I Don't Even Go Here But I Love It, Such A Lovely Read 💖💐 This Was So Fun, Thank You For Entertaining

Moved liked months ago but only now have I opened those packing boxes to organise my bookshelf. Not me ignoring the rest to take a picture as if I'm done 😂 (and they're all also randomly slotted in with no regard for any sort of organisation).

The AOT manga boxed sets are a new happy addition 🤩 still awaiting volumes 23 to 34 though. Burned a hole in my wallet, but I suppose we deserve to find small joys in life when we have to live the life of a corporate slave 😌

Shoutout to @storiesofaot for recommending R.F. Kuang's Babel to me! Hehehe

also, RecipeTin Eats cookbook is the best ever, go get it. Trust me.

This is the scene where Levi apologizes for causing the death of a member of Hange's squad. (season3 #42)

I love this scene because it shows the trust and bond between the two, who can read each other's emotions by looking into each other's eyes.

here's some more unsolicited adult advice as someone in her 30s who knows there are a lot of twenty somethings and teens that follow her: if you're trying to build a new habit you really want, and are struggling, you have to break it down to the smallest building block possible. If you're failing, you haven't thought small enough. I know it's possible to hear stories of people who just snapped into new life mode one day by "just deciding", but truly what's happening there is a confluence of events and experiences that force the brain into some sort of epiphany. You cannot will an epiphany. It'll never work. For most times of your life, you will need to build habits intentionally, and that means not working against yourself and to set micro goals. like laughably tiny goals. because once that easy tiny goal is met, you can build off it, tiny goal after tiny goal until you reach your big goal.

so for example, if you want to be a morning person that gets up at ass crack dawn so that you can work out, eat brekkie, shower, and get to work at a leisurely pace, and you're not that person because you will hit your snooze button 800 times, you have to get the big picture goal out of your head. think smaller. "I want to get up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do." If you can't do that, make it 5 minutes. "I want to cook breakfast every day" hell no too big. "I want to eat something, anything, before I leave the house" hell yeah, fantastic. When you go to the grocery store to make sure there are things in the house for breakfast, if you keep buying bagels and microwave sandwiches that you ignore, you gotta think smaller. SMALLER. What's something so easy to eat that you'll never say no to. Is it a yogurt? Is it a handful of grapes? Is it a hostess ho ho? is it hot cheetos? FORGET the big picture of the fantasy put-together woman preparing a full nutritious meal that you'd be proud to admit to. Think only of the smallest goal you can achieve. If you know you can't say no to an ice cream sandwich, put a ton of ice cream sandwiches in your freezer and have one for breakfast every day until it's so instilled in you that you gotta get up to eat something you can start diversifying.

It sounds like, from the lack of habit place, that must take forever. But really it doesn't take too long to form the habit once the discipline kicks in. the trick is that you have to give your brain something easy to become disciplined to. If it's too hard, think easier and smaller. No one has to know. Literally no one in the gd world has to know that for 4 weeks when you were 22 you had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every day. who cares. If it gets you eating oatmeal with fresh fruit in a few months who cares. you did it, yay. smaller, easier. if you can't do it, think smaller and easier. smaller!! EASIER!!! You are not thinking smaller and easier enough. break your brain thinking how small and easy you can go. SMALLER. EVEN SMALLER, SIS.

I guess you could call this a modern AU version of Levi and Hange. I've been dying to draw people hugging, and since anything turns into Levihan lately, this is what happened lol xD

(Reference is under the cut.)

I think it’s very fun and beautiful that there are nontraditional fic formats that certain fandoms can do and do well, and whole genres of fic that are popular in one fandom that you may never see in another

Tales From The Ackerman Estate

Chapter 34: Knowledge

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief — Ecclesiastes 1:18

Link: AO3 (9k words)

Notes: I'm super stressed and I have a flu, but anyway enjoy the chapter!

3 MORE CHAPTERS TO GO!

Click here if you want to read from the beginning: AO3

Synopsis: A young governess, Hange Zoe, is hired to teach Mikasa Ackerman, the young cousin and ward of the owner of the great Ackerman Estate in Trost, Levi Ackerman. Their bad impressions of each other alongside the polar opposite of their personalities shall make it impossible for mutual affection, and yet they inevitably find themselves to be dangerousl intertwined with each other. [Levihan Victorian Era AU]

jae-won will be remembered 🙏

saw @aemelia do a "draw this in your style" and thought I'd take a crack! I started this a week or two ago and hit a few mental walls but I thought I'd share it regardless ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ Ko-Fi

You learn something new every day, huh.

I know I've said it before but every rewatch I do cements this thought further - elijah wood's performance in LOTR is absolutely insane, they really had a character whose name means "wise by experience", hired an 18-year-old to do it, and he delivered so much that not only is it a beautiful and moving role on its own, it's a performance equal to those of the absolute powerhouses he played side by side with like ian holm and ian mckellen. to name just a few