Hello!

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked the alethiometer and it said ☼☼☼, 🍎 🍎, 𝚨𝛀 𝚨𝛀, 🕯🕯🕯, ⚗️⚗️⚗️, 🐜, 🍎, 𓆈𓆈

i think abt the part in the golden compass where it was noted that if your daemon chose to assume the form of a fish or some kind of ocean dwelling creature you could never leave the water again. at best you could dock, maybe walk a bit away from the shore, but that's it. chained to the water because your physical soul form commands it.

is love devotion? is love attachment? is love being bonded so firmly to something that it consumes you? when your daemon chooses it's final form do you weep with joy or fear?

[ Begin ID: A screenshot of a comment by @/the-crooked-library that reads "pirate captain who always has a parrot on their shoulder and everyone assumes the parrot is their daemon - until a battle threatens to go south and a massive whale bursts from the water to ram the enemy vessel / End ID ]

they really struck diamonds with the concept of daemons in his dark materials. imagine if your soul was a little shapeshifting creature you can hang out with and talk to? AND it's also a symbolic representation of your true nature? say no more. i will spend the rest of my life thinking about this.

Do you ever just love your dæmon(s) so much it hurts??? Like I would give anything for them to be corporeal but I’ll settle for aggressively projecting them and being impossibly content

Got my two darlings <3

the thing w hdm as an adaptation is that they change things up but they change things in ways that shows the audience the same things that we learn in the books just thru a different medium and that’s why it’s so effective and enjoyable