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[momtaku]

Snk Chapter 87 Poll

Regardless of favorite character or personal preference, the vast majority seem to agree that Eren and Mikasa could not escape consequences for what happened on the roof. I was happy to see this kind of agreement in the fandom, especially after such a contentious few months.

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[acovertotaku]

Ooo! One of my answers was included!! I feel so honored! Thank you @momtaku, I feel like a student who just got a gold star from their favorite teacher. <3

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

[acovertotaku]

Fuck

I wonder if this must be what every decent, intelligent citizen in history felt before their country spiralled down the drain. "It could never happen to us!" "Well it can't be THAT bad." "I guess we'll just have to wait this one out" Half of America is in utter despair right now. But I will fight. I will not be passive like I was during the Bush years. I will fight.

[suburbanforestwitch]

[acovertotaku]

And I will fight. As an American woman born to an immigrant Muslim mother and American father.

I will fight harder than I think possible.

[iamthewallrose]

what do you think is a suitable punishment for eren and mikasa?

I respect the need for punishment, but I would have been mostly ok if there was zero punishment at this moment. Their strengths (both physical and emotional) are urgently needed in the SC. 

What I really wanted from them is an active attempt to apologize or acknowledge that what they did was wrong. Their actions in 84 really did put their fellow soldiers in a difficult, dangerous position. Had the situation escalated into a violent struggle for the serum, perhaps we would have ended up with no new titan shifters at all, plus a couple more casualties. 

They know they were wrong, everyone knows it, so the lack of a clear on-page apology doesn’t sit well with me. Like Hange said…you can’t just do what you want and accept any punishment that comes after. If one could accept any consequence so readily…how do we know that they will not do the same thing again? It would be reassuring to know that there is at least some regret. If there is none, then ok…it’s understandable if they choose to prioritize their own pain, but don’t expect the trust to be restored so easily, then. Blind faith is too much to ask for in a time like this. 

So, I would much prefer an apology over a punishment. That being said though… the SC has got to be consistent with discipline, and not make any exceptions for any soldier. 

Imagine some young impressionable cadet, or a citizen of the walled world, hearing the story of how two new soldiers stood up to Humanity’s Strongest, and actually got what they wanted, with no consequence. That is not going to inspire confidence in the SC leadership. Its diminishes Levi’s authority, weakens his solid status as a symbol of hope in the world, and raises questions about Hange’s assertiveness as a new commander. People know nothing about the ocean dream or Armin’s genius or Levi’s devotion to Erwin…all they will see is a bunch of pushover veterans who can’t get their subordinates to listen to them.

Everyone else has suffered for their mistakes, in accordance to strict military regulations. And E&M are being punished in the most civil way that their world can afford. Their physical welfare seems well taken care of…they’re not chained to the walls, bruised and beaten. They’re not being forced to eat their own excrement. They’re not running laps to the point of exhaustion because of a steamed potato. Credit goes to the new Commander Hange, I assume, who may be trying to strike a practical balance. Necessary discipline, but not to the point where it incapacitates them. 

I doubt the jail time is going to make things any worse, mental-healthwise. Eren could be skipping through meadows with the ocean scent wafting in the breeze, and it STILL wouldn’t erase that horrific realization that Dina Yeager ate his mom, and that Grisha’s story is true. Being in a cell is probably the last thing on his mind at this moment. 

Sure, they are teenagers, they are young, and not every kid is as emotionally mature or as emotionally consistent as the next. But… kids get punished too. Punishment isn’t the best route to get them to learn from their mistakes, but the precedent is there. Teenagers get their freedoms revoked as a disciplinary measure. If their transgressions are serious enough, they land in juvenile detention, where they experience exactly what E&M are going through right now, and then some, minus bestie visitation benefits. 

So yeah…they aren’t being tortured, caned, abused, or even forced to dig a thousand holes under the hot sun in fugly orange jumpsuits. They aren’t being forced to fight their oppressors’ battles to secure the safety of their loved ones. And they both are mature enough to accept that they deserve punishment for their actions, though I hope they do more to restore that trust. 

Thanks for the ask anon!

[echo-chamber]

Men often react to women’s words - speaking and writing - as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper, Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men - control, violence, insult, contempt - that no threat seems empty

Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse  (via drinkyourfuckingmilk)

[gdfalksen]

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Why can’t we have a movie about him?

