Confessions

"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning." I like to keep a very stylistic blog, but let's face it, I'm too radical for that. Environmentalist - Saxophonist - Artist I'm very opinionated, I believe most things fall in the grey. I'm working to grow in character and in Spirit. If we are mutual fans of a certain book, movie, person, etc. GREAT! Let's be friends.

[snowlessss]

Secluded (Compilation of My Poetry pt.1) (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/x6NdSVrZlE This is a bundle of the poems I wrote that I liked, but most not necessarily enough to make it it's own 'story' You will know which ones are my favorite based on how close they are to the front of the list. And at the bottom I might tell you that, and add a little explanation for the piece. I tried to categorize these as appropriately as possible. This one is for my more darker, deeper poems. But I plan to make other compilations that fit more brighter topics, or ones to be uncategorized Some of these are quite old (sorry I rarely kept record of dates), I have not written long poetry in at least two years (counting back from this date at 6/25/17) But I have written some small things here and there. This is a re-upload of my old poetry compilation, but with better poems. Though, I might need a new name though. Any suggestions? Let me know what you love, what could be changed, what could be added to, or what could be it's own thing! I absolutely without a doubt do not like everything I write, but it's good to get some of it out there, for the ones who might, and maybe to help me improve.

[riotatttherite]

me: use proper watercolor paper, or it will look like shit

me to me: what if it still looks like shit and I’ve wasted watercolor paper

[everindeen-blog]

REBLOG IF YOU AGREE!

Attention Divergent fandom.

Tomorrow is the 4th of June. 4/6.

I vote that we make tomorrow World Fourtris Day!

Reblog if you’re with me!

[dauntlessity]

OMG yeah we should make our own little holiday and celebrate the love of fourtris !

[snowlessss]

May the Fourth be with you: Disney Princesses as Star Wars characters

Jedi Ariel

Bounty Hunter Mulan

Sith Snow White

Carbonite Frozen Aurora

Padawan Rapunzel

Slave Princess Jasmine

Sith Elsa

Credit: Pushfighter.deviantart.com

[snowlessss]

this was a total accident but here we are

[pepperandbacon]

Attack on Titan is and always has been imperialist propaganda written by a Nazi supporter. The idea of the walls and their fragility is meant to criticize Japan’s antiwar policy, and the Titans coming back after 100 years is meant to imply that if Japan doesn’t start having wars and breaking down their “walls” and conquering the East again, other countries will come to terrorize the region. What bothers me most having watched the first season of it is the line about “Living like livestock”. It asserts the notion that to live without imperialism is a form of complacency, like somehow the country isn’t living life to its fullest if it isn’t out pillaging and raping the peoples of Korea, Manchuria, Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, etc. I will say that it’s actually really poorly written, so the ideas the writer has don’t come across super strongly, but it’s still seriously dangerous stuff.

Add to that the fact that so many characters have German names and that the setting seems to have a lot of european and specifically German vegetation and architecture becomes obvious that the writer wants viewers to feel nostalgic for the Axis Powers. It’s really infuriating to me as a Jewish person because it’s supporting a political climate under which the genocide of my people could resume even when we just now have the same Jewish population worldwide as we did pre-Holocaust. It’s fucked up and now that people are talking about it coming back for a second season after so long I want to urge you all to please boycott it.

-Stephen

[pepperandbacon]

Lol yes! Unfortunately it’s all true! For instance, the character called Dot Pixis is based on general Yoshifuru Akiyama, a famous war criminal during the occupation of Korea who Attack on Titan’s writer, Hajime Isayama, called “frugal and respectable” on his twitter account. Popular character Mikasa Ackerman is named after a warship in the Russo-Japanese war, a war over which power would violently occupy Korea, according to the show’s own damn official guidebook (Which I cannot link to because it’s a book) and wikia page.

In a separate reply to this post, a friend of mine has also noted that the character called Erwin Smith is named after a Nazi called Erwin Rommel who, despite occasionally defying orders he deemed “unjust”, was still a fucking Nazi and still took part in the Holocaust. I did find a source for this albeit not the best one. But it should also be in the official handbook as Outside Kou apparently claims that the origins of characters’ names are in that book.

And if you don’t find it bad enough that these characters are designed to be nods to imperialist/nazi history, then what ought to convince you the show should be boycotted is that it isn’t for shits and giggles. Hajime Isayama actually does support Imperialism. He named and designed those characters as homages to nazis and war criminals for a reason. Not because he thought the names were cool. He actually worships those military institutions. So I’ll say it again. Boycott Attack on Titan.

