#marley's mind

[nakedcomedy]

Marley's Mind host Marley Gotterer in Paper Magazine!!! Check out the full interview here:

AND next Marley's Mind lineup drop! SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY 4/2!!

[angelhotchner]

thinking of jumping on Hotch’s lap when he’s sat on desks talking to the rest of the team

[marley-manson]

one fun thing about George is that they actually show how Hawkeye's style of joking functions as a beacon for gay people. Like, George laughing at his gay slang tourist joke is a hint that he's gay before the reveal, and Hawkeye signals himself as relatable and safe by making an interior decorator joke and referencing his own inability to throw a football during their conversation

like is that not all the precedent you need to take eg "Someone's gonna have to get me pregnant first" in Welcome to Korea as Hawkeye sussing out whether BJ's down to fuck? or yk, Hawkeye's vibe in general as announcing to anyone whose radar can understand it that he's looking for guys to hook up with? you don't even need to understand how gay guys found each other in similar ways in the real world to make this connection, it's all technically there in the show itself

[makeyouminemp3]

straight ship so good, you even got the lesbians rooting for them

[kidwbeanie]

Hehe time for more Clover >:)

him and his cute lil turtle neck...

[w-i-m-m]

[thebeaconstreetcollection]

[rivangel]

Hii regarding your tags on that autism fueled-rant post, you mentioned talking about the ramifications that the aftermath of the rumbling would have and!! I have been thinking about that nonstop for the past couple of weeks and I’ve been searching everywhere for posts discussing it and I haven’t found much in depth stuff!! I haven’t read the entire manga but I have read the conclusion and I really don’t like how it just timeskips and doesn’t discuss much about what life is like after. So rn I’m working on a post-rumbling fic to fill in the blanks of what things would be like the following year. If you’re cool with exchanging ideas about it, what do you think would have transpired?

MANNNN you have no idea how long i've wanted to talk to someone abt this!!! i totally feel your pain😭

sooo we know that the world map of aot is just backwards + upside down version of the real world. this is even more supported by names like the Port of Acrifa (Africa) and Salta (Atlas) - to explain the names of regions in the map below.

what we don't know is just about everything else. cultures, technology, populations everywhere except for Paradis, Marley (and very roughly) Hizuru? nope. so this is going to require some speculating.

credit to this reddit post for the best approximation of aot's world map.

I highlighted Paradis in yellow, marked L for Liberio, and i marked X where Fort Salta is. really all you need to know about that place (if you don't already) is that's where the Rumbling stops.

therefore, the Rumbling got this far:

so, what the fuck does THIS mean?

WELL FIRST OF ALL...

this is a map of where the Walls are canonically situated on Paradis Island:

...did Eren actually get the Titans to stomp out all life on the majority of the fucking island???? did the Wall Titans just step around all people inhabiting those areas?? are there enough gaps between the individual Wall Titans to preserve the island?

also, did just the Wall Maria Titans walk? otherwise the only preserved part of Paradis would be all the land in Wall Sina.

if i'm missing something, please let me know. i'm going to operate on the assumption that it's a plot hole, because otherwise, Paradis would be a destroyed nation after the Rumbling.

therefore, the timeskip where Paradis is shown to be a thriving fascist military state simple wouldn't make sense.

moving on, during the Rumbling, 80% of humanity is just exterminated. so the vast majority of the human population was apparently concentrated in Marley (the African continent), and parts of the Middle East and Asia.

we're never given a number for the human population on AOT's earth before the rumbling, but say we placed it at 1.5 billion like our earth in 1920—to adjust for the technology apparently available seen mostly in Marley (black and white photographs, model-t cars, etc).

120 million people. so it seems a bit more realistic that 120 million people could be left in the unshaded region.

it doesn't need to be said that Marley has practically been wiped out. so what does that mean for the world?

at best, it's gone from the leading world power to a “third-world” country. That's pretty much the bulk of the devastation from a political perspective, but the leading world power is gone.

imagine modern China or the USA just disappearing off the face of the earth. Marley contained the majority of the world's population too. so total economic collapse, right?? a global recession, economic ruin for decades to come.

would war immediately break out for that land?

FUCK NO!! it's pure wasteland coated with blood, flattened ruin, and carrion. totally inhospitable. there is nothing left. (that's depicted in a panel from ch139 that i won't show just in case of spoilers.)

but you can bet your ass that nations after the Rumbling are going to turn on Paradis. right, Eren frightened the world into submission—but he said himself that it'll be decades before there's a counterattack. so in the meantime, Paradis canonically becomes a fascist military state.

WORLD WAR.

a few decades after the Rumbling ends, there will be all-out war, and not just out of the fear and hatred we're familiar with.

however, in the following year like you asked, by-far i imagine people globally would be in a complete state of shock, still reeling—especially politically—from the devastation. that's the best way I would sum it up.

probably imagine the state of the world after WW2, except the political and socio-economic equivalent of the USA and parts of western Europe were bombed into nothingness.

and resources?

what effect did such decimation of life on earth the Rumbling caused do to the entire continent of (what is) Africa, the Middle East and a part of Asia?

i don't know enough about Africa, the Middle East and Asia to explain accurately, honestly. but undoubtedly, Eren fucked everyone over in severe respects globally and he didn't even succeed in exterminating humanity.

