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Rules: Tag nine people you want to know better/catch up with! — Last Song: Lady May by Tyler Childers

Last Film: Minari. I have … so many thoughts and emotions about what it means to be an immigrant/child of an immigrant in (North) America and it’s … a lot. but above all Youn Yuh-jung deserved the HELL out of that Oscar

Currently Reading: Just … Book of Nile fanfiction. Obsessively. But I’ve been meaning to read Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis - AND!! I picked up a book of conference papers from 1993 about Federalism in Canada and I’m really excited to read that (not because it’ll be super helpful from a political science viewpoint now but it’ll tickle my history brain considering it happened a little over a decade - a presumably the conference happened on the decade mark - after finally got our Constitution and I’m rambling but oooooooh buddy am I excited)

Currently Watching: Nothing really? I’ve been watching cheesy end scenes to romcoms from like 10-15yrs ago, a lot of SortedFood, and a lot of ToddinTheShadows videos I guess?

Currently Craving: Mcdicks poutine, oddly enough

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Tagging: @diemetzgermeisterin (finally! I get to tag you back!), @flawlessassholes @hunnynectarine @pixel-sylveon @fanmoose12 @solid-sunshine @pangolinbabie @lovemedonlothario @suckmyemergencyinductionport

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Tagged by @ethnicallyambiguous-mom ! thanks for that❤️

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Last Song: Moriro da Re by Maneskin

Last Film: i’m not really one for watching movies alone, but yesterday i watched a documentary on history of medicine, so i guess it counts too?

Currently Reading: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah, very intriguing book that tracks the beginnings of most devastating infectious diseases, and i’m also reading Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and I’m liking it plenty!!!

Currently Watching: ehhh, right now i don’t watch anything, but recently i finished shadow and bones, and i liked it a lot!!

Currently Craving: i’ve been craving cinnamon rolls for days now but i’m too lazy to go to the store and buy them :/

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Tagging: @someonestolemyshoes @free-pancakes @solborealis @faerielleart @firelord-suki

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Tagged by @fanmoose12 ! I can’t believe one of my favorite authors acknowledged my existence?? Thank you so much omg?? 😭 💖

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Last Song: Toxic by Yael Naim

Last Film: Raw (2016). All I can say is that it is one HELL of a coming of age movie.

Currently Reading: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I love his work. His stories feel like some kind of surrealist fever dream. The way he sets up the scene makes you feel like you’re in a liminal space. Ugh love. (Also dream sex)

Currently Watching: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). I don’t understand why people are giving FMA03 shit? It’s so good. But then again, I’m the type that doesn’t really care if the story is super loyal to the manga or not lmao. A good story is a good story 🤷

Currently Craving: Sour cream chips, the love of my life

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glassesandswords

Thank you for tagging me @solborealis and also @ihaveaterribleheadache and @levihantrash

Let’s see-

Last Song: Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray. I’ve been listening to calif0rnia’s playlist on YouTube and the slowed version of this song really caught my fancy. It gives out very dream-like vibes and I’m here for it.

Last film: Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I watched a film because I wanted to as it feels like too much effort and commitment; plus I’m pretty much addicted to having my gratification needs met quicker thanks to short anime episodes so…

But hey, I did watch a Nat Geo documentary on exploring the wreckage of Titanic today.

Currently Reading: A really good Levihan fanfic called A Brief History of Reluctant Heroes which contains quality canon compliant fluff and is beautifully written. Go read it if you haven’t yet! (worth making an Ao3 account for that fic tbh)

Currently Watching: Makoccino’s drawing/painting channel on YouTube. I find watercolour tutorials very therapeutic.

Currently craving: An ice-cream cone. It’s hot here plus I want to dig my teeth into some sweet, crunchy waffle.

Tagging: @marmarparadoxa, @ourmondobongo, @chili-aux, @sunshineprotein, @hangezoewidow, @tundrainafrica, @shan101pi and anyone else who hasn’t been tagged yet and want to attempt it. No pressure. Please go ahead.

