#vdt

[fairmerthefarmer]

Retired Star and his daughter who live at the last island on the eastern ocean.

Also here’s Ramandu with and without his cloak that I decided he has.

I will draw every single character from this book

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Today in thoughts that would make C. S. Lewis roll in his grave: watching HRT take effect, especially when I touch my skin (especially especially after shaving), feels like how Eustace must have felt when Aslan peeled off all that scaly dragon skin to restore his true form. Come to think of it, a constrictingly tight metal bracelet makes an apt metaphor for the low-intensity gnawing dysphoria that became the background radiation of my life from adolescence onward.

[western-woods]

Endless list of favourite Edmund Pevensie moments 14/???

[the-introverted-writer-for-life]

Ok guys I need to know

[t0xicbimb0]

Since I've been messing around in my Ville de t0xic save file, I wanted to get reacquainted with each Sim. Leo Herron and Becky Landchild have just graduated college and are ready to start up their businesses!

Leo is a gamer boy who has a love for nature. He wants to open a spot where he can sell his produce and fish. He is a nice guy who tends to keep to himself. Even though it doesn't help with his need to be liked by everyone. His parents are poly and he was named after his grandfather. He is best friends with his biological parents, sister Cyan and Drea Turner (who is also best friend's with Becky.)

Becky is a fitness sim who has a passion for teaching yoga. She's going to open her own studio in the city! She is the eldest of the 2nd gen of the Landchild family. They did not grow up with a lot of money, Becky had to start working at a young age to help out. She also funded her way through uni with scholarships. She had a crush on her best friend Drea in high school and got rejected for her first kiss by her! Then Becky got with Leo and the rest has been history!

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Hope you enjoy me going back to my original hood for when I started streaming! <3 Happy simming.

[d-r-e-a-m]

Você fez doer em mim o que alguém fez doer em você, mesmo sabendo que eu não merecia.

Srta. Bukowski

[cgvijesti]

VDT: Borilovića usmrtio prvi metak koji je ispalio policajac

VDT: Borilovića usmrtio prvi metak koji je ispalio policajac

Prvi metak koji je pogodio i ujedno bio smrtonosan za Vuka Borilovića koji je 12. avgusta na Cetinju ubio deset osoba, među kojima i dvoje djece, ispaljen je iz policijskog pištolja, saopštilo je Više državno tužilaštvo. “U predmetu Višeg državnog tužilaštva u Podgorici, koji je formiran povodom događaja na Cetinju od 12.08.2022. godine, kojom prilikom je lišeno života deset lica, od kojih i…

[mofmofp]

ダークモードは作業するときに目にいいのか? 結論「よくない」電気代もかかる

ダークモード(暗い背景に明るい文字)のウェブページは長時間見ていると残像が残って疲れる。 果たしてこれが個人的な感想にすぎないのか、それとも目に良いのかどうか、、 さて調べてみました。   Positive display polarity is advantageous for both younger and older adults による実験の結果では 視力検査と校正作業により、若い成人と高齢者の正極性(明るい背景に暗い文字)が有利であることが明らかになりました。 明るい背景に暗い文字を使用すると読みやすくなり、観察者の年齢に関係なく強く推奨されます。 とのこと。 論文では、ダークモードのことを「ポジティブ・ディスプレイ極性」というんですね、堅苦しいぞ。 さらに続々とでてきました。   How display polarity and lighting conditions…

[supernovasilence]

caspian kissing a blanket and then giving it to edmund

[to-the-western-wood]

eustace: how the fuck do people just stay motivated their entire lives? what drives you? i got out of bed once and i've been exhausted ever since

edmund: you need to hate life to the point where you want to get revenge on existence itself

caspian: best advice ever

[fairmerthefarmer]

More character designs except this time they’re fantasy dwarves and whenever I draw fantasy dwarves they legally all need to have facial hair regardless of gender cause I think that’s cool.

Also these guys are all secretly Narnian and are also on the crew of the Dawn Treader cause I’m forever building out the crew in my mind, and it’s practicing doing my own designs. Here is some more of the crew.

The slightest amount of lore for them is down here if you care, along with general Narnia headcanons and waffling.

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The dwarf on the far left is a river dwarf I’ve decided. I don’t know fully that is other than I think it’d be cool if there was a tribe of dwarves that were close to the water nymphs, and generally have great knowledge and skills that are an asset on a sailing crew.

The river dwarves are one of the reasons telmarines were scared of the water (along with the niads, however the bridge of beruna imprisoned the river god, who otherwise was also responsible for many folk tales told to young telmarine children. Their fear of water is ironic to me cause I believe there’s evidence of them coming from the Caribbean as pirates? I imagine the humans on caspians crew are like, either rediscovering their roots or the few who held on to that seafaring background. Mostly younger telmarines in the same generation as caspian, they questioned the leadership and were very happy when old narnia overthrew Miraz.)

the river dwarves are generally peaceful and most lived in hiding during telmars reign. They’re temperament is very stable and they do well under pressure. River dwarves are incredibly stealthy and only attack in necessity as self defense. In terms of stealth think like lotr hobbits, and this is a great contrast to most other dwarves in Narnia (strong strength and combat, low stealth) A lot of them abstained from fighting against telmar alltogether due to their peaceful values. They are disconnected from some other dwarf cultures which can cause some tension.

