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big-trouble-in-little-eldia · 1 year

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A deep dive into AO3′s Bertolt Hoover shipping tags

I got bored and I like making lists and excel sheets, so I went ahead and mined all the data from the various Bertholdt relationships that exist on AO3. The resulting statistics and graphs are quite interesting, so I want to share them!

To start, I went to AO3′s tag search page, searched for every ship that contains Bertholdt OR Bertolt, picked the Relationship category, selected Canon and Non-Canon, and sorted by chronological ascending so that they would show up in the order in which they were created.

Then, I went ahead and collected the following data:

The canonical ship name

Characters involved

Type (romantic or platonic)

Genders involved

Number of characters in the ship

Number of fics in the tag

The order in which they were created

A link to the works and tag page

The number of G, T, M, E, and Not Rated fics

In doing so, I ignored synonym ships. Half of all of Bertholdt’s current 525 ship tags are variations on Reiner/Bertholdt. I’ve only catalogued the canon tag, or if that was missing, the most canon spelling.

Then, I went ahead and created some tables to count totals and other numbers that seemed interesting.

Important to note is that the total number of fics isn’t an accurate sum of total fics that are on the archive. For example, if a single fic is tagged with both “Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover” and “Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover”, then this fic will represent itself twice in the data. The numbers are more to be taken as relative: how many fics contain this ship tag and how does that compare to other ships?

I went with ships because these are the easiest way to ensure that the fic is at least a little bit about Bertholdt. Most fics that tag him have him in the background or he doesn’t even show up in them. When at least one relationship with him is tagged, the odds that he’s relevant in the fic increase by a lot. The number of fics that have him as a main character but that don’t tag him in any relationships is rather insignificant, so this is the best way to go through Bertholdt fics and collect some data.

You can find the full sheet here. Data was captured on the 8th of January 2023. The newest ship tag at the time was Bertolt Hoover/Onyankopon and I will likely not update these stats since it’s quite a bit of work. Unless some really bad life decisions lead me to still be in this fandom in five years and data has shifted enough to see an evolution.

Find the full sheet with data here.

Let’s go through the data!

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Number of fics

When sorted by size, these are the ships with the most fics:

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover (2666)

Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (465)

Bertolt Hoover/You (310)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover (300)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (275)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (125)

Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover (75)

Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (63)

Bertolt Hoover/Eren Yeager (61)

Bertolt Hoover/Original Character(s) (59)

Bertolt Hoover/Jean Kirstein (58)

Marco Bott/Bertolt Hoover (55)

Bertolt Hoover & Reader (40)

Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover (32)

Sasha Blouse/Bertolt Hoover (30)

Reiner Braun & Pieck Finger & Marcel Galliard & Porco Galliard & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (29)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Reader (25)

Mikasa Ackerman/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Porco Galliard/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Bertolt Hoover/Ymir (20)

Not unexpected that RBA ships and reader ships are at the top, considering the former has always been popular and the latter is a large trend at the moment.

I was surprised that Bertholdt/Armin is the largest rarepair considering that when I first got into this ship in September of 2020, there were about 20 fics in this tag and over half of them were either crack, didn’t contain them, or had them as background characters. It’s nice to see it boom!

Ships with Eren, Jean, and Marco are one of the first Bertholdt ship tags to be created on AO3. They used to be popular in the early days but are quieter in recent years due to a shift in character spotlight.

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Characters

Ships

The following graph shows how many Bertholdt ships each character is a part of.

Reiner, Annie, Marco, Jean, Eren, Marcel, Armin, and Reader take up the top spots for characters who appear in the most ships.

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Fics ‎

When you bring in how many fics are tagged with a ship containing each character, the view becomes quite skewed.

Because of the sheer number of Reiner/Bertholdt fics, Reiner racks in 3530 fics, representing 65,8% of all Bertholdt fics. Annie comes in second at 996 fics or 18,4% and Reader is third with 310 or 5,7% of fics.

To give a more representative overview of the other ships, Reiner, Annie, and Reader’s data were removed from this graph.

Armin (122 fics), Jean (115 fics), Marco (106), and Eren (100) are notably higher than the rest.

In the second grouped tier, we have Porco (63), OC (58), Marcel (54), Sasha (48), Pieck (41), Ymir (41), and Mikasa (27).

