#re: fma

[saaraofthesand]

the day dawns babes

#dracula #mean girls #fullmetal alchemist #fma #october 3rd #re: dracula #dracula daily

[areyousanta]

Trauma on a shirt, he's gonna need a bigger shirt

#edward elric #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #areyouart #i went through the entire manga and took pics of traumatic panels #and half re-read it #it was nice

[forever-a-genius]

I'm just saying, if our country doesn't end up used in a nationwide transmutation during this eclipse, I'll be a little disappointed

#fullmetal alchemist posting #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #FMAB #fullmetal alchemist #I re-entered my FMA phase just in time

[brennacedria]

Nine days til October 3rd

#dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #re: dracula #dracula daily spoilers #re: dracula spoilers #also yeah fma and mean girls but today this is about dracula

[ifwebefriends]

Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate!

#Dracula #Dracula daily #re Dracula #re: Dracula #full metal alchemist #fma #milo murphy's law #mml #mean girls #October 3 #October 3rd

[solciego]

It’s your hands.

They weren’t meant to kill.

They were meant to give life.

#edward elric #winry rockbell #ed x winry #edwin #fma #anime #im currently re watching fma #and my love for these two is another thing #so precious #this scene is everything #*my edit #fma brotherhood #my edit: fmab

[just-trying-my-best-everyday]

Y'all need to see my Lan Fan masterpieces btw. Many more to come.

#lan fan #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma #fmab #the cowboy outfit was sooo fun i love it #western lan fan au when #the printed lan fan is there because i screwed up and wanted to cover my mistakes #the ling is there because he's funny #and they come in a pair #also i might post a higher res cowboy lan fan later #she came out so good

[auru-m520]

How tall is ed in your royed au?

Major E.Elric 180cm

#sorry for the late res i was busy haha #here's an ed sketch test #idk if this an au or not but its my hc of him for my edroy stuff #edroy #safe royed #fma #fullmetal alchemist

[clonerightsagenda]

You know, the Dwarf in the Flask technically did exactly what he was summoned to do.

If you pay a toll, you get a portion of the knowledge behind the portal. The Xerxean alchemist used Hohenheim's blood to create the dwarf 'accidentally' - he was probably trying to access the portal without having to sacrifice anything on his own, but since the knowledge didn't belong to him, it manifested as a physical being instead. And as soon as he met Hohenheim, that being taught him alchemy. Unlike the emperor and his lackeys, he seems to have taught him correctly and without deception.

I'm now trying to remember if the dwarf/Father ever lies to Hohenheim directly rather than through omission. At one point he literally drops into the ground rather than continue their conversation and either admit weakness or lie about it, so I wonder if he literally can't, since he's a piece of true knowledge Hohenheim paid for with blood. Maybe he could only deceive all the other people who came to him for information without paying for it first.

#would also support the idea that everyone's gate opens to their own separate pool of knowledge and not a shared one #which is a relief in that no one else can accidentally RE summon Father #although I imagine some of the people trying to sort out 400 years of paperwork might wish they could just to clear this shit up #summon him. stick him in a jar. go where the FUCK did you put the census records. #everything in this basement has mildew #fma

[ghostyolive]

when you say vest sprites, do you mean these ones? i saved them at one point, but i have no idea where i saved them from fjdsklafjskdla

HI YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT. I WOULD DIE FOR YOU BTW

#FOR CONTEXT I'VE BEEN USING A RANDOM SCREENSHOT THAT FIRST ONE AS AN ACCOUNT PROFILE PIC FOR MULTIPLE YEARS NOW #AND I HAD NO CLUE WHERE TO FIND THE ORIGINALS. SO THANK YOU #this is the second time that i have posted about high res greed pics and greed fma tumblr has rescued me so quickly #thank you so so so much. i am going to go stare at these for hours <3 #asks #greed fma

[gayleviticus]

i think dantes plan for gaining the philosophers stone in fma 03 feels kindve awkward on a plot level, because yu'd expect the logical synthesis of 'philosophers stone is made of people' and 'causing wars to make the stone' would be 'amestris is genociding people in order to directly churn them into a Stone'

so the fact 03 instead goes for the more convoluted 'war and disaster makes people desperate for the Stone which means they will massacre others to make it' seems a really weird and unnecessary bump in the road plotwise against the straightforward elegance of 'cause war to make the stone yourself'. and yes, there is a plot reason given for it (or at least implied?): making the Stone requires both great skill and is very dangerous, so Dante doesn't want to do it herself. but I get the feeling that surely after 500 years and with a military dictatorship full of state alchemists at her disposal she could have found a more reliable method for having others make the Stone than 'cause trouble and hope someone is both smart and reckless enough to make it'

BUT I think it's another one of those 03 writing decisions that is messy plotwise but extremely interesting theme wise, because I think it helps tie together a lot of the big threads to do with war and equivalent exchange. the philosophers stone is a fabled treasure that lets you bypass equivalent exchange; except that's not true at all because making it requires the tremendous cost of thousands of human lives.

im having a bit of a hard time piecing my thoughts together here but i think eds line towards the finale about how there's no war we aren't involved is really important. the elrics began their journey believing in the fairy tale philosophers stone and joined the genocidal military because it was convenient to them. they believed that equivalent exchange would mean all their hard work would pay off eventually, but I think in another sense they didn't really understand that equivalent exchange means actions have consequences. just as the prosperity of powerful nations and its citizens comes from imperialism, so too does the magic of the philosophers stone stem directly from violence and bloodshed of war.

