#Kirjava

[cymraegdragon21]

Lyra and Wills bench & daemons sculpture at Oxford Botanic Gardens. Photo taken on recent visit.

[casualavocados]

will teaching lyra to skip rocks (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.08 | The Botanic Garden

Bonus: Pantalaimon and Kirjava 💞

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[zomeszone]

His Dark Materials headcannons

Will is offered prosthetic fingers multiple times but always refuses to even start the conversation about them

Mary invites Will to join her at a pride festival, Kirjava joins them as well, he has a few moments when he's wondering if the queer community is even accepted in Lyra's world

Will always says that he lost his fingers in a car accident, only telling Mary and future partner the real reason

No matter how long Lyra and Will have been separated for, they still have moments where they want to show the other something but yet knowing they can't

(I can't decide whether Will will have kids) He hands down his father's jumper to his eldest child and tells his kids that their grandfather was a wizard

Will avoids talking about his journey with Lyra because he knows that people will think that it's all a fantasy story and the only person who knows about it isn't in his world

[kirjava-stan-account]

Kirjava when she saw that the hdm adaptation made her a fucking basic ass tabby cat instead of a dark smoked-out subtle baddie:

[yellowblaze39]

“Every atom of me and every atom of you…”

My favorite quote from the main trilogy <3

[distort1xn]

i am proud to present: Kirjava

(keyr-yah-vah – emphasis on ‘keyr’). just call him ‘java’, like coffee, bc he’s On. The. GOOOOO.

‘kirjava’ means ‘multicoloured’ in finnish. he is named after a kitty in one of my fave pieces of media of all time. (the media is his dark materials by phillip pulman, but the hbo show – because if there’s a show/movie my adhd brain is too impatient to read the book. kirjava was will’s dæmon when he went to lyra’s world, and she was a cat, too!).

8 weeks old. tiny little man. very purr-y. extremely cuddly and sweet. i gave birth to him. went into labour. he is my SON. adopted him from a lady who has hordes of barn cats that produce litters once a month, basically.

i love him. you love him. the world loves java, okay? okay.

p.s. sound on for the vid for kitten purrs!

(him’s face was just a lil goopy. clemd him right up!)

[kirjavas]

never forget

[ablatheringblatherskite]

HELP I JUST GOT THIS NOTIF I'M GONNA GO CRY NOW

(it's at noon for an hour btw not 7-8 pm, it only says that cause that's the time here LOL)

[kirjava-stan-account]

kirjava forever

[acaciapines]

what's up with kirjava? (unless i am an idiot and did not catch when you mentioned them)

nothing is really up with her...from what i remember i just. felt bad for her lol. shes will's daemon! will GETS a daemon!! and kirjava has like. maybe two, three appearances. i get why we cant dive so deep into her--as much as i'd love a book about will and kirjava in out world dealing w having/being a daemon in a world that doesn't understand that, hdm doesnt have time to go there--but i just wished that she got a little bit more, that her importance to will was like, shown better. thats the other half of his soul! let them TALK!!!

[ruinconstellation]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: His Dark Materials - Pullman, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Will Parry, Mary Malone, Kirjava, Susan Pevensie Additional Tags: Yuletide, recipient:Tris B., challenge:Yuletide 2007, Crossover, Coming of Age, Action/Adventure, Plotty Summary: If there's a way back out of this world, Will is determined to find it. At any cost.

Rec of @kaydeefalls’s fic!

[elodieunderglass]

Hi Elodie! I was wondering if I might ask about your process for choosing names for the daemons in His Delicious Materials? I have some daemon characters knocking about in the back of my brain, but I’ve never been able to settle on names for them. I know that in His Dark Materials, some daemons have more common names, and some have more fantastical, but beyond that I don’t know much about daemon naming conventions, and yours sound so delightful to hear and say.

Oh jeez sure! I unfortunately love making sweeping decisions and then forcing myself to live up to them.

(In reference to His Delicious Materials fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56658973/chapters/144024799 )

The only set HDM daemon naming constraints I can recall are that they’re set by the daemon’s parents and thus relate to the parental names and desires; this Stelmaria, Greek, “Star of the sea,” has a son Pantalaimon “multitude of blessings.” But other daemons, such as the nurse who was severed, have names like “Nicholas.” Thus they can be what feels right, I think, with reference to internal family-feeling. people from Lyra’s Oxford are clearly going for Greek names - even the character who’s a “kitchen boy” has the lofty Salcilia, which seems to connect to “salt” - but the witches in HDM give their daemons Finnish names.

I think where possible it can’t be the language you’re reading the story in - I.e. if you’re reading in English you shouldn’t have a daemon named Trustworthy - and be three syllables. It would be ideal if it secretly revealed a piece of character, but could also be an aspiration. Will’s “kirjava” (multicoloured) is a description.

I had a few constraints. I set them early on. I think constraints make things easier but that’s possibly a personality flaw.

One thing that doesn’t happen much in daemon AUs is that I had different species of human to consider. This made me decide that they had to have relatively distinctive naming cultures.

- Bee was the one who sprang into my head without invitation and instantly suggested “wouldn’t it be great if it lengthened into Bibelot, which is French for trinket?” And I was like, such a great idea bestie! Let’s write a novel about you! Maybe two! So if that happens to you, let that happen.

- this led to all half-foots having a daemon naming convention where they had to have three-syllable French names with the first syllable shortening to their everyday name and their long name being reserved for intimates; the short name should shorten to a word preferably in English. At first this was fine and made things easier because the only other half-foot daemons instantly presented themselves as Chatelaine and Chiendegarde. If you have a good convention/restriction it can make things easier at first and makes you sound confident.