The two in the middle come from a tribe of dwarves that are blacksmiths, and also they’re siblings. The brother in particular is a toy maker by trade specifically, and loves kids. His wife (far right) has a background in carpentry. Him and his wife don’t have any but virtually adopt any child they see. The sister is always having a good time, and seafaring comes more naturally to her than smithywork ever did.

The carpentry/forest dwarves generally have a history of closeness with dryads similarly to how the river dwarves are with the water spirits. Some of that connection has been severed due to how deeply the dryads retreated and were removed when Caspian the Conqueror (not our caspian) and his descendants over-deforested. It takes time to restore that connection.

The two on the left may or may not have a situationship and the two on the right have been married for years.

Regardless of trade they’re all on the ship because they’re loyal as fuck to Caspian, the married couple kind of see themselves in a parental role to him but it’s debatable on how that actually plays out.

Also no one has a name cause I’m so bad at coming up with names.

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My thinking in general is that Narnian dwarves make up a lot of the trades, other races do contribute as well, (I’d imagine some marshwiggles work in stuff related to ships/seafaring but perhaps not travelling themselves) most fauns are more into the arts/spirituality, but some do take up trades (a couple of my designs from this post are tradespeople, one of them is a bard.)

I haven’t done many centaur designs, but my vague thoughts is that there are those who are more spiritual and practice prophecy, stargazing, advising, and those who are more into combat, and are protectors, or messengers.

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Gender and the ideas around sexuality I’d also imagine would be a lot more fluid and most Narnians are a lot more open than some of the more human civilizations. (Like it’s a country made of sentient trees, talking animals and mythical beings, and the human countries kind of canonically are like “what the heck is going on over there???” Or they’re afraid of them and try to colonize them, like the telmarines)

These are all half baked ideas but I’ve been fixated on Narnia since I was five and it’s lowkey the reason I spent so much time and passion into drawing and now have a career in graphic design and illustration, so. This is mostly all for me, so don’t mind how long this post has gotten. 🤠

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Trans!Eustace Narnia AU where Aslan does her a solid and restores her human form as a girl instead of a boy, and she immediately proceeds to change her name to Literally Anything Else. Also now Lucy has company in her cabin (though honestly in this AU maybe more of the crew was female to begin with, so Lucy wouldn't even need her own room).

[queenlucythevaliant]

So in That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis names Arthur, Barbarossa, Enoch, and Elijah as the only people never to have died. You know who he's (ironically) missing?

Reepicheep.

[grinchwrapsupreme]

sitting here scanning through research papers about thymomas trying to figure out if Wilson could have had cancer the entire series because i’ve got problems

the answer is yes by the way

[theboredandkindaweirdhisotrian]

Something that got me thinking:

I'm in a Narnia fans Facebook group and recently someone posted about how the one thing that bothered him the most about VDT the 2010 movie was how of all the things they've changed, they kept the albatross at the Dark Island, because it makes no sense in the context of the movie.

I commented on maybe because they put it in, because of how iconic the whole scene was and of course here's the line, "Courage, dear heart". But the more I thought, the more I wasn't sure if I remember the albatross saying the line. I spent some time browsing for a clip of the scene untill a fellow member commented that the albatross has indeed not said the line to Lucy. I thanked that member and made a notion how VDT feels off because Aslan isn't a tangible presence in the story and found myself agreeing, that in the context of the movie, the albatross makes zero sense. I'll elaborate here:

Sure, there were changes, even major ones in both LWW and PC. But in both, Aslan was a presence to be reckoned with. Without him, efforts felt shortfallen and misguided. In LWW the children would not win against the witch. Say what you want about that river god and walking trees, the old Narnians were fighting a losing battle without Aslan. But not VDT. Just think about it: Untill the Pevensies get into Narnia, it's fine, but then it's like, they sail to the Lone Islands, get captured, managed to escape and learn about the Green mist™, who kidnaps locals because it's very naughty. Immediatley they get a supposed magic mcguffin sword, are told to get the whole set of 7 and place them on some magical table so the Green mist™ will be vanquished and released the poor sods it's hoarded over the time. Note how I never mentioned Aslan and it's the same hecking plot of the film. All mentions of Aslan in the film, however, like "he sent us" and "that's his sword" and "his table", etc. feel contrived and forced. Someone followed up my comment, saying how I put into words why VDT doesn't feel Narnian.

Because it's Aslan. Without Him, it's just another generic fantasy world.

With all the news we're getting about there's some serious goings on about the Netflix project, that's now what I'm afraid it'll happen and it will suck. So to anyone on the project with any shred of artistic integrity of any sort, learn from this, please.

[d-r-e-a-m]

Sinto falta de como você era nos meus pensamentos...

Srta. Bukowski