Showing posts with label narnia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label narnia. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Day 1: A favorite song

Ok so I found a 28 day challenge on Jocee's blog for February!! Get it, 28 days in February? Haha obvious. But ACTUALLY this year, there's 29!!! (my sister's birthday is February 29th!!! *crowds cheer*)




So the first day I will give you guys a favorite song. Which is like saying what my favorite part of air is... I seriously don't know. Music is like air to me, just as important and vital... But I love music a LOOOT more xP...

I guess I'll have to go with Long Live by Taylor Swift for 3 reasons: it's gorgeous, it inspires me, and I'm doing a rewrite of it right now (I wanna cover it on one of my albums)... 




I'll post a link to the rewrite once I'm done, if I ever will be xP...


Have a LOVELY day!!!!!!!


muahhhhxo

cuz who doesn't like staring a Narnia photo of Aslan and Edmund???


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

I believe in fairytales


Now, when you see this post on your dashboard, you will probably suppose I am talking about believing in true love. Actually, that's not true. I mean, I DO believe in true love, but that's not what this post is about.





First off, I'll give you a summary of what a fairytale usually entails, more or less. An evil power invades a kingdom or castle and takes it over, treating it's inhabitants badly. The evil being/force/whatever captures a beautiful princess/woman a handsome, noble, good prince loves (or in the case of beauty and the beast, other way around)... The noble prince rides off to save the day, slaughters or defeats the evil power/being and saves the princess, usually risking his life or sometimes dying for his love (getting raised from the brink of death by his princess of course). The kingdom or fortress is saved and becomes a beautiful, kind place where everyone loves each other, and they all live happily ever after.





Now, what does this sound like to you?


Not sure what I'm getting at? Here, I'll give you a hint...


I'm going to tell you another fairytale, only it's true. There once was a beautiful place that, by a series of unfortunate events, got evaded by an evil being and power. It turned everything ugly and everyone was unhappy. Then it captured the Prince's special bride and deceived her. The Prince rode in on a colt and saved the day by dying for the princess. Then He was raised from the dead and eventually completely defeated the evil dragon and the kingdom became a beautiful place where everyone loved each other and they all lived happily ever after.




Muahh<3



Saturday, January 14, 2012

today

Hmm so I don't have anything concrete to talk about today, so i'll just ramble on..

I'm excited!!! I have THREE followers!! That sounds lame I know... :/ But I have decided: no begging friends to follow me. I will get followers just because people love my blog. And THAT is final.

I'm reading the Nancy Drew Mysteries! I've never read them before, and since I loove old books, I figured I'd read them.. I'm liking them so far! They're not over blown and cliche like most mysteries nowadays..

I just had an idea for a cool blog post. I'll do that tomorrow!! or maybe today.. YOU'LL just have to wait and see!!!

Ohhh I found an awesome blog!! Check it out: Escape To Vanilla ... And follow her!! She's trying to get 20 followers in like 2? months... And also she's awesome (:

I think my two biggest fears (and this may sound lame) are losing my sister and falling out of love with Narnia... I'm going through a phase where I'm just not as obsessed and it's freaking me out!! That sounds reeeeally pathetic. It's just CoN helps me soo muchh, and I don't EVER wanna "grow out of it".. :/

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

rationalism

One of the main reasons so many people reject things they can't see or "prove", such as Magic, "mythological" creatures, Santa Claus, angels, devils, and most importantly God, is because it isn't "rational". I am against being rational!! Why? To explain my stand against rationalism, you have to go back to when it was "invented" (although some form of it has existed since Lucifer's fall)..

In France, as Louis XIV's reign came to a close, the so called Age of Enlightenment started. It was, more aptly put, a new Dark Age. 
–Abeka: World History and Cultures
"The Enlightenment was a movement that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man's life in order to establish a new social order."
Basically, men were trying to over use their own reasoning. God gave us logic as a tool, a reference, not something to govern our lives with! He never meant us to use it as a rulebook, overruling everything, including His Word! Here is the definition of Rationalism:

 "Rationalism: the idea that man's reason is the sole criterion for truth." 
–Abeka: World History and Cultures


And it isn't! It might help us find Truth, but Truth is has always been and will always be Truth, our reasoning cannot change Truth. It has been in existence before the dawn of Time, while our minds have only lived a few years! 