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Thank you @glassesandswords for tagging me ^^

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Last Song: “Polar Night” by cinema staff

Last Film: “Emma” (2020), the last adaptation of Austen’s novel. I think that’s it, but I haven’t watched movies in a while tbh so I’m not sure lol

Currently Reading: “The Idiot” by Dostoevsky, Jujutsu Kaisen manga, and this levihan fanfic by @someonestolemyshoes which I’m really enjoying! It’s beautifully written and I really like its dreamy atmosphere

Currently Watching: “Game of Thrones”. I’ve been meaning to watch it for a long time, and I’m currently catching up, finally

Currently Craving: tiramisu. It’s an italian dessert with mascarpone cream, flavoured with coffee and cocoa. Also its name in Italian, “tirami sù”, means “pick me up”, or “cheer me up”. In any case, I’d really love to have some x.x

Tagging: @elberlight , @super-peace-fangirl, @donttossgrannyinthebegonias , @corbaccio , @ourmondobongo , @micia-posts-stuff , @lenok993 , @callantry, @mischievous-maiden, @chaulistapante

qoutly

thank you for tagging me @marmarparadoxa :)

last song: Up on the hollow hill by Robert Plant

last film: it was a really long time ago since i watched a movie but it was probably Requiem for a dream. it's a movie which is pretty hard to watch, so be careful if you decide to search it up

currently reading: The scapegoat by René Girard. it's a philosophy book, which i don't open every day, but i'm also planning on reading Tower of god during the summer

currently watching: nothing :') well i started Shadow and bone a month ago but i don't think i'll finish it

currently craving: tonic water or something bitter

i don't really have anyone to tag so everyone who wants to do it, feel free to do so :)

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the-big-ol-guardian

La Planète Sauvage (1973)

#one of the most beautifully animated movies i've ever seen #i love the artstyle so much #movies #art

tundrainafrica

High Profile Japanese Youtuber (taki-san) who does AOT analysis pointing out Levihan Crumbs

Note: He is not a Levihan shipper. This is a very objective analysis. (He didn’t even mention “let’s live together” in 126 analysis)

Keep reading

#ch 132 is the chapter i have a love-hate relationship with #it's so beautiful and painful #one of my favourite chapters #levihan

mysteriousartcentury

Georges Picard (1857-1946), Fées Danse, oil on canvas, 100 x 81.3 cm. In a private collection.

#art

summerdreamsold

passing the torch

#aot #commander

marmarparadoxa

It's because of recent tweets I saw but I know some are blaming the SC (esp the 104th) for not seeing Eren better during the 3 years they had and also for pushing many responsibilities onto his shoulder. I get why they see this as Eren's friends making a blunder but I can't help but disagree partly. (1)

On one side, their excitement and distraction came in the form of the outside world - something that seemed neigh impossible at the beginning of the series and once had been the 'end goal'. We know that's not it now. It seems logical that people like Armin and Hange will be distracted per say towards the new techs and innovations the outside world is offering. How the fruitful encounters they have w Marleyans making them hopeful (2) I understand where they're coming from, especially considering their disposition that tends to be optimistic and intelligent. Others like Jean, Connie, Sasha, and Mikasa can also be distracted by the new things too. It's something so human and highlights how even the close-knit group can make blunders. (3) I don't agree with people blaming SC for not noticing and their slow decision with Eren and the Yeagerists because that means they still care. They value their friendship with him and want to not mess him up more. Even from my perspective, there's a level of respect SC and military have for Eren for not just being the AT and FT but as a person/personnel. (4) It's so easy to 'coddle' Eren because as a reader, we are relatively relegated to a higher see/position to judge. But take it from the charas' views, it's just like real life to a point. They are faced with this time limit and the world going down on them while at the same time, they try to not cross too many moral lines. Especially for Hange who is responsible for many lives under her and Armin's 'kind' disposition. (5) What miffs me is that the people who side with Eren in this case doesn't tend into account that Eren almost never tries to reach out. While it's justified when we put his 'plan' into account, that just sounds selfish to be frank. Yes, he asks Mikasa about 'what he is to her' and he did try Armin's way once, but those are such minimal effort. Sometimes, they themselves need to reach out first and seek help more (6) That may sound cruel, but that's how it works unfortunately. I would be more lenient to Eren if he did more effort with sharing and trusting his friends but he doesn't - so of course, the SC is surprised and shocked and hurt at his actions. They don't know and it's unfair. Eren does this all because of what he saw and ironically is likely doing a self-fulfilling prophecy. He gives up hope and that's his downfall. (end)

Hi! :) Apologies for this late reply. You’ve already covered a lot, so I’ll try to add my two cents on what you’ve already pointed out.

