#plus like there are people who fit the stereotype 💀 I know this to be true there are so many latino fboys

[1-800-internal-damnation]

I do think it's really overplayed and unfortunate and honestly probably dl racism that lance is the stereotypical flirty playboy but I think that aspect can be salvaged if you factor in that he's probably a loverboy at heart and is just scared to give people too much of himself

[littledesertfox]

Do you have any favorite pictures of Rommel?

I do! Actually too many to decide which ones I like best, I think😅 But these are some of my favourites, I tried to kind of sort them into different categories (beware this is gonna be a long post):

Please note that the positive descriptions or "gushing" that may occur in this post refer strictly to his appearance, not his views or actions! I guess that makes sense since we're talking about pictures here, but just wanted to clarify it.

These are some of my favourite portraits of him, especially the first two are some I really like. This is probably just me talking in my own biased opinion, but I genuinely do think that he had a very beautiful face. Like, he looks so soft but still masculine at the same time? And his facial features just compliment each other very well. Somehow I also really like looking at his eyes (which is funny because I'm horrendously bad at that in real life😂), especially the first 3 pictures just have something very tender about them.

Next up, fully body photos! The second one is probably one of my favourite pictures of him ever, I don't know exactly what he's doing but he looks very funny xD But also these pictures always make me think that I can't help myself but find his body shape genuinely aesthetically appealing, and I've been trying to identify why that is. I think I just really like that he doesn't look like the "ideal" of a stereotypically masculine man, while appearing in no way less masculine because of that. Like, he wasn't built very tall or broad (I've read that he was about 1,68m, of course people were just shorter on average back then, but on photos together with others he often still looks rather small), he had a small torso and more slanted shoulders, overall just a more soft and (in my opinion) almost dainty body shape. I feel like the uniforms he typically wore just added to that, for example in the way they accented his hips quite a bit in some photos. Personally, I find this type of man with softer features like him just much more aesthetically attractive than a stereotypical dudebro/"alpha male" (I hate that word so much bruh💀) kind of guy. Plus, it also gives me an odd kind of reassurance in regard to my own gender expression. I could go on about this but I think I'll rather save that for a later post because this already got quite long.

Next a category that is very special to me🫶 Photos together with his chief of staff and best friend Fritz Bayerlein! I'd honestly love to add more of these, but they are sometimes a bit harder to find online. There are quite a few photos of them together in Bayerlein's biography, but I haven't scanned or taken pictures of most of them yet. I hope to post some of them in the future though, maybe also with some background information. I love all of these, but I especially adore how genuine and effortless Erwin's smile look in the second one. From all the things I've read about them, I like to think that he and Fritz really had a deep and trustful bond and cared a lot about each other.

I don't know how many pictures I can still fit into this post, so I'll finish it off with a few more that don't belong to a specific category:

Proud dad Rommel with little Manfred🥺 I feel like this is also a more uncommon photo where he's not wearing his usual uniform.

Young Rommel! I got to be honest, I enjoy pictures of him as a young man and I don't think he looked bad in the slightest, but I still think he's the type of person who gradually just started looking better and better as he got older. I wonder how he'd have turned out though if he got to live longer.

I just think he looks a bit funny with a Stahlhelm on😂 Not quite the way how you're used to seeing him.

I first came across this photo when I was maybe 13 or 14, and ever since I've wondered if it just had to do with the image quality and age, or if Rommel actually shaved his legs😂 Like, they look so smooth. I don't know about you, but if I was leading an army then shaving a legs would pretty much be the last thing I'd think of doing. Maybe he also simply had just very little or very light body hair though, I think it would fit in with the rest of his appearance.

