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Hi I can’t draw cats for the life of me. :’) I was going to add a bit more to this but I just kinda gave up haha. I might add more later though! (probably just doodles) Thanks for the ask @nakamatoo! It was fun. :D

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the funniest thing about reiner and bertholdt's reveal in season two was that reiner basically outed the both of them even before the whole "I'm the armoured titan, he's the colossal."

when eren was helping armin up over the ledge, reiner turns to him with frustration and clearly says, in the dub, "armin, go ahead and tell eren about that time when annie nearly crushed me like an insect!" to which it then shows us a flashback from when the female titan had reiner in its grasp, about to crush him before he broke free at the last second.

reiner and bertholdt were never supposed to know about annie being the female titan—none of the scouts were told to inform them about her reveal in stohess. this is why we hear armin go quiet for a split moment before quickly whispering a small "yeah" under his breath—he had caught onto this slight mistake that reiner included in his rant, although reiner himself hadn’t noticed. more reasons as to why armin arlert should be in everyone’s top ten aot characters.

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🤣This thing made my day!!

(I was abt to cry after seeing an edit of AOT!)

*CREDITS TO THE OWNER*

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Alright hear me out.

Grisha arrived in Shiganshina from Marley in 832, started working as a doctor and then saved the city from an epidemic that broke out there, an event mentioned twice in the story. He saved a load of people including Carla, her parents, and Hannes' wife.

We can roughly estimate the year when that occured, keeping in mind Grisha lived in Shiganshina for 13 years, since 832. Eren was born in 835, three years after his arrival, so we can assume Grisha and Carla married in 834. With those in mind, the epidemic must have broken out in 832-833 and stopped by 834.

Here's the idea: considering the illness was limited to Shiganshina only (thus the term "epidemic" instead of "pandemic") and it broke out so soon after Grisha settled in the Walls, we can safely assume he was the cause of it. Grisha carried germs that he himself was immune to due to Marley's advanced medicine compared to Paradis. However the population of a secluded area sealed off from the outside world couldn't have possibly come in contact with them any other way and couldn't have developed immunity to them. Therefore it makes sense why the reaction to it was so serious.

So Grisha was only picking up after a problem he caused. And he couldn't even tell anyone about people outside the walls so he kept to himself that it was his fault (if he even had any suspicions about it, that is).

TLDR: Grisha Yeager is responsible for the Shiganshina epidemic he saved the city from.

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Grisha's just so tired

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this is the best fucking video I’ve ever seen im sobbing sksjxjshzh

Credits to @/notasgardian on Instagram!

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Mirror Mirror (Shen Jiu & Shen Yuan svsss au comic) episode 2 - I know

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svsss horror game au where shen yuan is first in line to buy the pidw-inspired rpg where you play as a wandering cultivator with amnesia, and are taken in by the cang qiong sect during the head disciple days of the last peak lord generation.

because pidw knows its audience, a large part of the marketing was focused on the romance and action aspect of the game, with additional lore from deleted novel scenes—how could shen yuan not buy this game? maybe the peak lords will finally be more than props in the background! the romance aspect seems to be at least somewhat tastefully done, if he can trust the leaks, with more emotional depth than fetish fulfillment (shen yuan swears that if there is even one unskippable cutscene of some peak lord's feet he's going to chuck his computer out the window).

shen yuan customizes his character, going all out on the clichés because why not, giving him white hair and peerless beauty and all the characteristics of an A+ wife (beauty is power in pidw), actually excited to play the game. the first part is standard, you wake up in a barn with amnesia, only a sword and some items to your name, and have to do some tutorial quests to get used to the game mechanics. it's simple enough. eventually, you end up in a village that shen yuan is certain is possessed, because all the NPC's act very unnatural and strange, and it's pretty unsettling. here, the player is supposed to meet the cang qiong head disciples on their own quest, who naturally think the player is the most interesting person they've ever seen, a super special cultivator, and will take him in because the player is the most coveted character in the universe (apart from luo binghe, that is).

