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Onyankopon, my hero.

Just my appreciation post for seeing Levi ending the manga along with Onyankopon. And the sad beauty of that moment.

In the face of death, Onyan dared to say the truth in the face of Floch and the yeagerists. And it's beautiful, it's one of the true meanings of "Dedicate your heart" of SC even if he wasn't an "official" member.

In its own way, it holds as much fierceness as Hange stating "GENOCIDE IS WRONG, AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT IT!". Especially reading his last three panels and then Hange's. These two leave me so proud to have known them!!

Hange and Onyankopon - what a hell of human beings!!! If it weren't for them, the Alliance would have NOTHING - from the formation of the alliance itself to the plane carrying humanity's last hope.

So who better than Onyankopon to appear side by side with Levi in his last panel?

Who better than this man - who truly helped Paradis for 04 years, and carried so wholeheartedly convictions about the worth of lives and sacrifices, and reminds us so much about Hange - to be the person Levi wanted to be with on the day they all (and the humanity) remembered they could have vanished if it wasn't for the sacrifice of one brave, selfless and dedicated person?

And this sequence of text is so strong: Falbi - "those who tried to kill one another" making us remember the initial hate of Marley/ and how they grew to respect each other later; Onyankopon - "have appeared on Paradis to advocate for peace" making us remember who, since the beginning, was friendly with Paradis/Hange; and fought to find a way to help the "devils" and to help his own people;

Scarred Levi: "they will want to know what we saw" making us remember all the horrors, cruelty, and brutal pain of the losses of his life, and nevertheless the amazing act of one person in bringing those people together and save humanity? And the UNFORGETTABLE sacrifice of this last one REALLY important person for him?

(Plus the clear events of chapters 125 up to 132 Wings of Freedom - where we LAST see the motto "Dedicate your heart" being uttered the correct way, the LAST time we see the green cloak with the wings flying in action, the LAST and ULTIMATE sacrifice of a veteran of SC/ of Hange! - how can anyone deny the really obvious connection between everything here and Onyan's look at Levi, and what seeing the airplane means for them?!)

How can people insist this panel makes nonsense, and they all don't fit together in this scene?!

Do this is so unfair to their story!

#進撃の巨人 #aot #snk #Attack on Titan #Levi Ackerman #hange zoe #hange zoë #Hange #snk hange #snk Onyankopon #Onyankopon

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What to do if you find yourself homless- written by someone who has actually been homeless

Most important: Spend the money you have on a motel. Churches probably will not actually help and shelters can be dangerous or turn you away. At a motel you have free breakfast, access to running water, and a lockable place to sleep. Do not waste money on a gym membership like the popular version of this post says to do, YMCA memberships are like $40.

2. Contact family and friends. Now is not the time to worry about being a burden. Your survival and safety comes first and that is all that matters, anyone worth having in your life will agree.

3. Start a gofundme. Even if someone can’t offer you a place to stay, they might be willing to toss out $5 so you can eat today.

4. Libraries have free wifi. Apply to any and all jobs you can think of if you aren’t already working.

5. Any home is a good home. Even if it’s a dingy apartment in a bad neighborhood. If its cheap and you can afford it, snatch it up.

6. Pancake mix and peanut butter are filling, cheap, and last a long time.

PLEASE SHARE THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

#reblog #non-snk #non-aot

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Levi, one of the best written characters in manga history

At the end of attack on titan, Levi solidified the fact that he's humanity's strongest not only in the aot world, but also in the entirety of manga world.

Levi's first introduced in chapter 9.5, and as soon as we see him we're presented to one of his most memorable quirks: being a clean freak. Levi's very indifferent to his title as humanity's strongest and seems to go as far as to feel embarrassed by it at times, since it makes all eyes go on him when the sc is passing by.

Later in the chapter, when one of his comrades Is about to die, we see Levi go against his aversion to dirt by holding his dying friend's hand. It is then that we are presented to my favorite personality trait of Levi's: he's extremely caring with those he loves.

