Internet Narnia - by connie 💝 - Letters of Bewilderment

Notes on growing up on the Great Online of the 2010s... where are up-and-coming generations of younger and younger internet explorers venturing next?

People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. - C.S. Lewis Lucy, the youngest of the four Pevensie siblings, was the first to stumble upon the magical land of Narnia within the titular wardrobe of the Professor’s house. When Lucy returned from her otherworldly adventures and told her brothers and sisters about the fantastical world of Narnia, they refused to believe her—the notion of an alternative world with mythical beasts and high stakes political conspiracy was (unsurprisingly) utterly unfathomable to those who have never…

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