-Stephen

EDIT: Tumblr is a fucked website, so the reply that was made by user ramen-catholicism saying “Lol no” that prompted me to make this addition is not showing up on my computer as part of this post. Also some links aren’t showing up underlined in the second paragraph so if you want them you have to hover over my words with your cursor to find them… sorry

[newtyp]

koutetsujou no kabaneri is a good substitute with less nationalism and much prettier character design overall

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

WHAT THE FUCK

I’d heard some stuff about how  the writer had some problematic views regarding war vs pacisfism  and such but I’d never heard that the writer was literally a supporter of the Nazi’s and Japanese imperialism/conquest this is so deeply fucked up and awful O.O;

[snowlessss]

Before I begin I do not agree with above statements as far as the Boycott idea and I don’t plan to keep this post up because I don’t like spreading this around more

Though all of this, as far as the connections of the show to real history, may be true, and I don’t doubt it one bit because literally a lot of animes and popular shows, and even music take inspiration from real life events! It’s not like the show is promoting that kind of lifestyle, if anything it makes awareness of it that this is the kind of crap people have to go through and if you don’t like it in the show you certainly won’t in the real world, you certainly won’t support it. It took a real scary, dangerous idea and used it and I don’t have a problem with it because many forms of entertainment do that. My point is that People don’t watch it because they adore a fascist, totalitarian, whatever you want to call it lifestyle, they watch it because it’s scary, intense, gets people feeling freaked out and if you think it’s to promote that a controlled life such as being stuck in walls is a glorious life, then THAT is where you are wrong. Nowhere in the show did it portray support for that life, it showed fear for the fact that they had to live that way against the Titans. I personally do not believe the creator was a Nazi or imperialist supporter, but even if he was I do not see him glorifying any bit of that in the show. Don’t go searching for a problem that isn’t there. Sure, the facts you may have on the background or origin of the shows creation can be true and even a bit interesting, considering I’ve always seen minor connections before, but as far as it promoting this as a good lifestyle? No, not at all I don’t believe one bit that that is the truth. The characters in the show clearly struggle, and if that’s your idea of glorifying the life than you need to reevaluate.

[samuraiechidna]

I’m probably going to get some flack for this, but I know it needs to be said…

It’s okay to like the anime; it doesn’t mean you like the creator. It’s okay to like the anime; it doesn’t mean you like the creator. It’s okay to like the anime; it doesn’t mean you like the creator. It’s okay to like the anime; it doesn’t mean you like the creator.

I repeated that 4 times on purpose so that people reading all the reblogs might see this and hopefully get curious enough to read the rest.

It’s perfectly fine to like the anime. On the surface; it’s just a cartoon about humans desperately defending their own existence against giant monsters. Attack on Titan is not the first to make stories like this, and they’re not all some kind propaganda piece. It’s okay to enjoy it for what’s on the surface. You don’t have to take anything else away from it. Enjoying it does NOT automatically make you a Nazi or Japanese Imperialist supporter. Enjoying it does not mean you support or like the creator. I didn’t even know about him before I found this today; and I enjoyed the anime. I’m not going to lie about that just because I found out about all this.

Do I support the creator? No. Am I going to become an Imperialist or Neo Nazi because I watched AoT? No. Does watching the anime automatically make ANYONE a bad person? No.

Honestly, if you’re watching an anime or ANY cartoon to help guide your moral compass in life; then you’re the one that needs help. Anime is the least of your troubles at that point.

And you know what? History is LITTERED with examples of horrible people making stuff that everyone seems to love.

There are musicians who made iconic pieces of music; but they do drugs and other horrible stuff. Does that mean everyone who enjoyed the music is doing drugs? No. Does that mean the songs encourage people to live the exact same lifestyle? No. If a psychopath made a scientific discovery that is legitimately saving lives and curing diseases, are we going to stop using it just because we know who discovered it? No. Does using it make the rest of us psychopaths? No. Use some common sense, please. Anyone can divorce the product and themselves from the creators.

If you want to boycott or ban AOT, feel free to try. I feel like it’s a little pointless, but do whatever your heart calls on you to do. Personally, I would rather people hate the creator, not the product. Don’t support Hajime Isayama, don’t support anyone with similar beliefs. Don’t support anything that actively encourages people to have such beliefs! However, don’t destroy art, and don’t deny anyone’s right to interpret or enjoy that art however they feel like.

Watching AoT DOES NOT mean you support Hajime Isayama, it doesn’t make you anything like him, it doesn’t mean you support his beliefs, it doesn’t have to mean ANYTHING.

You are who you choose to be. The media you observe only has power over you if you LET it have power over you.

I quoted the above statement for truth. There are others here who have made similar statements (like @cookingwithroxy and @electricpike), but I felt like this point needed to be hammered in.

