#It was so worth it though

[polysaccharidegremlin]

Misha Collins at Comic Con Stockholm Summer 2024

[ilatians]

silly little comic

also shoutout to @thesillylittleman for helping me come up with the dialogue :p

[strawberry-seal77]

"I should go draw" proceeds to scroll tumblr for the next 2 hours

[goofyguppy]

the best thing about this super heavy, super soft funfetti blanket is that i made it with my own two weird lil hands! its keeping me warm while i fight this stupid flu

[therandomhalfrussian]

I just went down the deepest tumblr rabbit hole I’ve ever went into. I feel dizzy. I just kept on clicking on older and older reblogs. My phone is overheating. Two hours has gone by. I was in 2009 tumblr looking at posts with pictures of Ronnie Peterson. Where am I?? Why does it feel like I just got enlightened??

[autonnaton]

My mitosis shirt from Present Indicative came in yesterday! I’m so excited!

[westwingsolo]

No one fucking talk to me today. I saw Fall Out Boy last night and I'm not over that.

They played Pavlove

Live.

They also played GINASFS, which has been the song I've most associated with FirstPrince.

And then the RWRB team has blessed us with so many things already today.

I can't handle today.

[pinktaeyeon]

to be fair i was super lucky that back in 2015 i got to see f(x) live at the london korean festival 

[hischierdevils]

I feel like I’m hungover today but I didn’t have a drop of alcohol yesterday

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[qrowpilled]

hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

[c0smicw4rp]

guess who spent 400 dollars at spirit today ;-;

[enbypotat53]

The sheer PAIN AND AGONY I WENT THROUGH JUST for this pokemon.

For context - doing a SP water types only playthrough (with a soda themed name scheme) and decided I wanted a Milotic (first mistake).

So I went fishing for it in Mt Coronet (second mistake).

Eventually went a bit stir crazy and decided to get it in Sword (third mistake).

Found out there was a fog static encounter, but I didn't realise it was bugged to only spawn as male, and I wanted a female pokemon to balance the team out, so I ran from it (fourth mistake).

I then couldn't get another one to spawn, so started fishing on route 2 (fifth mistake).

I then tried max raid battles to no avail, though I did get some XP candy, so.. (seventh mistake).

Eventually gave up and started asking online/friends, to no avail (sixth mistake).

Then checked my Sword boxes again - I had checked them prior but I THOUGHT nothing had come up. (eighth mistake).

Turns out, I had a Milotic the ENTIRE TIME. Started breeding, but couldn't even GET the right nature, let alone a FEMALE Feebas with the right nature, so I decided to go to the battle tower to get what I thought were nature altering mints (ninth mistake).

They didn't ACTUALLY alter the nature, so the whole plan I had with poffins didn't work out the way I'd hoped (tenth mistake - and don't even get me fucking STARTED on the poffin making - my thumbs were dying by batch 2, and I ended up having to make about 4 or 5!)

Eventually settled on a secret ability neutral nature Feebas and traded her to SP. Fed her poffins and evolved her, traded her back to Sword to give her some EXP candy, then traded her back and gave her some necessary moves via TM/move tutor.

And I finally have my fucking Milotic.

[nacho-business1]

waiting for midnight to hit so I can use the BOOP paws again

[oatmealaddiction]

Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

[thesoundofrayne]

wish I could pin my favorite liked posts to the top