My friends daughter heard about the tooth fairy and said "I don't think we should give her more teeth until we have figured out why she wants them, what is her plan?"
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Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS
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Children instictively know that Fae are not to be trusted.
Then there's kids like me, who would daydream about actually being a fae changeling.
It's not even as if my parents didn't love me, I was just a weird kid who was more comfortable being weird than fitting in.
The fey only bargain, they do not take. Not even from the dead.
The Tooth Fairy wants fresh teeth.
I like Pratchett’s take. The Tooth Fairy of the Discworld takes the baby teeth and hides them in his domain because pieces of a person can be used for sympathetic magic, like cursing someone, and he wants to protect the kids from that.
Contractual obligation, teeth must be given with the owner's consent.
Like vampires but for teeth.
Just say they're banned from graveyards, because they pulled that shit all the time without burying them again. You need to stay consistent and plausible with those lies. 😉
I like this response, but now I'm wondering what the beaver question was...
What's to say that they don't? And they're just greedy for teeth.
They want baby teeth.
people don't just die of old age
And do buried children still have their teeth?
Do you want to go check?
they have double, child teeth and adult teeth, waiting to burst out
First they need to burst out of the grave. The zombie babies. Why don’t we see zombie babies in the zombie movies anyway? Also can zombies fuck and reproduce? I’ve never seen a pregnant zombie. I have many questions.
According to 28 Years Later, yes.
That scene was so fucking disturbing.
Also can zombies fuck and reproduce? I’ve never seen a pregnant zombie. I have many questions.
they reproduce as parasites by infecting their "virus/germ" into living humans.
Because they don’t have shovels obviously.
Just pliers.
Then I will leave a shovel under my pillow.
Honestly, this is a golden teachable moment in critical thinking. Jr here is starting to ponder the implausibility of a myth. Encourage more thought, guide away from magical thinking, answer their questions honestly, and reward them for arriving at better answers. Then follow up with a big reward as they'll probably feel a tad disillusioned when it's all over.
People don't get it. The Tooth Fairy isn't collecting teeth, she doesn't really even want them. She just has the ancient job of giving kids the traditional bounty for teeth. She just tosses out the teeth when she gets home. She's ain't going to the trouble of digging up people for their teeth. She's got more than enough to handle already.
...question about beavers?
Edit: just scrolled and seen your other post lol
Something, something, fresh teeth.
Fully unironically. "Brush your teeth or the Fairy won't pay top dollar for them"
War criminal tooth fairies did that, in the second world war, for gold teeth.
How do people think tooth fairy makes money?
By collecting gold tooths of the dead of course.
The people are only dead because they refused to keep giving the Tooth Fairy their teeth, so (s)he killed them but will honor their wish in death.
It's illegal and they don't want to deal with Anubis.
Why do you think there's dirt on your window sill after the tooth fairy visits?
My kid and I had a conversation about this. I said it was weird a little fairy was flying around with a huge sack of kids teeth, like wtf was she doing with them? Pretty disgusting. We don't trust the tooth fairy.
This is why we put bodies in boxes!
They do unless there is a bone fairy around.
The tooth fairy can go where it wants, and can see in the dark. Why would it need to dig them up?
They probably have to be reasonably fresh