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Some trans!Ed as requested for @feral-omega ☀️✨

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They are my therapy

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Brothers watching Brothers 😌 (are you picking up a theme to my fandoms now?)

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a young Edward Elric

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kinda late but whatever i just wanted to draw something for halloween and make it about fma somehow

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Risembool trio in some of my fav recent outfits

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“I hope she plays Hot To Go.”

This is a military coup and you’re in the back of Colonel Mustang’s armored ice cream truck. He’s definitely going to play Hot To Go.

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The fullmetal alchemist’s final transmutation

(Its been 3 million years since my last fma art and it’s also a bit late for oct 3 but i managed to finish an art! Yippie

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You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!

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guess who forgot

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man. i need to watch shamballa

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Let’s pretend it’s still the 3rd

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Started out as a redraw of this photoset and just so everyone knows it brings me so much joy when people re-reblog it and continue the lyrics in the tags!!

i'll be uploading the 20 something minute version of the speed paint on my patreon soon as well as some close ups and maybe the layered file after I clean up all the empty layers lmao

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rip ed and al you would have loved prank calling your boss while skitching with his government-loaned car

oct 3 bonus:

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Edward and Alphonse Mucha Elric

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Winry's new update