#rae's personal stuff

[armin-yeager]

*Wipes Off the Dust*

Holy moly, I log into Tumblr for the first time in like 2 or 3 months and so many bots followed me.

So, I probably should have mentioned this a while ago, but I don’t much do tumblr anymore. It definitely lost its magic after the great purge, and so many artists had to abandon ship. SNK kept me coming back because it’s where most of the fandom was/is, but these last few months the story has been so...depressing, I suppose? I found myself unable to bring myself to log in to discuss it.

You can find me over on twitter at @raevell. I’m currently in Promare Hell over there, though. Mutuals, feel free to ask me for discord deets if you’re interested. 

Mostly posting this because I feel bad for people who sent me messages or notes... I just haven’t been here. I probably won’t be much active until the manga ends or the anime continues, either.

[armin-yeager]

Go See Promare

Completely unrelated to anything I post here, but Trigger’s Promare is coming back to theaters for an encore presentation Dec. 8th and 10th in the US. Tickets are on sale now and I urge people to go see it if you have the chance.

I won’t say it’s intentionally gay because I’m bitter and I don’t give anything that label that isn’t completely blatant about its representation, but that being said I 100% agree with one article that gave it the term of being ‘queer-friendly.’ It’s easy to read the two male leads as not straight.

Interesting world, interesting themes relating to prejudice, fun anime insanity with crazy powers and mechs, loved the characters, great aesthetics, and phenomenal soundtrack (Sawano who also does SNK’s soundtrack did this one.) Sub and dub are both excellent.

Not even a big fan of Trigger as they tend to be too ‘out there’ for my tastes, but I feel like they kept it grounded enough that it worked for me. Though that being said, gotta have some willing suspension of disbelief for sure because it does pay homage to a lot Trigger’s old works.

Very minimum to almost no fanservice when it comes to the female characters. If you’re picturing Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann, there’s none of that. While the female character’s aren’t as prominent as the male leads, there are two that do play a role in the plot. 

I loved it. Easily became one of my favorite movies of all time, 10/10.

[armin-yeager]

Anime Changes: “At the end of Season 1′s OP, Eren’s eyes turned red. Was it an effect of him turning into his titan form?” Isayama: “It’s because the anime was completely at director Araki’s discretion. In the original work, it was not designed like that.”

Completely at Araki’s discretion.

I literally got into an argument with someone on another website that kept insisting that Isayama approved all changes and had so much creative control over the anime, and told me I just needed to accept that it was his vision and let it go.

This feels so damn good and validating.

[armin-yeager]

I am so sick and tired of tumblr recommending me posts featuring my NOTPs, I’ve lost track of all the times I’ve closed posts featuring them and they STILL show up, can it please take the hint already.

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There was such an insane amount of hype about Eren asking about it being a girl that Falco wanted to save and all these comments about Eren growing up and finally ‘getting it.’

I am way to amused by the implications that it was influenced by someone else and not Eren’s idea at all.

[armin-yeager]

By sheer accident found out that one of my fics is on the first page of Ao3 if you sort Eren/Armin by kudos and that makes me feel accomplished and also sad I haven’t written any fanfic in ages.

[armin-yeager]

Got the best gift today. It's super awesome and was unexpected. Thanks so much again, @deadendseid!

[inkandcarnage]

Finally gave in and took the dog in for an endoscopy. She's been sick since June and I've been holding off because I hate stressing her out.

She had a reaction to her pre-anesthetics 10 minutes in and had to be reversed. She's fine now but they weren't able to even start the endoscopy. Very frustrated because I was looking forward to finally having some answers, and now I'll have to take her back in (maybe) and put her through another procedure.

😔