marisaacoulter:

I, for one, am so glad the hdm fandom collectively celebrates the cesspit of moral filth that is marisa coulter 

aquitainequeen:

LOVE OF GOD, PHILIP!!!

“you cannot change what you are, only what you do.”

— the golden compass (his dark materials, #1) by philip pullman.

starsaroundscars:

marisaacoulter:

when Marisa said “I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness. I wanted him to find no good in me and he didn’t. There is none. But I love Lyra. Where did this love come from? I don’t know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it. All I could hope was that my crimes were so monstrous that the love was no bigger than a mustard seed in the shadow of them, and I wished I’d committed even greater ones to hide it more deeply still…But the mustard seed had taken root and and was growing, and the little green shoot was splitting my heart wide open, and I was so afraid he’d see…”

and when marisa said, “Dust is beautiful…I never knew” and when marisa said,

helloitsbees:

elodieunderglass:

jewishdragon:

minerfromtarn:

absolxguardian:

infernalpume:

I always find it funny when books like Harry Potter andPercy Jackson get crap for being ‘witchcraft’ and ‘anti-christian’ but you know who no one evertalks about? Phillip Pullman and his masterpiece His Dark Materials trilogy. Some of you may recognize the first book’s title, The Golden Compass from the awful movie adaption, but seriously those books are so so good and full of badass witches rebelling against the vadican for mutilating children, gay ass angels who join the rebellion so they can be free to love each other, an ex nun who escapes the oppression of the church to pursue a life of science, a little girl who is so good at manipulating she overthrows an entire empire in one day, and a 12 year old boy who murdersgod with a knife

Phillip Pullman is legitimately baffled that Christians got all upset about Harry Potter when he was writing HDM at the same time. And typically when authors have those themes, they still say in interviews that it’s just a story and/or their writing about religious corruption than religion itself. But Pullman just goes and says “If God as the Christians imagine him exist, it would be a moral duty to kill him” (paraphrasing)

As a Jew, I second that sentiment of Pullman’s.

☝️

Phillip Pullman: I think Narnia is toxic and bad for children and this series is quite literally meant to destroy it

Everyone: Haha okay sounds like wacky good fun

Pullman: everyone’s soul is manifested in a separate entity called quite literally a daemon

Everyone: sounds cute, nice aesthetic

Pullman: these children shall destroy the concept of heaven and hell

Everyone: ah bless

Pullman: they join with rebel angels to create a republic of heaven

Everyone: such cute fantasy

Pullman: “If there is no longer a king, or a kingdom of heaven, it will have to be a republic in which we are free citizens. We ourselves as citizens have to build the republic of heaven.”

Everyone: NEVER understood the elephant wheels thing tho

day 16: compass

I never thought it was possible for a whole fucking fandom to ship a literal child with a grown ass adult.

I am ✨u n c o m f y✨

Headcanons for His Dark Materials

1 - Very few people have pets in Lyra’s universe because they don’t have the same need for companionship since their daemons are always there for them. This isn’t to say that daemons act as pets, because that just isn’t true, but rather having someone there to talk to who literally IS a part of you and understands literally everything that you’ve been through, even the darkest moments, negates the need for the type of companionship that pets bring

2 - All animals in Lyra’s universe are treated with the utmost respect. There are more animal welfare laws, and while they are strictly enforced, they usually don’t need to be brought up because people have a higher level of respect for animals than those in other universes.

I think this would be a thing because people would have more empathy for animals since their daemons, though different, cause humans to associate animals with their companions.

Granted, there is still the meat industry and it does exist and is okay, as well as fur trapping, hunting, etc. However, within those industries / lines of work, I feel like the animal welfare would be of a higher standard than that of our own universe.

3 - THIS MAN

IS GOOD AND PURE AND NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENED TO HIM IN HIS LIFE AND HE WOULD MAKE THE BEST HUSBAND.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

Happy World Book Day! Here’s a quick runaway Lyra & Pan drawing done while listening to the Northern Lights / Golden Compass audiobook