#pantalaimon the ferret

[elvenferretots]

Pantalaimon, the gate around the cat tree was supposed to keep you safe. Not give you a place to taunt the dogs from.

#pantalaimon the ferret #ferret

[stimboard-radio]

Pantalaimon stimboard

✭ with ferret stims

✫ RQ'd by 🦚 anon!

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(P.S. Anon didnt specify a stimboard theme so I just went with the first one that came to mind)

#stimboard #stim gifs #stimblr #stimboard account #visual stim #sensory #pantalaimon #his dark materials #hdm #ferrets #animal stims #🦚

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

By Marco Giorgianni

#pan #pantalaimon #hdm #daemon #his dark materials #transformation #cat #ermine #ferret #mouse #moth

[beasanfi1997]

FERRETS Taking Over TikTok : FUNNIEST Trending pt. 3

Funny moments of Pantalaimon part 3

#the golden compass #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #his dark materials #pantalaimon #daemon #philip pullman #Youtube #freddie highmore #kit connor

[doomspaniels]

I just realized, you live with a couple Disney characters, and I live with the villain from their movie. 😂

I'm telling Pantalaimon what you called him.

#cocker spaniel #disney characters #pantalaimon the ferret #disney villains #tensoon the doberman #do not look directly into the eyes of the hypno-catsnake #disney #ask #Pantalaimon #tensoon #gasp #yvaine #tristan

[stitchybutton]

This month I am stoked for the upcoming His Dark Materials series, so October’s “Featured Bean” at my patreon will be a newly designed creature, stoat Pantalaimon!

Join at the $10, $20, and $30 levels for quarterly or monthly beans like this one! You can also join at $1 for coupons to my shop, The Stitchy Button on etsy, or $5 for monthly coupons and postcard prints!

#his dark materials #pantalaimon #etsy #crafts #ferrets #stoats #ermines #minks #patreon #stuffed animals

[thewall98]

Pan.

#Ferret #the world needs more ferret #furet #Pan #pantalaimon #beautiful #photography #pet

[glitchpopcatboy]

really enjoying his dark materials so far, I think they got the tone pretty much right for the most part, love how the magisterium actually seems like a genuine ever present threat, and wow.... I somehow forgot how deep-seated my love for Iorek Byrnison is, they animated him so well! his eyes actually caught me off guard at how natural and lifelike they look. I just wish pan and Lyra would argue more they don’t bitch at each other like they should

#and if im wishing for things #let pan change his form more!! #he always seems to take his ermine form except for a few key moments #when he should be changing all the time #like if Lyra feels threatened or needs to hide he should be a mouse hiding in her hair or smth #not a sizeable and easily viewable ferret #and it seems like a waste of the lovely fluid animation they've achieved when daemons do change #it looks great and so natural #I feel like pantalaimon is being over looked a little bit #he doesn't seem to serve much purpose except to point out things Lyra missed #but heres hoping that after the events at bolvangar he might be a bit more prominantas a character #Im just so excited to finally see the other books adapted #getting to see cittagazze and Mary Malone and THE MULEFA #I cant wait to see the mulefa

[whumpster-fire]

His Dark Materials Thoughts: Daemons and Disability / Neurodivergence

More stupid His Dark Materials thoughts and headcanons because I still can’t get over this series.

I’m really curious how various disabilities would interact with having a daemon. I’d guess that for a lot of conditions the daemon could basically fill the role of a service animal, especially if the person had the condition from childhood so they could settle in a form that was capable of helping - e.g. daemons assuming forms with strong senses of smell to check for allergens. And this would probably be true for some neurological conditions where there’s something physically messed up in your brain.

However, I think for neurodivergency, it’s different: if the human is neurodivergent their daemon is neurodivergent as well. And while a human and daemon are “one being,” daemons still have their own personalities and emotional needs.

Using autism as an example because I’m autistic and can speculate based on my own experiences:

Autistic people are usually very close to their daemons, even by the standards of the setting, because while anyone’s daemon inherently understands them better than other people do, the gap is much, much wider for ND people. Real talk, I think I was drawn to this series and the concept of daemons so strongly because the idea of a companion I could fully trust and interact with without the constant fear of breaking some unknown and unspoken rule and who fully empathized with me was something I wanted soooo badly.

A lot more sensory information is “transmitted” between human and daemon than most people notice because the brain tends to filter it out. Autistic people’s brains aren’t as good at filtering out “junk” sensory info though, and this includes what comes through over the bond between them. You can’t actually see through your daemon’s eyes but autistic people tend to feel shared sensations more intensely and pick up on things like smells and textures that a neurotypical brain would tune out (and this works in both directions). This makes autistic people more vulnerable to sensory overload than in our world.

Sometimes only one of the pair is verbal, or at least verbal with others / much more comfortable talking to others. If it’s the human, people tend to not notice because “daemons should be seen and not heard” is kind of the norm in the setting but if the daemon is speaking for the pair most of the time it’s seen as weird. Some autistic people may also be more comfortable talking to other people’s daemons than to the humans, which isn’t technically part of the taboo but it’s pretty frowned upon.

For both tactile-seeking and tactile-defensive people, the daemon’s settled form is often determined by the need for physical affection - either because as they grow into teenagers it becomes less socially acceptable to touch other people as much as they need to, or because the only touch that feels safe for the pair is with each other. A settled form doesn’t always follow the human’s preference, but is always a form the daemon is comfortable with and likes. Daemons settling in forms their human actively hates is rare, and usually means there was already serious conflict between them with the human refusing to accept their nature - i.e. sailors’ daemons usually take seabird forms or mammals like otters or minks that can stray away from the water, settling in a dolphin form was noteworthy for a reason because it’s such a drastic act, and IMO that was probably caused by the human trying to abandon the sea entirely and fighting with his own daemon about it until she was like “Let’s see you take us away from the sea now!”