To believe in rationalism is basically a pride problem. We think our minds can decipher what is true and what isn't. But our minds can't! The Bible is the only true way we can find this out.
Susan: I was just trying to be logical!          
Peter: No you weren't, you were trying to be right!
–The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (2003)

                     
That's why when people say God isn't real, because it isn't rational, I just laugh. Because what do they know? Our minds, our reasoning, cannot determine that.

For example, lets say, my reason is a bit off, and I believe, logically believe now, that you aren't real. Does that make you not real? No!! That just makes me stupid.

Our reasoning cannot determine whether God is real, or even whether Santa and centaurs and the Easter bunny are real. I chose to believe in them. That doesn't make me stupid or naive, and it doesn't make them real or not. If they are real, my believing won't make them any more real, and your unbelieving (if you don't) won't make them any less real!

For what do we have in life other than Faith? We need to stand by the things that are important, whether they are logical or not.
“One word, Ma'am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. "One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan [Jesus] himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a playworld which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's [Jesus'} side even if there isn't any Aslan [Jesus] to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian [Christian] as I can even if there isn't any Narnia [heaven].”
–The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

the creation of Narnia




Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day!

xoxo<3muahh

Friday, December 30, 2011

ok. now i'm doing that post i promised.

pix of narnian-looking places! yay!



ireland. i'm irish! yaya!



ireland. and the rest will be ireland until i say otherwise (;





gooooorgeous!!! xD

now this is New Zealand, ditto above (about the rest being the same blah blah blah)

no this isn't the entrance from our world in PC, but it sure looks like it!! (:



although, i don't think there were snow-capped mountains.


not sure what this is, but it's on c. s. lewis' property, and inspired narnia xD... 
btw, when asked where on this world looks the most like narnia, he said ireland (:

idk exactly where this is, but I think it's either wales or england

idk where this is.... but this is how i imagine Lantern Waste during the 100 years winter

Latern Waste during summer..... idk where this is

oooo i really wish i knew where this is

england countryside.. the rest will be england

yorkshire, england






ok, that's enough for now, if i post more, people with dialup won't be able to open it! xP

muahhhh<3xo



yayyyyy!!! rambling about nothing

wow. the year's almost over!! it's december 30, tomorrow will be new years eve. the world's gonna end next year! hah. we'll see..

i have been studying how to do a proper english accent. like anna popplewell's!! idk what exactly you would call the accent. i searched accents from london (she grew up in london) and there's sooo manyy! cockney, a ghetto type english, and others. idk what's anna's would be exactly, so i just call it "proper english". I thought maybe cockney, but cockney is like eliza's original accent from my fair lady.

that was boring, i'm sorry.

i may be able to go to england this spring!! eeee!!! the school i went to last year is going there on a mission trip. i'm uber excited! the only two things keeping me from doing that are money and permission. i have to raise enough money for a plane ticket and all that, so I'd need people to pledge money.. but the biggest problem would be getting permission to come along. the principal at my old school (it's a boarding highschool) doesn't like me at alllll... so that'll be hard to get permission.

wow this is a boringgg post. i'm sorry!! i'm just sososo excited xD..

we're watching tv and the guy just said, "all i knew to say were monosyllabic grunts." i looove words, and monosyllabic grunt is an awesomee word combo! xP

i'm going to post photos of bora bora island. it's gorgeous! it's like a tropical narnia. there's palm trees and all that, but the neon green grassy hills and all that look narnian! (:

here's the whole island


this doesn't very narnian i know, it's more tropical, but inland.....


getting closer inland





that looks pretty narnian, huh?






ok, so maybe it's not that narnian... but it is a little, and it's still gooorgeous! the funny thing is, in my grandparent's calendar where i first saw a pic of this island, it looked suuuper narnian, but i can't find the pic :\



ohhh wow.. this was a boringg post. so to make up for it, i'll post a bunchh of pix of places that remind me (truly) of narnia... so if you looove narnia as much as me and you're looking for a vacation spot, there ya go. the perfect blog post for you.

anywho, i'm signing off.

muahh<3xo

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

list of random thoughts at 1am

i soo should be asleep right now, but i can't go to sleep. so here's a list of my thoughts.


