Ffs I forgot about the whole Pearl situation it threw me off reading this update
I like the plot and characters, but I truly stay for the memes
“hunk of meat inside of me” well that’s one way of putting it
I literally died when I read that-
I feel like I need to lay down after reading that. That was a lot to process. Now that the the anime is airing for season 4 all I can think about when reading the chapters is how it’ll be animated, the tone and volume of each of the VAs, the colour palette etc.
I’ve never been so hype about a series like this for years, truly a masterpiece and it’s only Isayama first piece of work!
**SPOILERS**
I’ve been going back to re reading a few chapters here and there and with everyone watching the new season I’m starting to believe the time loop theory more and more. Eren said at the end of season 3 that the only one who can save us will be Armin, and now he’s doing just that. Mikasa has said “you’ve saved us many times before” (this ain’t word for word just rounding up what she said” in which Armin was surprised and didn’t believe it. Idk this series makes me think I know what I’m talking about but then does a 180 and I’m back to square one lol .
Can’t believe it’s all gonna come to an end soon.
This is gonna be super personal for a platform like this but idk where else to leave it and idk I want to re read this years later so it’ll be a nice note to reflect on and see if anything changes.
I’m only 19 years old and throughout your life I was obsessed with my age. Like since I was 13 I’ve been looking at each year I aged as a level like in a game. I needed to accomplish this or that by this age, or look at that person at this age and look at me. You know? I broke down my life like that. From 13 to 17 I was going through some tough times (and still trying to figure it out) and with that I made 18 the endgame the age where I would like myself or the universe would kill me fate would idk you get the point. So when 18 came I broke down and took a good week to get back up. I’m 19 and now I’m looking at 25 being the endgame. Idk what I’m expecting when I reach that age. Some life changing disaster to occur? A tragic event that’ll change my life so badly? Will I die by 25? But let’s say I survived 25 and go through my life, this is where this manga comes in.
I’m a desi Muslim and with that comes a lot of expectations. I grew up with relatives around me who were around 18/24 ish getting married and becoming (to younger me back then) proper women in society. Currently now of course my friends are talking about the possibility of getting married young around that age and they’re all ready for it with the right person. My view on marriage has been distorted due to the relationships I’ve seen around me but that’s for another story. So I started to think I’m too young to get married at my early 20s and thought I don’t want to get married at all because what if I’m not ready by my late 20s I’ll be too old to be wanted (that’s what a lot of the older generation thinks in desi culture normally lol) if I get married late I’ll have kids lates and I’ll be too old and weak to raise them and etc.
This manga gave me some hope, it’s never too late to start living you know? To start loving, that be yourself or to pour it all into someone else. And we shouldn’t be ashamed to start things when we’re older if you like something age shouldn’t matter. Who said fun had an age limit? Our MC is a bit harsh on himself only viewing himself as “this/that old man” and seeing very little else, yet his partner sees beyond that. We’ve all got silent lovers on this world, they see the parts we don’t even notice. They see more.
There’s no blueprint or levels to life you don’t need to accomplish universal goals that society has pushed on us. I really love the message and the relationship in this piece of art it’s wholesome and gives a warm feeling. Yeah you’ll get old and have a midlife crisis and whatever else media told us to be scared about but, that problem will have a place in your life and it will pass. Just please be kind to yourself.
You can’t wait for the years to pass by as though they’ll create some kind of surprising experience, when you and the choices you make are the only ones that can produce such change. I know it’s inevitable to worry about the future, but I someway, you can’t control it. Just worry about now, what you love, and try to find the purpose you wanna give to your life. I hope you can be happy in whatever you decide to choose.
It’s hard especially with what’s going on in the world and we’re just stuck thinking about the future but with that comes looking towards hope and new beginnings. We can only do so much in the now and that’s ok, they say live life with no regrets but I don’t believe in that regrets are lessons we learn from or avoid for the future. They don’t always have to be bad.
Thank you for the lovely comment! xx
I can relate on a spiritual level sis
Like in my culture and yours once you're 30 you suddenly become invalid, your expected to already have married, had children, have a house, successful in your career, and all of that just before your 30,,,and if you don't then your a defect product, they put us down like that
The prophet mohamed first married at age 25 to aisha
When he married khadija she was 40 ish years old
Yet the cultural pressure expect us to spend your youth working for the sake of pleasing others, getting nariied for your parents sake, getting a career your parents aprove
Even trying to go against the norm is hard because you have to go against your parents expectation and its so hard to bear sometimes being the 'dissapointment' in the eyes of those who raised you
Sigh
At this point I dont even want to do life
Yes absolutely!
Honestly our parents generation have just raised kids how are trying to break these boundaries. Sometimes I think the things I’m doing right now is it just to piss my parents and older relatives off to prove something or am I actually doing this to make myself happy and not even paying them any attention???
These days culture has too much say over religion now it’s weird. For example sex it’s encouraged in couples to do it and have fun with it right? And especially for the woman she has to feel satisfied yet culture has made it a taboo and almost an evil act to talk about with people. We need to have more talks about this sort of stuff with both genders. I’m bengali and when I look at the progress of Bangladesh and their young people it feels like they’re more free with what they can do. It doesn't feel as suffocating there than it does in my own environment miles away from there in the west.
Boys get too much of a free pass and their too spoilt and babied. And girls are left to raise themselves. Men have nothing but the audacity sometimes to try and lecture a Muslim women like brother please
I have high hopes that our generation can talk freely about social issues and explore all parts of religion culture and self identity more with our kids. Inshallah we’re all happy and well.
I just want to do me you know? Be happy with whatever I end up doing and wherever that is and whomever I’m experiencing that all with. I pray we all get to that point of happiness.
Just whoever god have wrote for us, PUHLEASE let him not be an asshole,, sigh it's so hard to even find someone who theri views match u know
Gotta do what I gotta do and just live life abd hopefully things woke out by themselves, if it doesnt work out then it's not meant to be
I knoowwwww
Boys get a lot of previlidges and get away with anything
Especially when it comes to things about sex, premarital interciyse for boys get them a slap on hand, while ofr women they are basically socially executed
Like we aren't wven allowed to talk about periods freely,, and sex education is not even ever brought up and discussed
But somehow people from ourculture try to sexualise almost everything with outdated views that just don't work anymore in this type of society
Like bruh grow up its time to change, sexism should not be a norm
Sigh
Just live life however I WNAT to and everyone else can just either wathc me strive or get the hell out
Spent a whole day on this and it was so worth it. Holy shit I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like this, it’s so straightforward and simple yet so complicated and layered? Normally with these types of stories and genre I get bored because I’m bombarded with a lot of info and forget it later when it’s needed etc. But this was a race case for me.
Man that ending was kinda sad but also the most realistic and just made sense. It hurt but it needed to happen.
This work makes me want to dive deeper into this genre and find more twisted stories that I’ve never seen in any other type of media. Will definitely be re reading it in years times and buying the set if I can!
I can’t their relationship is so cute, it’s just wholesome
Ugh I have a serious love-hate relationship with works of art like this that fuck me up and get me staying up till 3am thinking about the meaning of life.
Great writing it was simple yet knows all the right places to pierce my cold heart.
Does anyone know if there’s a physical version of this?