Levi's care is shown in the ACWRN spin off in its crudest form, in a Levi in his 20s that still hadn't learned how to control his impulses, that would do anything to protect the first friends he ever made in his life.

The complexity of Levi's relationship with violence is insane, because while he despises those that enjoy violence, despises those that think blood should be spilt for fun,

He also doesn't mind becoming a monster to achieve a greater goal for humanity.

Levi was born in violence. He was raised in it, practiced it, and still, he was able to maintain the kernel of his heart intact. Levi has seen and done horrible things. He's an abnormal, and one of the most human characters in the whole series.

A moment where we're able to see Levi's pain shine through is when he kills Zeke. Levi spent years readying himself for that moment. He spent years waiting for the day he'd finally follow through with his promise to Erwin, waited so he could save humanity. And then, when he finally does it, he feels nothing but pain. Because Levi was born in violence, raised in it, practiced it, but was still aversed by it. At the end of the moment, when his promise was fullfilled, when his goal was achieved, he felt pained that this.... This is what it all came down to.

Levi doesn't say "i love you" conventionally. Instead he says "thank you", because that's the way he feels love. Levi feels love in the form of gratitude, because its in those people -his friends- that he's able to find fhe strength to fight. Levi isn't strong because he's an Ackerman, or because he's just unbelievably skilled. Levi's strong because of the love he feels for those around him.

The way Levi sees the world...

And the way he interacts with it...

All come from love, in its purest form.

Now in his 40s, Levi's the only person in all of humanity that lived the world of the walls in its crudest, most violent form. Levi's the only one that knows the stories, the faces and the names of those that made their win possible. Levi's the only one that lived every bit of it, from humanity's worst moments of dispair to its most glorious days of victory. Levi's the golden stem that connects the past and the future. He's a product of all the love there is in this world. And I'm so thankful that, even after so much loss, he's not alone in the end.

Levi's not humanity's strongest because of his speed, his agility, or his last name. Levi's humanity's strongest because even in death, he was able to find love, and move on. And I know living is a choice he doesn't regret.

#進撃の巨人 #Levi Ackerman #snk #snk spoilers #Attack on titan #aot139 #snk139 #AoT spoilers #this made me appreciate Levi better tbh

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My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s

#reblog #cult tw #non-aot #non-snk #nonaot #nonsnk

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#attack on titan #進撃の巨人 #shingeki no kyojin #eren yeager #eren jaeger #eren jäger #eren jager #eldia #marley #zeke yeager #zeke jaeger #zeke jager #zeke jäger

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@punk-feminist I hope you don’t mind me reproducing your excellent resource post here (that thread has become a monster and I don’t want to reblog it anymore!):

Zillmann and Bryant did their own lab research on this. It was very briefly covered in one of my forensic psychology lectures but they never gave us a way to access it. But I don’t think it matters too much, considering just how much evidence there is that shows that porn is harmful. I had this in my notes and I’m fairly certain I got this from a masterpost on here somewhere, so here:

(This is a lot so good luck if you’re gonna go through them)

Adult (>18 years old) exposure to pornographic media is connected with:

Believing a rape victim enjoyed rape

Check, J. & Malamuth, N. (1985). An empirical assessment of some feminist hypotheses about rape. International Journal of Women’s Studies, 8, 414-423.

Ohbuchi, K. Ikeda, T. & Takeuchi, G. (1994). Effects of violent pornography upon viewers rape myth beliefs: A study of Japanese males. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1, 71-81.

Believing women suffer less from rape

Check, J. & Malamuth, N. (1985). An empirical assessment of some feminist hypotheses about rape. International Journal of Women’s Studies, 8, 414-423.

Believing women in general enjoy rape

Check, J. & Malamuth, N. (1985). An empirical assessment of some feminist hypotheses about rape. International Journal of Women’s Studies, 8, 414-423.

Ohbuchi, K. Ikeda, T. & Takeuchi, G. (1994). Effects of violent pornography upon viewers rape myth beliefs: A study of Japanese males. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1, 71-81.

