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When looking at the fanon interpretation of your fav fma ladies, what makes you go like yesss she would say/do that!! And what makes you she wouldn't fucking say/do that?

(Happy birthday!!)

oh my gosh thank you so much!!! i did my best with these, i feel like i might be forgetting stuff but i tried!

izumi:

i love it when people treat her as the elrics adopted mother! i think there's a reason why she lost a child specifically and why they lost their mother, and while the rituals they did to bring those people back didn't work, they still found their ways to each other. love it when people INCLUDE HER also!! so many times in fanon stuff she just gets left out completely and it makes me sad.

hate it when people call her abusive? like. the manga makes it really clear that she's doing all of their training with as much care and caution as you CAN do a martial art, and that her assistant was watching out for them while they were on the island (and kicking their ass but you know. he knew they were safe). she's a good mom and she's a good teacher and i won't hear it.

olivier:

olivier as a character is like wildly deeply nuanced and layered and i really love fanon posts that engage with her on the level of that complexity! she IS that complicated.

one of my biggest olivier "she would not fucking do thats" is almost any non-izumi ship, and it's not like. it's not like.. BECAUSE of izumi. i polyship all the time. it's just. she would not fucking do that. roy mustang she hates, her assistants are also men, riza is her friend and very specifically in the same cateogry of friend to her as jean havoc... so...? so probably that yeah. i just can't get into any of them. i have tried.

riza:

probably the most in character thing i've seen in this:

(edit by spidermanifested)

also i love everything by tumblr user courtmartialme. he's so good and he draws her with so much love.

i think my biggest and worst crime against traditional fma fandom is that i believe riza hawkeye is aromantic. so like. it makes me feel "she would not fucking do that" about so much royai content all of the time. and i still love queerplatonic royai so much so i reblog it a lot with my qp glasses on but the super romanticy stuff i- oh. OH. even worse than that is royai parent stuff. either as the elrics parent figures (they r coworkers at worst and weird uncle/aunt at best) or as having their own kids. augh

lust:

biggest fandom "she would fucking do that" of all time is THIS. which i hope everyone has seen. forever. she would. i am writing a whole fic about how much she would.

a lot of rizalust art has lust in a position of being the one to be sort of menacing and scary, terrifying riza as much as she turns her on, and like. while i do think she has the capacity for that VERY much, i think it's way more fun when she's pathetic. <3

also i wanna see more acknowledgement that her dad sucks too

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For the ask game, 🍎 or 🥀?

Ahhhh how am I supposed to choose? 😭

alright, since it's gonna be so long before I actually get to share this one, have a quote from Vox Populi!

🍎 favorite angst quote from a wip

She was quick about it too, which most definitely wasn't for his benefit but he was glad for nonetheless. The soldiers were still just standing there, staring unabashed, while he got his fucking limbs taken off. He just wanted to put his fucking clothes on again. Except—he realised with a start—he wouldn't get to, would he? They'd put him into some kind of shitty prison shift. They'd take it all away. Not that he'd had much to begin with, most of his belongings were left behind in Briggs. Only the clothes on his back, his boots, a few cenz in his pockets, and his silver pocket watch. Plus an arm and a leg, of course. Ed tried to fight down the panic suddenly constricting his throat. He really was going to jail. He wasn’t getting out of this. He wouldn’t leave here again except for his trial, and then he’d be sentenced to death and executed or conveniently sacrificed but either way— He would spend the rest of his life here, however long or short that may be. A jolt ran through him as his leg was disconnected as well. Light-headedness made the room spin around him, untethered without the familiar weight of his automail. How the fuck did he end up here? What was he going to do?

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God I love this fic so fucking much. Thank you for asking!

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if you could change one thing about all of fma what would it be

i think you and i have talked about this before but i will always take an opportunity to rant about it. it really has never sat well with me that mustang uses the philosopher's stone. i understand that he feels being blind will get in the way of his goals, but being that his goals are to help the ishvalan people, it seems.... uh. bad. to use a stone made out of their souls to do that. esp since the person giving him "permission" to do that is the guy who made it, not even an ishvalan? it's not good!!! i get that like... i get that the difference is that he did not perform the ceremony willingly. i understand that. i don't think he deserves to be blind--but i don't think the people who did it willingly deserve what they got either, even if they feel like they do. and besides that, when it comes down to it, it is ableist to assume that he couldn't be a good ruler or a good diplomat while blind.

now. if i could change two things. it would be for hohenheim to actually be a dad after the promised day instead of like. dissolving into wind or whatever. like i know, i know he was busy saving the world so he couldn't be a good dad sooner, sure. whatever. BUT DUDE? teen boys still need a parent? you're alive and you're here, you don't get to go all "my work here is done" bc it's not, it's only just starting. dude. get it together. come back and raise your kids.

sorry to @heavenlyshadowhunter i know u love him but i do want him to get his shit together lol

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tag someone you want to get to know better

i got tagged in two of these that were super similar so i've combined them for convenience! thank you @iztopher and @nonbinarymikaela

Favourite color: red!

