• @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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    118 hours ago

    Shout out to Scooby Doo for teaching kids that weirdness always had a misbehaving adult behind it and that no-one is above the law

  • @Apeman42
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    3311 hours ago

    Also reminds me a bit of this quote from GK Chesterton (paraphrased): “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

  • Hegar
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    510 hours ago

    I really like the sentiment, although brave knights were just violent aristocrats - the most commonly met cruel enemy throughout history.