#Doc Watches Fullmetal Alchemist

[docholligay]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH emotional crickets.

Please read me before commenting or sending an ask!

[silverskye13]

I've... been watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood again.....

Blurbles about all the hermits under the cut!

Rendog: Wolf Chimera. He has a human form he rarely uses, and generally gets away in public with the glaringly obvious lie of "Oh all this hair? It's a... uh... rare skin condition." It does help that his best friend is a known doctor and somewhat mad scientist. Shortly after he was created he killed his creator and stole their philosopher stone, entrusting it to Doc, a friend he had before his chimera-fication. He and Mumbo came from the same facility.

Docm77: Military and Cosmetic Automail Engineer. Started off in Rush Valley and, once he decided he knew enough about automail, started to work his way up through the military building specialized prosthetics. He's been trying to launch a body modification program for years, viewing it as a more humane was of augmenting humanity than the fleshcraft that comes with human transmutation. He was, understandably, horrified when Ren showed up on his doorstep one day as a chimera.

Bdubs: Istvalan Creation Alchemist. Bdubs is a freelance alchemist not associated with any military powers -- and he's trying desperately to keep it that way. His creations are intricate, and he specializes in a wide variety of materials. He's best known for his experimental [and extremely temperamental] "Pretty-Alchemy", where he McGuivers transmutation circles and equations on how they "feel" instead of how alchemically sound they are.

Welsknight [and Helsknight]: Soul-bound armor. A pair of swordsmen who were forced into a suit of armor to guard the chimeric facility that created so many monsters. Welsknight, the brains of the operation, is situated in the helmet while Helsknight, the stronger fighter, is bound to the chestplate. They spent a lot of time bickering amongst each other, but when their goals happen to align, they are a force to be reckoned with. When their facility was destroyed, they were ordered to kill the escaping chimeras -- until a very charismatic Ren convinced them to flee instead.

False: Military sniper. She spends a lot of time fending off Doc's advances [ie. automail modifications to help her shoot and aim better]. She's worked her way up through the ranks because of her skill, but her general aversion to leading and governing keeps her out of the upper echelons of Central Command. Instead she finds herself bouncing between command stations whenever uprisings occur in Amestris. She was one of the military officers sent to respond to the chimera facility's collapse. When she recognized Ren among the people escaping, she found there was "too much smoke" to take proper aim at the escaping creatures. She was demoted shortly after the event, not that it bothered her much.

Grian: The Updraft Alchemist. One of the few alchemists who have ever taken up Doc on his offer for cosmetic automail. The wings attach to nerves in his shoulder blades, and after several years of tweaking, actually respond to his movements. He can't fly with them per-se, they function more like an incredibly sensitive glider -- which works just fine for Grian, since he specializes in temperature alchemy, causing dramatic updraft/downdrafts. He was not at the chimera facility event, but has become good friends with many of the people involved through Doc -- he spends so much time getting his wings repaired after his various crashes, he almost lives in Doc's work room.

Tangotek: The Fuse-Metal Alchemist. He mostly uses alchemy in welding and crafting, though he's been known to create fire and weapons on the fly when he needs to. As a state alchemist, he's expected to be a living weapon on some level -- and his powerful alchemy definitely helps with that, though he's best at making walls and fortresses than he is at real standing combat. No one knows how he got ahold of his philosopher's stone -- in fact, most people don't even know he has one. He only uses it when he feels like his life is threatened [or needs a good kick to make something truly impressive]. He used to work in the chimera facility, making containment for the more volatile creatures. He's absorbed a lot of the theory on human transmutation, but has yet to use it.

Mumbo: Lizard Chimera and Chimera Expert. Mumbo's first miraculous use of transmutation was to turn himself into a chimera. Unfortunately, lizards aren't quite as smart as people are, so it took some time to relearn the formula and materials involved. He was subject 0 at the chimera facility, and, once he'd regained his wits, helped in the experimentation into chimera crafting -- though he was under the impression all the subjects were willing volunteers like he was... oh dear. He was the one who orchestrated the escape, and, having befriended Ren by then, escaped with him when the facility collapsed. He swears he'll never do human transmutation again -- except maybe on himself. Like, being able to climb up walls is nice and all, but imagine what he could do with bird wings? Or a bull's strength? Or--

[awesomedurraworld]

Happy early Birthday! Congrats on another year older(soon). I’d love to get to know you better by asking questions for your birthday. That was a clever idea.

I really don’t know any good, interesting questions, but here we go anyway:

1. What is(are) you current favourite book and/or show? And what was(were) your first favourite book and/or show you can remember when you were younger?

2. If you could visit one place fictional or not without consequence, where would you choose? And on a side note, would it be a good place to have a birthday party? XD

3. Have writing and drawing always been some of your hobbies? And what are some your others that you find interesting?

4. Basic birthday question… What is your favourite cake flavour? And if you are like me and don’t like cake, what is your substitute?

5. Last question. I want to write you a gift fic for your birthday. What would you like for me to write for you? Tropes… Ideas… (Just note that the only fandom I know we share is fma)

Have a wonderful birthday!

thank you so much for sending your ask 🥹 and the birthday wishes! I hope yours was as magical as you wanted it last week 💖🫶🏻

okay, on to the questions!

Some of my favorite books and or tv shows! Funnily now, I don't read original books as much as I used to when I was younger, tho I do enjoy visiting and rereading my favorite seriess from when I was a young teen! If I saw another part of these series now that I dont own I would 100% buy it haha. My main three-book series are Dork dairies ( I own the whole collection!) Cupcake Diaries, ( I own all the books that my bookstore has 🥲.) and Whatever After ( up till book 7.)

I never was into the more famous book series, like Harry Potter or the Percy Jackson and his Pals series, even with us having these in our home library- for some reason they never interested me

As for Tv shows!! now that is an easier one 😌 Ages 4-8 The earliest favorite tv show that I could remember is Postman Pat and Strawberry Shortcake and Friends ( the 2009 show.)

