#Don’t forget

[circus-clangen]

me when I first saw the page where Ringstar finds the dead kitten and immediately goes for a smoke break: hahaha this Ringstar fella sure is maladjusted huh?

me knowing what we know now about Monkeypaw: oh………..

Remember that page, all of you. Remember that frame. Remember it well.

[ravelte]

don’t forget!

[vwwitch]

3.10

[cewwart]

hey chat….

don’t forget.

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Don’t forget

[subarudriver-satellitereceiver]

I always get really emotional when I think about Ed’s decision in the end to sacrifice his alchemy. It’s the perfect embodiment of everything he’s learned on his journey. Alchemy being the thing he has clung to, the thing he developed, so that he could erase a huge source of trauma. At this point, it became like a crutch. And you see it all throughout—his constant reliance despite knowing that he is Icarus in his analogy to Rose, his searching to find answers his screaming “we’re only human” after Nina and Tucker’s death yet continuing to attempt the impossible, his hope that he will find an alchemical answer when the Philosopher Stone is no longer and option. It’s all for Al; it’s still very family centric, but alchemy is his solve-all—mastering his auto mail in a year to become a state alchemist, to research an alchemical solution. And it just highlights his growth to throw it all away, with utter confidence that no other solution would do, in order to save the family he has left.

And ultimately, in order to save his brother, his family, he has to sacrifice the one thing he has relied on to protect his family.

Arakawa has stated that “the series starts off with the Elric brothers attempting to revive their dead mother, and they do that because they long for the warmth of family… I think the story’s eventual destination might be an understanding of family, in a larger sense of the world.” Not to be all “it was the friends we made along the way,” but truly that is present at FMA(B)’s very core. Not only does he come to find that alchemy cannot bring back Al, just as it failed to bring back their mother, but he has found that it doesn’t even matter. He doesn’t need that crutch to provide a family for himself. All they wanted was to feel the love of their mother again. To have and keep a family. And that is exactly what they got. And that’s enough.

There’s a sense of irony in the giving up to save family the one thing he’s relied on to “save” family. And the learning of such truths is such a beautiful irony, unfolding there the whole time. It’s painful and it’s sad, but it is nothing compared to the healing of finding a family in the people all around him. It’s through that healing, and letting go of his crutch, that he saves his brother Alphonse.

October 3rd commemorates, not only the anniversary of the Elric brothers burning down their family home, but the new lives that they built, through constant sacrifice, out of the ashes. Happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day!

[witzwarapron]

Old post from X

[averydavery]

Crossover shenanigans

more Dororo x FMA art because I have brainrot as I write my fic (More Than Human on ao3, my @ is Moonshot_Sputnik) just two boys the same age from different parts of the world trying to get their bodies back

Sneak Peak at my Oct. 3 Art!

inspired by the Art Nouveau era, specifically the art of Alphonse Mucha

[cherry-pop-elf]

Friendly reminder

My dad, who was born in the sixties, did typical teenager fashion and snuck out of his parents house to see a midnight showing with his friends.

That was The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Now that same man is the one to help me make doctor appointments, to see if insurance will cover my future top surgery

Trans/LGBTQ+ Media and its importance Yall

[kawakami-qt]

yall rockin with full metal alchemist??

[yamtheartist]

October 3rd

[kirax-emd-art]

Don't forget 3.oct.11

[vwwitch]

3.oct

[rohanrider3]

Downfall—We’ve Got Some Work To Do Now

[mariposas8494]

Don’t forget to take your meds