At any rate: Sburb fanventures. You've probably read a handful, and if you're a dedicated fan like me, you probably also tried writing one. And if you're a super-attentive theorist-grade fan, you probably picked up on one common detail that they have: (other than being based on Homestuck/the concept of Sburb, obviously) None of them has been completed, ever.

'Lovey, Lovey, Queeby wanter come ter yer. Me wanter come ter yer,' waggling her black fingers directingly through the cracks.

Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude a fairy-tale from his curriculum.

It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron.