#toe rambles

[areihachi]

where is all the cute fluffy armin fluff his tags are so ghetto rn i literally sobbed for like 30 minutes over some personal stuff and all i wanted is some cute comfort fluff from my blonde seashell boy but no all u mfs gotta be horny or weirdos 😒

[aspenhanyuu]

anyways. we as a society need to look at this chapter of self aware. read it. read it again. im posting my favorite bits but i am begging on my legs that u at least glance at this chapter. i didnt rmbr tbe majority of jamies arc so reading it while looking for a specific quote destroyed my brain in one hit. JUST

KAI HUGS. (sorry for quality) LITERALY BESTIES YOUR HONOR

HELLO???? his sense in fashion is PEak im so mad rn

this scene is very relevant!!!!!!! u can hear it from the page. explodes forever and ever

AND. THEIR BANTER!!!!!!!!! WHERE will u find a character intro as lovely as jamjes. im waiting. thats right theres none that can compare.

ADDITIONALLY (not from the same chapger as the rest): he smells like fruit. on the money!

if theres any reason to read Self Aware its for hottie mc thottie over here juries of the court. ty and gnight [tips hat]

[bucket-of-amethyst]

My mom: that song u keep listening to is annoying! It sounds like a horror movie :///

Took me one second to realize the song she thought I was listening in loop like crazy is the decked out tip toe clank block sound 😭

[anna-scribbles]

it's been years and i still cant believe steven universe wore flip flops that whole time

[k3n-dyll]

maybe because not everyone has to cater to black and brown readers? if i feel excluded then talk to ur black and brown writers bc why tf would (for ex.) white writers write black readers when…when they aren’t?? yall aren’t victims write ur own shit if u care so much like idk what to tell u but not everyone has to bow down and write the way you want them too.

The fact that this is what you got from me saying that POC feel excluded from fandom is...insane.

I hesitate to even answer this because you sound stupid as hell, but since I think other people need to get this shit through their skulls as well:

If you are a writer, and you claim to be writing an "x reader" fanfic for a character you like, the general consensus is that "reader" in this situation should be neutral for the most part. Sure, there's different versions of that ( "x fem reader", "x masc reader", etc.") , but generally, the idea is that "reader" in this situation could be anyone, yes? A lot of writers on this app and others, write "reader" as if tiny white women are the default.

And you know what?

If you wanna write that way, fine, but say that. If you so desprately want to write about Abby Anderson fucking a 5ft nothing white girl with blonde hair and green eyes - write that. But don't call that shit an "x reader" when you know its a self insert meant to exclude everybody that doesnt look like you. Dont claim to be a safe place for all readers if when POC say they feel excluded from the things you write, you say stupid shit like what this anon just did. If your shit is labeled "x reader" with no other warnings, one should be able to assume that they arent going to see any specifics about body type, hair textures, skin color or eye color - but no. Thats not the case.

I swear, every time we bring this shit up you bitches act like we killed your fucking grandma. If you dont wanna write in a way that everyone can consume, fine, but dont make it seem as if petite white girls are just the default human in every scenario. Theres a content warning over every fic, if you dont want to see how problematic it is to write as if whiteness is the default then the least you could do it leave a big fat warning in that little "CW" section to let us know that you didnt write this with the existence of people that dont look like you in mind.

Oh, and I do write my own stuff btw. Don't ever come in my inbox with this bullshit again. Pissing me off first thing in the morning😒

[merakiui]

a silly shoujo concept with jade where he picks up your notebook after you've left it in class. resourceful eel that he is, he flips through the pages out of curiosity. he's certain he'll just find your notes or doodles you've made out of boredom, but it never hurts to pry just a little. he won't tell a soul if he finds anything embarrassing. certainly not!

to his surprise, he finds a bucket list of sorts, which details all of the things you hope to accomplish by the end of your time at nrc. you're quite methodical about this list. there are academic goals. personal goals. social goals. you've checked some of them off: do well on this year's midterm. commit to an exercise routine. make more friends. etc. etc.

but then he happens upon the romantic goals. things like holding hands, kissing, cuddling, going on dates, sharing meals... he reads through every item on this specific list and finds himself blushing like a lovestruck maiden. it's not because of the nature of this list but, rather, the notes you've made in the margin: possible people to try this with: jade leech?

and his name is the only one you've written! :O is this...an indirect love confession? do you have feelings for him? is now a good time to hopefully try to kindle a deeper bond with you after he's spent so much time pining from the sidelines??????

tl;dr - jade wants to be the one to complete the goals on your romance list, but you're too prideful (and suspicious of him) to admit you'd ever think of him in such a light! that's too embarrassing! too much opportunity to be exploited. and jade's a bit of a shameless coward.

so he decides there's only one solution: he's going to try to court you. the mer way. the human way would be much too obvious, after all. ^^;;;;

[sad-leon]

This poll inspired by a discord convo i watched happen,, somewhere,,, <- i forgor what server it was in, but i've been meaning to make this poll for a while

[ninjawitdaddyissues]

i gave in and did an art about it

[nyaskitten]

Dear god. I am a simple, very simple, SUPREMELY simple man, you know this of me already. Please, let Jay stay dark blue. I happen to think my beautiful wife Nya looks INCREDIBLE with a fully azure gi, don't you? you do? Great, then please let Jay remain dark blue! Forever!

