William C. Schutz - Joy - Grove Press, Evergreen Black Cat Edition - 1969

PAIGE AND CHRISTINE

shebbz i just want to say that you are single-handedly convincing me to watch mash... i know nothing about the show but ur chipping away at my brain like a misfolded protein

just make sure you watch it without laugh tracks

My piece for @rainbowcrate’s January book box.

Devin Greenlee's Evergreen.

Cowboy au loustat, anyone?

Sawyer: [Fumbling to adjust belt] Could you kids please quit jumping on my bed?

[Squealing and energetic laughter]

Gerbit: [Giggles] Why? Your bed's already on the floor! If we fall, it won't even barely hurt!

Sawyer pauses to contemplate a stern response, but instead concedes with a shrug. Belo: [Whispers] Guw-bit, ask huwh! Gerbit: Stop! I will, okay?

Sawyer: Ask me what? Gerbit: We... wanted to just go to Dad's cool werewoof party tonight! He said we was invited still.

Sawyer: Well... Dad didn't clear that with Mom, and it's a big fat NO from me, bud. Sorry. It's not safe, especially with the full moon out tonight. Something could— and likely will— go wrong... and I wouldn't be able to get to you right away if I'm at work. But, if you behave for Ms. Eleanor, and I know you will... I'll do everything I can to get off early and meet you for trick-or-treating. Knox even said he'll join us, too. [Smiles] Gerbit: But trick-or-treating is no fun! We do it every time when Spooky Day comes around!

Sawyer: Well, that's kinda how that works, pumpkin. K, babysitter's here. [Plucks fuzz off shirt and scurries to kiss each baby goodbye] I love you all very much! Be good!

Meanwhile, in Moonwood Mill

I am the evergreen with fading needles roots deep in sandy soils slightly burned from ancient fires a home to only the survivors

Tenille K. Campbell, I am not a wild strawberry

Evergreen the squirrel is afraid of many things: thunder, hawks, and the dark paths of Buckthorn Forest. But when her mother tasks Evergreen with delivering soup to her sick Granny Oak, the little squirrel must face her fears and make the journey.

POV: you see Brystal on her wedding day.

Saw someone on Insta call Colleen Hoover the second Jane Austen.

I'M GONNA COMMIT MURDER NOW

The wheel of time TV show committed to the book series universal truth that RoJo had a deep-seated need to be dominated by mean women and I respect that commitment to the source material

okay. i feel like theres still Some People who may check the land of stories tag on here the way i occasionally do i know theres some fans of the series here at least. since a while back i wrote out an entire paragraph to briefly explain why im insane about lloyd bailey to my friends who dont know tlos, i figure, WHY NOT POST IT ON HERE where people who also know the series (and therefore this character) might see it <3 its at least a little funny to see how i try to explain things in tlos like the hall of dreams briefly with little to no details. this is also kind of like a brief summation of everything we know about lloyd AND JOHNS childhood which is interesting. see below.

sits down. let me set the scene. lloyd bailey is the younger son in a set of two. his mother is a very powerful fairy (#fairygodmother) who’s kind of like the chancellor of an entire kingdom. lloyd and his older brother john both very much have magic in their blood because of this. lloyd’s father dies when he is very young. he is “not the same” afterwards. he thinks his older brother john, who handles his fathers passing arguably “better”, is the favorite child. john is happy and cheerful and everyone loves him. lloyd sits in his dark room and reads books like the iron mask all day. lloyd’s mother does not know how to get to him. she figures out how to make a potion that can bring books to life, since he likes to read so much. she offers it to him. he turns her down. she goes into this magic little hallway (infinite space) where she can see what people truly desire. lloyd the 11 year olds desire (i don’t know how old he is.) is to take over the world. hm. a bit concerning. his mother takes him out into the forest on a nice walk, chains him to a tree, and drains his magic from him. lloyd is not a fan of his mother for this. he tells her that she never would’ve done this to john. his mother considers her action stopping him before he wreaks havoc on everything. lloyd considers this having his “birthright” stripped from him for “a crime [he] never committed” (direct quote). lloyd despises his mother. he runs away from home not long after. he considers the potion his mother made his. he only comes back home to try and steal it. he fails. he is sentenced to life in prison. his mother gives him a mask to wear so no one knows he’s her son. john moves to the otherworld and starts a family. lloyd rots in prison. lloyd’s son who he doesn’t know about is born. lloyd rots in prison. john dies. lloyd rots in prison. his mother loves john’s children and starts to train one of them in being her successor. this could’ve been lloyd. lloyd rots in prison. he doesn’t escape until his niece and nephew are teenagers and his niece is about ten times more powerful than him. because she has the gift that was ripped out of his hands. lloyd hates the world he lives in and its people and seeks to destroy it as soon as he’s out. i wonder why. in conclusion. im normal about him.

i opened disasters to sleep through 🌊