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I hope this anon finds you in your best condition. Now that 'Tales From The Ackerman Estate' is finally finished, (thankyou so much for writing it! what a wonderful story it is, one of the best fanfictions ever written 💖😭) what are you planning next? Would you write something inspired Pride and Prejudice??? OH.. it would be SO good! Also fits LeviHan so much!! I hope you do. Even if you don't.. I know I'll love what you write!
have a good week ahead<3
Helloooo Anon! ✨
I'm good, thank you! Hopefully this answer finds you in your best condition as well 😘
You're welcome! I'm happy that you enjoyed TFTAE!!! 💙
Thank you so much for reading the fic and for your compliment. I'm flattered that you think it is one of the best fics ever written 😭💘 It's an honour, truly.
I do have a new levihan project that I want to do next! Probably gonna be another long fic 😅 (god help me), but it will be set in the modern era.
I have a silly goal though, and that is to put levihan in various eras, and so far, I don't have anything that sets in the Regency era. I agree, I think PnP-inspired levihan would be a lot of fun! However, if I were to write a regency-era levihan, I probably wouldn't do PnP, sorry! 😢
Awww, thank you so much for your support! It means a lot to me 🫶 Please stay tuned to whatever bullshit I'm cooking next 😋
Thank you for your message, anon! You made my day! Please take care and have a great week ahead ⭐
Notes: That's all folks! Thank you so much for joining me on this journey! 🫶🏻✨
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 dangerously intertwined with each other. [Levihan Victorian Era AU]
(pls know that I'm not very good at drawing full body, let alone historical clothings, and so I'm sorry if they look weird... I tried my best T_T)
I tried not to make them too similar to Levi and Hange. I wanted to play around a little with their appearance whilst also still make you see that they're levihan kiddos. I also did the same for their personality!
I like the idea of Levi being the shortest one in the fam, that's why they're and will become taller than him.
Markus's apperance didn't change much from my initial sketch whilst Maeve and Malachi did, particularly with their hair.
Their middle name (from L to R): Gerasimos, Kuchel, and Hannaniah
Their godparent (from L to R): Erwin, Mikasa, and Miche (I really wanted to bring this up in the epilogue but sadly I couldn't find the right moment).
By the time you read this, I'll be posting the epilogue for Tales From the Ackerman Estate, and by then, it'll officially be 4 years and 11 months since I first posted the fic on AO3 (18 Feb 2021-18 Jan 2026). Which means the journey has finally come to an end!
Back in 2021, during the pandemic, I did a little marathon of classic period romance films, and one of the films that I watched was Jane Eyre (2011). Just as any shipper would do, I would automatically try to find which of my favourite pairs could fit the characters in the story.
It wasn’t very hard to draw a connection between the character dynamics in Jane Eyre and Levihan. I mean, a struggling governess who was hired to teach a young ward of a brooding master of a great mansion, it’s giving Hange, Mikasa, and Levi (respectively) to me. I finished the film with a head full of what-ifs and scenarios. I toyed with the ideas for a whole day, and before I knew it, I created a draft for the fic the very next day (I still have the receipt BTW!).
To think that it was (almost) five years ago!
I have always been interested in history, particularly the Victorian Era, and so I was very excited when I started this project. Initially, I thought that this would only be something that I kept for myself, just like most of my other ideas. But, as I wrote the first few chapters of the story, I figured it would be fun to share it with the folks.
With only a laptop, a dream, and my love for Levihan, I posted the first chapter of this fic, and I was literally blown away by the warm reception from the community! I really did not expect that people would find this to be interesting, especially since my English and my writing were so awful back then. That’s why I’m very grateful for the support that I’ve received from my day 1 readers! Without you guys, I probably wouldn’t be here with my 300k words and 30+ chapters.
I originally planned to end TFTAE in five chapters. I tried to keep the story simple and avoid any complex conflicts, because I did not think I was capable of writing a long fic. However, as I kept exploring the story and the characters, more conflicts began to surface, and before I knew it, the number of words kept growing until I couldn’t contain it anymore in just 5 chapters. Even the average wordcounts on each chapter kept rising.
A lot of things had happened within the five years that I worked on this fanfiction; it legit felt like I had lived many lifetimes. I started this fic as a third-year university student who kept falling asleep during online classes. I was literally younger than Hange was during the first chapter of this fic, and now I’m the same age as Levi was when he debuted in this fic.
