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Tranny Chaser
As a kid Old Yeller and Dumbo beat me up pretty bad. That scene in Dumbo where his mother is chained up and she'd cradling him as sad music plays, oof. I expect to never watch that film start to finish ever again. I remember renting Old Yeller a few times when I was 6 or 7 and somehow forgetting where the story ends up. I'll not be watching that ever again either.
Sorta related and forgive my TV Tropes link but -
Death by Newbery Medal - TV Tropes
There's just a ton of children's stories that really kick the reader in their fucking teeth and I have no idea why so many of them get pushed in schools on young readers. Right now I'm fucking plowing through The Laundry Files book series. I like them and reading something you like is a breeze. I'm not sure I can think of anything I was assigned to read K-12 that wasn't a downer. Sure, the stuff I picked myself for book reports was fine but if it was English class and we were going to be reading something as a class it was going to be depressing. Bridge to Terabithia and The Secret Garden did nothing but stunt my intellectual curiosity.
Sorta related and forgive my TV Tropes link but -
Death by Newbery Medal - TV Tropes
There's just a ton of children's stories that really kick the reader in their fucking teeth and I have no idea why so many of them get pushed in schools on young readers. Right now I'm fucking plowing through The Laundry Files book series. I like them and reading something you like is a breeze. I'm not sure I can think of anything I was assigned to read K-12 that wasn't a downer. Sure, the stuff I picked myself for book reports was fine but if it was English class and we were going to be reading something as a class it was going to be depressing. Bridge to Terabithia and The Secret Garden did nothing but stunt my intellectual curiosity.
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