Part 1: On the Justification of Children’s Stories The realm of the fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
Would it be fair to summarize your views on children's fiction the same way you summarized your views on video games? Video games are good insofar as they inspire achievement and bad insofar as they substitute for achievement; is escapist fiction, therefore, good insofar as it points towards a true escape and bad insofar as it pretends to be an escape itself?
I feel like someone could write the same thing about JRPGs moving through late 90s to now. Some of the writing was some good archetypes and messages... even a bit politically complex... and now they're bad redundant tropes.
Excellent work. I loved adventure time growing up, and the who subversion of a boy's journey to manhood being subverted for lesbian romance made me glad that I didn't get to attached to the show. At least I can say that it inspired me to write my own stories and to grow up rather than be stuck in an eternal boyhood.
"The fantastical should leave you energized and motivated or at least inspired. When you return from wonderland, you should be brimming with a thousand new ideas and possibilities."
Perfectly put. So much of this stuff left me feeling old and sad and drained as the years went by.
Would it be fair to summarize your views on children's fiction the same way you summarized your views on video games? Video games are good insofar as they inspire achievement and bad insofar as they substitute for achievement; is escapist fiction, therefore, good insofar as it points towards a true escape and bad insofar as it pretends to be an escape itself?
Pretty much
I feel like someone could write the same thing about JRPGs moving through late 90s to now. Some of the writing was some good archetypes and messages... even a bit politically complex... and now they're bad redundant tropes.
Excellent work. I loved adventure time growing up, and the who subversion of a boy's journey to manhood being subverted for lesbian romance made me glad that I didn't get to attached to the show. At least I can say that it inspired me to write my own stories and to grow up rather than be stuck in an eternal boyhood.
Simon Petrikov sold me on the show when I was young. Felt I needed to comment on it.
"The fantastical should leave you energized and motivated or at least inspired. When you return from wonderland, you should be brimming with a thousand new ideas and possibilities."
Perfectly put. So much of this stuff left me feeling old and sad and drained as the years went by.
Both too much to add and nothing to add.
I'll just get this draft of a romantisy light novel finished up...
Adventure Derp
Derp Derping Derp
All the Derps Will Never Derp
Derp the Dog and
Derp the Human
Derping Derpa Derp
Adventure Derp