Believing a rape victim experienced pleasure and “got what she wanted”

Millburn, M., Mather, R. & Conrad, S. (2000). The effects of viewing R-rated movie scenes that objectify women on perceptions of date rape. Sex Roles, 43, Nov 2000, 645-664.

Believing women make false accusations of rape

Ohbuchi, K. Ikeda, T. & Takeuchi, G. (1994). Effects of violent pornography upon viewers rape myth beliefs: A study of Japanese males. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1, 71-81.

Believing rapist deserve less jail time

Zillmann, D & J. Bryant. (1984). Effects of massive exposure to pornography. In Malamuth, N and Donnerstein, E. (Eds), Pornography and sexual aggression. San Diego, Academic Press.

More acceptance of the rape myth

Check. J. V. P., & Guloien, T. H. (1989). The effects of repeated exposure to sexually violent pornography, nonviolent dehumanizing pornography, and erotica. In D. Zillmann & J. Bryan (Eds.), Pornography: Recent research, interpretations, and policy considerations (pp. 159-184). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Weisz, M.G., & Earls, C. M. (1995). The effects of exposure to filmed sexual violence on attitudes toward rape. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 10, 71-84.

More acceptance of violence against women

Allen, M., Emmers, T. M., Gebhardt, L., & Giery, M. (1995). Pornography and rape myth acceptance. Journal of Communication, 45, 5-26.

Weisz, M.G., & Earls, C. M. (1995). The effects of exposure to filmed sexual violence on attitudes toward rape. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 10, 71-84.

Hald, G., Malamuth, N. & Yuen, C. (2010). Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: revisiting the relationship in non experimental studies. Aggressive Behavior, 36, 14-20.

More adversarial sex beliefs

Increasing their estimates of how often people engage in sex with violence

Zillmann, D & J. Bryant. (1984). Effects of massive exposure to pornography. In Malamuth, N and Donnerstein, E. (Eds), Pornography and sexual aggression. San Diego, Academic Press.

More self-reported likelihood of rape

More self-reported likelihood of forced sex acts

Creating more sexually violent fantasies to get aroused

Malamuth, N. (1981). Rape fantasies as a function of exposure to violent sexual stimuli. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 10, 33-47.

Engaging in more sexual harassment behaviours

Barak, A., Fisher, W.A., Belfry, S., & Lashambe, D. R. (1999). Sex, guys, and cyberspace: Effects of internet pornography and individual differences on men’s attitudes toward women. Journal of Psychological and Human Sexuality, 11, 63-92.

Vega, V. & Malamuth, N. (2007). Predicting sexual aggression: The role of pornography in the context of general and specific risk factors. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 104–117.

More likelihood of forcing a woman sexually

Boeringer, S.B. (1994). Pornography and sexual aggression: Associations of violent and nonviolent depictions with rape and rape proclivity. Deviant Behavior, 15, 289-304.

More likelihood of future rape

Using physical coercion to have sex

Carr, J. & VanDeusen, K. (2004). Risk factors for male sexual aggression on college campuses. Journal of Family Violence, 19, 279-289.

Crossman, L. (1995). Date rape and sexual aggression by college males: Incidence and the involvement of impulsivity, anger, hostility, psychopathology, peer influence and pornography use. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 55, 4640

Using verbal coercion to have sex

Boeringer, S.B. (1994). Pornography and sexual aggression: Associations of violent and nonviolent depictions with rape and rape proclivity. Deviant Behavior, 15, 289-304.

Using drugs and alcohol to sexually coerce women

Boeringer, S.B. (1994). Pornography and sexual aggression: Associations of violent and nonviolent depictions with rape and rape proclivity. Deviant Behavior, 15, 289-304

Having engaged in rape

Baron, L. & Straus, M. (1984). Sexual stratification, pornography, and rape in the United States. In N. Malamuth and E. Donnerstein (Eds) Pornography and Sexual Aggression. New York: Academic Press.

Boeringer, S.B. (1994). Pornography and sexual aggression: Associations of violent and nonviolent depictions with rape and rape proclivity. Deviant Behavior, 15, 289-304.

