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biannual young justice rewatch 🙏

#artemis crock #young justice #fanart

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Captain levi on his way to whoop ass when he hears the cadets misbehaving

#levi ackerman #attack on titan

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Happy Mother's day 🌹

#attack on titan #jeankasa #jean kirstein #mikasa ackerman #fanart

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#attack on titan #connie springer #pieck finger #armin arlert #annie leonhart #jean kirstein #reiner braun #fanart

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Happy Mother's day to all Moms! Thanks for always loving us... Can't express how much we love you ♾️

#happy mother's day #levi ackerman #eren yeager #mikasa ackerman #jean kirstein #reiner braun #attack on titan

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For a mother that's unforgettable <3

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Connie's a good boy!

Sorry about the spoilers, I actually haven't seen up to this point myself. But Mother's Day, Connie Springer it was easy to tell where this was going.

#attack on titan #connie springer #fanart #omg #falco grice

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Love seeing people trying to downplay the damage Kenny caused Levi growing up.

In what world would anyone call Kenny a good guardian or father-figure?

The only reason anyone would do that is if they have some ulterior agenda of wanting to downplay the overall horror of Levi's childhood. And the only reason anyone would want to do that is either because they're trying to push this notion that some other character had it worse, or because they're trying to be intentionally argumentative against blogs they've decided to target.

Why can't they just admit Levi's childhood was hell, and that Kenny actively contributed to that hell? There's a reason Levi was okay with dying when he went to confront those men in "Bad Boy".

Also, this idea that Kenny wasn't physically violent with Levi... lol, okay. How do people think Kenny taught Levi to fight? Where do people think Levi got the idea that physical violence is a good way to get people to comply? That it's an effective form of discipline? I guess we're supposed to just assume the man who made a sport of murdering people was super gentle and sweet with the child in his care? The same man who clearly thought nothing of murdering other children. The same man who tried in earnest to kill Levi during the Uprising arc.

Kenny was a serial killer, and a man who's entire philosophy in life centered around this idea of power and strength, and who saw that generally in physical terms. And it's plainly implied, from the scene when he abandons Levi, that he used to test Levi's skills by throwing him into fights against grown men. There's a crowd gathered, meaning it was in some way an advertised event, and Kenny is part of that crowd, standing by and watching, and at the end of the fight, Levi looks to Kenny for approval, which all indicates this was something Kenny regularly put him through to test his skill, to see if Levi was ready to be left on his own, yet. Levi looks at him as if to ask "Did I do good?". Which, again, heavily implies Kenny regularly put Levi through fights like this to test his skill. When Levi finally won a fight, that's when Kenny walked away, which is what led Levi to believing he'd disappointed Kenny somehow, or was somehow at fault for his abandonment.

To assume Kenny never attempted to test Levi's skills before then is absurd. Kenny wasn't going to let himself be saddled with Levi and the responsibility of raising Levi forever. He wouldn't have been able to just assume his Ackerman power would awaken, since we know from Kuchel and Mikasa's father that it didn't awaken for every Ackerman. So he taught Levi to fight, and would have needed to test those skills of Levi's somehow. You can't teach someone to fight through demonstration alone. You need to actually either match yourself against them physically, or match them against someone else physically, meaning actual, physical altercation. That's also how Annie learned to fight.

Like I said, it's pretty clear to me that certain people are just trying to downplay what Levi went through growing up, and there can only be some ulterior agenda fueling that, because nobody in their right mind would try to claim Kenny wasn't abusive. He was the definition of abusive. Physically, mentally, verbally, emotionally. And he clearly neglected the shit out of Levi, too, because we know from "Bad Boy" that Kenny regularly just fucked off to wherever and left Levi on his own long enough for Levi to be able to find the kind of trouble he did in that story.