I learned so many things from writing this fic, especially as a writer. I’m still far from perfect, but this fic helped me improve my English and my writing. Which would not be possible without your endless support for me! Like, I remember doing my first ever round of rewriting for my published chapters, and I was appalled by how horrible my writing and grammar were. I couldn’t believe you guys let me post that… I’m really sorry you had to go through that, guys.
But even so, despite the quality of my writing, you were still willing to support me, and for that, I can’t thank you guys enough! Thank you for believing in me (and for seeing my vision HAHA). I didn’t know how many of you stuck around from 2021/2022/2023 until now, but I want to say thank you for joining me in this journey and for having faith in me, especially during the period where I would have a long gap between updates! You guys are the real ones!
I also want to give my flowers to LunaAzul788, who was my beta reader from chapter 11 to 14. She taught me so many things about English and writing. I wouldn’t be the writer I am today without her, and this fic would not be the same without her notes. Thank you so much for all of your help.
I love writing with all my heart, and I’m unfortunately a yapper—as you can tell from how long this message is. I could easily get lost in myself whenever I started to put my thoughts into words, and I had lost many hours of sleep in favour of writing (don’t do this, lmao). However, at the end of the day, writing is still a very lonely process, and I still struggle with doubts and worries. There were days when I would question my writing and my ability.
That’s why your comments and support mean so much to me. I couldn’t count on how many times my days would become better whenever I received a message from you guys. I particularly want to give my thanks to the readers who would always send their love in the comment section after every update. It’s always a delight to read and to respond to your remarks, impressions, and enthusiasm about the new chapter! I would think about you guys whenever I work on the chapter. You guys were the reason why I kept persevering despite everything!
I’m so happy to know that this fic can bring happiness to those who read it. I had a lot of fun writing this fic, and so it means a lot to know that I can share that joy with the community! And whether you read this fic from day one or maybe only today, allow me to express my gratitude for giving me the chance to entertain you with this silly passion project of mine. Thank you so very much for letting me be a part of this awesome Levihan community!
Honestly, it feels very bittersweet to end this fic. I poured everything into this project because this fic means a lot to me. It’s literally my child! However, all journeys must come to an end, and I’m happy to be able to bring this story to its end. I’m also proud of what this story has become, and especially of myself for this amazing achievement.
I’m still going to write, and I’m still going to love Levihan, so this won’t be the last time you see me, but I know that no matter how many years will pass, this story will always have a special place in my heart.
And even though this fic will only be a small blip in your entire existence, I hope there is still something that you can take away from this story.
Once again, thank you for reading Tales From the Ackerman Estate!
Then I said, ”Oh yeah guys, dw, the epilogue won’t take me a long time to write,” you know, like a liar.
No but really, I didn’t expect this epilogue would be so fucking long… Like, BRO, I have 10k words of outlines... FUCK MY LIFE
20 December 2025
1.1k words ;)
21 December 2025
3k words!!!! YAY
22 December 2025
400+ words. A bit of slow progress.
23 December 2025
700+ words today!
24 December 2025
It’s almost christmas! I didn’t go anywhere and was able to write 1.6k words :D
25 December 2025
Merry Christmas and happy 1.2k words!
26 December 2025
1.3k words today!!!
27 December 2025
I locked in and wrote 2.6k words :D
28 December 2025
Wrote 1.8k words today!
29 December 2025
1.3 k words!
30 December 2025
I had a great time hanging out with my friends today, and I still managed to write 800+ words!
31 December 2025
Ending the year with 222 words :D
1 January 2026
Happy new year!!! Praying for a great year ahead!
I had a lot of fun celebrating NYE with by friends. I ended up being sleep deprived though HAHA.
Still managed to write 400+ words tho!
2 January 2026
I got a very bad headache and I wasn’t in a very good headspace today.
I wrote 300+ words today
3 January 2026
700+ words!
5 January 2026
Skipped a day bcs I was too tired… My social battery was drained empty + first day of period :D
I was able to add around 400 words though!
6 January 2026
1.2k words LETS GO!!!
7 January 2026
Another 1.2k words progress!!!
8 January 2026
I could only write 450 words bcs of stuff :(
10 January 2026
Skipped a day bcs I was busy prepping for a job interview. I didn’t get the job sadly, but hey, that’s life :)
I wrote 1.2k words today!
