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radiant southern sun (ap)

@crownedgentle-blog / crownedgentle-blog.tumblr.com

indie & selective susan pevensie from the chronicles of narnia. est. april 22 2016. penned by robyn.
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jadcwest

goodbye !

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Hey everyone! Sorry in advance for posting something so long, but it’s something that needs to be said. I’m leaving tumblr rp. This goes for ALL of my accounts (jadcwest, crownedgentle, puffcommander, vcmpiired, reviived, etc) and I’ll be posting this message on crownedgentle and puffcommander as well. To address anyone asking why, it’s pretty simple. It’s a combination of not feeling wanted in the community (most of my mains have found new people who they are more active with, or just don’t respond to our threads, which is just as much my fault as theirs) and because between school, work, my sorority, and my internship.. I just don’t have enough time to manage five blogs, and I couldn’t choose who to close because I still have muse for them.
And since I do, I have chosen to move my rping over the skinny-love.net. Skinny-love.net is a roleplaying forum where you make one account and can have unlimited characters and threads with unlimited people. I would love to see each and every one of you join skinny love with me, and if you’re interested, I’d gladly give you more information about this. My account on this website is here. I also will gladly give out my sky/pe & snapc/hat to anyone who sends me a message (within reason) and my personal blog (that I’m going to be revamping) is at halenaw. If any of you are interested in any of my icon psds, i’m willing to give those out now as well.
I thank all of you for roleplaying with me over the past 4 years I’ve been doing tumblr rp, and I will leave these blogs open so you can relive our memories and also see this post. And, who knows? I may come back eventually.
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heartjace
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SO, many of you are probably aware that earlier in the summer I announced a long term semihiatus on ALL of my blogs due to the fact that I lost my scholarship and I decided to appeal the revocation by doing community service hours in addition to working and doing my summer sorority obligations. WELL – today I received the news that my APPEAL WAS APPROVED and I had my scholarship returned. First of all, I feel a little BRAGGY - I now officially get paid 9k USD a year to attend college (rather than have to pay anything out of pocket) and can spend that money on rent, sorority dues, bills, a new phone, and a new computer! But that also means once I finish getting my service hours (I have 55 more to do), I’ll officially be OFF SEMIHIATUS. My deadline to earn them is August 31, so I’m almost there and I’m so relieved and happy and I thank all of you for sticking with my inactivity and supporting me ooc (:
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Anonymous asked:

lmao you actually reblogged something from me and I stumbled on ur blog and I love ur Susan A+ have a nice day :)

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IM  GONNA CRY thank u so much angel!!!
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an INCOMPREHENSIVE frown mars his brow,   mind unable to piece together the meaning behind her words.    NOT ONLY do her ideas serve as reminders about narnia   (   something which peter firmly believes susan wished to depart from  )   but they also serve as reminders about…him?   which didn’t make any sense   ;    peter was RIGHT HERE,   he wasn’t going anywhere,   he was the only one who wasn’t going anywhere.   he stood stock still in place,   while everything ran and buzzed and flew ahead of him like a gust of wind.   he doesn’t like being unable to place what susan means,   mind jumping to the worst possible solutions   (  was she leaving for good,   never to return,  and so needed some sentimentality?   had he done something to suggest he was leaving which  therefore reared her sentimentality?  ).   “ … what?   ”   he finally asks,   frown deepening.    “   i mean you are rather magnificent.   ”   though he’s never been especially fond of using that word since it became attached to him,   but it IS true,   has always been true,   certainly more true than when it’s ever described him.     “    but i don’t   —   why would you get one of those?   ”   the answer is dangling right in front of him,   he knows it,   but his mind is unable to rotate the pieces to fit correctly.    “   i always thought — i mean  —  a swan would suit you….  ”     (  shut up, shut up, shut up   —    fingers rub together,    thread together,    clench,   and then freeze   to not give away nervousness   )

“peter!” she says, in an attempt to interrupt his stammering, rambling. “i’m not asking for opinions on the options, here.” and there is one of her soft, kind smiles lingering on her face. “sometimes... it feels like a dream, peter.” she’s whispering. “and just because i don’t really like talking about it.. i don’t want to FORGET.” she grabs his forearm, a ginger touch, squeezing gently, speaking in a manner that is truly candid and entirely earnest. “but i couldn’t POSSIBLY get something about myself, because that is quite a bit more vain than even i care for -- and anything about the country would be hard to EXPLAIN if anyone asked.” and then, her own sigh, almost laced with chagrin at having to admit this sentimentality. not that susan ever is embarrassed of it! but peter’s reluctance has convinced her, slightly, that perhaps he is not as warm to the idea. “and you’re my best friend, you know. ruling under your authority was.. one of my fondest memories, alright?” an elbow nudges him gently. “please? you don’t have to get one if you don’t want to. i just want it to.. mean something. i don’t ever want to FORGET. i just want to remember it.. in my own way.”

