#phrog ramblings

[cupophrogs]

I honestly dont trust Ollie either. I do wonder if he’s tried to tell drew to not trust daddy or pops. Cause like poppy Ollie seems to not care of the bigger bodies die or live.

“Poppy ain’t perfect, but trust me when I tell you that she cares. But you’re right about one thing, I don’t trust Ollie worth a shit.”

(This is a joke, please do not take this seriously! I thought it was funny)

#no Poppy slander in this clown car/lh #okay but seriously I ADORE Poppy’s whole character #OML I could ramble for ages but I’ll keep it short for tags sake #Poppy cares so much and I will die on this hill #she wants to be free; she wants to expose/uncover the company’s secrets so that SOMEONE knows what happened to them #she wants to LIVE #Yes Poppy kept us from leaving but she said it herself #she NEEDS the player. she physically can’t do anything on her own #and we see through her interactions with Kissy that she DOES want to save who she can- remember that she had no idea Dogday was alive! #likely why she never says anything about it #SO #What Poppy is doing; trapping the player. forcing them into this savior role so that she and anyone they can find can be saved #is incredibly human of her #trading the freedom of the one for the validation and seeing and possible freedom of the many is so human #and I adore it so deeply #phrart #art #ask phrog #poppy playtime #ask the three d’s #the three d’s #Ollie ain’t shit though lmao #that’s GOT TO be the prototype #poppy playtime chapter 3 #poppy poppy playtime #will smith meme

[thyphrog]

finding good omens genuinely changed my life. nothing can express the vast feeling i feel from finally being able to see my full self in media, every single bit of me good and bad. there's been media that has one or two of my identities but never one that has every single intersectionality. nevermind one thats written so thoughtfully and lovingly with all the compassion and delicacy even through the pain and hardships. neil and terry could have given up on the representation to get it published and adapted quicker but they stuck with us even through death. neil never let us be erased from the story even if it took almost 30 years to get a loving adaptation. theyve saved so many lives with the sheer amount of unwavering passion for protecting our existence in their creations.

#good omens #lgbtq #aroace #asexual #aromantic #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #transgender #nonbinary #genderfluid #religious trauma #phrog rambles #representation matters #representation #listen im very emotional again #but i know im not the only one

[thefourchimes]

the stares with and between and at each other...im squealing aaaaaaaaaa

and there's so many scenes that fit so much that it's going to make the prompt being written so long

oh no /pos

#mic rambles #phrog and finn where are you i need you #ronance

[onmyownside1]

Okay, but I’m kinda like…

Miguel comforting Angel!?

I know this goes against everything I’ve ever said but let me cook

So like, after Jordan dies, Angel has reached the Denial stage

She walks into Miguel’s office to give him a report, super cheery and stuff, but obviously exhausted and she looks like shit. So Miguel’s like

“You don’t have to rush it y’know.”

and Angel’s like what?

“You need to give yourself time to process it. I know it’s a lot to handle, but you can’t just force everything back to the way it was.”

See now Angel knows what he’s talking about but she refuses to acknowledge it, so she’s like “ummmm okay.” And starts to walk away.

and Miguel puts her hand on her shoulder and makes her look at him and says “You’re gonna be okay.” So she caves and she’s like “I know, I’m fine. I mean it hurt but I’m over it now-“ and Miguel is like “No, you’re not.” And he starts saying how he’s noticed that she’s been putting her nose to the grindstone and beating up hella bad guys. He pulls up recordings of her fighting and points out how she’s been throwing her self into the really dangerous situations with seemingly no forethought. “It’s almost like you have a death wish.” He says

Now she starts getting defensive: she’s like “I’m not depressed, I’m not suicidal, I’ve had countless mental health checks, I’m fine!”. Miguel tells her that there’s a lot more to being fine than that. She says “Well all things considered this is probably the most fine I’m gonna get so..” and now Miguel is concerned, because he wasn’t aware of her situation at school until now, so he’s asking questions and the flood dam breaks and she starts ranting about everything that’s been going on and then she gets back to Jordan and the reality of it hits her again and she her knees just buckle. Miguel catches her and lowers her to the ground but she’s just sobbing. Miguel, with his former father training, opens his arms to her. She looks up and just launches herself into his arms because - and I feel like a hug from Miguel would be like, the best. I always call him a bear, and it would be grounding I feel. Especially if he’s just kneeling and it’s like a kid running up to their parent. - she hasn’t hugged anyone in a while because she’s been pushing people away and avoiding help and she’s just crying.

And after this whole fiasco she starts seeking help. Going back to her therapist, opening back up to her friends, and slowly making her way back to the Angel everyone knew.

Congratulations to you if you made it all the way down here, you get a cookie 🍪

#Angel Jameson #angel jameson #Arachne #miguel o'hara #OC x canon #phrog rambles #tw suicide mention #tw depression #tw suicide

[lumi-procrastinate]

Not-A-Dream

I remember vaguely scrolling through Tumblr at 3 am this morning and seeing this new account that suddenly show up in my 'following' dash, it's either called tumblrtoday, tumblrthismorning, or tumblrthisday.

