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Thanks for self-reporting, marcobabes. It takes courage to finally take a good look at yourself in the mirror and admit people would be better off not interacting with you. Everyone should know you harass people over ships because you can't create anything.

Come inside, its fun inside

Made a flojean server still a WIP

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If they had spent all that energy writing or drawing JM instead of harassing people who are actually being productive for their ship(s), JM fans would be fed even better.

There's been a recurring troll harassing me and some of my Jean moots lately and I'm convinced that it's a very pissed JM shipper who's just angry that JM and Marco as a whole doesn't have as much of a death grip on the fandom as it used to.

And trust me, back during the Great SNK Hiatus of 2013-2017 you could not escape this ship. I feel like any outsider looking in would see all the fanfics, fancomics, and fan audio productions and assume that Jean and Marco were the main characters of this nifty anime sweeping the site.

And maybe nowadays it's just harder to maintain that exact death grip because the Jean tag is filled with other ships of his, because as a main character who survived all 4 seasons it was inevitable.

But hey, if you fit into the category of people pissed that JM does not have as much as a fandom deathgrip as the ship used to, you still got a whole smorgasbord of fics to read through because guess which Jean ship has the most amount of stories on ao3?

Y'all are literally the 1st most popular Jean ship by ao3 statistics and the 3rd in the fandom overall. Calm down. You are fed.

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Another drawing made for City of Lights, the rivaere cyberpunk mafia AU I'm writing with @venom-for-free. Reference (main one)

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One doesn't become the Jaegerist leader's most trusted man without submitting.

A follow-up to this one.

Inspired by and for @felineverdures

Also posted on bsky.

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This is the first bit of fiction I’ve actually written out instead of keeping in my head in probably twenty years, so apologies if it’s not the best. This is for the Drabble Collective’s 2024 challenge.

Listen to Him, You’ll Live Longer

On the airship, Jean had nearly finished upbraiding Floch and Samuel. “ -tell you to stop setting fires, you stop setting fires! Understand?!”

Samuel sir-yes-sirred Jean, while Floch rolled his eyes and scowled. Jean took that for acceptance until Floch muttered, “Not like it’ll matter for too much longer.”

“What does that mean?” Jean said, cold, on edge.

Floch fumbled, too wide-eyed. “…We’re soldiers who just started a war. Think we’ll both see the end? Even if we do, we won’t be nineteen forever. You should look after yourself more, Kirstein. Take fewer risks. Delegate more. Eat healthier. … Drink less wine.”

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When you had everything prepared for Halloween, but not only your boyfriend stood you up, now you have to *shivers* socialise and entertain the guests. Floch, when I catch you ...

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Our cyberpunk mafia fic, City Of Lights, reached 20000 hits on Ao3 (and also over 450 kudos and 230 public/priv bookmarks) 🥰🎉

Implied rivaere (the fic is very much full rivaere).

Read more about City of Lights on this blog

Read the fic (e-rated, check the tags)

Reference

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I was certain a smartpass (official short novels) was about Jean choosing to become a MP because he had been shocked by the refugees fleeing to Trost, people dying in territory recovery, and that he wanted to put his family in safety, but now I wonder if I have hallucinated it because I can't find it again.

i never realize how south trost really is. and the next closest town exposed to titans after shiganshina fell. its even further south than ragako and dauper. so i dont know why everyone (and eren) act like jean was a spoiled selfish brat for wanting to leave trost (yall fell for the biased narrator) and head further north. also i assume most of the shiganshina refugees chose to settle there after they fled. also, trost residents couldnt catch a break man. titan attacks, corrupt merchants, crazy military people flying on rooftops killing each other etc "solace" my ass 😂

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To be or not to be.

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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You're probably right about the predominance, at least on this platform. But I think it's also due to the fact they have very European names, there's a lot of inspiration taken from European aesthetic (up to Marley's uniforms and weapons) and European history (Marley being a mix of French, Italian, and other European colonialist countries) and the story made obvious Mikasa and Onyankopon were different from the other Paradis folks 🤔

Another thing is that fans may not feel comfortable writing characters as people coming from culture they don't know. I know I don't despite all the research I do. Hell, I'm even dreading to set anything in the USA for that specific reason and had a Canadian friend check a story I wrote set in Canada (and I'm glad I did because I fumbled so many little things). I'm always scared of accidentally writing something wrong or writing only tropes that will hurt or amuse someone coming from that background.