of course, before shen yuan can get very far, he ends up being transmigrated into the game as his own character. it could be way worse: he's a cultivator, peerlessly beautiful, destined to be picked up by the most prestigious sect, and has his own protagonist halo of sorts. he's honestly pretty excited about this

until he finds out that the marketing heavily downplayed the horror elements of the game.

shen yuan is calmly eating a meal in an inn of the village, waiting for the next quest point to start, when suddenly,

[ system notification ]

"you are being observed"

observation level: ???

entity classification: unknown

engagement protocol: do not acknowledge

right after, the windows go dark, not closed or shuttered, dark, as if something large has just leaned against the side of the building. no one else acknowledges this.

shen yuan shakes it off. it's just a game, it's... ambiance, that's all. build up.

he walks through the streets of the town, using his low-level talismans to try and find traces of the entity he's supposed to defeat or uncover to complete the quest. he pauses beside a broken cart, one of its wheels is half-sunk in the mud. the system pings again.

[ system notification ]

"it's behind you."

note: do not turn around.

(option to suppress message: [ ] not recommended)

the street is utterly silent. a prickle begins at the base of his skull. something is there. some deep animalistic part of him is already screaming not to look.

it disappears. he earns 5 survival points. he hopes he won't have to earn any more.

later that night, shen yuan looks for shelter, finding an old shrine visible from the road, just at the side of town. he steps inside and sees old incense sticks, some forgotten offerings. it's simple, but dry. it will do.

he crosses the threshold—

[ mission triggered ]

mission objective: hide

time limit: unknown

condition to complete: remain unnoticed

footsteps crunch in the leaves outside. every nerve in him goes rigid—not human.

too heavy. uneven. it's coming.

shen yuan ducks behind the offering table, body pressed flat against the ground. he slows his breathing, barely daring to blink. a screen in his peripheral vision blinks to life.

[ environmental mechanic activated ]

microphone mode: ON

sound detection level: HIGH

a semi-transparent sound meter appears. with every shaky breath, the bar pulses red. shen yuan clamps his hands over his mouth.

something passes, just beyond the shrine's opening. large. the system does not count down. there is no timer. the floor boards moan faintly beneath a ponderous weight, something drags across the ground.

shen yuan forces his body still, trembling so hard it hurts his teeth.

it leaves. the system congratulates him for surviving. it doesn't tell him what he just survived.

it's a relief when the head disciples of cang qiong show up, and the story delves into romantic cliches and relationship prompts. he gets to see liu qingge shirtless. shen qingqiu is typical tsundere. yue qingyuan is the soft gentle type. shang qinghua acts... off. he isn't what shen yuan thought he would be, less cunningly charming, more, well. nervous. of all the head disciples, he's the only one who actually seems like he doesn't want shen yuan to be here, always looking around.

like he knows shen yuan didn't come alone.

more instances like this occur. one moment, he's farming reputation points and relationship points with the other characters, doing quests and gathering memory fragments that will help unlock the player's backstory, the next, the system seems determined to make the game hell.

it always comes out of nowhere

[ system update ]

"warning: your heartbeat has been logged by another entity."

would you like to mute heartbeat tracking?

[ ] yes

[ ] no

[ ] it's too late.

he can never figure out what's following him, what that creature from the village is, but it's always there. no one else seems to notice, not a single talisman or ward can stop or detect it.

it comes even when he's in bed, still faintly blushing from a wife-plot equivalent where he fell from a ladder and was caught in wei qingwei's arms. he got to pet the pangolins too!

he's just about to fall asleep when the system pings:

[ mission objective: survive until dawn ]

hint: do not scream

somewhere beneath the floorboards under his bed, something begins scraping. like claws trying to memorize the layout of the house from below. shen yuan doesn't dare move. sleep never comes that night.

*

he can farm intelligence points by attending classes, and being the monster and plant nerd he is, qian cao peak is his first choice (it's either that, being beat up by bai zhan disciples that aren't even liu qingge, or running into shen qingqiu).

in the middle of a lesson on demonic poisons, the system pings quietly

[ system message ]

"one of the bodies in the infirmary is not a body"

objective: don't lose sight of it

shen yuan turns his head, slowly, to the curtained recovery beds along the wall. the curtain on the last one is slightly open.

it wasn't before.

mu qingfang continues speaking. shen yuan doesn't dare to look away.