Ages 9-11 of course as I grew older I fell in love with Sofia the first, Doc Macstuffines, Jack and the Neverland Pirates, and Handy Manny, and Heidi too, and wild Krats with odd squad!

when I turned 12 I fell in love with Ronja the thief’s daughter and the mysterious cities of gold, alongside little women and the Robinson family

14-17 As a younger teen, I loved loved loooved Young Justice alongside of different classics and the shows I liked as a tween.

17- now My young adult years I have enjoyed different animes such as Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Mob Psycho 100, Ranking of Kings, Kaguya-sama love is war, Spy x family, and Attack on Titan. And different shows like When Calls the Heart and timeless! And because I babysit some kiddos I also enjoy watching kids shows 😭 I legit follow the story line bahaha

My favorite books as a kid were many many many short stories that I know that they can't be found online since they were probably written in my mother language and were on the older side, plus many of them here translated to my language and might have changed the titles, BUT, “ the sick bear” and the “the scared bear” and “ the pegion that wanted to drive a bus?” Yes these are some of the ones I recall finding them online and in different languages

OKAY, moving to where I would like to visit! That is a tough question 😂 I always like to imagine myself in different universes and myself in different shows and stuff- so no idea. BUT probably neverland in the Tinkerbell movies? Or maybe like, Resembool because it is so pretty. I love the soft happy villages 💛 and yes these places are good place for birthdays 😌

Writing has been a hobby, that my parents, nurtured in me, since I was such a talkative person, they used to encourage me to write! I loved drawing as a kid, and not as much as a tween/ early teens. I loved coloring more then. Same with writing actually, I got back to it in March 2020 and developed my own writing style! As for my other hobbies, I love to sew felt things and stitch, I also am a paper crafter, and I collect a crazy amount of papers haha. I like also building Legos and wooden 3D puzzles! I also like fixing books and currently I found an odd joy in cleaning?

Birthday cake! Alright so, Up till I was 14, I would ask for either my mom’s chocolate cake or, vallinia cake with green apples and caramel on the side, BUUUUUUTTTTT, when I turned 15 and up till now, I asked for a huge cookie for my cake haha, It all started when my mom and I went to a cookie shop and we saw these huge cookies and she jokingly said, “ what do you think? Your next birthday cake.” I was like, “ bet.”

And yea! These are it hehe, I would love to share more about myself!

I am the firstborn in my family, I have younger siblings! I share a room with my sisters, and my favorite colors are pink and peach, but I do like all of the colors heh, I used to wear glasses and I took them off this January! Currently fighting some Hyperthyroidism, I never had the chance to date yet, and I graduated the third on my class, ( looking at my chemistry teacher 😒)

I guess that is it! If anyone wants to get to know more I would love to answer your questions 🫂 have a good day everyone! Love ya

( also, can you guess how old I am from the fact I shared? 👀)

[braidpoll]

BRAID POLL !! :D

currently running :

ROUND 7 PART 4

barbie as rapunzel ( barbie as rapunzel ) vs makoto kurume ( skip to loafer )

ICON BRACKET

ROUND 2 PART 1

Edward Elric ( Fullmetal Alchemist ) VS Katara ( Avatar: The Last Airbender )

ABOUT THA ICON BRACKET : tha eight most iconic braid characters ( decided both by iconicness and tha amount of submissions they received ) will compete in an adjacent bracket . tha winner will then face off against tha winner of tha main braid bracket . this is liek what they do in sports , where certain teams get to skip matches and go straight to tha finals . this way icons can be included but its more exciting ( and fair ) than watching them decimate their opponents each round before making it to tha finals anyways

entire 128 character bracket is too large to take a screenshot of but it looks liek this , and will ( obviously ) be done in sections . bracket list below tha readmore , straight down tha left side and then straight down tha right !! :D

LEFT SIDE :

susie carmicheal ( rugrats )

agent 3 ( splatoon 3 )

peko pekoyama ( danganronpa 2: goodbye despair )

sabi ( pokémon legends: arceus )

princess yue ( avatar: the last airbender )

elsa ( frozen )

mei chang ( fullmetal alchemist )

pippi longstocking ( pippi longstocking )

ran hanamichi ( delicious party♡precure )

xiangling ( genshin impact )

neiru aonuma ( wonder egg priority )

mozart ( classicaloid )

mitsuri kanroji ( kimetsu no yaiba )

cure felice ( mahoutsukai PreCure! )

ty lee ( avatar: the last airbender )

toadette ( super mario bros )

prim everdeen ( the hunger games )

joni savage ( cluefinders )

juniper woods ( phoenix wright: ace attorney - dual destinies )

ahiru ( princess tutu )

leona kingscholar ( twisted wonderland )

yoshino shimazu ( maria-sama ga miteru )

jasminka antonenko ( little witch academia )

dewey ( nurse angel ririka sos )   

fiona ( shrek )

cure cosmo ( star☆twinkle PreCure )

tsukimi kurashita ( princess jellyfish / kuragehime )

yui nanase ( go! princess PreCure )

piper mccloud ( the girl who could fly )

turtle wexler ( the westing game )

elyon ( w.i.t.c.h )

lily angel ( all saints street )

pearl ( pearl )

jessica riley ( until dawn )

meg thomas ( dead by daylight )

anissa pierce ( black lightning )

miles morales [ earth 42 ] ( spiderman: into the spiderverse )

espella cantabella ( professor leighton vs. phoenix wright: ace attorney )

petra ( fire emblem: three houses )

kikuri hiroi ( bocchi the rock! )

narumi yatadera ( touhou tenkuushou ~ hidden star in four seasons )

doc mcstuffins ( doc mcstuffins )

ruffnut thorston ( how to train your dragon )

