trusting fiction

i tried to write about how i felt after finishing a really good manga tonight, and it was supposed to be like, half a paragraph (hence, typing it up on Tumblr)

...but then i apparently needed to get a bunch of Literary Musings down before i could just talk about my feelings like a normal person, so

here's that post—about the many ways that an author can earn a reader's trust, and how something almost-like-trust can be very very good too.