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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 131 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

lol, I love it.

C.S. Lewis - "I'm going to make the single most catholic fairy tale ever. This thing will be such catholic, woah, watch out, catholic comin' out of your ears with this fairy tale."

The Gays: Smiling, rubbing hands together, menacingly

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Lewis was an Anglican. Otherwise, yes.

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[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What the hell is going on with these reply dates

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the beauty of Tumblr. Old posts resurface, get new comments, gets passed around, fades into obscurity. Rinse and repeat

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've always wanted to try to get into the world of tumblr

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I signed up in... 2019?, listed science and education as interests and the front page was anti-science trashposting from 2008.

Take your curated experience and be grateful for it.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago

Time moves differently in Narnia

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

They were literally in the closet

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is "The Problem of Susan" some incel Narnia fanfiction?

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Technically, it's a short story by Neil Gaiman. Practically, it's definitely Narnia fanfiction except just legally distinct enough Neil Gaiman didn't get sued for it.

It's basically shorthand for, "it's kinda fucked up that they left Susan Pevensie out of Narnia towards the end just because she liked lipstick and dudes now."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 27 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Especially when Peter was more than happy to sell her off for political gain in A Horse and His Boy, until he found out the slavers weren't Christian slavers.

[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

only christian slavers for my sister 😤😤

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago

Gotcha! It's been a long time since I've read the Narnia books so I wasn't sure if the "lipstick and boys" was from the books or this short story.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IIRC, it wasn't that "she liked lipstick and dudes" but essentially that her thoughts of Narnia became "oh, that funny game we played as kids".

It's not her gender or orientation, it's that she lost her belief in an effort to become more "adult". The lipstick and boys bit is more to emphasize this.

Narnia is apparently like Neverland in this regard. You stop believing and the magic is gone.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The faith of children is also a recurring theme in the Bible.

Matthew 18: 2-4, for instance

^2 He called a child, whom he put among them, ^3 and said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ^4 Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians: 13 (one of the most-quoted chapters in the Bible, and a beautiful description of love even if you don't have faith) also compares the difference between childishness and adulthood to the difference between the partial understanding of the universe we have now to true understanding.

13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

In order to see the magic of Narnia, childishness is required, because to see it as an adult is to see beyond the fantastical. In understanding, the ability to see the magic is lost.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

If you enjoy dystopian CS Lewis fanfic, check out the book/TV series "The Magicians".

Bonus: it is very gay

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

I second this. High quality gay magicians

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In fairness, he did state that one of the reasons that he never wrote Susan was that he believed that he couldn't do her justice, and invited readers to come up with their own theories/stories.

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cis Lewis isn't welcome in his own fantasy smh my head

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

okay, this is definitely how I'm going to think of Narnia from now on.

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Theres no problem with susan. C.S. Lewis was using narnia as a very christian metaphor, for... come to think of it, lots of things. Included in that metaphor was a Peter Pan esque commentary of childhood. Susan grew up too fast. Thats it. Flawed as it may be, thats the bit. Misogynistic as is seems on reflection, i dont think it was intended that way.

Boys never grow up. If you have full grown man in your life, you already know this.

If you dont, you are missing out. Want to have a child without actually having a child? Make guy friends. Everything will make sense after that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure glad we don't reduce genders to stereotypes around here because that would be very silly.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Included in that metaphor was a Peter Pan esque commentary of childhood. Susan grew up too fast.

One of the reasons The Last Battle soured me on the series was the way in which they applied these increasingly unpleasant purity tests to the accumulated cast of characters.

Boys never grow up. If you have full grown man in your life, you already know this.

One of the messages of "The Problem with Susan" was that pain is the source of maturity. You tend to see this in older people because they've experienced more of it.

Grown men who don't act particularly mature are ones who have led relatively charmed existences. But there are plenty who have a sobriety and seriousness about them. You'll inevitably find some kind of trauma behind each of these folks.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Also women can be juvenile as well. I know many who have kept their inner child intact.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Parenthood also often does a lot to mature you. Not all parents by any means, but many of my friends with kids, and myself, found ourselves much harder to anger once we had kids and our empathic abilities increased substantially.

That all makes sense from an evolutionary perspective

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Kids generate a lot of anxiety and no small amount of trauma (particularly for the person carrying the pregnancy to term). Even before the child arrives, there's also the real possibility of failed pregnancies. I have dozens of friends with kids, but I can count the number of women who have never experienced a miscarriage on one hand. Then there's the first six months of caring for a newborn, which is intense. There are childhood injuries and illnesses that you feel as fiercely as if they'd happened to you. And there's the general process of watching a child mature into an adult, and the emotional turbulence of that process.

There's also the experience of watching an elder loved one - a grandparent or parent or beloved aunt/uncle - grow infirm and die. It weighs on you, both directly as a caregiver and indirectly as a reminder of the mortality of younger loved ones.

Grief has a huge impact on personality.

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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was just thinking about all the young people who were in WW1 and WW2.

TRAUMA has a maturing effect, whether one desires it or not.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

When I was young people used to tell me "You're wise beyond your years" Thanks! That'd be the trauma.

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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You had me in the first half but boys will be boys is a dangerous slippery slope, not an excuse

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[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL all the Narnia kids except Susan die in a train crash, tf??

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's all Christian metaphors, because Lewis was a bit of a hack at times and couldn't comprehend introducing kids to the idea of eternity by having them die at different times and reaching heaven together anyways they all had to die suddenly at the same time.

With that in mind, there aren't really that many ways to kill seven people suddenly at the same time. If it wasn't a train derailment it'd have been a plane crash or something.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Which is especially silly since he established that time moves differently in Narnia.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could be wrong but is it not just because Susan stopped believing in Narnia? Lucy still shows up for The Last Battle.

EDIT: So do Jill and Polly! This seems a little reductive of Susan's role in the story as an example of lack of faith and how maturing brings you to focus on your surroundings and lose your inner child.

[–] _____@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've seen Narnia and don't really understand the meme. what's is this even about

[–] lime@feddit.nu 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

well there are seven books in the series, and i think only books two through five have been made into films? anyway, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader only the two younger children return. in The Last Battle however, the eldest son is back but the eldest daughter is not.

neil gaiman wrote a short story about why.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

The Magician's Nephew is counted as book one these days, but that was not the order in which it was written and a few things won't make as much sense if you read it first, so I'm not sure why they re-ordered it other than they think that chronological order makes more sense overall, something I disagree with. It was originally the penultimate book, before The Last Battle.

So really, one through four were made into films, but BBC TV and Radio both did the whole thing.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

And then they came out of the closet, of course.

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