#skittypretty

[humming-doodles]

icon commission for @skittypretty of pride flag ed - working with a limited pallet on this one was a ton of fun!

#love is love - edward elric #i can't Believe i never thought to do one of these for greedling #so anyways that's on my todo list now #commission #skittypretty #finished art #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric

[waitineedaname]

tell me about scar fma

You Have Unlocked An Unskippable Cutscene!

he's just. god where do I even begin with this guy. I cannot believe he's a character that exists and is as well written as he is. fma handed me serial killer with religious motivations and had me go "he's got a point though." from the very beginning, I was like "wow, this character is really interesting and complicated and compelling. god I hope he's handled well." and then he WAS. I spent the whole show terrified that they were gonna kill him off at any second because that's what shows do sometimes when they have a morally complex character they don't want to deal with, and not only did that dude SURVIVE, but he also KILLED THE PRESIDENT IN THE PROCESS. legendary.

I just. am so much more compelled by him than any member of the military. sorry. every time I think about scar and ishval, my heart starts aching. he lost so much, his whole family and his home and his culture and so many of his people, and he has to walk around with a physical reminder of that loss attached at his shoulder. to me, he's such a perfect example of the relationship between grief & anger and love & hate. he loved his people so much (I am forever haunted by the manga panel where he says he has nothing left to protect) and he had them violently stolen from him, and that grief and love twisted up in him and turned into a hateful rage against the people who did it to him

and part of that complexity that I love is that he is entirely justified in what he's doing, but he also hates what he's doing and what he's become. he doesn't like killing people, he's not like kimblee. he's just enacting what he sees as justice, even though he knows it makes him a killer too. it's why he doesn't begrudge winry's hatred of him -- if he is allowed his vengeance, then so is she. he also knows he's a hypocrite because he had been so against his brother's alchemy because he knew people would want to use it as a weapon -- and here he is, using his brother's alchemy as a weapon. it's why the reveal at the end about him getting the other set of the tattoos is so satisfying -- he finally accepts both parts of alchemy's potential, the destruction and the creation. so far, he's been destroying out of hatred and vengeance against the nation and people that slaughtered his own nation and people, and now he accepts the other half of the equation, which involves creating a better future for his people. it's not one or the other. that's what the fight against bradley involves, both destruction and creation. he destroys the man who ordered the slaughter of his people, and he creates the opportunity for the country to have a future at all

also I just love him and his kindness. he's not overt about it because he's stern and scowling all the time, but I think there is an incredible well of kindness inside him, and it's best seen with mei. he didn't have to let her tag along, but he did. he didn't have to help her search for xiao mei, but he did. he didn't have to give her envy and urge her to go home to her people, but he did.

this has gotten long. anyway, stan scar forever and ever

#asks #skittypretty #fma #fma posting #scar fma #THANKS FOR GETTING ME TO INFODUMP ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE MY GUY #HE'S SO. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #also I know in my heart of hearts he is a lesbian. but that's not relevant to this post. please just know this. #literally half of me and lobster's dms are just us going absolutely insane thinking about scar #they sent me a virgin roy vs chad scar meme the other day #and I can't stop thinking about one of the scar things being ''beloved by children and small animals'' #like it's TRUE. he IS beloved by children and small animals #inside my brain is just mei being like 'huh? he's a good person! anyway I'm going now' and saluting

[nitw]

i had to cite your addition to the thread about 3ds piracy for an assignment in my humanities course (long story) and apparently part of the MLA format for Tumblr posts is the blog title of the OP so now I have to make my professor read "*sees henis gay* oh come on", I hope you're happy (I'm not actually mad this is hilarious)

ORUDUSHDBG THAT'S FUCKING GREAT OH MY GOD

#asks #skittypretty

[dragongirltongue]

woah, you’re kind of a freak, that’s so cool

You fucking know it!

Someone should make out with me about it tbh.

(this is an open invite to anyone who'd wanna make out with tumblr user dragongirltongue)

#skittypretty #6aaah #6ringing you answers

[lemondoddle]

sometimes when you open a post from someone the little grid of suggested posts tumblr gives you underneath it on mobile will have just bonkers old posts, thats probably how they’re finding them

True, I think it also happens when you search a tag on a blog Ive noticed that when looking thru my art tag I'll see something I drew last week and then something I drew in 2015 and the whiplash kills me instantly

#lane speaks #ask the alien #skittypretty #god tumblr sure is a website

[greedsbutt]

you are the best goddamn blog on this site

THANK YOU SO MUCH

#ask #skittypretty #not a butt

[gamergirlcrustacean]

I might have already told you this but I think your icon is the best

thank you. i made it as a joke for pride month and now i like it too much. i plan on changing my icon one day but i fear i have nothing good enough to replace lesbian scar with.