But anyway: daemons don’t just settle in forms based on symbolism or social convention if it’s going to make both them and their humans miserable and/or mess up their relationship IMO, and usually they show a preference for forms similar to their settled one in the years leading up to settling (e.g. Pantalaimon clearly liked his stoat/ferret and wildcat forms and mostly took other ones for reasons of practicality and convenience, and I said this in another post but I think he became a pine marten because it was the closest he could get to combining the two). If a pre-adolescent human and daemon are super cuddly with each other and that touch is really important to them, the daemon will probably settle in a form that’s compatible with that. It’s rare for autistic daemons to settle as something as small as a mouse where they could only be carefully pet with one or two fingers, for example, and they usually take mammalian or sometimes avian forms.

Brushing a daemon’s fur, and other techniques such as joint compression that are hard for a person to perform on their own body, can help both of the pair calm down and cope with sensory issues.

Unfortunately, given how fucked up the culture in Lyra’s world is, I shudder to imagine how they treat neurodivergent people. I can totally imagine people treating this closeness as the cause of autism and not a symptom, and treating it as a child “being socially impaired because they only interact with their daemon / let their daemon do too much for them and never learn to socialize with other people.” Aside from attempting to cure autism with Intercision, there are probably a bunch of horrible, abusive treatments passed off as “therapy,” like forcing children to do therapy sessions with their daemon trapped on the other side of an opaque, soundproof wall (doesn’t interfere with their bond if it’s within the separation limit, but keeps them from seeing / hearing / touching each other), caging the daemon, muzzling them to keep them from speaking for their human, or even not letting them sleep in the same room.

Another common problem is parents / educators treating an autistic person’s daemon like a service animal and offloading their responsibilities on them. Just expecting them to handle something like a meltdown or panic attack by themselves because “You’re part of them, you understand them!” and ignoring that the daemon also has fears and anxieties and sensory issues.

Expectation: Your autistic child’s daemon understands them better than you ever could and will be able to quickly and discretely calm them down from a meltdown / sensory overload without you needing to get involved and actually do your job as a parent.

Reality: You have two autistic children who share a soul and feel each other’s emotions and pain, and one of them likely has at least one sense that’s way more sensitive than a human’s. They can certainly be a source of comfort and support to each other, and can pick up on each other’s warning signs and remind each other to use coping strategies / get out of stressful situations and not try to “push through,” but this is a skill that takes time and maturity to learn, and it only works before the pair are completely overwhelmed. As stated above autistic people feel sensations and emotions from their daemon extra-intensely, and vice versa. A full-on meltdown or panic attack is such an overpowering flood of negative emotions that, combined with the stress of whatever caused the meltdown in the first place, usually just overwhelms both partners, especially in children. The best you can hope for is whichever one holds it together a bit longer is able to help their partner into a safe place and ask someone for help. Even if the daemon (or human) doesn’t have a meltdown their emotional battery will still be absolutely drained for probably the rest of the day.

#His Dark Materials fandom #daemons #silly headcanons #autism #not whump

[elvenferretots]

First real group hike for these three. It was admittedly easier to handle three than it was to handle two at first. Either I'm better at this or they are.

#ferret #doberman #tensoon the dobe #dogblr #pantalaimon the ferret #Valkyrie Cain the dobe

[seabunnythatlikeshorror]

This is Valentine, more commonly known as Val. He's a time-traveller, time-stopper, and hypnotist. He's a steampunk demiboy and he's gay as hell. He also has a ferret named Pantalaimon that I didn't draw because animals are SO HARD TO DRAW anyway his text is orange. *There was a loud BOOM a street away from where Rat was standing, followed by distant talking.* Investigate? Y/N

*xe jumped at the noise, and walked over to it

What the-

#WELL RAT IS GONNA BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE I GUESS- #tw caps #also animals are hard to draw ^^"

[nannahdrawsferrets]

Pantalaimon for @elvenferretots : ) 

the cutest little ferret who sometimes gets into his human’s forget-me-nots ... 

[ID: A traditional illustration of a ferret who has gotten into a pot of forget-me-nots and dragged dirt and flowers all over the floor. His human is taking a picture of the damage, capturing the ferret's innocent wide-eyed look, and putting stickers on him: devil horns and red text reading, "No," with extra "o's." /End ID]

#ferrets #ferret #pets #pet art #ferret art #animal art #copic markers #prismacolor markers #hope you like it!! : )) #drawing the same image 2x is rly hard ghegheh #next time i'll use a grid

[beasanfi1997]

FERRETS Taking Over Tiktok | FUNNIEST Trending pt. 2

Funny moments of Pantalaimon part 2

#the golden compass #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #his dark materials #pantalaimon #daemon #Youtube

[foldingfittedsheets]

I find it annoying how frequently visual media feels the need to depict Pantalaimon as weasely animals. In the books he frequently turns into a huge variety from mouse, moth, rabbit, puppy, wildcat, DRAGON and very infrequently turns into like an ermine. But in the movies and show they’re like, “he’s a ferret and a sable a lot because he’s gonna be a marten!”

#hdm #pantalaimon #hdm Pan #his dark materials #daemon

[courtingtrouble]

Lup and Magnus bonding

#ferrets #technically magnus is actually named pantalaimon bc i got him before i was into taz #but magnus is his new nickname bc he rushes in #ferrets of ipre

[thewall98]

The amount of joy this little Fufu brings me is just to much! I just look at him and get overwhelmed.

#joy #ferret #furet #Pan #Pantalaimon #cute #wholesome #cure my depression #pet #animal #obligated carnivore #cuteness overload #protect at all costs