#team greed

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts

[humming-fly]

Just like Justin Mcelroy's callbacks to the chilean miners I have once again emerged to deliver this, More Team Greed Nonsense, this time featuring stupid questions ed asks to get out of work

ngl drawing this is the most clear headed I've felt in weeks if i go longer then seven days without drawing greedling I start going through withdrawl

to that end have a second bonus:

Team Greed Doodles Masterlist

[citrus-wall-paint]

team greed my beloved oh my god (i need a spinoff series abt what was happening during those 6 months)

(also i need fmab moots so haiii slide into the dms please hiiii)

[tobiatobia]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Elric & Heinkel, Darius & Edward Elric & Heinkel, Edward Elric & Ling Yao, Darius & Edward Elric & Greed & Heinkel & Ling Yao Characters: Heinkel (Fullmetal Alchemist), Darius (Fullmetal Alchemist), Edward Elric, Ling Yao, Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist) Additional Tags: Team Bonding, the great camping trip (tm), lots of shenanigans, POV Outsider, Sort Of, bc its heinkel POV but it focuses on ed a lot Summary:

If asked to describe Edward Elric, Heinkel had no doubt they would both answer the same thing, simultaneously and with no hesitation. There’s only one answer they could possibly give.

“He’s an idiot.”

Edward Elric is an idiot. That is a yet disproven fact of life.

 Team Greed, before and after the Promised Day.

[eldritch-sanctum]

Alright so I posted this small fic to start with writing FMA fanfics, of course centered around Greedling.  It takes place during the great camping trip of 1914.   I am a huge sucker for hurt/comfort and really wanted to have something where Greed is the one on the hurt/comfort end.   Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tags: Team Greed, the great camping trip of 1914, Trauma, Angst, Panic Attack, Greed's memories coming back hard, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst with a Funny Ending, crack headcanon inside, Greed needs a hug, vivid descriptions of pain from boiling liquid, Platonic Relationship, some light grief/mourning, Found Family, I apologize in advance for the crack headcanon at the end

He was about to mentally go over the other friends he had in Dublith, but a tinge of pain made him stop. He wiped a few stray tears from his face.

"Greed, are you okay?" Ling of course, had a front row seat to Greed's expressions.

"Mind your own feelings, brat."  Greed growled.  He gritted his teeth tightly then snarled to expose his sharp, monstrous teeth on his outside face.

The pot was simmering.

Greed curled his legs closer to the rest of his body.  He withdrew his arms from his coat sleeves and held his arms closer to his chest.  He leaned closer to the rising steam of the pot.  There was a heavy chill in the air.  Ling carefully paid attention to the new posture his body was assuming.  He never recalled Greed curling up like this in the cold before, maybe being alone let his guarded, badass exterior drop down a bit.  And yet he was not alone.

[iamthepulta]

@joemomrgneissguy SPACE MINING. HO BOY.

So when mining comes into a conversation, there are several 'laws' of mining and processing that I like to consider that people tend to forget:

Location and rarity of commodity

Location and rarity of extraction techniques/reagents

What is necessary for this operation to work?

Where does the finished product go?

Some of these are extraneous. Theoretically, we don't have to care that iron is common on earth and might be present on the moon, so it changes the conversation from "why?" to "how would we?". Same with extraction and reagents. If you don't care how expensive it is to ship- for example: water and carbon dioxide to the moon because you want to process He-3, nothing can stop you.

However, what will stop planning, is processing. Blowing up a rock is easy. Collecting the rock and breaking it into a usable form is not. If there isn't a plan for exactly what commodity is being mined and how to separate it and all the equipment that needs to be made to get it into a usable form, and a plan to get that equipment into space. God help the poor bastard.

And fundamentally, no matter HOW you turn it, people use the finished product. If there are no people where you are mining the Thing, you need to have a way for the Thing to get back to the people who need it. WHY are you mining the Thing? What is economic about the Thing being made? and Is it worth the money?

[angry geologist rant under the cut]

So the thing about space and asteroids is metals come in native form a lot of the time because there's nothing to oxidize them; it makes processing simpler and the density increases profit. This is usually what people talk about when they go off about space mining: Ohh, if we just reach this asteroid 400 years away there's so much Gold and Platinum! Ohh, if we just crashed a FUCKING ASTEROID INTO EARTH OR MARS we could be so rich!

However this is a LIE for two reasons: It's actually harder to process straight sulfides or straight metal because they aren't brittle. Instead of breaking into smaller pieces you can separate and process, they jam the crusher. Universities with mining departments often have huge chunks of impressive high-grade sitting around that were donated by companies when they jammed their fucking system. If you can't break it down, it's a useless fucking clump of rock.

Secondly, even if you have native metals clumped together like an iron-nickel asteroid, unless you want an iron-nickel product, you have to separate them. Since it's not brittle, you would have to pour a bunch of hydrochloric on it and wait for the reaction to dissolve the outer surface.

And all this is assuming the metals are on Earth. If not, you have to figure out how to do this in space. How much HCl will you need? How are you going to fly it up there? How are you going to break it down? How are you going to replace parts when they inevitably break?