In the third, we have Erwin (17), Connie (14), Historia (10), Levi (7), Gabi (5), Colt (4), Hange (4), Zeke (3), The Colossal Titan (2), and Mina (2).

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Romantic vs Platonic

The table shows some interesting data. Let’s look at that as graphs.

An interesting number when it comes down to ships: 41,6% of all ships on AO3 are platonic ships (&) and 58,4% are romantic (/). However, this also shows that the number of ships can deviate wildly from the number of fics:

If you look at the bulk of fics that are associated with a romantic Bertholdt ship, suddenly that number becomes 16,7% platonic vs 83,3% romantic.

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Fic Rating

A fic can only have one rating. There are five ratings available:

G, or General Audiences, for fics that can be read by anyone

T, or Teens and Up, for fics that contain slightly more mature themes

M, or Mature, for fics that contain mature themes or mild sexual content

E, or Explicit, for fics that contain explicit sexual content, violence, or gore

Not Rated, for when the author doesn’t think the fic fits neatly within one category and they leave it open

For every ship, I went ahead and counted how many fics there are in each category. Check out the full sheet for every ship’s percentages.

First off, the number of ships that have at least one fic per rating. For example, G’s 50 means that 50 different ships have at least one fic that is rated G.

Interestingly enough, E is the most represented rating among the differing ships, followed by T, then M, G, and Not Rated. But the statistics are generally well-balanced.

Second: the number of fics that are tagged with each rating.

In terms of fic representation:

T > M > E > G > Not Rated

Note that just because a fic is rated E, that doesn’t mean that the content of that warning applies to the Bertholdt ship, for example when they’re tagged as a side ship in another character’s ship.

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Number of partners

General

Most ships (41,6%) consist of Bertholdt and one other person. 30,4% has two other people, 13,6% has three other people, 4% four, 2,4% six, and 8% can’t be counted because the character can be plural, for example Original Character(s).

Despite the decent number of 3+ partner ships, an overwhelming majority of fics is about mono ships, namely 86,7%. 9,3% is three partners, 0,9% four, 0,1% five, 0,6% six, and 2,5% can’t be counted.

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Romantic

Looking at solely romantic ships, there is a notable increase in 3 partner ships.

Percentage-wise, the number of fics for mono ships is even higher than in the global numbers. Mono ships represent 92% of all romantic Bertholdt fics. Three partner fics are 4,7%, four are 0,6%, five and six are both 0,02%, and 2,6% can’t be classified.

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Platonic

There is a notably small amount of 3+ platonic ships compared to the others.

However, the number of fics that contain a friendship between three characters is higher. Two platonic partners accounts for 60,5% of all platonic fics, three for 32%, four for 2,1%, five for 0,3%, six for 3,3%, and others for 0,4%. The uptick in six characters is probably due to the number of RBAMPP fics.

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Ship composition

Romantic

M/M, M/M/M, M/F, and M/M/F have the largest amount of ships.

There are more M/M romantic ships than there are M/F ones. Notable is how the number of M/M ‎fics is about 5x higher than the number of M/F fics. Only one M/X ship and two fics exist.

When it comes to ships with a total of three partners, a funny pattern emerges. While M/M/F only have about the third of the amount of ships that M/M/M has, it has almost 3x the amount of fics because of M/M/M. M/F/F has only one fic, which goes to his ship with Ymir and Historia.

Looking at 4+ partners, there aren’t many ships. Still, despite being represented by only two ships, M/M/M/M sticks out above the rest, which is due to RBJM being paired pretty often.

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Platonic

2M, MF, 3M, and 2MF are the largest platonic ships.

The gap between MM and MF ships is smaller for platonic ships than for romantic ones. Still, M&M dominates in terms of fics, with almost 4x the amount of fics compared to M&F.

3+ platonic partner ships show a large skew due to RBA ships as well: 278 fics are M&M&F and the next highest number is M&M&M&M&F&F, mostly inhabited by respectively RBA and RBAMPP. That’s almost 10x as many fics as the next item! Hence why it��s been removed from the graph.

Notable is that there is no RBAMPPZ relationship yet.

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I kinda of lost the plot at this point and have run out of information to showcase

If there’s anything else you’d like me to make a graph out of, I’d love to do so. I can pretty much compare every data point against every other data point.

(Go and populate the smaller ship tags!)

