Hey! Welcome to my blog! I try to keep this place happy, cause there is enough garbage in the world. Occasionally I will reblog or post something I think is important and yet will be crappy.
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Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.
Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Kids can accept anything as long as there is a happy ending.”
–Don Bluth
I grew up watching shows like The Trap Door (Claymation eldritch horror for the under-10s), movies like Watership Down and The Secret of Nimh, and reading Alan Garner and Susan Cooper’s folk horror for kids. I feel like it did me a lot of good to practice being scared witless in safe, controlled circumstances where there was a happy ending.
And this is what it’s all about right it’s about letting kids experience challenging things in a safe way. The same with sad stuff happening in kids movies. Occasionally kids movies should be scary or have scary elements, occasionally kids movies should be sad or have said elements because it teaches them that they have agency in these circumstances, that there is a way to move through these circumstances, that these feelings are a part of life in a safe way.
little inconsistencies that at first you assume “oh, the author must have fucked up”, but then later on you realize that no, it was on purpose, they wanted you to think they fucked up but they hadnt
related: when you think “this has Implications the author didn’t think about” and then it turns out the author was thinking about them the whole time
btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv “haha sorry ive never done this without help before… can you show me how to do this?” the employee will not care. if that means anything to you
Everyone’s all “ohhh 2026 bring back physical media” until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we’re not on the same page anymore
eating would be fine if it was only a recreational activity. instead, its a horrible sisiphean nightmare and you need to do it every day without fail on threat of pain and death
