told my friend the other day that i’m really into LEGO Ninjago rn - they just got back to me and told me two things:
1) I’m really an 11 year-old boy deep-down apparently
2) Gave me an updated kin list which was just “JAY” in bold and like underlined LMAO
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I don't know if this is like,,, a common trope anymore but the whole "girl with glasses = ugly and she so beautiful without them wow who knew glasses made people so ugly ewewew" has genuinely stuck with me since I was tiny
I've worn glasses since I was 4 - I'm now 18 - and they went from "Just for screen and reading" into "all-the-time" wear when I was about 8? Maybe 10 - and without my glasses I'm incredibly blind (very shortsighted) so they're a big part of my life
And I've always hated it. Because of what was pushed in movies/TV shows/books. I always thought I was ugly. I used to purposely not wear them because I thought it would make people like me. Every trip to the opticians I would hope that suddenly my eyes would fix themselves. I started begging for contacts at 14. I started researching laser-eye surgery at 15. I never gave any characters I created glasses because then they'd be ugly. Any "self-inserts" never had glasses because in a perfect world i didn't. Whenever I imagined myself/daydreamed about doing something I never had glasses and I would feel free - I would feel like the "real me".
I was looking in the mirror a good while ago (sometime last year?), just sorta staring at my face and for once, I realised I wasn't upset with my glasses. I don't know why and how it happened, I don't know when my viewpoint subconsciously shifted but all of sudden I wasn't picking out the faults that I swore up-and-down I had. I just saw me - and i thought i looked really pretty, glasses and all. It was weird and I had to sit and think for a while afterwards. This experience came back to me like an hour or 2 ago because I again was looking in the mirror (face cream and stuff) and I zoned in on my glasses because I looking at the colours of my frames (they're gold & purple - very cool) and I suddenly remembered how much I used to avoid this. I would have taken off my glasses just to look in the mirror but now I don't even bat an eye - it's weird to look in a mirror WITHOUT my glasses because otherwise i have to practically be pressing my nose against it in order to see.
And it just made me realise how less harsh i am nowadays when it comes to my looks. I now imagine myself with my glasses. When I create characters I give them funky eyesight, sometimes having glasses, sometimes with contacts. I no longer try to deflect compliments from my friends surrounding my glasses because they think they suit me and that I look pretty with or without them. I like me in glasses.
I dunno why this has suddenly come to me - nothing has happened to make me think about all this. I just,,, was thinking about it - about how that dumb trope that was EVERYWHERE ruined my perception of myself for most of my childhood/all of my teenage years. I really hope that this trope isn't a thing anymore in modern media (I don't really watch,,, mainstream stuff lmao) because it's SOOOOOO stupid. I hope the younger generations aren't having to deal with the self-hate I did.
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Intro Post <3
hi hi hello hello! :D - I thought I'd do this now because why not LMAO
I'm Poppy (she/her), an 18 year-old just vibing around here. This blog doesn't really have a theme - I just reblog/talk about whatever interest i have at the time :3
MAIN INTEREST/ONE'S YOU'LL SEE THE MOST:
Lego Ninjago (most likely talking about Lloyd) - (also I went through a phase of making incorrect quotes for Ninjago so if you scroll far enough back you'll find them LMAO)
Our Life: Beginnings and Always
Our Life: Now and Forever
STUFF YOU MAY SEE RANDOMLY:
Visual novels (a general interest of mine so they will come up A LOT but its normally the two I listed earlier but sometimes other ones come into my orbit)
Youtube stuff (sorry 🧍♂️)
Random TV shows/movies (sometimes from my childhood) that get like 2 posts in a row and then radio silence afterwards
Random video games that I don't really talk about but do enjoy
I have DESPERATLY tried to organise this blog, so I have a few(?) tags to do with it - these will be in the "tags" section on this post but im also going to list them here with explanations:
#hmiae rambles - posts where i have just yapped and yapped, normally in the tags and they could be about anything LMAO
#hmiae personal - times where information i have shared/talked about is from my actual "offline" life - stories/facts/anecdotes etc
#hmiae asks - evey single ask I have answered is under this hashtag just for ease - if someone has sent an ask with their actual blog name, these asks will also be labelled with "#your username asks me" so that its easy to find your own ask if needed/wanted
#hmiae art - my art! - stuff i have drawn (honestly this is mostly my OC, actually might JUST be my OC lmao)
#oc poppy hart/#ninjago poppy hart - these tags are SPECIFICALLY about my OC for Ninjago (most, if not all of these posts are art i believe) - these tags are normally paired with #ninjago oc and #ninjago oc art (but of course these aren't my own tags)
Uhhhh - I don't have any strict dni's? Just know that I AM in the LGBTQ+ community and i really do not have any hangs-up about blocking people - so just be nice (and no weird minor x adult stuff because EW + illegal)
My asks are always open & I have the anonymous feature on (may change if people start to get weird)
Thats it! I hope you have a fun time looking around <3
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