In short, blaming the SC, especially the 104th, or Hange, for not seeing through Eren and not understanding what was going on with him doesn’t make sense to me. Because Eren didn’t allow them to do so, he didn’t allow them to see. During those three years between the battle of Shiganshina and their leaving for their trip to Marley, he kept on working with them, he never disrespected Hange, and almost always he acted and talked in accordance with what were their shared plans for the future. When Kiyomi proposed Zeke’s plan, of course they were all horrified, none of them wanted to proceed with it, and didn’t know what to do, but then, it was Eren who standed up and spoke against it. In front of everyone, Mikasa, Hange, Historia, and the rest of the assembly, he said he would never agree with Zeke’s plan and sacrifice Historia, that relying on the Rumbling would be too risky, and it was he who proposed to use the time they were left with to think about other options, that they should seek other ways. Not long after, he would say to the same persons which would end up risking their life in order to stop him, that they were more important to him than anyone else, and that he wanted them to live long lives. I brought up all this, so to clarify how Eren could be perceived by his friends, what was the picture that they could make out of his words and actions. On the other hand though, there were also some signs that something was off with him. When Armin and Mikasa were talking about the building of the port and them getting along with the captured Marleyans, Eren couldn't be as hopeful as them, and his attitude was sharp and emotionally detached. Then, unlike all others, he wasn’t there for tasting Niccolo’s cooking, and we didn’t see him interact with any Marleyans - he was the only one that was missing when they were talking with Onyankopon, and in all those little, shared moments of peace and hope. So I think Eren, at that point, was already starting to isolate himself from the rest of them, shutting himself up, and maybe, as you also said, with all those new things to understand, with all the work and the building and the planning Hange, Armin, and the others too had to do, they weren’t able to notice this change, they didn’t pay much attention to it. But again, what could they infer from that? With respect to his words, to his resolute opposition to the use of the Rumbling and Zeke’s plan and Historia’s sacrifice, to his outward determination to find another way, those were subtle cues, that could reasonably pass unnoticed, and blaming the 104th for not acting upon them is rather pointless.

So this is where his friends’ remarks in the last episode come from: Jean: “Eren suddenly started getting along with Zeke’s plan”, Connie: “Did he look like Eren to you? I don’t think so.” and Armin and Mikasa’s disbelief and painful confusion. Eren methodically killing children and civilians, Eren getting along with Zeke’s plan was nothing like the Eren they used to know, even in those last years.

And Eren never shared with his friends, or with Hange, and not even with Armin or Mikasa, what he saw in those future memories. He kept everything inside, he trusted no one with that knowledge, ruling out the possibility that anyone could help him understand what was the nature of those memories (was it all bound to happen? Could it be avoided?), and try to figure out a solution, so as to prevent that catastrophe. Maybe, initially, he still believed that they could have avoided that, but more and more, he felt like they were running out of time, and that future he saw increasingly assumed a character of concreteness and unavoidability. I was also talking with @oldsummerdream the other day about Eren, and Sushi reminded me of this Isayama’s interview, where it says that, as his prior beliefs were gradually getting destroyed, Eren more and more would act upon a principle of self-preservation (”How about just conserving myself?”). So perhaps, also indulging in those seething feelings of disappointment, anger, and the imperative to preserve himself , that future became a necessity in Eren’s mind, something that Eren eventually stopped fighting against, and adopted as his own will.

And it was him who eventually decided to act alone, not consulting anybody else. The SC, his friends, never put that responsibility on him, they never required from him to save Paradis alone. Eren could have been the wielder of that power of the Founding Titan, a power which could decide the fate of them all, but, under their commander’s guidance, they were all working together in order to find a solution, a way to peace. As Hange said, they were ready to think stuff through and feel frustrated along with him, so Eren wouldn’t have been left alone. He just decided to do so, building an impenetrable wall around him, and once he settled himself on that irreversible path, he then proceeded to push away the people which cared about him more than anyone else - Armin and Mikasa.