Currently reading: fma manga volume 10! actually about to go read it right now :) OH and also rereading swallows on the beam which is an INCREDIBLE on-going fic about lan fan by @shu-of-the-wind

Last song: ozean (hennings version) by annenmaykatereit (i made a b-sides to my rizalust playlist, feel free to dm if you want the link)

Last series: last series i watched was love between fairy and devil and it was so good! it started out super silly and then got hella intense and then got silly again. 10/10 except for the five hundred year time skip

Last movie: PONYO!! we've been making @summerwoodsmoke watch all of the ghibli classics they haven't seen yet

Currently working on: i'm over 19k on my olivier x izumi post canon fic and i'm so close to finishing it! and my rizalust project is also ongoing and Lots but is way less close to the end haha

Current obsession: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST (fullmetal alchemist)

tagging a few of my new mutuals: @watertightvines @izzenithal @star-whatevers @machinerismsx @royaigarbage @littlebear1537 & @heavenlyshadowhunter

but no pressure!

[theliteraryluggage]

For a writing retreat this weekend I wrote a little warm-up challenge!

A story in three sentences and exactly 500 words. The prompt: "the sea at night". I really enjoyed writing this one, maybe someone out there will like it too!

Taglist (lmk if you want to be added!)

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist, Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 9/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

Chapter 9 on AO3

Chapter 10 on Patreon

Taglist (lmk if you want to be added!)

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 7/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

lmk if you want to be added to the taglist!

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 6/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 8/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

Chapter 8 on AO3

Chapter 9 on Patreon

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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Just went and wrote the entire first draft of a fic idea I've had for a while within 4 hours.

Admittedly it's "only" 2.2K but. Wow, that one just burst out of me, didn't it?

A little taste, anyone? 👀

(why yes, it is a THG AU, thanks for asking!)

FMA taglist under the cut, lmk if you want to be added!

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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🍓

ohhhh, thank you!!

🍓 favorite poetic quote from a wip

That's gotta be something from Eldritch Elrics. Not that my other WIPs don't have poetic passages but this one's rife with them. Here's one of my favourites.

But Ed didn’t hear, didn’t stop, his screams burrowing into her bones like grub, rough, raw. Fingers scrabbling against his skull like there was something he wanted to claw out, then in turn bashing against his temple and tangling in his hair, tugging, tugging. Too much white in his eyes and too little black, the golden ring in between staring not at them but through them, roaming searchlights, and yet Winry was pinned, all reassuring words frozen on her lips. Ed’s eyes had always been too sharp, seeing what others didn’t see, cutting it up in even slices to be dissected. This was something else. There was something writhing underneath the surface, a rolling mass just behind the irises, threatening to break out, a flood so large it could bury all of them. Right now, though, only Ed was drowning.

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@heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 4/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

another saturday, another chapter! @heavenlyshadowhunter

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 3/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

Tagging @heavenlyshadowhunter , so far it's just you on the taglist 😂 enjoy!

[theliteraryluggage]

when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist , Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 5/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

@heavenlyshadowhunter

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WIP Wednesday

I'm finally making progress with Vox Populi again so!! You're getting a random WIP Wednesday today! Here's a little piece from Chapter 5!

Winry shook her head. “I mean, I didn’t understand how it was Al, or why. But I knew that it was him.” “How could you tell?” “I just—” Winry held herself back from snapping again, taking another deep breath. “I know Alphonse. I’ve known him my entire life. I know the way he moves, the way he talks. Not just his voice, it was also the way he addressed Granny and me, the way he treated Ed.” “Do you think it is possible that the animated suit of armour you know as Alphonse Elric could have been artificially created by Major Elric in order to cover up his brother’s death?” Winry blinked rapidly, unable to even process the words for a moment. “No”, she said then. “Of course not.” “Did you not think the concept of a soul alchemically bound to a suit of armour hard to believe?” Winry had to hold herself back from defiantly crossing her arms before her chest. “Not any harder to believe than the idea of someone artificially creating an animated suit of armour able to speak and move independently from its creator and with personality and memories complex enough to be indistinguishable from an actual person. Besides—” She hesitated, eyes flickering briefly towards Ed, who was now looking at her again, something almost fond in his bright eyes. “I know Ed”, she continued, more quietly. “If anyone could bind a soul, it would be him.”

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when all is lost (and hope a ghost)

Fullmetal Alchemist, Teen and Up, Gen, Ch 10/10

Tags/Warnings: Soulmate AU, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Psychological Torture, Presumed Dead, Blood and Violence, Hopeful Ending

Summary:

He could feel Al’s presence through their soulbond, a faint tingle of worry at the back of his head, spiking into something like alarm, possibly in response to Ed waking up. He didn’t seem particularly distressed though, at least not more than a good old-fashioned kidnapping warranted. Well, it had been a while since Ed had had to deal with one of those, so he might as well get right into it.

Final chapter! Hope you enjoy.

@heavenlyshadowhunter