my swan song for that era of posting. MOVIE LIVEBLOGGING. and more....

[victori-krause-writes]

My suggestion for the propper title is Magisterium [Mg. pronounced Mage or Maggie (soft g)]. Meaning master-but not connotating male. Fits with the whole "Master of the Arts" shtick Honorables have.

Other Ideas:

All well of men should not only wish for a mistress; but a mistrial artisan, too.

Such duties of the Magisterium of the house include

• secondary income (For the entire trio shall be ashamid to The Father if the primarily depend on the Mage's income. That is the place of the Master.)

• socialite duties: Socializing, Planning events, inviting people, introducing their husband to Ladies of stature (as an appropriate third party), introducing their wifes to men of stature (as they are elagent in their nature, and thus more fitting for the meeting of parties than mens agressive likenesses.)

• in this alternative Victorian era, alter server duties and other helpful things around church might befit a young Honorable in society that's family cannot afford to send them of to training.

• training of course from a Magisterium artist. This and selling to patrons is how Mage's make money. To train a young Honorable is a great privilege.

• patronages is also a good way for an Honorable to strengthen their husband's place in society. An upperclass noble or bless your luck nobility places your trinity high in the social climb. (But same if you patron a Honorable without yourself being married to a wife or your own Mx, that is comparable to having an affair. Even more shameful if your supporting a lone Honorable. Your own triad is complete and yet you disturb God's natural order and make yourself the Master of two Magisterium's of the Arts? Shame, Shame, and that THING your no better than chasing like a dog is no Honorable - it is no better than faggotry)

I don’t think adding nonbinary to Victorian’s gender system would’ve fixed their weird sexism. If anything I think it would’ve made them weirder and sexismier

[callum-hunt-is-bisexual]

[ashpkat]

me trying to convince people The Cosmos Blade was real and we were all robbed in plain sight from a better and more thrilling plot:

[fmpclk]

World Book Day Book Reference

So we were tasked with finding a book that links to our project and the topic of my game is all about a parallel dimension, and after having a look I came across the novel series His Dark Materials. His Dark Materials is all about parallel dimensions and alternate universes. Here is a summary of the setting of His Dark Materials:

The trilogy takes place across a multiverse, moving between many parallel worlds. In Northern Lights, the story takes place in a world with some similarities to our own: dress-style resembles that of the UK's Edwardian era; the technology does not include cars or fixed-wing aircraft, but zeppelins feature as a mode of transport.

The dominant religion has parallels with Christianity.[6] The Church (governed by the "Magisterium", the same name as the authority of the Catholic Church) exerts a strong control over society and has some of the appearance and organisation of the Catholic Church, but one in which the centre of power had been moved from Rome to Geneva, moved there by Pullman's fictional "Pope John Calvin" (Geneva was the home of the historical John Calvin).[7]

In The Subtle Knife, the story moves between our own world, the world of the first novel, and a third world containing the city of Cittàgazze. In The Amber Spyglass, several other worlds appear alongside those three. (Taken From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials)

[hyperpotamianarch]

Well, since this post got a bit less traction so far (as much as it means anything, which, I'll be fair, it doesn't), I have decided to update it a bit! The most important part, right now, is Eastern Europe. Apparently, there has been an explosion in Jewish population there around that era in our world, so it might do well to understand why:

Expulsion.

You see, every self respecting European country had, once in its history, banished its Jews. Be it from Britain in 1290, France during the 14th century, various Italian states during the 16th, Spain in 1492 or Portugal in 1497... And I've skimmed over most of it, really. Scandinavian countries can boast to never requiring any such thing, because no Jews were allowed there until the 19th century. And yes, I'm going to keep restating that because I find it genuinely surprising.

Anyway, apparently the 16th century was full of expulsions not only from Italy, as mentioned, but from Germany as well. And right after a bunch of banishments in the 15th century - including, apparently, from Sardinia, Sicilia, Provence and Austria as well as Spain and Portugal. Those expulsions, in turn, followed the Black Death and the pogroms stemming from the antisemitic theory that Jews brought it about. So, basically, Western Europe wasn't very nice to Jews at the time.

The Polish kings, however, took a liking to the economical boost Jews regularly offered, and were more than willing to accept them - which eventually led to Eastern Europe becoming the largest center of Judaism until WWII.

Now, I'll be honest: there was one actually effective Jewish Expulsion - the one from Britain. The rest didn't really cleanse Jews from their lands, though the Spanish and Portugese Expulsions were very effective in erasing signs of the Jewish religion in their lands. The other expulsions, though, weren't as thourough and there tended to be some Jews left there. That might change with the advent of the Magisterium, though only might.

Another point, before I go on to explain how screwed the world's Jews are in a world where the Jewsade occure: many of the banished Jews from Spain went to the Ottoman Empire. If we do want to be more precise about things, they went just about anywhere: the Netherlands, Italy, France, North Africa... But the Ottoman Empire accepted them especially with open arms, with the Sultan Bayezid the Second proclaiming that Ferdinand and Isabella were foolish to give up their economic superiority on a silver platter to him. For the next couple of centuries, the Ottoman Empire was very warm toward Jews. In addition, they were the ones backing theJewsih pirates in their efforts against Spain.

