#I HATE ISAYAMA

[sonofthesaiyans]

I'm suddenly reminded again how pissed off I still am about Sasha Braus on Attack on Titan.

Will we EVER get any justice for that fucking stunt? Or for how that stupid ending just glossed over all the characters who were killed for no reason at all in the end?

Yeah I'm still angry at the ending, at season four, and the final 48 chapters of Attack on Titan, none more so than everything from Assassin's Bullet onward. So many offensive scenes associated with Isayama's determined effort to abuse and obliterate one character for his own sick games. Hajime Isayama is a truly impressive kind of asshole, because what he did...........A fucking nightmare that actually did come true.

I still dream of the day where I spit on his work right in front of his face.

And oh yeah, fuck Gabi Braun, if she has any remaining fans here, sorry not sorry. She's an overplayed, OP bitch. And so is her big brother Eren Yeager.

Yeah seeing images of that one moment in anime that left you bitter like few others have will bring some pretty hateful memories back to the surface.

[sonofthesaiyans]

Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha, Sasha.......

Sasha Motherf'ing Braus. God it hurts. Every freaking day.

There is no Attack on Titan without Sasha.

Also worthy of mention.......

And people still think Hajime Isayama gave his female leads anything resembling a fair shake? I think there's plenty of evidence to the contrary there, with the aforementioned just barely scratching the surface. 👎

They all deserve a second lease on life.

i miss them (fictional character i think about literally every single day)

[lotus-pear]

forever in shambles over them :(

[silvershadow1711]

"There's still meaning in moving towards tomorrow, even when it means shouldering the weight of our past sins

The devil murmurs in a low voice

As we continue forth on the path of corpses..."

IT'S DONE! WELL AND TRULY DONE! The actual cover for my Attack on Titan longfic, Reasons.

I've had this image in my head for almost 4 years at this point. I had to sketch it in my notebook, and when I got sick of trying to draw it traditionally, I took a picture with my phone and digitally inked over that picture. As a result, the actual file is massive, but there's a lot more detail when it's not shrunk down and run through filters.

(The unfiltered, unblurred image)

I am never going to find a Krita brush that brings back my love of digital painting, am I?

[distortedclouds]

I'm honestly sooo pissed at Isayama for not giving us more geo-politics at least as raw information and not necessarily as part of the plot

Like, she clearly see Marley had two continents and was making it's way unto the third when at war with the mid-east alliance . But also what's that on the left? THEY HAVE THE AMERICAS TOO!!?!

Is all of "Europe" part of the mid-east alliance??

Also, fan the colossals swim faster than they can walk? Because otherwise it wouldn't make sense why 80% of the world is dead if you account a radius from Paradis going in all directions

[sonofthesaiyans]

Do you folks think Isayama appreciates what he wasted with Sasha? Scenes like this show she could be a truly effective warrior and her unusual tactics and fast reflexes made her a valuable wild card in the fight against the Titans. And yet we NEVER got the scene of her taking out a Titan singlehandedly.

No. Instead she's used as a plot device for a thinly disguised "replacement" who nobody likes even before the events of Assassin's Bullet (Chapter 105, for those of you who forgot when this travesty unfolded) and even her last words are relegated to one last gag instead of something that pays more respect to who she was.

She is more than just "Potato Girl". She is Sasha Braus, a character too good to have been abused by Isayama in the way she was. Something much greater here was lost because this bastard put his energy in the wrong places.

If you're somehow still at a loss as to why I have spent years venting about this, recall scenes like this and that time she saved Kaya all by herself. Or just any time where she put her best foot forward no matter how scared she might've been.

There is no Attack on Titan without Sasha.

[luminaryy345]

Attack on Titan has writing and character writing flaws and that makes me sad.

Ok this has been on my mind for a while and I need to throw up somewhere.

Leaving aside the brutal universe of Aot, I think the main characters in this universe have a really toxic relationship with each other. Of course, that's not surprising in a series with this kind of world plot. But what I mean is that even characters who are in alliances with each other, who have friendships, who have romantic relationships, they don't act in a healthy way towards each other. And the fandom either pretends it didn't happen, ignores it or romanticizes it

However, one of the things that I find strange and puzzling about the series is that the strong characters in the series are not strong because of their own efforts, but because of the extraordinary powers they have gained, such as Mikasa and Levi. With the information we got from the recent interview, it seems to have been concluded that Mikasa is now "bad at sports" and by the finale she has become an average woman. As for Levi, the BadBoy spin off also made it clear that if the kid Levi's powers hadn't awakened, he would have been killed by the guys who beat him up.

Apart from Mikasa, the other example of a strong woman is Annie. Annie is the only strong female character we see in the series who has trained herself naturally from a young age without "extraordinary powers". She specializes in martial arts, technique. She is good at self-protection. In Lost Girls, where she shows her skills in detail, she is someone who has defeated average, untrained men in a bar. But I question whether she would have gotten a double kill like Mikasa if she had faced a man with the same strength or a strong trained man, or if there were several of them, not just one.

