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förlorar man en strid i tomheten, mister man sin fantasi, och kan aldrig mer återvända till barda
bad swedish kids tv is occasionally hardcore
i can't stop thinking about this. they needed something that sounded terrifying but which wasn't as kid-unsafe as “death”. but to ”mista sin fantasi” (“lose one's imagination”) is like a fate worse than death. it's a genuine existential horror. did they know what they had written
om jag har gått miste om fantasin har jag redan dött
@alice alice i am going to yank you out of that body and into the realm of being
@hikari well go on, i'm waiting
@alice i'm sorry
@hikari this happens a lot. having your soul lost to the shadow realm for all eternity is apparently less horrifying than death
@hikari but maybe these abstract fates actually "scale" _better_ with age? like, pain and death are moderately horrifying to people of all ages; arguably adults even get desensitized. whereas young children won't put much thought into consciousness or free will or whatever, and adults are free to overthink and get terrified if they want