#acthelight

that is so incredibly cute omg

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A place I remember from my childhood. Two places come to mind when I think of the Where that was involved in my childhood: the room I grew up in and Amandonia.

The room I grew up in can only be defined with the color scheme of blue and white. White walls, but blue closet doors, blue shelves, blue rug. White ceiling, white and blue bed sheets, and white curtains of lace. It was crowded with toys, a desk, a hamper, and a bureau, as well as bins of my Beanie Babies. It had a niche in the wall that was the perfect fit for my bed. Usually it had curtains around it so it felt more private. Once I had a beaded curtain separating my bed from the rest of the room. Because of this, I called it my lion cave, or wolf den. When it was clean, the large floor was the perfect spot to play with my American Girl dolls.

Amandonia is the second place that comes to mind. Yes, I did create my own country when I was 11. Yes, I did it simply because I was bored. Yes, I named it after myself. I was inspired to make it after reading The Egypt Game (which I now know is an example of ignorant cultural appropriation and its sequel is even worse). I came up with its own history and culture and system of taxes (one rock or two sticks every month) and hieroglyphic writing. It was located at the apartment that I lived in after the house with the aforementioned room. During this time, I lived with my pepere, who was emotionally and verbally abusive. To get out of the house and to not deal with him, I would go in the backyard, where just beyond the driveway lay a large rock I would often climb. That large rock was Amandonia. It was the perfect place to bring my plastic figurines and play as their Empress. Amandonia was a thriving land that won wars, declared peacetime, grew a Blue Ajuga garden, and attempted to grow caterpillars in a jar (which inevitably died), all under my rule. It was the one place where I had power, control, and escape, and I did so that was fair to my loyal, albeit invisible, subjects. (I actually kept a notebook document on my old Windows98 computer detailing Amandonia’s complete history, but it has since been lost, which now officially makes Amandonia a lost civilization.)

I was thinking 6:30/7ish CST? (7:30/8 EST) Would that work for people?