So, since I don't remember following it and the posts I saw from it was about frogs. It made me immediately think I have a fever dream involving tumblr again.

Anyway, I found a post confirming that I was not dreaming and other people are extremely confused + furious of it, until they realise that the account seems to have a particular interest in phrogs.

#random rambles #tumblr today #phrog #frogs #not-a-dream #that I thought was a #dream

[mirror-to-the-past]

hihi its been a bit! i saw a cool post online talking about a mirror dimension and thought of you and your writing skills…

ive been trying to make an omori au comic since forever ago, but i just can’t seem to be able to tell the story right. i know comics and fics are very different, but i still wanted to ask: how do you go about forming the plot lines for your stories?

thank you ☺️

(Oh boy, now you've got me curious about the mirror dimension post... 👀)

Hi, Phrogs! Hope you've been doing well.

Breaking down my creative process... is a little difficult, because so much of whatever I do is based on feeling, but I'll try my best to convey my trains of thought (Can't guarantee they'll be novel/helpful, though).

At the end of the day, I am character focused at the core- this means plot developments are not written in a way where characters are meant to walk along at certain planned path, but rather that path is shaped according to the characters. At the beginning of everything I write, I pretty much do a case study of each character's psychology, but I guess in a hero's journey kind of way:

What do they want?

What do they fear?

What would cause them to change, and how would that affect them?

^^Those three questions are ones from the top of my head that I ask myself first and foremost. Then, I make sure the story gives them precise encounters with each of those items so that the character's balance between flexibility and stagnation can consistently be tested. Trying to write a plot ahead of the character is difficult for me, because I find that so many things where I might've been like "oh, that would be cool to have happen" end up not matching with how a character might have developed when that plot point would emerge. Additionally, thinking like this sort of gives characters greater life and autonomy, to me. You can kind of tell when a character is being thrown around to the whims of the plot- so it's nice to have them engaged and invested in whatever way possible.

Sorry for the elongated non-answer, but the best way I can summarize my thoughts is character development = plot. Pretend like you, the writer, are some sort of guardian meant to test your sweet little characters, then test them again, then push them to their limits, then find new limits that correspond with them overcoming whatever their trials were (or perhaps failing them, we love character regression too, that's still development).

You can fit that into whatever neat setting you've got planned, but it's important to me in my process to always have the major elements of the plot somehow be tied into something personal to the elements of the characters throughout the duration of the story- even if I have to reach a bit sometimes. If the overarching themes of the plot separate from the characters' own journey, then it sort of falls apart in its impact for me- so I always try to have the external plot line up with the characters' internal world and necessities of development.

I finally figured out a TL;DR right when I finished rambling out that last sentence:

My process for developing plot is that of a Saturday morning cartoon with 20~ min. run time. The characters need to learn a lesson? Well, give them a magical/roundabout alternate medium that acts as a vehicle, or perhaps even a parallel, of their experiences! By the end of their journey, that medium ties into their own struggles, as well as acting as an outside conflict.

#I hope the answer was at least somewhat helpful- thanks for the ask! #And I'm now excited about the comic- feel free to share whatever you put out #this was very stream of consciousness... you really got me thinking #stuff people ask me

[trobeds]

Pass the happy! ✨ When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications! <333

(ROWAN!!!!! MY SPOUSE!!!! YOURE SO COOL <3)

ILYT PHROG YOURE MY JAM!! <3 SORRY I DIDNT GET AROUND TO ANSWERING THIS TIL NOW

my lovely amazing perfect mutuals <3

music!!!!!!

rambling about my hyperfixations!! currently st and yr

going on pinterest and making boards for my desired look (DARK ACADEMIA >>>>>)

people telling me im attractive man that shit is like a drug

#my mailbox 💌 #moots 💓 #disco phrog <3 #ILY PHROG MY LOVE

[spoopy-rayvynnnox]

My stepmom just shared this with me, she saw it on facebook

Phromg

#phromg #fromg #phrog #lol #ramblings #frog

[phrog-crime]

good news: I’m motivated to write

bad news: it’s a new project, not an in progress one, which leads to distraction

good news: there is a chance I might finish it

bad news: there is a chance I might not finish it, and instead use it to put off the projects I’m currently working on

good news?: I’m having fun? Researching and writing ?

Any one want to hear me ramble about world building let me know

#phrog croaks #garden guardian project #my writing #original idea #if so much as one person likes this post I will ramble for two hours about the world building ideas in my head #don’t temp me #worldbuilding

[mayz1er]

the first fanart i got for brpt maybe in late august/early september is still my ipad lock screen i look at it lots

#thx phrog!!!! #presidential ties rambles

[pumpkin-stars]

Hmm okay HC requests. I saw you write for Ezra and I love him so maybe some enemies to lovers with Ezra? Like your a fellow prospector and you have to share a pod with him when the rest of your team gets wiped out and you can’t stand him but you also find him incredibly attractive? ❤️

My favourite guy and one of my favourite tropes! This also has a splash of mutual pining because I couldn't resist :)

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You never meant to hate him, and he never meant to hate you, but somewhere along the line your interactions went from amicable to frosty to down right hostile. (Around the time he realised he liked you, didn't know how to deal with it, and distanced himself instead of talking things through).

