#psiren

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✧˚₊✰Jewel Thief✰₊˚✧

[bearsandbeansart]

Sometimes you just have to rewatch A Meat Bicycle Built For Two to remind you that love is, in fact, real.

[therosecrest]

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2019 sketchdump, part 1 - FMA edition

Sketch of Psiren, kind of a pinup thing?

Ed's cold. Sketch and a tiny bit of lineart

Ed being cute

Edward, Scar and Noah. Related to one of the sketches found here, as this was my initial cast for the Pathologic protags. Hence why they're arranged like the character select screen.

Edward with a cat on his head. I don't even know how to explain this one properly.

Edward as Eddie Gluskin from Outlast: Whistleblower, aka my worst nightmare. Part of the survival horror crossover/au thing I've been doing

Unobstructed sketch of Ed, part of a sketch to be submitted later

Pirate!Ed, minus prosthetics, plus a peg leg. He's got a tattoo of a compass on his arm, a tattoo of an island on his chest, a shark tooth necklace and a pipe. Def going up on the sketch poll.

Ed, vague costume idea from a dream, where most of what I remember was being a detective duo investigating an old-timey butcher shop.

[memesmadefullmetal]

FAVE OBSCURE BLORBOS ROUND 1 (PART 1): Match 8 of 16

[reddwarfpoll]

Psirens: Lister awakens on Starbug and learns that 200 years have passed and the Red Dwarf has gone missing. While navigating an asteroid field, the crew are tempted by Psirens, shape-shifting creatures that wish to suck out their brains.

M-Corp: When the Dwarfers upload the latest software update they discover the Jupiter Mining Corporation, owners of Red Dwarf, have been bought by M Corp - a company that only allows products made by them to be visible to their employees.

Photo IDs by @what--the-helliot (also in reblogs)

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[tealmoth]

also "darkfic au that got out of control" is such a funny description to me 😭 im curious as to why you think so personally i thought it was pretty balanced in heavy and lighthearted moments and considering the themes like the effects of imperialism i dont see why it wouldnt be handled as such. havent watched in a while tho idk

oooohh okay so this’ll be a fun thing to answer because i’ve been desperate to ramble about ‘03 plot points to anyone who will listen all week. so for me, honestly, the darkfic vibes come more from how deeply it dredges into the dark aspects, if that makes any sense?? most of what’s “dark” in ‘03 already exists and is explored in brotherhood, like the imperialism aspects as you mentioned, as well as grief and trauma and everything else that comes prepackaged with fma’s core story. but brotherhood handled these in a very shonen way (which is to be expected, of course). the darkness pushes the characters forward, makes them fight on. even when they’re at the brink, they’re called back by a loved one, or by their own convictions, and it retains an overall positive feel.

meanwhile in ‘03, i get the specific vibe that the writers looked at the story they already had, and asked themselves “how can this be worse??”

(inserting a read more because i’m about to go on a MASSIVE tangent, sorry.)

and so, here are some of the specific darker aspects that stood out the most to me:

the build-up to nina is given far more screentime and its place in the timeline is totally different. not only are the elrics so much younger here, but they’re also essentially a part of the tucker family for the better part of several months iirc. they also witness the direct aftermath of her death at the hands of scar (which is also implied to be FAR more gruesome here), whereas in brotherhood they find out from riza the morning after it happens.

there’s the whole barry ordeal which afaik doesn’t serve much purpose other than it, well, being kinda neat to see pre-armor barry. and i could totally be misremembering here and/or missing something important but the whole episode just stands out to me as “hey, i don’t think that ed’s had enough trauma yet. let’s sprinkle in some attempted murder.”

everything with the laboratory, holy shit. tucker’s reappearance, the attempts at recreating nina, the prisoners, everything with kimblee, the way ed almost activates the array, ALL OF IT is insane in this version.

al’s doubts about his memories and his origins is a longer arc and leads to more conflict with ed in this version.

mustang and winry’s parents. mustang’s suicide attempt. everything with mustang that’s not comic relief (which there’s still plenty of).

as stated in the tags of my first ‘03 post, the utilization of rose’s character is a really intense departure (while interesting!!) that completely took me aback.

the entirely different lore surrounding the homunculi is both incredibly fascinating and a lot to take in, and it leads to them being far more mentally vulnerable and tormented characters than they are in brotherhood. the contrast alone between the development greed gets in brotherhood (using him as an example since he effectively has the most character growth out of the homunculi there) and the development that lust, wrath, and sloth get in ‘03 stands out the most to me.

sloth in general. it’s a wildly fascinating take and, in addition to REALLY hammering in the themes surrounding their mother’s transmutation, also stands to provide even more trauma for the elrics.

and on that subject, the adults are far less present for the boys in this version. that’s not to say that they’re like “parents” or anything in brotherhood, but they’re a lot more openly concerned for them in a personal, affectionate way in that show. whereas here, especially in the early segments, i’m pretty sure that ed could have died in a ditch somewhere and they wouldn’t have noticed for at least a week.

scar’s characterization is more vulnerable here and both his death and the events leading up to it are insane.

and that’s not even getting into everything with dante, which deserves its own post.

with all that said, i’m also not even done with this show yet. i still have four eps left!!

but, all rambling aside, that’s what specifically gave me the darkfic sort of vibe. not to demean the show or reduce it to fanfic terms, or anything; it’s still very interesting and competent writing. but it just gives me so much whiplash when compared to brotherhood’s overarching feelings of hope and the ability to fight back and change the future for the better. it feels soul-nourishing to me, in a way. meanwhile, ‘03 is like a cavalcade of trauma, all provoked by the question “you know what’d be really fucked up??”

[weltato]

So I know that this has been mostly a Starkid blog recently but uhhh-

Red Dwarf fic where Rimmer has a panic attack (bc ofc he does, it's his thing) only it's about his light bee running out of charge and then we get explanation of how every time his battery is dying he's terrified he's not going to be recharged again, or something's going to go wrong and he just poofs. Gone. Nothing.

Soft light Rimmer I do kinda miss you. Wish they used the ability to switch between lights more often.

[starbug]

Back to the Dwarf #1

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Winrey stupidly undressing when Ed is just casually sitting in the room in perfect view of anyone walking into the room is one of those typical shounen moments that had me pause the show and leave the room.

[viewfromthelake]

"Back off, Pete Tranter’s sister! I know what you’re after: it’s moist and pink and it’s inside my head. And that’s where it’s staying."

[complicateddestiny]

alt!

"Hello there! Haven't I seen you in the paper or something? My name's Claire. It's so nice to meet you"

[shelma32entertainment]

Red Dwarf | 6x01 | Psirens | REACTION

[memesmadefullmetal]

if youre doing 03 as well I nominate Psiren :D it not, then Menny

We ARE including characters from 03 in this tournament as well so why not both?! 💎

- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅

[reddwarfpoll]

The End: On the mining ship Red Dwarf, slobbish slacker Dave Lister dreams of a life in Fiji away from his annoying bunkmate Arnold Rimmer. When he's placed in suspended animation, he wakes up 3 million years later to find the entire crew are dead.

Psirens: Lister awakens on Starbug and learns that 200 years have passed and the Red Dwarf has gone missing. While navigating an asteroid field, the crew are tempted by Psirens, shape-shifting creatures that wish to suck out their brains.

Photo IDs by @what--the-helliot