#His dark material

[jennrypan]

Ughhhh. Golden Compass/ His Dark Material au with the Batfamily !!!!

Ugh. Or Sonic--

But listen .. Jason who had a daemon that constantly changed forms until the day he died and when he came back and his daemon did too..it still changed frequently (it never got to fully settle on a form but it mostly takes the shape of a wolverine, hawk or maine coon) their bond was very strained when he first got back and it still is as he's very detached from himself occasionally. His daemon is a girl and her name is Myra (idk why don't ask--) She's his best friend and his biggest hater 💀

I'm focusing on Jason cuz I can't think about the others rn-

[hachinana87]

ready

[teaforthotxxx]

I read His Dark Material as a child before going to primary school and then 4 years later I chose not to go through with comfirmation.

Summary: Don’t buy polar bear books for your child. It’ll make them question organised religion on a level you cannot fathom.

[semiramis-audron]

Me:

*a long time Fan of the concept of the angel Metatron and the Enoch lore, seeing the influx of people in the Metatron tag, due to HDM*

Yay!

*remembering what the character was like in His Dark Materials*

Uhm... #Not all Metatrons?

Like I know what the hashtag means. And I hate that it's true that most of them in media are absolute dick weeds?

Like aside from webcomics and fan projects, the only good natured Metatrons are the Dogma one and the himbo from El Shaddai (whom I dearly love don't get me wrong)

I still love all the other assholes

(though I am forever salty the Good Omens one was relegated to a glorified answering machine in the series and Gabriel given all his other book appearances)

[browniefox]

Question: would a person with DID (I think that's the term?) have only one daemon? Would their daemon be split as well?

[nocontextmagicalgirl]

Out of curiosity…

[draconym]

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

[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

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Who's dark materials

[hachinana87]

into the sky

[chardysstuff]

The Hobbit/His Dark Material Crossover

I rewatched His Dark Materials and thought, why not do a little crossover ??

So here’s some of Thorin’s company + my oc with their daemons!

[universetopieces]

You and I could take the universe to pieces and put it together again.

[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.

[ovenproofowl]

His Dark Materials is a franchise that tackles so many branches of physics and even creates a universe where the main course of study is experimental theology which is all about identifying and explaining dark matter while also adding dimensions to string theory, the multiverse theory, and the very concept of the human soul. At the same time, it aggressively calls out the problem with the state being controlled by the church, how people are condemned for being different and religious fearmongering stops the chance at growth both on an individual and a societal scale. It’s a franchise where the heroes of the story are two children who aren’t allowed to know the prophecy they’re a part of, who save the world unwittingly simply by doing what they believe to be right. Meanwhile, the person who thought he was the hero all along, the person who rallied an army from multiple universes to FIGHT. GOD. HIMSELF. is ultimately consumed by his own ego and forced to take a back seat when he realises he’s just one tiny piece of a much larger story that’s true heart is his own daugher. The child he abandoned, the child he didn’t know or care to know how to look after. It’s a franchise about finding love even when your biological family abandon you, it’s about looking evil in the eye and seeing your own mother, it’s about good and evil not being black and white but instead a complex and cruel mixture of both. It’s about the two worst people you know banding together at the last second to save their daughter with their final breaths. It’s about exploration and learning how to grow through experience, it’s about kindness being shared across the multiverse, exchanging stories with strangers and saving the whole world by doing something perfectly ordinary and receiving no reward.

Oh, and it’s also a franchise rich with fantasy, with giant talking polar bears, witches and ghosts, angels and daemons, and a mammal-like species from another world that travels exclusively on roller skates. 

And it fucking. rocks.

[kirjavas]

From the very beginning of the show, we had all these discussions with her wardrobe and fabrics and colours as I came in knowing what colours suited me, as Dafne and what colours I felt were Lyra. For all of season one it was her vitality and her colour was red. Whereas colder tones came into season two after (spoiler) the death of Roger where we investigated blues and greens, those colder tones. Season three was all of those elements and shades combined - she’s wearing everything she’s been through. It was a way of, for me, finding that when you grow up you don’t stop being the things you were, you add onto them.

Dafne Keen as Lyra Silvertongue in HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019–2022)