{"id":23288,"date":"2026-04-24T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=23288"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:05:19","slug":"sore-thumb-in-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/04\/24\/sore-thumb-in-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sore Thumb In My Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been randomly remembering a lot of stuff lately. I think I&#8217;m finally at a point where my brain can process things because we&#8217;re about to be out of school. Whatever it is, things from my childhood are sticking out like a sore thumb to me. I&#8217;m not going to go into my past traumas or anything for this post, but I am going to talk about the things that are more fun!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To start this off, I randomly remembered a game from when I was little. Now, I&#8217;m not sure why I remembered this or what version it was, but there are these two games on the app store called &#8220;Bread Kittens&#8221; and &#8220;Bread Puppies.&#8221; I think I played the cat version when I was little. Earlier this week I re-downloaded it and YEESH. It hasn&#8217;t had an update in six years, and the entire layout is glitched to high heavens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-1024x473.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-1024x473.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-1536x710.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-2048x946.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-Glitched-1200x555.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is NOT supposed to look like that. This is a screenshot from my phone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-NOT-glitched.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-NOT-glitched.webp 960w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-NOT-glitched-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bread-Kittens-NOT-glitched-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what the game is supposed to look like, picture from the Bread Kittens fandom wiki. I honestly have no clue how in the world it got that messed up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember much about the game or how little me came across it, but I vividly remember the art style of the cats and the types of bread. I think the game came out in like 2014 or 2015? Whenever it was, it was over a decade a go. I miss that era&#8230; maybe because I was like six. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing I&#8217;ve remembered recently was this story me and an exfriend started writing. It was BUNS I tells ya. I mean, we started writing it during quarantine and it was all we talked about in sixth grade. The characters were generic, the romances were weird and abrupt, and it was sooo edgy. I need to go back and remake the characters that I had made because they&#8217;d be good background characters, especially the twins who were I think the main characters?? I think the girl in the pair of twins was the main character. That and her girlfriend&#8230; who was an absolute Mary Sue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what a Mary Sue is, it&#8217;s basically an overpowered character who is loved by everyone and can do nothing wrong. They still pop up today, but they were especially common in like the 2000s-2010s in the scene of making fan characters for media. Sometimes they were original characters for their own stories, but even in their origin they were fan characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their origin comes from Star Trek of all things. Honestly, if you look back far enough into something fandom related, it&#8217;ll always link back to Star Trek. Anyway, Mary Sue was a character made by one of the writers of Star Trek to mock the fans! There was a fanzine that let fans send in their own fanfiction to be published. Sometimes these fans would submit a story including an original character that was loved by everyone on the ship loved and that saved the day every time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the short story that was created to mock these &#8220;Mary Sues,&#8221; they kill her in the end. I think she also wins a Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry for that little Mary Sue rant, but I&#8217;ve got one more thing that I&#8217;ve remembered. My obsession with zombies! My family has always been a big fan of The Walking Dead. Actually, my mom&#8217;s roommate in college was in the first season!! When I was little, I used to sneak into my parents&#8217; room to watch with them. In my brain I mixed a few things up. I very vaguely remembered a character dying only because I remembered her shirt being on a zombie. The scene I remember from when I was little was completely different from the actual scene. Also, little me was BLASTING &#8220;The Zombie Song&#8221; by Stephanie Mabey. I miss this era &lt;\/3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, shut up Nick. That is ENOUGH. Yappatron is being turned off. This week&#8217;s short story is gonna be zombie related by the way. Haha get spoiled NERDS. Jk ily guys. Okay I&#8217;m done now. ByeBye!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been randomly remembering a lot of stuff lately. I think I&#8217;m finally at a point where my brain can process things because we&#8217;re about to be out of school. Whatever it is, things from my childhood are sticking out like a sore thumb to me. I&#8217;m not going to go into my past traumas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/04\/24\/sore-thumb-in-my-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sore Thumb In My Brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23294,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288\/revisions\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}