Maybe, when that night in Marley he asked Mikasa what he was to her, he was still wavering, maybe, there was still the tiniest possibility left inside him to not succumb to that darkness; maybe, if Mikasa would have chosen another answer, things would have been different. The other possibility though, is that Eren, at that point, already knew what he was going to do, and that’s why he was already apologizing to Ramzi, and crying - because he had already given up all hope. So perhaps, he just wanted to know, before leaving them, before entering that road, he wanted to ask that question to Mikasa, because he knew that it would have been his last time with her, his last chance to know (and months later, he’d be still wondering about that, and asking for his brother’s opinion). But I’m not sure about it, and at this point, we’ll never know.

#aot

mybrokenlullaby

I’ve been thinking over the last few hours how from a personal standpoint, for me, it was just so fucking important for Armin to have been the one to make Zeke understand that there is good in being alive. Because Armin is a character who I related to early in the series for his fear of being a burden and for how he saw himself as disposable and never really contributing anything important. And he repeatedly was proven wrong. His friends never saw him as the burden he saw himself as and he was able to contribute so much to the fight when he never thought he was useful.

Zeke is a character I have related to a lot the last few years specifically in his inability to see any good in being alive. A depressing amount of time I don’t see it either. I struggle to understand why other people want to be alive to the point I often find myself bitter and jealous. Because I feel like I’m missing something. When Zeke’s plan and his reason for it were revealed I saw so much of myself. “If we’d never been born in the first place we never would have had to suffer.”

He’s not the first suicidal character in the series. In fact, that’s something that I’ve loved this series for. There’s a lot of realistic representation of different reasons people struggle to want to continue to live. I’ve never seen such a thing from any other piece of media and I appreciate it so much. But Zeke’s suicidal ideation resonated with me the most because he projected it on everyone else. Even up until this chapter he’s so focused on how there’s no point in being alive and death brings freedom. It’s a pit I fall into a lot. I convince myself everyone is just waiting to die. To be free of pain and suffering. Because it feels like the only thing that makes sense.

There was this contrast in Armin’s speech about the little things that make life worth living compared to how he would talk about the ocean and the desert and all that with Eren. It wasn’t about some grand dream or big thing but about spending time with your friends and reading books you enjoy and appreciating the smaller beauties in nature, like a cute squirrel. And not only was it a great contrast, but it also hits the things I try my hardest to see. Because I don’t have any real dreams. I don’t have any big goals or hope for the future. But I can appreciate how cute my cat is when she’s sleeping and how pretty the sky is at sunrise and the taste of a good coffee. The small lights in the darkness are my everything.

I wanted Zeke to live. To have to face the beauty of the cruel world. But I can be satisfied that he at least came to understand it before he died.

#zeke #armin #aot

yerimichi10

i just noticed that most(not all) of the AOT fans are too preoccupied debating what is hange’s gender to the point that they are already neglecting her/their well-written and complex character.

Whether Hange is a female or NB she is/they are still Hange,the best SC commander, a strong and independent individual who set their/her own standards and not giving a fuck about the society’s standards, a wise individual, and a well-written character in SNK universe

Hange is more than her/their gender. Hange deserves more validation from the fandom. Hange is Hange.

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So yeah, whether you perceive Hange as a female or non-binary…that’s okay! you are free to do that. But please don’t push others to have the same perception as yours. We all have different opinion and perceptions over some stuff and we need to respect that and be more open minded about it.

tundrainafrica

This is why I’m not really a fan of the gender discussion. Hange is my favorite character in AOT and there are so many things I wanna headcanon about her like her mental constitution despite her self esteem issues, her ingenuity, her resilience and of course, her magical bond with Levi.

In the real world, the only one who can decide what gender a specific individual will go by, is themselves. And I respect that, if someone tells me they, personally, wanna be called a certain pronoun, I will respect it and use it.

But Hange is fictional (as painful as it is for me to say.) and because of that we will never know what gender Hange would have preferred.

