.

Me when the tweezers come out: What… Me when the thing: NO! Me when the other thing: [breathless screaming]

OOF! OOF! how does FIFTEEN POINTS of DAMAGE TASTE?!

I’ve been searching for this for 20 minutes.

HEY. HOW DID YOU GET SO BIG.

WHAT KIND OF DOG ARE YOU.

I HAVE QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

[video: a seal emerges from a hole in the ice to breathe. It yells “Ah! Woo!” then sinks back down]

The ahh was so much deeper and the woo so much softer than i could have expected i love it

girls are like stars … but…. prettier

Look how quickly Yoongi melted when he got his coffee after complaining he was tired

(creds: @/smileygyeom on Twitter)

Hobi with his sister, how cute :(

↳ You’re always working hard to show only good sides, I’m sorry and thank you. I’ll try to do better to be a more reliable older sister ❤ cool babies, this time as well, do great ✨

in trivia love namjoon says “im just a person, you eroded all of my edges and turned me into a love” and I didn’t understand it and i thought it was something lost in translation or something but, BUT look at the characters in 사람 (person) and 사랑 (love)…….. if you “erode” the edges of the character ㅁ it turns into ㅇ therefore it turns “person” into “love”

cr: signalksj

I literally felt stress leave my body watching this.

I love him, I hope he’s having a good day.

#snapped

How are penguins not extinct?

I am in tears omg

whoever timed the film to the music is fucking brilliant this is gorgeous and oh my god i know they’re made of a lot of fat/blubber but this gave me like seven heart attacks

Pre-Marley Jean: *jokingly* God I want to kill Eren

104th: *eyerolls*

Post-Marley Jean: *jokingly* God I want to kill Eren

104th: Same

Post-Marley Jean: wait no

friend: don’t you ever worry about men thinking you’re high maintenance?

me: *in a silk bathrobe, on my 5th step of my PM skincare routine, trying to choose between 8 colors to paint my nails according to what best suits my mood and skintone, a cup of dandelion tea cools on the counter top, mixed with lemon, chia seeds, and raw honey* nah

Morality of Eren - Chapter 100

In recent months, as Marley arc progressed in manga, we’ve been given a tremendous shift in personalities of characters. Especially in Eren. That was fully manifested in chapter 100. From the boy who sought freedom in a caged world behind great walls to a troubled young man, turning away from the Good. But is it all there is - this shift to the Dark side, abandonment of Good and ultimately turn to Evil? Many readers identify it as such and perhaps correctly. But it isn’t  - not in my estimation anyway - necessarily the meaning that is conveyed in the chapter, that was so simply (even too simply) interpreted. And if that is the case, that there is a more profound meaning behind this chapter, what is it then and what does it mean exactly?

To address this, let’s revision what happened in chapter 100. So the chapter begins with Willy Tybur and Magath discussing the possible events that might occur during the festival. Willy explains his plan to put himself as bait to lure their enemies during his speech. After Magath expresses his concern for the number of casualties, Willy replies that those will be mostly Eldians and that shouldn’t be of concern, because they’re “descendants of Devils” anyway. Well, as far as I’m concerned, this should be the mark that Willy Tybur is not a good guy. He’s perfectly willing to have any number of people die as long as his ploy could be brought into being.

Then the time shifts to present and we have Willy continuing with his speech, revealing how the Tybur family sided with Karl Fritz. Then he goes on about how Marley is in this great threat posed by the tens of millions of Collossus Titans contained in the three Walls of Paradis Island. He discloses that this power can be used by Eren Yeager.

As Willy continues with his spectacle, Eren, Reiner and Falco listen to the speech from the basement. After learning Kruger’s true identity Falco is perplexed and left in shock. Eren apologizes for this and confesses that the letters were in reality sent to his friends. While Willy expounds on the danger of the Colossus Titans, Eren claims that Willy’s words are correct and that he is the “bad guy”. This isn’t something that one would say so casually.

