Oh, what a wonderful mess.

Browsing along the Internet, the discord servers, wherever your path should take you, you have stumbled upon this discord invite. “Join now,” the invite advertises. “Make new fr iends!” Sure, you think, amused a little, figuring the server just another hangout run by pre-teens. Maybe you might get some enjoyable time from it. The oddly placed space slips your mind altogether.

Like the landscape was all barren not because of a curse but because there’d been a nuclear apocalypse and subsequent plague, and Stanley went to prison camp not because he stole a pair of shoes but because he mercy-killed his own plague-riddled sister. And Pendanski sneaks the boys out to take them to a truckstop bar and buys them prostitutes. And it’s revealed at the end that the conspiracy of the camp is that they’re digging for, not buried treasure, but old nuclear warheads. And there’s a running theme about how “you can’t bury the past.”

I mean the scope and intensity of the changes made to make it more “adult” were pretty clever, but so unnecessary. The fairy tale-esque whimsy was so integral to the story and such a part of its charm that making it darker kind of defeated the entire purpose

So I was looking at a few of these old posts and started to wonder if anyone has done this but with Gen Z

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—- (Gen) Z:I want to die.

Alien:NO! Are you okay? Are you hurt? Do you need help?

Z:mental help? Yes.

Alien:where do we recieve this? What is it?

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—- Z:*watches a ship explode* Same

Alien:What? I don’t understand.

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—- Z:*looks into space* Wow… that’s as black and dull as my soul right now.

Alien:The soles of your shoes are white???

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——Z:*sees alien* DON’T LAY YOUR EGGS IN ME?

alien:Why would—???

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—-Z:Wow. This looks like that one planet from Star Wars.

Alien:You guys had a space war? When?

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——Z:*sees a dead body* me on the inside

Alien:Yes, you do have a skeleton. Why are you pointing that out?

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——Alien:The vault is empty!

Z:YEET! *throws a wrench*

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—-Human:*having a mental breakdown*

Alien:What… What is this? I thought humans could function on a daily basis.

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EXODIA

Link: *gets transformed into a wolf by traveling between different dimensions due to shadow magic*

Kirby: *has a rogues gallery consisting of everything from a magician cartoon mouse to reality-warping god machines that live in space*

and like telling 15 year olds to accept and embrace that theyre ugly instead of educating them that the reason they think that is not because they are, But because of the artificial standards created subliminally and explicitly by movies, makeup companies, and magazines

and especially for young woc, like so many young girls think they’re ugly because they don’t have pale skin, they’re not skinny, they have big brows, big noses, strong features, etc