#dunno why im complaining i mean it IS reddit

[deniable-masterpiece]

my heart was racing the entire time

ughhhh imagine him saving reader from the footballers, beating through them to save us after we get tackled.

maddie leaving him in his prom dress was so sad tho i felt so badly for them especially because she was in her prom dress where they first kissed…ik they’re not gonna axe wally or milo bc he’s too famous and he’s the favourite of the show but i was slightly annoyed like why can’t they give us a relaxing finale…

but yesssss i need wally to teach me football but im too dumb, petite and delicate in his eyes so he keeps taking control and going super easy so we feel like we are making progress even though we aren’t. like he checks our form (like that pose when they’re about to start the match) but we keep arching our back - not that he’s complaining, but instead of correcting us he makes us arch more and more.

🎀

SPOILERS FOR THE FINALEEEEE

I JUST FINISHED THE EPISODE??? xavier could see ghosts at the hospital?? wally’s moving on?? maddie is finally free but simon is trapped now?

tbh i kinda hate that it’s not more, well more. i wish we got a 2 hour finale because i think it would’ve let everything flow better. like yes it moves fast and it’s tense but they really should’ve worked to give us more answers in episode 6 or 7 so the finale could just be the race to get maddie back into her body and stuff.

the same with wally like why is his scar suddenly clear of all trauma and when did we see him come to peace with anything really?? he kinda just does more of the same all season (including being hot) and even acts worse than the chill guy he was in season 1.

i also hate how they breeze past a lot of janet’s discoveries about the afterlife because they really should’ve just showed them instead of her constantly saying she knew stuff and would explain it later. ALSO how did simon get into the scar with mr martin if janet blocked the door to get into it and it was still blocked when she returned?? explain that janet

i just think it’s underwhelming from a finale. like yes it was tense and there’s some stuff i like and the main conflict of maddie getting her body back is finally resolved, but i also wish it had more closure. i perused some of the school spirits reddit just out of curiosity and i have to agree that there were just too many plots going on and they didn’t really know how to wrap them all up concisely AND they feel confident enough that they’ll be renewed for another season. (if not, i guess wally did really move on).

off topic but i kinda hate that moving on is a choice? i dunno it just feels like their answer to “how do ghosts move on” and it’s literally a door with an exit sign above it and bright lights is so cheesy but not in a camp way.

and now to the ask itself, i just have a lot of thoughts about this finale😭 YEAH HE NEEDS TO COME SAVE ME from big footballers (as if he isn’t one, mr 6’3 and sexy)

and no literally like that wally moving on tease is gonna be a fake out and he’s gonna choose to stay. 100% i guarantee you because they don’t have the balls to do it (and it’s gonna be a stranger things type issue where they don’t understand that keeping characters around for too long and adding new ones makes people not like themmmm cough cough steve harrington jonathan byers nancy wheeler robin buckley cough) and it’s annoying because while i think he didn’t get enough time to show him having an emotional resolution and being at peace (because they literally cut to it with a minute left of the episode), it means that we’ll miss out on all that depth. but also, this is the perfect time to have it happen since he’s primarily maddie’s ghost love interest to add stakes and the support of the group. but now, maddie’s no longer a ghost and the group is getting answers and finally resolving things with mr martin, so his need as a character has kinda been filled. (downsides of making a relatively one note jock with the potential to have more depth, but they don’t do anything with it)

anyways i hope for a season 3 but i also don’t because i don’t really know what the conflict can be besides a parallel to the first season with simon being trapped and maddie being alive. only we’ve already seen that story play out. but omfg i do want at least one moment where maddie returns to school and sees that wally has moved on and won’t be there anymore omfg

[waterbottlqueen]

just remembered the worst thing ive ever seen on the opm subreddit and just thinking about it makes me go. man. that was really really fucking weird. what the fuck is wrong with these people. 

it was this post about. garou x zenko. and i swear when i first saw it i physically lurched. the replies to it too??? can we not make jokes about having sex with ACTUAL CHILDREN??? “loli” NO??? shes an ACTUAL CHILD??? (and even when the “loli” is a legal adult its still so fucking strange to me i dont care if you only want to fuck fictional women who look like little girls stay away from me.) 

these same people would are shitting bricks knowing that batarou exists but oh yeah its fine to go ahead and ship basically a grown ass dude with his rival’s 9-year-old sister yeah totally!!! 