Carr, J. & VanDeusen, K. (2004). Risk factors for male sexual aggression on college campuses. Journal of Family Violence, 19, 279-289.

Malamuth, N., Addison, T. & Koss, M. (2000). Pornography and sexual aggression: Are there reliable effects and can we understand them? Annual Review of Sex Research, 11, 26-68.

Marshall, W. L. (1988). The use of sexually explicit stimuli by rapists, child molesters and non-offenders. Journal of Sex Research, 25, 2, 267-288.

Vega, V. & Malamuth, N. (2007). Predicting sexual aggression: The role of pornography in the context of general and specific risk factors. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 104–117.

Having engaged in date rape

Warshaw, R. (1988). I never called it rape. New York, Harper and Row.

Having engaged in marital rape

Simmons, C. A, Lehmann, P & Collier-Tenison, S. (2008). Linking male use of the sex industry to controlling behaviors in violent relationships. Violence against Women, 14, 406-417.

Being an adult sex offender

Marshall, W. L. (1988). The use of sexually explicit stimuli by rapists, child molesters and non-offenders. Journal of Sex Research, 25, 2, 267-288.

Being a child molester

Marshall, W. L. (1988). The use of sexually explicit stimuli by rapists, child molesters and non-offenders. Journal of Sex Research, 25, 2, 267-288.

Being an incest offender

Marshall, W. L. (1988). The use of sexually explicit stimuli by rapists, child molesters and non-offenders. Journal of Sex Research, 25, 2, 267-288.

Engaging in sexual abuse of a battered spouse

Shope, J. (2004). When words are not enough: The search for the effect of pornography on abused women. Violence Against Women, 10, 1, 56-72.

Simmons, C. A., Lehmann, P. & Collier-Tennison, S. (2008). Linking male use of the sex industry to controlling behaviors in violent relationships: An exploratory analysis. Violence Against Women, 14, 406-417.

More willingness to have sex with 13-14 year olds

Hegna, H., Mossige, S. & Wichstrom, L. (2004). Older adolescents’ positive attitudes toward younger adolescents as sexual partners. Adolescence, 39, 156, 627-651.

More sexual attraction to children

Briere, J. & Runtz, M. (1989). University males sexual interest in children: Predicting potential indices of “pedophilia” in a nonforensic sample. Child Abuse and Neglect, 13, 65-75.

Smiljanich, K. & Briere, J. (1996). Self-reported sexual interest in children: Sex differences and psychosocial correlates in a university sample. Violence and Victims. 11, 1, 39-50.

Having sexually abused children

Bourke, M. & Hernandez, A. (2009). The Butner study redux: A report of the incidence of hands-on child victimization by child pornography offenders. Journal of Family Violence, 24, 183-191.

Carter, D. L., Prentky. R. A., Knight, R. A. & Vanderveer, P. L. (1987). Use of pornography in the criminal and developmental histories of sex offenders. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2, 2, 196-211.

Kingston, D. A., Fedoroff, P., Firestone, P., Curry, S., Bradford, J. M. (2008) Pornography use and sexual aggression: The impact of frequency and type of pornography use on recidivism among sexual offenders. Aggressive Behavior, 34, 4, 341-351.

Proulx, J., Perreault, C. & Ouimet, M. (1999). Pathways in the offending process of extrafamilial sexual child molesters. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 11, 2, 117-129.

Seto, M. & Eke, A. (2005). The criminal histories and later offending of child pornography offenders. Sexual Abuse: Journal of Research and Treatment, 17, 2, 201-210.

Wheeler, D. L. (1997). The relationship between pornography usage and child molesting. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 57(8-A), pp. 3691.

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RNC attendees tried to hide a demonstrator’s “No racism, No hate” sign with an American flag. Clearly they failed to see the irony. The protester was from the Code Pink group — who haven’t been slowed down by this at all.

