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After this latest round of anon hate, I genuinely considered deactivating my blog. However, after more consideration, I don’t want anon hate losers to be the reason I left the fandom; they don’t deserve that much importance.

I will be taking a month-long hiatus from this blog, just to decompress and have some time away from the fandom.

Okay, I’m done. Congratulations, anons, you got what you wanted. I’m tired of being called slurs, a “rapist sympathizer”, a “pedophile”, and the latest one: that I “deserved to be raped”.

I’m going on hiatus. I don’t know how long it’ll be for, whether I’ll even come back to this blog, etc. We’ll see. The fandom simply isn’t fun anymore.

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Anon Hate, Harassment, and Discourse in the AoT Fandom

Okay, I want to speak out about what’s been happening in this fandom.

The screenshots above are just a fraction of the anonymous hate messages I’ve recently received: messages filled with ableism, queerphobia, slurs, and outright harassment. And I’m not alone. I’ve seen other people—meta writers, smut writers, self-shippers, and regular shippers—face the same treatment just for participating in the Levi and AoT fandom in a way that someone else didn’t like.

This needs to stop.

When you send anon hate, when you harass someone because you don’t like their headcanons or meta, you are hurting a real person. That person may be struggling with mental illness, trauma, grief, or any number of things you cannot see from behind the safety of a screen. This kind of behavior isn't just petty or rude. It’s cruel. And it’s dangerous. No amount of discourse is worth dehumanizing another person over.

Whether someone prefers Dom Levi, Sub Levi, Switch Levi, or doesn't sexualize Levi at all—none of these preferences justify harassment. Whether someone self-ships, writes smut, engages in shipping, or sticks rigidly to the manga's events via meta analysis—none of that warrants the abuse we’re seeing. People are allowed to have different relationships with fiction. People are allowed to explore characters in different ways. That’s literally what fandom is for.

I also want to add: meta is not an attack. It’s not a threat. Meta is just analysis based on what we observe in the canon material. Meta writers aren’t trying to ruin anyone’s fun. They’re not telling you how to write your fanfic. They're not kink-shaming you. They’re sharing their own interpretation of the character through a literary, psychological, or thematic lens. That’s it.

It’s also not “obsessive” or “disturbing” to analyze the darker elements of canon. AoT deals explicitly with genocide, racism, sexual violence, fascism, disability, and more. Discussing these things thoughtfully is not the same as endorsing or fetishizing them. If someone is analyzing the trauma Levi has endured, or the ableism he may face post-war, or how his characterization may reflect real-world dynamics—those are valid topics. You might not want to engage with those discussions. That’s fine. But that’s what blocking accounts, filtering tags, and scrolling are for. Not harassment.

Smut writers deserve the same respect. Sexualizing a fictional character is not immoral. Writing smut is not predatory. Consuming or creating NSFW content that brings you or others joy is fine. You don’t have to like every kind of fanwork that exists, but that doesn’t give you the right to try and chase others out of the space for enjoying it.

When you harass people over meta, smut, self-shipping, headcanons, or shipping preferences, you shrink the fandom. You make it harder for people to create. You silence people who just want to talk about the characters they love. And that doesn’t protect the integrity of the source material; it just fosters fear and gatekeeping.

Let’s be clear: no one is obligated to interpret Levi exactly the way you do. If someone views him through a different lens—whether that's a trauma-informed one, a queer one, a kink-positive one, or anything else—that’s not an attack on you. That’s their relationship with the character. And that diversity of perspective is what makes fandom so rich in the first place.

This latest round of discourse over whether Levi is dominant, submissive, a virgin, celibate, kinky, vanilla, etc., has gone too far. You are allowed to have preferences. You are allowed to explore fantasies. But once it crosses the line into demanding others conform to your interpretation—or worse, punishing them when they don’t—you’ve stopped engaging with fandom in good faith.

So if you don’t like someone’s content, block them. Unfollow. Filter tags. Curate your experience. But stop using the anonymity of the internet to harm people who are just trying to enjoy a fictional character in the ways that are meaningful to them.

We can disagree. We can interpret things differently. But harassment is never, ever okay.

