#but it was over a decade ago

[ssaalexblake]

FMA official translations reread/read, vol.2

I’d forgotten how brutal the pacing of this story was. The last chapter of vol.1 was Ed and Al comically stopping a group of protestors/terrorists working against the military as the hijack a train with a high ranking general onboard (this is in the story Before we explicitly learn that the amestris military is even slightly awful, let alone rotten to the core. Or that it’s a dictatorship. This is a gift for re-readers to find if you’re not the type of person to immediately question the benevolence of the military.) using absurdist alchemy and just buckwild strategies to gain the upper hand. All the while Roy is waiting on the train platform for Ed to do this work For him cuz he doesn’t want to. 

(RIP to General Hakuro’s left ear. I can’t say I feel sorry for you.)

Then in the very next chapter, the opener in volume 2, is a quick scene of Ed getting info on a bio alchemist and a scene change to Tucker and Nina’s house and the playful shenanigans, and then a mere 14 pages later (14 single, 7 double) Nina and Alexander have already become uncomfortably close. 

Brutal mood change from the light-hearted train sequence. 

Also want to smack Roy for his lack of compassion for Ed after this goes down because Ed Chose To Be A Dog Of The Military, conveniently missing out the part where he manipulated a small child in an exceedingly vulnerable state both physically and mentally, to join the military. And without him it’s exceedingly unlikely Ed would have ended up here. 

I love Roy, he’s wonderfully written and his motivations make sense, but here he’s just being an absolute asshole to Ed who is uh, 15 years old years After he was egged on by Roy to join up. I have an inherent disdain for how military recruiters prey on the vulnerable, which Roy absolutely and knowingly did to a 12yo, so this is the one area where i just want to punch Roy. 

I mean, if there’d been a reason to even talk to Ed and Al Maybe, but there wasn’t, he seemed to just not be able to help antagonising them. Gallingly rich for the man who was all ideals and The Military Helps People when he was way Older than the brothers. He’s just taking his own self disdain out on them. 

Can’t wait to see Riza wipe him out just for the satisfaction of witnessing it. 

Also, lol @ Scar telling the kid with a very close relationship with her dog that he’s letting her “go in peace” as what was done to her cannot be fixed. He then proceeds to effectively explode her head to murder her. That is not my definition of going in peace, but then again, i do not have Scar’s background. 

Chapter 5 over. 

[lightningstrikes-art]

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

me, hearing that we are getting two new seasons of PnF almost a year late:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

[noodles-and-tea]

YOUR MERTHUR ART GIVES ME LIFE!!! <3

THEY’RE SO!!!

[heartorbit]

i just wanted to draw the ave mujica outfits .

[hydrossity-zone]

[6/8/2024]

I don't care if Heaven won't take me back

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[2/12]

[dooffirmations]

They are laughing at the people who thought her dress was blue

[constantlyfalling]

🌦 rainy drive 🌦

[originalaccountname]

I think that, once again, Teruko's tragedy suffered from being suddenly dropped at the last second. If she'd been clearly introduced as a fucked up child soldier much earlier, we could have had the time to process that, to see how it messed with her head, get all that "war steals childhoods away" metaphor, and when it finally killed her, we could have mourned it. Because it's a tragedy where she never had the opportunity to grow outside of it and it killed her. But instead we are supposed to process all of that in like 3 pages, all in one day.

[repsolhonda]

HONDA x MARC: you don't have to go home. there's a long way to go.

[katabay]

”—ah. seems like mother goose has been playing around in your egg salad. if you won’t dance to that tune, I got others.”

honestly, the would you kindly scene is whatever to me*, code yellow is the more interesting violation/betrayal of the body because of how beautifully it escalates the Fontaine reveal/betrayal and shows how ugly some of those ‘locks and keys’ that Tenenbaum mentions are. not only have you been a tool in another man’s hand this entire time, it goes deeper. your body is not your own.

*there used to be a meandering thought here about the would you kindly scene, but it was really just talking around the fact that I spent way too many years seeing people discuss it in the most insufferable and reductive ways possible when it’s a combination of three or four other things that make that moment compelling lmao

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[kneworder]

more people should be ungodly obsessed with john mitchell from being human. he's a beautiful emo irish vampire with the worst fashion sense in the world. he's killed so many people but he feels so so so bad about it. he is so absolutely cringefail he gets roasted by children on the street and actually gets annoyed. he fought in WWI. he was in casablanca but you can't see him because he doesn't show up on film. he is in recovery for addiction (blood) and keeps relapsing (murder). he loves the real hustle and he's LITERALLY doing the washing up.

[dfwbwfbbwfbwf]

Imladris Learned

Oh, isn't the irony absolutely delicious that Gondolin, Nargothrond, and Doriath all stood alone, so that when they fell, they fell alone as well.

And isn't is wonderful that the scion of these realms - Gondolin through Eärendil, Nargothrond though Celebrían, and Doriath through Elwing - learned from those mistakes, and while Imladris was a hidden city, Elrond never forgot his allies.

[sunflowercider]

Funnier reason the Fronteras don't call Javier by his first name: as he was training to become a knight, being called Sir Asrahan made him puff up with adorable pride so much that the Fronteras used it all the time, to the point that "Javier" became his "in-trouble" name.

[xbuster]

Princess Knight (1999) dir. Nishida Masayoshi