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Baby's 1st bday!!!
It’s been one year since By Each Crime and Kindness (I’m bound to you) made its debut on ao3.
The writing of this story started, of course, earlier, in late October of 2023. I had binged Attack on Titan that same month along with my partner and had been holding back my love of the AruAni ship, lest I be called a delusional romantic (not in so many words but you know what I mean). But then we got to the second part of season 4, and I first beheld Armin kneeling, repentant, in front of Annie’s crystal, begging her to speak to him, and… well… I couldn’t be contained anymore.
I scoured the depths of ao3 for fic, started stalking blogs here on tumblr, desperately searched for fanart and meta about these characters. My obsession inevitably led me to create.
The initial inspiration for this fic was reading @flailingkittylover's Paranoid in one go, absolutely devouring every detail and, after finishing it, immediately thinking: “This was great. I need fifty more fics just like this one injected directly into my veins.” Sadly, there weren’t fifty more fics of this kind, so as you can imagine (be the change you wanna see in this world and all that), I decided to start my own.
Of course, the story changed significantly from this early conception. I had the advantage of hindsight and was more than happy to include more and more details that would tie the later storylines of the series with its beginning. Cadet Armin and Annie became more fleshed out into my mind, my version of them shining brighter the more I wrote, brainstormed and outlined. By the time I published the first chapter, I was confident that I had put my own unique spin on the characters and the plot (despite it still being very reliant on the source material). I was uncertain about whether the fandom would enjoy it, but I knew I wanted to share my joy with the rest of you no matter what.
Since then, I’ve met many lovely people, read countless other stories, had many insightful discussions and overall enjoyed myself more than I could possibly have imagined in my wildest dreams. The AruAni fandom taught me that fandom is, first and foremost, a community built on love, something which I knew but hadn’t had the pleasure of experiencing in the past. For this reason (and many more), I’ll be forever grateful and beholden to each and every one of you.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you 💜
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Getting excited about the style class I signed up for next week.
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I may not have written fanfic in years XD But there are very specific crack ships I want to see more of and I can only get it by writing.
#personal sort of#writeblr#it woukd definitely be the most self indulgent softball au too. mmhmm eating up what my brain is putting down for once.
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When something happens and I'm the only one who witnesses it, I 100% doubt that it happened.
But anyway, the past 3 days, a bird has come to the window. There's a metal grate over the screen, which is torn up at the bottom. The first time I saw him in the afternoon.
Me and the dogs were chilling and I heard something weird, so I finally got up to look and this lil brown bird is gripping the grate and picking at the window.
Yesterday I was hungover af but I got up to pee at like 8am and from the hall, I saw him again. He heard me and took off right away.
Why is he coming back?
Anyway, I fell asleep super early last night, and so I'm up at freaking 7am lol. But I got a lil video and a picture of the lil guy so I can feel a lil less crazy and lil less obsessed about it.

You can see him behind the green onion jar.
I was trying not to wake the puppy or scare the birb.
There was a lil red breasted bird hanging with him. I wonder if he wants the screen or the plants on the sil.
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I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me
#what did they put in Phineas and Ferb that inspires these sort of deranged comics in people. this is my own personal MOM HOLY FUCK#long post
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like the most politically neutered movie of all time unironically
#im not the sort of person who's like 'it's bad because its not like the book'#i generally don't think that's a great way to engage with adaptation#but whew it's crazy how such a genuinely confrontational and satirical kids book turned out such a milquetoast movie#talking tag
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Thinking about the idea I had a LONG time ago about Mabel sending motivational and complimenting stickers for the boys and Ford saving a “write your own message” one just for Stan and had to draw it.
#gravity falls#stanley pines#stanford pines#stan twins#sea grunks#sketches#comic#my art#stan pines#ford pines#this was a stir of the moment thing#so it’s kind of rushed and not great but it was too sweet to pass up#also a sort of pick-me-up personally
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yeehaw, baby!
