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What quotes from children's media went hard as hell for no reason? (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Watership Down and Animorphs. How the fuck did those books end up being kids books?

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because children are interested in darkness and fiction is a safe place to explore it and contextualise it?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah Animorphs as a kid had a darkness that Goosebumps couldn't touch. The first one for me was realizing that one of the party members was forever stuck as a fucking bird, and they had whole chapters of his perspective getting used to the fact that his former life is gone. That was unheard of at the time.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tobias. Totes tragic.

    Rachel becoming a fucked up person who only knew how to live in war was also great.

    Tomorrow when the war began was another childhood fave of mine.

    I wouldn't say that sort of stuff was unheard of. My mum gave me some super tragic books about Polish kids during the war, there was loads of stuff with like thawing dead soldiers enough to steal boots etc. My mum's Polish so fed me a lot of grim stuff to read to help understand her parents and their experiences. Idk if you're usaian? maybe popular stuff was a bit more sanitised because of moral majority stuff?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah I'm American and we had mostly Scholastic book fairs and the school library to count on for books. Animorphs, being published under them, was heavily advertised at the fairs.

    Considering myself to be an "advanced" reader I'd stick to the young adult books, but mostly sci-fi (Dune) and fantasy (Dhampir). For 5th or 6th grade me, though, Animorphs was engaging enough until a new book came out and was constantly checked out at the library.

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