i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!”
buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is
An exhausted Levi taking his boots off after a difficult mission. I adore this poor bastard— has someone made an ‘All My Friends Are Dead’ cover for him yet? Someone should get on that.
Eren is bent over on the other side of the bed, head in his hands, quiet at last.
Levi looks at the tense slump of his back, the harsh rise and fall of his shoulders, and he doesn’t know what to do. Even when he was on the other side of the world on business trips, Eren didn’t feel so far away as he did now.
Levi can do nothing but stand there, fist burning from having smacked it against the wall, throat hoarse from a screaming match he can no longer remember the origin of. He doesn’t dare move a finger, because he and Eren are connected, now and always, and if he moves Eren might move and might get up and walk out the door, and it’ll be over. It’ll be over if Eren walks away, and it’s that thought that thaws the ice in his blood and drains all the fight out of him.
“Eren, I’m sorry.”
“Eren please, please, I was angry, I was hurt, please. Look at me. Talk to me, Eren.”
Levi waits and watches, heartbeat rising out of his chest again like it had minutes earlier, but now he feels out of control in a totally different way, in a sick, pathetic, despairing way. Eren had wounded him, had known exactly what to say to make it smart in the worst way, and in an effort to defend himself and his pride he had grabbed whatever barb he could reach and flung it back at him twice as hard.
Levi knew Eren inside and out. His feel, his taste, his scent, could look him in the eye and reach into the heart of him in the same instance, and Eren the same with him, and they had used their most intimate knowledge of each other to try and break each other apart, and it had almost worked and Levi was terrified.
