ACOFAE: A Collection of Fandoms and Exploration.
Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: "Sugar Candy Mountain, Charlie." 2026 is the year that ACOFAE is covering the classics apparently, because they mentioned Animal Farm in the beginning of the year and here we…
Laura MarieHost
Jessica MarieHost
And what didn't we process when I was younger? I didn't process the sadness of Boxer the horse.
I, I understood that he was working, but I just thought that he was not a good thinker, right?
Like, he, he wasn't, he wasn't, like, em- he was just, like, doing all of, all of the work.
Let me, like, let me, like, rub on, like, you know, what do you do with horses? Like, rub them down, like, all that stuff.
And at the end, oh, my God, the end of Boxer in the cart never moved me the way that it does as an adult.
Uh, when I was a kid, I was just like, "Whatever, it's almost over." [laughs] As an adult, damn.
Because I, you don't, because as an adult by this point, if you buy the spin, then you're missing the point of the book.
Well, that's the thing, is I was thinking that while reading, 'cause this also isn't my first time reading it for the podcast, I did eventually read it, um, w- was that George Orwell just has a way of, the people who understand the message obviously get it, and the people who should be understanding his message aren't sm- smart enough to grasp it.
And the thing, too, that I really love, before we, before we get into, I promise we will.
Before we get into this, so I have, Jess Kimberly also has, a physical copy of Animal Farm that, uh, this came out in 2020.
And that, uh, introduction is different from the introduction that is in the audio version, which I also read for the podcast, and that one is just, like, Animal Farm by George Orwell on audio.
And what didn't we process when I was younger? I didn't process the sadness of Boxer the horse.
I, I understood that he was working, but I just thought that he was not a good thinker, right?
Like, he, he wasn't, he wasn't, like, em- he was just, like, doing all of, all of the work.
Let me, like, let me, like, rub on, like, you know, what do you do with horses? Like, rub them down, like, all that stuff.
And at the end, oh, my God, the end of Boxer in the cart never moved me the way that it does as an adult.
Uh, when I was a kid, I was just like, "Whatever, it's almost over." [laughs] As an adult, damn.
Because I, you don't, because as an adult by this point, if you buy the spin, then you're missing the point of the book.
Well, that's the thing, is I was thinking that while reading, 'cause this also isn't my first time reading it for the podcast, I did eventually read it, um, w- was that George Orwell just has a way of, the people who understand the message obviously get it, and the people who should be understanding his message aren't sm- smart enough to grasp it.
And the thing, too, that I really love, before we, before we get into, I promise we will.
Before we get into this, so I have, Jess Kimberly also has, a physical copy of Animal Farm that, uh, this came out in 2020.
And that, uh, introduction is different from the introduction that is in the audio version, which I also read for the podcast, and that one is just, like, Animal Farm by George Orwell on audio.
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