#so u got me at Peak Meta Hours lmao

[equalseleventhirds]

dont apologize i love reading meta!! also i think Fear Soup is very interesting and makes a lot sense (especially bc most of the season 5 statements feature the eye and another Fear) also isn’t it funny that i said what if hell is thinking about being watched and judged by people about what you do haha (i might have sent something close to this but i’m not sure if it sent. might have deleted the tab before it sent sorry if you got two similar rants!)

i just got the one, don’t worry!

and oh anon... oh anon EVERY apocalypse-related statement in s5 (so, not the ones where they talk abt the past instead) has involved AT LEAST four distinct fears, usually more, with arguments easily made for minor appearances of many more. i haven’t done it with every episode and i haven’t properly tagged all the ones i did (i should do that), but if u search my blog for ‘fear soup’ or are willing to wander through my ‘tma spoilers’ tag u will find them. EVERYTHING IS MUSHED TOGETHER

(p much always they have one Main fear and the eye, plus the end is like, an underlying theme in all of them even tho ppl can’t rly die in the apocalypse, and i’m suspecting now that i’ve missed some web stuff where it was before, bcos the ‘you can’t escape’ theme has been so subtle until u look for it. so actually that is four fears, and then they always have at least a couple more so like... at least six fears then? probably? hmmmm. i may have to reanalyze some things. i also am p sure i’ve been missing extinction most of the time bcos i rarely think of it...)

anyway. my POINT. everything is VERY mixed up, and i BELIEVE i’m right. but i’m also p sure the closest tma will come to validating me was in 176 when martin says the domain’s theme doesn’t SOUND like a thing the hunt does, and jon replies: “the old divisions don’t mean as much these days. maybe they never did.” which p much SAYS that the fears aren’t as divided as before, but also we (as in, the characters) are going forward and dividing the domains up by fears, so me being Correct means absolutely nothing story-wise.

i am Further Validated in my heavily related ‘the manifestations of the fears are shaped & defined by People’s Beliefs (and thus, jonah’s ritual worked based on the 14-fear model because at this point so many people follow smirke’s theories, and were in fact attempting rituals based on his writing; and also the domains are ‘claimed’ by a particular entity/avatar bcos of this Belief) by jon going on to say ‘they don’t just feed on the worst fears of the people trapped there; they’re shaped by them, too. it’s enough to fear the domain itself, if not the entire power behind it.’ once again, this isn’t important to PLOT, but it is a facet of worldbuilding that i care DEEPLY about, even if it’s not. u kno. gonna get any use at all.

[teenyneko]

Thoughts from a returning SnK fan

Like most fans during the peak of SnK’s popularity (2013-2014), I was pretty much going through a huge SnK craze. I remember following a bunch of SnK-related blogs, looking at fanart, checking and staying in the tags almost every hour, reading a lot of meta material, playing OSTs on repeat, the whole shebang. And like most fans, my interest dramatically fell by the wayside when the wait for S2 pretty much grew into eternity. Even when I got around to reading the manga (starting from where S1 left off), life became super chaotic and busy. But now I’m back! (And hopefully for good?) I’m actually pleasantly surprised that the fandom on here is still going strong. Obviously not to the same hype everyone was living up to back in 2013. To those who’ve been committed to the manga and fandom after all these years, major kudos and I’m sure your tired eyes have seen a lot. So although I had let go of this series, I’ve been playing catch up these last couple of months simply because SnK holds a special place in my heart. With everything I’ve gathered up up to this point, here are the immediate and nonsensical thoughts coming from a returning fan, fresh and untainted by years of shipping wars, fanon vs. canon wars, misconstrued meta discussions, and other fun stuff that comes with being in a fandom:

FOUR-year wait just for 12 eps ?? HHMMmm okay sounds fair ..

jokes on meE!! reiner was the protagonist this whole entire time!!1!

that serum bowl or whatchamacallit didnt need to happen for the plot to progress

when and as u get older, trust me when i say the vets really grow on u more, maybe more than the 104th *continues grieving over mike, nanaba, and moblit’s death*

jean and armin’s friendship is p fcking solid if u ask me. GOOD job isayama

we get to decide hange’s gender ?? *daydreams about female commander hange overthrowing the patriarchy esp the shitty mps and establishing a wonder woman-esque island where she, as queen, and other babes conquer the forces of evil* *me, quietly whispering to myself:* “yes, v good”

im p sure kenny was written in a way so that i and others despise and luv him at the same time CUZ ITS WORKIN on me

ymir .. u beautiful, tragic soul. how can anyone ever hate u…

eyebrow game still at its all-time high i see. u kno who im talking bout

gj on mikasa for learning to be less protective of eren and allowing him to grow up and mature

pieck, arguably the most beautiful eldian warrior, is given the ugliest titan (next to the beast). Disrespect

never thought i’d see the day i graduate college before annie breaks outta that crystal….

u kno that ocean scene? i am literally both levi and hange whenever im at the beach

uprising was arguably the best arc nothing makes me happier than exposing shitty politics, executing a coup, and i guess seeing gun battles between humans in a titan-eating world

nine, NINE members left in the SC?? oh i gotta see how this goes

leaving an inexperienced teen on the throne? i also gotta see how this goes *whispers:* “u can do it historia”

u mean to tell me, canonically, hange and levi sTILL have one of the most solid relationship dynamics to come outta snk ?? Sign me da fck up A++

*dot pixis going ballistic over jean’s omelette* u kno what, ill have what hes having

did i mention erwin didnt need to be pitted against armin but wHATEVER drives the plot and creates unending conflict between fans i guESS !!¿

the scene where zackly tortured that official? we dont talk about dat

the scene where levi wreaked havoc on zeke and the assembly line of titans? LETS TALK ABOUT THAT

new world and new characters in the last arc???¿¿ bc that four-year wait obliterated a significant fcking chunk of your fanbase lmao but sure, ur story, my cool dudes

everyone in official SC trench coats ??!¿ v good, v goodd

WOW isayama, the improvement in your art.. VERY NICEE

the original operations squad? Ah VERY wise card to draw. the new operations squad? WOW amazingg. but how bout i defeat ur cards with: Farlan and Isabel!!!11!!1 drawing this card will give 80+% of TLC to levi

so thats it huh. all that storytelling and character development just for the walled cast to get fking murked by titan-shifting warrior children from McMarleyWorld

me, talking with friends who used to watch snk: y’all kno annie still in the crystal lmao

aot: junior high kept my dying spirit alive while waiting for s2. if u havent watched it, are u even a fan ??¿¿¿

ty for ur immense contribution to humanity, ilse langnar, ty ty ty

even now, sasha is still incredibly underrated. her humor. her courage. her badass archery and all its badassery. valuable and indispensable character imo

already mentally preparing myself for levi, hange, and eren’s death bc how else will they go with the way the plot is heading amiright? *slips into complete darkness to process this*

four-year time skip, four-year wait for S2, new characters and new world late in the game, this series is a mess lmao