  1. i wanna go to the island in the picture in my calandar for my month (It looks like NARNIA!!! xD)
  2. Skandie's cute (for all who don't know this, Skandie is Skandar Keynes)
  3. Ben Barnes creeps me out. Don't kill me please, he just does! I don't know why. I think he's gorgeous and has the mooost amazingg smile, and his accent on PC makes me melt (but not as much as Will's) but he creeps me out.
  4. I need to get a bucket. and then fill it with slips of paper that have wishes on them (like Jocee's dream jar). It's a BUCKET LIST!!!
  5. i wish i could sleep.
  6. i need to read Jocee's book Dehlia. Like right now. I can't stand not reading it!!
  7. I should make a 15 before 15 list. yes, i also got this from Jocee's blog. Ok, ok, I have been reading it!!
  8. i wanna write Jocee's book Dehlia for myself.
  9. i have a feeling Dehila is Raven, even though all the signs point to her being Evelyn. I'm weird.
  10. IT'S 1AM.
  11. my shoulder hurts.
  12. i watched the best movie eva!! It's called August Rush. WATCH IT. NOW.
  13. i think ima stop at 13. ohh wait, i can't. it's unlucky. but it's also Taylor's lucky number.
  14. nahh ima continue, not cuz 13's unlucky, but cuz i'm still not tired.
  15. i really needa get that bucket.
  16. ok, i'm really done now.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Narnia quotes

Here's some of my fave quotes from Narnia xD Enjoy!!!! :)

(From Jack Lewis)
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings....The whole subject was associated with lowered voices, almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them for their stained-glass and Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could.
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories


Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight
At the sound of his roar, sorrows with be no more
When he bares his teeth, winter meets it's death
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Chapter 7


"Is–quite safe?"
[...]
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver [...] "Who said anything about safe? 'Courese he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Chapter 7


Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen in Narnia."
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe


There once was a boy named Eustace Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. He didn't call his Father and Mother "Father" and "Mother", but Harold and Alberta. They [his family] were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers, and tee-totallers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house was very little furniture and and very little clothes on beds and the windows were always open.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing excercises in model schools.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"Who is Aslan? Do you know him?"
"Well–he knows me," said Edmund.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"Aslan!" said lucy almost a little reproachfully. "Don't make fun of me. As if anything I could do would make you visible!"
"It did," said Aslan. "Do you think I would not obey my own rules?"
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"Please, Aslan," said Lucy, "what do you call soon?"
"I call all times soon," said Aslan.
[...]
"Come," said the Magician, "All times may be soon to Aslan, but in my home, all hungry times are one o'clock."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"You can say what you like, Reepicheep. There are some things no man can face"
"It is, then, my good fortune not to be a man," replied Reepicheep with a very stiff bow.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a flaming ball of gas."

"Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but what it is made of."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


You would not be calling to me unless I was calling to you," said the Lion.
The Silver Chair


It is the stupidest of children who are the most childest and the stupidest grown-ups that are the most grow-up.
The Silver Chair


Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they go married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.
The Horse and His Boy


The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often get succeed.
The Magician's Nephew


All get what they want; they do not always like it.
The Magician's Nephew


...A noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy is the next best.
The Last Battle


“Son,” said Aslan to the Cabby. “I have known you long. Do you know me?”
The Magician’s Nephew – Chapter 11


“My son, my son,” said Aslan. “I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.”
The Magician’s Nephew – Chapter 12



“I'm sure Aslan would have, if you'd asked him,” said Fledge.
“Wouldn't he know without being asked?” said Polly.
“I've no doubt he would,” said the Horse (still with his mouth full). “But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked.”
The Magician’s Nephew – Chapter 12



“Hand it to me and kneel, Son of Adam,” said Aslan. And when Peter had done so he struck him with the flat of the blade and said, “Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane. And, whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword.”
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Chapter 12



“I am sad and lonely. Lay your hands on my mane so that I can feel you are there and let us walk like that.”
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Chapter 14



"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own."
"Who are you?" asked Shasta.
"Myself," said the Voice, very deep and low so that the earth shook: and again "Myself", loud and clear and gay: and then the third time "Myself", whispered so softly you could hardly hear it, and yet it seemed to come from all round you as if the leaves rustled with it.
The Horse and His Boy – Chapter 11



Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh, and trotted across to the Lion.
“Please,” she said, “you're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.”
“Dearest daughter,” said Aslan, planting a lion's kiss on her twitching, velvet nose, “I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.”
[...]
“Aslan,” said Bree in a shaken voice, “I'm afraid I must be rather a fool.”
“Happy the Horse who knows that while he is still young. Or the Human either…”
The Horse and His Boy – Chapter 14