#reblog #politics tw #America tw #US tw

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it genuinely is important to acknowledge the role of pornography in fetishizing asian women’s entire existence specifically for the pleasure of white men, who then go out into the world and view asian women as objects for them to inflict their sexual desires and rage onto. asian countries are home to some of the highest prevalence of sex tourism, including child sex tourism, and southeast asia is still crippled by the sex trade that exploded during the vietnam war. the relationship between asia and the west, and also between asian westerners and white people, is defined by the sexual exploitation of and sexual violence toward asian women. within this country, asian women make up disproportionate shares of the domestic services industry, and frequently work in intimate service jobs such as nailcare and massages. that feeds that exploitation. my mom pointed out last night how anti-asian and anti-female bias in media was underscoring the decision to refer to the business in which these women were killed as “massage parlors,” which has the connotations of prostitution, rather than “day spas,” even though there was no indication that these businesses offered sexual services. its so pervasive

#non-aot #non-snk #tw racism #tw sexism #tw violence #tw porn #tw child sexualization #tw sex tourism

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here’s a bit of advice I’ve learned so far in my few years as an adult (especially while working retail): never apologize unless someone asks you to.

In customer service, a customer’s attitude can completely shift if you so much as insinuate that something could be wrong. Never ever ever let them think that something might be wrong. It will save you from getting yelled at.

This can also go for a lot of other things as well. You have to do a speech for class? Do NOT ever apologize while giving your speech, no matter how awkward you feel. Apologizing for being awkward will draw far more attention to your awkwardness than anything else. You’re a couple minutes late for something rather than on-time? Odds are, it might have just gone under the radar. You liked a ton of posts on someones blog (something I get DMs apologizing for a lot)? Maybe it’s just me, but I literally never check my activity. And if I do happen to notice, I wouldn’t find it anything except flattering.

I get people struggle with anxiety and overanalyze every little action they do. But to those people and anyone else who might need to hear this, I promise you, no one cares about little slip-ups nearly as much as you think they do.

The point is, apologizing for something that might be inconsequential might just make people think they should be upset, when otherwise they never would’ve even noticed that there could be something to be upset about. It’s fine. You’re fine.

#non-snk #non-aot

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Whenever I see people deny the relationship between porn and misogyny, I think about how Dr. Donnerstein, who is perhaps one of the last researchers to have been able to conduct experimental research on porn before it was curtailed for its potential harm by ethics boards, stated that the relationship between porn and subsequent aggression towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.

I remember that when researchers first established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s, AMA rejected it and said it was correlational only. AMA was being funded by the tobacco industry. The 1985 AMA president also happened to owned a farm where tobacco was grown [1]. Today rejecting that smoking causes lung cancer would be denial of empirical knowledge.

And yet, despite the abundance of empirical evidence on the harm of porn, people are still in denial. Forget establishing a causal relationship, people are unwilling to admit that there is even a correlation.

Donnerstein actually had to create sexually explicit material that was not violent for his experimental studies. He said that he could not find any material that was non-violent, didn’t have unequal power between the man & the woman, and where the woman was not depicted enjoying the violence against her. This was in the 1980s so imagine the porn of today. Donnerstein also testified at a civil rights antipornography ordinance that the findings from early experimental studies on porn were so compelling that research ethic boards restricted them and required that the male subject population be below the normal range of aggressive traits [2]:

The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation and our own subjects committee will not allow us to take hostile males and expose them to this type of material because of the risk to the community. They obviously know something some of us do not.

When people regurgitate that ‘catharsis’ theory saying that women find catharsis in watching porn or participating in bdsm, I think about this testimony from Dr. Pauline Bart on how social scientists refer to an established learning model when studying general violence. But pull stuff from thin air when that violence is against women, i.e., that violence is porn:

There were two [reports] that came out the same time, one on violence and one on pornography. The one on violence was based on ordinary learning theory, which is a substantial theoretical perspective inside psychology. And the theory is, the more you see, the more you do.

The one on pornography, however, came out with a different explanation, the catharsis model, which was, the more you see, the less you do …. [T]here is absolutely no data for the last analysis

#anti-porn #porn tw #porn cw #violence tw #misogyny tw #non-aot #non-snk

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