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2026-06-06 11:52 UTC
@hgrsd@hachyderm.io That being said, I might be wrong, but I like Tolkien's attitude towards children's literature (The Hobbit is meant for children, even though the movie adaption is PG-13): To not treat children as fools and throw mindless stories at them but to treat them as young people that already understand this and that.
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@shaedrich@mastodon.online 2026-06-06 11:55
@hgrsd@hachyderm.io Little of topic but here's a little anecdote from something I do know about and it ties in with the mentioned concepts of othering and acceptable: I was writing a screenplay a while ago and started writing casting calls when I asked myself and discussed with others in the team which properties were non-negotiable while others I might have imagined while writing could be neglected. One of these questions was: 3/