#so you have to pull out goddamn tumblr saviour JUST to actually keep that bullshit away

[bam-monsterhospital]

gotta love it when you go through a media tag looking for art and junk and then every time you have to go through the blog's archive and check 'ooookay, so are you a piece of shit?-oHH yep' because you find out they're a pedo or something -__-

this is why i'm so slow adding posts to my queue. have to go and check each and every blog when i have time for it.

[julystorms]

I hate how with the new chapters people are hoping Levi and Hanji didn't become a couple or something. They don't want them to be too close because that would invalidate their ship (ErwinxLevi). They'd rather see Levi be lonely than to see him find comfort in and be close to Hanji because of their own shipping bias. They don't want Levi to be close to anyone but Erwin and don't see how that makes them biased (because eruri is "canon"). Ship and let ship. Sorry I had to let it out to someone...

warning: this isn’t very nice to eruris or levihans so just… read at your own risk.

i could probably rant for like 34 years about how fandom treats romance as this large sweeping once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, like people don’t fall in and out of love on a regular basis, like marriages don’t end for reasons that aren’t “person a is an asshole.”

really, the idea is more than a little damaging in the way it encourages people to hold onto things even when they’re over. (lmao don’t tell me fandom doesn’t influence real life? don’t tell me that people don’t pull from fiction and expect that/get disappointed over it not being like that in real life. the things young people have said to me/asked me… astounding, tbh.)

anyway, lots of people remarry. lots of people don’t cling to one relationship forever. few people take the opposite route and shut themselves off forever.

but the biggest problem is that romantic fiction paints previous romantic experiences as irrelevant and unimportant and “less than” whatever is current. that honestly makes me angry. even if a relationship ended in angry divorce, can writers stop pretending that there were never feelings there? can they stop with the bullshit like ~oh, he’d never felt a love like this~ when there was literally nothing wrong with his previous relationship? it just didn’t work out oor his partner died? people just like to fucking feel good about themselves, like to imagine that a person who used to be in love w/ someone else will like them more than their previous partner. fuck off–love doesn’t work like that for most people.

why this entire thing is relevant is because there’s no doubt in my mind the eruris don’t want erwin’s relationship to levi diminished in the name of this new and current possibility, and…god??? i can’t blame ‘em??

like look, the eruri fans’ behavior recently hasn’t been altogether stellar (and of course i’m making a sweeping generalization, here; not all fans, etc etc), but levihan fans have been almost as fucking self-important and smug in the past and i wish y’all’d stop pretending that you weren’t. i distinctly remember 30230 posts about how they LOOKED at each other #canon, or how worried he looked in one panel when she was hurt. let’s not forget all the squealing over him bathing her and…other weird fucking things that got the levihan fandom subset into a goddamn tizzy and in ways that truthfully creeped me the FUCK out and made me embarrassed to even ship the same thing. i’d personally keep that embarrassing shit to myself but fandom generally does whatever it wants, so there’s no stopping it. just do whatever you want; everyone else does.

my stance on this is: the eruris are probably bracing themselves for the onslaught of levihan (not to mention er////e///ri, kill me now) fans squealing about how their ship has a higher chance to be #canon, and how they’re glad erwin is dead because it made their ship more likely to be #canon – like damn, okay. that’s pretty heartless but a’ight. not to mention all the fans who will write drivel like what i mentioned above: stories and meta that will narratively pretend that erwin meant little to levi in comparison to hange. (i mean obviously no two relationships are the same but narratively speaking it’d be cool if people stopped making the current one out to be ~better~ like it’s a ~deeper love or whatever stupid shit inexperienced buffoons think sounds realistic.)

sidenote: yall always going on about how poly ships are the best shit ever and i still ain’t seen one post talking about levi and hange working through the aftermath of losing erwin together. lmao??? why? cause the love is gone since it’s down to two? whatever.

in the end: shipping in fandom is always gross. there are always tons of really diehard fans for every ship that want that ~deeply tragic and romantic idea of one partner forever bc their love is just so strong~~~!! they’d rather their characters brood and be Sad™ for the rest of their mopey existence than find even a friendship comfort in another person (but ofc if they do find a friendship sort of comfort lmao they have to make sure they put the word in there 3012 times to define it precisely so that nobody is “confused”!!!!!!!!). i don’t know why anyone thinks this is fucking romantic & i don’t know why anyone even believes levi would be unspeakably lonely without erwin. like obviously he is going to be sad and miss him (even if you don’t ship it can you guy stop pretending erwin means nothing to him at all?) but jesus christ learn how to fucking write actual human beings–you know, people who aren’t defined by their romantic attachment???

the levihans just want to take the moral high ground here and it pisses me off nearly as much as the eruris clinging desperately to this tragic love bullshit. like don’t pretend that this whole guilt-tripping “let levi be happy” chant doesn’t have about 34 ulterior motives. please. if levihan had seemed a solid canonical possibility in recent chapters, and hange had died, y’all’d be bitter when the eruris stepped up and used that same logic against you. y’all just as bad and some of you are reminding me a little of vultures perched nearby, eyes on the prize. like geez, calm down? let stuff happen? this ship war bullshit over fictional characters is ridiculous. there are unfollow buttons on this site for a reason. there are block buttons for a reason. there is xkit and tumblr saviour and blacklist. if seeing the eruris say this stuff bothers you, then start unfollowing, blocking, blacklisting.

cause like…if you REALLY mean “ship and let ship” then…why are you even reading this stuff? what the eruris are doing doesn’t affect you. they’re not going to ship what you like just because half their ship is dead. they’re not going to stop liking their ship because erwin is dead.

like if you want some sympathy regarding how they don’t want levi to get close to hange because they want levi sad forever, okay: you’ve got it. but if this is ‘look at how dumb the eruris are lol’ then you don’t have my sympathy at all. yeah, they dumb af. so are the levihans though.