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leadersguilt · 8 months

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he appears, as he's always been, reticent, the stillness at the bottom of the well, a sinking shadow encompassing movement and a slanted backbone; proclaimers gaze reaches his own despite the cowardice and fodder ( i guess you're right, he can tell there is a story behind that, one beyond a boy with a tight smile and even tighter hands, the apparent antithesis to his conviction. ), devilish smile merely widening upon his visage as his elbow nudges it's way by his side, closing the distance in turn. ' sorry for being so troublesome ' he murmurs, and it takes jean a moment to swallow his laughter in turn; if this is a problem, then how many times has he disrespected those he has never sought forgiveness from?

“ can't say i'm a fan of the competition, of course ... ” there's a curiosity still inked into his tone, and if asked to place the reason in which caused it ... well, even he remains slightly uncertain. “ but having the top ten means nine other punks have gotta get through. you know what i'm talking about, right? ” faceless voices, jutted and seamless / voiceless names, distorted and infrequent; the countless dreams of those who end up clattered or broken, deserting or fleeing into the agriculture without a second to none thought. the reflection of what is to come ----- “ speed is a pretty good quality to have against this lot. learnt it from experience, or just the best you know? ” half question / half analysis; he's still observant towards them all.

@teufelme, continued from here.

#teufelme #ic.#tried rbing and omg ... i broke the draft so hard and idk how to fix it without doing the break #the tumblr hasnt read our rps enough to know berujean stands supreme ....#bert apologising and jean is (playfully!) bullying. true partnership

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ao3feed-eremin · 1 year

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Let Us End This On a Sunday

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3NDeqm6

by BitterBuckyBeLittlesMe

Sequel I am working on to Sundays Are Reserved For You, if anyone is interested. This is not required to understand the other one. This one is basically an extension of the other one if anyone wanted a story on what happened after Jean disappeared.

Words: 7898, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Sundays Are Reserved For You

Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Categories: M/M

Characters: Jean Kirstein, Jean Kirstein's Mother, Eren Yeager, Bertolt Hoover, Armin Arlert, Mikasa Ackerman, Sasha Blouse, Marco Bott, Pieck Finger, mentions Annie Leonhart, Connie Springer, Levi Ackerman

Relationships: Bertolt Hoover/Jean Kirstein, Marco Bott/Jean Kirstein, Armin Arlert/Eren Yeager

Additional Tags: berujean, Eremin - Freeform, jeanmarco, Drug Use, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Implied Sexual Content, Drug Addiction, toxic, Codependency, Mind Manipulation, aot - Freeform, Alternate Universe - No Titans (Shingeki no Kyojin), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Emotional Constipation, drug addict Jean, potential OOC, potential out of character, Eren Jaeger - Freeform, Mikasa Ackerman & Eren Yeager Are Siblings, POV Jean Kirstein, Bottom Jean Kirstein, Jean Kirstein Being An Asshole, Bertolt Hoover's Name Spelled as Bertholdt Hoover, POV Bertolt Hoover, Top Bertolt Hoover, POV Eren Yeager, Protective Eren Yeager, POV Marco Bott, dubcon, slight noncon, dark themes, trigger warning, Bertholdt is cruel, faith - Freeform, soul searching, Stubborness, Rock Bottom - Freeform, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3NDeqm6

#eremin #ao3feed #fanfic #eren jaeger x armin arlert #armin arlert x eren jaeger

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heavysass · 2 years

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there was someone on tumblr who would draw berujean and their art was so wet and depressed it really unsettled me and i loved it SO much. I can't even start remembering their name and can't find their art on my ol tags and it's making me really sad aaaa I want to see if it is as good as I remembered and idk, I miss when we were all having a good time with snk

#im gonna try my dead blog later #though my tagging there was loose there must be sth there.....#sms

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sookashira · 6 years

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Make me choose: Berholdt or Jean

#snkgraphic #snkedit #snk #shingeki no kyojin #jean kirstein #bertholdt hoover #attack on titan #jean kirschtein #bertolt hoover #berujean #?#edits #mmcgame #chibi

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rosa-the-random-person · 7 years

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Those two pigeons, I swear Imagine your OTP

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doppelbodt · 7 years

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Every day I dig myself farther and farther into rarepair hell, and at this point I doubt there's any hope for me

#wake me up inside #voltron #snk #aot #shingeki no kyojin #ship #attack on titan #rarepair #rarepair hell #voltron legendary defender #sheith #klance #eremin #jeanmarco #berusaha #berujean #petruo #erdgun

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serenityastaroth2197 · 7 years

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Rp partners for kik?