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Okay, I’m done. Congratulations, anons, you got what you wanted. I’m tired of being called slurs, a “rapist sympathizer”, a “pedophile”, and the latest one: that I “deserved to be raped”.

I’m going on hiatus. I don’t know how long it’ll be for, whether I’ll even come back to this blog, etc. We’ll see. The fandom simply isn’t fun anymore.

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Blown away by you tagging my ask as anon hate. I just said my experiences are different.

You posted a post about a comment with name deleted and we dont know anything about the person who said it. Saying “I love levi” as if people who hate him doesn’t say that regularly.

Regardless, the anon you got is obvious bait, not sure why you’re approaching even ME with such hostility for pointing out the obvious.

Look, I’m being inundated with anon hate right now, and it’s genuinely hard to tell whether you’re one of the people sending me hate or whether you’re being genuine, when the very same people sending me hate are also claiming ableism in the fandom doesn’t exist, while saying ableist slurs at the same time.

I said outright I wasn’t sure what your intentions were. I put a question mark after the anon hate tag for a reason. Truly, I don’t know at this point.

If you were being sincere, then I’m sorry. Really. It’s just genuinely hard to believe that you haven’t seen the ableism when I literally encounter it almost every time I browse the Levi tags.

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Mini Analysis: Levi's Cleanliness Isn’t Just a Quirk – It’s a Trauma Response

Mini Analysis: Levi's Cleanliness Isn’t Just a Quirk – It’s a Trauma Response

People love to joke about Levi being obsessed with cleaning. But what they miss is that it’s not just preference. It’s control. He came from filth. From an Underground that reeked of death, disease, and rot. He knows what it means to live in a world where you can’t even trust the air you breathe. So now? He scrubs the world until it looks like something he can survive in. Levi’s cleaning isn’t about being neat. It’s about scrubbing the blood off memory. It’s about building an illusion of order in a world that took everything from him without asking. And maybe— just maybe— cleaning something until it shines feels like one small thing he can save.

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@levihanfest : Levihan Week - Day 3 : Band AU X Domestic Life

Couldn't let the Levihan Week pass without at least one thing!

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I was referring to levi antis calling him cr*pple, not that ereri shipper. Respectfully, I’ve never seen a Levi fan say he was better off dead than in a wheelchair. Maybe I’m in the better side of the fandom idk but it’s so obvious that anon is baiting people.

Respectfully, the ableism is very present in the fandom, and I find it hard to believe you haven’t encountered it. This was even discussed recently:

You can ask practically every major Levi blog on this platform if they’ve encountered ableism against Levi in the fandom, and I’m sure the answer would be yes. I’ve even seen ableism from other Levi blogs on Tumblr—not just from anon hate.

The anon certainly is baiting people, perhaps like you’re baiting me right now, but the messages they send reflect clear biases present in the fandom.

Also, “that ereri shipper” was unfortunately part of the fandom, and they’re one of the people who would often state that. The point is that there are hateful people present in the fandom, and it doesn’t do any good to pretend otherwise.

Anyway, I’m unsure of your intentions here because it’s strange to me that you’d fight against the idea of ableism being present in the fandom. And, “the better side of the fandom” just comes off as passive aggressive. Unfortunately for me, it’s sort of impossible to ignore the obvious ableism present in the fandom, when I’ve received targeted messages calling me ableist slurs since I opened this side blog.

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Hi Sky! Sorry that anon immediately caused someone else to attack you, though the hate before that is not coming from a Levi fan, it's definitely that one Levi hater going around trying to get every levi x reader blog to fight few weeks ago.

It reminds me of an older Levi anti who wouldn’t leave a lot of people alone calling him a cr*pple 😬 I think tumblr will do something if we all report it.

Unfortunately, I think there are certainly people within the AoT and Levi community that hold hateful views like the message I was sent. The person I believe you’re referring to—v_onth on Twitter and @/7m7n7 on Tumblr (among other names)—is one of the clearest examples of that, since they were both a Levi/Eren shipper and a self-shipper, often claiming Levi was in love with them. For anyone who is unfamiliar with this person being referred to, the @seriouslyaotfandom blog has a big breakdown of their history in the fandom.