*

one day, the thing starts to catch up

[ mission failure ]

"the sound you made has been registered"

estimated proximity: 00:00:17

do you want to run?

[ ] yes (not recommended)

[ ] no (not recommended)

*

[ emergency notice ]

"you were seen"

objective: hide

time limit: expired

success rate: 2%.

do you want to proceed?

[ ] yes

[ ] yes

*

[ achievement unlocked: it found you anyway ]

*

anyway, can you tell i had fun with the horror prompts? ^_^

i just have sooooo many ideas for the player's backstory, where it seems the character is just a blank slate for the player to project themselves onto, but there is so much more to them than you think. im also having loads of fun with the creature that follows the player around, i love making it as disturbing as possible.

mild spoiler: the creature is real and connected to the player. other characters can't detect or interact with it, but it's slowly growing stronger. shang qinghua is, of course, airplane, and as he was directly involved with the production of this game, he knew that as soon as an OC showed up, that thing wouldn't be far behind.

also, i love the idea of shang qinghua being stuck in a dating simulator as one of the options to romance. now shang qinghua has to play along with his own cringy cliche meetcutes, like showing the player around, flirting with the player, and generally playing the role of suave administrator with a dark secret (he's terrible at it). he had to do the "there's an eyelash on your cheek allow me" move on the player (shen yuan), and almost cringed out of his own skin. though, shang qinghua is the only one who can properly emphasize with the player, because he actually knows what horrid creature is stuck to him and what kind of horror scenarios the player has to go through (accidental cumplane? it's more likely than you think).

it's a bit of a mindfuck too, because shang qinghua can't tell whether the player is also a transmigrator, a puppet controlled by someone from another dimension, or a fleshed out OC of the system. he's also not allowed to ask, so it remains ambiguous. until, of course, they find out they're transmigrators and shen yuan has to deal with the fact he almost romanced airplane.

shen yuan makes a joke about defeating the creature with the power of love. shang qinghua says he wished it was that easy.

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. "the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey." "the majority of business majors are middle children." "bisexual women love hot chips." and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.

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i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. "the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey." "the majority of business majors are middle children." "bisexual women love hot chips." and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.

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https://www.tumblr.com/karizard-ao3/737377459053461504/very-stupidly-thinking-about-aot-a-christmass

I was very very tired when I wrote this and for a moment I thought it was a fever dream. Anyway I stupidly thought of Eren as Ebenezer Scrooge but instead of being a bigger cheapskate he’s just an emotionally confused your man who for whatever reason hates Christmas and the night he’s visited by the ghosts was preceded by him fighting with everyone including Mikasa. So the spirits teach him about the joys of Christmas

Idk who you want to make of the ghosts but to me Ymir would be the ghost of Christmas future because they both don’t speak, Ymir’s power showed eren the future and also cmon it’s the grim reaper, Ymir is associated with eren’s death. Somehow I also stupidly thought of Eren Krueger as ghost of Christmas past. Because obvious reasons. You may join my tomfoolery about an AOT Christmas Carol if you want

I agree about Ymir being more Ghost of Christmas Future coded. I'm trying to think of what Eren's problem with Christmas could be and how to fix him but I also don't like Christmas so I'm just like, "No, Eren. You're fine the way you are. You do NOT need a change of heart" lol.

Although, while trying to figure something out, I had this thought of kid Eren booby-trapping the whole house to trap Santa and accidentally sending Grisha to the ER on Christmas Eve one year 😭 And that's how he finds out Santa isn't real.

I realize that is an entirely different thing from your ask.

Oh, but what if we made Armin Tiny Tim?

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how much lore do you use for your aot fics? How do you create your own lore? asking for my own fic writing within the aot world, whilst having ideas for my own things.

An amalgamation of 10+ years of cherrypicked stuff from S1 and the comic. I used to focus on Titan Shifting and the physical/psychological drawbacks rather than the pseudo-Norse mythos. Still do to be honest.

