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this detail will make me cry … once could presume shachi noticed rize was struggling with the books he was giving her after a while and found a way to get her glasses . and glasses that fit her prescription no less!!!!

id imagine there’s some ghoul-specific underground optometrist because i think an optometrist would be able to see a ghoul’s eyes are different from a human’s (because of the kakugan)

shachi probably had to take rize to one of those . maybe that’s why he told her to call herself kamishiro, because he lied that he was her father and so, in her eyes, became her father officially and outwardly

i think abt them a lot . i just know they loved each other so much . i can imagine that they braided each others hair and read together and no doubt fought for each other..

like that’s my family omg…

Imagine a touch starved F/O gently taking your hands and bringing them to their face, pressing soft kisses to your skin. Watch the quiet desperation in their eyes as they melt into your touch, their fingers tightening ever so slightly around your wrists while your thumb gently strokes their cheek…

Imagine your shy F/O wanting to hold your hand for the first time but being far too nervous to make the first move. You soon begin to notice; the occasional brush against your hand as you walk together, or their eyes lingering on your fingers before quickly looking away.

One day, you decide to make the first move instead. You quietly hold out your hand, and after a brief pause, they shyly place theirs in yours. Your fingers intertwine, your thumb gently brushing over their skin in reassurance. Their face turns bright red, but they can’t hide their warm smile. They look so relieved and genuinely happy.

It seems making the first move was exactly the right thing to do.

imagine waking up to your f/o next to you in bed with their phone or laptop researching something you were rambling about earlier that day

It’s also parallels him surprisingly well with Akira Mado. Both of her parents were also killed by ghouls, and she followed in their footsteps to become a ghoul investigator as well. So when her human best friend and her lover is turned into a ghoul, she doesn’t really know what to think. She eventually ends up fine with it, but having to go from hunting ghouls daily and murdering them being a casual thing, to suddenly your closest companions are ghouls, it is a tough thing to process.

But adult Ichika's perspective in a story where she tells us about the loss of her father, her mother's life alone, and how she knows her mother feels lonely—yet deep down, deep down, she knows her mother was always stronger than her father and copes with the pain better than her father ever could have.

I dropped out and now I study Environmental Sciences

When environmental writers talk about "Overpopulation" I realize they have not studied History and I am afraid

I urge everyone to challenge and criticize the notion of "Overpopulation" whenever and wherever it appears.

As the video in the above link simply and elegantly illustrates, human population increased dramatically in the 20th century simply because fewer people were dying at young ages. For most of human history, half of humans died in childhood, and many humans died much younger than the modern life expectancy. In order to keep the population steady, human families had to have enough children so that on average, a pair of two humans would have two children (enough to replace themselves) survive long enough to successfully have their own kids.

Without modern medicine, half of children will die in childhood, so if you want 2 kids to grow up and have kids of their own, better have at least four. And in a world where an infected cut or a bad illness can easily kill you, even people who survive to adulthood might not live to become parents themselves, so better make it five. But as with the modern world, not everybody will have children, so six is a better number, given that a certain share of people may be infertile or run off and become a monk. And you might of course be particularly unlucky with any of the above, so better make it seven.

Of course, people weren't consciously thinking about the replacement rate thing, but I reckon cultural ideas about family size have this kind of math going on under the hood.

The exponential population increase of the 20th century happened because of an unavoidable lag in cultural changes after the change in death rate. People didn't know their kids would survive childhood at higher rates until the kids did survive childhood.

There is no possible way we can significantly decrease the human population within the next 50 or even 100 years without killing people. Why? Because most people who are 20 right now will still be alive in 50 years, assuming life expectancy follows current trends. Birth rates have already declined very dramatically in most areas of the world. This shows that humans are actually pretty damn good at self-regulating their population. It's just that the decline in death rate was relatively sudden and unprecedented, and humans couldn't respond to it until it had already occurred.

Areas that still have high birth rates, have little access to birth control and relatively high childhood death rates. The simple solution is to make health care and family planning safely and easily available for all people.

I think the video illustrates something that is particularly important to notice: WHICH populations are expected to grow. Africa grows the most. The countries that benefited first from lowered death rates—wealthy colonizing countries—have already re-adjusted their birth rates, so they don't grow. White skinned folks will soon be far outnumbered. Hmmmmm...why would we be concerned about this?

To illustrate why the overpopulation argument is so terrifying, here is a little excerpt from the book "Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common" by Jenell Johnson. Trigger warning for genocide and discussion of Nazi ideology (what a surprise...not)

This very blatant and disgusting display of ecofascism being quoted and discussed is obvious, but I fear the concept of "Overpopulation" makes ecofascism acceptable in ways that are perhaps not so obvious.

I believe that every time we say: "Humans' impact on the earth is so terrible!" "Nature would be better off without humans destroying it." "Our species has had a devastating impact on this planet!" "Maybe nature will heal when humans go extinct." "Humans do nothing but kill and destroy everything." We are softening our world slightly more to the evil and abhorrent ideologies in these pages.

What would it look like, if "humans" were held accountable for the damage to the Earth? Do you think every human would be "held accountable" equally? Who do you think would be "held accountable" first? Who most likely dies when there are heat waves, floods, and tornadoes? Who cannot evacuate? Who loses everything, having no external store of capital outside of their home?

False: the human population will increase its burden on the Earth on top of increasing in size

Let's look JUST at the continent with the biggest projected population growth. African countries are on the leading edge of eco-friendly design of high-density environments. They're resurrecting sidelined farming techniques to stop environmental degradation. They're investing in high-tech AND low-tech methods to improve quality of living without overtaxing the environment.

It's obvious to EVERYONE that our current consumption levels aren't sustainable, and we are actively working to stop the damage! No one person can overhaul a city's infrastructure on their own, but they CAN advocate locally for better water retention, native flora, renewable energy, reduced light pollution, local food sources, mass transit - and on and on and on!

Turns out the organ they transplanted into him was from Rize--an alpha ghoul. So now Kaneki is not only half-ghoul but also smells like an alpha and an omega at the same time.

rize my love 💘