magane chikujouin ( re:CREATORS )

eiko tsukimi ( ya boy kongming! )

emma ( pokémon X/Y )

chizuru maki ( DREAM!ing )

momoko sudou ( araburu kisetsu no otome-domo yo. )

hikaru kujou ( futari wa PreCure max heart )

zossie ( pokémon ultra sun/ultra moon )

madotsuki ( yume nikki )

rin kaenbyou ( touhou chireiden ~ subterranean animism )

shenhe ( genshin impact )

draken ( tokyo revengers )

lettuce midorikawa ( tokyo mew mew )

anne shirley ( anne of green gables )

maria momoe ( ookiku furikabutte )

riley freeman ( the boondocks )

lisa yadoumaru ( bleach )

hikaru shidou ( magic knight rayearth )

demeter ( hades )

lucy maud montgomery ( bungou stray dogs )

ajimi kiki ( pripara )

himari arisugawa ( kirakira☆precure a la mode )

RIGHT SIDE :

shuri ( black panther )

cheryl ( pokémon diamond/pearl/platinum )

rana ( vocaloid )

kirari momobami ( kakegurui )

abigail lincoln ( codename: kids next door )

lila sawyer ( hey arnold! )

penny ( warioware )

fawn ( disney fairies )

sveta ( golden sun: dark dawn )

josie mccoy ( Riverdale)

libby folfax ( the adventures of jimmy neutron: boy genuis )

nori ( barbie mermadia )

ashlyn banner ( school bus graveyard )

julia lazarrett ( marionetta )

luther schneien ( ghost eyes )

naru kanda ( ikemen girl to hakoiri musume )

sid barrett ( soul eater )

kumoko ( so im a spider, so what? )

justine courtney ( ace attorney investigations: prosecutor's path )

retsu unohana ( bleach )

jack vessalius ( pandora hearts )

aika s. granzchesta ( aria )

kaname tousen ( bleach )

ludmila ( rune factory 5 )

nikolai gogol ( bungou stray dogs )

jolyne cujoh ( jojo's bizzare adventure: stone ocean )

katniss everdeen ( the hunger games )

violet evergarden ( violet evergarden )

aerith gainsborough ( final fantasy vii )

anna ( frozen )

cammy white ( street fighter ii )

ranma saotome ( ranma ½ )

barbie as rapunzel ( barbie as rapunzel )

rapunzel ( tangled )

bu-ling huang ( tokyo mew mew )

sheeta ( laputa: castle in the sky )

suzuha amane ( steins;gate )

qiqi ( genshin impact )

nah ( fire emblem awakening )

nemu hiiragi ( magia record: puella magi madoka magica side story )

jodie ( daria )

nick hoult ( all saints street )

helga sinclair ( atlantis: the lost empire )

tao ( gokurakugai )

aru shah ( the pandava quintet )

ayşe ( woven )

makoto kurume ( skip to loafer )

library ( misao )

duo maxwell ( mobile suit gundam wing )

revali ( legend of zelda: breath of the wild )

nina ( fire emblem fates )

kiana kaslana ( honkai impact 3rd )

aether ( genshin impact )

kamui ( gintama )

raiden shogun ( genshin impact )

touko fukawa ( danganronpa: trigger happy havoc )

nahyuta sahdmadhi ( phoenix wright: ace attorney - spirit of justice )

haruka hashida ( blue period )

viola ( the witch's house )

nemu kurotsuchi ( bleach )

lingji liu ( ciconia no naku koro ni )

aisha ( romancing SaGa )

ooama no ake no mitori ( len'en ten'eisenki ~ brilliant pagoda or haze castle )

marc ( flying red barrel: the diary of a little aviator )

[warborn-tragedy]

get to know the mun (dash game!)

name, age, gender: numa, 20, cis (she/her)

favourite color(s): blue, green, red, purple, gray

favourite flavour(s): cotton candy; white chocolate; root beer; savory stuff

favourite genre(s): para/supernatural; mil-sim; adventure; suspence

favourite music: rock, metal, old school country, indie, folk

favourite movie(s): the 13th warrior; Under the Red Hood; The Sixth Sense

favourite series: young justice; invincible; arcane; community; fullmetal alchemist

last song: sankarin tango - petri alanko + martti suosalo

last series: arcane (<im>patiently waiting for season 2 hehe)

last movie: last one i watched to completion was on the road to berlin

currently reading: started re-reading to hell and back a while ago; have yet to start on anything else. probably will soon

currently watching: nothing atm. keep on meaning to start something new lol (hmu for recommendations?).

currently working on: drafts, doc commissions + packing for AT orders

tagged by: @nezemny tagging: you reading this!

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 333

Golden Time/Can You Hear Me?

“Golden Time”

Plot Description: Sam’s efforts to help Eileen include a trip to Rowena’s old place, where and ambush awaits. Castiel goes it alone as he works the case of a missing boy

(I thought Eileen was DEAD dead)

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: I don’t know if she’ll die but I hope she does. *I* wouldn’t trash Rowena’s residence (end of sentence…but I also wouldn’t do it and expect to live). Yeah. She’s dead. I’d be ok

Cas is goin by Clarence again 🥺

Eileen got dragged to hell by the hellhound that killed her…ok…but like…i can’t remember if that’s a new rule from Chuck or whatever because they’ve definitely taken a soul from hell to send to heaven before. They rescued Bobby, why can’t they do the same for Eileen?

What IS goin on with Dean? His nihilistic attitude is irritating

They were so cute and deserved more than they got (San and Eileen)

Oh are there witches keeping an eye on this place? But like, in a bad way

Not to bring in Stranger Things but this woman whose son is missing and her relation to the town is very much giving Winona Ryder’s character

Sam! No!! You cannot possibly be proposing bringing Mary back again! One, you KNOW she’s happy in heaven and two, you’ve still just clearly never watched fullmetal alchemist. OH!! Bring EILEEN back. That’s a lot better, for arbitrary reasons.

