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saying goodbye to your friends

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We need less "shy, anxious, always second guessing" Apollo in fanworks, and approximately 400% more of whatever the hell this is.

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I think Mob could exorcise Bill Cipher and it would be really fucking funny. Bill doing his deer teeth removal thing and multidimensional crimes and Mob would flick him on the head and his body would turn to plasma like a grape in a microwave. And it would piss him off so bad that he'd come back, all ready to monologue to this kid about how powerful he is and Mob just does it again a minute into his speech.

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I've just noticed I've never posted this one so here I am, come back from hibernation, to share with you my piece for the @fmatriozine

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I like the "settle down, get married, have kids" ending for Ed in "Fullmetal Alchemist" because it suits the themes and the character arcs well. But also because there's still plenty of room for adventure beyond the joys of a simple life (it is fun to imagine Ed picking up a million homesteading-related hobbies with all his usual competitive spirit); Winry has a thriving career! She and Ed can travel around the country, visit people, and probably even visit Xing before kids or when their kids are old enough for travel.

But I also like it fine because I feel 100% certain that Edward Elric would not have children unless he was 100% certain that he wanted them and was ready to be a good dad. He would not bring life into this world recklessly. I feel like he would have asked himself, "Is there any chance I might be a deadbeat dad?" and that he was absolutely ruthless with his analysis of his character, like, to the degree that it quickly stopped being funny or embarrassing and started being sad. He'd try and get his own Riza Hawkeye about this: "If it ever looks like I'm being a shitty father or husband, I need you to kill me," he says, sleep-deprived and panicking, and Alphonse can only be like, "Brother... No..."

Also, I feel like we shouldn't leave Winry out of this. This woman is driven and successful and was orphaned because her parents left her for a good cause. She and Ed would sit their asses down and have an excruciatingly thorough and detailed conversation about parenthood and their future. I could buy an AU where they mutually decided to be childfree, sure, but I cannot be fully convinced that they as a team would be reckless about children and parenthood.

I'm sure they'd make mistakes, of course, as all parents do. (I also feel like they would try and make plans with the same focus as automail schematics and alchemic circles, which would often be immediately ruined upon contact with the "enemy". And that Uncle Alphonse would shamelessly and mischievously spoil his niblings against parental wishes whenever his brother's back was turned. Traitor.) But they're also one of those couples where I see them in the cliché "happily ever after" and I can genuinely be like, "Yeah, they're fine."

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girlssss girls girlssss

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Rewatching gravity falls rn and this is one of my favorite jokes in the entire show

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Can you tell this dub was recorded in South Carolina, and in 1995?

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i could gush about witch hat atelier for a long time but these panels really stuck out to me as such a lovely thought about the process of learning

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yuri beams ur labru

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chilshi week day 5: cuddling + kiss

stills under the cut!

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A few reasons it can be fun to pay attention to small details in the FMA manga…

1. There’s a liquor brand, Stray Dog, that recurs throughout the series. You’ll see the logo in Liore…

…in Youswell (multiple times!)…

…in the apartment Falman keeps Barry… held by a man walking past Hawkeye outside her apartment door… it’s even in Mustang’s office (during the side story made for the live action’s release). It’s really everywhere.

Does the label appear in Brotherhood? You bet it does! Here it is in “The Oath in the Tunnel” at Madame Christmas’ bar!

2. You’ll notice posters in the background detailing Yoki’s shenanigans (way before you hear him recount his adventures in the north to Ed and company). Have a visual advertising “Yoki Circus” that you see in Central when Havoc goes to visit Falman and Barry.

3. Arakawa repeatedly draws the same front page for one edition of the Central Times paper (the issue which details Maria Ross’ “crime”) throughout multiple chapters.

The reason why this is cool is because it shows a photo of a factory on fire. Later, chapters later, when Roy’s in the hospital for Lust’s stab wounds, he mentions this fire to Doctor Knox.

It was this fire that led Mustang to believe he could expect Knox would be the one doing Ross’ autopsy. Because of the newspaper photo, we know when Roy got this information and decided he could use that in the escape plan: when Breda brought the paper with the headline of Ross’ conviction.

4. Speaking of news headings, there’s an important one we see during Ed and Al’s long childhood flashback (back when they’re preparing to do human transmutation). “The Conclusion of a Civil War.”

5. There’s some amusing signage here and there. Looks like Rush Valley has some issues with proper waste disposal.

There’s even a sign that’s a just drawing of a dog one place in Rush Valley. Aptly, there’s a dog near that sign.

6. We see English writing for names including Youswell, Xing, Aerugo, Creta, Drachma, Amestris, Ishval, Maria Ross, Maes Hughes, and Ling Yao in the background, so we know how Arakawa wanted the names spelled. 

Not only that, but we can see other details like matching numbers between Ling’s prison bracelet and the tag on his confiscated sword. W1582.

Though… you DO have to lovingly laugh at the letter Hughes gets, sent from a certain “Glacier Joyous Coeaofijea;ogi”……

It’s as amusing as one FMA manga illustration of a newspaper that mentions… Britain.

7. We can read a LOT of the Latin, etc. text in alchemy-related designs. Riza’s tattoo, the different Gates of Truth, Alex’s gauntlets, you name it. 

8. We see small background manifestations of Ishvalan cultural elements. Notice the intentional removal of footwear in this panel.

9. More sobering detail here, but… between Kimblee’s hand tattoos and one oft-drawn wooden crate… ever notice the six pointed star that recurs throughout Scar’s brother’s Ishvalan War flashbacks?

10. There’s dates in the Rockbell photo album! A memorable October ’11, of course, in which Ed holds up his new pocket watch…

…but also things like Pinako with her baby, meaning we can pin down when Yuriy Rockbell was born. That baby’s pretty little in May ’73. And does that top picture of May ’72 signify the year Pinako moved to that house in Resembool?

The photo of Pinako as a young woman with Hohenheim was taken in 1866.

11. Characters like Raven sneak in before they’re officially introduced and named. Here he is at the end of Chapter 44.

12. There’s a rich couple that appears multiple times throughout the story in Rush Valley and Central.

13. And there’s Mobuo Mobuta, too. If you haven’t heard of him before, he’s a man with a thin mustache and white suit who recurs throughout the background, in essentially a manga form of Where’s Waldo.

(And yes, he’s in the anime, too, have fun hunting).

Like… there’s some fun stuff in the details, even beyond the glorious artwork.

ALL THE INTENTIONAL DETAILS, YO!

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further to this post about death note x ace attorney crossover where L gets himself arrested to enlist phoenix's help in catching kira i have thoughts

i also wrote a whole detention center sequence on the way to work but this is the only part that matters

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Same man I was before

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Why talk to a therapist when you can talk to your office plant?

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