But with how I interpret Hange’s character, I personally do not think Hange would have cared what pronoun you use on her. Hange has always been a free spirit who is too busy fighting a war and doing research on titans to actually be overly fixated on her gender identity. (And when everyone was too busy trying to survive, I don’t even think they developed paradigms progressive enough to ponder individuality etc etc)

And what irks me is this heated and toxic debate (especially on twitter) with people cursing others and forcing them to use ‘she’ or ‘they’ about her gender can actually make Hange look bad for a lot of people. Like so many people are so scared now to talk about Hange now because so many people are policing the pronouns that can be used for her. And instead of actually APPRECIATING the character for who she is, we have people just saying “if I post about Hange in this pronoun, people will attack me, so I just won’t post about Hange at all. and If people can’t freely love Hange and if they start to associate her with the toxic fandom, then they’ll follow out of love for Hange then Hange will have less fans than she truly deserves.”

And as said above, Hange is more than her gender. What makes her such a loveable character is her ingenuity, her inquisitiveness, the fact that she brought the survey corps all the way up until what we’re seeing in season 4. And I’m pretty sure if you’re a levihan fan, you would agree that Hange’s gender didn’t play too much a big part on the reason why Levi fell in love with her in the first place. They would have fallen in love whether Hange was nb or cis.

All this toxic debate is doing is reducing Hange into a gender instead of seeing her as a whole character with just gender being an aspect which can be analyzed. Like if you want to actually discuss Hange’s gender go ahead. But the one issue I see on twitter is people are more focused on trying to achieve their moral high ground and pushing their agendas instead of actually listening.

You know what, I don’t even wanna call it a debate. It’s an echo chamber. Especially when too many people are busy try to talk over each other and blocking each other instead of trying to learn from each and to achieve a compromise.

Like there is so much potential to this gender discourse if people actually used debates and discourses for what they are actually meant to do: teach people, spread information, share interpretations and help fans cooperate to achieve a compromise.

Fandom debate and discourse ideally shouldn’t be about pushing agendas. Debate and discourse is finding that line, or that compromise with which two people with different ideas can co-exist in a community.

And if your first instinct is to recoil, be an ass and block people instead of actually trying to listen (especially with fandom discourse), please reflect on your own actions and why you’re participating in fandom activities in the first place.

#hange

mysteriousartcentury

James Sant (1820-1916), Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 152.4 cm. In a private collection.

#art

tundrainafrica

i ship levihan but one thing that always irked me was that hanji saved Levi's life twice. and i just feel levi let her go too easily ( i mean i am not saying he shouldn't have let her go, the war and duty is more important but the pacing was too rushed) like even erwin's death got more buildup. for hanji it was like levi didn't resist really.

I get what you mean anon, that’s one of the issues I had with her death. I definitely knew Hange deserved better. I mean when you think about it Levi was eventually gonna let her go. When he was facing her, what else would he have done to stop her right?

The giants were coming, they needed to get on a plane, the world was being trampled by colossal giants, what leeway did Levi have to argue with Hange or let her go? Even without considering the time, the urgency or the circumstances which made Levi’s reaction to it a little rushed, I want to talk about Levi’s personality and the parallels of Erwin and Hange’s death.

Levi letting Erwin go and Levi letting Hange go had SOME parallels.

Parallels which could be used to explain why Levi went about their deaths the way he did.

1. He didn’t explicitly go against their decision to sacrifice themselves.

If you think about Erwin’s death as well, Levi didn’t actually fight Erwin’s decision to kill himself, In fact Levi was the one who said the words himself. This is similar to Hange’s death, the only attempt we ever seen of Levi trying to stop her was forcing himself to stop her and “hey four eyes...” which was quickly interrupted anyway.

The difference with Erwin’s death is that we had some hope in the form of that titan serum to bring someone back which made Erwin’s death all the more built up. Season 3 Part 2 was relatively still kinda hopeful though. The final season of Attack on Titan and the manga at the point where Hange died is literally just a wasteland barren of hope and I think both Levi and Hange’s outlook towards the world literally went downhill with the later chapters of the manga, especially with Eren’s betrayal and the start of the rumbling.

