Come Closer Now.

We don’t have a translation yet, so I don’t know what that last blurb says. All we can see is the little man flying. ugh

On the flip side, there is: 

the telltale stream of blood, 

what could be a wound on his back/side, 

no wire anywhere so it looks like he couldn’t even try to escape the explosion.

On the plus side: 

he’s seemingly in one piece, 

that dark patch is probably just the SC insignia on his cloak, 

there is a very convenient river at the end of his trajectory.

He may or may not be missing limbs, we’ll keep that aside for the moment. What he will have are burns, because it was a goddamn explosion goddammit Zeke 

And if he lands in the river (it seems very likely), it is probably the best thing he can do for those burns, given the circumstances and lack of modern medicine.

So here’s what I think: He isn’t dead yet, but he will be in immense pain and will probably die in some decisive battle in the coming months chapters. We wanted him to die a hero’s death, and by god, Isayama will make it happen. Even if he won’t be in one piece by the end.

No I’m not okay. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

EDIT: The monkey is still alive, what the FUCK, yams? 

(No spoilers for IW, just references to a single, non-plot-related line of dialogue from it.)

Okay so I’ve been confused and annoyed about Thor saying he’s 1500, despite stating in Ragnarok that he and Loki were both eight during the snake/stabbing incident and the first film stating that Odin brought Loki back to Asgard no earlier than 965 (which already didn’t make sense because how the crap can Thor and Loki of mythology be based on the actual Thor and Loki if they were only born after Norway was already beginning to convert to Christianity?). 

The out-of-story explanation is clearly that none of these writers can do basic math or care at all about their timeline. But there is an in-story explanation, which I have now accepted as my headcanon.

965 is a solid anchor point. Loki was definitely born after that, and Thor isn’t much older than him because we saw them both as similarly-aged little boys. 

Now the MCU never mentions Allspeak, but it’s as good an explanation as any for why the Asgardians never have language barrier problems. It might, however, interact weirdly with statements about time. 

So when Thor tells Bruce and Valkyrie about the snake/stabbing incident, Allspeak would automatically translate that into something Bruce could understand. What matters about that story is not the actual number age of Thor and Loki, but their level of maturity. They could’ve been 200, but they were the mental/emotional/physical equivalent of human eight-year-olds, so that’s what Bruce heard. 

When Thor tells the Guardians he’s 1500, only one member of his audience is human, and Peter Quill has spent most of his life on other planets anyway. Earth years are meaningless in this conversation, so Allspeak would convert whatever age Thor said into the calendar system the Guardians are most familiar with. Probably some standardized system of the Nova empire, and in that system, Thor is 1500 instead of a few decades past a thousand.

The other two time references we get are when Loki snarks at Odin that Asgardians live roughly five thousand years longer than humans. Because humans are the point of comparison, I feel like he must be speaking in terms of Earth years, so that sets the average Asgardian lifespan at ~5000. That fits with what we know about Bor’s war against the Dark Elves. When Thor talks to Surtur, though, he says that he thought Odin had killed him “half a million years ago.” This, I attribute to hyperbole. 

Bonus headcanon: Allspeak doesn’t work on bizarre non-languages like Groot, which is why it was taught separately as an elective on Asgard.

Bonus bonus headcanon: in the MCU, Norse mythology comes from some drunk Viking dude who fell into that pool in the Norn cave from Ultron. He got possessed and saw the future, and then a several-centuries-long telephone game ensued, which is why the myths bear very little resemblance to the real Thor and Loki and have been around longer than them. 

TVXQ! smtown NYC Madison Square Garden 2011 / Explained: K-pop ep.4

“Between both pictures, you can feel confidence but doubt. You can see happiness but sadness. Between both there are tears and smiles. Between both there’s 8 years of hardwork, of returning from no point, of standing from the lowest.”

“8 years ago they looked haggard, physically & emotionally exhausted. Even Yunho’s barely making an effort to smile. But now they look so alive, radiant, & above all happy, content & at peace with everything in their lives. Which is the most important & precious thing we could wish for them.”

