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FMA 2003

there are many reasons that I prefer fma 2003 over brotherhood (beginning with I watched it first and ending with it's more similar to the type of stories I prefer) but one thing that interests me so much is how it just smacks you in the face with how 'monsters' are just people, people that you like even, and you have to find a way to settle that within yourself. Of the two examples that spring to mind, only one is actually in the show. Having it have been Roy Mustang who killed Winry's parents is inspired. The audience is, ultimately, supposed to like him. We know he did horrible things in Ishval but we can put that aside-those are faceless people and we see Mustang try to make up for it and we see him be a person, we are more likely to be sympathetic . But Winry, we know and care about, we know how her parent's death affected her. And she's right there with us, she likes Roy despite herself, and needs to find a way to reconcile him and the monster she imagined. Even more striking, though, is the Conqueror of Shamballa movie, where Hughes is strait up a nazi. And you have to realize, he always was. He worked for a genocidal regime, even if we can look past that because its fictional and he's so nice and overfriendly. And you have to come to terms with that you liked a nazi--because of course you would. Monsters aren't real, truly awful things are done by people who love their families, laugh with friends, help out kids they don't know. Is it ok to like them, they are just characters? But then in the real world, is it still ok? That's something you have to decide. There are a lot of reasons people do bad things, and some people are almost certainly worse than others, but we can't forget that they are just people. We imagine there is a clear line, we would never like someone who could do bad things, but that's not true.

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Required viewing for everyone

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being doomed by the narrative is cool and all but i like when a character is doomed just by being a fucking idiot. sorry that happened to you but it is entirely your own fault and you could have just chosen to not do all that

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the hello charlotte wiki is certainly. a place.

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I want to preface this by saying I'm not a native english speaker, and I am not from an english speaking country, so I'm sorry in advance for any mistakes.

Today we had a "talent show" at school for English week, and I put it in quotation marks because it's not really a talent show, the students just had to do specific english-related things depending on the grade they were in. So the first graders were doing poem recitation, third graders were doing story telling, etc.

I am in the last grade our school provides, so I had to do a speech. There were around eight other students participating in both my grade and the grade below me.

The school had provided three frustratingly vague topics, those being Environment, Education, and Artificial Intelligence. Me being the dumbass that I am, decided to do my speech on an incredibly niche topic that probably no one in my school even knew about.

So there I was, listening to people talk about the effects of AI on jobs and how it's biased and there should be stricter laws surrounding its usage, and how the strict rigidity of our education system is stifling our creativity and growth, and I do want to take a second to appreciate the time and emotion put into these speeches, especially by the two girls in the grade below me who had speeches that were both interesting and moving.

But do you wanna know what I talked about?

Do you want to know what I thought was meaningful enough to choose as my speech topic?

FUCKING GEOMORPHIC HAZARDS

I thought that geomorphic hazards were cool and I wanted to share what I found but it instead ended up being weird and robotic compared to the others' emotional and relevant speeches.

i feel so stupid

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FMA Hot Take: Al’s identity crisis is not poorly written. “It comes out of nowhere”, “Why would Al not trust Ed?”, etc can all easily be explained by the fact that Al is like 14??? With a ton of trauma??? He’s trapped in a literal suit of armor and people think it’s unrealistic that he would doubt his memories. I think the decision to have it be really random was intentional, you can even tell Ed and Winry are really taken aback and confused by it. It’s something that only really makes sense in Al’s confused mind.

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I have beef with everyone who hates FMA 03. You all are so annoying about it. I don’t care if it doesn’t follow the manga. I will die on a hill if I end up being the only lover of this series.

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The butterfly effect here is insane. Imagine taking ONE impulsive decision as a kid and it's concecuences will follow you for the rest of your life

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The best tragedies will have you thinking "I wish it could've gone any other way" and "this is the only way it could've ended" at the same time

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Ed designs for brotherhood and 03 respectively

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ermmm your honor im normal about them i swear

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I know ppl joke about Cole being Wu's favorite student (since he was the first one of the four to be trained and such), but do you think

umm

this also contributed?

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this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

i will post fred status updates as he grows

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fuck fuck fuck i have midterms

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The fma character designs seemed to peak in COS. I strongly prefer the art from 03-COS than Brotherhood.

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this website is full of fake “came back wrong trope” fans because wdym you say that’s your favorite trope while also saying fma 2003 aka THE came back wrong series is inferior to brotherhood