#cs jack

[poppy-did-nothing-wrong]

Poppy: If I die, my funeral is going to be the biggest party ever and you’re all invited

Sam: If?

Jack: Great, the only party I’ve ever been invited to and they might not even die.

[sam-is-my-scrunkly]

Jack: Come here Sam, we're going monster hunting, don't try to befriend any of them.

Sam: What? No- i wouldn't do that.

Alex: Even if it had a questionable moral compass?

Sam: ...

[bipolyjack]

It was more tempting than the Collar, Anharion's lips against his, but never like this, sweetly willing. And that thought held him back, even as the kiss seemed to throb between them.

[weevmo]

See, the-the rain is nice, but Gee, I-I don't really like getting wet W-What in the world? No, I-I went under the awning It's… it's still raining Why is it still raining? I did what I was supposed to That's not fair

[babe-bombadil]

If JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis could text:

[up-the-anti]

only 9 months till hallow,een,,

[sunflower-chai]

oh to be a dryad in the great snow dance in narnia…

[raspberryzingaaa]

Fake quote people attribute to Lewis: "i have a body, I AM a soul"

Real Lewis: "Man has held three views of his body. First there is that of those acetic Pagans who called it the prison or the ‘tomb’ of the soul, and of Christians like Fisher to whom it was a ‘sack of dung’, food for worms, filthy, shameful, a source of nothing but temptation to bad men and humiliation to good ones. Then there are the Neo-Pagans (they seldom know Greek), the nudists and the sufferers from Dark Gods, to whom the body is glorious. But thirdly we have the view which St. Francis expressed by calling his body ‘Brother Ass’. All three may be – I am not sure – defensible; but give me St. Francis for my money.

Ass is exquisitely right because no one in his senses can either revere or hate a donkey. It is a useful, sturdy, lazy, obstinate, patient, lovable and infuriating beast; deserving now a stick and now a carrot; both pathetically and absurdly beautiful. So the body."

[lmelodie]

Happened mere SECONDS after his toddler sister interrupted them and ruined the mood in the most embarrassing way possible.

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

[divinecomedyproductions]

[queenlucythevaliant]

It is such a stone cold bummer that we live in a universe where C.S. Lewis's youthful ambition to write the libretto for a Loki opera was never realized

[sam-is-my-scrunkly]

Headcanon full names (since Blackbird won't give us any)

Samuel Baltz

Alexander Onevali

Jackson Zeners

[bipolyjack]

practice sketches for that sarharion piece

[elrondsscribe]

sorry i’m having some narnia thoughts idk

because ok. most tepid take of the year: narnia isn’t a “world” in the way that, for example, middle-earth is a world. it’s more like an ad hoc playground with different pieces that keep getting added to it.

and like. the “character journeys,” as we’d call them now, are pretty thin by our current standards? like, the shit that the kids go thru just on-page (not even counting the implied backdrop of WW2 and post WW2 England) is pretty traumatic if u think about it for a second, but it doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on them. like, you as the reader can logically guess that it’s there, but there’s almost nothing in the text that actually demonstrates that emotionally.

and none of this is a dig, btw, but i think jack lewis just wasn’t the kind of author who, like, thought about what he was writing all that much?? which is an energy i respect, honestly, because who would throw bacchus & maenads, santa claus, and werewolves all into the same story if they Thought About It?

anyway all of that is just to say: i don’t wanna invalidate ppl who get emotional catharsis out of Wrestling With The Problem Of Susan, or What It Says About Jack Lewis. i guess i’m just saying that i don’t think he Thought About It when he decided to pull something on her that is objectively Super Fucking Traumatic.

because this is the same world in which a kid can come within an inch of being fucking murdered by a witch and can still sleep at night afterwards. this is a same world where two teenage boys can end up in a life threatening battle with no real preparation and then just kinda shake it off later. this is the same world where two teenage girls can watch a person they know get ritualistically murdered and be completely devastated by it … and then there’s never a peep about nightmares afterward. (i mean for crying out loud, lucy encounters the actual knife that killed aslan and her reaction is basically “oh look, a relic from that thing i was present for!”)

this is a world where a kid can grow up under fairly extreme emotional neglect, not to mention having to run for his life because the people who were supposed to be his guardians intended to kill him, not to mention finding out that those “guardians” are the reason he’s an orphan … and then he just kinda rolls into adulthood like it’s all well n good.

like okay. yeah susan got the worst of it, but it does kinda fit with the way lewis treats these characters generally. like what do you mean these characters would be Super Mega Affected by things that happen to them??

[safyresky]

I love her so much. She's so silly. So MEMEABLE.

Based on these classics:

Heheheh okay okay, I was gonna post them like this initially, but I really wanted to do the second one separate for the joke lmao.

SURPRISE! MORE WINTERS! These were so fun to do! As you can see, the Winter memes were REAL this week. then I remembered I am cultivating the ART talent so HERE U GO, LOL.

I went on a COLOURING ADVENTURE with THESE LET ME TELL YOU. Here's why and HOW

used my fast inking marker. big mistake. it smudges. which is why there's black in all of the colours.

the lines HELLA SMUDGED when I ERASED THEM bc I DIDN'T GIVE IT ENOUGH TIME TO DRY

SO THEN. I START COLOURING. Decided to experiment with Winter's thawed hair since it's not usually elementally charged anywho

Used a watercolour based marker that was dark blue on the second one, then went in it with the white

THE WHITE GOT ALL BLUE. FUCK.

I doddled it out, went to colour in the whites of the eyes and her teeth

SURPRISE. THE BLUE DIDN'T COME OUT

no amount of white edits could fix it. FUCK

WENT ON A RESEARCH DEEP DIVE. DISCOVERED POSCA MARKERS. FOUND A WHITE ONE AT MICHAEL'S TODAY. BOUGHT IT. WAS ABLE TO REPAIR THE EYES

YEAH BABY!

And then, with the power of white paint based marker! I WAS ABLE TO DO PLAIN OL' BLACK AND WHITE FOR THE MARIAH MEME

FUCK YEAH BUD!!

So hair experiments went GREAT. I'm v happy with the colour set now! AND a fun fact for you all: the Crystal Springs gossip network is called Babbling Springs, often shorthanded to BS. Yes, I did this on purpose. The microphone was going to say that but the white smudged lmao, so I figured I'd share it here! :)

The Winter memes are not yet over. I've got another good one up my sleeve courtesy of Ana >:)

But for now! I post THIS! and go play HADES 2 and also eat dinner. Enjoy!