Hi I'm looking for rp partners, perferably with kik, to roleplay ships with. If you ship any of the ships in the tags please send me a message on here to recieve my kik, thank you.

#jeanmarco #marco x jean #marco x bertholdt #marco x levi #billdip #berujean #vegeta x gohan #piccohan #ereri #eruri #eren x erwin #ererwin #erwin x marco #erujean #erejean #erejeanmarco

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deerish · 1 year

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some drawings from the last week.

#reibert #beruani #berujean #beruhan #snk

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dumbbroadsyd · 7 years

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bertolt Hoover/Jean Kirstein, Bertolt Hoover & Jean Kirstein Characters: Bertolt Hoover, Jean Kirstein Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Hipsters, Hipsters, Alternate Universe Summary:

A self described spoiled rich brat and his constantly nervous neighbor find themselves getting closer on a summer afternoon.

#fic #berujean #jean x bertolt #reccomendations #jean kirschstein #jean kirstein #bertolt hoover #bertholdt fubar

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grilledcheem · 7 years

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I started reading erejean fic again last night and there's so many good new ones!!!!

#hannah rambles #i love this ship #i also love berujean but ah #its a super rarepair #like zero content

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perfectackeracy · 6 years

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Good to see Eruri, Reibert and Yumikuri getting the praise they deserve in the JP fandom

Pixiv and Twitter results never lie about that thing. Twitter even less so since Pixiv has become more of an art dump summarizing their Twitter activity.

jeanmarco is so 2013 it's not popular anymore and fans stopped caring about jean long ago

Which is why I said “when Marco is brought up”, because otherwise it doesn’t have much material to breathe -not even merch-, except ultra-nostalgic fans who can’t get past Trost. I disagree about people not caring about Jean anymore. Despite him being sidelined, he’s often used as a shipping proxy with almost everyone. It’s not uncommon for me to stumble on some berujean, erejean or raijean on my TL. People find him very shippeable for some reason.

how about eren/historia and reiner/historia? how popular are they in the Japan fandom?

These two pairings are extremely niche compared to yumikuri. Only a minority ships them and I think Eren/Historia in particular started gaining following because of a portion of Eren fans who read the manga.

Going by Pixiv content submissions alone:

Eren/Historia counts 72 submissions from the erekuri tag and 205 from the erehisu one. In comparison, Eren/Levi counts 18,982 submissions (using the ereri tag) and Eren/Mikasa counts 3174.

Reiner/Historia counts 441 submissions from the raikuri tag and 36 from the raihisu tag. In comparison, the yamaoku tag (Reiner/Bertolt) counts 1604 submissions. Raiberu counts 2569 submissions and berurai counts 2143.

In comparison, the yumikuri tag counts 4468 submissions and 258 submissions from the yumihisu one.

I had to count the total number since Ymir and Historia had the same amount of votes from last poll and the girls rank low in popularity (13th -573 votes- and 14th -543 votes- respectively). Meaning you have their ship and several side ships with men (I’ve even seen some beruhisu). At least, S2 and merch (3DS video game, Sawano exhibit, perfumes, etc...) gave the ship a popularity boost.

Just curious: how did you find out what the most popular ships in Japan are? Or more specifically did you look at Twitter, pixiv, 2chan, a combo, none of the above? I'm asking because Ive been waiting to check out more Japanese fandom stuff but I don't know where to start

I asked a friend who was more aware than me about fandom trends and merch sales and checked Pixiv/Twitter results.

#snk shipping #yumikuri #erekuri #raikuri #jeanmarco #snk #attack on titan #historia reiss #ackerate answers #anon #shipping #historia #Anonymous

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jean-kirschtein-rants · 7 years

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((You guys have me looking up BeruJean now what have y’all done?!))

#likeahbraus #mommakirschtein #timidwarrior #OOC #THE ART IS SO DANG PRETTY Y'ALL

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sookashira · 7 years

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HUGE tag game lol

Ok, I was tagged in lots of games ahaha so I’ll put them together! Thanks to everybody for remember me ;u;!!!