But also, we can't assume that the world of AOT is a perfect replica of our own in terms of... well, anything besides size and climate. the most useful info we know is that the vast majority of the world's population is (was) situated in those places.

climate map:

the majority of the world's deserts and tropical grasslands + much of the grassland is just.... gone.

so much farmland. at least I don't think that the world would be starving, but considering the economic breakdown i mentioned earlier, there would be plenty of anarchy in the first year following the Rumbling.

surely there would be a global shortage of oil? essential minerals found only in deserts? many types of animals would be extinct or pushed to the brink of it.

as for the ocean, Wall Titans are seen swimming through it, but what kind of impact would all that heat have on marine life?? NOT GOOD ONES.

sorry that i'm simply not knowledgable enough to give out many specifics, but for anyone who is, please add on if you'd like :) there's a ton of factors to consider in what the world would be like post-Rumbling, many of which i think would have to be filled in by fans since Isayama doesn't fill many blanks.

[astutior]

@kerothi | continued from here.

Armin shakes his head, fingers curling around the drink he's been nursing all evening, the glass cool and damp against his skin. When he originally joined the military, heroism was the furthest thing from his mind. Not something a person like him could possibly be capable of. Some part of him still feels that way now. The title of "hero" is largely built on lies in his case. Lies to protect Mikasa, and allow Eren a proper burial. If only the survivors of the rumbling knew. They'd string him up in the streets.

A good portion of people in Paradis already want to, for the opposite reason. What a mess he's left himself with.

"You're going to destroy your liver," he points out, eyeing Jean's empty glass and sour expression. He worries about him. The way he drinks. It's what prompts him to tag along to the bars when he's able. That, and the fact that he isn't quite sure what to do with himself in his free time anymore. Getting out prevents him from losing his mind. "Imagine surviving all that just to take yourself out with alcohol. Seems a little counter productive, don't you think?"

[histhoughtslately]

[theuniversalscat]

Have a Good night. 😴 🧠 😘

[angelhotchner]

you know when he stands outside and the wind whips his blazer a lil bit? just wanna slide my hand across his waist against his shirt and hide it there when the blazer falls back into place

[marley-manson]

yanno... I actually like how the Joxer-loves-Gabrielle plotline in season 5 puts a lot of focus on the awkward position it puts Gabrielle in. tbf I don't remember all the details of this and I didn't watch every s5 episode anyway, but in general this subplot does often very pointedly state the message that a dude's feelings are his own problem, and it's wrong to make it someone else's problem. when Joxer confessed his feelings and said 'no strings' he should've meant it and moved on when Gabrielle didn't reciprocate, instead of pressing and overtly pining afterwards. Gabrielle never throws him a bone, and, eventually, Joxer does move on.

it's a lesson more men should see in media tbh

this also largely goes for the Ares subplot lol. sometimes you love a woman and she doesn't love you back even if you do selfless things and become a better person, and you just have to grow up and deal with that. being a better person is its own reward anyway.

like these subplots are often annoying as hell and I fully get why a lot of Xena fans completely hate them, but i do find it refreshing that neither ends in receiprocation, the women aren't demonized for not reciprocating those feelings, and the message is ultimately that men aren't owed anything from women even if they try to 'earn' it.

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marley in my mind would probably not be a pet owner (pretending rex doesn't exist rn) but i feel like if they were they'd have some like mean and old as hell cat that should have died like 3 years ago but is still here anyways. and it would be named some shit like mary

[twpsyn-who]

Soulmates AU in which when your soulmate is in a situation that can result in their death you get to see through their eyes. Like, I don't know how to explain this- it kind of flashes between what you see and what your soulmate sees. You know those edits where there's a scene going on and there's another one faded in the background happening at the same time? Similar to that. The idea is that you get to see what your soulmate sees too, on top of what you're seeing.

Now, this AU but JeanMarco. With Marco asking the others where's Jean, just for him to start seeing a corpse right in front of his eyes not even a second after asking. Seeing through Jean's eyes as he's trying to get hold of that gear and stuff. And once Jean's safe, once it clicks that you know his best friend is his soulmate Marco can't wait for them to graduate so he can you know tell him that.

Then, you know. That happens. And Jean is so fucking confused because he keeps seeing Annie crying, looking down on him. Only when Annie starts getting off the gear, when his soulmate starts moving around trying to get away he starts panicking, starts moving around faster than before. And maybe he's too late. Or maybe he shows up in time and kills the titan. I don't know. That's not where I'm trying to get, but to the second option AKA Marco pulling an UNO reverse on Annie because he's a smart sneaky bastard like that and being like 'Hey you can't kill me, my soulmate will know it was you' which makes her stop trying to take off his gear. Reiner keeps telling her to do it, Bertholdt keeps yelling about that titan coming closer, but Annie... she has seen things, at some point. Flashes of moments that weren't hers, happening right in Trost- right in that moment. And she didn't give them too much thought until that moment, until it got confirmed that it has nothing to do with her titan powers.

'What do you mean by that?' she asks, because she needs to know more. Because she wants to know more. And Marco starts explaining how it works. Tells them that he has found his soulmate, that they will put all the blame on them for his death. Reiner doesn't believe him, keeps insisting that he's playing them around - he, and anyone born and raised on Marley, has never heard of something like that before, it doesn't exist - but Annie tells him to shut up and to let Marco go. Cue to the plot of any fic in which Marco doesn't straight up die after finding up their secret.

Anyway I don't know man, just,,, We need more soulmate aus for JeanMarco. That's an order.

[wizardlymilf]

lotsa traditional stuff...pretty much all ocs but walter white is there too. i guess. Whatever