let not the sun go down upon thy wrath, but write thy wrongs in ashes

[tabacoychanel]

There's a Phillip Pullman quote making the rounds on Tumblr, and it's from his introduction to Paradise Lost. It's about the genesis of His Dark Materials:

"Suppose that the prohibition on the knowledge of good and evil were an expression of jealous cruelty, and the gaining of such knowledge an act of virtue? Suppose the Fall should be celebrated

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[tabacoychanel]

nonono come back i know it's one and your internet is gone but your daemon is probably sappho

:(((

[electrumqueen]

ahahaha i am like, pretty much the opposite of you! because i love sally, will and lyra with every fibre of my being, but i also really love narnia. and good omens is one of my favourite books (though i do not think the plot ended very well, i love the build up to it and it never fails to make me laugh).

[tabacoychanel]

i love sally, will and lyra with every fibre of my being, but i also really love narnia
i don't think it's an either-or kind of thing you know? i think pullman has muddied the waters a lot by coming out as a very vocal critic of c.s. lewis, and situating his books in an anti-narnian space. the difference between how he treats paradise lose and how he treats narnia is that he might disagree with milton - well duh, he's rewriting milton - but he respects milton and the grandeur and the scope of what he accomplished. he clearly doesn't respect lewis at all. people can be forgiven for reading some of pullman's articles and coming away with the idea that it's impossible to love both narnia and HDM. and it's frustrating bc narnia isn't just c.s. lewis evangelizing for a thousand plus pages; he's a good writer, whatever else he is; in fact i just finished till we have faces recently and oh my god. my heart broke for psyche's older sister in a way it never really broke for either will or lyra

[tabacoychanel]

nooooo i want to hear your thoughts about narnia! i haven't even read half the books and here i am camping out on my soapbox. this is not a srs discussion this is just me disgorging a wall of wordvomit hahaha i never write one sentence about anything if three paragraphs will suffice.

and pullman obviously. i don't actually hate him - like, at all. idk i think this post came off as very anti-pullman but i was focusing on the bits that bothered me, so.

i'm glad you liked good omens. i know a lot of people who did, and i can totally see what attracted them to it, but it's like the way if you're straight you can see how some girls are hot but you are not yourself actually attracted to them?

[musictoyourlips]

hi! this is totally out of the blue, but through my searching on delicious for football fic i stumbled across your bookmarks, and they are absolutely fantastic. i love your comments, and agree pretty much wholeheartedly on all fic you have bookmarked. i'm going to friend you, feel free to friend back! (i'm the same username on delicious)

[tabacoychanel]

*waves* welcome! i've actually been through your bookmarks as well haha i am such a delicious creeper. i'm glad you found mine useful, though i haven't been adding much fic of late. :((

anyway the only other liverpool icon i have is a torres one soooooooo here you go ynwa and i'll add you right back, i always need more reds on my flist. :D