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please excuse the quality i made this with my photos app draw tool. Homage to 03 scar and his wikipedia powers

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okay ive got to get this post out before april fools day so everyone knows this is important and serious information. i believe ive solved a mystery that i might have been the only person on earth who ever cared about and im taking you with me on this journey

For the uninitiated (aka people who have never looked at my blog in their whole life). there is this character called bido from fullmetal alchemist. hes greeds friend and goon and he shows up in like 5 chapters. he looks like this

and if youve never seen him before you are going to be baffled to find out that a large percentage of people who even bother remembering him seem to genuinely believe that he is a young child. and this goes beyond your regular fandom infantilization. i have had people comment on my very own posts, telling me "but wait, i thought bido was a kid".

for years i did not know how this misconception was even possible (look at him), let alone get so widespread, but that might be because the chiefest example of it exists... in the scanlation thats up on most "read free manga" websites. Aka; the one most people these days are reading. perhaps this is the mother of all other bido-child-takes. we may not ever know.

but either way, that scanlation team apparently decided at some point in their workflow, that not ONLY was bido a kid, but it made sense to have an ACTUAL kid* (*15-year-old) call him one. which at that point just feels like rubbing salt in the wound like come on

anyway the first time i checked the original dialogue to compare, i didnt know much japanese, but i was still pretty confident there was zero basis for the mistranslation. this scenes official translation makes no reference to bidos age, and aside from the obvious factor of "are you fucking serious just look at him", there was an ACTUAL reference to his age in the japanese dialogue of an earlier chapter; alphonse calls him "ojisan". which... surely the scanlation team would have seen. if they were translating the manga. but i guess it would be easy to forget a chapter you read that long ago if you arent similarly enamored of every detail regarding one of the least present background characters

Still. it seems like such a weird and out of nowhere choice to make and there didnt seem to be any reason for it. even replacing dialogue with lord of the rings quotes has a clear and almost understandable motivation (hubristically riding the coattails of sam and frodos legendary romance). so WHY did they just suddenly up and decide this bald middle aged man was some kind of precocious Crime Baby.

well in the past couple years i have learned a little bit more japanese. & since last night i think i have found the answer.

heres the original dialogue again, and then here it is simplified for one of the official video games.

"ビドーとやらが言ってた事も", aka, "and the stuff we heard bido say".

"言ってた事も", pronounced "いってたことも", aka "itteta koto mo".

Except. if you arent reading too closely, or your image quality sucks, and you mistake the と (to) for a ど (do).

言ってたこども*..............

*translators note: koto mo means "and stuff". kodomo means child.

i cannot stress this enough. the kanji for "koto" is right there on the page. this mistake would only happen if somebody was ONLY looking at the furigana and not even doing a good job of that. how did they get it this wrong. how did nobody second guess it. i know that scanlators are mostly a bunch of hobbyists trying their best and i do not mean to disparage them as a collective. its just , that i think these specific ones should maybe be pelted with an assortment of overripe fruits for a little while, for giving me this hyperspecific grievance to suffer.

At least maybe now that ive solved the riddle the truth will prevail in time. tell your friends, or something

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unrestrained bido fun rescheduled for TODAY‼️‼️‼️‼️💥🦎💥🦎💥🦎

one day we will have unrestrained bido fun

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i never managed to upload all of these in one set even after i drew 2 more and never posted them........ so at long last. for public viewing. Official Greeds Moving Castle Concept Art Compilation (Final) (Real) (Deluxe Edition)

(& loredump post for those curious)

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my job is to make you remember them and look at them and remember them. so let me know if its working

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its been a while since funny bido comic. unfortunately i keep only having ideas related to lizard sex. the great grido bedroom role reversal does not come about without some initial miscommunications

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another donation doodle for @baudleaires, who has a scheduled monthly donation to the palestine childrens relief fund! black hayate x2.... if you know you know 🐜

You Too can get a doodle of an fma character of your choosing, by dming me a receipt to a recent donation to a palestinian, sudanese or congolese gofundme campaign (or a relief fund like the above) 👍

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a falman for @littlewitchbee, who donated to this fundraiser:

YOU TOO can send me a receipt of your donation to this or another campaign for someone affected by genocide, and ill doodle you any fma character of your choosing 👍

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donation doodle number 2!! technically speaking (yes, a caveat im making for the second time in a row) im only accepting requests for one character at a time, However, for @patron-saints here is olivier/izumi. because i respect the hustle.

you too can obtain a doodle of any fma character (ocs included!) by sending me a receipt of your recent donation to a palestinian, sudanese or congolese gofundme 👍

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Hi I just wanted to say that I've been following you for probably like two years and I'm blown away by how much your art has improved during this time

AH MAN THANKS SO MUCH... and to be honest. this blog is like the entire reason ive had this much progress so quickly? its Nuts how fast i started improving once i started regularly experimenting with new concepts. and i think doing specifically comics (have to redraw the same figures multiple times within the same work, with an eye for gesture and space) and giving myself limited color palettes (have to think hard about what colors go well together and how they look cohesively) was like a self taught crash course in all those different building blocks

so. points at all my followers. if YOU want to get good at art really fast: basically what you need to do is get really normal about a character with a face you cant make in a picrew. and then put them in a situation every single day for months

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this ones for @1st-worldsaver, who donated to a fundraiser and requested a doodle of scar smiling 👍 ignore that i went super overboard. other donation requests are not guaranteed to get anywhere near this level of effort... but Then Again... Who Knouws.....

if YOU ALSO want me to draw you a fma character of your choosing. please donate to a palestinian, sudanese or congolese gofundme, and send me a screenshot of the receipt! and if choosing who to help is daunting, visiting gazafunds.com will give you a random verified fundraiser, zero deliberation required

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there will be more greeds moving castle concept art until The Vision is recognized 💥💥💥

(sequel to theeeese)

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a day late for october 3rd: more greeds moving castle concept art for your consideration

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this applies to ocs too btw! havent gotten any takers so far which is disappointing but i wanted to clarify thats on the table

note before i go to bed: i want to make sure im doing as much with my various different platforms as i can. so if you send me a screenshot of a receipt of a recent donation to a palestinian or sudanese gofundme, or an esim purchase, ill give you a little doodle of whatever fma character you want 👍

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more highly intellectual contemplations on a Mundane Low Stakes Modern Real-World Human AU: Mei Chang and Her New Foster Dad Meet 2 Weird Guys at the Movies Edition

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more highly intellectual contemplations on a Mundane Low Stakes Modern Real-World Human AU: Mei Chang and Her New Foster Dad Meet 2 Weird Guys at the Movies Edition