Attack on Titan’s story is literally culminating with the main character committing genocide against the entire world outside of his island, and AoT fans are all “but the nuance! The reasons behind it!”
Congrats, you have just been lead to believe genocide can be a reasonable means to an end given the right circumstances. And that’s the first step.
This is an article written about the fascist undertones of the series. The thing that really gets me is that both the alt right and liberals who believe in the aesthetic of armed revolution have eaten this stuff up. We have to be critical of our media and try to understand what about it appeals to us and why. Nothing is apolitical. Claiming to be “apolitical” can only be made from a sociopolitical position of power.
it bothers me IMMENSELY that people online are willing to say “hey stop supporting harry potter because the creator is alive and still materially profits for her hatred”, but the same has not happened for AoT despite years of issues like this. there are many problematic pieces of media. but this is integral to AoT’s story, and the creator is benefiting. stop watching it. stop reading it. stop posting about it, unless to call this shit out. stop writing fic and doing cosplay. even if you pirate content about it or only consume fanworks, that’s still free advertising. i say this as a former fan. i get it. but there are plenty of other well-animated stories with compelling characters out there. leave this one behind.
the creator of AoT is a eugenicist that believes korean people arent even human
Sea squirts are born with a backbone, nervous system, and body, which they use in childhood to swim around and feed. But, when they reach adulthood they fuse onto a rock and moult, discarding their nervous system and most of their body! Some scientists believe that we are all descended from a group of sea squirt-like creatures that mutated into not ditching their spine.
One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.
btw body horror is stuff that doesnt naturally occur and is used to scare ppl, like extra eyes, animal parts on a human, a mouth opening in the stomach, not. disabled people’s bodies lmao.
This post was a plea to stop treating visibly disabled people as monstrous because of the differences their disabilities have caused. It was not an invitation for people to argue what is and is not body horror. It was a call out for dehumanization, not the horror genre.