Ah fuck. The ambush. One of the witches looks vaguely familiar but apparently we’ve never seen her

This mom is really testing Cas’s patience

Yeah, just looking at Emily, I can tell her sister (and probably mother, too) didn’t like her (Omg the actress was Bree in the Twilight series…she apparently was also in an episode in 2006)

They found her son! Oh and the sheriff is behind it all. Cas stabbing him to death was unnecessarily attractive

This best be three on three. Where are you Eileen?

Oh, no. Poor Emily 😭 I get that she was gonna kill Sam but she was a victim of her mother and sister’s abuse and deserved a longer life

Can a ghost choke out another ghost?? Neither are alive nor need to breathe

Why is your power fading, Cas??? I hate this

Castiel being at all happy makes me worried, and that sucks (12 more episodes til THE one)

I’m glad they at least allowed her to wrap a towel around herself before Sam turned around

Dean being proud of Sam and Sam needing Dean by his side to defeat god 🥹

(Ok but like I’m glad we got some explanation for why people were saying Sam ended up marrying Eileen off screen in the finale)

“Can You Hear Me?”

Plot Description: a cry for help from across the stars. Terrifying creatures in 1380 Aleppo. And in Sheffield, something is infecting people’s nightmares. The Doctor and friends investigate

That felt very first five minutes of a Supernatural episode, not Doctor Who

Does Chris Chinball not trust people to write their own episodes??

Oh, Doc. She doesn’t want to be without her friends for more than a few moments 😭 she wants to skip straight to tomorrow

Why’s Ryan’s friend need like five locks on his door?

Girl, who are you talking to?? Oh she just automatically assumes her companions are with her

Oh it’s like an especially jacked werewolf but weirder. HER SCREWDRIVER ISNT PICKING UP A SPECIES AT ALL??

I thought their nightmares were supposed to be invaded, they’re fully awake

Oh, Ryan’s friend is having the nightmares…and he’s seeing the dude from his nightmares all over the place. The locks make sense now

Yaz’s sister is an icon and a hero. I don’t care that she’s been fired from her last three jobs, sometimes customers need to be told they’re annoying. And she wasn’t afraid to tell them

What are Yaz and her sister…not celebrating but acknowledging with this dinner and a movie? I hope we get told

Oh that’s the guy from the TARDIS, and I’m sure that’s also the guy Ryan’s friend has been seeing in his nightmares

I didn’t know that guy ate an offshoot of the chop chop fruit! Still…I prefer Buggy to this creep, and it seems he can only remove his fingers and…do…something…

It’s not all the time that the Doctor takes someone from a time much much earlier than ours far into the future and to a different galaxy altogether

What if—I got really distracted by the fingers covering so much of this place. I have a bad feeling about the girl Graham wants to save, but that might be my previous experience this evening with ambushes

So this dude can create your worst nightmares if he sticks one of his fingers in your ear. Gross

Seems we’re getting bits and pieces of what Yaz and her sister were acknowledging in her nightmare

Ryan is getting flashbacks from orphan 55 combined with his friend guilting him for not being there

And of course Graham has Grace angry he didn’t save her while also being told he’s sick and dying

What the fuck did that girl do to this guy that he’s torturing her with EVERYONE’S nightmares?!

Ah, fuck. I knew she shouldn’t have been freed. All of what this dude did was a ruse to get the Doctor to free the more powerful immortal…these two bet each other on who could cause more death and destruction on two innocent planets?

Again with the finger to the ear 😑

Yeah, I figured hers would be about Gallifrey (and to a lesser extent I thought it would be about this subtle timeless child plotline)

I love Ryan so much. He had ZERO tact telling his friend where they were and how they got there. Fantastic

Interesting how the guy wants to immediately gorge on nightmares and she wants to savor them

I’m less and less impressed with his power especially after seeing her smoky tendrils collecting nightmares

Oh damn!! They managed to trap the immortals by using the girl from Aleppo’s nightmare creatures and the guy immortal’s fingers

Something is going to happen to this woman who’s come to help bring Yaz back home, isn’t it? Maybe not…why was this THE nightmare for Yaz?

This is literally the first time 13 has had this kind of one on one emotional conversation with a companion, and it’s Graham

I WISH we were gonna go see Mary Shelley, but that probably won’t happen

[taohs]

I was ignoring you.. My personal life has been really preocupying me lately, that I've been too drained to say or do anything lately. So I haven't done so much since the last time we had our conversation.

But I'm back. Kinda.

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I have been slowly getting into more Asian series.. Like I have always watched foreign movies but now I'm watching shows too. If I'm being honest, it really has taken me some time to start getting into lots of foreign shows because I'm not a fast reader at all.

I'll still watch anime in English. But I am branching out into watching some Asian media now, at least a lot more often for me anyway. But it takes me a few times to watch a show, or at least a scene, because sometimes the subtitles can be a bit fast for me.

Anyway..

Some Asian shows I've been watching lately? So I'd just finished rewatching Alice In Borderland again, I watched watched Sweet Home. Mask Girl was okay too. All Of Are Dead. And so many more series. A lot of Japanese and Korean series lately. I mean.. There are a lot more that I've watched lately, but that may be a long list if I listed every series. But there is a lot of shows I've watched, not just those shows.

But, as you can see, my genres in series does kinda slightly vary from time to time.. From action, horror, dystopian, thrillers, and any genres in between too.

Usually if I'm into crime series, usually those genres are criminal syndicate genres. Like mafiaesque.

And as for anime.. I do enjoy both versions of lots of series, for the most part. If the series that was really recreated. But it depends on the series though.

I enjoyed both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist but I am slightly biased to Brotherhood, just because the characters I like - some of the characters I like - just weren't in the original version. Which we've just said now. That's usually one reason why I enjoy remakes.

