CAPTURED BIRD

The power to believe in yourself - that becomes the power that changes destiny.

[micia-posts-stuff]

Hanji: Remind me why we adopted them

Levi: It was your idea

Hanji: Oh yeah, you're right... but why you didn't stop me?

Levi: I tried

Hanji: Oh... next time I'll listen to you more

Levi: You won't.

Hanji: I won't.

[hanjiist]

Levihan parents; 104th family

aka my entire life

Part 1: Sunday means going for a walk and ice-cream

Part 2: The parents are back from the movie theater and the kids had a party

[kyojir]

My biggest regret in this chapter is we didn’t get to see these kids trying to feed the car

[creetch]

Dapper boy

[mikasuhdude-deactivated20220529]

i hope this panel is the last thing i see when i die

[waningyouth]

Armin in chapter 122

[taku-mune]

he is beautiful even when the world is ending

[jeanandthedreamofhorses]

Eren Jaeger - Who Freer than the Tyrant?

It seems just about everyone wants to think Eren is a slave.

Mikasa wanted to,

Armin wanted to,

Zeke wanted to,

And the fandom wants to.

Eren is a slave to his inherited memories, Eren is a slave to the Attack Titan, Eren is a slave to his vision of the future, Eren is a slave to his dreams, and Eren is a slave to himself. By the logic of that last part freedom is so inherently impossible that the entire concept becomes redundant. If you’re a slave to your own Will, then that means you are not your Will - and if you are not your Will, what are you?

That’s a can of worms for someone who gets a paycheck to open. But I digress. The point is that a lot of people really don’t want Eren to be free. Because, well, look at him. He’s so different now.

He’s doing terrible things. He hurt his friends, manipulated his family, murdered children and now seemingly wants to commit genocide. How can that be free?

To that I say: what does morality have to do with freedom?

Too often we breathe freedom and justice in the same sentence as generic goods, as if they were at all compatible. But a wild beast is free not because it is just but because it does what it wills. When the cat tortures a doormouse, it is free. When the lion tears the head off a gazelle, it is free. When the chimpanzee cannibalises its young, it is free.

The argument that ‘because Eren is depriving others of freedom, he doesn’t really care about freedom’ speaks to me of a failure to thoroughly investigate what freedom actually entails. The Oxford English Dictionary defines freedom as:

“the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.”

So freedom is two things:

Individual (’as one wants’)

And:

A functionary of power (’the power or right’, the latter essentially being a guaranteed power)

So freedom is the power of the individual to do as one wants. When you do something, you are imposing your internal desires onto the external world. If freedom is thus the power to impose your individual Will onto the outside world, then whoever has more power has more freedom.

Then who freer than the tyrant?

Afficher davantage

[sapewloth]

“Too often we breathe freedom and justice in the same sentence as generic goods, as if they were at all compatible. But a wild beast is free not because it is just but because it does what it wills. When the cat tortures a doormouse, it is free. When the lion tears the head off a gazelle, it is free. When the chimpanzee cannibalises its young, it is free.”

This right here is true on every possible level in regards to Eren’s actions, and I have no idea whether you knew about when you wrote that response, but this is exactly the “dilemma” that was written on his wall in the final exhibition:

Was it justice or liberty that he sacrificed?

So yeah, great fucking analysis.

[jeanandthedreamofhorses]

I didn’t know that! :O That’s awesome! And the wording reminds me of Armin’s famous line from Ch 27:

I suppose one way of expressing the quarrel between Eren and Armin is that they are seeking to sacrifice different things: Armin would sacrifice freedom on the altar of justice, while Eren would sacrifice justice on the altar of freedom. Although, judging by the way the question is posed, perhaps these are more interchangeable than it would first seem.

Thanks for all your kind words! :D

[momtaku]

Originally posted to reddit, but shared on tumblr with the kind permission of the creator,  Skyclad__Observer.  Thank you for taking the time to make this. I think many people will enjoy it and find it useful

[blockoframen]

Sarada: Can you take me to the training field?

Sasuke: What did Mom say?

Sarada: No.

Sasuke: Then why would I take you?

Sarada: Because she's not the boss of you.

