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I think it was a fantasy, hidden in the old house’s creaks and groans. Lucy will never be the woman we made her up to be, she will never be anything more than seventeen, arguing and clenching her teeth. Wardrobes only lead into another world if children step into it. 

{three months after the end of the world}

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for @quecksilvereyes​ bc it’s her birthday!

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the chronicles of narnia characters: ↪ queen helen i

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happy international women’s day to queen helen, swanwhite, polly plummer, helen pevensie, susan pevensie, lucy pevensie, jill pole, aravis tarkheena, lasaraleen, and lilliandil <33

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Here to say that the best battle scene in cinematic history, movie or tv show, is the battle scene from Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. No I will not elaborate, go watch it you coward

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in which edmund has nightmares and peter is the one waking him up and calming him down

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#cairparevelnet’s February event: Queen Helen’s Day

             3/3 Favourite found family relationship: Caspian X & The Pevensies

Loathe the way they light candles in Rome But love the sweet air of the votives Hurt  &  grieve but don’t suffer alone Engage with the pain as a motive

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drifting apart like two sheets of ice, my love, frozen hearts growing colder with time. flames are gone, my gloves are out, oh, winter crush all of the things.

light! jadis aesthetic. 

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Most of all, we’re at war with ourselves.

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requested edmund pevensie from the chronicles of narnia

→ “so you’re bravely refusing to fight a swordsman half your age?”

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#cairparevelnet’s February event: Queen Helen’s Day

             3/3 Favourite found family relationship: Caspian X & The Pevensies

Loathe the way they light candles in Rome But love the sweet air of the votives Hurt  &  grieve but don’t suffer alone Engage with the pain as a motive

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The Chronicles of Narnia || Poster Series (1/3)

THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (2010) dir. Michael Apted

Insp.

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@narnianetwork​ voyage 18: modern au ⇨ jill pole as a food blogger

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on Edmund, sea serpents, and silence

so for a while now I’ve been meaning to do a little meta piece about the Dark Island and Edmund’s trauma, because Lewis has an interesting pattern of silence on difficult emotion and this is something that changes a lot in adaptation

the dark island is the place where your dreams come true, in the most literal sense - if you have dreamed it, the island will make it real (sort of) - it has a line to your subconscious, to your worst fears. to this extent, the film was pretty much in line with the book

except in the book, it’s so much worse. Rhoop, the lord who was trapped there, is absolutely demented. the whole crew is terrified and row like mad to get out of there. Caspian orders them to flee because, he says, there are ‘some things no man can face’, and after it’s over he sends the crew to bed to recover

but what I really noticed last time I read it is that, once the Dark Island takes hold, we hear scraps from every major character about what they’re feeling/seeing - except one. you know who’s totally silent the whole time, and at no point says anything or is described?

Edmund.

literally not a word about him apart from Lucy wanting to be near him, after the Island starts to work on them. we don’t get anything at all about what he’s doing or saying or looks like, and we certainly don’t hear what it is that he sees - which is odd, given that he’s one of the most major characters.

In the film, they gave him a fear of sea serpents, which is fine I guess for an action sequence, but doesn’t feel right for Edmund to me - he’s known so much darker and more human horrors 

the film briefly references his trauma with the Witch by having her appear, but it’s both short and a bit weird. the book - as covered - doesn’t mention him at all, and that’s what I think is super interesting, because Lewis has a bit of a pattern of leaving gaps of silence on characters whose emotions are too difficult/dark/adult for a children’s book in a some particular moments

the most major instance of this is Peter, Edmund and Lucy in TLB, when they tell Tirian that Susan is no longer a friend of Narnia. Edmund and Lucy are absolutely silent on the matter and Peter only gives a short statement of what has happened and doesn’t elaborate - all the other stuff comes from Eustace, Jill and Polly. And I always thought that into that silence you can read so much grief, and so much complex emotion that doesn’t really have a place in a children’s book

like when Lewis said in a letter that he thought of writing the story of what happened to Susan after TLB but it would be ‘too much like a grown-up novel’, so we know that he conceived of his characters as capable of having ‘grown up’, adult emotional depth, but it’s not something he would put in his children’s books. and when there’s a moment in which it makes sense for one of the characters to be in an emotional situation that is too adult for a children’s book, he goes very quiet on them

hence why the complete lack of description of Edmund once the Dark Island begins to bring to life the crew’s worst nightmares sort of troubles me, because, in the context of Lewis’s writing, it hints at darker and more complex things for him there than Lewis would really go into, because, after all, that’s what makes sense for his character, having the past experiences that he does.

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Aravis Tarkheena

have you praised her today? no? it's the right time then.

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❝𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞

𝐅𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐦.❞

me 🤝 finding songs fitting peter well&making aesthetics

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requested: by @tiriansjewel hey hey hey! It would be super cool if you would do an adult Susan Pevensie in England moodboard. Maybe with a darker, elegant theme? No pressure :)

*.✧ Susan Pevensie *.✧

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The Chronicles Of Narnia : Prince Caspian