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dragonmedley wrote:emerald212 wrote:pegasi1978 wrote:purpledragonclaw wrote:
Evil and satanic? I haven’t heard that kind of language about dragons and such in some time.
I actually had my mother ask me recently ask me when I was going to grow up and let the fantasy critters go. 🙄 I’m nearly 30 (birthday’s in June), a wife and mother, and she asks me when I’m going to grow up.
I hate that people think that fantasy and even science fiction is just for kids. I’ve read plenty of fantasy books that are decidedly NOT for kids. People should find out about something before they make a judgement like that. Grr! 👿
I agree. Another thing that’s “for kids” are… comic books! Yeah, I’ll give the Sandman or Preacher to read to my daughter… As if!
Very much so. How about the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series. No way would I give those to a child to read.
Or how about Anime? So many series have adult themes but since it’s animated people treat it like it’s a cartoon. Um no. There are a lot of anime out there that are not appropriate for children. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard a series called “La Blue Girl” is basically anime porn.
Wow, I never thought what I wrote would get such a response! I used to work with someone whose mother would not let him watch the “Smurfs” because it had a wizard in it. 😛 I am sitting on ALL of my Transformer (I even have some Voltron comics, too!) comic books because I have SEEN how comics can appreciate over the years. These so-called “kid’s stories” from the sixties and fifties about Green Lantern and Green Arrow can sell for about $10,000 now!! And anime…don’t get me started. Most of it is adult-oriented. The series we have gotten, like Naruto, and even Sailor Moon, are so violent, bloody, and even pornographic by our standards, so we toned them down for America. Why? Because these cartoons were originally aimed at TEENAGERS in Japan, not elementary school kids!!!! I swear, America’s need to sanitize everything! And Japanese anime porn…that’s another story. That will NEVER be put on television.
I think the definition of “adult” needs to be redefined.
purpledragonclaw wrote:I think the definition of “adult” needs to be redefined.
Problem is it does get so every time someone wants to use it to their advantage they do.
“Fairy Tales” were never meant to be kid stuff, especially Grimm’s, a lot of what we have now has been bastardized heavily from it’s “Original” written form which was written down during the court of one of the Louis(XVI if I remember correctly think)as warnings for the young ladies and courtesans to teach them the ways of the world, umm and disguise the fact they were passing down sex secrets from the men. But then a few men managed to ingratiate them selves into the circles and started to “sneak” the stories out. the Grimm’s got them a few decades later, for the most part toned them down,and/or added a good dollop of Christianity, but still they were very explicit.
I find massive amounts of humour in the fact some people let their kids watch Shrek(and rather happily at that) and then turn around and say that the Looney Tunes & Smurfs are too violent and “our” children should not be exposed to that kind of “Adult” situations!!
pegasi1978 wrote:dragonmedley wrote:emerald212 wrote:pegasi1978 wrote:purpledragonclaw wrote:Evil and satanic? I haven’t heard that kind of language about dragons and such in some time.
I actually had my mother ask me recently ask me when I was going to grow up and let the fantasy critters go. 🙄 I’m nearly 30 (birthday’s in June), a wife and mother, and she asks me when I’m going to grow up.
I hate that people think that fantasy and even science fiction is just for kids. I’ve read plenty of fantasy books that are decidedly NOT for kids. People should find out about something before they make a judgement like that. Grr! 👿
I agree. Another thing that’s “for kids” are… comic books! Yeah, I’ll give the Sandman or Preacher to read to my daughter… As if!
Very much so. How about the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series. No way would I give those to a child to read.
Or how about Anime? So many series have adult themes but since it’s animated people treat it like it’s a cartoon. Um no. There are a lot of anime out there that are not appropriate for children. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard a series called “La Blue Girl” is basically anime porn.
La Blue Girl isn’t just ‘basically’ anime porn. It IS porn. o_O; There’s a whole genre of anime called ‘hentai’. That’s porn. >_>; Just…animated. Some of it’s pretty twisted. And disturbing.
