party all dae

i really hate when people dismiss the ending of his dark materials because it leans into the trope "love saves the world". truly, that is what the story is about, but reducing it to a cliché is doing a disservice to the point the story is making. when it says that love says the world, it's rewriting the meaning of sin by saying that giving into desire is not shameful. it's telling us to be brave enough to experience. it's saying that dying for love can have powerful impact, but living for it is much more romantic. it's saying that storytelling saves the world, because telling stories is a language of love. it's saying that the bonds we create with other people will outlast death as long as we share our memories. it's showing how a simple childhood friendship is extraordinary enough to change the course of a war between heaven and earth. is there a better way to end a trilogy that intertwines so many paths of love than with a kiss that shifts the fabric of multiple universes?

fucked up sick and twisted that daemons aren’t a thing in real life. i want a little guy

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

almost bang on, great work! the last symbol is supposed to be the chameleon (for lack of good emoji/unicode symbol for that i went with lizard - lyra thought the chameleon symbol was a lizard after all), and the 2nd level meaning of chameleon is greed, but it still works perfectly with the crocodile somehow

How did you get those meanings, how did you combine those meanings into that message, and where can I learn this dark art?

there's an official guide! fun fact: the 17th meaning of the sun symbol is homosexual love, after apollo's love for hyacinthus

its just like. the normal end to the children’s fantasy series is that the evil is defeated, the crisis is averted, and all the protagonists are free to live their lives happily ever after because their job - the world-saving part - is over and it’s not up to them anymore.. and it really is so crazy that philip pullman spent three books creating this huge sprawling fantasy adventure that spanned so many genres and worlds and gave all of the characters so much more joy and purpose than they had initially thought was possible and they not only changed and grew but also DID succeed at the task that was set before them and save their worlds.. and then at the end of it all lyra lost the ability to read the alethiometer and will had to break the subtle knife and they had to close up all the doors between the worlds and go back home alone without ever seeing each other again ! like philip really said you can’t stay in the fantasy forever and so your job is to go out and try to create the world that you wish you could have stayed in longer… the work that begins after the adventure is over is the most important part… if you fight and run and suffer and grow and learn you might  stay alive until the very end and your reward is to keep surviving for the rest of your life !