#I'm rewatching fmab and it's still as great as ever!!!

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Fma doodles because I'm currently having fmab brainrot :D

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Hello. Candy hating anon here. The one who fucking hates joy and happiness. What are your favorite movies and/or tv shows if you have any.

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These are my favorite movies. Favorites can bounce around a little but generally speaking these tend to come back most often or have never moved. Naked Lunch is an adaptation of a book which is also very good. I don't recommend watching it with someone else unless you're confident it's their speed it can really fucking bore people and a lot of what can be considered comedic is maybe unsavory. Just speaking as someone who thought it would be a good idea to show it to 2 people who were definitely getting absolutely nothing out of it. I've always loved Saw 2. It was the first one I watched, and it was the year it released. Personal bias aside I have a lot of thoughts as to why it's the best installment from traps to matters of story and design. Meet The Feebles comes and goes but I always hand it the most positive regards and I always love showing that one to people. It's a completely solid dark puppet horror-comedy made by Peter Jackson (yes that one) and TDC speaks for itself. I grew up watching it just about every day when I was living in a tattoo shop. We had a tv in the lobby and I'd come down to put on He-Man/TDC and draw. As for shows I actually like quite a few. I love Venture Bros. It's a huge staple for my head and I owe it a lot for my general development in my pre-teens even if it wasn't the most appropriate thing to be consistently watching at my age. I never dropped it and have rewatched it A LOT. I don't hesitate to call it my favorite show of all time. I also enjoy BrBa/BCS as much as the next person and have also watched both of them multiple times, but I'm not really into "fandom" and I don't post about it or anything apart from sharing some pieces that jadenvargen created when it randomly hit a gay-viewer peak. In any case they're also favorites. I really liked The Walking Dead and binged a shit ton of it a couple yrs ago. Unfortunately while I LOVE zombies I am picky about them and as soon as we started getting into More Drama Less Zombies territory I got really bored. I never finished it. I do really enjoy the first handful of seasons though honestly, specifically when you can see the VERY strong highs and lows Rick faced and reacted to and what happened to his head. HIs son pisses me off. I'm not immune to doing obnoxious character impressions when less than sober. I'm a very passive anime watcher but I really enjoy the ones I get into. Panty & Stocking is great, I like Naruto as a show but don't have interest in anything after Shippuden. I liked Mob Psycho. I liked Golden Kamuy but ended up reading it instead at some point. FMAB was the 2nd anime I ever finished and I still like it a lot even if I seriously have never brought it up. Easy favorite. I like seeing how peoples thoughts regarding it have changed and spun over time and influenced other work. I enjoy most Muppets stuff. I like the show more than the movies. Hate abc's Muppets. Fraggle Rock is a come-and-go favorite. Sesame Street I don't watch as much but I enjoy it with about the same energy attached to the fault of their larger puppets being some personal favorites. M*A*S*H is a huge favorite but I don't watch it as often as some of the aforementioned as an adult. I like Transformers (G1) I think it's funny and great and I try to show it to people often. Maybe a strange curveball but I have guilty pleasure reality tv shows I enjoy a lot. They were/are all on Oxygen if that helps you narrow down the flavor. I named my schools of tetra fish after some of them as a kid. Come to your own conclusions. One of them was named Jersey Shore but I didn't actually like that one too much I got sick of looking at Pauly D. Sometimes shows on TLC get me but I don't tend to finish them or see the storyline out. I have no explanation. I'm sure something big is probably slipping me but maybe this does the job. I like a really wide variety of shit and I rarely fully turn something down without some kind of investigation, even if it's a trailer or a 1 episode watch for water testing.

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nikki my dear id love to hear your thoughts on 03 vs brohood! i just finished rewatching BH & rereading the manga & am starved for more fma content so i started rewatching 03 & its like... so SAD omg i like that ed looks more like a kid & gets to cry like one too (the barry scene! when he has to jam his arm back in & its still mismatched when he claps!!!) & i also appreciate the fluidity of the animation (though i do prefer BH's way of drawing faces & hair) but DANG its sad (& gets weirrrd!)

OOOHOHHOHOHOO YES I'M ALWAYS READY TO GUSH ABOUT FMA AND FMAB VS. 03!! I totally agree with everything you said!! I love both series, but yeaH 03 is sO SAD and so gritty at points. I loved seeing Ed younger and that he was acting more like a kid, he cried more, things like that. That Barry scene--you're killing me over here just making me think about it again!! That was a GOOD episode that really showed that Ed is just a kid and is really in over his head. And I think that theme runs throughout 03 and I really like it (sorry Ed) like when he almost sacrificed all those prisoners for al, and he just looks SO TIRED and SO YOUNG it hurts!! Plus, the homunculi origins!! Ed having to kill his own mom (kinda)!!! Fuck!!!

I've always said how I find it interesting that fmab and 03 have such similar endings that are also vastly different. Al always gets his body back in, and Ed keeps at least one prosthetic in each but loses his alchemy either way. But they're still SUCH different endings!! It's crazy! I prefer brotherhood's ending because I'm a sucker for the happily ever after, the "the journey was hard but everything turned out better than we hoped" sort of ending, but CoS really does hurt so good haha One thing that saddens me about 03 tho was how Ed and Al felt like they couldn't depend on Roy and his team (rightly so tbh) but it was like...these were the only adults they could really rely on and they couldn't even rely on them in the end. It fit with 03's themes well (how the military sucks, how Ed and Al really only had each other), but I'm just a sucker for found family, so the brohood climax where everyone kinda teams up together is GOLD to me lol

But I agree!!! 03 has such beautiful, fluid animation. I prefer brotherhood's hair (like you said! lol) and the colors/style of brotherhood, but I think 03's animation is better. CoS tho......CoS got everything right when it came to animation lol Ed's hair and clothes looked great...the way our world had dimmer colors than Ed's.....SO GOOD

ANYWAY. I'M RAMBLING!! I actually watched brotherhood first! I saw someone here on tumblr talking about it and thought it sounded good! I actually hated it at first but continued to watch it out of spite and by the end, well, I was obsessed. I watched 03 and cos after that and that ending had me sobbing on the floor gripping my giraffe pillow pet for dear life. After that I read the manga and gOSH (I love the animes...but the manga will FOREVER BE SUPREME!!!) This all happened over one summer so when I went back to school in the fall, I was a Different Person lmao

Thank you for this ask!! It's been a while since I've gushed about fma and this was fun!! :D Plus I LOVE to hear about other people's fma stories