• mindbleach
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    1 year ago

    Generic swept-away-to-a-magical-realm stories are as old as stories. It’s just another form of the Campbellian underworld.

    A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court is blatantly an audience-insert into another known genre so the rando protagonist can be a world-shaping force just by having common knowledge. He even gets there by getting smacked so hard he could die.