Sasuke, internally: This is a trap

[fifi-uchiha]

What we se:

What Sasuke sees

[cherryblossomingqueen]

this still is my favorite part from everything I’ve read about retsuden tbh

[noragamistan]

My oh my, I hear people are dissin my boy Yukine.

I'm all for discussing this peacefully so let's not get dramatic here we're all Noragami fans after all.

Alright. First of all, how dare you

second of all, this boy is 14. I don't even remember how I was when I was 14, so judging a boy that age is just unfair. Do not treat him as a plot device, if he was a plot device and not a well-written and extremely developed character, maybe he would've behaved differently. But Yukine is forever stuck in puberty, so of course he'd be hard to deal with and he'd have his doubts about himself and the people around him. Hell, I'm 16 and I'm the brattiest creature on Earth.

Now if we look at the current situation, we can find that GGS has been revealed to Yukine, and he's starting to break. If we examine the last cases of GGS, we will find that two had to be killed by their masters, and two overcame it.

Sakura:

Sakura is a grown, adult woman. She is very mature, and she is the one who taught Yato about giving instead of taking, having a significant part in shaping him into who he is today. She really loved Yato, evident by how she returned to him even after he used her to kill a man. The moment her past was mentioned by Nora though, the name Sakura began to crumble. It becomes a lie. Sakura is in fact, someone else. Who was she? How did she die? That question haunted Sakura.

She pleaded and begged yato to answer her question.

He told her.

And then she lost her shit.

Now, losing one's shit when you're a shinki could have many reasons and many explanations. I believe Tamanone was consumed by her hatred at how she died, and the fact that she had a blissful life.

Tsuguha:

Tsuguha looks much older than Yukine. She is a reliable, quirky woman, who loved Bishamon up to asking Aiha, the girl who bullied her, to keep Bishamon safe if anything were to happen to her in the Bishamon arc. When Tsuguha was touched by Nora, she started getting "ill" and then her name was revealed to her. She got mad! she became obsessed with it.

Why didn't her goddess help her when a man fell on her?

Why did a young girl like her, have to die in such a cruel way?

And then she lost her shit

Nana:

Nana was touched by Nora. She endured it. But Nana has gone through much, much much much worse than learning how she died. What's more, is that she felt like she had a much bigger goal to achieve (killing the guys on top), so the past didn't concern her. She was surrounded by her goal, she had someone who had shown her kindness beside her. She doesn't care much about death.

Nora:

Unknown really.

So as we can all see here. GGS can make you lose your shit no matter who you are.

Yukine's name is.... strong. Very strong. He was struck by Nora before, but his name was strong enough to not reveal his true name.

Yukine has always been strong. He has sacrificed his life for Yato, he promised to make Yato a God of Fortune, he stayed with Yato even when he knew he'd been killing humans up until recently. And still he stayed.

And Yato left.

Yukine tried his best to stay composed throughout the time Yato was training with Rekki. He met Nora, in which he saw his past self. A girl who feels that she has nowhere to go, and nobody tries to understand her feelings. He played with her, ate with her (even though he probably thought what he was doing was wrong), and took her in. Then Father JUST HAD TO GO AND MENTION HOW NORA DIED which sparked Yukine to think like that. OF COURSE, since he's alone and not even Hiyori is around, and Nora betrayed him, he feels like his name is a lie. There has to be some life in which he isn't left alone, in which he had a family who loved and trusted him. What he's living right now is nothing but a name covering another, a life hiding another. And Yato knew about his real life, and didn't tell him.

If Yukine was your typical character, he'd immediately get over it because he's already been given development. He's already been through all the blighting Yato thing. But this time, the problem is something that other, much more mature shinki have given into.

Yukine is a good boy.

Fight me

[jade-lynxx]

Eren is finally acting like himself again and I am living for it

[avatardad]

Eren: Founder Ymir, please lend me your power

Ymir: 

[limboing-my-way-to-life-deactiv]

Am I the only one who laughed at this part?

[wingsfreedom]

When I come to this penal, Eren's face here combines with the way he talks reminded me of someone, but I couldn't pin point who exactly. Now I did, it's Sasuke.

[wingsfreedom]

Both are underrated pages.

This Zeke throw a ball to Eren as a way to form their alliance, but the ball from from Eren's hand, unlike what happened with Tom Xaver. It's where Zeke start to doubt Eren's true motivations.