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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

#facts #I watched 03 first and then watched Brohood with my friends years alter and was very taken aback by how little time we get #with characters that were integral to the OG show #It does make sense that they needed that time for the many new characters #but still #also rating “good” or “bad” with how much of a true-to-form shonen an anime is is always weird to me #like fmab is more shonen-y and that has its charms and merits but 03 gets FUCKED UP in such a great and intriguingly dark and cerebral way #and they do more interesting stuff with christianity and alt-history and the uses of the Sins imo but that's just the Medieval Historian #in me talking #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #but yeah guys def watch both bc they are very different but 100% compliment each other as watching expereinces!

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I read somewhere that Tolkien based Éowyn and Faramir off of his wife and himself and that kind of just makes me die a bit idk

tolkien lying in bed and kicking his legs like a high school girl while writing: and as they stood so, faramir and eowyn’s hands met and clasped, and faramir was internally fangirling

#farawyn #eowyn x faramir #i love them so much y’all

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Does anybody know of a fandom discord for RDR/RDR2? I checked out one or two a while ago, but they were more gaming servers than fandom servers. I don't really know anybody else in the fandom/ who I can talk to about fanfic, etc., so I'd love to know!

#red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #rdr 2 #fandom #discord #rdr fandom #fanfiction #arthur morgan #rdr

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john buying beecher’s hope in the epilogue:

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When you just witnessed the most traumatic video game death imaginable, and 4 seconds later, you're forced to play Jim Milton farming simulator

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John Marston really harnessed the power of friendship to build The Farm Ever for his wife and never looked back.

Love that for him fr fr.

#idk intrusive thoughts time #he really is my silly little guy #john marston #abigail marston #rdr #rdr 2 #the epilogue is such whiplash I love it

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potential hot take but I don’t think that dutch rly loved annabelle any more than he did any of the other women in his life,,, he just clings to that “love” he had for her as an excuse to stay mad at colm but also she wasn’t around long enough for him to get bored of her and move on

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Unpopular opinion, but I don't think that a hypothetical RDR3 should have any Van der Linde gang members (aside from maybe Jack) as protagonists. Their story has been told so well already, why mess with it?

I’d personally like to see Rockstar jump back another decade or two, and we get an adventure with Jim “Boy” Calloway’s gang- maybe explore how they fell out, etc. Hell, maybe even have a few stranger missions with younger Hosea & Dutch (and maybe Arthur) as they’re just getting their footings in the outlaw life.

Alternately though, a 1920s setting with young adult Jack would be epic

There’s a lot of options for a third game, and I hope they don’t go with anything too predictable, I guess.

#red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #rdr #red dead meta #just my thoughts #idk itd be fun to see those crazy guys in action lol #black belle #jim calloway #jack marston #rdr3

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Does anybody know of any fanworks events for RDR? Like big bangs, gift exchanges, etc.

they’re really fun and I want to participate in the fandom!!!

(Also any discord servers? That’d be fun too)

#rdr #red dead redemption 2 #reddeadcommunity #red dead redemption fanfiction #arthur morgan #help I wanna be a fandom loser!

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PLEASE I WAS DOING THE THIRD ALBERT MASON MISSION AND SOME FUCKING DEER CAME UP AND TOOK ARTHUR OUT

IM GOING INSANE

#the trippy dream deer when you play low honor #rdr2 arthur #arthur morgan

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More classic blend carrying for my warm-up

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The Fellowship of the Ring.

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Captain Geralt threatens to drop his newly captive prisoner overboard; the silver-tongued Jaskier makes a desperate plea for his life.

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Arrrg

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In a Land of Myth and a Time of Magic..

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