1. I was tagged by @degeo-eitux @shitpost-no-kyojin @softymir @kenken-chan in this game, that I already did! Just the followers changed to 4.418 lol

2. Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag 20 people. Tagged by @chewykookie-scribbles and @pureren

1. Drink: Pepsi ¿? 2. Phone call: I don't like phone calls lol the only one that calls me if my mom anyways xd 3. Text message: My mom too lol 4. Song you listened to: Nodding by Nam Woohyun 5. Time you cried: Yesterday xd

HAVE YOU: 6. Dated someone twice: I've never dated anyone hahaha. 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: Not even first kiss x'D 8. Been cheated on: No lol 9. Lost someone special: Yes 10. Been depressed: Yes 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: I don't drink and I won't neither.

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS: 12-14: Lavender, white, gray.

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. Made new friends: Yes, of course! 16. Fallen out of love: With characters yes. 17. Laughed until you cried: Yup. 18. Found out someone was talking about you: Yes ¿? in a good way at least... 19. Met someone who changed you: Yeah 20. Found out who your friends are: Yes yes. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: No lol

GENERAL: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: I don't remember hahaha I don't use FB anymore. 23. Do you have any pets: No :( 24. Do you want to change your name: I love my name x'D is one of the few things I like about myself. 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: Watch SNK! 26. What time did you wake up: 11am 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Watching youtube videos. 28. Name something you can’t wait for: SNK 3 ¿? 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: 5 seconds ago! 30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: SKIP 31. What are you listening right now: I'm watching El Chavo del 8 hahaha. 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Nope? 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: Agggghhh too many things. 34. Most visited website: Tumblr, youtube and twitter.

LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME 35. Mole/s: Yep~ I have moles in my arms, legs, under my tummy, in my face, in other parts of my body lalala and the most important: I have a mole in the palm of my hand. 36. Mark/s: Scars~ 37. Childhood dream: Astronomer :( 38. Hair color: Brown 39. Long or short hair: Short! Ymir's haircut lol 40. Do you have a crush on someone: BERUJEAN 41. What do you like about yourself: My hands 42. Piercings: My ear lobes 43. Blood type: O+ 44. Nickname: Too many nicknames: starting for the different ways people writes my name and “Gabby”… XD Also Ela, snowflake, copito, cosi, shira bla bla. 45. Relationship status: married to my fave artist, and some friends and characters lol I have lots of husbands and wives. 46. Zodiac: Aries 47. Pronouns: she/her 48. Favorite TV Show: The Simpsons.49. Tattoos: I don't like them. 50. Right or left hand: Right-handed 51. Surgery: Nope~ 52. Hair dyed in different color: I want to dye it! 53. Sport: HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA 55. Vacation: I wanna go to Disney ¿¿¿??? 56. Pair of trainers: 3

MORE GENERAL: 57. Eating: Nothing. 58. Drinking: Tea~ 59. I’m about to: Reblog stuff. 61. Waiting for: My Jean and Armin's cds ;_; 62. Want: Annie to get out of the crystal. 63. Get married: Yeah 64. Career: Kindergarden teacher.

WHICH IS BETTER 65. Hugs or kisses: Hugs but I love kisses in the forehead. 66. Lips or eyes: Eyes~ 67. Shorter or taller: Taller. 68. Older or younger: Same age or older. 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: Nice arms. 71. Sensitive or loud: Sensitive 72. Hook up or relationship: Relationship 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: I like hesitant people but I always love troublemakers the most haha.

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. Kissed a Stranger: I haven't had my first kiss you damn game. 75. Drank hard liquor: I don't drink!! 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: Nop 77. Turned someone down: ??? 78. Sex on the first date: No e_e 79. Broken someone’s heart: I don't know? 80. Had your heart broken: Yes. 81. Been arrested: Nop. 82. Cried when someone died: Yes. You know who. YOU KNOW. 83. Fallen for a friend: Yes.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. Yourself: No? 85. Miracles: Yes. 86. Love at first sight: I don't believe in that. 87. Santa Claus: I like the concept of Santa. 88. Kiss on the first date: Hmmm no.OTHER: 90. Current best friend name: Bernie! 91. Eye color: Light brown. 92. Favorite movie: Finding Dory <3

Again, too lazy to tag lol

#thank you all #tag game #<3333333333333333

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