... Which is why I courageously set all my modern AU in AoT world anyway :'3

That said, they are fictional blobs so I completely support you and my rambling is mostly 'huh yeah why is it like that?'.

no hate to you guys, moots, but i keep forgetting how predominantly white and western centric the aot fandom is (just like mikasa). wdym jean is a french german cajun canadian american? he has an absent moroccan dad. annie? she is honorary filipina. thank u tito leonhart. hange is south asian, residing in bangalore specifically. magath, bengali. shadis is yemeni. bertolt and pieck? persians. freckles ymir, mejicanaaaa. i'll give a pass for some characters who are solely white tho like erwin, who else but a white man who is allowed to pull all of the stunts he did. and yes, floch is irish.

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It's not summer anymore where I live, but that doesn't mean I can't upload Heat Stroke chapter 2.

Eren and Levi keep dancing in the heat of the tropical island.

Read on Ao3

Heat Stroke

Written for #LESummer2024, day 4: Holiday

Summary: What is worse than being on forced vacations? Spending them on a hot and muggy tropical island with coworkers very eager to end up in the nearest hospital and rich brats who think they can hook up with minimal effort. Levi hates it. He hates it even more when work and a past he tries to forget catch up with him.

Chapters: 2/8 (ongoing)

TW: Blackmail & Mind games

Ships: rivaere, past zevi, and some background characters ships like Auretra or Mobuhan.

Read on AO3

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Shrouded in a Sinful Mist

A City of Lights' side story.

Drawing by @venom-for-free, my partner in crime, and story by me.

Summary: “The exhaustion Erwin has been keeping at bay for hours slithers into his brain and drags him into a deeper swamp. The brackish water can’t hide his numerous, faceless victims, those people he led to an awful end. He should stop fighting, sink and drown right here and now. That’s what he deserves. That’s what would be truly right.” There's no rest for the wicked, so it's only justice Chief of Police Erwin Smith can't get a single moment of peace. But sometimes he dares to dream of a better life with his daughter and the man he shouldn't love.

Chapter: 2/2

TW: explicit drug use, suicide ideation

Ships: Erwin/Farlan

Read on Ao3

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Fuck, Indeed

A City of Lights' side story.

Drawing by @venom-for-free, my partner in crime, and story by me.

Summary: “As the night grows, more and more people—mainlanders—pour into the streets and invade the venues. Fights erupt, pigs beat natives and even kill some until morning hits and Cité Nuage goes to sleep. The usual. Gunther’s gut twists, but there’s nothing they can do to stop the abuse. Not right now, not tomorrow.” As they watch a club working with their enemies, Gunther is reminded of the past and a promise Oluo and he made to each other long ago.

Chapter: 1/1

TW: past drug addictions, ptsd, panic attacks

Ships: minor (one-sided) Oluo/Petra

Read on Ao3

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Interesting characters don't need to be good. Without an antagonist bringing some edges and challenges, there is no good story. And liking a character who does questionable or immoral things doesn't make anyone morally bankrupted. Sympathising with them, some of their traumas or just finding them fun, has nothing to do with validating their views in real life.

This is so strange how for many decades, people were fine with others enjoying Darth Vader or The Joker, how cosplaying as a stormtrooper was considered a banal thing, but now I'm seeing people harassing Floch enjoyers—and even cosplayers. "But they are fascists for liking him, they should be bullied!" Well, guess what Darth Vader and the stormtroopers are meant to represent? Not any resistance movement against a totalitarian, militaristic, and oppressive government in any country ever.

That doesn't mean some stans don't share the character's views, but people, especially young people, need to stop judging others based on their taste in fictions and judge them more on their actions in real life—or the views they express on real life situations. And if it's impossible to know because they try to separate their fandom life from their personal life, like I do, leave them be.

My hope is that internet is just amplifying the voices of a minority who can't understand what fiction is and would have been shut down before by anyone reasonable. I hope those views won't spread. But I have little hope. And you just reminded me why.

there are still alot of floch stans well after the anime ended im honestly surprised his tags is full of floch simps.. i would think his tag here on tumblr would be the first to go but alas..

Yeah, well, there's a lot of idiots in the AoT fandom, sadly. This isn't the manga/anime for you if you think Floch was anything more than a disgusting POS. I don't know how these people got here, honestly. I can only suppose the themes of the story flew entirely over their heads once it got more complex than humans fighting titans, but they stubbornly stuck around out of some completionist compulsion, lol.

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I've seen that episode of season 2 and I don't like it.

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Any last wish?