#ed logic

[moonprismpower456]

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.

[murderandcoffee]

wait wait wait we've seen this before. we've seen someone ignore the fears so hard that she survived a ritual. sure, alice is flippant like tim, but the way she just ignores and compartmentalizes the horrible things she's forced to witness is so much like basira.

[lazy--lillies]

Yknow what yeah maybe Bianca didn’t actually have to raise Nico after their mom died because they were put in the Casino where they were both looked after and were only there a week then immediately got put in a military school where they would’ve been separated and looked after anyway. But maybe they were also born into 1940s Italy where men are coddled and women are mummified from birth and she would have felt the pressure to look after him anyway. Maybe she worried about him like a mother, and felt that worry grow after their mother died, and maybe she was scared of it because she knew she would let it become her if she stayed near him. And she wasn’t ready for that, so she did the only thing she could think of. She ran.

[gydima]

Since OFMD let us down, sometimes I imagine this is Izzy instead of Cliff.

Just think how much conflict could have been avoided if Izzy had just been getting laid on the reg during season 1. 😔

[averlym]

litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)

[fairycosmos]

not determining my worth through my looks or my job/lack of one would do wonders for my mental health and ive been trying to implement that perspective for a long time but it's so so hard in practice

[xxprincess1x]

Izzy when Ed is signing the Act of Grace document:

"Think about what you're doing, Ed. Do you really want to lick the King's boots?"

Meanwhile Izzy literally earlier that week:

Plotting with the English Navy (essentially the sea police) to get Stede killed just so he can have Ed handed over to him, in exchange for his services to the King.

I'm sorry to break it to you Iggy, but isn't that also licking the King's boots? But for an entirely selfish reason that disregards the feelings of the person you're supposedly doing it for?

[cowchickenbeefpork]

tbh I think Gotham Ed would’ve worked better if the writers portrayed him as more so driven by proving that he’s smart than driven by a actual search for knowledge deep down. I know i know a lot of riddlers are that but he just. Doesn’t read like that to me??????????? This isn’t me saying the writers shouldn’t make him smart, but if your going to write him count as insane then incorporate the need to fucking prove how smart he is when he’s doing that shit?????? Why are you making him do illogical actions that don’t tie into that like yeah you don’t have to make it make sense logical he is insane when he gets into those moods BUT OH MY GOD KEEP HIS LOGIC CONSISTENT GUYS

I feel like if they were consistent about him needing to prove he’s smart and justifying irrational behaviour by some bullshit he’s convincing himself he’s doing then his relationships with others romantically or whatever would make more sense too. Why is the man who thinks love is a weakness not bothered deep down by how intimidate he’s getting???? Show that to me Gotham MAKE HIM GIVE A HALF ASSED PSEUDO LOGICAL REASON FOR DATING ISABELLA MAKE HIM START OUT BEING MENTALLY SOUND IN SEASON THREE DUE TO BEING ON MEDS AND SLOWLY BUT SURELY LOSE IT AND BECOME MORE INSECURE BECAUSE OF HOW OTHERS VIEW HIM!!!!!!!! GOTHAM WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

It’s not even like the writers never made him ever do insane shit and then try to rationalize and make it logical. He literally thought Jim knew he killed Kristen and planned out a fucking eloberate plot to frame Jim WHICH RATTED HIMSELF OUT FROM HIS ATTEMPTS TO PROVE HOW SMART HE IS GOTHAM IS CAPABLE OF WRITING EDWARD BEING SO SCARED OF BEING WEAK AND DUMB HE DOES STUPID SHIT I DONT GET WHY THEYRE SO INCONSISTENT WITH THIS OUGHHHH MENTALLY UNWELL PEOPLE DONT DO RANDOM SHIT JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE A INTERNAL LOGIC TO THEIR ACTIONS EVEN IF ITS FLAWS GOTHAM STOP DOING THIS TO MEEEEEE

[luna-the-cretar]

NPC: what do you mean Dancer’s dead? I just saw her like a week ago

Me: oh my god, she pulled a Molly

[fisheito]

On one hand,

Yakumo getting an event SR means that he's... somehow popular enough to boost income? Which.. good for him! more yaku content!

On the other hand,

*YANKS HIM BY THE COLLAR AND BEAMS MY RAGE DIRECTLY INTO HIS EYE HOLES* why are you here. I was going to have a perfectly fine fun time with ONLY reiblade the sequel (silly version). I was excited that goofy killer sharkdroid would at l a s t get his time to shine after the mASSIVE wait *SHAKES HIM. THE STUPID LITTLE BELL ON HIS COLLAR JINGLES* you should not be here. I willGRAB your lack of hips and debone u like a trout

[just-another-obsessed-fangirl]

theories as to where Grace got the cigarette she was smoking after fucking Max's ghost:

she has actually secretly been an active smoker for a long time and always carries a pack with her

she bought a pack of cigarettes when she was on the run from the cops because she was stressed, and figuring that she had already disappointed the Lord by touching herself and lying to the police and dismembering a body, decided that she might as well relieve that stress by taking up smoking

Max died with a pack of cigs and a lighter on him and they stayed with him when he turned ghost and Grace pocketed them from his clothes after they had sex

she just found them in the school or on the ground somewhere after the Lords in Black meeting, and perhaps her mind made the association between sex and cigarettes and that's how she came up with the idea of giving up her chastity to end Max's reign of terror

Grace had immediately thought of giving up her virginity as the sacrifice after the Lords in Black meeting, and the entire time Steph and Pete are running away and tearfully coming to terms with Steph having to kill Pete to stop Max, Grace is running around the school or off to a drug store for cigarettes because she felt having a smoke after was that necessary

[ghoulspaw]

I wanna know if the homescreen outfit for ed's ssr is the butler or the casual one they were wearing on the train....

[mr-fucko]

the monkey's paw of experts finally being familiar with your rare disease but also them not knowing why the fuck you're going blind. he was great but im also scared chat

[havenesc]

accidentally temporarily dislocated my pinky finger while digging for my keys because i was being extremely stubborn about only wanting to make one grocery bag trip from the car. now i’m not saying jpt. but.

[falloutnewnobody]

playing disco elysium while attempting recovery from an eating disorder is insane like every other line regarding harry's addiction (especially on the sobriety path) feels like a roundhouse kick to the chest