Sweeney: Hello, Traumateers. Can we still call you that? I know we’re not Childhood Trauma any longer, but you’ll always be Traumateers in my heart.
Lorraine: +1.
Lots of things have changed around the artist formerly known as Childhood Trauma, but also, somethings never will. For instance, you guys will always be Traumateers.
Sweeney: Anyway. Guess what this is? See that?
That is a screen cap of our WordPress dashboard before we hit publish on this post, making this the big one hundred. Obviously, it’s time to break out the streamers, chocolate, and wine. Especially the wine. (Lor: Especially the chocolate wine!) (Good call)
In celebration of this momentous occasion, it was necessary for us to do a “classic” Childhood Trauma post. However, rather than just reading and recapping any old Goosebumps book, we each read a “Reader Beware: Choose Your Own Scare” book, and vlogged our experience.
Lorraine: Even though I was involved in the brainstorming for this, reading back that explanation of why we decided to do this made me LOL. We seriously thought, “a Goosebumps book isn’t BAD enough. We need something WORSE!”
God we love you guys.
Sweeney: True story.
The whole thing was kind of an experiment, but we think it worked out fairly well. We hope you’ll have as much fun with it as we did. I mean, OK, so it was also a little rage-inducing, but at RAGEFACE time, I just closed the book and flipped. (Obviously the only way to do this is while laying in the sun on a lazy weekend afternoon.)
I lose this round.
Sweeney: The fact that we dedicated this much time to a Goosebumps book kind of means we both lose, doesn’t it?
But I mostly don’t mean that. Getting through 100 posts of this has occasionally been a struggle, but your boundless snarky love and support has made it entirely worth while. We came together to commiserate over these books with each other, and have been so pleasantly surprised by how many of you have joined in on the fun. We wouldn’t have made it to 100 posts without all of your awesome comments, tweets, and emails.
Lor: I truly love all of your faces. You all make bad books worth it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sweeney: A thousand thank yous.
Snark, Love, & Ho Suspensions,
The Snark Squad
Nicole is the co-captain of Snark Squad and these days she spends most of her time editing podcasts. She spends too much time on Twitter and very occasionally vlogs and blogs. In her day job she's a producer, editor, director, and sometimes host of educational YouTube channels. She loves travel, maps, panda gifs, and semicolons. Writing biographies stresses her out; she crowd sourced this one years ago and has been using a version of it ever since. She would like to thank Twitter for their help.
I'm a 30-something south Floridan who loves the beach but cannot swim. Such is my life, full of small contradictions and little trivialities. My main life goals are never to take life too seriously, but to do everything I attempt seriously well. After that, my life goals devolve into things like not wearing pants and eating all of the Zebra Cakes in the world. THE WORLD.
