Suggestion: If you want to write philosophical fiction and have meaningful discussion about it it might benefit to use a setting targeted an audience, you know..., older than eight.
Actually, the nice thing about fairy tales is that they work both ways: some say they were intended solely for adults, and some say they were intended solely for kids, but now both enjoy them. So at least one group is wrong.
I think this thread is pretty compelling evidence that MLP fanfiction has a substantial audience old enough to appreciate this sort of thing. If you want more evidence, five minutes on Google should suffice.
Edit: I should not have posted this. I regret my troll-feeding ways.
Over this past weekend, over 7,000 people read this story. You must know this already, since I assume you read the post before criticizing it. So how would you reach a larger audience? Perhaps you are simply unaware that approximately zero of the readers on fimfiction are little girls.
Although now that I think about that, I wonder why that is?
I know that people who read that sort of things are chronologically older than eight.
My point is that discussing an emotionally charged topic such as mortality requires emotional maturity. Please take no offense at this, but I think it’s a reasonable assumption that most people who enjoy a fictional setting targeted to eight year old girls probably have the emotional maturity of, well, eight year old girls.
This thread is not evidence to the contrary, IMHO. Most comments don’t rise above the “death is bad, M’kay?” level of argumentation.
I don’t think you understand the post if you think that we’re arguing over whether death is bad, and although you are perhaps trying to help, you should clarify that you don’t know what you’re talking about when you make assumptions about something you have no familiarity with, and not expect your opinion to be taken seriously by those who are familiar with the subject at hand.
Suggestion: If you want to write philosophical fiction and have meaningful discussion about it it might benefit to use a setting targeted an audience, you know..., older than eight.
Where a setting is targeted is not necessarily where it works best. Consider fairy tales, or for nonfictional example, http://lesswrong.com/lw/kh/explainers_shoot_high_aim_low/ is good.
For instance?
Actually, the nice thing about fairy tales is that they work both ways: some say they were intended solely for adults, and some say they were intended solely for kids, but now both enjoy them. So at least one group is wrong.
It seems that many folk fairy tales were originally intended for adults and later they were bowdlerized for a younger audience.
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I think this thread is pretty compelling evidence that MLP fanfiction has a substantial audience old enough to appreciate this sort of thing. If you want more evidence, five minutes on Google should suffice.
Edit: I should not have posted this. I regret my troll-feeding ways.
Sure, now google “adult pacifier” and see what shows up. It doesn’t change the fact that pacifiers are primarily targeted at babies.
Over this past weekend, over 7,000 people read this story. You must know this already, since I assume you read the post before criticizing it. So how would you reach a larger audience? Perhaps you are simply unaware that approximately zero of the readers on fimfiction are little girls.
Although now that I think about that, I wonder why that is?
I know that people who read that sort of things are chronologically older than eight.
My point is that discussing an emotionally charged topic such as mortality requires emotional maturity. Please take no offense at this, but I think it’s a reasonable assumption that most people who enjoy a fictional setting targeted to eight year old girls probably have the emotional maturity of, well, eight year old girls.
This thread is not evidence to the contrary, IMHO. Most comments don’t rise above the “death is bad, M’kay?” level of argumentation.
I don’t think you understand the post if you think that we’re arguing over whether death is bad, and although you are perhaps trying to help, you should clarify that you don’t know what you’re talking about when you make assumptions about something you have no familiarity with, and not expect your opinion to be taken seriously by those who are familiar with the subject at hand.