At a party last night I remembered that my childhood bff (Anna) and I got Webkinz at the same time we learned about the mystical bits of Catholicism. Two secular Jewish girls became obsessed with the magic, impossibility, and depth of romance surrounding saints, relics, angels, and being saved. It seemed just like a plot line from a video game or Y/A book series. So we named our Webkinz as follows: the panda was Apostle Paul, the pig was Mary Magdalene, and we saved up our money for a hippo we called Pope JP2. Because we were like 11, we got pretty good at games and nothing felt more hysterically funny than seeing “Mary Magdalene” up in second place on the Webkinz leaderboards. I cracked myself up as a kid and tbh that shit is just as funny now.
