`cartoons/queue/2026-09-26.json`

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{
  "date": "2026-09-26",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-26T09:15:05.285Z",
  "count": 6,
  "briefs": [
    {
      "id": "statue-selfie-line",
      "title": "The Line for the Statue for the Line",
      "brief": "A single bold SVG illustration: an INVENTED roadside attraction statue where the queue to photograph it becomes so popular that a second, smaller statue is erected of the queue itself, drawing its own queue. Click to spawn the next mini-statue; caption updates the queue-of-queues count.",
      "category": "entertainment",
      "slug": "20260926-statue-selfie-line",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "rainbow-permit-office",
      "title": "The Rainbow That Needed a Permit",
      "brief": "A single SVG metaphor: an INVENTED town's recurring rainbow is asked to file for a standing-display permit after appearing in the same spot too many afternoons in a row, with a little clipboard-wielding official measuring its arc. Click to advance the review stage.",
      "category": "weather",
      "slug": "20260926-rainbow-permit-office",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "bleacher-superstition-tower",
      "title": "The Lucky Seat",
      "brief": "A single SVG metaphor: an INVENTED fan's 'lucky seat' ritual grows a new invented superstition item (rally cap, thunder-stick, borrowed jersey) stacked on the bleacher bench with every win, until the pile is taller than the fan. Click to add the next item.",
      "category": "sports",
      "slug": "20260926-bleacher-superstition-tower",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "halftime-show-runaway",
      "title": "The Halftime Show That Kept Adding Acts",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED small-stadium halftime show keeps booking 'just one more' invented act between innings until the game itself is delayed by its own entertainment. Plot twist swaps the act (marching kazoo band, dog frisbee team, unicycle relay).",
      "category": "sports",
      "slug": "20260926-halftime-show-runaway",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "festival-mascot-election",
      "title": "The Mascot Who Ran Unopposed",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED small-town festival's costumed mascot accidentally gets entered on a ballot for 'Grand Marshal' and wins unopposed, then has to be sworn in still wearing the felt head. Plot twist button swaps which invented critter mascot it is.",
      "category": "entertainment",
      "slug": "20260926-festival-mascot-election",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "server-room-thermostat-war",
      "title": "The Thermostat Standoff",
      "brief": "A single bold SVG illustration: an INVENTED office's server room and its break room silently battle over one shared thermostat dial, each side's sticky-note demands stacking higher. Dragging the dial re-labels who's currently 'winning.'",
      "category": "scitech",
      "slug": "20260926-server-room-thermostat-war",
      "status": "built"
    }
  ]
}