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How are you with heights? They don't scare me. Never have.

HIS DARK MATERIALS 1.02 | The Idea of North

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his dark materials will literally always work bc every small child wants an animal companion that loves you most and goes on adventures with you and every adult wants an animal companion that can shoulder some of life’s immense psychologically damage for you. and you can pet it

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Least weasel/vessla in its white winter coat. Värmland, Sweden (February 12, 2023).

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Character design by Clement Poumirau

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Stoat in his winter coat, Kodiak, Alaska

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Mrs. Coulter by Clement Poumirau

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Changing Kaisa into a gyrfalcon because "the goose just looked too silly" will forever be the BIGGEST coward's move in this whole show and you cannot change my mind, I will die on this hill and there's nothing you can do to convince me otherwise.

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I think there’s something so symbolic about people who have daemons who settled as animals not native to where they grew up. People who are so far from where they belong but often don’t even realize it or give their daemon’s form a second thought. Do they long to go to where their daemon would be more at home? If so, do they chase that feeling or do they ignore it?

Lee Scorseby ended up far in the arctic simply looking for work, not even aware that Hester was an Arctic Hare until Iorek told him. He had assumed that Hester was a Jackrabbit and only realized that the arctic meant something to him after speaking with Iorek. He could’ve found work anywhere else but he somehow ended up where he needed to be anyways.

Lord Asriel is probably the most interesting example of this though. He was always traveling, always looking for something, never being content to relax and exist in one place for long. The first time we ever see him he’s described as looking like a wild animal trapped in a small cage, totally out of place with his surroundings. When he finally stops moving is when he creates the Republic of Heaven and the basalt fortress is built. It’s in another world with vague geography, but it’s likely roughly within natural snow leopard range. The last place Asriel ever lives is where he and Stelmaria might’ve finally felt some sense of belonging.

It’s not something given much depth and thought within the books, but in a way it doesn’t need to be. We get to see it naturally in a way that isn’t forced. It’s beautiful and real just like many of the other intricacies regarding daemons. It adds to these people as people instead of becoming something too fantastical and bizarre.

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"His Dark Materials", by Philip Pullman.

"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.", from The Golden Compass.

"The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.", from The Amber Spyglass.

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So, the possibly first place where Philip Pullman reveals the title and release date for the third and last Book of Dust is ... Swedish public service literature show Babel!

Not sure the video can be seen outside Sweden so I'll transcribe the important bits:

PP: The third book, which I have just finished (...) I can't give away too much because it's not published here, it won't be published till October-ish in this country. What I will do is tell you the title of the third book. Host Jessika Gedin: Yes, please! PP: It's called The Rose Field. I took 600 pages to say it, clearly.

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More wintery vibes 🌲🌲

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Pine Marten, Yellowstone National Park.

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Painted a bunch of martens from stock photos recently for funsies under the excuse of doing painting studies (i just love mustelids) (reference photos under the cut!)

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Have Lee and Hester in this fine evening

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She couldn’t speak. All the words, all the confidence, all the vanity had been shaken out of her.

— The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

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Stoat in his winter coat, Kodiak, Alaska

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this moment, which comes pretty early in the first book and way before any of the character development or anything, might be what most endears Lyra to me