This stuff is from a month ago exactly, heading up to Rexburg and napping and getting ideas for NaNoWriMo liked I talked about. Sharing it here!
Cinderella attended the ball and was unprepared for it. It happened one thousand other times, a fairy godmother magicking a Ciderella to a ball, and it never worked; the reason why the version we're familiar with is present in almost every world culture is because how unusual it was. "You're already in a position of power, without working for it. And my power gained through my fairy godmother, I didn't work for that, so what makes us different, what makes this fair?" she asked the high-class there. "It's a pecking order, a dominance hierarchy, and that creates stability. I grew up in this world and you didn't. We have striated societies to give everyone a place, to make it so that nobody has to fight to belong. But that you can if you want to."
Terry Pratchet in Hogfather has the Tooth Fairy's realm's magic be powered by sympathetic magic, using people's body parts as part of spelled against them. In the realm of children's belief there is a scissorman, body all made of scissors. And death is an abstract concept. But is it not also abstract to adults? Just because adults are aware that it's permanent, what would happen then in an adult-based version of that land?
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