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Omg this is soooo awesome I love it, thank youuuuu cris 🥺🥺🥺🥺 Now I have a banner to put up every friday and warn off the innocent folks!

Omg haoiagoidghdsgihsdg YES lmaooo xD It's definitely not taking Annie long to start numbering her donuts so she can keep a very strict and close count of how many are left. RIP, because Armin doesn't even like sweets all that much, but sometimes he's so tired he decides to pop one in for that much needed boost of sugar.

WELP tho.

Because Annie would be enraged and ready to kill if this was anyone else caught with Donut No. 8 in their mouth - but this is Armin! Her sof sof boy with a button nose! How can she possibly say anything?!

So instead she becomes dejected and depressed and sad-wet-kitten and when he asks what's wrong, all she has is a very small, very tiny, barely audible, "Nothing."

Some more prodding and pestering finALLY gets her to talk, but then...! Remember that these idiot blondes can only have ridiculous arguments!??

"You ate her!"

"What?"

"You. ATE. HER."

"... who?"

"Her! The prettiest one!"

"... Annie I swear to god I haven't been near a single other girl lately, and WHY would you think that anyway? I love you. You're the only girl in my life, I've told you your eyes are like the sky and-"

"... MY DONUT! YOU ATE MY DONUT!"

"Oh. Oh yes... I did, um-- wait, your donuts are... girls?"

"Well, can they be boys?"

"... I don't know? They're donuts...?"

"...."

"...."

"How could you eat her? She had the nicest sprinkles. I was waiting a whole week and you just. ate it. The nerve."

"I...? Yes? Um, I didn't think you'd mind--there's twenty more in that box but... okay, I'm really sorry?"

"... Since when did you start looking at my donuts that way, Armin?"

for the ask game— how about 1, 5, and 25?👀

Hiiii Cris! I'm doing okay T^T How are you though?!

For the asks:

list 3 positive things about your current fandom(s)

I think the AA fandom as a whole is extremely friendly and chill, don't you agree? I love the engagement, the interaction, and how we have conversations and share our creations! I've been in the SnK fandom a long time now, but in the AA fandom only a couple years, and it always makes me very very happy to see how genuinely warm and sweet this community is. Maybe it's also because of the Tumblr-culture aspect of it, but I also see AA fans on the bird app and they're honestly very nice and chill as well.

I genuinely love how warm everyone is in this community. It's rare and something to be treasured. T_T All of you guys are great!

5. something you see in fics a lot and love

People in the Aruani fandom are so good with humour! Especially Annie's deadpan dry as hell humour xD How are you guys doing that?! It's so cool xD

25. a piece of advice for taking care of yourself in fandom spaces

Love. Engage. Interact. Encourage. Communicate. Honestly when you're in a small-ish community where the people you see on a day to day basis are more or less the same 20 people, it can be really uncomfortable and stressful to have misunderstandings and insecurities and other such things. We all contribute to the fandom just by existing, and so we must cheer each other on. It's us who make fandom a good place to be in. So encourage people to create something they've never done before, or post something they don't have the courage to post. Engage with people's stuff, love it, support it, share it with others. And when doubts and misunderstandings crop up, just reach out and communicate. Most people are so much nicer than we imagine them to be. :3 It's all fine.

how long do you think it'll take annie to utter the words 'i love you' after the rumbling, considering she’s never said that before and loving and being loved is just so new to her, and how long do you think it'd take armin to accept that she might actually mean it?👀

Hi Cris, thanks for the question :3 this is personally a favourite topic of mine T////T!

I think it'll take her quite a long time.

Because as you said, loving and being loved is new to her. The way I see it, Annie isn't someone who's very comfortable with talking about matters of the heart, especially when it relates to herself. She can summon sarcasm and dry humour well enough when it concerns someone else, but her? Her feelings? Her emotions? Good god no; the girl was barely able to meet Armin's eye on the boat and couldn't ask him about his "other girlfriends" without going about it in an extremely roundabout way.

But jokes aside, has anyone ever told her anything even remotely similar to such words before? Not her father. Nobody on the Warrior team before they split in Marley. Not Reiner, not Bertholdt. Paradis was the first place where she experienced something akin to friendship and the sensation of forming bonds with people, and even then she had to remind herself constantly who she was and what her purpose was to be. There was barely anything to dream of except maybe the dim hope of making it back home and live maybe a few bleak years with her dad before her life in this world ended unremarkably. She may have yearned for love and affection but there was no place in her world for it, and so it's not hard to believe she shut her heart off to the concept entirely. So when it actually comes to wanting to tell Armin those magical three words, it's going to be stuck in her throat for a long time.

That's not to say she's bad at expressing herself, physically at least. In general I think talking is so much harder than showing via actions; it's so hard to actually say something, while in comparison, expressing those suppressed thoughts through body language and the senses is much easier. So while Annie may not tell Armin out loud that she loves him, it won't be a difficult task for him to know and understand how she feels about him. (After all, on the boat, she was soooo red in the face huddling into herself that he figured out immediately that she likes him back). It could be in her clear blue eyes, or her gentle touches, her sweet and mild kisses, or her comforting caresses; the three words that he doesn't need to hear but can always, always see and feel.

CRIS! HEYA!

I have had gray hairs for since I was 19ish. It's not genetic. No one else in my family has that. your girl has just been stressed 24/7 since the age of -0.4

on top of the gray hair, I have a serious case of baby face. just to add to the confusion