Using Levi's good nature as proof, also, that Kenny didn't treat him badly? Or the fact Levi doesn't hate Kenny as proof of that? Levi doesn't hate anyone in the series (except Zeke, for good reason). One of his defining qualities is how nonjudgmental he is. His ability to empathize and understand other people and their perspectives. He isn't at all given to bitterness or resentment. People constantly insult him, and he never even reacts. He never tries to defend himself against other people's mistreatment of him. He isn't petty. He doesn't hold grudges, or seek out revenge (don't talk to me about Zeke. If you don't get by now that that wasn't about revenge, then I can't help you.). That isn't the kind of person Levi is. His real anger at Kenny at the beginning of their confrontation in the Uprising arc is because Kenny blew Nifa's head off right in front of him. So this idea that it must be proof of Kenny's good treatment of Levi growing up, because Levi doesn't despise Kenny, or want to make him pay for what he did to him, is nothing but bullshit. It also doesn't take into account that Levi undoubtedly internalized Kenny's treatment of him growing up and thought he somehow deserved it. Just like he thought the reason Kenny left him had to be because of something he'd done, or failed to be.

Again, this absurd tendency on these people's parts to try and give credit for the way Levi turned out to anyone but Levi himself. That's so damned insulting to Levi as a person. Levi turned out the way he did in spite of the way he was treated by the people in his life growing up, not because of it. When you try to give the credit for Levi's kindness and compassion to Kenny, or anyone else, that's the same as saying "you're trauma makes you stronger", or "I'm as good and strong as I am because I was put through hard times". It's such bullshit.

I'm sick of the clowns I keep seeing who want to push this idea that Levi didn't have it so bad. By ignoring what happens in "Bad Boy", by acting like what Levi went through, and the way those men treated him, wasn't as bad as all that, by downplaying the ways in which Kenny fucked Levi up, by acting like Levi wasn't plainly displaying suicidal ideation, by ignoring the implications of that realization, by ignoring Levi's passivity and non-reaction to those men's treatment of him, also dismissing all of the implications of that.

You people are exposing yourselves for the insensitive and agenda drive jokes you are by insisting that Levi's childhood was anything less than horrifically traumatizing and damaging to him as a person, or by trying to claim that childhood didn't leave a permanent mark on Levi as a person.

You're also denying Levi the credit he deserves for coming through the shitshow that was his childhood, not unscathed, but still a good man. You're denying him the admiration he's entitled to for being able to retain his goodness in the face of his trauma, loss, grief and pain.

I deeply resent anyone who does that. I really, really do.

#levi ackerman #attack on titan

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The light of the Underground

little did mama Ackerman know her decision to give birth to Levi would help to change the world in such way years later. 💔

#levi ackerman #kuchel ackerman #attack on titan #fanart #happy early Mother’s Day

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Female version of Twink death, the cvnt death

#dc comics #raven

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Attack on Titan: The Final Season episode 14 (episode 73) illustration by Hiroko Komatsu

#attack on titan #eren yeager #armin arlert #mikasa ackerman

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It’s interesting how in AOT we have Armin as the MC and “leader of the free world”, a guy who embodies femininity and whose political ideology centers conversation and empathy.

Eren on the other hand had a traditionally masculine, egoistical, “chosen one” complex that did not mix well with the immense power he was given. Armin being “the man who killed Eren Yeager” to me doesn’t feel like a man “conquering” another man. Despite Armin still being a man, the change he seeks is one which upholds communion of differences, vulnerability & care, the antithesis of a power struggle. Granted, the story still has flaws, but that in and of itself feels a lot more radical than whatever first wave feminist bs Hollywood knows and loves (I have a whole other essay on the modern “female-centered” cinematic narrative, which often boasts a “girlboss” who’s the product of male imagination of a woman taking on traditionally masculine roles in order to uphold the existing patriarchal and capitalistic systems. It’s like the opposite of the Armin prototype but that’s for another day. )

It is my belief that femininity (anyone can embody femininity no matter their gender identity) is simply superior and what our species needs to leave (and in a way, return to) the forest.

#attack on titan #armin arlert #eren yeager

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#aruani #armin arlert #annie leonhart #attack on titan #fanart

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#attack on titan #marco bott

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“Unbelievable. You’re so popular, and all you do is sleep”

#hitch dreyse #armin arlert #attack on titan #annie leonhart

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#aruani #armin arlert #annie leonhart #attack on titan #fanart