The big "commodity" on the moon is Helium-3, which is extremely rare on Earth. (So yes, we have a need, and yes, there's substantial reason to mine it in a place where it's more accessible.) The logic starts breaking down around "getting it back" and "how does the operation work": In moon quantities (up to 15 parts per billion (ppb)), you have to mine about 150 tons to extract 1g of He-3. That's not unreasonable, to be honest, since economic gold hovers around 7-12 ppb. And technically you'd only have to heat the rock to 600-700 C. However, things do melt at those temperatures. Then you have to get it back to earth. Either a SpaceX-style return and come back, or a drop shipments- It's just insane to me though that we would use SO MANY RESOURCES to rip up the fucking moon, even with an automated system, when if you look at He-3 we already produce what equals 11 pounds of He-3 yearly from Oil and Gas deposits, it's just not collected.

I have more beef with planets that are theoretically resource-rich, but people just- don't care about getting them back to Earth? Venus has significant metal-Sulfides and Tellurides in its atmosphere, which is why people joke about the "floating oxygen colonies" on Venus. But congratulations! You've colonized a planet that is inaccessible to human technology because anything we've ever designed will dissolve. Same with Europa. To design something that works on Venus - not to mention extracts things in the proper form to be used in human conditions - and/or get them back to Earth means redesigning how we think of the properties of the periodic table.

With extraction, we play a lot with oxidation states, and one of the rules is to stay within Earth's aqueous conditions. If you oxidize anything too much, your solution will want to vaporize to oxygen. Reduce anything too much, and your solution will want to vaporize to hydrogen gas.

So, if you design anything on Earth designed for conditions on Venus, it will be unstable. If you design anything on Venus meant for Earth, it will be unstable.

Which is kind of the end of my rant, I guess. Don't crash something into Earth unless you can process it. If you can process it in space, can you get it back? Who's responsible when the thing breaks? Why the fuck is money being spent when 9 times out of 10 we have it here on earth with the conditions we're familiar with?

If we've somehow depleted Earth enough that we need resources from other planets, which would insinuate we have not figured out how to recycle our own metals, which is untrue, and likewise we have no business in space anyway- Where did all our resources go? Are we leaving for those other planets? Do we have faster-than-light travel to collect the new resources in a timely manner?

There isn't even water in space half the time and if you do have a colony on Mars and tech bros are going to process all the hematite to build their shitty underground Martian city, are they shipping water from the north and south poles to do this? Have they figured out how to renew the carbon filters that are going to be needed to get all the waste and organics out of it once it's used?

In my opinion, it's all just fucking stupid. Space mining tries to answer a question that doesn't need to be asked with people who don't know how mineral processing works who haven't thought what the logistics require and don't care that entropy demands even minerals in stasis don't last forever. But it's ~new~ and the dollar signs on metallic asteroids gleam in their eyes and I want to take out Elon Musk's kneecaps.

[marosii]

On a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets..

[rickybaby]

The Race writing that an immediate swap is possible too, saying it would be a way to protect Liam before it gets too much.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/red-bull-considering-dropping-liam-lawson-immediately/

It’s incomprehensible just how much red bull has fucked up.

They had access to Liam’s, Daniel’s and Yuki’s data (though admittedly Daniel only drove the RB19) and they somehow still ended up in this situation.

They would have known that Liam was going to struggle in this car and yet, they still put him in that seat. There’s no guarantee Yuki is going to be able to drive this car but they’re almost desperate now so they’re going to speedrun through their young talents once again. Both Horner and Helmut thought they were invincible because they kept winning on track, but now all the people key in their success have already left the team. They used that seat next to Max as nothing more than a pawn in their political games and as a way to grab money.

Now they’re left with a car that only two people can drive — one of whom they forced into retirement, and the other their star driver who could leave at the end of the year. Both Horner and Helmut have destroyed this team in their greed for personal gain and if I was the red bull shareholders, I’d be asking for their heads on a platter

[eldritch-sanctum]

YESSSSSSSSSS I ASDJHDSGF FOUND A FANART ABOUT THIS KIND OF THING.

I saw this post and I thought of the boys

[cuchufletapl]

I couldn't resist. This is almost canon, honestly.

Edit: Coloured version below the cut.

[dyingroses]

Ling: Road trip with friends! Greed: We are literally on the run from the government!

[humming-fly]

I didn't take my tablet home with me for the holidays BUT I do have this fun little holiday art trade I did with @too-many-blorbos that I figured I'd lovingly share in the interim~!

Hope those of you that celebrate are having a Merry Christmas and those that aren't are having a wonderful December day!

[conspiracy-frog]

Edward two days before the promised day brainstorming with team greed : Ok So what if I kill myself ? I mean they need me alive if i were to die their plan would be all messed up. Maybe they ought to try human transmutation to bring me back and God can take all THEIR limbs instead

Darius & Heinkel : no

Alphonse miles away sensing a disturbance in the force : Brother this is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard

Greedling : wait a minute let him cook

[muchmossymess]

Team greed deserved a beach episode during that camping trip

[number1greedlingfan]

autism be damned i can cook

[gilfhunter069]

I think we need to acknowledge this (Suffering Cute Aggression)