Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Wideo Wednesday: Fantasy is Fun


 

Substitutionary Locomotion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSRWwdFHEU

With a Flair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5OrGOeTRw

Higitus Figitus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uimyetd3PNo

Zap the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJskztzetY

Stonehenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4NTXWz4cMw

The Best Song in the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy5S8s6rTH0

Diggy Diggy Hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0

The Age of Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOeHuevNMk&list=PLrfu1mNqTP1al7W7m7jDTQnDFd_DK_Y5x&index=40

Fantasy is fun and funny, both funny ‘ha-ha’ and funny ‘peculiar’; this is often what first draws people, when children, to the genre. One cannot deny the humor of, say, The Hobbit. It is carried over into the much more serious The Lord of the Rings, especially around the hobbits, who can be seen as a link between more modern attitudes and the legendary world in which they move; the dissonance of which provides a more subtle humor, as well as a bridge between outlooks.  

Especially when one is a child, the idea of magic, where wishing meets reality and wishing wins for once, is quite appealing, an idea that makes the heart light. People who mistake Fantasy for so-called real life ‘Magik’ find that their search ends in blasphemy, loveless eroticism, animal sacrifice, hardness of heart, and futility. They have not comprehended where the true power of Fantasy lies and are trying to use it to scrub their portholes. The use of Fantasy is to ease our burdens inside and help us to bear them with hope.

But young kids (and kids at heart) know how to use Fantasy instinctively, even satirically, deprecatingly, to help take off the curse of the label of ‘Escapism’ while still tapping somehow into the heart of the thing. I find ‘fantasists’ like George R. R. Martin are not writing real Fantasy, just books with dragons, magic, and knights. There is an essential spirit lacking. Perhaps it is fun.


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