narnia-obsessed-emo

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

Oooooh what if Rilian had, like, little "starry traits" that he inherited from his mother? Freckles that resemble clusters of stars, streaks in his hair that you don't notice during the day but that glow in the moonlight. Deep, dark blue eyes, so dark they're almost black, and if you look closely, they seem like they hide small galaxies in them.

in another universe i died when i was supposed to

you are my friend and to some extent the altar upon which i mount my guilt

you are my friend and to an increasing extent the saviour i worship

you are my friend and i hope something ruins you before i do

people always characterize susan as a mother figure, and certainly many characters in the books see her that way (the narnians especially). but in my opinion, when it comes to the pevensies and how they see it, peter's the mother (especially in the years following the narnian war). the one whose word they can't really go against because once it's decided it's decided. "high king" means final word. susan is the more like the “firstborn.” the one peter leaves in charge when he can’t be somewhere. the one who knows her younger siblings regard her as lesser in authority. who knows they'd feel safer if it were peter and not her around. who tries to make up for it when they want peter instead. who knows how fragile her control over them is. yet, she knows them in some ways more than peter does. peter knows them instinctually, like a parent might, but susan's been there for ed and lucy at their ugliest. she's fought with them and that fighting means there's aspects of them she gets to glimpse that peter doesn't. for that reason, when they're too embarrassed to tell peter something, it's always su they go to. su who keeps their secrets and will take the fall for them if need be. who would never turn them away from her door. because she's one of them and they know she'll advocate for them. god i love susan.

the costuming detail in narnia makes me go bonkers sometimes tho likeeee. they're wearing clothes from their golden age selves in the second film, and lucy who was famously the warrior queen? her dress is actually pants under an overskirt. the white witch's icicle crown slowly melts away to nothing as spring breaks and aslan's power overcomes her own. she wears his shorn mane as a symbolic part of her battle garb. caspian wears the same shirt under his armor for almost the entirety of the movie. it's his fucking pajama shirt. because that's the only thing he was wearing when he escaped.

im very normal about narnia

i can be trusted with the narnia

My silliest pet peeve is that every set of the Narnia books are put in chronological order nowadays. When I am very passionate in my belief that LWW is what is supposed to introduce us to the world of Narnia. Not Magician's Nephew. We get introduced to the world alongside the Pevensies, and then learn it's origins later on