I mean, Isayama knows that female characters in particular are a bit inferior to men in terms of physical strength, and he gets out of this dead end by adding unusual biological superhero powers to female characters along with other male characters and somehow manages to cover it up well. And no analysic, no fan questions this.

I'm an illustrator, but I'm also a person who likes to create characters, writing the scripts and stories of the characters I create in the corners of my notebooks. I've been in this fandom for a long time and aot is one of the series that inspired me. I loved the world-building so much that I even created a character for it. But over time, when I realized that there were writing flaws in this series (I started to see its flaws especially because I was hanging out in other fandoms), I realized that if you want to place a character (oc as you call it) in that world and make it important and powerful, you need to add superman powers, especially if this character is a woman, because even if you train yourself, you are no different from an ordinary npc. Aot tells you this directly. If you don't have superpowers or you're not strong, you're not special and you don't have an important function in the series.

Or are you shipping your character after a canon character? Don't expect any kind of loyal loving relationship dynamics because you will find similar scenarios where they will leave you to die to fulfill their mission or purpose even if you don't want to. Aot really leaves no room for imagination.

[sonofthesaiyans]

Watching AOT Season Four....

Okay, this should be interesting I hope.

Let me ask y'all, just to get your insight. I presume most of you here have watched The Final Season from start to finish, questionable CGI with the overrated SiM soundtrack and everything...so tell me so I know. Just from what you all know from my past posts and comments....

What would you consider to be the most tolerable and least offensive episode of Season Four?

Like I've not watched a full episode of AOT in years so which one is probably the most watchable based on my past comments?

I should at least recognize most of them by their titles alone, tell me what you think actually stands a chance with me.

Since y'all think this psychological endurance test is such a masterpiece.

And Heaven help anyone who suggests the obvious one out of the lot....

[hazy-pink-skies]

when lunarelles deleted all their eremin art bc they didnt like the way aot ended. yeah that was like the burning of the library of alexandria for me

[sonofthesaiyans]

Historia Reiss EASILY could’ve carried the whole series, or one of her own by herself......There was more than enough there for an even greater saga that could compete with Eren’s. 

But instead we got:

Talk about your wasted potential. Isayama essentially gave up on her. 

Bring any AOT character who's cuter than Historia, I'll wait 🥰 she's the cutest 🥹❤️

Queen of the walls

[ilynpilled]

I get it and the irredeemable media idea is silly but isn’t aot actual nazi shit?

lol aot has a lot of writing issues imo and some of the politics i find very messy and i think u can always come for it about the execution as well as how certain elements are integrated but i personally was always pretty ??? at some of the more extreme allegations i hear thrown at it in terms of its thematic core because it is hilariously and almost embarrassingly unsubtle about a lot of its messages. i also think people who try to read it as a 1:1 direct allegory for any conflict instead of something fictional that burrows elements from all over history (for better or worse) to convey its themes are gonna run into a lot of contradictions. and even the author was legitimately shocked at some of those interpretations (like early on the one claiming that the text was endorsing japanese militarisation while the titans represented china and north and south korea)

i think it should be engaged with critically and i think it fails at many things but im just glad that the 100% fascist chad eren dicksucker part of its fanbase was completely alienated by an ending that accentuated just how pathetic and childish he is

[tojiscrack]

(JJK MANGA AND FINAL EPISODE OF AOT SPOILERS)

the fact that i’m forced to attend five days of college and then spend my weekends at work when i’m a woman in MOURNING is actually cancerous. i lost eren AND satoru, all in the span of less than three months. my manager and my college are heartless fr 😐

p.s. i’m still patiently waiting for my husband’s return. satoru WILL win because he said so 😊

[instantpeachrunaway]

Did you ever notice that Marco was hiding right here listening to Reiner and Bertholdt?

I thought it couldn't get any worse!! Marco was supposed to be a smart character! Isayama did him dirty!!!

At this point I wouldn't doubt if Reiner revealed himself thinking about how Marco did it first and unfortunately paid for it... 🤔

[sonofthesaiyans]

@abbyslev​ Five years on, and I’m still mad as hell about it. It’s something that has severely affected me in the worst way possible. And seeing it animated only further seared the wound. I cannot and will not ever let it go. I only wish for it all to be undone and to be nothing but a bad memory, Titan was ruined the moment Sasha was taken out of the picture. 

There is no Attack on Titan without Sasha Braus. I will take that all the way to the top, given the chance. 

never forgiving isayama for ripping sasha away from me like it was nothing

[dorminchu]

careful fear and dead devotion

"Just look at me," she says, framing his face in her hands. "Nowhere else." [eremika, ch 138]

a/n: tumblr keeps devouring the formatting. you can also find this fic on ao3 or ffnet.

The cabin, he must have built with his hands. There is a ford, and a well from which he draws water. Beyond the mountains there's just the horizon.

She follows him inside when he bids her. He keeps closer than usual to her, as he fixes dinner—rice and the mushrooms he'd picked. When she looks at his face, boyish, there's unbroken skin.

He smells of sweat and dirt and when his arms encircle her waist, pulling her to him, he presses his nose into her hair and hums. This world is theirs. Anything is possible.

