#anna's mail

[joelsgreenflannel]

Let’s spread a little sunshine ☀️ drop this sunflower 🌻 into the inboxes of the blogs that make you happy! 🩵🌙🧚‍♀️

(Please also enjoy my Yellow chrysanthemum 🫶🏻)

minaaaaaaa!!!!!! thank you so much, my love!! 💗💗💗💗 this flower is absolutely gorgeous and you make me the happiest 🫶🏼

[joelsgreenflannel]

hi sweet anna! 💞 can i ask 21 & 46 for the ask game?

noelleeeeee!! thank you for the ask bby <3

21. something you’ve kept since childhood?

trauma. i’m pretty sure i have a huge box full of my school work at my dad’s from when i was in kindergarten. haven’t been able to keep much from my childhood though.

46. favorite holiday film?

it’s not really a holiday movie but it’s tradition to watch them (as they’re on tv at that time of year every year): the sissi trilogy by ernst marischka

also: the nightmare before christmas

ask me stuff <3

[joelsgreenflannel]

Hi lovely Anna ✨💗

I would love to have your answers for 24 and 30 for the writers ask game.

Love ya 🫶🏻

thank you for the ask, sweet dana!! 💗💗

24. how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

i think i try to redirect my brain onto other things that have nothing to do with writing. i know that if i think about it it will only make me more miserable so i distract myself, listen to music, watch a sitcom. but most importantly, i do everything but force myself to write.

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of

i'm going to say drunk on your summer wine because it was the first story i had posted on this blog—and the first in a long time as well.

writers' ask <3

[joelsgreenflannel]

Hi Anna!

Number 4 for the writer asks please.

Love, El

el, my darling!! thank you so much for your question 🫶🏼

got a little too long so see under the cut

4. a story idea you haven't written yet

okay, i got one with joel and it has to do with one of my weird habits: i love to keep memories from people, even those i don't know. every time i got to a flea market, i look at those old postcards, old pictures, etc. and it all comes from the fact that those tiny little mementos carry all the love someone had for someone else at some point in the history of the world. and it kind of breaks my heart to see all this love being forgotten because the people aren't here anymore. so i keep them, put what i find in my little souvenir box just so they still have someone to cherish them in a way.

with that in mind:

i wanted to write about reader who has this habit and she's crossing the country to go to jackson. for some reason, she finds herself in austin, in a calm residential neighborhood outside the qz. she looks for a place to stay, finds a house and decides to spend the night. looking through the house, she finds all these pictures of a man and a little girl—the family who must have lived there (so joel and sarah's home). and when she searches in all the rooms, she finds the polaroid picture of sarah and joel as well as the birthday card joel was supposed to get. knowing that there is a dad who never got his birthday card makes reader keep the card and the picture in her bag.

moving on, she arrives in jackson, she's welcomed there and all. she becomes friends with most people including her neighbors—ellie and joel. reader has to admit joel seems vaguely familiar but she can't pinpoint why so she brushes it off as a weird impression. but as they get closer—and eventually start falling for each other—, she realizes he is the man from the birthday card in austin. of course she has no idea how to bring it up so she decides to wait until she finds the right time.

turns out the right time comes around during summer—i was thinking sarah's birthday as she's supposedly born in july—or maybe just the anniversary of the outbreak. joel is depressed, he's trying to cope with whatever he has but it's just a really hard time for him. his family tries to be helpful but there is no use. finally reader shows up at joel's place and they somehow talk, he admits why he's been feeling like this and that's when reader tells him the whole truth. she gives him the postcard and picture, explaining where she found them and of course, joel has no idea how to react. all these new information kind of start that mourning cycle all over again in a way and it's too overwhelming, he gets mad/closes off and ends up leaving.

reader doesn't hear from him for days, she's insanely worried and thinks she ruined everything. he shows up at her doorstep in the middle of the night to apologize for storming off and ignoring her. maybe he tells her more about sarah, about how much this means to him even if it's a lot to take.

honestly haven't figured out the ending but uhhhh yeah, that's an idea i haven't written yet

writer asks <3

[joelsgreenflannel]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD!

Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out 💕

bettyyyyyy!!!!!! 😭😭 you are so so beautiful and i love you so much 💗 thank you thank you thank you 🫂💗

[joelsgreenflannel]

Get attacked!! ✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨ 💗💗💗

kateeeeee!!! YOU are wonderful and i love you i love you i love you 💗💗💗💗

[joelsgreenflannel]

Get attacked!! ✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨ ily so stinking much 🩷

eden!!!!! sorry to get to this an eternity later but omggg i love you even more!!!!! 💗💖💓💘💞💕💗💖💓💗💕💞💘💓💓

[joelsgreenflannel]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers ✨️🥰

thank you so much for asking!!! 💗💗

bonding over that old man™️ with all of you <3

listening to music

traveling (especially to visit museums)

baking!!! especially with friends

brunches!!!!!!!!!