• Libb@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    No need for mushrooms, one can easily (and legally, at least for the time being) open a book ;)

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      19 hours ago

      you’ve never done shrooms to make the comparison and have an educated opinion on the matter. I’ve done both, and can perfectly see valid reason for either without moral grandstanding that one is a better alternative to the other.

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        18 hours ago

        Dude, that was merely a pun (sorry, not sure about the english word here: a wink at the printed version of those ‘fairy tales’ that have been legally shared through books for centuries). But whatever you say, have fun with your ‘shrooms’.

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        20 hours ago

        There is quite a lot of choice & variety.

        To only mention a handful of public domain classics: Grimm’s Fairy Tales are an obvious choice (think Sbnow White, Cincerella, Hansel & Gretel and so, so many more (quite hardcore to be honest), Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Barry’s Peter Pan or even things like Ovid’s Metamorphosis (hard to beat, imho, even if many won’t like it being categorized as a fairy tale and would prefer ‘mythology’). Talking mythology, one coudl also consider reading some Norse mythology (the ‘Edda’, and sagas), and so on.

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          15 hours ago

          In the USA at least, the term “fairy” has long been used by some as derogatory slang for highly feminine-acting homosexual males (although I’ve seen the occasional use by such people themselves, which I assume is a bit like black people calling each other the “N-word” - I support both groups, but am a part of neither so I could be wrong in my interpretation on that aspect).

          Considering virtually every group that aren’t proud white “Christians” (a misnomer if ever there was one) are under extreme attack by the current US administration, I was implying a book about “fairies” might conceivably be about gay people and therefore “illegal” with all the book banning that has unfortunately been going on here.