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"Look for the helpers"

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

—G.K. Chesterton paraphrased by Neil Gaiman, “The Red Angel”, Tremendous Trifles (1909)

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- Love this
  
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- This reminds me of my grandpa, who gave me my first pocket knife when I must have been 6 or 7. I was really into making bows and arrows out of twigs and branches I'd found in the yard, and he gave it to me simply as a tool for a hobby I'd formed. Everyone freaked out at first, but he taught me how to use a knife safely and I don't think I ever cut myself (as a child anyways. I'm a reckless adult).
  
  If we stop teaching kids to be afraid of stuff because of what might happen, and instead teach them about how things work and the consequences of misusing them, I think we'd have less people afraid to use the stove in their 20s.
  
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  https://grist.org/cities/this-playground-encourages-kids-to-use-tools-get-dirty-and-let-their-imaginations-run-wild/
  
  Your comment reminded me of this concept: Adventure playgrounds
  
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  Man I learned how to shoot a rifle at 6 or 7, my niblings got matching pink rifles at the same age. I was probably like 4 when I was taught how to sharpen sticks and hit each other with them. Idaho is a wild place only the most feral children make it to adulthood
  
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- where's the American version where instead of a sword it's an AR-15 and instead of father christmas it's the actual father
  
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  Where’s father christmas? All I see is death.
  
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- GNU Terry Pratchett
  
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This post has the best comments, thank you all for sharing!

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Where is this art from? It looks really fucking cool.

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- This particular style has been heavily trained by ai so if it were it 100% not surprise me. Both google and Yandex show no direct results for the work, so I'm leaning that it is prompt gen.
  
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  Looks too cohesive to be AI
  
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  I've come to the same conclusion.
  
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- I didn't pull off the caption -- someone could try that -- but Tineye didn't find anything with the caption on.
  
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How is this wholesome?

Sad - a bit.

Encouraging - probably.

Tragic - definitely.

But wholesome..?

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- I think the sentiment about being brave in the face of danger is a cool message, but
  
  Knight stories are the Medieval Europe equivalent to Copaganda and idolizing political leaders.
  
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AKAB

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