It used to bother him, when they were trainees and she would shadow him during ODM gear sessions. She was simply following the instructor's techniques, she'd say. If he were serious about joining any military branch, he had to practice until he stopped making mistakes. She offered to help him, but he'd always find Armin or Annie or someone else who did not ever hold him as he woke up, trembling.

At fifteen, all he had was his boyish pride, and her and Armin. He'd never be too cruel. There were words and deeds, and those you couldn't undo with an apology or years of silence and patience. At fifteen, she had nothing to her name but the clothes on her back, and his mother's promise. If he injured himself, she'd do whatever it took to get him medicine. Her score was high enough. She'd join the Military Police and send money back to him, and even if he complained about it he'd have no choice but to understand.

Each time he bursts from the Titan's nape, covered in blood, all that matters is his safety. He turns away from her, the way he used to when Corporal Levi visited his holding cell, but he doesn't speak of nightmares as he used to. She's always been here for him, the same as Armin has.

Now, buried in the throat of this Titan, he leads this death march to the ends of the earth, and it is still Eren, no longer the boy she loved. From his corpse, facsimiles of old comrades and enemies are begotten and destroyed. An endless well of creation, blurring the lines between order and fantasy.

Nothing will stay her hand.

They eat in silence, and when he stands, his eyes glint in the twilight. There is a weight in his eyes, and ever since the Queen's coronation he has become unreachable, a stranger with Eren's eyes and smell and voice. Eradicating the titans, to their enemy on the other side of the ocean.

He's trembling, on the cusp of whatever has been eroding him during those ten months abroad. He stands, walks over as if to take her plate, hesitates. "I'm sorry, Mikasa. I wanted to keep you safe but I couldn't."

She reaches out and touches his wrist, warm and solid. He does not snap, or push her away. His eyes narrow, looking at a point beyond her shoulder, and there's a set to his jaw that he's kept since ten years old. Tears spring to her eyes but do not fall.

"Whatever it is you have to do," he says quietly, brushing her hand away, taking her plate, "I don't hate you for it."

He maintains distance, moving to the kitchen counter. He stops in-place.

"I've been such a piece of shit to you." A catch enters his voice, corrodes his composure. "I should've been taking care of you, and—"

"—Eren."

The chair squeaks against hardwood. On her feet, she closes the distance between them in uncertain strides, until she's able to reach out and touch his naked forearm. He flinches, spins around. His face crumples, as if he's about to cry. She looks into his eyes, past the agony within to the same boy, covered in blood, grasping the hilt of the knife.

Her wrist prickles.

"You don't have to fight anymore." She wraps her arm around his broad back. "I'm here."

In Marley, he smelt like beer and his lips parted on a slow intake of breath as she pressed her mouth over his. He'd groped for her wrists, didn't push her away but didn't kiss back, just breathing slowly against her lips. Her heart in her throat, she broke away first. Shut her eyes against the hot sting of tears, because what had she expected? He'd never called her sister, or asked why she referred to his mother as Aunt Karla. He would protect her with his life, but not beg for her exoneration, the way he did Annie's.

This tenuous thread of trust between them, she'd had to rebuild since reaching the basement of his childhood home, since losing Hannes, Reiner and Bertholdt, each loss in his stead widened the rift between them. Her stomach twisted at the thought of the day where no affection could reach him, when he'd shut out the world and engulf himself within that unknowable burden of his father's inheritance.

She wasn't Annie, or Historia or his half-brother. She could kill a hundred Titans but she couldn't defend him from despair.

Maybe he wasn't the only one who was tired. It would be nice sometimes, if he stopped to notice her and Armin and be a little considerate. She could wait, for him she would always wait, but not forever.

He stared, hazy and indolent. "You don't have to be strong all the time," he said, a slow-dawning smile. "Not for me. I would never ask you to be."

No matter what his Titan is capable of, there are limitations to a mortal body. Despite his heart's inclinations, despite her Ackerman genes, neither can move mountains for the other. It's just a figure of speech, a child's wishful hyperbole. 

They lie together on the small bed, and it's enough just to look at him as he is, not entombed within hemic tissue, burning alive. He cups her face. His thumb brushes the scar along her cheek, and he's present, unwavering, in a way he has not been since Shiganshina.

He doesn't tense up when she presses her hand to his nape. The shape of his mouth thins, fighting against whatever self-imposed transgression kept him company. His eyes glimmer in the crimson light beyond the window.

Mikasa does not look. She has seen sunset many times before. She will only see him once.

The Titan's mouth hangs open, inert.

His hair falls limply into his face, caked with dry blood. His body has melted away from the neck down, leaving only the spinal cord. The Founder's bloody tissue wraps around what remains like a cord of rope, lacerations hewn into his jaw and temples. His nostrils flare at her approach. His eyelids flicker, as though sleeping.

She raises the blade.

"Just look at me," she says, framing his face in her hands. "Nowhere else."

[the-boy-who-sought-freedomm]

Eren save me

Eren

Save me Eren