Thank you for bringing this up because as Halloween approaches, hopefully I don’t need to tell y’all this, but do not reach out to things. Do not ask them questions. Do not ask for favors. Do not invite them anywhere near you. There are things that hate you more than humanly possible, and they will destroy you if they get the chance. Don’t go ghost-hunting, don’t participate in any rituals, and don’t try to make contact. Because if you play with fire you might get burned, and this particular fire is much worse than you can imagine. Actual incidents are fairly few and far between, but they happen and they are bad. Don’t risk it.
susan pevensie didn’t “lose faith” for being too girly or being told to suppress anything, ultimately she lost it because she used those “nylons and lipsticks” to forget about narnia and all they had, to the point of pretentiousness – telling her siblings about those “funny little games we used to play as children”. A girl can still grow up and like womanly things without being like that.
And the start of the very first book goes “someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again”. There might come a point in susan’s life where she reconciles with narnia.
So no, JKR, susan didn’t “lose faith” because she became a woman.
I seriously can’t even with those “CS Lewis wuz a misogynist because Susan“ posts that occasionally float around. Lucy was the freaking heroin of the first book, the first human permitted to see Narnia in years.
Yeah the movie made it pretty clear who had what weapons. And Lucy was a small child? Why are people upset that the little girl wasn’t shooting enemies?
And you know what? In the books Lucy ended up being an archer anyway. In Horse and His Boy we find out that Lucy joined the Narnian army in disguise as an archer despite her brothers telling her not to, and yet she’s not really judged for it by any of the other characters, she is not presented as being wrong, and it’s pretty much an open secret that she fights in battles.
Wide Spread Interests 