Jokes as well as Justice

You guys think Rilian ever sneaks out to the stables at night to sit with Coalblack and Snowflake because Narnia has become a stranger to him and the only comfort he can find is in the animals who were captives alongside him?

okay but in the LWW movie when the fox is brought to The White Witch and he says “forgive me, your majesty” and she says “don’t waste my time with flattery” and then he says “not to seem rude, but I wasn’t actually talking to you” and looks at Edmund? literal chills every time a 10/10 artistic decision

every once in a while i think about how jadis was toying with peter during majority of their fight. she’s just stabbed edmund, and is now facing down his inexperienced, furious brother who can’t get a single hit in. and she smiles. because this is the supposed high king, and she is so much stronger. she has no need to rush this, why not get some fun out of this desperate little kid trying to avenge his brother? 

then aslan returns and the kid suddenly might have a chance, and jadis stops playing with her food. and she almost wins. had she not been as paralysed as peter upon aslan’s return, she would have stabbed a second king with little effort. and that just makes me love their confrontation so much. they’re not equal opponents. peter is running on anger and adrenaline, fighting for a country, his family and his life. jadis has already won in her mind, and is now just seeking to wipe out every last bit of rebellion with glee. jadis is much more experienced and more ruthless than peter. had she not been so amused by him, he would not have lived. 

I can't believe I never noticed how much The Silver Chair was about death. The story is book-ended by visits to Aslan's country. Jill and Eustace are charged with finding a lost, presumed dead prince who was trying to avenge his dead mother. The children narrowly escape death in the giants' castle, and then they find the prince by descending to an underworld with all the imagery of Hades. The dark, still unreality of this pagan underworld is contrasted with the bright, living, better-than-reality of Aslan's country. They rescue the prince from Hades and follow his father into his rebirth in Aslan's country. I don't have anything intelligent to say about it; I'm just surprised it took me this long to notice.

thinking about the perfect parallel that is edmund refusing to participate in the snowball fight, and getting annoyed when susan throws the snowball at him, and then in prince caspian he is actively participating in the water fight with his siblings. i love his development and growth so much.

this is a fucking deranged sequence and we're just not going to talk about it. ok.

let's not hide this analysis in the tags @beaststhattalk

Thank you @mira-kyria !! 🥹

...also shout-out to me forgetting what quotation marks do in tags again 🤦 ("perfect king" was meant to be after 'emulate this mythic...')

honestly HILARIOUS (especially as a susan & edmund girl) that its explicity said that peters favorite sibling is lucy & that we are given the impression lucys favorite sibling is peter.

peter thinks lucy is a decent judge of character thus has 0 doubts following her in situations they have little clue about. peter has this HUGE trust in her. which is why he is inclined to take her side when the siblings are arguing.

The thing about Peter that always gets me is how scared he is. He's so scared he won't be able to protect his siblings, he's so scared he won't be able to protect Narnia, he's so scared that he won't be able to live up to the legendary image people have of him. When he lashes out in anger -- against his siblings or Caspian -- it's just out of that fear.

Everything he manages to do is despite that fear, because it's his job. He is the eldest; he is the High King. But he's also a kid. He's only seventeen in Prince Caspian (in the movie, I think he's younger in the book), but he's already seen so much and borne so much, and he's so incredibly scared of letting everyone down.

I was rewatching lww today as you do and I got to this part:

“To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle.”

And as always an unhinged thought popped up:

If it’s the southern sun, would it like… rise in the south… or maybe set in the south?

Or what other criteria makes this sun southern?

We all know this world is flat and the lamppost is a tree, so really, anything could go

peter pevensie is not boring! his narrative arc, especially in the books, is ridiculously painful and complex, and covers some very poignant ground on identity loss/mythologisation! not only did c.s. lewis tend to avoid addressing material that was too mature or dark for his readers (thus leaving us with only vague sentiments about how peter “felt tired all over” or didn’t look like himself after committing violent acts), but peter himself doesn’t tend to share his thoughts until he’s ready to act (see: his bullet-point list about why the ruins in pc must be cair paravel); so he can superficially appear to fade into the background. it’s not obvious until you look a little closer - but you’re doing a disservice to your narnia experience in writing him off as boring!

Do you know how much I love that the Pevensies get the courage to face terrifying things when it is the loved one(s) in danger?

When Susan and Lucy were in danger from the wolf, Peter runs in to save them even though he is scared. Edmund faces the White Witch when he sees she is going after Peter. Susan stays behind to fight off Telmarines to protect Lucy. Lucy literally baits the Telmarines to come attack her to keep her siblings safe and secure their victory.

They overcome incredible odds when it comes to protecting each other, 👏AND 👏I👏LOVE👏IT👏

#I love that you can already see Edmund becoming the advisor that he is during the Golden Age (via @beaststhattalk)

aka scenes i would use in an essay about him

#peter is looking at who he used to be here#all of the glory and responsibility he’s been forced to pretend like he never even had#what must it be like to look at an image of yourself being strong and ‘magnificent’ when you’ve been feeling so stifled#…#and after this narnians accuse him of having abandoned narnia to suffer and fall to ruin.#it makes sense that he makes desperate moves in order to save narnia.#not only does he feel lesser than his past self#but he’s been put into a smaller weaker body in comparison to the adult he used to be.#i’m not making any coherent points i’m just saying. holy hell peter has a rough time in this movie <<< yes to all of this

Okay, but we have to talk about the implications of Edmund’s line here. Edmund’s literally trying to say, “I acted foolishly once, remember? Don’t make the mistake I made that almost got us all killed.” And PETER, in this moment, doesn’t want to hear that and probably resents Edmund for basically comparing this situation with the one from before. BUT it all comes true, or very nearly, when Peter’s standing in front of The White Witch’s image in the ice and he almost falls for her lies JUST LIKE EDMUND DID ONCE. “I know. You had it sorted” is the UNDERSTATEMENT of the century. But Peter hears the implications loud and clear. 

tags by @beaststhattalk:

#Because really. Edmund was deceived by Jadis because he felt alone#and she knew how to prey on that.#Peter feels like a failure by the time she speaks to him in PC.#He’s trying to do so much and holding himself responsible for so much.#There’s a reason Jadis says ‘you know you can’t do this alone’ to him (I may not have the exact wording but she does say 'alone’)#Peter feels alone. Just like Edmund did.#Edmund’s 'You had it sorted’ is like a bitter and indirect 'Stop pushing us away. This is where it leads.’#Hmmm much to think about

pevensies + seasons

you cant tell me that some of the trees didnt know the pevensies after they woke up in prince Caspian, like trees can live for a long time if not cut down and since the telmarines feared the woods its likely that some knew the pevensies