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Mafeesh Moushkella :verified: @mafeesh@kolektiva.social · Jul 24, 2026
Credit: Eadon Clay - Facebook If know know, you know. If not, let me know and I'll post the tweet that this was a response to. #tate #andrewtate #nnce #paedo #manosphere #sextrafficker #rapist #smalldickenergy #narnia #incel
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @Quasit@beige.party
@Quasit@beige.party Oh I think it's a disastrous choice, but then I think The Magician's Nephew is itself somewhat disastrous, a retcon so clumsy and awkward that it makes a hash of the already dodgy worldbuilding. It's like Lewis realized how little of #Narnia actually made sense up to that point--like, why would a realm of sapient beasts need human rulers? So he tried to fix it up and only made it worse. But that suggests something perhaps about the true reason for scrambling the publication order of the books: if you read them in proper order, the faulty worldbuilding becomes far more obvious.
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
Oh yes I know I know, "he's not a tame lion," you keep asserting. And that's the problem! Jack Lewis shouldn't need to keep saying it. It should echo through the writing, it should have gravitas. To put it another way, one shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain—Christian iconography needs to feel earned and not many artists can actually pull that off. That's why one of da Vinci-chan's angels seems real and why Neon Genesis Evangelion feels real while most Christian iconography is flimsy and tawdry. That's how Aslan feels in #Narnia. I've seen picture-books with more gravitas than anything in The Chronicles of Narnia. (cont'd)
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
For you see, in My Dinner with André, André Gregory describes his own extreme lapses into unreality and they have a similar strange character. Visions that ought to be terrifying, he describes as whimsical and comforting. You remember how Maenads and satyrs and Dionysos come rollicking through #Narnia, having a grand fun time breaking a bridge over a river, and it's kinda cool I guess (and I do respect and revere the Lord Bromios, very much, not the least because the great god Dionysos has helped me with my drinking habit) but it's way way too tame and twee. It doesn't help that Aslan is there, presumably making it all safe. Jesus as a lion. Would he be safe? (cont'd)
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
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I doubt any readers of mine have read The Place of the Lion, a very difficult and opaque book which yielded to my understanding only after multiple attempts. In it, the fabric of reality is torn open. That fire which breaks through the Earth is like a rift and everything round it begins to lose its material coherence. Archetypal beings roam free: the Serpent, the Horse (and the Unicorn, like yet unlike) and above all the Lion. Lewis thought he could grab a piece of THAT and use it to power his half-baked children's books. It's a fatal mistake. I feel as if the narrative of #Narnia is one of collapse. There's a reason only the first book feels quite real somehow, anchored in reality as if by that iconic lamp-post, the piece of solid Earth brought into Narnia. (cont'd)
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
As a result all of Lewis's hatreds come flying out, loosely contained by the rickety narrative, until at the center there's...nothing with any form, just seething and scintillating chaos, like the Seas of Chaos from Steven Brust's writings or like the unearthly fire that bursts through the Earth in Charles Stansby Williams's The Place of the Lion, the book from which #CSLewis clearly stole the idea for Aslan. The Chronicles of #Narnia do not resemble The Place of the Lion, mind you. He didn't plagiarize. But--ironically, rather like a character from that same book--it's like Lewis became intoxicated with the lion's power so he thought to transplant that into his Narnia books. The fool. (cont'd)
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