60secondfairytales

Author's note: This story was written for my mom as a gift for Christmas 2024. Merry Christmas mom!!! :) 1 Feeling Strange on the Range Lilith was sitting in her living room. The fire flickered cheerfully in the fireplace, and her little orange Tabby cat, Bobalina, was purring on a chair next to the table. It was the day before Christmas, 2047. The Christmas lights were blinking on and off just outside the window. Although everything seemed quite calm inside her house, Lilith felt a sense of unease and disquiet which made her feel uncomfortable despite all the tidings of Christmas cheer which filled her house–fake snow upon the bookshelves, tinsel on the Christmas tree which was in front of the mantelpiece, the cup of hot cocoa around which her hands were clasped, her cat dressed in a Mrs. Claus outfit. Maybe it was because she was the only one there, that she felt a sense of unease… Why was Lilith all alone, on Christmas eve? Was it because she had no friends, or no family? Wel...

 1 I Rewatched Anora I rewatched Anora because someone posted a link on x (hopefully this  link  still works when I post this), and I wanted to rewatch it because I fell asleep halfway through the movie the first time I watched it, as I detailed  here . Damn, I watched it more than a month ago. Time goes by fast.  Anyways, I rewatched it because I saw the link and I feel like my first review wasn't fair. I've been seeing some more discourse on x as well (I kind of binge x everyday, but that's another story...) about how people think Anora doesn't present Ani with "interiority" and it's like people expect her to stop in the middle of the movie and start explaining about her life, as if she needed to explain.  Aside from the memes of Anora walking to Ivan's house in the blue dress, and her dancing in Ivan's mansion in the goth-girl outfit, I was also seeing some more controversy around the movie lately because apparently she didn't choose to have...

1.  The little boy was given a computer for his 6th Christmas as a little boy.  "Here is a MacBook," said his dad. "It has AI, that is, Artificial Intelligence, installed in it."  His dad talked to his child like that because he was a professor at the local university, and not just any professor, but a computer science professor. The details of his appearance aren't important, but just for sake of fashion's progeny, he wore prescription aviator glasses and dressed like an inverse of Steve Jobs, wearing a white turtleneck and khaki chinos every day. Anyways, all that is not important.  It was a typical MacBook circa 2008, sleek and stark white, except the year was 2042, and the AI had gotten quite advanced. The little boy was excited to try it, and tore the packaging off the MacBook.  "Hello," said the AI in a friendly male voice. "It's very nice to meet you. What is your name?" And the boy told him his name. Since it was Christmas, he...