I also don’t really buy into the idea that this person is or was trying to divide the Levi x Reader community specifically, given I’ve seen all sorts of people be victims of this type of anon hate: shippers, multi-shippers, self-shippers, etc. I’m more inclined to believe this is a hateful person (or group) that opposes anyone who holds views or interpretations that disrupt their fantasies, or fall outside of them—exactly like 7m was. They wanted to believe Levi was a sexually violent person with no trauma, and thus, anyone who opposed that view became a target.

I also don’t think 7m is the only person in the community with hateful views like this. They had (and still have) many supporters. It seems like every shipping community, unfortunately, has a vocal subset that’s very toxic. And beyond that, ableism and acephobia are simply common. We see that with all the people expressing the openly bigoted view that Levi would be “better off” dead than in a wheelchair because, apparently, people in wheelchairs are incapable of leading fulfilling lives. And, we also see that with how often the ace members of the AoT community receive hate, completely unrelated to their involvement in the fandom.

Anyway, I appreciate your support, and thank you for trying to warn me—genuinely. I know the hate shouldn’t bother me, but it still gets to me sometimes.

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Are you sending yourself hate now? Do you realize how fake that shit sounds? Pathetic, genuinely.

??? Believe whatever you want. This message just screams projection to me; do you send yourself hate? Or do you simply have trouble believing people can be that hateful, so you’d rather blame the people getting hated on?

The anon hate in this fandom has been an issue for years now, but sure, I’m sending myself hate (in case it isn’t clear to you, this is sarcasm). And the ableism has been an issue since long before I even joined the AoT fandom, which you can find evidence of in many posts, dating back to 2020—and probably even before. Practically every single person I know in this fandom has received ableist, and oftentimes acephobic, messages like the one I received earlier.

My inbox is filled with a bunch of messages like the one I posted earlier today. Sure, I probably shouldn’t have bothered responding to it, just like the countless others I ignore, but I can assure you, there are certainly people in the fandom who speak that way.

You find me pathetic? Well, the feeling’s mutual. Please do us both the favor of blocking me, and never speak to me again. Fuck off.

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This is such an excellent analysis! Thank you so much for taking the time to write it and for pulling in that interview with Isayama. You’re absolutely right: Levi is traumatized, and that’s not speculation or headcanon—it’s canon. Even without Isayama explicitly confirming it via the interview you provided, his trauma is written into the fabric of his character. The way he holds his teacups by the rim even years after “Bad Boy,” the way he isolates himself, the hypervigilance, the self-sacrifice—none of this is subtle in the slightest. The narrative has always supported the interpretation that Levi is carrying a staggering amount of unresolved trauma. Hell, I wrote a whole post about how he meets the DSM-5-TR criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, and that was before “Bad Boy” was released.

And honestly, yeah... I’m really tired. The ableism, the acephobia—it’s exhausting. It’s one thing to disagree with a character analysis or not connect with a certain interpretation. It’s another thing entirely to target someone with slurs and discriminatory language because they’re disabled or asexual or engage with a fictional character in a way you personally don’t like. None of that is necessary, and none of it is okay.

It’s especially disheartening in a fandom centered around a story like Attack on Titan, where one of the core themes is learning to understand one another, even your so-called enemies. And Levi, of all people, is a character who consistently shows compassion, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it hurts. I really wish more people who claim to love him would reflect that same energy when interacting with real people.

Levi would piss on me and make me cum 😋 Stay mad about it, you crippled sexless scum. He’s not your “traumatized” woobie 😘

I’m not mad, but you sure seem to be, Anon, and I’m not sure why. Does my account threaten you somehow?

You can indulge in your sex fantasies all you want, but there’s no need to push them onto disinterested and non-consenting parties. That’s pretty disgusting of you, really. Also, acting like the canon character who’s obsessed with cleaning and is afraid of disease would be into piss kink is kind of hilarious. Again, indulge in your fantasies all you want (with people who are into that), but pushing them as canon is (1) both unnecessary and unwelcome and (2) wrong. I really don’t care if anyone writes Levi participating in whatever sex fantasy they want, but don’t expect others to share the same interests.

Also, I think you might have forgotten, but Levi is “crippled” too by the end of the story. If you have a problem with that, then I’m pretty sure you don’t like Levi at all. There’s nothing wrong with him being traumatized either; trauma is not a dirty word.

