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You've raised some excellent points in your statement, Nic!

I gotta say, in terms of Goosebumps, I never really found it to be scary to begin with. I started reading them, expecting to be scared, and never really got that thrill.

On the contrary, I read the 'gruesome' side of fairy tales regularly, with some Disney movies mixed in, so I never really found most fairy tales as eerie until I actually started digging into the more obscure ones *shudder*

On the subject of Spongebob, that show was honestly very traumatizing for me as a kid personally, mostly because of select episodes. The butterfly one scared me to tears and made me wary of butterflies and moths. The burger one (where Spongebob gets eaten by burgers in a dream) kept me from eating burgers since forever and I know one episode where one of the character's eyes pops out scared my mother to death. It made her traumatized as well. It's all relative, though. Other families don't have these issues with said episodes, I bet.

Sun, Moon and Talia's the original Sleeping Beauty, which has been altered over the years. With rape and such, I could never countenance it, though I acknowledge it as a fairy tale in its own right.