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Gold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉

Under the soft light of the doorway, a mother finds moments to rest while never straying far from the two tiny lives she has brought into the world. Sometimes she watches from above, listening and keeping guard, and other times she curls around them, holding them close against her warmth. In these early days they sleep, stretch, and search for comfort, knowing only the safety of their mother and the small home that shelters them. It is a simple scene, but one filled with devotion, instinct, and the quiet beginning of two new little lives growing under her care.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

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the cabin in the woods

labrynth (1986)

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She complimented me on my jewelry and said it looked very spidery, and I thanked her and said it is, which is fitting since my name is Anonsee.

She asks what language it is and if it means spider, and I tell her it’s mainly Akan tribe but also heavily through Black diaspora, and that a lot of other Black folks tend to know the name because they grew up with Anansi Tales as kids. She says she’s never heard of them and doesn’t think she read them as a kid.

At this point her mom walks up, and she turns to her mom and asks “Hey mom, are you familiar with the name Anansi?” and the mom goes “Of course! I read those stories to you as a kid!” and the daughter hits her with the “Really? I don’t remember that at all!!”

Cue the mother looking absolutely SCANDALIZED and going “I have a book full of them that I used to read out of to my students! Im reading some to you when we get home later.” and the mom was also absolutely tickled pink to learn my name was Anonsee, she lit up so happily it was so sweet 😭

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