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Now, Fearne, it's about this time that you notice that the red glow around [you] is brightening.

Bonus:

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I stole this from my moot @serpentsandtricksters but it absolutely needs to be said:

There's something to be said to the vibe/metaphor/what-have-you of Ashton, a jaded punk rock in full on earth titan form, gently holding hands with Fearne as she fearfully asks them to keep her from floating away. The fiery Fey - someone whose very essence is to be flighty and wandering, who's own tital form is literally made to float - asking to be kept grounded by Ashton, her literal rock.

Ashton, who said they couldn't be gentle or didn't know how to be, is trying because he cares for her so much.

#critical role #fearne calloway #ashton greymoore #callowmoore

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"Don't let me float away, please"

They should probably be in full disguises but the cloaks totally hide them, right?

#callowmoore

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Don't let me float away, please

#callowmoore

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Titan Callowmoore screen caps for future writing reference.

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screencap redraw

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Hey, we saw you from across the bar and we really hate your vibe

Start Running

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Rain for My Parade 🌧️🌱🌿🌹🌷🌼

part of my cloud petticoat series~

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Boop!

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“Susan doesn’t get to go to Heaven with her siblings because she decided she liked lipstick and parties!”

One, there is a very simple reason Susan does not show up in Aslan’s Country with the others at the end of The Last Battle: she’s alive. Her siblings are in Aslan’s Country because they are dead. Susan is not there because she is not dead. That’s literally it.

Two, it’s a massive oversimplification of the text to try to boil things down to ‘Aslan finds mature femininity sinful’ or ‘she can’t be saved because she grew up’ (or my least favorite, saying she’s cast out because she “discovered sex”, which I find a pretty inappropriate statement to make about a very young teenager and a complete misunderstanding of the actual situation). The “problem of Susan” is not that she can’t go to Heaven because she grew up. Her story is that she struggles with her faith and allowed her desire to seem grown-up and part of the in-crowd become her driving influence, forgetting what was most important. It is not meant as a dig at femininity, it is meant to show a loss of priorities.

When Susan is in Narnia and faced daily with the truth, it’s easy for her to believe, but whenever she’s presented a challenge that will require an intentional show of faith, she always seemed to struggle (for example, in Prince Caspian she’s shown to intentionally choose her doubts over what she felt deep down, and thus took the longest to see Aslan again). After leaving Narnia the second time and readjusting to life in England, as time went on it would have gotten easier to gradually forget her faith when the evidence is no longer clearly spelled out in front of her, and eventually her memories that she once knew were true came to feel like nice childhood stories instead. With those memories, and consequently the testimony that once came with them, no longer real for her, she could allow herself to prioritize other things such as self-image. The story is not trying to say that liking to feel pretty is some sort of sinful indulgence, it’s trying to demonstrate how we can get distracted from what matters when we place too much importance on how the world sees us.

The point C.S. Lewis was making was that it’s important to be humble and not lose yourself in trying to appear so smart and so mature to others. Critically, Susan’s story is not just Susan’s story — it is Lewis’s story. Lewis was raised Christian but became an atheist and turned much of his focus on looking intelligent and grown-up, and when he came back to his faith later in life, he looked back on his choices feeling foolish for trying so hard to be so grown-up because it blinded him to what mattered to him. There is a difference between simply maturing into an adult, and becoming the specific kind of grown-up who tries to be grown-up, which is the particular thing that irritated Lewis and something that he frequently touched on in his works.

I wouldn’t know where to look for the quote now, but I remember Lewis saying that Susan was the character he related to the most because of her struggle. He had to intentionally choose his faith and act on it, and it wasn’t always easy. He understood how hard that can be and knew firsthand how one could let oneself forget if they’re not actively working at it. Lewis was not a misogynist who had it out for Susan — he WAS Susan. And on the other hand, Susan can be Lewis. Susan can find her belief again later in life. He specifically said as much, that she can find her way to Aslan’s Country in her own time and in her own way. He chose not to write that story because something as big as the process of returning to your beliefs and being intentional about it through every difficult step was more mature material than he really wanted to write (contrary to the myth that he simply died before he could get around to it, though I suppose in any case it’s true that he died before he ever might have changed his mind). But the simple fact that that would have been the plot is all the proof anyone needs that Lewis imagined a happy ending for her where, eventually, she comes to be with her family in Aslan’s Country.

To say that she was banned from getting to Heaven is patently untrue. Susan is merely living out the rest of her natural life and taking the longer route back to Aslan. That’s no bad thing by any means. There’s no reason her journey should be exactly the same as her siblings — she is not Peter or Edmund or Lucy, she is herself, and different individuals have different stories. Hers is longer and filled with more bumps and is, frankly, the more ordinary and more relatable for many people. The only “problem of Susan” is how often most of this gets misinterpreted or missed altogether.

#cs lewis #chronicles of narnia #susan pevensie

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“Nico drew his sword—three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. “I don’t agree.” The ground rumbled. Cracks appeared m the road, the sidewalks, the sides of the buildings. Skeletal hands grasped the air as the dead clawed their way into the world of the living. “(Percy Jackson- The last Olympian) - - - I stand for one EPIC ghost king! 🖤 You can’t deny….Nico’s got style. This scene blew my mind. It’s SO epic! I had to do a comic about this. -

#nico di angelo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #luke castellan #mrs. o'leary #percy jackson fanart #pjo series

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PRETTYYY!!!

Smol portrait of Caelum, my Astral Elf druid for a new campaign that's starting next week 👀 He's cool and chill 😌

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“Feels like the punchline to the longest joke I’ve ever heard.”

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Painting You, Painting Me

Illustration for my work in progress novel about artists titled 1000 Words Unframed

HD images and painting videos on my Patreon.com/Yuumei