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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 8067748" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p>I think your ideas are excellent. One of the things I had to solve for is why some characters can suffer significant bodily harm and others can't. The Valley of Mo (where characters are regularly dismembered and put back together like trolls) provides some answers and not a small amount of body horror. </p><p></p><p>One of my favorite examples of this is Dot and Tot in Merryland. They meet an animated doll (Queen Dolly), who has citizens she rules over that are not as cognizant as her. She animates them and then, if she leaves them be for too long, they start to riot. </p><p></p><p>In the dialogue with the two children, Dot and Tot, Queen Dolly casually mentions she has a choice between turning them into dolls or adopting them. And she frequently mentions having to consult her "thinking machine" which is never explained as to what or where it is. That doesn't include the people made of candy who eat each other when they break (and consider it an honor), the clowns who just want to perform in front of children, the babies birthed from flowers and managed by storks, or the valley of lost things.</p><p></p><p>Baum perfected his whimsy with Oz, but some of his stories are straight up terrifying. I think jaded adults have difficulty taking Oz at its face value because they want to "age it up" and make it more relatable. But Baum never talked down to his audience; he wrote for kids, but it wasn't necessarily kid writing. Modern authors don't need to make it more adult, the content is already there, it's just a question of how much the narrative engages with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 8067748, member: 3285"] I think your ideas are excellent. One of the things I had to solve for is why some characters can suffer significant bodily harm and others can't. The Valley of Mo (where characters are regularly dismembered and put back together like trolls) provides some answers and not a small amount of body horror. One of my favorite examples of this is Dot and Tot in Merryland. They meet an animated doll (Queen Dolly), who has citizens she rules over that are not as cognizant as her. She animates them and then, if she leaves them be for too long, they start to riot. In the dialogue with the two children, Dot and Tot, Queen Dolly casually mentions she has a choice between turning them into dolls or adopting them. And she frequently mentions having to consult her "thinking machine" which is never explained as to what or where it is. That doesn't include the people made of candy who eat each other when they break (and consider it an honor), the clowns who just want to perform in front of children, the babies birthed from flowers and managed by storks, or the valley of lost things. Baum perfected his whimsy with Oz, but some of his stories are straight up terrifying. I think jaded adults have difficulty taking Oz at its face value because they want to "age it up" and make it more relatable. But Baum never talked down to his audience; he wrote for kids, but it wasn't necessarily kid writing. Modern authors don't need to make it more adult, the content is already there, it's just a question of how much the narrative engages with it. [/QUOTE]
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