#ty for this #riddles #skittypretty #i think it’s funny to imagine scar as a he/him butch #because it changes nothing #fma scar #scar saturday

[gothcatboygirl]

7/8

Have tattoos? Want any tattoos?

i have this one, which was originally a stick and poke until my boyfriend redid it with his tattoo gun back in february

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

as for tattoos i want, god there's so many. alien on my arm, club on my finger, shark on the back of my leg, sun and moon on my knees, hello kitty on my ribcage, a couple fandom ones that i haven't fully decided on yet... if only i had the money and the executive function to actually schedule the appointments :/

i'd like some more stick n pokes too but they take sooo long and i'm too impatient for that haha

#mine #ask #skittypretty #i hope i answered the right questions lol it's 5am and i'm really out of it

[caesarinsalata]

Since Ling was mentioned, I figured I'd give him a try. I used some prompts from the Snooze chart for them.

Not to be rude, but Ling has a pretty since design compared to Ed. 🤣

@skittypretty, how's this? 🤭

#fma #doodles #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #my art #ling yao #100 zenz coffee #freckles #automail

[crvstybowlofcereal]

What is my name to you? My actual name and my implied unername-name don't matter. What do you call me I'm your head?

Example: i know my moots have names, but to me frilledshark-enthusiet and buyospudlin are frill(ed) and buyo, respectively. I have another moot, skittypretty, who I know by 2 real names, and I use both but favor one. I also think of them in my head with their old username.

[just-a-rainy-child]

Hey guys if you’re following me for a while you might remember this commission I got from the wonderful and talented @beebfreeb (go commission it it’s great) 

Well I just wanted everyone to know that they now star in a story I’m writing!!

(Link removed for heavy rewrites DM me if you really want it)

From left to right

Florence (the one in blue) she/it

Lacey (the blonde one) they/them

Buttons (the rat) any

Unfortunately Florence won’t come in till much later in the story , sorry for all the robot fans.

I am very new to all this so please be kind :o)

Another piece of art from my friend @skittypretty-art @skittypretty please please please go check them out they also Bata read and none of this would’ve been possible without them !

#oc:lacey #oc: florence #oc: buttons #spidersona #my fic #Spider-Man #lgbtq

[humming-doodles]

A fun comic commission for @skittypretty of ling enjoying his state-sanctioned vacation~ (he's the state and he sanctioned it so it's totally fine, he left a note, probably)

Bonus:

#everyone thank skittypretty for getting me to do something to get me out of my art block lol #fr this was a delight thanks for the commission! #commission #comic #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #edward elric #ling yao

[waitineedaname]

what was tumblr like 9 years ago

god idk how to describe it. I'm not sure how much of my perception of tumblr 9 years ago is affected by me being 13/14 at the time, how much of it was the fandoms I was in, and how much was indicative of tumblr at large, but I'll try to describe it

the like. overall tone of the site was different? you know how people look back on old tumblr posts and cringe? these were the days where those posts were shared unironically. a good example is the shoelaces pose, that was enjoyed entirely unironically. tbh I've watched tumblr's tone shift a lot over the years, going from unabashed cringe, to being deeply embarrassed by those times, to being jaded/disaffected/cynical, to trying to reclaim the cringe era. again, that might be affected by who I've been following, but that's just the vibe I've gotten from the kinds of posts/blogs that get popular

the way people used the site has changed too! some of this is because of features being added and taken away. the messages function wasn't added until 2015, and before that, people talked to each other through the fanmail feature, which has since been removed. it was kind of like asks I guess? you'd send a message directly into someone's inbox. it was like sending letters lol people would also carry on conversations in the reblogs of a post. it was not uncommon to see a post a mile long where two people were just having a public conversation. it was harder to reply to replies too

also, ask games and especially ask blogs were really popular. ask blogs seem to have kind of died out, so in case that's unfamiliar, they were blogs themed around a character (or sometimes a collection of characters, like a particular friend group, or even the whole cast of characters if the blogrunner was ambitious enough) and people would send in asks that the blog would respond to in character, usually accompanied by art. I really loved ask blogs lol I miss them

oh also people really took pride in their blog themes. it makes me sad to see tumblr actively trying to kill this function by making it so that clicking on someone's blog opens them as a tumblr(.)com/url popup that just looks like the mobile blog theme. it used to be the default that it would open as a new page, url(.)tumblr(.)com, and you could customize the hell out of how it looked. people used to take great pride in customizing their blog themes, updating them occasionally, fucking with the html to get new features, some would even add playlists to their blog. baked into this too was the "pages" function, where you could have other pages on your blog, like an about page or whatever. now everyone uses carrd I guess. I miss blog customization and the pages </3

#asks #skittypretty #why do my responses to your asks always get so long. sorry about that #but yeah it's been interesting watching tumblr change over the past nine years! #it'll be a decade next year. that's wild #some of the changes tumblr has made are good #like the messaging function and the changes they've made to replies #but some of the changes make me sad #like the removal of the blog function #this was a blogging site originally! I miss that

[karizard-ao3]

https://www.tumblr.com/skittypretty/748014370833022976/finished-my-rewatch-of-evangelion-and-made-this

You are in the “what” phase

I see that there's a second, scarlet WHAT phase after that, which is both thrilling and terrifying. What is going to happen to these people???

#ask me things #my asks #answered asks #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #first watch