Maggie Stiefvater, Excerpt From Thedeleted ScenesofThe Raven Cycle

Maggie Stiefvater, excerpt from the deleted scenes of The Raven Cycle

i dont claim to be an expert on love but i think theres something to like… ok so my girlfriend got undertale on the switch a while back, right? and she’s definitely not a bad videogamer but it takes practice yknow, esp when youre doing a neutral route and actually fight stuff. so when she got to the hardest bosses i took the controller and beat them for her. not because she couldn’t, but because i love her. and that’s what my brother did when i was a kid playing sonic adventure 2 or whatever, not because i was dumb but because he was good at it and he loved me. and when i want my girlfriend to read something (a post, an essay, a novel) but she’s too tired to actually read so it i read it to her and i do silly voices and she laughs and we have more fun that way. when you hand a water bottle to your friend and they open it without you even having to ask. when you spent a million years fixing the flat tire on your bike and then your dad just takes the tools and does it for you. its not a judgement, it’s just a service. you could do it yourself, but why should you have to when you are loved?

oh you kin adam parrish? name your top three favorite things about gansey

A Moon Ritual

maybe this to-do list will fix me

the thing that's weird about aftg is that, it is, without a doubt, the biggest mess I have ever read and I could not justify one thing about it, but when I see someone genuinely criticizing it, like genuinely trying to speak about it objectively and rationally I'm automatically like "this is really embarrassing for you please stop. If you don't get it you don't get it but I'm gonna need you to take your lit crit somewhere else thank you very much"