“It was I who wounded you,” said Aslan. “I am the only lion you met in all your journeyings. Do you know why I tore you?”
“No, sir.”
“The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother's slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.”
The Horse and His Boy – Chapter 14



“I wouldn't have felt safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we'd met them without Aslan.”
“I should think not,” said Lucy.
Prince Caspian – Chapter 11



“Welcome, Prince,” said Aslan. “Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?”
“I - I don't think I do, Sir,” said Caspian. “I'm only a kid.”
“Good,” said Aslan. “If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not…”
Prince Caspian – Chapter 15



“I was wishing that I came of a more honourable lineage.”
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
Prince Caspian – Chapter 15



“Oh, Aslan,” said Lucy. “Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?”
“I shall be telling you all the time,” said Aslan. “But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder…”
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Chapter 16



“I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Chapter 16



“Are you not thirsty?” said the Lion.
“I'm dying of thirst,” said Jill.
“Then drink,” said the Lion.
“May I - could I - would you mind going away while I do?” said Jill.
The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic.
“Will you promise not to - do anything to me, if I do come?” said Jill.
“I make no promise,” said the Lion.
Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer.
“Do you eat girls?” she said.
“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,” said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
"I daren't come and drink," said Jill.
"Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.
"Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer. "I suppose I must go and look for another stream
then."
"There is no other stream," said the Lion.
This Silver Chair – Chapter 2



“One word, Ma'am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. "One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a playworld which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
The Silver Chair – Chapter 12



“Sir,” said Caspian, “I've always wanted to have just one glimpse of their world. Is that wrong?”
“You cannot want wrong things any more, now that you have died, my son,” said Aslan.
The Silver Chair – Chapter 16




Thursday, December 15, 2011

true improvement


"For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine."
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; Harper Collins: 2001) 216.

This is soo true! I love this quote, because so many Christians believe they can get there on their own, just by becoming "better people".. This is actually possible, with a lot of will power you CAN stop doing certain things, but it DOESN'T change you inside! Inside you are still desperately wicked, and you won't be saved. A lot of the time, the people who are at their lowest, who do the worst things, and think they've hit rock bottom, are the people God can save the easiest!

That's why He allows Satan to strip us of our so called "good deeds", so we see how hopeless we are without Him. And then, and only then can He change us.

“Welcome, Prince,” said Aslan. “Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?”
“I - I don't think I do, Sir,” said Caspian. “I'm only a kid.”
“Good,” said Aslan. “If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not…” 
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (1951; Harper Collins: 2001) c. 15.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

of weddings and such

That's a weird title.
I am planning my wedding! Idk why, I just felt like it today... I want it to be a mixture of Irish (I'm Irish), medieval, and greco-roman culture, with a Narnian spin ;)..
this kinda bottom


 these sleeves, but without the lace underneath
 Either the front of the bodice on this dress


or the design on the  front of this dress, with the drapes hanging down and the sash, but the sash is emerald green

For bridesmaid dresses, just something simple and emerald green, and the flower girl's dress would be ivory... or maybe emerald green


My hair something like this....


with a GORGEOUS Narnian-like crown!! (this is like Lucy's crown)

Decor is all Irish and medieval (and Narnia-ish, of course)...

I want a spot that looks like Narnia!!! (like Ireland, but it's too far away *tear*) Maybe somewhere in North Carolina, or even at The Narnia Estates in IL....

Idk what the groom should wear though!!! I'm thinking maybe something knight-ish, but will that be trying too hard?? A tux wouldn't go with all the other medieval things, I don't think...

Who's the prince??? William Moseley/Peter Pevensie of course!!! :D

*swoon*

xoxoxo muahhh<3

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

I think I'm going to cry...

I'm listening to The Call by Regina Spektor from Prince Caspian... 
I keep feeling like I'm going to cry! That song makes me soo sad, it hits me at this place inside me that almost breaks my heart... 

(or maybe I'm just sad Peter and Susan are gome :0) 



That song is my new obsession! And my mom actually aproves of it! (she's picky about music, usually she won't let me play my music where she can hear it....)

But I'm trying to listen to it less, because usually when I find a song I LOVE, I listen to it over and over and over and over......Until I feel like blowing up whoever wrote it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, this was a useless post....

Here's the song if ya wanna hear it:



muahh<3