TVXQ! 15th Anniversary December 26 2018:

When the staff asked “Will you be okay with just the two of you?” I couldn’t understand what came over me, but I suddenly felt the internal conflict within me in full force. Even as we were rehearsing, we kept saying to ourselves that it would be okay, even if some people had already lost faith in us, but as soon as I got on stage, I told myself “It’s okay, just let yourself go”. I still remember very clearly the moment when Yunho and I exchanged glances and the two of us shouted “Go!” together.

We hope to improve through projecting the joy of singing, undergoing a change in our style and doing our very best. I’ve always thought that my voice went pretty well with Yunho’s (laughs), we’ll maintain the style TVXQ has always had whilst also bringing our fans something that belongs solely to the two of us! I can genuinely feel a sense of security. Thank you for waiting for us. - Changmin for Ginger Magazine - December 20 2010

Keep Your Head Down / Comeback Press Conference January 12 2011

“After a two-year and 3 months hiatus from the Korean music industry, TVXQ made a triumphant return as a duo on January 12th 2011.″

TVXQ: At the time of our comeback, Lee Soo Man sent us a text saying that we were “Jackpot.”  He gave us his support, asking us to do our best from now on.

KBS Story Show Do Dream October 6 2012

Yunho: There was an 2010 SMTOWN stage that the two of us performed on. That was actually an experimental stage.

Changmin: That’s why we were even more nervous and shaky. After that, Lee Soo Man, who likes to try new things, told us, “I think it will be alright if you continue as a duo.

Yunho: That day, other people also told us it was going to be alright with just the two of us.

People were talking as “What can just the 2 of you do? You cannot do anything, can you?” I was very hurt…the reason was because I thought Tohoshinki should not vanish. I thought that I should preserve the name of Tohoshinki! So, we are still keeping the name, and we will continue to keep Tohoshinki’s name in the future, too! - Yunho during Nissan Day 2 August 18 2013

”Tohoshinki Live Tour 2013 ～TIME～ also known as the Time Tour, visited all five of Japan’s major concert Domes and the Nissan Stadium, the largest seated stadium in Japan. The duo were also the first international artists to headline a concert at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama. Tohoshinki have said on their first five-Dome tour, “It’s a dream come true.”

The most memorable stage is the first ever performance as a duet with Changmin during SMTOWN. -Yunho for The Celebrity December Issue 2013

The day in 2011 when we went up on stage for the first time after becoming a duo, amidst the nervousness which was even more heightened than that when we debuted, the Yunho hyung who grasped hold of my hand, when I was just staring at the ground. And the Yunho hyung who had told me, “We can do it well”. Because hyung is here, I was able to hold out till now, because hyung is here, it seems like I will be able to attempt more challenges in the future. Because we are connected by the string called “TVXQ”, which will never be able to be severed. -Changmin’s Epilogue for Ti Amo Photobook 2014

TVXQ! Special Comeback Live - YouR PresenT Septemeber 30 2017

Since I am human, have times when I am exhausted, but I didn’t feel alone – it was because of you that I got more strength. In 2010 at SMTOWN, coming back to the stage after being on hiatus for so long, I had not been that scared and nervous before but you took my hand once again and I felt that it wasn’t that it was two people, but rather that we could go on a new path as it was the two of us. - Yunho’s letter to Changmin

Vogue Japan April Issue 2018

“I felt that I wanted to show the love/affection that we have for each other just as it is. It’s a long time we have worked together, that’s half of my life since we’ve walked together. The person who remembers half of my life.”— Changmin on his relationship with Yunho

LEON Magazine April Issue 2018

“Yunho told Changmin that even after 15 years, he still wants to be TVXQ.“

Q: To me, 15th Anniversary of TVXQ! is…

Changmin: To me, the 15th Anniversary of TVXQ! is like a decalcomania. As you know, a decalcomania is a result of the combination of two art pieces. I answered like this because TVXQ! is half of my life.

Yunho: To me, the 15th Anniversary of TVXQ! is like half of my life.

New Chapter #2: The Truth of Love - 15th Anniversary Special Album 2019