#HDM

[leadoodles]

One of my favourite things about his dark materials is how well it creates cultures and expands upon them.

Each group of people we meet is unique, with their own traditions and taboos.

You never touch another person's Dæmon.

Scholastic Sanctuary, the fear of Dust, and the contrast between Lyra and the scholars in Jordan college.

The nomadic practices and songs of the gyptians, who I was legitimately surprised about when I learned that they weren't a real but niche culture.

Bears do not kill other bears, but also do not pick on the weak. Iorek accepts his exile with humility. He knows what he did. Plus the idea of making armour with meteorites, which are commonly found at the poles due to both magnetism and the fact that they are easily spotted in the snow.

The Magisterium, who legitimately believe they are enacting the word of god.

The north, Lyra's world's equivalent of the wild west, with balloons instead of horses.

Cittagaze, the honour of the knife, how the children have accepted their fate and try to enjoy the time they have left.

The witches, one of the most interesting interpretations of witches and druids I've seen. Not generic 'ooh wave the wand and cast magic' but instead powers far more unique and tied to the world. Separation, flight from CLOUD pines, and making yourself boring.

The Mulefa. Pullman made motorcycle gazelles and made them legitimately believable as a species.

The angels. Not a unified force, but one twisted just like the Magisterium by doctrine and lies.

I love HDM.

Edit: removed a section on Book of Dust as I have mixed feelings about it and I don't think it's relevant.

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Cover reveal!

[soranatus]

His Dark Materials Based on the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

Fanmade trailer was directed by Louis Holmes, Agathe Leroux and Léa Rey Mauzaize Original Score: Jean-Loup Didelot Violinists: Dario Herraiz-Sabater, Eugenia Saval-Llorca Sound Design: Théophile Loaec Storyboard: Léa Rey-Mauzaize, Louis Holmes, Gabo Camarillo Gil Art Direction: Agathe Leroux Vis Dev: Agathe Leroux, Louis Holmes, Léa Rey-Mauzaize, Juliette Brocal Animation Leads: Louis Holmes, Léa Rey-Mauzaize Animation: Victoria Gregiry De Millo, Maxime Jouniot, Jade Khoo, Sandy Lachkar, Agathe Leroux Additional animation: Grégoire De Bernouis, Stella Besse

[hashtagloveloses]

the equivalent exchange of your favorite childhood book series (his dark materials and percy jackson) getting the adaptations they finally deserve but the price is that one character must be played by lin-manuel miranda

[sankta-wraith]

His Dark Materials has such a beautiful depiction of love, because in the end love is what saves every world, but the rest of the series is almost a lesson in all the things love can’t save. Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter loved Lyra, but it doesn’t stop them from abandoning her and using her as a pawn in their respective schemes. They loved each other but it doesn’t stop them from manipulating and hurting each other, and it doesn’t save them in the end. Lyra loved Roger but it doesn’t stop her from getting him killed, and it doesn’t bring him back. Will and Lyra loved each other, but it doesn’t stop their separation. John Parry loved Will and his mother, but he still left them. Lyra loved Pan, but she still left him behind in the world of the dead. There’s no absence of love, but it’s not the cure all other books often make it out to be. The love is there, but it doesn’t change anything. And yet in the end it’s Will and Lyra’s love for each other that saves every world. It’s Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter’s love for Lyra (and each other) that lets them defeat Metatron. In a series where love has consistently failed to save the character, two of the most important and seemingly impossible feats are accomplished solely through love. And yes that means that the story inherently contradicts itself, but that’s what I love so much about it. Love is by nature contradictory. The point of the story isn’t to show that love is all powerful or that love achieves nothing. The point is that love doesn’t usually doesn’t solve anything, but that we should continue to love, and that every now and then, love truly will save it all.

[kirjavas]

never not thinking about iorek byrnison eating lee scoresby's dead body, so as not to let it rot but instead allow it to sustain an old friend on his journey. and how this act fulfilled lee's dying wish to help lyra by giving iorek the strength to go on and find her. thinking about consumption as a form of love, loving someone in their entirety and wanting to eat them whole but also love and grief being something you carry inside of you that guides you forward

[dragonsareawesome123]

"Just do it."

His Dark Materials (2019-2022), 3x08 - "The Botanic Garden"

[kaizsche]

JAMES MCAVOY as LORD ASRIEL BELACQUA HIS DARK MATERIALS, 1.01: LYRA'S JORDAN

[unchangingwindoww]

so naturally their speculation flourished.

― The Secret Commonwealth, Chapter 2

[bookishable]

it's always better to have loved.

philip pullman, the amber spyglass / guillermo del toro's pinocchio (2022) / fleabag (2016-2019) / andrew garfield / art by @catadromously / anne carson, euripides / markus zusak, the book thief / shannon barry / little women (2019) / the good place (2016-2020) / fyodor dostoevsky, crime and punishment / his dark materials (2019-2022) / @starpeace

[foldingfittedsheets]

My little book club is reading His Dark Materials and daemons came up while my betrothed and I were cuddling in bed.

They said to me, “Do you think anyone’s daemon is a mosquito?”

“What? No way, that’s way too small!”

“No,” they countered, “We see beetles and butterflies, Pan turned into a little lightning bug, and a moth.”

I digested this information in silence, and then my betrothed started shaking with laughter and pitched in two different voices. “‘Where’s your daemon?’ ‘Oh, it’s a tick.’”

I let out such a guttural sound of amusement and horror that I scared the cats. I couldn’t stop laughing and repeating, “It’S a TiCk!!!”

I escalated in hilarity to choking out, “The only blood it can eat is it’s own persons! They JusT gO aRouNd with a TiCk on their face!”

“I don’t think daemons need to eat, do they?” They asked.

“IT’S A tIcK!!” I responded, tears rolling down my face, hyperventilating at the best and worst concept I’d ever imagined.

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

will & lyra | touch (s3 episode 8c)

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[alethiosr]

I find it incredible that His Dark Materials has multiple papers and even books written about it. While the series is essentially a Bible to me it’s also just incredible to think about it from an objective lens. To write something so influential that people dedicate their time to analyzing it and writing papers about it must be a great feeling. I hope it brings Philip Pullman a lot of joy knowing people care that much about his work.

[alicentsgf]

hating a character for being a bad person has got to be one of the most boring ways to interact with any story

[jacklikejuno]

watching his dark materials is crazy because wdym lyra's father loves her enough to die for her but not to raise her