Lana

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[taintedh]

Hi Lana. I always love seeing your posts on X and I wanted to ask, how are u always able to articulate things so well? Like the way u express certain things so nicely. I wish I could express things the way u do. Btw, Are u a writer by any chance cuz that's the kinda vibe u give with the way u express and articulate things?

This is so sweet thank you 😭 And yes, I do write. I think articulating things is mostly just spending way too much time thinking about them until the feeling finally finds the right words. I don’t always feel like I express myself well so this honestly means a lot.

[vexheart]

until you learn the lesson

[taintedh]

I wanna know your thoughts on Jean’s fantasy. Do you think it’s kinda patriarchal? I mean, he’s fantasizing about Mikasa taking care of the kid while he’s just drinking on the balcony. I still can’t believe Isayama actually made that fantasy come true at the end of the story, while Mikasa has to sacrifice her own desires 💔

Yeah I do think there’s something patriarchal about the fantasy mostly bc Mikasa is framed as part of Jean’s domestic ideal rather than as a person with her own interiority. It’s not about what she wants but about Jean imagining peace, family and normalcy with Mikasa placed inside that image.

But I also don’t think the ending simply makes Jean’s exact fantasy “come true.” The epilogue is too vague for that and Mikasa’s emotional center is still very clearly tied to Eren. Even if she did build some kind of life after him, the story never frames it as her replacing her desire with Jean’s fantasy.

[taintedh]

Fujos should be banned from having opinions about Eren’s character and his relationship with Mikasa https://x.com/i/status/2057921693058769317

idk anon this thread ain’t that bad tbh. I probably wouldn’t use “fake” either, but I get the point they’re trying to make.

[thehopefulquotes]

“Everybody isn’t going to love you. Most people don’t even love themselves.”

— Unknown

[thehopefulquotes]

“I over-analyze situations because I’m scared of what will happen if I’m not prepared for it.”

— Turcois Ominek

[taintedh]

The scene where eren sees a married couple with the wife being pregnant and erehisus thought it was a sign for their ship. Also the scene where mikasa sees gabi reunited with her parents while jean just happens to be right behind mikasa, and jeankasas took that as foreshadowing for jk in the post-rumbling is so funny to me

The funny part is that the page literally tells us where his mind goes. He sees the pregnant woman and thinks of Carla. If this was meant to hint at Historia or him being the father, that was the easiest moment to show her. Instead it shows his mother.

I didn’t even know ppl were using this scene as a jk foreshadowing. But this is a Mikasa moment. She is standing in the middle of the “right choice” and still grieving what it costs her. The scene is showing the cruel trade-off for her : the world gets to keep its families because she has to lose hers.

[thequotespot]

“i think people assume i’m okay because i don’t complain, but in reality, i just deal with things on my own.”

[tragicburnout]

attachment can convince you that one person is your entire universe

[alxsalexa]

"Me and you were meant to be in love"

[taintedh]

do you think isayama hates eren?

I don’t buy it. Eren is one of the most carefully written characters in the manga. People mistake narrative cruelty for author hatred.

Eren suffers a lot because he is the protagonist and because the story is built around the collapse of his worldview. The manga keeps putting him in situations where rage alone isn’t enough, willpower isn’t enough, wanting something badly enough isn’t enough. That can feel like the story is against him but it’s really the story interrogating him.

He’s not some random character being dragged for no reason. His desires shape the entire narrative. His pain matters. His rage matters. His relationships matter. His contradictions matter. The story spends too much time inside the consequences of his existence for me to believe the Isayama simply hates him. If anything, he’s brutal with Eren because Eren is the character he uses to ask the ugliest questions.

[taintedh]

Could you make a thread about some of the differences between eremika scenes in the early season 1 anime vs the manga? Their relationship gets misunderstood so much, the studio made eren come off way harsher toward mikasa compared to the manga, which honestly frustrates me

anon you’re right but now you’re making me do homework I’d have to reread/rewatch the early parts because I remember the vibe more than every exact scene

[taintedh]

Don't understand people who think Mikasa protecting Armin is cute and wholesome but Mikasa protecting Eren is somehow "she deserves better"

I think ppl just struggle with the fact that Mikasa’s most important bond is also the most painful one and they’d rather simplify that into “she deserved better” than sit with the contradiction

[teh-inggris]

yea ok man sure

[taintedh]

I saw your post-rumbling Mikasa headcanons and honestly wish they were real instead of what we got. I thought you liked jeankasa? Especially since they were basically confirmed through the Blu-ray audio guide

I’m not familiar with the audio guide confirmation, but I’m genuinely curious what made you think I was into that ship.

[taintedh]

I don’t get people who say Mikasa’s character revolves around a man, but then think it’s perfectly fine when she’s shown with another guy at the end just because he’s a “good guy” and they don’t want her to be “miserable” for the rest of her life.

Personally, I think it would’ve been weird if Mikasa didn’t care about Eren, considering she was one of the people closest to him alongside Armin, especially since Eren kept getting kidnapped for like 3 seasons straight. She definitely would’ve gotten even more hate if she didn’t care about him.

It also reminds me of Mikasa haters who constantly say her character revolves around Eren, but then call her a “traitor” the moment Mikasa goes against him because of the Rumbling.

Yeah the “traitor” thing says a lot. People say Mikasa has no identity outside Eren, then the second she makes a choice against him, suddenly she’s wrong for that too. It feels like she’s only allowed to have agency when it matches what people already wanted from her.

[taintedh]

I feel like people who keep saying Mikasa’s character was wasted just don’t like that she wanted Eren and wanted her to completely move on from him.

I agree with this to an extent. I think there are valid conversations to have about Mikasa deserving more interiority, more focus outside of Eren and more space in the story to process her own trauma. I’m never against that criticism because Mikasa absolutely deserved more narrative attention.

But a lot of “Mikasa was wasted” takes don’t actually sound like they want more for Mikasa as a character. They sound like they’re upset that her love for Eren remained important until the end. For some people, the only acceptable version of “growth” for Mikasa would’ve been complete emotional detachment from him as if healing means erasing someone from your heart.

Mikasa’s arc wasn’t about proving she stopped loving Eren. It was about making the hardest possible choice despite loving him.