R.L. Stine is editing his Goosebumps books for "sensitivity" and the usual crowd are losing their mind at this example of NEOPURITANISM RUN AMUCK!!! even though it's. The author himself making the changes
But like. Look at the changes.
Changing a description from "like a rapper on MTV" to actually describing them is good actually. The new description is evocative of who they are. The old one depends on readers not just being familiar with MTV, but familiar with what a rapper in a MTV video in 1996 looked and acted like (and what rapper? It's not like they were all alike), which is perhaps a tall ask for a book written for seven year olds. I can't imagine going to town for the right to prevent an author from removing dated references that are meaningless to his target audience from his own books, but I guess some people are into that particular crusade
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my brains been infiltrated by the siblings from different medias but they wanted brothers like each other dynamic and now i am feeling VERY EMOTIONAL.
I gotta draw Comic Slappy and Book Wally interacting so much more.
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Babygirl is back with her friends the hand mushrooms. Hope she will not be contaminated by their spores and irrevocably transform into something else ahah.
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Yo, does anyone else remember that one Goosebumps book where a girl gets a new neighbor and she thinks he's a ghost but it turns out SHE was the ghost the whole time and she and her whole family died in a fire years ago and then the guy she thought was a ghost gets caught in a fire and the girl uses her ghost powers to save him and then she crosses over and her final thoughts in this world are hoping the guy is okay and then you just sit there staring at the book because you thought you were getting some harmless spooks and instead got a story that made you question your mortality and the transient nature of life when you were twelve?
Cause that shit got me fucked up.
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