As for Black Clover.. That's how I am about certain characters. I tend to have mixed feelings about too many characters, especially Gauche, because of his obsession towards his sister. But that's just me. So.. Yeah. There's plenty of developments for characters and plot throughout the series, just different pacing though. But there's definitely enough development.

Obviously there are a lot of short characters. But I'll always feel like I can never find the short characters that are my height, besides the few characters I did just mention. Saiko (TG) and Charmy (BC) are really my height - so I'm definitely short, Runa (Kakeguri) is surprisingly shorter than me. And you being taller than me.. Yeah. You're taller than me. But, out of the women I knew, I've known girls who were nearly six feet tall (like Balalaika and Olivier). I know many tall people. Most guys I knew was way over six feet tall. So many tall people in my life... It's not even funny. I get always annoyed with them all the time about so many things. Especially teasing me at my expense.

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Not really. I actually had to cancel any other plans for my birthday because of these personal reasons so I never had a chance to do anything else, now I'll say the motivation I had for these plans are gone so who knows when I'll have fun plans again.

But one thing I did. I actually splurged some money on myself, at least more money than I usually would anyway. But I really bought another new pair of Doc Martin boots, boots are platform heightened boots. Not that I don't love my short size! Because I do. But I've always wanted platform sized sizes ever since I was a mini "goth" child. I really hate labels.

Yeah. Hopefully I'll try colors with orange, but I have been enjoying the shades of blue. Actually.. I'll really be adding more blue shades within the next couple days, I'll be adding that electric blue that I wanted - the blue shade that was unavailable for my birthday so now I'll be adding that blue with the other blues.

💋

Ah its good to see you back! don’t worry about it, life happens, but I hope you’re doing better 😊

I’ve heard a little bit about Alice in Borderland! I’ve seen it around on Netflix… I think. Sweet Home I’ve watched before too, although i prefer the webtoon. is All of us are Dead the Korean zombie film? i also enjoyed that one, my friend recommended it to me last year. in general i love a lot of korean thriller shows, I think they really do a good job building suspense and acting it out. you might enjoy Vincenzo too, since I heard it’s action packed and has the mafiaso theme from what I’ve seen(?). it was a highly recommended film. Train to Busan and Kingdom also has that thriller/horror/zombie vibe as All of us are Dead, if you ever want to check them out 👀

Oh, and I finished Black Clover anime too! …and the movie… and the manga 😂 Starting it for Mereoleona was the best decision, she’s truly amazing. now it's just a waiting game for more content for her. charlotte and vanessa is also up there on my list of favs too. I have a lot of mixed feelings on a lot of the characters as well, and there’s some popular ones that i surprisingly dislike, but overall it has a decent cast and the plot is very fun

The teasing always come to us shorter people yes… so sorry to hear you have to deal with a lot of those :( splurging once in a while on yourself is always satisfying. especially if its something you've wanted for a while. i love how those boots look! and from the sound of it you seem to be rocking your blue hair too 💙

[alicelufenia]

I love thinking about Alice's voice in universe because it's so connected to the story of her life, where she's from and where she's been.

She was born in Gridania, to a blacksmith mom who had studied in Limsa Lominsa, while her dad was a member of The God's Quiver. She grew up in Corvos after her parents fled to avoid the Creeping Death. While not a full citizen, she did receive a provincial imperial education. Finally after fleeing to Thavnair she worked for a year and a half at The Great Works.

As a result she has an unusual accent, a mix of Gridanian and Limsan diction and slang, an overall Corvosi cadence, slipping into Garlean pronunciation of some terms, mostly technical. Finally she defaults to the Thavnairian pronunciation of many places and terms from that country, which comes out especially when working alchemy.

As for actual voice claims, so far I've only really nailed down her JP voice, and it's undeniably Romi Park. Lots of her roles would be excellent, but especially her performances as Hange Zoë (AoT), Temari (Naruto) and Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist).

I find it almost impossible to pick an English voice claim, mostly because FFXIV's EN dub is kinda unique compared to other anime-adjacent games. Think of how different the voice direction is compared to Genshin Impact or Guilty Gear Strive and you may see what I mean.

As a result a lot of anime/game candidates just don't sound right by default. Maybe I should branch out into more BBC dramas, Royal Shakespeare Company performances, UK Netflix shows, etc. I watched Doc Martin for years and only recently learned that Robyn Addison (Janice) plays Y'shtola.

I swear this isn't an OC question blog BUT I have another question:

What does your WoL's voice sound like? Does it match their appearance? Do they have a noticeable accent of any kind? Do they have any other vocal quirks or habits? Do they have a good singing voice?

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( yaya dacosta, she/her, spirit warrior ) to BELLADONA VIDANYA, the whole world looks like an open page. with a leap of faith, their ability of TRANSMUTATION MAGIC grows a little stronger. they’re pledged to the HOUSE of FRASER to defend the enchanted lands of cagliostro with their ENCHANTED POCKET WATCH. for TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN years, they have survived a world of magic with both their FORMIDABILITY and LETHARGY. they work as an ALCHEMICAL INVENTOR, but if they could change their fate, they’d want to SEE THE DEATH OF HER TRUE ENEMY.

inspo includes the likes of the following: ramizel erlenmeyer of atelier sophie series, coffy of cowboy bebop, izumi curtis of fullmetal alchemist, cable of marvel comics, senju tsunade of naruto, urahara kisuke of bleach, flo of pixar’s cars, the doctor of doctor who, edalyn clawthorne of the owl house.

