Podcasts and frogs 17?
This week on “frogs and fear”
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I frowned, pausing whichever episode of The Magnus Archives was playing. “Okay, so... which fear do you think being afraid of frogs would be?”
My mom glanced over quizzically. “The, uh... the swarm one?”
“The corruption?”
“Yeah, that one,” she said, attention turning back to road.
I shrugged. “If its the frogs themselves it’d probably be the hunt. Things eat frogs, right?”
“Mm hm.”
“I mean it might just be corruption for the sake of not fitting anywhere else, and frogs are kinda like worms, in the vaguest sense.” I trailed off. “We don’t eat frogs, do we? So they don’t feed the Slaughter?”
Mom laughed. “What about frog legs?”
I cringed. “Oh, gods, that doesn’t even sound good. Frogs are too precious, they don’t deserve that.”
We lapsed back into silence, and I resumed the episode.
It wasn’t until the episode had ended and Johnny was prattling on about how the Magnus Archives was a podcast, that I spoke up again.
“I mean, do frogs even feel fear? Ive seen enough frog videos to know that there’s absolutely nothing behind those eyes, and I dont think they have enough brain power to process the concept of time, let alone suddenly being dead or something. I mean, they might fear starvation, in the sense that they could feel that theyre dying from it, but is there even an entity for that one? If not i feel like the spiral might be just a little bit involved.”
My mother once again listened as I rambled through the ending advertisements, barely even stopping for air as i talked through whether or not the fear of death from a specific source would fall into the domain of the End, or of one of the others, or whether frogs even registered as sentient enough to experience fear in any magnitude great enough to be classified.