[tundrainafrica]

some of the aot fans (probably just casual readers) don't see the parallels between EM and LH???? like the brunettes desire to live with their ackermans together in the woods? they call levihan shippers delusionals. their attacking levihans that they didn't read the manga well and we just want our ship to be canon??? WTH????

I keep wondering if it's just us, levihans, who see these parallels?

im sorry for this rant, it's just soooo frustrating. Basically the reason why i leave twt lol not yet, im still there bcoz of lh filo socmed aus

I have so many things I wanna say about chapter 138 and I am so sorry I only got to it now. I think most Levihan fans already said what I wanted to say but either way, I’ll just give some thoughts I entertained when these came out. 

Coz first of all… 

As a Levihan shipper, I am obviously ecstatic about this but as most people know, I come from a household where everyone is not too enthusiastic about Levihan. They are so very enthusiastic about INVALIDATING LEVIHAN in particular that my sister and my parents who don’t even watch AOT just come up to me while I’m staring at Levihan art on tumblr and go… 

“What are you doing?” 

“Staring at art.”

“Oh, is that the one couple you like who don’t even love each other or smthg.” 

Cause apparently my sisters who watch AOT and my boyfriend have been SO vocal about invalidating Levihan that even my parents now are on ship that they aren’t even a thing and I’m just delusional but yes, since I live in a house where literally ‘shipping Levihan’ is on the same level as ‘the curtains are blue so the narrator is sad’ type of interpretation, I will start by mentioning a more pragmatic argument to this whole Levihan and Eremika parallel. 

While I am one of those who can definitely see that yes those were clear parallels, there are some louder people( mostly Eruri shippers) who think that LH fandom is just grasping on straws and trying to diminish their supposedly canon ship( because EL and EM ackerbonding thing) so I was wondering what is your view on this?

So, to break down the argument...

It’s a war story blah blah blah. And besides Mikasa loved Eren from the start blah blah blah. 

I think this is an argument I see a lot. Because Yams is writing a war story and I think a lot of people are suggesting that it’s a war story here is no way anyone can be canon or anyone can have romantic relationships. 

AND I HATE THIS TAKE. Relationships are human nature. Yes, being arromantic exists but I don’t believe that in a fictional space, romance can ever NOT exist. Because most---or scratch that--- I believe all humans will search for companionship and I do not believe it is ever reaching to jump from whatever companionship exists between people and contemplate the potential of romance, except incest but that’s another story. 

Yeah because if there’s no kiss or sex then it’s not a romance apparently. 

Well guess what, we’re all reaching then, cause only Eren and Mika got the kiss. But lemme drop some social experiment I did. 

I actually showed the Eremika and Levihan ‘Let’s live together scenes’ side by side to a colleague at work who doesn’t watch AOT and she told me, WITHOUT CONTEXT, that she prefers the scene between Levihan more than Eremika and the reason behind that is because there were undertones, specifically in the Korean translation’ that Hange was tired, and there’s this apparent romantic-ness to it when you dream of something when you’re tired and when you dream of a particular someone. 

Because here’s the thing, when you love someone, when you decide to be in a  relationship with someone, that person will be your HOME. And now that I think about it, it definitely hits for me more, because when Hange was tired, when Hange was completely exhausted and spent, she dreamt of a future with Levi. 

And don’t you think that it’s more romantic that ‘despite everything, she thinks of him’ compared to ‘she constantly thinks of him?’ Because I dunno, when someone is constantly thinking of someone, there’s actually no effort really needed for the feeling to grow, but when ‘they think of someone, despite everything.’ There’s this idea that the relationship can withstand more things and that means they thought long and hard about it. 