&. ⸻ BASICS

name — dr. belladona vidanya

aliases — don, donnie, bella, the doc, strong-arm alchemist, the amazon, etc 

birthdate — may 17

zodiac — taurus

birthplace — kardia village

sexuality — panromantic pansexual

alignment — neutral good

temperament — choleric

element — earth

primary vice — sloth

primary virtue — faith

house — fraser

occupation — alchemical inventor, owner of the strong arm atelier

markings — several, mostly claw marks

&. ⸻ HEADCANONS

belladona is ludmila wilbell’s grandmother, though not by blood. she’s taken care to ensure ludmila is none the wiser, treating her exactly as she would her own child. ludmila’s true grandmother was a dear friend of belladona’s, tasking the alchemist with the care of her family upon her passing. and with don’s own child taken from her and an unwillingness present in pursuance of another, the time walker took well to the request.

belladona’s talent for alchemy comes from a long line of ancestorial backing. her family specialized, primarily, in biological alchemy.

her doctorate was awarded, rather than academically pursued, following her significant contributions in the field of research and science by way of her inventions.

for those who choose to become her apprentice, of which she’s had only a select few over her many years, they should be aware of the hard work and strenuous efforts ahead. she takes well to self-made worth, never one to believe in handouts, which is why she pushes her granddaughter and others as hard as she does.

her right hand has a tattooed transmutation array, permitting her the ability to use alchemical talents ‘on the go’ and in fluidity with her natural martial arts skill, resulting in seamless transitions from one form to the next.

she is a diagnosed narcoleptic, capable of sleeping anywhere, anytime. particularly in the colder months.

her great enemy stems from a specific family of time manipulators, determined to claim immortality for themselves by using underhanded and downright despicable actions. belladona has been secretly employed to face against them over the sprawling years, and has kept this entirely secret from those closest. she has allowed her life to span on as long as it has for this reason alone, to see their final defeat by her hands. since ludmila’s come into her life, however, she’s found herself with another reason to continue. 

&. ⸻ BEAST MODE

chimera form — her uncle was a bio-alchemist who would eventually be responsible for alchemically splicing his niece, transforming her into what she is today — a chimera, or half human, half animal — for the sole purpose of having the power to do so, believing himself a god in his own right. she would not be alone in this change, as others were among her uncle’s ‘volunteers’ and subsequent failures. don would be among the few to survive and be considered a noted success. her unnatural strength derives from her beastly half, alongside a number of her other ‘quirks’ such as her tendency to oversleep and slather honey on everything. her breed, specifically, is a cinnamon bear. — for reference: here

&. ⸻ CURSE

temporal curse — there is an ongoing rumor she can grant immortality. she has never confirmed or denied this, but has yet to offer her knowledge on this freely and claims her youthful looks are entirely genetic. in fact, her youth is a product of a longstanding time curse, brought on by an enchanted pocket watch. it does tell time, but it also houses a part of her dual soul in a dorian gray painting sort of way. so long as it remains unbroken, her immortality and balance will mostly stay — allowing her to ‘jump’ through her personal timeline to manipulate aspects of herself including her age and sense of speed. years of abuse of this talent, however, has caused unnatural shifting, between forms and internally. her insides, specifically, have begun revolting against her as they do not operate the same as her external self, on account of the experimentation. stabilizing potions are often taken for this reason. if the watch is broken and the curse is lifted, she'll rapidly decay, turn to dust, and die. thankfully, or perhaps not depending on one’s interpretation, the watch itself is not easily damaged. and don herself would know this rather well. — for reference: here

&. ⸻ SPECIALIZATION

don is an alchemist who specializes in potions with property based manipulation, matter transmutation, and general craftsmanship and reconfiguration — primarily with weaponry and armor. as expected, her shop is full of mystical objects and scavenged material, with don herself responsible for quite a few of the magical artifacts and armaments of legend in the world. prosthetics are also well within her wheelhouse and tend to be heavily customized. her potions, specifically, range anywhere from vaguely medicinal to biologically disrupting to elemental or support-enhancing. sleep or disintegrating powders, strength and endurance building, etc. because of their range in ability, she tends to keep a few on hand regularly. 

&. ⸻ THE ATELIER

a mobile alchemic workshop, known as the ‘strong arm’, that resembles a half house on large, muscular chicken legs. the shop is enchanted to appear bigger on the inside and will never turn up in the same place twice. streams of greenery and branches grow freely, aiding its disguise around selphia. it also doubles as a well-furnished home for belladona and ludmila, with protection spells and a security system in place for any possible intruder.  — for reference: here ( legs ) + here ( actual shop )

[breadboylovin]

top five worst movies you've ever seen

oh this is gonna be fun. ive def seen worse movies than some of these but this is going off of recent memory

1. the live action fullmetal alchemist movie. this has to go first bc i remember i watched it w my friend to make fun of it but we were getting bored. i said 'well it seems like its almost the end'. we were halfway done and forced ourselves to finish (which was probably the wrong choice)

2. raya and the last dragon. i watched it again recently w my bestie and it has such bad writing and such a confused message that im surprised it even made it past the drawing board. and thats not even taking into account all the cultural appropriation bullshit LOL

3. the smosh movie. i havent seen it in years but it goes here cus im still appalled by the fact that ALEX WINTER AKA MARKO LOSTBOYS AKA BILL BILLANDTED DIRECTED IT

4. spiderman no way home. this one wasnt like HORRIBLE but my friend aeneas who i saw it with said 'seeing new spiderman movies is more like a chore than something fun' and GOD THEY WERE SO RIGHT. im sorry but that movie was either so boring or so goofy that we were laughing at ever supposedly serious or epic moment. WHEN PETER WAS LIKE 'WE ARE GONNA FIGHT AT THIS PLACE THAT REPRESENTS FREEDOM' AND IT ZOOMS OUT AND THEYRE AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BUT WITH THE CAPTAIN AMERICA SHIELDJFGJKDFGJKDFG IM SORRY THAT WAS SO FUNNY IM GLAD WE HAD LIKE 3 PEOPLE IN THE THEATRE CUS I BUSTED OUT LAUGHING. i could say this movie has doc ock to save it BUT HES NOT EVEN SHIRTLESS SO WHATS THE POINT. id rather watch spiderman 2 thanks

