|
Narnia can be summoned up as fairy tales and JESUS
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 27, 2024 22:10 |
|
|
OwlFancier posted:I did actually read the lion the witch and the wardrobe when I was a small child but I haven't read any of the others and I barely remember the plot, beyond bla bla wardrobe turkish delight oh a lion woops he's dead now we're all the king. The lion was Jesus. But otherwise you know the important bits.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:01
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:Man who has only read... I dunno, narnia? seeing harry potter: "wow this isn't exactly like narnia, the author is a visionary" Frodo and Bilbo are noted to be more wealthy than most other Hobbits.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:06
|
|
|
Like, the whole Shire portion of the story is a commentary on British aristocracy And the rest is mocking them for their provincialism
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:12
|
|
|
Yeah my post was basically a in hindsight poor joke about how modern non fascist paganism largely formed in the 60s.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:14
|
|
|
Data Graham posted:Like, the whole Shire portion of the story is a commentary on British aristocracy hey hey hey Tolkien loved their provincialism! He just liked to also poke fun at the aristocratic/middle class that formed in that environment too.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:18
|
|
|
Didn't Tolkien say he was a Monarchist/Anarchist?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:20
|
|
|
Skwirl posted:Didn't Tolkien say he was a Monarchist/Anarchist? yea he was a weird blend of anarchist/ecological focused feudalist kinda guy, he was extremely the kind of politics only born by being an academic nerd who got his brains hosed up in WW1. Luckily those politics were mostly cool but yea he had a weird fusion of 'let us be fat lil dudes on a farm smoking pipes and arguing over pigs all day' and 'man needs a strong moral hand guiding it' going on.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:31
|
|
|
Jfc, read a different book!
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:51
|
|
|
Pththya-lyi posted:I remember Ron breaks his hand-me-down wand one time and has to tape it up and keep using it even though it keeps loving up all his spells. But then his family gets a windfall and he replaces it, it's fine, everything's fine Jesus, what the gently caress?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 04:54
|
|
|
Vib Rib posted:So wait this kid who's routinely in life or death situations keeps fizzling his spells, forces of cosmic power so fearsome they can literally bend reality and take lives, and at no point do any of his friends or even teachers just go "uh yeah that's hosed, let me replace that for you"? It's all just whoops that's Capitalism, keep rolling the dice with powers beyond human comprehension until you can get us some greenbacks! That's terrible. Yeah, also he was 12 and it was entirely in service of jokes until the finale of the book where you learn it was written in entirely so the scene where he is attacked by a teacher and has his wand stolen can have horrific consequences without any of the protagonists being responsible (teacher gives himself incurable brain damage).
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:05
|
|
|
Zulily Zoetrope posted:Elf means "white" roughly in the same way King Solomon's reputation for being fair meant he was a dude with pale skin. Lmao  yeah and the french word for white means black checkmate varg
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:11
|
|
|
Vib Rib posted:So wait this kid who's routinely in life or death situations keeps fizzling his spells, forces of cosmic power so fearsome they can literally bend reality and take lives, and at no point do any of his friends or even teachers just go "uh yeah that's hosed, let me replace that for you"? It's all just whoops that's Capitalism, keep rolling the dice with powers beyond human comprehension until you can get us some greenbacks! That's terrible. Zore posted:Yeah, also he was 12 and it was entirely in service of jokes until the finale of the book where you learn it was written in entirely so the scene where he is attacked by a teacher and has his wand stolen can have horrific consequences without any of the protagonists being responsible (teacher gives himself incurable brain damage). This, plus there is a scene where one of the others suggests he write to his mother and ask her for a replacement, and he refuses because he doesn't want to get in trouble with her for breaking expensive poo poo when money's tight. To be fair, it's very plausible for a 12-year-old to take on severe consequences rather than admit to their parents that they hosed up.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:19
|
|
|
Bismuth posted:I would have loved to see ginger thor, i love gingers Ginger Thor, Baby Thor, Scary Thor, Sporty Thor, drat it I can't remember the fifth one Thor
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:27
|
|
|
POSH THOR
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:30
|
|
|
Throg
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:38
|
|
|
Thorse
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:42
|
|
|
sexpig by night posted:hey hey hey “Sackville-Baggins” is a straight roast of these people
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:42
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/zacharylipton/status/1479666174145269764
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:47
|
|
|
yes
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 05:53
|
|
|
The best Narnia is Voyage of the Dawn Treader because it's SAILING SHIP ADVENTURES at least, I felt like that as a kid
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 06:17
|
|
|