I could go on for longer but I think this post is already long enough so I'll stop for now. At first I thought about making an extra category for family photos as well as for WW1 pictures of him, however I don't have a lot of them saved and was mostly using pictures here that I already had and didn't have to look up first. This was very fun though, I just love looking at all kinds of photos of him. Thanks for the ask <3

[toruland]

im not at all trying to diminish the work of those that write this way for black readers

but i wish there was more of like weird/nerdy (???) black readers? or readers that don’t align with (and i hate to say it like this, but im not quite sure how else to describe it) the stereotypical black woman?

like, 95% of black reader ffs i come across include the reader wearing nails and wigs and being extroverted and/or being a partygoer and whatnot

and while i do understand that there are plenty of black readers out there who are very much like that, i also just wish there was more of like, the nerdy/“loser”-esque black readers

yknow, the ones that play video games or read books or literally need to be forced out of the house/their room because if they aren’t, they can and WILL stay holed up in there (i just caught a stray with that one LMAO). or ones that have ADHD/autism (caught another stray cause im 90% sure im somewhere on the spectrum), or cant do social interactions with people they dont know because it literally tires them out n stuff

or maybe ones that play instruments or have cute little hobbies or talk to themselves even though they have other people to talk to (atp im just calling myself out)

and i feel bad for being all like “you all need to write more of x, y, and z” considering im not/don’t consider myself a writer

but i just wanna feel represented SOMEWHERE, i guess. the only place i have fs is like, x plus size reader fics, but i don’t want that to be the focus of everything i read (and i read an unhealthy amount of ff 💀) just to feel like i can actually fit in with the story? i don’t fit with the “pink cheeked”, “white knuckle”, etc. description i see very often, but i also don’t fit in when it’s actually about a black reader 😭 and it’s hard to pretend that i do when everybody and their mother knows that i very much do not :(

but that’s today’s rant, i guess

[stranger-nightmare]

maybe hot take and maybe ppl will disagree with me on this, but 🗿 well. so you know how most of the fandom headcanons Eddie as bi or pan? i like to see him as that too, but that he also doesn’t really have an specific “type”? like, he might me attracted to certain people, but he ends up being able to be attracted to anyone, no matter what they look like, because he likes their personality so much (like he’s demisexual or something, idk how to explain this lol). so i feel like he’d be attracted to women, men, non binary ppl, gender fluid ppl, whoever, and with any body type/style. you’re a cheerleader? cool. you’re alt? cool. you’re chubby? he loves your tummy rolls, your thick thighs, how soft you feel, even if you might not like any of this, because it’s you. you’re skinny? he loves your small breasts, how small you look all around, how easy it is to pick you up, even if you don’t like any of this, because it’s you. you’re an athlete, you work out and have big muscles? he loves your dedication to your body, how strong you look, how YOU can pick him up, even if you don’t like any of this, because it’s you. if you’re not mean to him and you don’t judge him like 90% of the town does, it’s already a huge step to get him to like you, and then he sees how you took time to get to know him, the real him, not “the freak”, the “cult leader” or whatever other stereotype people give him, and how you like him for him too. and then he’s so attracted to you, to your personality, your looks, everything, just because you got so close and you’re so good together, in his mind. maybe i’m just projecting because i relate so much to him and i’m the same in this sense 💀 but yeah. and i might be reading way too deep into this, but i see a lot of (not here, but everywhere that ppl talk about Eddie) “would he like x girls?�� and i’ve let my insecurities get in the way of enjoying a character once because of my own insecurities (not being fit and all and ppl seeing him as only being attracted to “fit girls”). yeah, i feel like he would like you no matter what you look like. he’d love you just the way you are because why not 🤷‍♀️ again, hot take and maybe just projecting lol but yeah, thanks for reading my dissertation (i’m sorry, i could talk about soft Eddie for days 🤧)

I don’t think this is a hot take at all my darling, everyone is entitled to their own opinions / headcanons!

honestly this is kinda exactly how I see Eddie as well, I just don’t think he’s really into labels or anything, he just likes who he likes, he’s completely enamoured by who you are as a person more than anything else! what you look like is kinda secondary to him, he finds you sexy no matter what bc he just loves you so much! so yeah he’s not really too fussed about gender or aesthetic or anything like that

so whenever anyone asks me ‘would Eddie be into x type of people’ the answer, in my humble opinion, is always yes, yes he is!

someone with the opposite aesthetic to him? he’s in love! someone with a similar aesthetic to him? he’s in love! someone chubby / plus size? obsessed! someone skinny / average? obsessed! she/he/they, he doesn’t care! imo Eddie really is all about who you are first and foremost

however, again, this is just my opinion and everyone’s headcanons are valid! <33

- hope