- I felt that Greek-inspired names for daemons in OG HDM felt very cool in that setting. Laios is a Greek name IRL (Falin is Irish I think but ignore that) so I mentally fixed the convention of the siblings having Greek names.

- then I used Google Translate to find a word that meant gentle or feathery and found Elafros, which alludes to both, and also having the highly desirable -os ending which matches Laios and obviously creates a cohesive, family feel

- everyone reading this is probably like, no the hell it doesn’t

- I liked the three syllables and sense of parental expectation so I researched it a bit more and settled on it.

- I wanted Laios’s daemon to start with a P, three syllables, Greek and match Falin in some way. I scrolled through the P entries on a 1990’s website with a list of “dead words”. Palinode was chosen for being obviously a cohesive and familial resonance with Falin (rhyming first syllable.) it also shortens to PAL and has connotations of sounding like paladin. She’s Falin’s paladin.

- everyone reading this is probably like, no the hell it doesn’t

- Palinode’s a terrible name actually. Oh well moving on

- I wanted Marcille’s daemon to have a Greek name too, this choice feeling synonymous with a certain expectation of class/education as well as species to me. I wanted it to start with a P because at that point I had read more of the manga and she had a pet bird named Pipi.

- the pyx- beginning is super cute to me because I originally pictured Marcille as being a pixie.

- while scrolling through the list of dead words looking for Greek inspired names starting with py- I saw Pyxis and was instantly in love. It was listed as meaning “small pot for medicine and cosmetics” but upon more research I realised it was a constellation and apparently also means “compass,” all of which felt absolutely perfect.

- Pyxis is an absolutely crap moral compass though

- I wanted Anne to be named Anne but that needed to be longer, so I tried putting the word “shield” into Google Translate and cycling through languages until Welsh gave me Tarian. It means shield and shortens to Anne! It’s also a very pretty word.

- This then set the convention of dwarves getting Welsh names, and at that point I was happier for them to have proper names, so Aneurin (a Welsh men’s name meaning honorable, and shortening to Nye) and Gethin could just be chosen from a list.

- in conclusion it’s a lot of meaning+vibes!

- thank you for this question!

[amavaria]

Further on my mlp rewatch and it’s changing my brain chemistry. Remade my ponysona from 2013! (old design under cut)

Added some g5 elements to the new design since I really dig their fluffyness and hooves design! I’m having much fun…

The old one was just a ponyfied version of my fursona at the time and didn’t have a proper name, it was just called Kirjava like my fursona was.

[ghostwise]

quick little 5-min draw of @vlwv 's Kirjava :)

[clonerightsagenda]

Finishing up the show! (As you saw, lol)

Episode 7:

Asriel: I fucking hate prophecies as plot devices. Me: same man

Technobabble? In His Dark Materials? Shut up about your capacitors

Hey, it was Mrs. Coulter's idea to beat Metatron, and now they're having Asriel and Xaphania tip her off. Stolen valor

"Brute physical force!" has been a family injoke for years so when Asriel announced he was going to defeat the angels with "sheer physical force" we all started screaming

"It's not just death down there" just reminds me of that tumblr post about how SFF invents Death 2: A Worse One

I've said it before but one more for the road... the witches look so silly

Well lads they did what I worried they'd do - focus a lot of time and energy on the war that explicitly thematically does not matter.

Why do Asriel's troops even have guns. Can you shoot an angel

Mrs. Coulter's control over the specters was vague in the books beyond that she played them like she plays everyone else, convincing them she could lead them to better prey. I do not know why she can now explode them with her mind

Serafina that bird skull is not flattering. And I say this as a skull connoisseur

God: *telepathically says shit* Mrs. Coulter: Another fucking man trying to tell me what to do

Metatron's leather suit??? Did he get himself confused with Metatton?

Mrs. Coulter didn't hit him with a rock : ( Also Stelmaria pushed them all into the pit instead of her. Kind of a bummer. Wondering what the metaphysical implications are of *her* daemon dying outside the rift rather than in it, though. Also my notes for this scene include the scribbled phrase 'cursed throuple'. I just thought you should know

Well God dying was appropriately anticlimactic I guess although I would have preferred if Will and Lyra weren't in the thick of All That

(My mom: Why aren't they going to the other world?? Why are they still in the war zone? My dad: Because they're stupid. Me: Don't blame them. It's not their fault. The TV show is doing this to them.)

Episode 8:

New scene of Lyra processing her parents' death - even posthumously they are still taking up screentime

You go to the land of the dead and through a war zone and into Eden and that PhD you met months ago just happens to be there. Wild tbh

Mary is a lesbian! Good for her! Does Lyra understand the concept of lesbians or is she baffled by this whole exchange

They cut the "The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake" line. Cowards

My mom: Will, do something about that bandage. He has gangrene. Me: He said she smelled bad but it's his hand rotting. (We then remembered they made the timeskip several months and were like... why does he still have bandages on)

Kirjava isn't black :(

Honestly the 'good' angels are coming off even worse in the TV version. yeah you did what we needed you to do so you're done now! We no longer grant you our grace to read the alethiometer because you're no longer of use to us! Go fuck yourself. Ironically her 'falling' does make her a used up and no longer valuable woman to them.... probably not the intended reading but here we are

Send help my parents keep calling the mulefa muffalettas

I joked that when Lyra said she was imagining what Will will look like when he's old he should've whipped out his phone and gone there's a snapchat filter for that

We then spent the last few minutes heckling Will for occasionally having all his fingers in some shots

I was already on the edge but just said "what the fuck?? what the fuck is that?????" for the ending with the like... based on a true story documentary text overlay for Where They Are Now. Why did they do that