Hey friends! Do me a quick favour?
Can you imagine a stereotypical witch riding on a broomstick? Picture her as much as you can (sorry, I know a bunch of people here are aphantasic!) and then answer my question in the next post…
@villainousfriend Between the legs. Austria. Die Kleine Hexe.
@agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend
Hahaha, YES! [Sicko meme]
@agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend
This leads to the question: Was it also a general experience among us to have been read to Krabat waaay before they should have read us Krabat, giving us trauma and possibly kinks.
@Antimony @villainousfriend Never heard of Krabat but I read everything too young.
@agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend
OMG 
Go read Krabat, it can *still* traumatise you! :D
@Antimony @villainousfriend It sounds great tbh
@agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend It IS! Maybe not when you're 5 tho.
@Antimony @agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend now i am wondering how Krabat stands up to Rumo, my own “definitely read this too young, in a formative kinda way”
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@Antimony @agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend yeah see the problem with Rumo is that lots of parents had read 13 & 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear and then just handed Rumo to their kids when it came out which is MUCH darker and more explicit in terms of uhhhhh everything than its predecessor. I remember being pretty !!! at the bit with the iron maiden and subsequent ressueection, but its been long enough now that I’m not 100% sure how graphic it actually was, would have to reread
@Satsuma @agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend
Bwahaha, yes that sounds like an understandable mistake :D
I think the Krabat thing was similar, like, I had kleine Hexe and Räuber Hotzenplotz as audiobooks on tape when I was still a toddler, but what makes it ridiculous is that my mother *read* it to me, haha, and still apparently thought it was appropriate :')
@Satsuma @agoodboysforeverhole @villainousfriend
I haven't read that, I can't say! I was already in my late 20s when it came out and the Käptn Blaubär books were too much kidlit for me, so from that perspective alone I'd think Krabat is tougher. It's not cute or ironic at all, seriously goth 🥹