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I could be wrong but is it not just because Susan stopped believing in Narnia? Lucy still shows up for The Last Battle.
EDIT: So do Jill and Polly! This seems a little reductive of Susan’s role in the story as an example of lack of faith and how maturing brings you to focus on your surroundings and lose your inner child.
If you enjoy dystopian CS Lewis fanfic, check out the book/TV series “The Magicians”.
Bonus: it is very gay
You had me at gay…which was, admittedly, the end of your comment.
I second this. High quality gay magicians
I couldn’t finish the book, and the TV show was even worse.
i couldn’t even get through the tv show to see the gays
And then they came out of the closet, of course.
What the hell is going on with these reply dates
Time moves differently in Narnia
Is “The Problem of Susan” some incel Narnia fanfiction?
Technically, it’s a short story by Neil Gaiman. Practically, it’s definitely Narnia fanfiction except just legally distinct enough Neil Gaiman didn’t get sued for it.
It’s basically shorthand for, “it’s kinda fucked up that they left Susan Pevensie out of Narnia towards the end just because she liked lipstick and dudes now.”
IIRC, it wasn’t that “she liked lipstick and dudes” but essentially that her thoughts of Narnia became “oh, that funny game we played as kids”.
It’s not her gender or orientation, it’s that she lost her belief in an effort to become more “adult”. The lipstick and boys bit is more to emphasize this.
Narnia is apparently like Neverland in this regard. You stop believing and the magic is gone.
Especially when Peter was more than happy to sell her off for political gain in A Horse and His Boy, until he found out the slavers weren’t Christian slavers.
A Horse and His Boy was terrible. Gave up halfway through and put off the series for years. Just desert desert desert lazy Muslim analogue desert desert.
only christian slavers for my sister 😤😤
And what for my stepsister? ಠ◡ಠ
Gotcha! It’s been a long time since I’ve read the Narnia books so I wasn’t sure if the “lipstick and boys” was from the books or this short story.
okay, this is definitely how I’m going to think of Narnia from now on.
I’ve seen Narnia and don’t really understand the meme. what’s is this even about
well there are seven books in the series, and i think only books two through five have been made into films? anyway, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader only the two younger children return. in The Last Battle however, the eldest son is back but the eldest daughter is not.
neil gaiman wrote a short story about why.
They did make Voyage Of The Dawn Treader into a movie but a very long time ago like I want to say the '90s
I am so sorry to do this to you but it was 2010.
No this one was earlier than that. Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader https://g.co/kgs/xnpnDSN
The whole first part - thats how you realise what canon really was telling you. Sometimes you gotta process it slowly.
Dancing with the fauns.
