the aarne-thompson lexicon is an index mainly of fairy tale archetypes and apparently AT 2015 is “the goat that won’t go home.”...
the aarne-thompson lexicon is an index mainly of fairy tale archetypes and apparently AT 2015 is “the goat that won’t go home.” like, literally. there are enough fairy tales from different cultures out there about goats that just won’t fucking go home to warrant its own listing. that’s incredible.
A perfect hook to point everybody to my favorite categorization system, the FTEGOMCS, for the efficient classification of the plot of any television episode.