If he wasn't going to treat you with respect - or even so much as acknowledge you, you weren't going to acknowledge him either.

But now? When you're stuck cohabiting in an enclosed space after escaping from a group of crazed moondwellers, the rest of your team decomposing in the dust...

You have to interact. You can't avoid it.

It was "instinct," he tells you, "reachin' for the closest hand I could grab and pullin' whoever it was along with me" because "you know how I hate silence, gem."

And yeah, you do know. Whether it's discussing what to do when you make it onto the Bug, mumbling to himself as he moves around the pod, muttering in his sleep, or regaling you with tales of his past exploits, he's rarely quiet.

It had annoyed you, on the digsite, when he'd spend the days rambling, making his way through every comm channel until whichever teammates were using it told him to shut up, always returning to whichever you were using with a sharp crackle just as you needed to concentrate. With a "careful, birdie," that never failed to make you miss your mark and turn your harvest to goo.

But now? When you actually listen to him? You can see him for the lonely man he is... Talking to fill the silence, to prevent himself thinking on the swirling vortex of shit in his head, to offer companionship to others in a misguided effort to prevent them feeling the same ache...

He's tired when he tells you, right on the edge of sleep when he says "didn't just grab anyone." You look across the pod at him, frowning as he shifts his body to face you. "When they started firing? I wasn't anywhere near you. Gem, I have never felt a panic so debilitating as when I couldn't see you in that moment. I forgot everything I know except how to run, but my gut pushed me to you. I regret that I could only get one other out with me, but I will thank Kevva always that I found you before you were mortally wounded."

"I thought you hated me?" You stare.

"I hated myself, birdie." He smiles, a hint of bitterness, "Hated that I couldn't simply tell you that you always looked radiant under the sun, that every smile you offered made my heart flutter and simultaneously break with the knowledge that they weren't for me."

"You're an idiot." You say it fondly, heart thumping.

"That I am," he nods, "And I will forever mourn the time I wasted being a coward, more so if my apparent hatred for you has tarnished your opinion of me beyond repair." His eyes close, and he turns to lie on his back (you barely hide the wince that follows, knowing his snores will keep you awake when he sleeps just so), "I never once hated you, gem, and I hope you might one day no longer hate me."

"I never hated you either, Ez."

~~~

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#ezra/reader #ezra x you #ezra prospect #ezra prospect/reader #ezra x reader #stuffiwrote #ezra/you

[tuituipupu]

strawberry lemonade, buttercup, olive, meadow grass (we are friends already though lmao), blue bell, mahogany, blood orange!!! 💖💖

what colour am I ?!

bestie !! TT TT aaaaa I feel so touched awh, these are just so cute !! 🥺🙏🏼💖 LMAO BLOOD ORANGE HARD RELATE WHEN I FORGET WHAT I AM SAYING MID SENTENCE SJSKSKSKSK 🤦🏻‍♀️ awh I could listen to you ramble for hours too eheh ;)) ~~ meadow grass is so sweet anyways it means a lot awhie 🤧💓💕 also phrogs r always welcome ahhhh 🥺🤲🏼🐸

#also I noticed these are a pretty equal balance of warm and cool tones woaw 🥺🌈 #just thank you again mica I love you so much 🥺💞💗💘 #thetimecrystal #ask me

[urujiako]

Here are some wholesome headcanons to make your day

Xiao has pets. The frogs hanging out by the pond near Wangshu Inn, the cats and dogs that hang out in the inn itself, hell, when you take him to Mondstadt it’s a whole new world. ALL THE ANIMALS IN MONDSTADT ARE NOW HIS PETS.

Yeah he keeps literally everything as pets

When drunk, he pets trees and tells them how they’ve worked hard. Proceeds to ramble to you about all the “wonderful things” trees have done for living beings. Said things include providing oxygen, giving oxygen, photosynthesizing and then exhaling (???) oxygen. (I don’t take biology okay)

Thinks frogs are cute. Rescues them and talks to them (not much, but still).

Sometimes visits you randomly at night to make sure you haven’t died in your sleep or anything. He cares a lot about you okay

Just like I do

I care about you

Anyways this whole thing has been about Xiao feel free to ask for other characters as well oh and you can use these in your works too so that saves you some trouble

AAAAHFJKDSGFSH GEN!!! this made me so so happy, thank you for these!!! i can genuinely see xiao as a pet magnet ngl. its so cute ghfdjfd phrog... AAAAAA!!! <3 thank you for these, they made my day!

i care about you a lot too :") mega hugs from me, ily!

#gen the moot <3

[macademmia]

phrog :)

Emma rambles: this is EVERYTHING

#snazzy submissions #submission