I always find it funny when books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson get crap for being ‘witchcraft’ and ‘anti-christian’ but you know who no one ever talks about? Phillip Pullman and his masterpiece His Dark Materials trilogy. Some of you may recognize the first book’s title, The Golden Compass from the awful movie adaption, but seriously those books are so so good and full of badass witches rebelling against the vadican for mutilating children, gay ass angels who join the rebellion so they can be free to love each other, an ex nun who escapes the oppression of the church to pursue a life of science, a little girl who is so good at manipulating she overthrows an entire empire in one day, and a 12 year old boy who murdersgod with a knife
Phillip Pullman is legitimately baffled that Christians got all upset about Harry Potter when he was writing HDM at the same time. And typically when authors have those themes, they still say in interviews that it’s just a story and/or their writing about religious corruption than religion itself. But Pullman just goes and says “If God as the Christians imagine him exist, it would be a moral duty to kill him” (paraphrasing)
As a Jew, I second that sentiment of Pullman’s.
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Phillip Pullman: I think Narnia is toxic and bad for children and this series is quite literally meant to destroy it
Everyone: Haha okay sounds like wacky good fun
Pullman: everyone’s soul is manifested in a separate entity called quite literally a daemon
Everyone: sounds cute, nice aesthetic
Pullman: these children shall destroy the concept of heaven and hell
Everyone: ah bless
Pullman: they join with rebel angels to create a republic of heaven
Everyone: such cute fantasy
Pullman: “If there is no longer a king, or a kingdom of heaven, it will have to be a republic in which we are free citizens. We ourselves as citizens have to build the republic of heaven.”
Everyone: NEVER understood the elephant wheels thing tho
She Came Prepared The Daily Politics presenter was chatting to Charlotte and Henrietta about banning unhealthy food in schools.
She came for him
“well maybe when you were my age you were a dumb piece of shit”
I CANNOT
Heroines.
Iconic
that explains why his generation is working so hard to destroy the fucking planet
that head nod/eyebrow tilt combo in the last gif is the single most lethal fucking thing I have ever seen in my life
Neil is definitely a right wing journalist, he makes no secret of that nor that he has a bias. But he does appear to try
actually
to be a journalist and plays Devil’s Advocate in his interviews (those that I have seen at least). This means taking the opposing views to those of his subject and he does seem to enjoy the cut & thrust of the argument. And he did seem to enjoy getting shot down during this one because his interviewees were so well prepared and argued their case so eloquently.
Which makes his demolition on air of fellow right winger Ben Shapiro so fucking delicious. Especially as it became apparent that Shapiro had done less than zero preparation for the interview.
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