so what's up with the trope where children have access to magic and then lose it as a prerequisite to growing up? where does it come from, what is it for?
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it’s just the truth but dramatized for effect
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“By middle/high school, the average student has learned how normal people talk. The resulting language is underwhelming and predictable - the safe regurgitations of a thoroughly socialized consciousness.” poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/0
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i guess i'm sad that even someone like c.s. lewis sees it as inevitable or even necessary :(
(but also maybe there's things that happen when the pevensies grow up that i don't know about yet hmm)
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i guess this is sort of in the area of the graph intersected by the lines of "focus on what you want to see more of" and "we have to face the truth of how things to keep things from becoming unhinged escapist fantasy". might be interesting to plot media along this graph
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lmfao "don't invent the torment nexus" just waltzed into my head unbidden, truly magnificent tweet
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eventually they grow old enough to start reading fairytales again
(wait, have you not actually read the entire chronicles?)
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the effort of will it is taking not to spoil
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