5. tick, tick, BOOM!. BEFORE YOU ANDREW GARFIELD STANS JUMP ON ME FOR THIS IM SURE ITS A FINE MOVIE I JUST. i watched it with my friends bc i like andrew garfield well enough and it just felt like a slog im sorry. i can enjoy some musicals but the music in this one was the exact type of musical style that i HATE and everything else just didnt capture my attention. tho at least it wasnt something in a theatre so i just started drawing halfway thru cus i got bored

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Hey I love your blog! I’d also love to hear your thoughts on how everyone turned to stone in Dr. Stone, if not that’s fine :)

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(*DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS OLD AS HELL AND ALSO WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS, PLEASE IF YOU READ IT TAKE ALL OF IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, I’VE LEARNED THE INCORRECTNESS OF MY WAYS AND WILL BE REDOING THIS IN THE FUTURE. I WILL LINK THE BETTER ONE ONCE I’M DONE WITH IT*)

HELLO LITTLE GEMSTONE, I'M GLAD YOU ENJOY MY BLOG AND THANKS FOR THE ASK!!!!! (I'm so sorry this took so long to post)

Anyway, this is super weird considering I have a Google Doc with things I want to write for this blog, and this topic has been sitting on that doc for almost as long as I’ve watched the show….

Whatever!

So I had a few theories that I'd thought up while writing the original post as well as for this ask (those theories being calcification, fossilization, alchemy, or just straight-up magic). But as I did some research—primarily on the petrification page on the Dr. Stone Wiki (read at your own risk, there are MAJOR spoilers)—it turns out that there is a lot more to petrification than what I thought.

The first thing I'd like to mention is the chemical makeup of the stone involved with this process. The wiki says that the stone is mostly made up of "iron with trace amounts of gold. The rest is carbon and nitrogen." These two sentences completely destroy at least two of my theories.

Calcification is "a process in which calcium builds up in body tissue, causing the tissue to harden" That's about as simple as I could find, and was an explanation that I actually understood. Even though I was super excited about doing more research about this, turns out it's obsolete, considering the stone is not, in fact, made of ANY CALCIUM.

The other theory that has been destroyed was alchemy. I was super excited for this one cuz I could show off my love of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood... but that doesn't work anymore.

My main line of reasoning for this had to do with Greed's Ultimate Shield and how Edward dismantled it. When Greed shows off his Ultimate Shield to Edward he brags about its strength and Ed figures out that if he rearranges the chemical makeup of the shield—which is made of carbon—he can significantly decrease the strength. Cuz carbon can be as weak as pencil lead or as strong as literal diamonds. So I was like "hey, maybe there's some mass alchemy or something going on that hardens people's bodies into a stonelike substance." But, once again, the makeup of the stone and the human body kind of don't agree with each other. The human body (average height adult male) only has about 4 grams of iron in it. This means that Alchemy is out of the question.

After discounting two of my theories (sorry, I just wanted to share my thoughts, even though they don't really add anything to this post), the only two left are fossilization (again, I know very little) and magic. I'd much prefer science over magic, but at this point, I don't know how easy it's going to be to prove that there is ANY science involved here. Which, honestly, is a bit strange considering the entirety of Dr. Strange (at least season one, which is all I've seen up to this point) is basically a science lesson.

So let's try to prove my last theory (I don't know how well this is going to go). My last resort is fossilization. Apparently, there is a type of fossilization called petrification—which is encouraging. Petrification is a VERY long process that involves lots of decay and minerals sneaking into the body and replacing what was decayed. The fun thing is, most of the time the minerals that decide to infiltrate the body are quartz, calcite, or IRON COMPOUNDS!!!!!!

So either the bodies were fossilized (petrified) at an EXTREMELY high rate, or there's magic involved.

The bigger question is how did this actually happen. Like the process of fossilization (from what I've found) can take from 5,000 to 10,000 years. And in Dr. Stone, it happens in a matter of seconds. Something about this doesn't add up to me...

In Dr. Stone, Senku tries to figure out what the frick happened and has some of his own theories: a virus (not likely), a weapon developed by another country, or aliens. I doubt anyone on earth nowadays—or in 2019—has the technology that would allow them to forcefully petrify everyone on Earth in seconds. So honestly, it's probably aliens (starting to sound like Ryan Bergara here...)

TL;DR

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LOVE this. It feels like, and maybe I'm just projecting because I want it to be true so desperately, Ed is realizing there was not a good goddamn thing he could have done for Nina. And that he would not have had it in him to kill her himself, though that was the kindest option left open to her. He couldn't have fixed her.

he's crying, he's crying because this sucks, he's crying because at the end of the day he was useless to someone he loved, he's crying because he's given himself over to an organization that doe snot value the life of anyone. He's crying because this failure echoes the failures of his mother, and his brother, people he loved that he could not to anything for. People who paid for his desires and inadequacies. Everything is hammered down in this moment where he sees the hell of alchemy.

Please read me before commenting or sending an ask!

[deliriumsdelight7]

3, 5, 7 for Writer's Asks ✍📚

I already answered 3 in another ask, so I’ll do 5 and 7.

5.) What project do you plan on focusing on this year?

HA! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I am SO BAD at focusing. When I spend too long working on a single fic, I wind up getting more easily distracted, and my writing gets slower and slower until I wind up flitting off to a new project. It’s why I started so many WIPs last year. So I can’t really say I’ll be focusing on any one project this year, because that just doesn’t happen. But I will say that I want to spend the early part of the year focusing on closing out a couple of my fics that are nearly done (after I finish this RSS pinch-hitting fic). Breaking Cycles, my Belle/Lachlan MacAldonic fic, is the first thing I started writing in over 15 years. I started it in July of 2020, and I’m about 4 chapters away from finishing. I’m a similar length away from finishing Trinity: three chapters and an epilogue. If I can have four fics wrapped up by the end of March… well, that’s a pretty damn good note to start the year off on.

