#yay!! FMAB win!!!

[dawnlotus1]

starting fma rn queen. wish me luck

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ‼️‼️‼️‼️

Teehee tell me whatcha think :3

And enjoy!! :DD

[mysterylover123]

Mysterylover watches Bleach episodes 124-125

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1. The Training Montage continues! Normal! Ichi vs Hollow Ichi.  AND HERE COMES RUKIBRO! Yay! Now that you’re officially Not Evil Anymore, I look forward to seeing you train our hero.

2. Ichi looks really good in this getup BTW. So now he’s fighting HollowIchi in the dream world and RukiBro IRL? Or is this all in his head?

3. Poor Ichi be all feral IRL apparently. All hollow-y and inhuman-y. Wonder if his allies will have trouble recognizing him like this?

4. INSTA REGENERATION?! HE’S GOT INSTA REGENERATION NOW?! OMG THAT’S AMAZING!!

5. Wait am I supposed to know who white hair guy Ichi is fighting? Is he from filler or did I forget him?

6. OK I’m getting that RukiBro and white hair are not actually here, just in ichi’s head. Darn. Anyway so White Hair tells Ichi basically “There’s no grand slam, no big win. Nothing we do matters so all that matters is what we do” (OK Sorry for quoting Angel Here. Basically battle is never ending dude.

7. Hollow Ichi: “You use your brain to win fights”! Me: Since when? Are we talking about the same Ichigo Kurosaki here?

8. Wow nice demon form Ichi. Super freaky lookin. 

9. Apparently Ichi needs to learn that he likes fighting. Did he really not realize that before? 

10. Ooh Hollow Ichi looks impressed. Guess Ichi’s finally taking off the gloves.

11. Is Hollow Ichi dead now? Too bad his voice is cool. Though OK it sounds like he’ll be back sooner or later. 

12. And ooh full on hollow mastery Ichi is just Ichi with a mask huh? Good ol Bishonen line logic. Go fully feral before going full power. 

13. Ichi seems happy now though. Yay! Training montage paid off. 

14. ORIHIME IS BACK!!!! Yay she’s been gone for what feels like a while. She is smart enough to guess exactly what he’s up to and why he’s missing school. And then decides to just stop feeling depressed and be happy! OMG and she wants to plan her weekend date with Tatsuki!!!! 

15. Man oh man I’ve missed Tatsuhime. Anyway Hitsu and Rangi have brought what looks like an organ TV into Hime’s house and she of course loves it. 

16. OOH AND AIZEN’S MOTIVATION?! Damn the minute Hime walks in she always gets the plot going again. DON’T LEAVE HIME YOU’RE A MAIN CHARACTER YOU CAN’T MISS THE PLOT!!!

17. OOH we gota  cool looking Plot MacGuffin! And Hime to be the outsider to ask WTH is the McGuffin anyway? (Oken royal key apparently). 

18. Aizen wants to Kill the King huh? He gonna be the Bleach Macbeth. And holy shit that’s a lot of evil Horcrux-y sacrifice stuff. 

19. And the town our heroes live in is part of the MacGuffin??!? HOLY SHIT THAT’S DARK HE’S GONNA GO FMAB ON THEIR ASSES!

20. And Orihime is both scared and instantly being like “well let’s stop him”. Yay now our heroes have a ticking clock of 4 months until Aizen activates the seal or whatever and kills everyone. Momo’s here too! And REnji and Chad! and Uryu!

21. YAY THE PLOT HAS BEGUN!!! And Orihime is being treated like the Main Character. YAS WE’RE AT HER ARC.

[kingofthewilderwest]

Only explanations I will accept for that ugly moustache: 1) Ed drew it on. 2) Roy lost a bet and had to grow that moustache

^^^^^^^^^ YES 

All these years, all these years, I’ve tried to survive the daunting emotional trauma of Roystache by reminding myself, “Arakawa didn’t draw facial hair in the final panels of the manga. Arakawa didn’t draw the mustache. Arakawa didn’t put a mustache on Mustang ever. It was just Studio Bones. It was just Studio Bones referencing Arakawa’s omake wherein Roy contemplated growing a mustache to look older, he asked Hawkeye to draw on facial hair, and she used a permanent marker to put cat whiskers on his face. And I love that omake, so I can respect the reference. Right? That’s all that’s going on. That’s it. This means that, if we marry FMAB material with the manga, the worst we can say happened is that Mustang wore a mustache for a brief time and then it got shaved.” He looks like this, he looks like this, he looks like this, he looks like fucking THIS:

And that’s how I’ve survived. 

It’s been hard. It’s been the greatest struggle of my existence. It’s been trying and it’s tested the limits of my psychological constitution. I deny its existence with as much fervor as I believe ATLA never got a live action. There’s no ATLA live action. There’s no Mustang with facial hair. I’m making it through. I think. Surviving through the Roystache-that-definitely-doesn’t-exist.

