A World With Unicorns Is A World With Hope And Hope is Embarrassing
by hollyblack on Jan.07, 2011, under Holly Black and Scott Westerfeld
You have to be a pretty secure person to love a unicorn.
I mean, loving zombies is hipster cool. They’re monsters. They’re ugly and bad-ass. They eat brains and you can shoot them without feeling even a little bit bad about it. Loving zombies means you’re a bad-ass too. You’re betting that you’d be fine in a zombie apocalypse. Or you don’t even care, which is pretty bad-ass too.
Unicorns are majestic, beautiful, even delicate. They’re half animal, half ghost and half god all at once. A world with unicorns in it is bigger and stranger and better than a world without them. To want a world like that is to hope for magic, maybe even to long for it.
It takes balls of steel to admit you like the unicorn in all its pageantry, all its magnificence.
With zombies, you get to go to the mall when no one else is there and play a really gross game of paintball that involves real bullets. With unicorns, you get the promise of mysteries and wonder. And, of course, a very, very pretty pony.
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January 7th, 2011 on 2:34 pm
Exactly! True! Perfectly said!
January 7th, 2011 on 3:05 pm
What if a world with no magic and wonder (aka no Unicorns) is the cause of the zombie apocalypse?
January 9th, 2011 on 10:40 pm
I was blown away when I read this, lol: “…To want a world like that is to hope for magic, maybe even to long for it.”
That’s so beautiful! I should’ve known it was Holly Black who wrote it.
“It takes balls of steel to admit you like the unicorn in all its pageantry, all its magnificence.”
Indeed.
I never thought the reasons for why I am Team Unicorn could be put into words, but lo and behold.