Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20160208031138/@comment-27075534-20160208213152

Goosebumps not being scary kind of serves my point - Kids go into it so they can get scared, power though it, and come out the other end thinking: "Eh, it was okay I guess,"

They can take it there, so why do we pretend fairy stories can't command that level of fear?

Spongebob tho. xD That's an interesting example - you mean like the extreme gorey closeups being scary? It's not violent, at least not to the levels and grossness of Ren and Stimpy or Invader Zim, but it's good to remember cartoons can be like that.

Sun and Moon and Talia is a Sleeping Beauty variant isn't it? The sexual abuse in it is actually pretty common in that subgenre. I'm 100% willing to believe Briar Beauty's family down the lines wasn't made up entirely of consenting adults back when it was morally acceptable.

Our understanding of autonomy and morality have changed since then. It's our job as 21st century writers to learn what to keep true to the text - and what to comment upon with disapproval (as opposed to just flat out ignoring it and accepting it).