A friend and I have been secretly (well, I guess it’s now no longer a secret…) writing an AU wherein Roy stays blind and he and Hawkeye hook up because yay, anti-frat rules are no longer gonna apply. And sometimes, in a rather vindictive fashion, I like to imagine there’s one week where Hawkeye’s gone and he starts growing a mustache out, she comes back, and she just says, “You’re shaving it. You don’t have to look at it. I do. Every day.” And shoves a razor in his hand. And that’s the end of it. Somehow this gives me emotional satisfaction. I’ve taken control of razoring the mustache off his face with my own power and volition. The mustache gets killed fast and swiftly and Hawkeye never tolerates it and it’s gone before I have to wilt on my couch and cry. It’s my personal fantasy, my personal attack against the mustache. And in this fantasy, I WIN AND THE MUSTACHE GOES TO HELL.

Now [sigh]. The logical part of me acknowledges that… technically… it wouldn’t be OOC for Roy to grow that Mustang Mustache. He has a good sense of style and enjoys looking pretty, but he also has a strong sense of social situations. He had very little business being promoted to colonel at twenty-six - youngest colonel ever in Amestris’ history, according to FMA novels. He has even less business being promoted to general at thirty-two. Sure, he’s proven he’s capable. His role during the coup and his actions during the Promised Day saved the country. Being at the forefront of Ishval’s reconstruction and negotiating with Emperor Ling Yao for a railroad means he’ll successfully turn Ishval into an impressively economically viable region. But he’s still thirty-two. He’s still going to piss off plenty of people for his inhumanly rapid scaling up the ranks. And… some could try to dismiss his position as mere favoritism from the Führer - we know how much Grumman likes Mustang, to the point he’s basically setting Roy up as his heir. So, as RIDICULOUSLY TRIVIAL as it is, having facial hair is going to make Mustang look more the part of a general, look more like he’s supposed to be where he’s at - and it’s going to help with his interactions. Playing the reputation of a lazy sexy lady’s man worked fine as a colonel in Eastern Command, but now that he’s ranked one step below Führer and close to reaching his goal, he can’t keep the same strategy. That pencilstache might not be his hottest look, but admittedly it does make him look far less boyish and more like his dignified rank: 

It’d be the same reason he’s slicking his hair back more frequently now (I assume he’s doing this more frequently), and perhaps even wearing his hair shorter (in FMAB art anyway) - he’s got to dress right for the Big Job. And in these moments of my thoughtful reasoning, I commit the greatest sin of humankind by somehow accepting, respecting, and not-disliking the mustache.

But.

Still doesn’t mean I’m going to cheer this own logic of mine.

I far prefer what you say. XD XD XD XD

I adore the viral tumblr post that says Ed drew it on. I think it’s the single best explanation for the photograph at the end of FMAB. I mean. Headcanon accepted the second I saw it. My heart hums hopeful melodies with you bringing it up. I love option #1. It makes the Roystache bearable - even hilarious - because now it’s a funny DRAWING and not a real THING that GREW on Roy’s LIPS (ew). Not to mention this is so completely, utterly, 110% in Edward’s character… to receive a photograph of Mustang, sneer “Nyeh! Fuck you, General!” and draw on a mustache.

So yes. #1 is a glorious option. Ed drew it on. I crack up thinking about this every time I think of it.

This thought has kept me going. Until recently.

Because then. THEN. I was fiddling through FMA’s Chronicle the other day and…[screaming]………….

Captioned: 立派 だねヒゲはかん漢��いげん威厳です More or less… “Fine mustaches are quitethe majesty of the greatest men!” 

Arakawa.

Arakawa NO.

ARAKAWA SENSEI I LOOK UP TO YOU AND ADORE YOU AND RESPECT YOU SO MUCH. HOW. HOWWWW. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME.

No. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no NO.

She drew him with a mustache too.

[hyperventilates] She. drew. him. with. a. mustache. too.

AND IT LOOKS - EVEN - WORSE!!!!

Go to hell, demonstache, go to fucking h-e-double-hockey-sticks.

WHY DOES LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING HATE ME??? WHY CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS IN LIFE???

The best thing about the art is that Basque Grande is in there, which means we can’t put this on an official timeline or take it FULLY seriously. But the fact Arakawa has drawn it, too, makes option #1 the slightest bit harder to faithfully headcanon (even though I will, forever, think it’s the BEST solution for how to handle Roystache).

So I am unendingly appreciative of your #2 suggestion: it was a lost bet. I think I can accept that emotionally. XD XD XD It’s a good headcanon. No one’s telling me that Team Mustang doesn’t take lots of ridiculous bets. Team Mustang is always being ridiculous. It’s in line for them to pull something like this. Also… it could have been Ed again. Another Edward Elric “Fuck you, General” dick move. And because Ed’s smart, he would even have given, in the bet, a detailed list of requirements including how long Roy would have to wear it before it got shaved.

And it will get shaved. It WILL get shaved. 

Arakawa’s post-1915 art demands it.

Ahhhhhhh much better. That looks. So much better.

La la la I can’t hear you over the sound of HOW CLEAN SHAVEN ROY MUSTANG TAISHOU IS. THAT’S my boi. THAT’S MY FUCKING GENERAL BOI AND NO ONE IS TAKING THAT FROM ME!!!