sexpig by night posted:yea he was a weird blend of anarchist/ecological focused feudalist kinda guy, he was extremely the kind of politics only born by being an academic nerd who got his brains hosed up in WW1. Luckily those politics were mostly cool but yea he had a weird fusion of 'let us be fat lil dudes on a farm smoking pipes and arguing over pigs all day' and 'man needs a strong moral hand guiding it' going on. A lot of the big visionary authors have weird idiosyncratic politics, see also Frank Herbert.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 06:21
|
|
|
Considering dog's relationships to buttholes and poo poo I would advise against this
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 06:49
|
|
|
Bismuth posted:I would have loved to see ginger thor, i love gingers Well this is what Thor is going to look like in the next God of War game 
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 06:59
|
|
|
Mak0rz posted:Lmao
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 07:38
|
|
|
RatHat posted:Well this is what Thor is going to look like in the next God of War game thicc ginger tattoo daddy Thor is best Thor
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 07:47
|
|
|
hell yeah thicc ginger thor, sign me up
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 07:48
|
|
|
Bismuth posted:hell yeah thicc ginger thor, sign me up 
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 07:53
|
|
|
RoboRodent posted:The best Narnia is Voyage of the Dawn Treader because it's SAILING SHIP ADVENTURES But it's not really fair to compare CS Lewis to Neil Gaiman
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 07:55
|
|
cowboy
|
RoboRodent posted:The best Narnia is Voyage of the Dawn Treader because it's SAILING SHIP ADVENTURES 100%, it also has a swashbuckling rat who definitely fucks. There's no way Reepicheep doesn't gently caress.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 08:38
|
|
|
I've just been informed of this Twitter account and also that the lady who started the "plandemic" documentary lost her husband to covid https://twitter.com/sorryantivaxxer/status/1473005287376261121?t=t1ROwlm0tcLkb2dJFJ7N6w&s=19
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 08:49
|
|
|
Kenning posted:100%, it also has a swashbuckling rat who definitely fucks. There's no way Reepicheep doesn't gently caress. The Narnia books are a bit of a mix of fun ideas and going a bit too heavy on the Jesus. They're an odd mix of like, the closest thing to YA fiction way before YA was properly a thing, which comes off as a weird mix of children's adventure stories and high fantasy, and a lot of whimsy setting elements but the people within them take it seriously because that's their normal. Also makes some decent metajokes, like when Narnians are delighted to hear that the Earth the kids come from is round, because they know that Narnia is a flat world and round worlds are where they set their fantasy stories.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 09:06
|
|
|
Vib Rib posted:So wait this kid who's routinely in life or death situations keeps fizzling his spells, forces of cosmic power so fearsome they can literally bend reality and take lives, and at no point do any of his friends or even teachers just go "uh yeah that's hosed, let me replace that for you"? It's all just whoops that's Capitalism, keep rolling the dice with powers beyond human comprehension until you can get us some greenbacks! That's terrible. Even better, Harry himself has like a giant pile of gold that he got as an inheritance and at no point does he use it to help Ron e: at no point does he use it to help anyone, really, that I recall. And then he grows up to become a magic cop, presumably to continue the trend Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 10:20 on Jan 8, 2022 |
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:18
|
|
|
Pththya-lyi posted:This, plus there is a scene where one of the others suggests he write to his mother and ask her for a replacement, and he refuses because he doesn't want to get in trouble with her for breaking expensive poo poo when money's tight. To be fair, it's very plausible for a 12-year-old to take on severe consequences rather than admit to their parents that they hosed up.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:29
|
|
|
There really isn't any way that JKR isn't awful, really. It annoys me that I (kinda) liked the books as a kid but, I was a kid. I guess. I can understand people not getting that she's a TERF etc, there are a lot of morons out there, but in what loving world is she actually a good author?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:36
|
|
|
the early books are fine. book 1 has clever bits, book 2 is eh and book 3 is pretty good then not only is it all downhill from there but her lovely politics become more and more prevalent
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:44
|
|
|
fondly remembering the bit in one of the last books where dumbledore puts his wand in his teeth like a marine's knife, and then leaps into raging seas with enormous waves crashing against the rocky shore and swims through it to a cave like a superhuman micheal phelps despite being over 100 years old
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:46
|
|
|
I read a children's book once and I'm still mad about it!
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 10:49
|
|
|
A person on social media posting about an idiot https://twitter.com/Kingstons101/status/1479740614782578689
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 11:14
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 27, 2024 22:10 |
|
|
RatHat posted:Well this is what Thor is going to look like in the next God of War game hell yeah I’d drink w this guy and possibly fool him a dwarf stole his pubic hair or something. Thor was dumb as poo poo
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2022 11:17
|
|