After this Eren remarks that he once viewed the Warriors as the bad guys too. Eren states that he now understands Reiner’s stance after crossing the ocean and living with the enemy just as Reiner had done. He has seen that are good and bad people both within the Walls and across the ocean. Eren does not blame Reiner for what happened on Paradis Island. However, Reiner breaks down and exclaims that Eren is wrong. He pleads with Eren to kill him since he cannot stand living anymore.

Meanwhile, Willy continues explaining that the world is in danger because of the Eldians’ existence. He encourages anyone who does not want to die to join him in fight against the “Devils” of Paradis Island. With this we see Eren’s bittersweet smile.

So what does it mean that Eren views himself as “the bad guy who might destroy the world”? In my estimation it means, practically speaking or psychologicaly speaking, to read the history of the world as if you were the perpetrator of the Evils that you read about, instead of the victim or the noble intervenor.

Generally when people examine history and especially something terrible done by humanity, they make the asumption that had they been there, they would’ve acted in a moral way and that those events describe what other people are like. That’s a big mistake. Because, if a lot of human beings had done something terrible, we can be sure that as human beings we’re capable of those acts. That’s why when we read about history, in a way, we’re reading about “us”, even if the “us” is the perpetrator. 

So this is what Eren does by accepting that he is the “bad guy who might just destroy the world.” Eren views himself as the “Devil”, he’s said to be, being fully aware of his capability of commiting Evil acts. It’s also prominent when he says he’s “the same as Reiner”. He does it twice.

That can be understood literally, as living among your enemies, but also figuratively - at least in my opinion. See, Eren perceived the Warriors as the “bad guys” - the perpetrators of the Evil. He says it himself.

By drawing this parallel between Reiner and himself, Eren makes the realization that he is quite the damn monster himself. He is self-conscious about the malevolence within. And that’s a critical thing.

Through the memories of his father, Eren was witness - so to speak - to the Tragedy and Evil of the past. It’s as if he was granted (or cursed by) that knowledge. We know it from an interview with Isayama that “Eren is now influenced by the memories he retained”. It can be read as the factor that has lead Eren to end up in an ustable state. Perhaps that’s correct. But it can also mean that it made Eren integrate this Dark side into his being. 

But Eren’s self-awarness is like a double-edged sword. Because once we become consciously aware what it’s like to be fearful, and angry, and resentful, and bitter, we understand what pain means. And once we truly understand such feelings in ourself, and how they’re produced, we understand how to produce them in others. It is in this manner that the selfconscious beings that we are, become voluntarily and exquisitely capable of tormenting others. 

There is one moment in this chapter that has strucked me as odd when I read it. It’s when Reiner asks Eren for his reason for coming to Marley. He asks Eren whether it is to fulfil his vow “to see the Warriors die the most excruciating death possible”. Eren denies this. 

It isn’t obvious why he would say that. Eren had all the reason to want the worst for Reiner and the rest of the Warriors. Bertolt and Reiner destroyed the hometown Eren grew up in and caused Eren to witness his mother’s brutal death. Because of Annie over 20 Survey Corps soldiers died, including members of Levi’s Squad - which again Eren was witness to. After living as comrades, Reiner and Bertolt betrayed Eren and the Scouts. They wiped out almost all the soldiers of the Survey Corps with only few alive.

Life is indeed “nasty, brutish and short” - its mere factual reality is sometimes sufficient to turn even a courageous person against life. But conscious human malevolence can break the spirit even tragedy could not shake. In this manner it is a primary thing to understand, that to the degree a person becomes conscious that the Evil is as much in himself as in the others, to the same degree is not likely to project it onto some scapegoat. In my estimation it is, essentially, what Eren does. By saying “I’m the bad guy” Eren is willing to confront Evil - or at least the potentiality of it - in the form that is within himself. Perhaps that’s the meaning of this chapter.

“No tree can grow to Heaven, unless its roots reach down to Hell” - C. G. Jung

I guess that’s one way to do it. 😆

This guy is living in 2118

Lmfao okay Im dying because Reiner’s all “wE GoTtA DeCiDe WhO StAyS BeHiNd the choice is haRD” then literally hits Jean with the most side eye like

Yeah bitch the answer is y o u