I Can’t Get Enough Of Jonathan’s Complete Turnarounds When Writing

trying to bead a garden 🌹

posting in honor of today being my 9 year tumblr anniversary 🖤👽🛸🦄👁️

stain by a. g. howard

7/10

• fractured fairytale, and i love those

• HAD A MAP!!! 🩷

• lush descriptions of EVERYTHING, settings, appearances, foods, etc. totally ripe with sensory detail (sometimes gets to be a lot, but if you’re into that kind intense detail/worldbuilding it doesn’t bother)

• good good memorable characters, the villain is truly so evil it made my skin crawl, female protagonist was good - confused but not defenseless, male protagonist was more than just a hot guy, had his own thing going on (but also he was really hot)

• weird emphasis on how small the female protagonist is, which personally annoyed me

• little bit of a dubious age gap (17 x 20)

• good love story, big emphasis on being friends before lovers and both sides being equal in the relationship, got to be corny sometimes but overall very cute

• lots of exposition before the actual meat of the story, was a little tedious but was well written so i couldn’t complain too much

okay the funniest book rec I've ever encountered is officially Lit Hub recommending Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place for the "globe trotting" reader

yeah man you're gonna learn a ton about Antigua, namely that the locals fucking hate your tourist ass and the colonialist legacy that turns Caribbean islands into playgrounds for westerners. incredible work. this is either a brilliantly placed stealth insult or the work of someone who's never actually read the book. funny either way.

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. "

- Franz Kafka

must be the season of the wiiitchh

the urge to disappear forever is getting stronger