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singindemonhqI don’t get this question at all. There doesn’t seem to be much difference between the words, but maybe I am like a child. Okay, I’m playful. I make my own entertainment. Kids need boundaries and I mostly obey the Lore myself.
Kids watch the world carefully and learn constantly; it’s their route to survival in this strange new place. So do dimensional travelers if they’ve got any sense, the whole set-up can change a lot between Gigs. Kids have to learn hypocrisy and shame and such, they aren’t born with them. I’m not into those emotions much either.
Don’t your kids go through a stage when they love stories? They like happy endings? I love stories – hey, I choreograph stories. Okay, maybe I am childish or childlike, whatever.
Some stories for kids last through ages, and they’re predictable – once upon a time we all knew that the pretty, good girl would marry the prince, the third son would succeed in the quest and Red Riding Hood would be rescued by the woodcutter. Living happily ever after isn’t necessarily the most important part, though. A real happy ending has the wolf ending up in the cooking-pot, the wicked witch being shoved into her own oven, the dragon choking on the evil knight’s breastplate and then (… waitaminute, that last one’s from the autobiography, I think – I got to ask the Minion about that.)
I’m fine with that side of stories, too; that’s entertainment.
Of course, kids like the knight to kill the dragon, the witch to burn and the wolf to die because it reassures them that there’s natural justice built right into the universe. Children want to believe that dragons can be killed, too. They want to believe that if they do everything right, if they’re pretty and good and try they’ll be safe because they are the hero.
No. I’m way too old to be childlike, or childish. I guess the real difference between adult and child is experience.
I’ve heard way too many songs to be a kid.
Muse, “Sweet” the singing demon,
Fandom, BTVS
Words, 345
Kids watch the world carefully and learn constantly; it’s their route to survival in this strange new place. So do dimensional travelers if they’ve got any sense, the whole set-up can change a lot between Gigs. Kids have to learn hypocrisy and shame and such, they aren’t born with them. I’m not into those emotions much either.
Don’t your kids go through a stage when they love stories? They like happy endings? I love stories – hey, I choreograph stories. Okay, maybe I am childish or childlike, whatever.
Some stories for kids last through ages, and they’re predictable – once upon a time we all knew that the pretty, good girl would marry the prince, the third son would succeed in the quest and Red Riding Hood would be rescued by the woodcutter. Living happily ever after isn’t necessarily the most important part, though. A real happy ending has the wolf ending up in the cooking-pot, the wicked witch being shoved into her own oven, the dragon choking on the evil knight’s breastplate and then (… waitaminute, that last one’s from the autobiography, I think – I got to ask the Minion about that.)
I’m fine with that side of stories, too; that’s entertainment.
Of course, kids like the knight to kill the dragon, the witch to burn and the wolf to die because it reassures them that there’s natural justice built right into the universe. Children want to believe that dragons can be killed, too. They want to believe that if they do everything right, if they’re pretty and good and try they’ll be safe because they are the hero.
No. I’m way too old to be childlike, or childish. I guess the real difference between adult and child is experience.
I’ve heard way too many songs to be a kid.
Muse, “Sweet” the singing demon,
Fandom, BTVS
Words, 345
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