#aspen rants

[aspengrovethechaotic]

Oh fun we're dissecting and criticising Orientalist tropes in the character design of a Greek wind god-based character!

So are we going to do the same thing for EPIC or...uh...we lettin' that art slide?

[ineirable]

i feel like some people in the GO fandom r WAYYY too desperate to defend azi in the finale. look i love azi as much as the next person, he's a darling, but you have to admit that he was wrong. it's not like he was wrong on purpose, he was misled. he's still incredibly prejudiced towards hell ("well obviously you said no to hell, you're the bad guys"). he says 'you're the bad guys' instead of 'they're the bad guys', he's still subconsciously including crowley in that group even if he loves him. and not to target anyone butttt i don't really like people trying to defend him by saying 'BUT WHAT IF THE METATRON WAS THREATENING HIM' because no??? azi was very obviously excited to tell crowley, he could barely even get words out.

crowley is actually right most of the time in their arguments, but because of azi's prejudice against hell, he naturally wants to believe he (azi) is right because he's on the good side and crowley is on the bad. (he still also subconciously believes he cant trust crowley fully– "even if i did know where the antichrist was, i wouldn't tell you, we're on opposite sides!") heaven is the side of truth. azi is wrong in the end, but he's not trying to be malicious. crowley's right, but it's just going over azi's head. when crowley says "you cant leave this bookshop", azi took it literally. crowley does understand it a whole lot better than azi does.

anyway that probably means nothing just had to say that thabk you for coming to my ted talk

[faggot-friday]

googles "what to do when you realise you have more followers than you think you did"

[crashouts-of-a-uni-student]

Moonage daydream has made me want to fix my mental health in a way I have never felt before.

[aspeninja]

the current mood: pointing out some inaccuracies/differences to myself in the college/university AU I just read as compared to my college experience so far

things to note:

-it was Haikyuu!! (wow what a surprise the fandom I’ve been focused on this past month)

-Bokuaka + reader specifically

-I don’t usually read college AUs, no particular reason, just never felt like reading them

-I’ve read some before but none of them really focused on dorm life as much as the one I read did. Like the most they mentioned was basically “this is my major, wow school is hard” and the like.

-In my mind I was imagining the dorms in this fic as if they were modeled like mine and half the time I was like “it wouldn’t work like that!” but like uhh Aspen you dummy not all college dorms look the same

-examples: “I’m sure you wouldn’t have to buy your own mini fridge for the dorm, mine came with one” “rip to reader-san but my library is open like 24/5, only closing at night on the weekends” Japan might be different aspen u dummy or your school’s just cool like that idk

-one thing in particular I kept nagging in my head about was like “omg Bokuto it’s midnight people are trying to sleep don’t you have quiet hours???? Won’t your RA yeet you into the void for being loud???”

-Idk I might just read more college AUs and enjoy them and also compare them to my experience because I can’t help it.

-Also now I’m wondering that if I had read more college AUs before coming to college myself, would I have been like “this is nothing like what I’ve read in fics!” Like would I have just had unrealistic expectations? Cuz im sure some authors of college AUs, especially in Haikyuu!! where that trope is abundant, are just high schoolers who got their idea of college from other college AUs themselves.

Anyway that’s my rant of the day.

Stay vibing.

[uncle-octopus-blog]

So- I'm flat broke. And in some hefty debt. And my work just got a new dress code. A dress code in which I have maybe two outfits that fit said dress code. If you're able to do a commission or just want to donate to help me get some clothes so I can keep working I would deeply appreciate it. Otherwise I might lose my job.

[aspengrovethechaotic]

one of these days I'm gonna write a fanfic thats just filled with Crap That Happened To Me Working Customer Service and y'all won't be able to stop me

[aspengrovethechaotic]

Aspen's affirmations for the day:

My computer is more scared of me than I am of it

Speech to text is lovely

Carpel tunnel isn't real and can't hurt me

I will not punch a wall

I can go a few days without writing angst

Kicking technology is counter-productive

The typos add character