thinking about how badly i wanted to love the hdm tv series but they bunked it on the daemons SO HARD that i simply could not suspend my disbelief that entire crowd scenes just happened to be full of people who had small, easy to hide daemons
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thinking about how badly i wanted to love the hdm tv series but they bunked it on the daemons SO HARD that i simply could not suspend my disbelief that entire crowd scenes just happened to be full of people who had small, easy to hide daemons

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i follow some narnia freaks but where are the his dark materials freaks
mamas thinkin about the importance of building the republic of heaven where we are etc etc
Life with a clingy pet pigeon
So here i introduce you all to my pet pigeon, Bonjiri :) (it means chicken butt)
REWATCH ROULETTE HIS DARK MATERIALS | 3.03 The Intention Craft
"Where's my free will, if you please? And this child seems to me to have more free will than anyone I ever met. Are you telling me that she's just some kind of clockwork toy wound up and set going on a course she can't change?" "We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair."
HIS DARK MATERIALS • Season One — Northern Lights/The Golden Compass: Chapter Eighteen, Fog and Ice

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she was meant to tackle him more like she does in the book :(
although, having said that, what we got in the show was a direct parallel to asriel twisting her arm back in series 1. so we lost the silverparry book canon cat-tackle and gained a like-father-like-daughter moment and the only thing asriel taught her was violence so…
Important question for HDM scholars fic writers!
Can other people in Will’s universe see Kirjava and Mary’s dæmon?
Yes
No, they have to learn how
Explain your answer if you’d like!
3rd option: they can see Will's but not Mary's. I had thought that cause Will's daemon was pulled out of him when they went to the land of the dead, she has a physical form whereas Mary had to learn how to see her daemon which makes me think anyone else would also have to undergo that process to see hers too
Asriel: Lyra is dead and the knife is broken
Iorek: god you’re so fucking stupid. Lyra isn’t dead she’s *in* the land of the dead. Also I fixed that knife because I am a smith beyond measure and a better dad than you.
My favourite thing about His Dark Materials's world building is that characters will just reference or talk about something completely wild and just not fucking elaborate.
Like what the fuck do you mean Lee Scorsby is "a New Dane from the country and Texas" what the fuck is new Denmark
Then occasionally the narrator breaks in the explain big super important stuff, like the majestuirum but start it with shit like "After the death of Pope John Calvin" HELLO JOHN CALVIN WAS POPE WHAT THE FUCK
What a daemon is is literally never explained the reader just has to take in the vibes of how character talk about them
It would be so out of character for a person in real life to just exposit history or explanations about how the world works because everyone already knows, barring situations where a person might not know some vital information and the fact none of the characters do this is genius.
Absolutely incredible
(if you can pardon the ramble, whenever I see the daemons mentioned, I remember my theory about them, and also potentially another "metaphor" of the series; we know a lot of it is biblical, some very obviously, but stay with me on this... another big part of the story is the concept of childhood/growing up. one of the most important things is a substance known as "dust". through the northern lights, characters are able to see "other worlds in the stars". Pantalaimon's nick-name is "Pan". all this made me think of the story of Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up, who flies with pixie dust, and lives in Neverland- second star to the right. so all THAT made me think of the quote about where fairies come from- “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” so... I wondered if maybe, in Lyra's world, Daemons, which are an extension of a person's soul, first appear when a baby laughs for the first time. or, perhaps when a baby is first capable of experiencing more complex thoughts/emotions, maybe even as a form of comfort in great distress, and the Daemon takes an outward physical form. there, that's all~)
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tired: Lyra's religious parallels to Eve
wired: Lyra's religious parallels to Moses
REWATCH ROULETTE HIS DARK MATERIALS | 1.03 The Spies
Collected Writings in Experimental Theology, Oxford Press
The Anatomy of the Child and His Dæmon, Vol. II, RPH Medical Publishing
fucked up sick and twisted that daemons aren’t a thing in real life. i want a little guy
More little logistical conveniences in a world with corporeal daemons:
Bathrooms usually have a bed and/or a perch to give daemons a comfortable place to rest while their human bathes or showers other than the bath mat. Some daemons are happy to join their human in the bath/shower, but many don’t like getting wet or have forms that would make it difficult / possibly dangerous (e.g. a lot of rodents), and even for those that like water soaked fur can take a long time to fully dry so bathing isn’t usually an everyday thing.
Daemons don’t normally wear clothing, but there are times when it’s necessary or at least much more comfortable - for the same reasons animals sometimes wear clothing in our world. Not all fur and feathers are created equal, and a fennec fox, or a chihuahua, or a serval, or a parrot wouldn’t have a good time in cold climates. Children’s daemons can just turn into arctic animals and/or crawl into their human’s clothing (as shown in The Golden Compass), but daemons with warm-weather settled forms are out of luck, and often wear sweaters, hoodies, and/or earwarmers. Superheated pavement in warm climates, and road salt in cold ones, can also hurt a daemon’s feet just like a real animal’s, so many wear protective paw booties.
Human clothing made to accommodate daemons is also common. The most obvious is arm and shoulder pads which allow large birds - especially birds of prey - to land and ride on their humans’ arms or shoulders without injuring them. People don’t really wear falconry gauntlets because it’s not like they’re just putting them on for a hunting or training session with a bird, it’s daily life including times when you need to use both your hands for something else. Clothing may also have special pockets for very small daemons to ride in, sometimes incorporating clear plastic windows. Daemons that are too big for a pocket but small enough that walking around in crowded places is awkward - e.g. rats, ferrets, rabbits - most commonly ride on their humans’ shoulders, but sometimes being carried in a sling is easier, more comfortable, and warmer.
Doors with round handles are rare. Daemons don’t go far from their humans so it’s not incredibly limiting or dangerous to not be able to open a door, but it can be annoying and inconvenient to not be able to, especially when the human’s arms are both full of dishes or grocery bags or something. You’ll sometimes see ladders or rough surfaces attached to doors so small-ish forms can climb them, although this is probably seen as tacky.
Tailoring is an integral part of society as daemon-related changes to clothing are extremely common.
It is very common for tailors to have a primate daemon as this allows the human tailor to measure the human while the primate measures the daemon. There are also daemon weight scales in all tailors to ensure that specialised pockets etc are made secure and strong enough without a one-size-fits-all approach that could lead to unnecessary bulk, while also embedding it in the clothes in such a way that it does not strain the rest of the fabric in an unseemly way.
It is just a universal fact of architecture that all buildings are designed with perches of some kind dotted around a little over head height, particularly in seating and dining rooms. Styles have varied throughout the years, from stylised carved poles of stone or wood either coming straight out of the walls, to coming out a little and then running parallel for a more integrated look, to shelves or wide picture rails, and many more. You can use the style of perches to guess the age of a building.
Daemon beds are a popular business. Some are designed to integrate or clip on to an existing bed for those with small daemons but feel that sleeping cuddling your daemon is childish, or for those that share their bed and worry about a partner touching or crushing them accidentally in the night. Some are designed for a natural feel that that daemon’s normal counterpart would desire, others are not dissimilar to a smaller or lower version of a human bed, and most retail beds are offered with a custom built daemon matching set. A lot of people with more easy going type daemons just settle for a blanket or cushions on the floor or on their person’s bed.

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"I never thought they'd spiritually lobotomise MY child!" Sobs woman who created the Spiritually Lobotomising Children party.
The conclusion the story comes to is that, our duty, it seems to me, is to increase the presence of Dust in the world.
— Philip Pullman