but the thing is, if dantes plan was just to have the military make the stone directly from war and massacre... it would be s typical evil bad guy plot and nasty and evil but nothing to do with our heroes. but the fact her plan relies on individuals seeking the stone changes things up I think - if ed and al were just a bit more ruthless that could very much have been them. The War for the philosophers stone very much has something to do with them. it's not an evil scheme they're helplessly embroiled in as victims.

and the fact this then means scar turns the tables on the military to make them into a Stone is also v interesting because it manages to be such a nuanced depiction. the elrics are clearly against it. but 03 often depicts the elrics as wrong and naive in their ideals, and it's undeniable the amestrian soldiers have done terrible terrible things in liore. scar is no longer even really an anti villain, but an anti hero, and his final act is to bequeath the stone as a gift to alphonse. but at the same time, even if we find scars motives here deeply sympathetic - the fact is it's still exactly what Dante wanted, all the same.

and so I think the Liore arc manages to have this really nuanced and open to interpretation depiction of violence and vengeance and killing that doesn't feel preachy but also doesn't flinch from being very upfront about the stakes. if we want to celebrate scar killing 7000 soldiers as an unambiguously good thing there's the awkward fact that Dante doesn't care who dies to make the Stone as long as it gets made. But it's hard to disapprovingly tut tut about how killing is bad and revenge is bad when characters like scar and Rose are so sympathetic and understandable.

not to mention of course the fact that Dante herself fully rejects the concept of equivalent exchange and hence of taking responsibility for her actions, even as she fancies herself as humanity's guardian. she wants other people to do the work for her and then swoop in just so she can live a little bit longer. she herself never comes even close to paying the price for the Stone.

#anyway tldr is i think dantes scheme re the stone allows for the stone to be thematically important in a lot of diff ways #than if it was just 'the government is churning people into stones through war' #fma 03 #fma 2003 #fma 03 meta #fma #my posts #fma 03 spoilers #fullmetal alchemist 2003

[pipskippy]

reading dungeon meshi for the first time wheeeeeeee!!!!

#pip speaks #dungeon meshi spoilers #very abridged first thoughts #: #(i’m on chapter 12) #i like the main characters all well enough laios is very autism and he and falin remind me of beat and rhyme (blonde siblings where the olde #r brother is a little insensitive and the younger sister is very kindhearted and also (!!!!!!!!TWEWY SPOILERS) gets eaten by a thing. #TWEWY SPOILERS OVER anyways lots of respect for senshi and my intuition is great bc i assumed chi #chilchuck was not in fact a child and just a type of creature that looks young #although i guess maybe he’s a teenager but i feel like everyone is at least 20s by human standards? #marcille very failgirl energy. i like her hair and outfit. i like everyone’s outfits…i love the unabashed love of fantasy tropes… #but also the rly clever creative creatures like the shellfish armor??? that’s so awesome i’ve never seen anything like that. well i hvent re #read or seen that much fantasy….lol #i like how kui introduces the characters by showing their strengths/specialties and weaknesses and how they learn to work together. its cute #and effective and fun :) joys of writing #oh also this is just me being extremely biased about alphonse but laios always reminds me of him just because blond guy + armor + autistic + #carries a little book of stuff to eat in his armor + looks forward to eating etc. lol #speaking of fma i wonder if the leather shoe on the plate is a fma reference about ed and ling eating ed’s boot. or if #i just think about that any time someone mentions that you can eat leather

[toph-bi-fong]

This dislike and aversion from the Netflix series is less coming from me being worried that they’ll change the endgame couple (I honestly don’t care if they do) but more from the fact that I am annoyed that they are trying to retell this already amazing series through a live-action medium. (For a second time)

And that stems from just being sick of Live-Action adaptions from popular animated shows/movies in general.

Obviously, I have the choice not to watch it. And maybe I’ll watch it when it’s all been finished with and I have nothing else to do.

As I keep saying, I feel like this potential would’ve been better spent on making a series based on the Kyoshi novels (and by extension, Yangchen). I have nothing against live action adaptions based on books. I’m just tired of them rehashing from an animated property.

If you’re excited for it, then by all means, I hope you enjoy it.

#ventbending #netflix’s atla #I think their take on ASoUE was good #I have mixed feelings on FMA because- while it’s nice to see these characters re-imagined in real life- there were a lot of writing issues #and missing scenes #and I mean- the point of live action existing is- to make companies money- #but also reimagining how an animated character would look in real life #but I could just look at cosplay for that- lol

[silentwalrus1]

did somebody watch advent children

when i was 11 my father brought home a family movie.

#its ok this literally happens every year like clockwork. around january i'll start reading ff7 fic and rewatcjing advent children #a movie i have BOUGHT TWICE #dont look at me im fine. #the only difference is that this year #i started a new medication on the same day i got REALLY fed up with the total lack of decent action fic in the fandom #and the medication is REALLY effective. #i'm back to my normal writing speed aka roughly 4k a day lol #and at least half of it is currently about anime sword ellen degeneres #ff7 #yap yap #it's my faborite movie of all time. i hate movies. #BTW ANON WHO ASKED FOR BOTW FMA PRINTS: I'M WORKING ON IT I HAVENT REPLIED YET BC I'M FINISHING UP #A HIGH RES VERSION THAT'LL PRINT

[decoloraa]

Trying to create my own transmutation circles, but finding good references on how to construct one is kinda hard.

Does anyone have any good resources?

I was able to find a few pictures, but maybe there are more things I haven’t found yet.

#the only stuff I can find re a few pics on DA or Pinterest #fma #fullmetal alchemist #fma oc #fma brotherhood

[antediluvianapocalypse]

Forget "is the bible a pinocchio story". Is fullmetal alchemist a pinocchio story?

#speaking #fma #re: new jacob geller video