And remember with Erwin’s death, it was proven that Levi is capable of making that type of a difficult choice. And we saw it when he let go of Erwin. And why did Levi make that choice for Erwin? Did he go about that same thought process with Hange?

2. Both Hange’s and Erwin’s death were a form of atonement and Levi understood that.

I won’t go into too much detail here but we all know that Erwin had selfish motivations all the way until season 3 part 2 which lead to the death of many soldiers. The charge he was to make was the ‘atonement.’

For Hange, we’ve seen Hange’s psyche get the beating of the century post time skip (read about my analysis on that here )

Hange’s ‘atonement’ was for the incompetence she saw in herself and the lack of capability she saw in herself as a leader.

Levi saw the downward spiral of Hange’s psyche. With his decision to let Hange go, Levi wanted her to get the atonement she has been looking for for so long. With Eren’s betrayal, with Sasha’s death, with the splitting up of the survey corps into factions, Hange was definitely wracked to the bone with guilt over her own failures.

Levi made the choice to let her atone for it just like he did with Erwin.

But Levi should have recognized that it wasn’t her fault right?

Levi probably did recognize that it wasn’t her fault. Possibly one thing which kept him still considering letting her go on top of that was a need to let her rest? Just like Erwin? And Maybe he understood that Hange would have never rested until she found a chance to make up for it and he understood as he saw her make that decision that that was the only way she could rest.

And we got this dream sequence only confirming what Levi had suspected letting her go like that.

Hange only rested and she only felt like she had ‘done her duty’ when she sacrificed herself.

And here is one glaring difference between Erwin and Hange’s death which made Levi all the more certain of his decision, even if he probably did not agree that everything that happened was Hange’s fault.

Erwin still wanted to see the basement and he explicitly told Levi that. That’s why Levi was still vacillitating between injecting Erwin or injecting Armin. Erwin may have still wanted to live, he just wasn’t conscious enough to tell Levi.

With Hange’s death, we had this exchange.

Hange made the choice for him. She begged him to let her go.

On the other hand, Erwin never begged Levi to let him go. He needed Levi to make that decision for him because somehow, he still wanted to live for that selfish reason..

And since we all know, Levi is capable of making this decision, Hange’s words only made him decide on letting her go, all the more quickly (on top of the circumstances)

I also think we could see hints that Levi had already prepared himself to let her go a long time ago, especially with the exchange below. That exchange down there is some character development for Levi. Levi recognizes Hange’s drive to atone for her actions, her drive to fight till the end and not to run away. He recognized that something like that could eventually happen.

Levi has been watching the people he love drop like flies since even before the series even started. And every single time, we have seen his development from ‘stopping Isabel and Farlan from going on a mission with him’ to ‘threaten to break Erwin’s legs’ to ‘I’ll inject Armin instead of Erwin’ to ‘you know what, I give up we’re probably all gonna die.’ And I think the bleakness of the situation just made letting go just a quicker and quicker process for Levi every time as he saw the hopelessness of each situation and the inevitability of death with every comrade who left him.

Anyway, I hope this meta helps you cope with 132. I mean it’s been 4 chapters but we’re all still crying.

But hey, at least she made it that far right? I mean she could have died in the first fifty chapters am i right? :’)

Levi y Hange

I know you're a big Levihan account, so I know you have a better understanding of what's going on. So im scrolling through the levihan hashtag (like I normally do), and apparently there's a argument going on about 136? I'm so lost. Also, why didn't anyone talk about it when the chapter came out. Why wait till now? (Sorry if it's a lot!)

By big you mean obsessed?

Yes. I’m. big. on. Levihan. I’m literally Levihan trash. Like check out the title on my Tumblr. I aint changing that soon.

I started this account to create more content for Levihan after 132 to scour through levihan content while mourning the death of our commander. And can I say, this community is just incredibly small and I feel like this certain need, this duty and this desire to provide more content for this small Levihan community because imo, Levi and Hange are the two purest people in AOT (because really when have those two weirdos ever acted on personal desire) and their ship is just pure goodness. And I wanna spread the goodness because there is so much one can learn about relationships just by how Levihan developed (?) Like I wrote about it a long time ago. Check it out here.