I’ve always thought it’s funny (and yet, annoying) how a lot of Americans still don’t see animation as a medium, but as a genre…and lump Disney, things like South Park or Squidbillies, and anime (any of its genres, and there are many) all together. In a category called ‘cartoons’. XD
dragonmedley wrote:I agree. Another thing that’s “for kids” are… comic books! Yeah, I’ll give the Sandman or Preacher to read to my daughter… As if!
Did you read “Preacher”? I haven’t been really enthused about comics since that series ended (Maybe if Frank Cho would actually finish another issue of Libery Meadows *grumble* *grumble* ).
purpledragonclaw wrote:Wow, I never thought what I wrote would get such a response!
That’s what we folks at the forum are for: Empathy 😀 Try being 20, or even 18 and collecting My Little Ponies. It never ended.Lokie wrote:dragonmedley wrote:I agree. Another thing that’s “for kids” are… comic books! Yeah, I’ll give the Sandman or Preacher to read to my daughter… As if!
Did you read “Preacher”? I haven’t been really enthused about comics since that series ended (Maybe if Frank Cho would actually finish another issue of Libery Meadows *grumble* *grumble* ).
I have all the Preachers, and have read them a few times. I don’t have a lot of English comics; I’m not really into the superhero stuff. In general, I go for Alan Moore stuff, and Neil Gaiman. Watchmen is what started it for me. I also have Planetary, the League of Extraodinary Gentlemen… I’m slowly initiating myself and finding English/US comics I like.
It took me so long because I’m used the French comics, which are totally different. Fantasy and sci-fi doesn’t sell that much in novel form in France/Belgium: it’s all in comic books.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmWolfenMachine wrote:purpledragonclaw wrote:Wow, I never thought what I wrote would get such a response!
That’s what we folks at the forum are for: Empathy 😀 Try being 20, or even 18 and collecting My Little Ponies. It never ended.I have over 100 ponies! Fortunately, my parents don’t ask me “When are you going to get rid of those and take on some adult interests?” 😀
purpledragonclaw wrote:WolfenMachine wrote:purpledragonclaw wrote:Wow, I never thought what I wrote would get such a response!
That’s what we folks at the forum are for: Empathy 😀 Try being 20, or even 18 and collecting My Little Ponies. It never ended.I have over 100 ponies! Fortunately, my parents don’t ask me “When are you going to get rid of those and take on some adult interests?” 😀
I have well over 500, we lost count somewhere around there. none of these ugly giraffe looking ones since they’ve started making them again. And my mom is babying them for me. trying to keep them in as close to perfect condition as possible. Same with my Barbie’s(I asked for the Barbie animal’s and I’d get the dolls!! 😯 ) I have no remodels, at least not yet 😈
Take good care of those ponies, Lupin; some on e-bay net over $100!! If you think the new ones look like giraffes, what did you think of the G2’s? My friend thought they were anorexic! 😛
I know PDC, some of them go for even more in the right places. And I have the complete Birthday flower set. And by G@ do you mean the “revamped” odd looking ones that came out after the “Teen Queen” series’s? ’cause those were the ones that made me quit collecting. And the Giraffe’s meant I never started back up. Even though the “Teen’s” were rather leggy & Necky and almost Gangly, they still looked like ponies and not giraffes.
Generation 1 (G1) Ponies were manufactured from 1982-1991. Generation 2 (G2) Ponies were manufactures from 1997-2003. Generation 3 (G3) Ponies were manufactured from 2003-Current.
The kirin is looking to fit his name, Romeo. 😆 I agree about adding some shading to the head. I also suggest lightening up the hooves.
pegasi1978 wrote:Generation 1 (G1) Ponies were manufactured from 1982-1991. Generation 2 (G2) Ponies were manufactures from 1997-2003. Generation 3 (G3) Ponies were manufactured from 2003-Current.
Yup I stopped with the 1991 ones. In 1997 I was 17 and they were FUGLY, so I didn’t even tell anyone that they existed, so no one gave me any. and besides most of my family thought I was “Too Old” to get “Toys”, keep the ones I had, fine no problem, but get new ones? now that’s an entirely different story!!
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