Once There Were Four Children...

Edmund is so ride or die for Lucy after the whole lamppost business but first he has to complain about it

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the immediate shift in the pevensies from being frustrated and unhappy and upset with one another and themselves in england -> them all laughing and playing with one another the second they get to narnia again. susan not caring at all how mature she acts anymore as she throws off her blazer and her hair falls in her face, but it just makes her more queenly than ever. lucy racing her down the beach. them all forgetting they were annoyed with peter. peter forgetting he was angry at all. half an hour ago he was getting the shit kicked out of him but he can't even feel the bruises anymore. none of it matters because they're home, and they're splashing each other in the ocean and walking barefoot under the apple trees and i feel SICK i feel ILL they were SO HAPPY.

there's just something about the pevensies after narnia.

they're closer than they should be. like—though it's not always accurate, people expect you to be close with your siblings. but it's different, with them. they're closer than even siblings usually are by rights. they may fight within themselves, but they always put on a united front against anyone else. they're closed off to others, always angling themselves with their shoulders inwards, backs turned against the world, faces towards each other. they look to peter and susan for approval in turn. the elder ones listen to the younger in ways most siblings never would. it's almost comical, seeing peter seriously asking a nine-year-old lucy her opinion as though it's the most important thing in the world—and it is, to him.

they get to narnia again and where once peter might have been annoyed at edmund for not mentioning his torch sooner, he just laughs and grins and edmund grins back. this is what they do now. caspian watches peter take edmund's counsel into consideration when writing the challenge offer, and lucy talks to the others like an equal even when edmund's ruffling her hair the very next second just to make her squeal. he doesn't know if this is what all families are like—he's never had a normal one himself—but there's something about it. something that runs deeper than any bond he's ever seen. people say blood is thicker than water. the full saying, however, is this: the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. the pevensies are orbiting stars, bound by both and more at once.

We always talk about "The Problem of Susan" but I think she's not a problem. We are all Susan: distracted by the sparkling lights, heavy under the stresses of growing up, and frustrated with the need to be grown and flown.

Susan is the reassurance that we all have Narnia inside of us and that, when we're ready, we can find it again.

Susan Pevensie Aesthetic

When you realize that the Pevensies' journey in the LWW movie begins on a train and canonically ends on a train in the books

The Pevensies are the most perfect siblings representation in media. They argue with each other, they throw disgust when they have to be around each other, they bicker like actually siblings. Peter's little "I had it sorted" is such a sibling thing cause he knows he was saved but he'd rather die than admit it was his sibling who did it. And then when things actually get tough, they don't suddenly start being chummy, they still act like siblings, they still bicker and shove each other, but now they're doing it for a common goal, they will not falter together, but they're going to arguing with each other the whole battle. Too many movies show siblings miraculously changing their attitudes in the final battle as if they'd never fought ever, but not Narnia. They are siblings until the very end of the movie.

I have OCD and with that comes quasi-hallucinations, and I grew up watching a ton of horror films so some of the worst of mine are the standard white skin/black hair demon girl type shit.

However, because a lot of them are based on horror film I have found comfort in doing things that “go against” horror films and being like “see? This could never happen.”

(It’s irrational. I know that. But shut up. This is how I cope.)

For example: I started hearing garbled whispering from beneath my table, so I started playing the muppets sound track. Because they would never play Movin’ Right Along when the protagonist is about to get attacked. That won’t happen. Disney, who owns the muppets, wouldn’t give them the rights.

And it fucking worked.

Leave me and my weird names in peace

nobody ever talks about the witch literally wearing aslan's shorn mane as part of her battle outfit in narnia. but i've been thinking about it for literally 18 years atp

it's been 16 yr and i'm still unhinged about the progression from i'll come back when you call me -> you'll come back when it's over -> you'll come back when they call you in "the call"

So you know how the Wood Between the Worlds is supposed to have “air that is thick with life”? Maybe that was just a way of saying there was a lot of pollen around.

Theory: Jadis thought she was dying because she has really bad allergies.

peter watching edmund get stabbed battling the witch and being too far away to do anything in lww vs edmund watching peter duel miraz and being unable to help as a spectator in prince caspian. you know what i mean.