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9-1!!! do you know how that feels?? hey,,, friendly reminder that PRINCESS CRACKER is the one that sent you home dumbass. also this whole speech is just a douche move
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justpursue
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                     fingertips are careful not to touch porcelain skin, the warmth that emanates from her something unearthly and delicate but all the more dangerous. he’s captivated and surely enthralled by the idea of her, but he is cautious too many fools has he seen fall at the hands of curiosity and he should find himself thinking far too well to do such a thing. thick raven tresses are lifted drawn long curls backward away from the pulse in her neck, how it thrums with a rhythm so unique it makes his throat ache. but his lips remain shut neutral like his gaze, burgundy, and deep watching and narrowed as he gazes at her. she was beauty, like untouched snow – frozen and cold but to him, it felt like the sun. his voice is low as it brushes across her ear, the question so tainted with amusement and something darker he knows her reaction may be appalled or even humored. “ i have come to learn exactly when you are going to blush – how your pulse spikes but calms itself enough to slowly incline. it makes me curious. “

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“I am not going to blush.” Susan would respond lazily, a smile playing gently on her lips while she avoided his gaze. “I’m no fool, Demetri. What level of trauma would I have to experience to find myself an ally of yours? You recall as easily as I that you were once my captor.” And yet she finds herself continuing to meet him in secret in these woods at night. She never touches him, never kisses him. She only speaks to him in soft voices and gazes into red eyes with the same curiosity that ran in the blood of all of her siblings, that made Lucy lead them here and all of them stay and fight. “So I cannot have these simple minded reactions from so much as you brushing my hair aside, you know.”
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I don’t think that Edmund, Peter, and Lucy were upset about Susan not going to Aslan’s Country with them.

Hear me out. Aslan’s Country is supposed to be Lewis’s Narnian equivalent of Heaven. In the Bible, Heaven is described as being a place of eternal life and happiness where there is no misery or sorrow. Aslan says in the last book “You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be” (can’t give the exact page number because I’m using my ebook but it’s on the last page of the book). Aslan’s Country is meant to be this land of eternal happiness, this eternal happily ever after. The Pevensies have an eternity to go on adventures and meet people from the past and learn new languages and do so many things and have all the time in the world to do so. So, they’d be a bit too distracted to worry about their sister.

But, I feel like the most likely reason as to why they wouldn’t be too upset about Susan not being with them is because they had faith in Susan. They believed that Susan never truly forgot about Narnia, she was just hurt about being sent back to England - and they understood that. They, too, had been hurt by being sent back to England when their only wish had been to remain in Narnia. They understood that Susan’s coping mechanism was to push all thoughts of Narnia out of her mind. As someone with anxiety, I, personally, find it much more helpful to push all negative thoughts out and act like my problems don’t exist instead of actually dealing with them. While not the healthiest route, it definitely is the easiest.

By “forgetting” Narnia, Susan doesn’t have to deal with those emotions of betrayal and hurt because, in her mind, there’s nothing to feel betrayed or hurt about. Peter, Edmund, and Lucy are all very perceptive people, I would be surprised if they weren’t aware of the truth behind her “forgetting” Narnia.

They all felt betrayed and hurt by Aslan for pushing them out, but Edmund, Lucy, and Peter all eventually realized that it’s a test of their faith. I don’t necessarily believe that Aslan himself was testing their faith in him but I do believe that being pushed out of Narnia multiple times was their test of faith. Peter, Edmund, and Lucy were just able to overcome those doubts in Narnia and Aslan and come out with an even stronger faith. Susan, someone who had had doubts since the beginning, only had her faith crumble.