11 January 2026
The draft is finished (FINALLY!). I don’t even know if I can call this an epilogue bcs THIS IS SO FUCKING LONGGGGGG. I think I’ll break the epilogue into three chapters.
Hopefully it won’t take me a long time to edit the epilogue :)
“We’ll so begin these rites,
As we do trust they’ll end, in true delights.”
— William Shakespeare
Link: AO3 (12k words)
Notes: It's been one hell of a journey. Stay tuned for the epilogue!! ;)
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 dangerously intertwined with each other. [Levihan Victorian Era AU]
GIRL, I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last update! Life had been crazy lately and I got sucked into it AAHHHHHH. It wasn’t like I didn’t do anything though! I still wrote here and there, I just didn’t record it.
I’m not sure how long this will take me, but HOPEFULLY I will be able to upload It before the year end :)
21 November 2025
1.3k words :)
22 November 2025
800+ words yippeee
23 November 2025
1.8k words wow!!! I’m in the zone!
24 November 2025
Added 800+ words today!
25 November 2025
Idk what is happening… I wrote 1.3k words brooooo. I really locked in!
Notes: Sorry for the late update, I was busy (playing games) ☺️
ONE MORE CHAPTER 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]
I’m not gonna waste anymore time. I WILL FINISH this fic ASAP!
Progress: 300+ words added! :3
31 August 2025
My head hurts so bad from all the things that are happening in my country :(
But nevertheless, I will still create! I wrote around 500+ words today!
1 September 2025
Happy September! 300+ words today! :D
2 September 2025
300+ words again today!
3 September 2025
My country is fucked up and the government are trying to gaslight us, but life still goes on.
400 words today!
4 September 2025
I went out with friends today and we tried this korean food restaurant in our city! It was great! I had a lot of fun hanging out with them :D
But sadly, because of that, I couldn’t write a lot today!
Added 500 words though!
5 September 2025
100+ words oopsie HAHA. I was too tired to write anything :(
6 September 2025
700+ words!
7 September 2025
1.2k words!
8 September 2025
180 words… I had a long day
9 September 2025
I was able to write 500+ words today
10 September 2025
I locked in and wrote 900+ words yayyy!!! I had a lot of fun writing this part!
11 September 2025
By some eerie coindence, the word count is 666…
12 September 2025
120 words later and the draft is finally done!!
17 September 2025
Uh oh! It’s been a while! I was busy these past few days and unable to make any progress :(
But I’m finally back with 300+ words!
18 September 2025
600 words!
19 September 2025
700 words!!!
20 September 2025
600+ words!
21 September 2025
1k words in yeahhh!
22 September 2025
Locked in and wrote 1.2k words!!!!
23 September 2025
I wrote 500+ words today :D
24 September 2025
Added 900+ words!!!
26 September 2025
I was distracted by some things so I ended up skipping a day udwfiejwo, and I could only wrote 200+ words today :(
27 September 2025
Progress is slow because I decided to revise the floorplan for the ackerman manor HAHA. I was so locked in that I didn’t realise it was already late
But anyway, 400+ words!
28 September 2025
I’m still distracted by the floorplan HAHA. I locked in and spent hours on canva—time passed by so fast. I was in a flow state HAHA
I managed to squeeze 170+ words today though!
29 September 2025
720 words today!!!
30 September 2025
Closing this month with 390+ words!
1 October 2025
It’s October already!!! :0
Added 100+ words ^^:
2 October 2025
400+ words!
3 October 2025
Happy October 3rd to those who celebrate!!
I finally finished editing the floor plan, so now I can focus on writing!!! YAY!
Today I wrote 500+ words!
4 October 2025
300+ words!
5 October 2025
I hung out with my friends until like 1-2 AM in the morning HAHA, so I was fully wasted. Not only that, but I just installed Ace Attorney Investigation and Fields of Mistria, and well… let’s just say I was distracted.
But I still managed to add 100+ words! It’s better than nothing
6 October 2025
300+ words!
7 October 2025
400+ words!
8 October 2025
700+ words later and the draft is FINISHED!!! Now we begin the editting process
15 October 2025
A week later and the first phase of editing is done! It’s almost 13k words :0
Will do one last proofread before posting it! Hopefully I’ll be able to upload it this weekend! Fingers crossed :D
How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood -
Then it will be - GOOD night.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Link: AO3 (11k words)
Notes: Sorry this took me like 3 months. Ngl, this chapter got me quaking in my boots 😭
ANYWAY, 2 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]
HEYA IT’S BEEN A WHILE!!! BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH MY BULLSHIT, LETS GO!
