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Hey, I just wanted to let you know I think your account may have been hacked. I got a direct message from you earlier with a link for that Ray-Ban hack thing xP

Yeah 😭 months after everyone was receiving those messages and after absolutely no activity from this blog for a solid year, I get hacked

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Okay, seriously, use Latine, not Latino when referencing Latin Americans in general. Latino is gendered while Latine is inclusive of all gender identies.

I used Katherine and Isabel as examples because a lot of us are Spanish descended which is where we would get our light complexions from.

Latine is a term that’s used universally compared to Hispanic which was created in America and many are actually trying to shed. Just because a government census doesn’t include the term Latine doesn’t mean it’s not an identity that’s used by those people. American census don’t always include Latine and that has nothing to do with whether those identities are there or not, it just has to do with the fact that Latine is an ethnicity, not a race and most demographics are identified by race. It’s an ongoing debate about whether our ethnic or racial identities precede the other, especially since a lot of us aren’t White and there’s a lot of racial disparity within our communities making Latine not feel like “real Latine” for one reason or the other.

Jessie later clarified she was referring to the movies. Just because it has a film cast doesn’t mean people can’t still fancast. It’s called a fancast for a reason. And people fancast in relation to the Walden films often which is why she wanted to gently remind everyone that the Telmarine were coded a certain way in the films.

It’s just a two sentence post from who knows how long ago. Why do you need to dissect it so much? If you don’t agree with her, then move on.

I’d really like to see more Latino Rillian and Tirian fan casts, because Caspian is Latino-coded and they’re there descendants. Just something to think about.

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The Telmarine were coded to be Mediterranean/Spanish/Latine as stated by Andrew Adamson in the film commentary. Lord Sopespian was played by a popular Mexican actor, Damián Alcázar. Prunaprismia and Lord Scythley were played by Spanish actors Alicia Borrachero and Simón Andreu respectively.

Also, please check your historical facts before saying things like “Latinos aren’t an identity in the UK.” There were Latine populations in the UK during Lewis’s time. There were a lot of Latin Americans that found refuge in London when there was a lot of unrest within the Spanish empire in Central and South America. Some of the most recognized Latin American figures that resided in the UK at some point were Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, Brazilian diplomat Hipólito da Costa, and Colombian politician Juan García del Río. There has also always been a good population of Spaniards in the UK with there even being Spaniards marrying into the British monarchy, one of the most notable figures being Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife. And Spanish culture is a huge part of Latin American culture considering the history and etc.

And being blond literally means nothing about whether a person can be considered Latine or not. Katherine of Aragon was known for her red hair and blue eyes, her mother, Isabel I, was blonde. A lot of Spaniards and Latine have light complexions. I grew up with Latine friends who had light complexions and Latine friends who had dark complexions. Most of us come from mixed backgrounds and the whole “dark eyes, dark hair, tan skin” thing is just a stereotype played up by Hollywood. Someone can be Latine and be blond.

Lewis may not have portrayed the Telmarine as Latine-coded in the books but Jessie wasn’t talking about the books, she was talking about the movies where the creators had been going for a specific “vibe” in the films and she wanted to remind people about that, especially since a lot of us Latine fans get brushed aside when we bring up all the issues that come with the Telmarine depictions and how we want to fix that.

I’d really like to see more Latino Rillian and Tirian fan casts, because Caspian is Latino-coded and they’re there descendants. Just something to think about.

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I’d really like to see more Latino Rillian and Tirian fan casts, because Caspian is Latino-coded and they’re there descendants. Just something to think about.

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You know, I think we get caught up in the enchanted Turkish delight thing a little too much when it comes to the movies not explicitly telling us the candy was enchanted. Yes, it would have added more to the story so that casual viewers could be more sympathetic to Edmund, but I personally like that it wasn’t stated it was an enchantment.

The White Witch manipulated a child to do her bidding. The entirety of that scene where she first meets Edmund, she’s trying to “take care of” him by wrapping him up in her coat, she’s giving him a warm drink and some sweets, she’s trying to show him that she’s “on his side” by saying that he deserves to be king and not his older brother. She’s doing everything to make him warm up to her and feel accepted by her while also trying to edge in him doing her bidding. If he does what she wants him to do, she’ll give him a kingdom, as many sweets as he wants, and a sense of superiority over his siblings. That’s Edmund being a kid. No matter what time period, any child would love that. Jadis knows what he wants and she’s going to give it to him for a price, but Edmund is a kid so he doesn’t really comprehend what the price actually would mean for him and his siblings — and the rest of Narnia tbh. At his age, kids are just barely understanding life and death, you can’t expect him to understand the consequences that would come from his actions (in this situation).

Anyways, point is: Edmund was a child and the White Witch was an adult (I mean, she’s ancient but we’re going to call her an adult for the sake of my explanation) and she manipulated him. It’s not about the enchantment, it’s not about sweets being rationed in England during WWII, etc etc. He’s a child and she’s an adult and she took advantage of how young he is and how little he still understands.

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She thinks she’s found a magical land. . . in the upstairs wardrobe!

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“The director of the first film, Andrew Adamson, was very focused on preserving real emotion, on seeing things for the first time, and having, like, a real sense of wonder. So he didn’t actually show me the set of Narnia where the lamppost is until we shot it. I was blindfolded and guided into my place, and he told me to just walk around, that the camera would follow me. And so I turned around and I saw it for the first time.”  — Georgie Henley on filming Lucy’s first entrance into Narnia

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I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly towards me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that, being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn’t that kind of fear. I wasn’t afraid of it eating me, I was just afraid of it — if you can understand. Well, it came close up to me and looked straight into my eyes.

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Saying crackers makes you sound immature and Johnny depp wasn’t the abuser

Literally couldn’t give two shits about your input but go off I guess

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I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly towards me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that, being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn’t that kind of fear. I wasn’t afraid of it eating me, I was just afraid of it — if you can understand. Well, it came close up to me and looked straight into my eyes.

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I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly towards me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that, being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn’t that kind of fear. I wasn’t afraid of it eating me, I was just afraid of it — if you can understand. Well, it came close up to me and looked straight into my eyes.

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The only thing I ask from Netflix when they work on the Narnia series is that the characters remain closer to their book ages than the films did, especially with the kids. I think it’d be great seeing the kids as actual kids and it would really emphasize how quickly they had to grow up, not just because they fought in wars in Narnia at young ages, but because the early 20th century was not a time period where kids could be kids. It was devastating and stressful and full of so much destruction and loss. It makes the idea of Narnia all that more heartbreaking. These were war-weary children coming into a world that was so much unlike their own and they didn’t have the same comforts of their world and they didn’t have their parents but they also had this place they could escape to that no other kids could say they had. It’s just one of those things that I do nitpick a bit more about in the films that I hope they give some insight into on Netflix.

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polly plummer | happy birthday to @nylonsandlipstick / @geeksthetics

“you looked exactly like your uncle when you said that!”

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), Dir. Michael Apted

“We spoken often of Narnia in the days that followed. When my cousins left after the war ended, I missed them with all my heart, as I know all Narnians will miss them 'til the end of time.”

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the book of incantations + spells

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Noor’s hijab is made of the night sky and has actual stars sewn into it