#if u know me u knew this was inevitable#kon el#conner kent#tim drake#timkon#im gonna ramble after the boring tags ok#dc comics#fanart#western au#superboy#OK !!!! ITS TIME#so kon. obvs is a cowboy here#definitely a bit of a magnet for trouble but not an outlaw#still not the sort of person the son of the drake family's supposed to be talking to but yk kon's gonna try anyway#on tims end it pretty much follows the same events as the comics bc if it aint broke dont fix it#<- in terms of the whole sneaking out at night to do his own secret detective work thing at least#i have a whole silly story for the rest of it but im not gonna get into it all here lmao#but yeah i love cowboys and actual cowboy history vv much so this probably wont be the last u see of this au ദ്ദി ˉ꒳ˉ )✧#for now this post's rlly just for goofing around with design ideas#my art
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what are we, some kind of league of legends?
#im the only person alive who understands her including the writers and i stand by that#in my epic fanfiction she stays with ekko post-canon nd they sort of stand next to eachother with their arms crossed#arcane#arcane season 2 spoilers#ekko arcane#sevika arcane#also featuring sloane of borderlambs fame#just for funs#my art#i ahve another sketchdump ill post later but im doing this one first because its more respectable
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did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back
#fascinating stuff. let’s see if i (person with the worst executive dysfunction when it comes to doing laundry) remember it#i literally have this issue where i’ll let dirty clothes pile up in the laundry basket for an entire month#like it takes me that long to get around to it#and then- who would’ve thought- i find that i don’t have anything good to wear. strange!#finally did it last night and i’m like ohhh that was so difficult but the payoff finally#augh#peach rambles#hall of fame i guess#shut up about socks. idc.#this was a fun positivity post of sorts it’s about overcoming executive dysfunction#derailing into jokes about losing socks is. it’s not horrible but just boring and annoying#it was supposed to be celebration!! and encouragement!!!
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I wanna see the pretty art but I'm scared the bird app will be the end of me 😔
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As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.
#sorry to be a hashtag Downer but I've been thinking that for a few years like what victory is there when war criminals live full lives#and never face charges or jail time or any sort of mandated civil restitution#what victory is there when Kissinger died peacefully at home at age 100.#and what victory will there be when loads more 20th century war criminals die out naturally? what comfort can that bring?#bc to me all it says is the Next Kissinger will get the same mercy and same immunities#personal#pol#<- kinda
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changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.
I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.
Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.
No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.
But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?
#this is the sort of observation I make here that people#go off and write their thesis about#so while I’m not expecting to be the first or cleverest person to say this#if you do use it as a springboard#tell me if you get a good grade ok?#I’ll be tremendously proud of you#like if you take a shitpost and use it to craft deep attentive thought on something important#I just think that’s probably the most noble use of a human brain#it makes me want to take off my hat and slam it to the ground in inexpressible emotion#it’s a cowboy hat btw#and I say something like GOLDURN IT THAT KID SURE HAS DELIVERED.#ok so don’t deny me this#especially if you correct me after a long research journey#GOLDURN IT THE KID IS RIGHT!
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Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them
#disability#ableism#ableism tw#fatphobia#fatphobia tw#also if it's an issue solved by weight loss why would you want them to suffer until the weight loss helps wouldn't that DISCOURAGE them?#because if i were suffering the entire time i sure as fuck wouldn't want to keep going for the ~idea~ of it's gonna pay off!!!#also even if they 'made themself disabled' by being fat or anything else that doesn't matter. they're still disabled.#there is no 'good' disabled and 'bad' disabled and you cannot sort people into those categories#for every 'bad' fat disabled person there are multiple 'good' fat disabled people but you can't tell them apart often actually!#because you would have to know the intimate details of their medical history and familial lineage and tbh if you're...#...being a piece of shit to a disabled person because you assume they're guilty until proven innocent i don't blame others for being...#...weary of you and not wanting to be around you. because you've already proven you can't handle the IDEA of complex disabled experience
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Psittacosaurus
#paleoart#dinosaurs#donation rq#the slight brighter colors underneath the tail are because this is the only dinosaur whos actual ass got fossilized#it preserved some sort of color (probably dark) but ive chosen to make it blue#in honor of a person i follow on twitter who gets really angry when dinosaurs in movies have any color besides dust brown ❤️#my art
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