All right, now we can talk about the Jewsade and why it's so stupid. You see, the Ottoman empire controlled the Holy Land at the time. The very same Ottoman Empire that helped the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. And who does David Reubeni turned to for help against them? To the Portugese king, of course!

All right, I can get it. From what I'm given to understand, whoever Reubeni was - he probably came from some Muslim country in the east, perhaps Yemen. He was described as dark skinned, and apparently spoke Arabic in addition to Hebrew. My guess is, the guy knew Muslim opression up close, but watched the Christian one from afar. He may not have realized that the Ottoman Empire was better for Jews than any European power.

It's a good thing he failed gaining their support, then, because otherwise I suspect he'd have caused a disaster. Beyond the mere fact he won't be the one ruling the land even if he conquered it, antagonizing the Ottoman Empire is... not a good idea. Even if he had any semblance of success, he'd have been immediately assaulted by Portugese soldiers claiming he conquered the land for them on one side, and by angry Ottomans on the other. Not to speak of the likelihood of Chales V, the Holy Roman Emperor, deciding he wanted a bite as well. And no matter who got the land in the end, the Jews there and in the rest of the Ottoman Empire are screwed.

Why do I think so? Well, it's easy to understand if we're talking Christians. Portugal wasn't nice to Jews at the time, remember? Emperor Charles V Might be better, but I'm not really sure. The real question, though, is about the Ottoman Empire. And my answer is simple enough. Antagonizing people for belonging to the same nation and religion as the people who attacked you? Where have I heard that one before?

The Sultan himself might actually try to protect his Jews, honestly. He might actually think better of it. The people won't, though. So, the Jewsade would likely be disasterous to all the Jews, involved and uninvolved.

However, the Jewsade isn't a necessary result of the actual alterations Lyra's world has compared to ours. Even without it, though... John Calvin as pope might want to create a unified front behind the Magisterium over the entirety of Western Europe at the very least. He apparently had clear views regarding the involvement of the Church in matters of the state. Him taking over Catholicism and turning it into the Magisterium...

Experts disagree regarding how antisemitic Calvin was. Some say he was the least antisemitic than the other reformators, such as Martin Luther. Others claim he was a little more than that. Either way, he wasn't a huge Judophile. It is plausible, but not certain, that under him most of Europe will carry out expulsions like the ones in Spain and Portugal.

Now, it gets really complicated. Because... remember Poland? With the whole "accepting western Jews with open arms" thing? Yeah, they're Catholics. As a matter of fact, outside of Greece, Ukraine and Russia, most eastern European states were Catholic at the time (not that greece and Ukraine existed, exactly, as independant states, but you get what I mean). I don't know what was their relationship with the pope, but transferring the Papal seat to Geneva will make it ever-so-slightly closer. I'm sure experts on Polish Catholicism could go on in explaining how they would react if told to banish their Jews, but they might comply.

That leaves us with Ukraine/Russia - which were heavily antisemitic, barely giving the Jews the Pale of Settlement to stay at - and the Ottoman Empire.

So, yeah. Ashkenazi Judaism might not be a thing anymore in Lyra's world. Maybe. Also, if it'll go closer to our world, there are still the Ukrainian Revolts to worry about - the Eastern European Jewish commuinity managed to survive them, but not very easily. If you add the Jewsade and assume every other Catholic country (and Protestant ones that were force to get into the fold) expelled its Jews...

Let's just say that even a century after it ended, the Jewsade could still screw Judaism up pretty badly.

There are other options, of course. The Magisterium won't take a firm hold on the entirety of Europe in one year. A lot might be surprisingly similar to our world. However, I think it's possible to say that by Lyra's time - most of the world's Jews live either in central Asia somewhere or in America. It might be a slight exaggaration, though.

All right. So, first: if you are either Jewish, like His Dark Materials, or both, please reblog. If you aren't any of those but know someone who is - please share it with them. I want to get as many thoughts on this as possible.

In essence, I just want to ask two simple questions. I have the beginnings of answers for myself, but Judaism is nothing if not full of discourse and many opinions on one topic. So, again: reblog. Share your thoughts and opinions. Hopefully, it will give us a wide variety of possibilities and answers.

The two questions are: where are Jews in Lyra's world? And what are the theological and Halachic concequences of having dæmons?

I intend to share my opinions in two separate reblogs, but please share your thoughts even if you don't see mine. The short version is that I looked about events in Jewish history around John Calvin's time for the first question (pope John Calvin being the major alternation of history in HDM). As for the second question - I have some thoughts relating to the Chabad thought stream. Elaborations, again, going in reblogs.

Thank you in advance!

(PS, question number 1 was handled once by the sadly deactivvated user the Tea Detective, though their full post disappeared. Link to a reblogging of the first half: here. Note, another reblog mentions other religions - feel free to discuss them, I'm focusing on Judaism because I'm Jewish. Another post asking this question was posted here, so have fun with it. Meanwhile, this post is about dæmons and religions in general and lightly touches Judaism.)

[linaseraphina13]

OKAY BUT Tamara justifying Gwenda and Jasper’s sudden romance by referencing their “flirting” ie: them generally pretending to hate and insult each other at every opportunity

you cannot convince me that’s not applicable to Jasper and Call too. Come ON.