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A while back, some people were getting bent out of shape because Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials had sex in a children’s book.
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Lyra’s Snacks
In case you haven’t read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, or seen the movie The Golden Compass, or even seen the trailer, a quick recap:
In the world where Lyra, the protagonist, lives, everyone has a dæmon, a sort of external soul, which takes the form of an animal. Children’s dæmons can change shape at will (they take a permanent form at puberty). Dæmons are also intelligent (since they’re really a part of the human they’re attached to).
So as I’m rereading His Dark Materials, a question started nagging at me: what would vending machines in Lyra’s world look like?