In fact, Why not return ot the gorgeous coloration ideas of his movie gi? Dark blue as his primary color, the lighter blue as naught more than an accent color... please? For me?

[science-lings]

Out of every ship i have been invested in, which isn't a whole lot but still, I think that narumitsu is the most justified in being the most painfully slow burn to ever have burned. Like, it's obvious to literally everyone around them that there is something between them but it still takes twenty years to do anything about it. Not because they're stupid but they're both just specific types of fucked up that make getting into a relationship kind of impossible.

They're both seemingly very reluctant to get into any sort of romantic relationships in the first place, one due to general disinterest and a truly incredible amount of emotional constipation, and the other due to his last (and only known) relationship being so fucked up that he kind of gave up on the concept entirely. Them being excruciatingly in denial about being in love for decades is just so in character because they're just Like That.

Their history is also complicated enough to warrant waiting around for each other forever, there's so much baggage and trauma and hurt between them that it's just crazy. They've saved each other and they've hurt each other and they push each other away, they owe each other their lives and their jobs and their hopes. They would do anything for each other but are still pretty justified in being afraid to take the last step into making their relationship not just platonic.

idk it feels like a lot of other ships fall into the infuriatingly slow romance because the characters are too stupid to take a hint and it's just kind of painful after a while but these are the most hilariously repressed characters I have ever seen and while they might be stupid about their own feelings, it's usually stemming from trauma which is far more interesting for me personally lol.

[areihachi]

hello everyone!! this blog is quite literally dead (i’m p sure at least) and i haven’t consistently written in so longggg due to life and having to unfortunately grow up. i’m starting college next month after taking a gap semester from graduating high school and i really want to put a full fledge fic out! it will be a fic w my beloved sugar booger inumaki toge from jjk he is my beloved (after my armin ofc duh). i know the little bit of followers i do have are mostly aot stans and i promise to feed u guys soon (hopefully) but yeah! i may make a new tumblrini but i’m not sure yet. :)

[aspenhanyuu]

gggood mornin!! its the SA marathon: PT 2 BAYBEEE (split bc reading one thing too long is horrors to my brainsO)

sofar weve gon thru 47 updates ! holy fuck ! thats over a hundred pages!! so what were the arcs, then? (abvriviated titles)

The Beginning

meet your new for-lifer !

Being Hired? (gone wrong)

pretty men, basement time, qna!

side story : hip n pip edidition

The Intern (nd why this is so illegal)

getting caught (gone right?)

Mell, Dont Diss My Trauma You Dickwad, the movie (2013 mo5nochrome)

Alien, the movie (2013 limited colorized)

ART DUMP!!!

annnd, thats where we continue! (specifally, stopped at #47)

after we finish this, ill most likely get started with s402 (webnovel), and then s402 (physical copy] to conpare notes. afger that...? well. perhaps going back and relearning the coded messagez.

have some highlights on some of my favorite panels btw . and read it here urself. on webtoons. and maybe perhaps comment on everythin <3

[landfilloftrash]

seeing ghosts everywhere you go?

are they all in your head or are they here causing that chill in your bones?

[anthurak]

The funny thing about the Bumbleby height difference is that it’s slight enough that Blake and Yang normally don’t really notice or think about it. Until Blake, who is used to being taller than a lot of her friends, decides she wants to do something cool like pin Yang to a wall and loom over her all suave and seductive.

And discovers all too late that she just can’t, QUITE get the effect she’s going for.

[fcb-mv33]

Why someone would need to deny their friendship with Max when the British media ask them about their friendship literally sickens me I cannot.

[donutdrawsthings]

I hope one day the general view on feet in art changes online, both because they're just a normal part of our body, but also because you can create such beautiful symbolism around them in narratives.

They're our connection to the earth and everything that is our reality (and the reality of generations to come). The state of one's shoes (how worn they are) could speak for not only the character's wealth, but also how in touch/detached they are with/from the world around them. In that same vein how often a character is seen walking around barefoot could also say a lot about how free they are compared to characters who cringe at the thought of touching grass without anything on. And then that also gets me thinking about the state of a character's feet themselves. How worn are they? Are they well taken care of?

I'm thinking about this, because I've noticed older stories aren't afraid to mention feet at all. And by mentioning a character has sore feet or blisters, they become more like real people to me as a reader/watcher, too... Instead of being these invincible fictional creations you know will win at the end of a story no matter what.

We used to laugh about how people used to freak out about seeing an ankle, but sometimes the reaction to feet in non-sexual art feels the exact same. I wish it weren't so!