But I know shipping wars have been total shit and for some reason Levihan has been taking the brunt of all the hate? Like apparently there are points where Ereri and Eruri fans gang up against Levihan fans on twitter and I see a lot of my mutuals getting random anonymous messages about how Eruri and Ereri are canon while Levihan is not.

Yo, we’re literally the disadvantaged ones here. I mean to give you a brief look on the situation on the actual numbers of the Levihan fandom...

Oh look at the Levihan fic numbers on AO3. Okay 1000 is a lot but let us consider the fact that not all these tags are Levihan-centric stories and some either put these tags there just to bash the relationship or just put them there as a side ship to Yumikuri or Eremika.

And let’s just compare that ship to this ship... (Which is still pretty good imo)

Or this juggernaut of a ship :’)

Okay I know I’m digressing because that’s not the question... But yeah I think the stuff I mentioned above could give some context on this shipping war.

Disclaimer: I’ve stayed out of Twitter so I don’t know how bad it can be but I’ve chatted up some people about it both on Tumblr and Twitter and I’m just gonna discuss this based on how I remember it.

So this panel up here started a whole ship war apparently because eruri stans say “Levi was only talking about Erwin,” while Levihan stans were saying “Levi was talking about both Hange and Erwin.”

(Personal interpretation: Levi was talking about the whole survey corps.)

I have no idea what was going through the translators head when they were doing this but the translation is flawed. The ‘you’ is plural in the Japanese translation so Levi wasn’t just talking about Erwin. (You can read a more detailed break down on grammar here Credits to @faerielleart for this.)

And this whole translation fiasco started a shipping war and as Levihan trash lemme give you some of my two cents in the matter.

Levihan feels like the pure underdog of AOT ships. I don’t know why but for some reason, so many people are just looking for a reason to put down Levihan. I was talking about these with some moots last night and we were thinking if 126 and 132 happened with Levi and any other ship up there, everybody would be so eager to call Eren/Levi or Erwin/Levi canon but the moment we get it for some “unconventional” or “unpopular ship” suddenly “it’s just camaraderie” or “Hange’s just tired.”

As if Eruri and Ereri had any more obvious crumbs similar to 126 and 132. (Sorry I’m just so tired of reading the antis hate on twitter. This is the closest I’ll go to a shipping war.)

I stand by my theory that Yams is a Levihan shipper. He just couldn’t let them happen because a majority of people in the fandom would explode for reasons. I mean the manga hasn’t even ended but we already have people freaking out over the pronoun ‘you.’

#levihan #still tired of drama

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Have u seen the uproar that's going on regarding Levi's monologue? Some people actually think "Levi doesn't care much about Hanji's sacrifice, that's why he didn't mention them in a separate panel". Some others are disappointed in "Our role may have ended there. We took those brats to the sea" and think it was only directed to Erwin while Levi and Hanji were the ones who took them there. "At last Levihan was all about Hanji's feelings" is what others say. And lastly "Levi considers Hanji+

(Same anon) ++ just like his other comrades while Erwin's the special one for him". The arguments are endless :(

Hello! Yeah, I actually saw some of those arguments flying around here on Tumblr as well as on Twitter. What an unprompted and passionate drama :)

Let’s start by saying that although initially it may have sounded a little rushed and confused, ultimately I love this Levi’s monologue! I’m so happy we finally get to see his point of view (I didn’t dare hope so at this late stage in the story), and I appreciate it.

But getting back to your ask. I don’t think Levi’s monologue proves or suggests any of that. I don’t know why this always happens, but it looks like readers (do love ship wars and) have a special way to forget all of what they’ve read before every time a new chapter drops out.