[elasmata]

He was often called “Sempo”, an alternative reading of the characters of his first name, as that was easier for Westerners to pronounce.

His wife, Yukiko, was also a part of this; she is often credited with suggesting the plan. The Sugihara family was held in a Soviet POW camp for 18 months until the end of the war; within a year of returning home, Sugihara was asked to resign - officially due to downsizing, but most likely because the government disagreed with his actions.

He didn’t simply grant visas - he granted visas against direct orders, after attempting three times to receive permission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and being turned down each time. He did not “misread” orders; he was in direct violation of them, with the encouragement and support of his wife.

He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations in 1985, a year before he died in Kamakura; he and his descendants have also been granted permanent Israeli citizenship. He was also posthumously awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania (1993); Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996); and the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Though not canonized, some Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize him as a saint.

Sugihara was born in Gifu on the first day of 1900, January 1. He achieved top marks in his schooling; his father wanted him to become a physician, but Sugihara wished to pursue learning English. He deliberately failed the exam by writing only his name and then entered Waseda, where he majored in English. He joined the Foreign Ministry after graduation and worked in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin (where he learned Russian and German; he also converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church during this time). He resigned his post in protest over how the Japanese government treated the local Chinese citizens. He eventually married Yukiko Kikuchi, who would suggest and encourage his acts in Lithuania; they had four sons together. Chiune Sugihara passed away July 31, 1986, at the age of 86. Until her own passing in 2008, Yukiko continued as an ambassador of his legacy.

It is estimated that the Sugiharas saved between 6,000-10,000 Lithuanian and Polish Jewish people.

[returnofthejudai]

It’s a tragedy that the Sugiharas aren’t household names. They are among the greatest heroes of WWII. Is it because they were from an Axis Power? Is it because they aren’t European? I don’t know. But I’ve decided to always reblog them when they come across my dash. If I had the money, I would finance a movie about them.

[westsemiteblues]

He told an interviewer:

You want to know about my motivation, don’t you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.

People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.

He died in nearly complete obscurity in Japan. His neighbors were shocked when people from all over, including Israeli diplomatic personnel, showed up at quiet little Mr. Sugihara’s funeral.

[micdotcom]

Watch: “Is this the president we want for our daughters?”

[acovertotaku]

I hope Hillary destroys him.

[alemanriq]

I was going to gif this thing and also been wanting to try pixel art for so long so took it as a great opportunity <3

EDIT: I TURNED IT INTO A FAKE RPG LMAO ><

snk comics o vo

[acovertotaku]

The 13th Commander I wanna tribute this to all the fellow suffering Erwin fans out there, and particularly thank @momtaku, @yusenki, @peach-oniisan and @ningen-suki for their love of Erwin and continued contribution to the fandom! <3

[motorcyclles]

“Is it too late now to say sorry?”

[More comics]

[acovertotaku]

Genius!

[thecommonchick]

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay - cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.

Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845). (via feu-pale)

“some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity” amazing

(via pipistrellus)

“DO NOT CONDEMN YOURSELF TO LIVE ONLY BY HALVES” damn I love it.

(via evasuit)

And yet more evidence that men have been the same for centuries.

(via amuseoffyre)

Holy shit Charlotte

(via greenjudy)

[catsbeaversandducks]

When Ultraman isn’t fighting bad guys, he’s also got a softer side, willing to stand guard over some of the littlest, furriest ones on the planet and protect them as they grow up.

Photos by 紙魚丸 - via Love Meow

[sam-the-cat-lady]

WATER

EARTH

Fire

AIR

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avacatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I adopted the new Avacatar, a kittybender named Steve. And although his felinebending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he’s ready to save anyone. But I believe Steve can save the world.

[snkpositivity]

I want to send a supportive shoutout to erensjeagerbombs for their analysis posts and contribution to the fandom, especially after the recent chapter drop! They’ve always made such insightful character metas and are a voice of rationality in the meta community. They look to all sides of the subject and are open to many types of ideas. They run a quality blog. I want them to know there are a lot of people here who do appreciate what they come up with! :)

(via snkpositivity)

Reblogging in agreement! Thanks for being so level headed and thoughtful!

[acovertotaku]

I really, really love that last drawing of yours, but i just wanted you to know that you drew Erwin with his right arm there...

Haha oh crap you’re right! I totally forgot while in the moment! Thanks for pointing that out! :D

I guess this shall be my final gift to him, that is, giving his arm back.