“Maternity ward”
Why sly eyes? Curious or innocent would’ve been more… apt.
Why y’all hating? This person is right! It’s more Apt for Pinocchio to be curious, maybe “wide eyes”? I think it adds to the horror for Pinocchio to not know that it is evil to eat children
I do not know where you’re coming from here. Pinnochio wants to be a real boy. He’ll be what he eats, so he’s going to eat a real boy so he becomes one himself. Nothing about that matches curiosity or innocence. Pinnochio has a dasterdly, horrific plan, which he aims to enact. Sly is more apt, if not alittle understated.
curious or innocent eyes? That would not imply that he was going to eat children.
On the contrary. Knowing it’s a two-sentence horror fanfic provides the unsaid context.
If you have to tell me your two sentence horror story is a horror story, it’s not a horror story.
Kinda like you can’t tell people a joke is funny when they don’t laugh.
sure, but if you use sly you can get the joke without the unnecessary context.
The actual reason is probably the word’s association with foxes. “sly fox sneaking into henhouse” is I believe the visual metaphor they were going for.
Then I guess it’s not an improvement, but a different way of presenting it.
Using sly suggests furtive intent. My alternative was intended as a matter-of-fact approach. The former looks to sneak as if to not get caught, the latter pursues openly as if only a natural course.
Put the pipe down bud
