Status Updates From Toad Words and Other Stories

There was something trying to get out of her chest, and when she opened her mouth, she found that it was a laugh.

The king wanted an heir, as kings do, and the queen seemed to have neither the ability to bear one nor the decency to die in the attempt.

“There are more important things in life than potatoes.” “Not that many things,” said Snow…”
Word.

“The snack bar could hardly keep up. Only the rats stayed calm, hanging the stars up every night in the theatre firmament with the same meticulous craftsmanship, unmoved by prima donnas and vapors and missed lines. But that's rats for you. Solid creatures, rats.”
The whimsy is superb 🫶🐀

I wonder where I was when the feeling of hating Peter Pan was issued worldwide because first he’s a narcissist psychopath in Lost Boy and here as well. Super bleak 💀

Damn, that reimagining of The Little Mermaid was almost as bleak as the plot from Lure. 🥰

“Loathly” a somewhat reimagining of a sex-swap of the Beauty and the Beast, but with no Stockholm Syndrome. Final verdict, HELLA SICK 🫶

Omg “Bluebeard’s Wife” from the perspective of his last wife 😭🫶💀

“Wolf and the Woodsman” slapped hard. Who knew what a self sufficient independent person, Red Riding Hood’s Grandmother was?!

“Foxes talked all the time, particularly if you caught them in the hen house, where they would do their best to addle you with fine nonsense until they could slip out the door, and it was generally believed that all cats could talk and simply refused to do so for inscrutable reasons of their own.”
Me: A universal & timeless truth, cats are jerks.