25 July 2025
Wrote 300+ words today!
26 July 2025
400 words!
27 July 2025
Wrote around 900 words!
29 July 2025
Skipped a day cause I was tired :’( but anyway I maanged to write around 800 words today
30 July 2025
300+ words!
31 July 2025
400 words yay!
1-3 August 2025
Forgot to update and track :((
Probably wrote around 500+ words in total!
4 August 2025
200+ words!
5 August 2025
100+ words… It has been a slow progress
6 August 2025
Finally locked in and wrote 900+ words!!!!!
7 August 2025
700+ words!
8 August 2025
AYYYY, wrote 1k words!!!
9 August 2025
I had a sleepover with my besties so I could only write around 500+ words!
10 August 2025
I was very exhausted from the sleepover! We stayed up until like 3 in the morning doing 1000-pieces puzzle HAHA. I still managed to write 200+ words though!
11 August 2025
500+ words!!!
12 August 2025
Yeayyy 600+ words!!!
13 August 2025
I locked in and wrote 1.1k words YIPPIE!
14 August 2025
500 WORDS!!!!
15 August 2025
I was in a good mood today, and so I was able to write 700+ words!
16 August 2025
This chapter got me rolling on the floor, MY GOD.
1.2k words btw!
17 August 2025
Shit hit the fan and I was basically useless for the whole day HAHA, but still managed to write 500+ words
18-19 August 2025
1.2k words later AND I’M FINALLY DONE WITH THE DRAFT!!!
LeviHanWeek2025 is almost a month away, and thus we must begin the journey! Ngl, I’m pretty excited for this one! 🤩
The draft is still very messy and I’m still doing a bunch of research, but I managed to write around 1.1k words ☺️
15 June 2025
Wrote around 1.6k today! :0
16 June 2025
WOW, wrote 1.7k words today…
17 June 2025
I’m super stressed today cause of work-related stuff (thinking about resigning from my position…). I managed to write around 600 words though.
19-20 June 2025
It’s brutal out here 😔 I’m still stressed but regardless I persist. I skipped a day cause I was too drained by this one job interview that I did. God why did you make me have to work… I was not born for this…
I lost count on the progress but I finally finished cooking the outline, Not it’s time to write it into one proper draft!
21 June 2025
Wrote 1.2k words today!
22 June 2025
Today was a good day! I wrote around 1.8k words!
23 June 2025
I was super stressed today (well, I have been for a while), but today was probably the worst.
But somehow I locked in and wrote 3k :0
24 June 2025
I had a very long day at work today so I didn’t get to write much, only 300 words…
25 June 2025
Today I sent out my one-month notice to my supervisor. It was hard but I knew I had to do it for my mental health!
I felt a great relief from this decision and managed to write 600 words!
26 June 2025
I had a conflict with someone and it made me feel so awful. I could not write as many words as I wanted to, but I was able to make it to 900 words
27 June 2025
Went out to see a play today with a bestie and we had a picnic after that! It was fun, though very crowded, and it left me in a state of low energy! I could only write 300+ words today :(
28 June 2025
I was soooooo exhausted by yesterday endeavours and I ended up sleeping for like hours today HAHA (hashtag introvert struggles). I was able wrote 600+ words tho
29 June 2025
1.7K WORDS TODAY!!!!! YEAHHHHH
30 June 2025
Locked in and wrote 1.5k words!
1 July 2025
I can’t believe it’s July already! Need to finish this ASAP! Fortunately, I was able to write 1.2k today
2 July 2025
I had a long day at work so I could only write 600+ words
3 July 2025
Why am I suddenly become important at work T_T I only wrote 400+ words today
4 July 2025
Met up with some friends today so I got home a bit later than usual. I still managed to write 400+ words today though
5 July 2025
I ONLY HAVE A WEEK LEFT AAAAHHHHHH
Anyway, I wrote 1.7k words today!!!!
6 July 2025
2.4K WORDS OMG!!!!
7 July 2025
1.7k words for this beautiful 7/7 day!
8 July 2025
I was busy doing other thing so I could only write 600+ words today
9 July 2025
Back at it again with 1k+ words! It keeps getting longer and longer my god