7.) Do you plan on reading any books this year?

Tentatively, yes. Right now, I’m having a hard time using my leisure time for anything that isn’t writing, because I feel guilty for not cranking fics out quickly enough. But I also don’t want to burn myself out, so when I’m too tired to write, I try to close the Google doc and relax. But usually relaxing comes in the form of playing a video game or watching TV. So if I do read, anything I read needs to be something quick and easy. Currently I’m reading the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, so I’d like to finish that. If I could find a complete collection of the Animorphs books online, I’d love to finally finish reading that series, as well. Once my health improves and I have the spoons for a new fandom, Discworld is on my TBR list as well.

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I don't read or watch violet ever garden cause i follow you mainly for the nice pictures you'll post or reblog from time to time so forgive me if you already answered this but im just curious. So how did you get into evergarden? Thanks

Omg, thanks, haha. I do think someone already asked me that before, a year or so ago. But didn’t really go into detail back then, so here’s the long answer. Apologies for the wall of text.

I got into the novel about half a year after it was published. It came out in December 2015, and a commercial based on scenes from volume 1 was released back in May 2016. I already knew about the novel because I follow the publisher on Twitter, and I was very interested in it because it was the first and still only winner of Kyoto Animation’s grand prize. Other than that, the premise seemed very promising. There was just one thing that sort of left me sitting on the fence about trying it out or not: Violet looked like a copycat of Saber from the Fate series.

Yes, I was in the Saber Clone Joke Club TM.

I wasn’t put off by that, honestly, but it left me with the impression that VE was gonna be a Fate Series fanfiction and I wasn’t sure what to think of this. Nowadays, I know very well that it is indeed a Fate Series (+ Fullmetal Alchemist and Gunslinger Girl) fanfic with a sprinkle of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, which is exactly why it’s so damn good, but 2015 me had no idea if she should invest on that mattress fire, so she decided to wait for a cue.

I’d completely forgotten about VE by the time that the commercial came out. And my dudes, that was such a breakthrough. I immediately made my mind and went to the novel’s official site to read the first chapter (it’s up online as trial reading until this day). As anyone can tell, I loved it. It was by far the most well-written light novel I’d ever come across.

I did some research after reading it and found out that, despite the popularity of the commercial (it has nearly five million views on YouTube now) and all the hype for the novel to spawn an anime series, no one had attempted to translate it. There was only a document on google docs with chapter 1 google-translated, and as you can probably guess, it couldn’t even be called a translation. Nothing made sense.

I had never translated a novel before until then, but I was totally fired up after watching the commercial and reading the first chapter. I really wanted to share this masterpiece with the world.

I had no way to buy the novel since KyoAni doesn’t ship to overseas and acquiring it through a proxy would be mad expensive, but I still wanted people to at least be able to read chapter 1 and have even more fans looking forward to the anime (believe it or not, I was super stoked for an anime adaptation back then... silly me). So, yeah, I indulged myself translating just Oscar’s story, and it had a much bigger repercussion than I imagined it would. I seriously wasn’t expecting that amount of attention.

When I posted the translation, I did kinda wish that someone with access to a physical copy would purchase the novel and ask me to translate the rest, but it was just a far-fetched pipe dream at the back of my head... or so I thought, lol. It did happen that someone from the western side of the fandom had bought the book, but he’s a non-Japanese speaker and was looking for someone who could translate it. He found my translation of chapter 1, so he offered to lend me his copy as long as I translated it in return, but he made clear that he wouldn’t be able to pay me for it. I immediately accepted to do it for free. Some people might say this was stupid of me, but I consider the fact that I got to read the book without buying it myself (which would’ve taken a huge toll on my pocket) as my payment. This was a surprise for the guy, who nowadays is a good friend of mine, because he had been told that no one would do it other than as a paid commission.

Needless to say that my love for VE only grew after I translated the rest. And that’s it! That’s the whole story.

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I see you watch anime, doc...my favorite anime is fullmetal alchemist, what about you?

.....I said I don’t watch anime, I just have a friend who’s really into it so I have gleaned some secondhand knowledge askjlfnskj

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9, 11, 31 🙃

9. Which character(s) do you find most difficult to write? Freakin’ Doc Roe! The man is all voice, I’m struggling! Another one that is a bit challenging is Speirs. I find myself re-watching his scenes a lot to get a sense of his inflection and pacing. 

11. Who or what do you find yourself writing about the most? In this fandom, it is no secret that Dick Winters is my dream man and so I write him a lot. But I swear I’m willing to write others if people request them! Subject matter is pretty basic, I’m a fluff kinda gal! No matter what fandom, I love writing domestic fluff! I am also partial to hurt/comfort

31. Do you have any OCs? Tell us about them! Well, my Dick x Nurse!Reader was originally planned to be an OC. One I worked on for years, but I decided to change to a reader insert because that’s what I saw a lot of on tumblr. I’m considering going back and rewriting because that was my dream fic, and I was slightly gutted to take out my OC.  I have another that I’m planning for a ballroom dance competition fic. She doesn’t have a name yet, but she is like...very cute and fun. Charming and unknowingly flirtatious.  In other fandoms, I have OCs that I worked on for years. I have my LotR OC, Soriel, who is an elf from Lothlorien and because I was in high school she was of course a tenth walker in the Fellowship and all that jazz. I actually love her and her story is up on AO3. I have a Fullmetal Alchemist OC, Bea, who has a really, really long story and several spinoffs that I’ve never published because it was just like...too much. But she’s super cool. Soriel and Bea are the two OCs that I’ve put the most time and effort into over my years in fandom (which is like well over a decade now). 

Anyway, I’m rambling. Thank you for the ask, love!