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finally reading the fma manga and ed is the protagonist of all time. he’s the softest lil guy. he’s a rabid raccoon. he is the scourge of the military. everyone wants to adopt him. he’s a pacifist. he bites. he gets giddily happy at the birth of a child. his speech is punctuated with sarcastic hearts. he’s a generational talent. he will walk directly into a trap eyes open head empty. he is a foul mouthed little rat. he makes friends everywhere he goes. he’ll dig up any grave and turn over any stone and kick anyone’s ass to get his brother back. he refuses to believe his brother cares about him the same way. he makes this face:

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fmabruary day 10: trust

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Fashion police of the demon realm

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You know the. You know the Femme Fatale "I grew up with 10 brothers so I know how to fight" character?

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Roy Mustang.

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You know the. You know the Femme Fatale "I grew up with 10 brothers so I know how to fight" character?

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Roy Mustang.

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I don’t understand how seeing any kind of bird could be bad luck because you get to see a bird

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i like her a normal amount

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finally finished fmab so i thought i’d redraw some cursed stock photos,,, as one does,,, 💀

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I love the way the Elric's board of epilogue photos have a personal-looking picture of Black Hayate, his gf and their puppies...

...and then they only have this one official looking photo of Roy and Riza that could have been from a random newspaper clipping.

I choose to believe that Riza only keeps in touch with the Elrics via dog photos. Everything that happens to her and Roy they need to sus out from news stories.

"Dear Riza, Black Hayate has grown so much. thanks for all the pictures. But uhhh what's this we've been hearing about Mustang becoming the new Fuhrer?"

"Dear Riza, We all think it's great that Black Hayate has a new girlfriend. She's very cute. But seriously, did Mustang launch a full-scale war crimes tribunal? Could you maybe reply to this letter with words next time? We're a little scared."

"Dear Riza, The new puppies are very cute. Why have you put yourselves on trial??????"

"Dear Riza, WE GET IT THE PUPPIES ARE CUTE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU AND MUSTANG DOING PLEADING GUILY ON ALL COUNTS? WHO IS GOING TO RUN THE COUNTRY IF YOU DO THIS????"

"Dear Riza, HOW ARE YOU STILL SENDING US PUPPY PHOTOS IN JAIL? WHY DID THEY LET YOU BRING THE DOGS??????"

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(transmasc riza) a comic about stubbles. and also about falling in love again with someone you thought you already knew everything about

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by johns_plant_adventures

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It's been years since I started seeing nutrient flows constantly in my daily life, and the more I study agriculture, the more I see them.

See, every time you harvest something, you take the nutrients in that item away from the soil, and they go somewhere else. When I put a banana peel in my compost bin, I think (a little gleefully) about how I've just added an exotic, different profile of nutrients to my own property--but I also think about that distant banana plantation that lost tons of nutrients per year to US grocery stores, and I wonder what they replaced those nutrients with.

The farmer across my field grows corn, which gets harvested for feed. Corn is a nitrogen-hungry crop. Every year, that corn sucks up nutrients, which get harvested and shipped away. The farmer, being a conventional farmer, mostly replaces those with a conventional fertilizer. Nitrogen is often applied to fields in the form of ammonia fertilizer, which is made via a process that binds nitrogen in the air with hydrogen from natural gas. This feels like a vast resource, but of course we know it's not inexhaustible and not without cost.

Ideally, said farmer does soil tests and applies a carefully considered amount of ammonia. It is taken up by the growing plants and relatively little is lost. Possibly (often), though, some of the ammonia is leached out via rain and ends up in waterways, where it causes plant overgrowth and algal blooms, which harm the waterways in several ways, and turn those nutrients from a resource into a contaminant.

Meanwhile, the corn is also uptaking a variety of other nutrients from the soil which the commercial fertilizer is NOT replacing. Year by year, those nutrients get shipped off to distant feedlots and depleted in the soil. Eventually, those nutrients are gone from my neighbor's field and, quite possibly, languishing in a manure lagoon somewhere in, say, Indiana, where one can only hope it's properly treated and made into compost. But, you know. Not necessarily.

When I buy compost at the store, it's usually based in either cow manure or "forest products". Hopefully, depending on brand, those forest products MIGHT be collected municipal yard waste. Which is pretty good. Those suburbanites don't want their leaves, I do, win/win.

Except that because those suburbanites raked their yard waste, they now need at some point to fertilize their trees, shrubs, and turf grass. Meanwhile, they've eliminated habitat for the many insects that use leaf litter to either overwinter or reproduce. They may not be counting the costs, but the costs don't stop existing.

The ebb and flow of nutrients is something that, in the current system, goes utterly unregarded by most of the people taking part in the process. Even gardeners bring nutrients onto their soils mostly without thinking about the places those nutrients came from. I think in a sustainable world, that needs to change.

Also probably we need to do a hell of a lot more cover-cropping.

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this might be my favourite shot in all of fmab

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ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

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finally remembered to put these side by side!! my ptutu illusts so far 🩰 2024 & 2022 🦢 prints

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i can't stop watching this

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when I was made to watch princess tutu I was told it was a tragic polycule implosion and then I watched it and it was about a tragic polycule implosion