What Is The Exact Nature Of The Catastrophe?
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«Ambit», Issue 96, 1984, Designed by Derek Birdsall RDI and Alan Kitching [Design Reviewed, Braford]
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Because I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is becoming weirdly popular both on tiktok and tumblr out of no where, and the Slenderverse fandom has sunk their talons onto it, I’d like to say
AHEM
I HAVE BEEN A PROUD AM X HABIT (AMBIT) SHIPPER FOR THE PAST TWO WHOLE FUCKIN YEARS‼️‼️ I gotta get around to writing stuff and drawing art of them because I gotta plant my name in this newly discovered garden.
They are my otp, and I’m not afraid to gatekeep them (/silly nsrs)
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gretchen geraets, pav–shui, 2013
Paving stones, plaster, food colouring.
35 x 20 x 21 cm
Ambit, page works
left: Alex Crocker, K, 2016. Oil paint, oil stick, oil pastel, pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas, 140 x 220cm
right: gretchen geraets, pav-shui, 2013. Paving stones, plaster, food colouring. 35 x 20 x 21 cm
Ambit 235, London, 2019. Art Editor Oliva Bax.
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Ambit
Ambit [AM-bət] Part of speech: noun Origin: Late Middle English, unknown 1. The scope, extent, or bounds of something. Examples of ambit in a sentence “She tested the ambit of their friendship by asking for a ride to the airport.” “I was captivated by the ambit of the ocean that stretched in all directions.” #wordoftheday
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Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy
State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.
........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.
There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.
And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.
And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.
Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.
Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.
Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"
The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.
The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.
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my turn on the timeskip diego design machine ^_^
bonus drafts and a couple headcanons :) vvv
bonus colour drafting!!
a couple headcanons:
i'm still a little unsure on the direction i wanna go - the purple is a tribute to mia, but i also wonder if i shouldn't do that and instead go a more 'moving on from mia' direction. and also the other ideas are also just nice anyway.
he could also go purple as tribute to the feys in general, as i imagine he spends a lot of time in kurain with the feys, especially post getting out of prison and getting back on his feet; they've pretty much adopted him as family
with the tech that exists in this series by the time he gets out of prison i think he could get fancy contacts that replicate the effects of his old visor (phoenix and maybe maya probably helped him afford these). they have a fancy contact case that also servers as their charger. they still glow red and this serves for several gags.
the wrightdot agenda in me says phoenix took him in. something something slowburn healing etc. i'll do more w/ that another time tho. i want him to bond with the wrights :) i know trucy is smart they will get along swimmingly ^_^
unrelated to diego. knowing nick gets facial hair for Reasons i will take advantage of this for my personal homosexual reasons
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was reading an article from back in 2013 when some ancient roman artifacts were unearthed by moles digging tunnels and this image description is making me lose my goddamn mind
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