RE: Worldbuilders make for a weird audience
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If you think that's a bit grim in places, you should look up the source material.
Not after it was sanitised and turned into kiddy fairy stories - the real original stuff, particularly the German and Scandinavian tales. They are just so dark, it's kind of wonderful and terrifying all at the same time.
The Pied Piper of Hamlyn is just one example. How awful is it that because the town didn't pay the bill for pest control, that he kidnapped every single child in town and took them into a dark cave never to be seen again ?
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Or drowned them. That's the version I read as a child 😅
Oooh ! That's a version I hadn't heard before - I like it ! 😁
Yeah, my wife and I get a kick out of the old fables and how crazy they are. There's one about a girl with red shoes (I think it's even called 'The Red Shoes'), about a girl who abandons her dying mother because she really wants to dance in these particular red shoes, and is then cursed to never stop dancing. Eventually, she gets her feet chopped off, repents her sins, and dies.
Ahhh the joy of fables. LOL