As for new lore and ideas! Contemporarily, my stuff largely ignores kid Ymir, 2000 year war and weird timeline of 850 — recontextualized as false history within Paradis. Also no Eren is not a machiavellian villain protagonist who told his dad to kill the Reisses because it was fate or Ymir's will or whatever. Worst scene in all of AoT* when it didn't need to be, and I will die on that hill.

In "real world" terms, in fic continuity the fall of Shiganshina occurs during the mid 1900s and the story would conclude at the tail end of the 1910s. Stuff like Ymir (the freckled one) getting turned happened around 1870s rather than several decades ago.

Mikasa and the Hizuru + Azumbaito clan are just Japanese.

Paradisians are implied to speak diegetic German and there will be a few instances of language barriers / dialect clashes once they start encoutering more Marleyans / non-Paradisians.

* A proposed "fix" for the scene above would simply be to append Grisha's madness & Eren's fourth wall break as a result of Grisa's ingestion of Eren Kruger — recontextualizing his breakdown in a manner matching other Eldians who have eaten people (Frieda comes to mind) and also demonstrating Eren's omniscience brought on by the Founder that is outside of his full control

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Honestly, I am loving re-watching aot now that I’m older and can properly analyze it.

The first season is just so brutal. It does such a good job of highlighting just how cruel their world is. And when Eren finds Mikasa after her parents get killed? How he manipulates the guys that have her in the cabin and just kills them no questions asked (I mean, they deserved it but he’s a kid)

I do wish we knew more about her dad though. From what we see of Levi and Mikasa and Kenny, it kind of seems like he should have had an inkling that it wasn’t Grisha at the door, but I guess that speaks more to overall lived experience than genetics maybe?

Anyway, it’s super interesting

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I haven’t seen anyone bring this up yet—

Many of us regard the Jaegerists as a fascist group. Though, I think ethnonationalist is more accurate. Fascists are primarily concerned with enforcing their own fanatical views on tradition while scapegoating minorities under the guise of protecting the status quo and their already dominant culture. Ethnonationalists, on the other hand, while similar to fascists (and often being one and the same), are distinctly defined by their loyalty to their state with a strong emphasis on their ethnic identity.

Fascists tend to belong to the privileged majority who have an irrational fear of minorities and immigrants destroying their society. The Jaegerists came into being because of their fear of the outside world wiping them out. This is not at all an irrational fear, as the world evidently had every intent of squashing them (Marley, mostly). Paradis didn’t really have immigrants either, save for the anti-Marleyan volunteers. Paradis’ population is homogenous, as they all belong to the same ethnic and cultural group: Eldians. The Jaegerists sought to defend the Eldian people, who have been demonized and persecuted the world over from outside aggressors, and to enact revenge on everyone who thought of them as less than human.

The Restorationists have this in common with Jaegerists. Restorationists weren’t simply a revolutionary group standing up to their oppressors and demanding fair treatment, that would have made them a leftist, progressive movement. Instead, they’re a reactionary movement, as they’re shown to be fighting for the return of their former glory, not social justice. To restore the Eldian Empire and once again reign supreme over Marley, to take back what they believe is rightfully theirs. To enact revenge on everyone who thought of them as less than human.

Restorationists are basically ethnonationalists.

Rather than comparing their Jaegerist counterparts to Nazis—who assert the supremacy of their racial group, who are the ruling, racial majority of their continent—a more apt real world comparison would be that they’re like Zionists. The story even draws parallels between Marleyan-Eldians and how Jewish people were oppressed in Nazi Germany, complete with the star armbands and the ghetto of Liberio where they are forced to live in destitution and shame. In our world, Jewish people have been scapegoated by much of the world for much of history, yet many of them fled to a land which they’d deemed their own, secured it as an ethnostate for themselves and committed genocide all while still calling themselves victims—albeit not Jewish people as a whole, namely Zionists, reactionaries who use their ethnoreligion’s global persecution to justify their cruelty, much like AOT’s Jaegerists.

Instead of asking the same tired question about where Erwin would stand if he were alive for the events of season 4, the question should be “would Grisha be a Jaegerist?”