So to all the people out there who liked Attack on Titan and had NO idea who the creator was, nor do you agree with his beliefs…

It’s okay.

It’s okay if you’ve reblogged photos and clips from the show. It’s okay if you made memes from the show. It’s okay if you quoted the theme song tons of times. It’s okay if you’ve flooded my dashboard and other people’s dashboards with this stuff thousands of times to point of being annoying.

You haven’t done anything wrong. Enjoying this anime doesn’t mean you’ve done anything wrong, and it doesn’t have to make you a bad person. You are whoever you choose to be.

[spacerangersoulmates]

^^THIS!! Honestly, I had no idea. I didn’t get any “bad” feelings or whatever from a show “I didn’t watch” either. (Seriously, how could you predict the bad feeling you got from a show was that the creator was a Nazi Imperialist supporter?? Maybe you just don’t feel comfortable watching likable characters die.) I watched the show, I read the manga, but does that make me a supporter of the managaka’s ideas? Uh, no. The plot interested in me as what, huge giants eating humans and there’s a team that kills them? Okay. Seriously, @samuraiechidna, made an awesome point. It’s okay to like the anime; it doesn’t mean you like the creator. Unless Hajime Isayama donates or gives money (profit from Attack on Titan, the product) to groups who actively support and talk about the good of Japan Imperialism or Nazi’s, then I’ll boycott AoT. Just because I watch/read it, it doesn’t meant I agree. It doesn’t mean anyone agrees with his beliefs if they do, too.

[majorabbey]

I had no idea either. I got into the series before knowing about this, and like the user above, it was because the plot interested me. Then the characters interested me, as did their development and the moral dilemmas they faced. In fact, I agree with what @snowlessss said here: 

My point is that People don’t watch it because they adore a fascist, totalitarian, whatever you want to call it lifestyle, they watch it because it’s scary, intense, gets people feeling freaked out and if you think it’s to promote that a controlled life such as being stuck in walls is a glorious life, then THAT is where you are wrong. Nowhere in the show did it portray support for that life, it showed fear for the fact that they had to live that way against the Titans.

That’s certainly how I saw it. The protagonists talk about exploring the outside world (mainly just seeing things like deserts and oceans, which they obviously aren’t going to get a look at from behind those walls). And I definitely do not agree with the author’s beliefs. In fact, I don’t think I would have picked up on these references at all before this post; I just saw this as a series about people trying to survive and make the right decisions. Which is, basically, like a lot of media I enjoy. 

However, if you do want to boycott it, I won’t stop you. Obviously the references are there, and there are some aspects of the show that I had problems with before reading this (the scene where Eren is beaten up, and another scene that implied that, in order to be a good commander, it is necessary to be an evil person with regards to the people under your command). 

[xkatebishop]

beware that the light is fading

[theartofnotwriting-deactivated2]

“I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out.” - Cyra, Carve the Mark

[secrettunnelyeah]

i couldn’t stop thinking about this

[durendoll]

[wonderfufu]

Ruby Rose

[pearl-likes-pi]

OK BUT fOr real can we just talk about how pearl gets stabbed, literally stabbed thru the back

and the FIRsT THING SHE DOES RIGHT AFTER SHE LOOKS DOWN AND SEES WOW THERE IS A SWORD THRU MY LITERAL, BODY

SHE LOOKS, UP AT STEVEN TO MAKE SURE HE’S NOT UPSET

LIKE PEARL IS JUST STANDING THERE WITH A SWORD THROUGH HER TORSO AND STEVEN’S THE ONE SHE’S WORRIED ABOUT INSTANTLY, THAT’S WHO SHE THINKS ABOUT 

AND THERE ARE STILL PPL WHO ARE LIKE “PEARL DOESNT CARE ABOUT STEVEN” IM LIKE, LOOK AT HER SHE HAS A SWORD THROUGH HER CHEST AND SHE’S WORRIED ABOUT HIM

AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME

[tastefullyoffensive]

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[aspiritualbumpit-deactivated202]

I just witnessed a fucking murder

[cake-warrior]

and i’d do it again

[gaygerian]

Yo, the dog looked at the camera like “I got something for that ass too”

[girlwithablg-deactivated2021120]

[shesavampirequeen]

Some BEAUTIFUL su drawings that I bought at nycc. Seriously I’m in love with these.

Rose Quartz / Lapis Lazuli by @kid-fantastic

Ruby & Sapphire & Cotton Candy Garnet / Lapis Lazuli by @rendigo

[daily-dose-of-doggo]

[boy-so-pale]

[thecommonchick]

Goals 😍🎃

[snowlessss]

CUTE