The fic often takes ‘joke’ aspects of magic and explores their less harmless uses. It leads the reader to be unwilling to take any reference as simply a joke—this as opposed to the original text, where the fact that it was meant to be a children’s book led to a lot of bite-sized humorous references with enormous, unexplored potential.
The fic often takes ‘joke’ aspects of magic and explores their less harmless uses. It leads the reader to be unwilling to take any reference as simply a joke—this as opposed to the original text, where the fact that it was meant to be a children’s book led to a lot of bite-sized humorous references with enormous, unexplored potential.
Yes, but that’s jokes by the narrator (or by the world), not jokes by the characters.