How do you know they don’t?
You know... they have a point
Submitted 22 hours ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The tooth fairy is the sketchiest of the childhood figures. I mean Santa is kind of sketchy with his big brother surveilance of little children.
Jesus is just a magical wizard who becomes a zombie.
The devil never seems to have much of a motivation beyond “do evil shit, and make one sided deals”.
But the tooth fairy??? What the fuck is she doing??? Running around the world paying money for childrens teeth. What the hell is that all about??? Is it a sex thing?? Is this some sort of cult ritual? Are childrens teeth currency in her world???
Thats the problem with these characters. Their motivation is never clearly defined. I remember my mom telling me about santa when I was 5, and I asked why this stranger was ok to come into our home late at night. But I can’t accept 1 piece of candy on the street, even though every halloween we get a full bucket of candy.
Life did not make sense to me as a kid. Doesn’t make sense as an adult. I live in 2025 where government officials are publically doing nazi salutes, and The Onion reports plausible news.
I don’t get life.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
You should read (or watch) the Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. May help explain.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I always thought the teeth were building materials. Don’t know if I made that up or heard it from somewhere though
lath@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Symbolism is weird and only makes sense to those who adopt it.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It’s in the name, fairy aka one of the fair folk. Of course the damned thing functions like a drunk SCP entity. The point of the fair folk isn’t to make sense it’s to induce headaches into men and make the gods question their very nature.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
The dead are fully within the domain of the bone fairies, a more ferocious subspecies of the tooth fairy.
Sparrow_Joint@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
Because the tooth fairy takes the teeth to protect the children from a kind of contagious magic where an evil Magic user curses the teeth, then the child is cursed; but once people are dead, they’re gone and what’s left? It’s just a bag of bones; there’s nothing local on this plane of existence to curse.
Curses do not cross the black sand. That is all.
angrystego@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Because the tooth fairy only comes for kids’ teeth, not interested in the adult stuff. Also, what makes everyone so sure the digging doesn’t happen?
qaatloz@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
So its digging up dead children?🤔
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Pretty clearly what he said
angrystego@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Seems logical, right? Unless it’s only interested in teeth that fell out naturally.
gwheel@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Maybe the tooth fairy is like a vampire needing an invitation: the tooth must be willingly offered.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Wants fresh teeth.
einlander@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
But they want fresh baby teeth. What good are dead peoples teeth?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
“The 8 yr old”?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The one and only.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The chosen 8. Year old.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I just want to state that there’s more S+ tier, top shit comments in this here nifty little discussion than I’ve seen all year so far. Bravo peoples.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Tooth fairies actually run the largest group of crematoriums globally, although it’s impossible to link them legally. Why? Because the teeth don’t actually burn, that’s just a myth they perpetrate. They just sift all the teeth from the ashes and get their tooth fix that way.
Prove me wrong.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
…and to make it less weird
we say they’re stolen by a demon
that your parents knoooooww
WRIGLEYS!
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.
(not technically true but fun anyway)
Draegur@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
those teeth are all where they’re supposed to be. the tooth fairies gather the teeth to bury them.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 15 hours ago
Because tooth fairies only want milk teeth that have fallen out naturally and is given willingly. If it started graverobbing dead people or knocking out adult’s teeth when they are sleeping, they would lose their ability to fly and they would become a dark shadow creature, alone and hiding from the light of day. And tooth fairies love the sun and they love the smile on children’s faces when they lift their pillows in the morning to see what the tooth fairy left them. That is what makes them fly and what makes their stomachs tickle with happiness.
And that is why tooth fairies don’t rob graves.
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
This person parents.