Their life is so interesting and eventful, yet at the end of the day, there exists someone who still shines brighter than life itself and that’s why ‘Despite everything, she thinks of him’ rings brighter than ‘she constantly thinks of him’ for me at least. 

Probably a personal preference thing but either way… Just my take. 

Western people don’t consider running away ‘romantic?’ 

This is something I’ve discussed with filo moots multiple times and this is something I’ve thought about reading the Japanese and English translations, reading the Filipino Soc Med AUs and having my friend read the Korean ones.  

The Japanese and Koreans are quick to see the romantic undertones, a lot of my Filipino moots are quick to see those romantic undertones too. But we have the western fandom on Reddit going ‘Yo Erehisu foh evah’ and people saying ‘Levihan not canon they didn’t kiss.’ 

But YO both of my parents are ‘tanan’ (runaway in tagalog) babies. My mom actually ran away with a man and wasn’t allowed to talk to her dad until she graduated. My dad disobeyed his parents to marry my mom. They were setting my dad up with another woman and they were going to have a big wedding and everything but my dad was like…

NOPE Imma run away and marry this woman. 

And can I just say, my parents are the MOST unromantic people but they literally disobeyed their parents, ran away together, literally risked their relationships with their parents to make it work. 

And my parents are one of the few people in their family who are still in a happy relationship even after 25 years of marriage. 

Okay, I admit, sometimes running away is a dumb decision and shouldn’t constantly be romanticized. 

But I don’t think a lot of people understand the gravity of what ‘tanan’ entails. Legit, it was emphasized in 138 already, if Eren ran away, Paradis could have been overrun by military soon. And if Hange and Levi ran away to the woods, ‘what would there have been left for them? 

And in real life, my mom literally gave up her relationship with her dad to try to make the relationship work. My dad gave up the comforts of marrying a rich woman in a lavish wedding to marry my mom. 

They literally had a civil wedding, went out to eat Chinese noodles and China town as a post wedding meal and 25 years later, they have one of the strongest relationships I’ve ever seen. 

AND NO ONE RUNS AWAY WITH SOMEONE FOR THE LELZ. So yes, running away with someone will always be romantic for me.

And the Ackerbond?

Something I always find myself asking. Why do people want the Ackerbond to actually be a thing? Because if the Ackerbond were real, then wouldn’t that invalidate all Eruri and Eremika even more since we know they’re just trapped in the relationship like Stockholm syndrome or something? 

And besides didn’t Yams debunk that chapters ago? 

Anyway, onto the next questions

hi sav! i have a question about the recent chapter. do you think the em and lh parellels were done on purpose by isayama? 

And to answer this question… I am not so sure actually. I talked to a Japanese friend who grew up in the same prefecture as Yams, apparently it was her acquaintance from high school who married Yams and they were childhood sweethearts. 

So maybe Yams got it from them?  My memory on that convo is hazy but it’s only possible that he built Eremika from there. And Levi and Hange’s development is just incredibly different that I don’t think Yams thought that far to do it. 

My theory here is that Yams is writing a war story and he only has one way he could have ever shown romance in a war story and that’s through ‘running away’ so I believe the parallels are unintentional but I genuinely believe that this was Yam’s way of showing romantic undertones. 

And I personally do not think that Levi and Hange would have ever kissed in that time in their life, at least intentionally and I hoenstly commend Yams for doing such a good job with the subtlety of the romance because I’ve literally seen so many great characters in other stories completely butchered by a poorly done romantic subplot so I aint complaining about these romantic undertones. 

But either way,

I hang in the Japanese fandom a lot and there have been lots of fandom discussion on Levihan becoming endgame if 132 didn’t happen. And there are actually articles on this putting Levihan as endgame along with Eremika so I’m kinda suspecting that invalidating Levihan is an anime-only fan and reddit fandom type of thing.

But anyway, thank you for reading, sorry for the long rant.