justafrogandherumbrella

[justafrogandherumbrella]

you can pry happy endings from my cold-dead hands. It can be the most heart stopping, gut wrenching fic that has every existed and I will read every drop of it if I get my happy ending. I have had enough painful endings in real life, give me happy in my fantasy world. It can be at the last second, it can be a single sentence, even a single word. Give me all the angst and hurt in the world for 500,000 words, but please give me the comfort I need in the ending. please and thank you.

[justafrogandherumbrella]

its so easy to pander to me in fiction media. show me a guy that for some reason doesnt feel himself to be as human as most others are and i will sit with him for hours

[justafrogandherumbrella]

"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

[justafrogandherumbrella]

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

[justafrogandherumbrella]

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths

[justafrogandherumbrella]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[justafrogandherumbrella]

thank you to every single fucking person on this god forsaken site that has ever posted your own art or writing. You really put a vulnerable, important part of yourself out in the open on the hellscape that is the internet and if that isnt an act of bravery and a labor of love I dont know what one is

[justafrogandherumbrella]

just for the record i would have played wolves with you

[justafrogandherumbrella]

approaching the wip carefully from the side like a skittish animal. speaking in a low, gentle voice so it doesn’t run away

[justafrogandherumbrella]

"do it scared" ok but I would like to do something some other way occasionally. Like at least once. For a change.

[justafrogandherumbrella]

my advice to anyone who’s thinking about writing as a hobby would be that if you’ve already started thinking about it there’s nothing i can say that will save you so let it rip dude

[justafrogandherumbrella]

Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper

[justafrogandherumbrella]

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

[justafrogandherumbrella]

actually me fr

[justafrogandherumbrella]

from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it