After the battle of Shiganshina, after Erwin’s death and Hange was appointed as commander, we’ve seen Levi doing nothing but staying by Hange’s side. He always watched over them, backing them up in their meetings with Marleyans and the Volunteers, staring at them admiringly when they proposed the trip to Marley, and then following their plans, thus postponing the moment he’d get his revenge. He’s always been supportive and caring of Hange, valuing and trusting their judgement too, and he kept on being so. In the forest scene in chapter 126, he encouraged them, he said the right words they needed to hear to keep going and fighting, because he knew them so well. When Hange went to sacrifice themselves, he couldn’t stop them, he respected their decisions, and then he said those words he never said before. The light went out of his eye, and for the first time from what we know, he sought for a dead comrade’s guardianship (“Keep watching us”). I think that’s enough to show the profound connection Levi shared with Hange, and the way their relationship developed in those last four years. But even putting aside all of that, I can’t see how his last monologue would suggest what some people are saying. Erwin is indeed special to Levi, and there’s no denying it. He’s the man Levi followed for so many years, the one he looked up to, and the first which inspired him to choose another life, who gave him a purpose to fight for. He’s his “liege”, and as I said once is a previous ask, for Levi fighting for a free world for humanity and fighting alongside Erwin were one thing, and for this reason, he must have felt somehow lost, aimless, after he chose to let him rest. But he doesn’t regret his choice nonetheless. Levi’s monologue opens with him searching for Zeke, and thus remembering Erwin and the promise he made to him. And narratively speaking, I think it was time to tackle this issue. I never thought revenge was the major drive of Levi’s actions, but in any case, Levi sought to take down Zeke and fulfill his promise eventually, and now that they’re supposedly so near him, this issue needed to be brought up and resolved somehow. So it was done, as Levi seems to have finally let go of his vow.

Overall, however, I think that the main object of Levi’s musings was not Erwin, nor Hange. I agree with @tundrainafrica‘s ask in that Levi refers to all his comrades in the SC in his thoughts. He saw in Armin the same look they had in their eyes, the spirit of the Survey Corps, and he remembered the dream they all shared of a brighter future, of an idealized, peaceful world rid of titans and suffering. Levi cared about them all. But returning to those people’s concerns, we also have a special panel dedicated to the two closest persons to him, his dearest ones - Hange and Erwin. Thus, I cannot see how this whole Levi’s monologue, and this panel in particular, could suggest anything other than fairness and balance in the veterans trio, and Levi equally caring about them both. They were both special to him.

For all of these reasons, I’m not particularly concerned that Levi didn’t mention Hange’s sacrifice. We’ve seen their goodbye, and we could tell how much he cared for them, we could tell the pain he was going through. Now, he’s not allowed to properly grieve their loss, as they’re in the middle of humanity's annihilation. Anyhow, trying to not be too depressed and end this answer with a brighter thought XD, I really love the scene Levi chose to remember, and - from my shipper point of view, I guess - I especially loved how he remembered Hange. They’re all radiant and sparkling, their eyes are shining, as they’re most likely enthusiastically ranting about some titan-science stuff and theories they developed, while the rest of them quietly listen to them, sitting around the campfire. It's so heartwarming and bittersweet, to see them all like this.

Last thing. There’s one aspect of Levi’s thoughts I’m not sure I’ve understood correctly though, and it’s about what he meant by their role ending up there, in taking those brats to the sea. I’m not sure whom he was referring to with “our”. It may be Erwin, figuratively, since with Erwin’s death, it also ended their role as they used to understand it. It may be Hange, matter-of-factly, since it was with Hange that Levi actually took the kids to the sea. Or it may symbolically be the old generation, the “veterans”, as a whole, as if by choosing Armin, Levi was entrusting the future to the new generation, thus ending their collective role (and sadly Isayama seems resorting to that cheesy cliche of eliminating the old to make the young shine). And this is what I find somehow debatable. I don’t know whom he was exactly referring, but that’s not the point, for Levi’s role has not ended yet. He may be basically unable to fight now, but as the most recent chapters clearly showed, the kids still need him, they need his guiding and judgement in the situation they’re now. And, after all he’s gone through, Levi deserves to live, and to see that world they all dreamed of. Hopefully (though it’s a tiny hope I’m talking about), he’ll live to see it.

#aot #levi #tired of drama

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#levihan

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Isayama created attack on titan because he thought the conflict in literature alignment chart meme was a bingo challenge

Ooft. You’re not wrong there Anon. I think we can check all of these off except perhaps man vs nature? I can’t think of any natural disasters in the series? Pretty sure we’ve got all the others!