not sure where to ask this, and cuckchan's /x/ has gotten more cancerous, so I guess this is as good a place as any.
I've always been a fan of the original Neverending Story movie, really soulful stuff (the sequels are garbage). Recently I read the Manheim translation, and of course the book is even better, even in translation it's kino, and there's a whole second half that picks up after the movie left off. There were interesting differences too, but most of those made sense, given the needs of adaptation to film.
Anyway, I keep thinking about the Childlike Empress, fantasizing about her, particularly her description/characterization in the book. It seems ridiculous, she's a character in a story, but Neverending Story is as meta as it gets, and a major theme is that fictional characters may be real on some other plane. Anyway, she sticks to my mind like no one else. The fact that she's a powerful amoral entity makes me even more smitten tbh.
So my question is, is there something to this, or am I just being a nerd? And is this a safe path to be on?