But there’s this sense of anger to her that her siblings probably noticed. Lewis said himself that he had been angry at God for not existing which was his argument for turning to atheism. Susan is going through that same process. She’s angry, she’s hurt, and it’s worse because she’s so blinded by her anger and despair that she doesn’t see her siblings going through the same process as her which makes her feel worse.

In all of her claiming to “forget” Narnia, it’s pretty obvious that she remembers. Her siblings know that she remembers. And while the other Friends of Narnia may believe that Susan is a lost cause, Susan’s siblings don’t. Peter, Edmund, and Lucy are the only ones to not say anything about Susan and her disbelief in Narnia (except for Peter’s “She’s no longer a friend of Narnia” which he says in a more disappointed manner than anything). Her siblings are disappointed that Susan turned her back on Narnia, but they still have faith in her. They believe that she will eventually return to her belief in Narnia, only that time it will be stronger than ever.

Nobody understood Susan better than her own siblings. They knew that they couldn’t force her to believe in Narnia, she had to do it herself. She couldn’t be forced into believing in Narnia, she had to come willingly - and her siblings understood that, too. And they knew that her “forgetting” wouldn’t last very long. She would come around, she just had to do it in her own time.

So, no, I don’t believe that her siblings were ever very upset over Susan not coming to Narnia with them during their deaths. It was never a matter of “if” but rather a matter of when she would join them in Aslan’s Country.

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“Damn the Lion,” She says as she winds her hair around a roller, And smears red on her lips, And pulls her nylons over muscular legs. “Damn him to hell.” She laughs at the irony. She is twenty-one. She is alone. She has lost everything. “He forced my hand. I made my move. The Battle never ended. He always favoured Lucy anyway.” God forgive her for growing up. God forgive her for loving something else. God forgive her for filling the gap. She is a queen. “Once a king or queen, always a king or queen.” She sings in her head. Empires are built on the backs of men, Using the minds of women. They can be built from Nylons, And lipstick. “So fuck the damn lion.”

h.f. (poetry about a girl who became a woman and deserved more)

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The Pevensies reactions to watching Sharknado 4.

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this is assuming they don’t all absolutely love it

Peter

  • wonders how in the world they managed to get the money to make a second one
  • let alone a fourth
  • also how does a shark survive out of water that long
  • stays up at night wondering who thought of the movie
  • unreasonably angry with the title
  • says he hates it but always ends up watching it

Susan

  • living for it
  • you can’t badmouth the movie in front of her
  • number one fan
  • quite possibly the sole reason the franchise continues
  • knows everyone’s name and backstory
  • wholeheartedly believes that each sequel is better than the last
  • sharknado is causing a rift to appear between her and Edmund
  • she wonders how they can be related at all

Edmund

  • “what even is the plot”
  • “who are these actors”
  • “why not a shark hurricane”
  • film critic af
  • tries to figure out the logic behind a firenado
  • gets beyond annoyed with Susan
  • heated debates that sometimes end in door slamming
  • number one hater

Lucy

  • indifferent
  • talks about it with Su
  • criticizes it with Ed
  • watches it in secret with Pete
  • honestly is torn between thinking it’s funny and thinking it’s lame
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I am always baffled by “Narnia Hogwarts Sorting” posts which put Susan in Slytherin. Susan’s moniker in Narnia was “the Gentle.” She not only hated killing animals/people for her own protection, she also hated to beat someone who had already lost once, even though she knew she easily could. She was fooled by a prince’s appearance of chivalry and courtesy into favoring him, but once she saw his cruelty and pride revealed, she rejected him utterly, though he would have made her a great queen. She took a motherless boy-prince under her wing and was almost an elder sister to him, simply out of compassion.

In England, she was not particularly good at school, leading people to think of her as a pretty face and nothing more. And in The Last Battle, we learn that her falling away from Narnia was not the result of ambition or cunning, but rather because she had forgotten her true worth. She settled for the cheap imitations of grace, beauty, and love that the world offered instead of the deeper truths of Narnia and beyond. She accepted other people’s devaluation of herself as just a pretty face and worked to mold herself into that image, what she thought others wanted of her. She got muddled over what it truly meant to be “grown-up,” because her understanding wasn’t deep enough.

But to the Narnians and to Aslan, she was always a queen, even when she nor the “real” world could see it.

Susan is a Hufflepuff if ever I saw one.

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