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Thank you, Star, for sticking up for me. I really appreciate you speaking up. You also shut down their hateful rhetoric very effectively and better than I did, lol. I don’t understand how this person doesn’t get tired dedicating their whole life to hate—there are certainly better things to spend time on.

And, you’re absolutely right: I’ve never said people can’t self-ship or write whatever fantasies they want. I support people exploring fiction in the ways that are meaningful or healing or fun for them, even if it doesn’t align with canon. That’s literally part of what fandom is for. But that support doesn’t extend to harassment, ableist slurs, or forcing unsolicited kink onto people who didn’t consent to being part of someone else’s fantasy.

And yeah, there’s nothing shameful about being disabled, asexual, or traumatized. If someone thinks those are insults, that says a lot more about them than it ever could about me. It’s exhausting that these conversations keep getting derailed by bigotry instead of actual engagement with the analysis at hand.

Anon, if there are people in the fandom you don’t like, the block button exists for a reason. I promise you’ll have a much more pleasant experience in the fandom if you simply focus on what brings you joy, rather than browsing through blogs that make you angry. Also, life is more enjoyable when you accept that one’s sexual orientation, disabilities, etc. have no bearing on the sort of person they are.

Levi would piss on me and make me cum 😋 Stay mad about it, you crippled sexless scum. He’s not your “traumatized” woobie 😘

I’m not mad, but you sure seem to be, Anon, and I’m not sure why. Does my account threaten you somehow?

You can indulge in your sex fantasies all you want, but there’s no need to push them onto disinterested and non-consenting parties. That’s pretty disgusting of you, really. Also, acting like the canon character who’s obsessed with cleaning and is afraid of disease would be into piss kink is kind of hilarious. Again, indulge in your fantasies all you want (with people who are into that), but pushing them as canon is (1) both unnecessary and unwelcome and (2) wrong.

Also, I think you might have forgotten, but Levi is “crippled” too by the end of the story. If you have a problem with that, then I’m pretty sure you don’t like Levi at all. There’s nothing wrong with him being traumatized either; trauma is not a dirty word.

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Levi would piss on me and make me cum 😋 Stay mad about it, you crippled sexless scum. He’s not your “traumatized” woobie 😘

I’m not mad, but you sure seem to be, Anon, and I’m not sure why. Does my account threaten you somehow?

You can indulge in your sex fantasies all you want, but there’s no need to push them onto disinterested and non-consenting parties. That’s pretty disgusting of you, really. Also, acting like the canon character who’s obsessed with cleaning and is afraid of disease would be into piss kink is kind of hilarious. Again, indulge in your fantasies all you want (with people who are into that), but pushing them as canon is (1) both unnecessary and unwelcome and (2) wrong. I really don’t care if anyone writes Levi participating in whatever sex fantasy they want, but don’t expect others to share the same interests.

Also, I think you might have forgotten, but Levi is “crippled” too by the end of the story. If you have a problem with that, then I’m pretty sure you don’t like Levi at all. There’s nothing wrong with him being traumatized either; trauma is not a dirty word.

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Baby Levi head canons

- Kuchel's nickname for him was 'teacup' because he was so tiny and precious 🥺

- he was a very gentle baby, the type who never grabbed at a cat's tail or smacked you in the face

- he had solemn eyes, as if he was already much older and wiser than his years

- but he would also have the sweetest, most angelic smile when something made him happy

- 1000000% a mamas boy. Levi used to potter around after kuchel and help her, like carrying a few socks whilst she held the laundry basket

- was a very colicky baby, and it seemed like he was ill all the time, which made kuchel out of her mind with worry. She would soothe him by holding him, singing softly, and gently patting his back

- basically a mini clone of kuchel. His bio fathers genes didn't even put up a fight

- he used to play with items by putting them in order or something 😭

- he loved to tuck his head into Kuchel's neck 🥺

- he didn't have any toys in the Underground, but he had a little blankie that he slept with every night and he was devastated to lose it when Kuchel passed and Kenny took him and forced him to give it up

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LeviHanWeek 2025-Day 1

✨ Childhood friends

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