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Fullmetal alchemist saying over and over again nothing breaks equivalent exchange nothing can deny it, it is the single rule at the core of this world, it is the one immutable thing, it cannot be changed it cannot be altered, an eye for an eye, an arm for an arm a leg for a leg. For hundreds of chapters. And then it says except... and you say "except?" and it says except...freely-given sacrifice. To love someone so much that you would give up all your power for them. That's worth a soul.

riza-hawks-eye

Mustang is not the Elric brothers' surrogate dad. He's their dickhead older brother and Riza is his girlfriend who always comes round and they low key like her better because she'll actually let them win at Mario Kart.

merrilark

Good US news because I think we all could use some of it:

The Marines are to be withdrawn from LA. The extreme escalation many of us feared did not happen thanks to the people of LA and the soldiers themselves who said "no".

The "Good Trouble Lives On" protests may not have been as big as the previous "Hands Off" and "No Kings" protests (likely due to heat + being planned on a weekday), but still 1.6k protests were held across the USA with thousands joining in with the peaceful protest.

The Trump administration has been ordered to restore $6.2 million in grant funding to nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related nonprofits. This is fantastic.

Pittsburgh City Council has passed bills to protect its LGBTQ+ citizens.

California has stepped up to partner with and support The Trevor Project. Let's go, Cali!

Another win for California: Reports show that California is powered by two-thirds clean energy. This is a historic first and it keeps getting better!

The ACLU of Louisiana has secured the release of two wrongfully detained Iranian LSU students.

The Republican governor of New Hampshire has defied her party and shot down a book banning bill.

Shareholders have pushed back on corporations' anti-DEI proposals, forcing companies to face the fact that diversity is good for business... And reminds us that the majority does not agree with the removal of DEI, no matter what MAGA wants us to believe.

Since November, 69 of the 110 Supreme Court lawyers tasked with defending the Trump admin's policies have quit.

Don't let anyone tell you that there isn't hope, that there aren't people fighting and working and just as scared and angry as you are. You are not alone. Peaceful protests, contacting reps, and simple non-cooperation is how we sustainably and successfully push back against authoritarianism.

"We're cooked" is the devil talking. Giving up, rolling over, and perpetuating the idea that we've already failed is exactly what MAGA wants. Don't give them the satisfaction. Don't make it easy. Continue to look after each other and support your communities where you can. Keep protesting, keep calling, keep writing, keep loving. The heart is a muscle the size of your fist; we can get through this as long as we continue to stand up and say "no".

hollyevolving

You feel how you feel. If you can't feel hopeful, please try not to berate yourself.

But every single one of us has a responsibility to work and speak hopefully, no matter how we feel. It will take for-fucking-EVER to turn this thing around, and it will suck a lot of the time.

But it CAN be done. The future is NOT lost.

mentallyillmindmeld

Being a huge fan of an artist on tumblr is crazy because sometimes they will interact with your post so casually and you’re just there like ough my god. this is the craziest thing that’s ever been crazy. i love you how did you get here.

royriako

#roy mustang #fma memes

hyolks

happy valentines day yall!! :")

icaruspendragon

guys help i can’t stop thinking about characters

ghosts-and-blue-sweaters

Yes I like fictional characters a very normal amount. Don’t look at my blog.

asingularshieldmaiden

Don’t get me wrong I like royai as much as the next person but something about past or one sided roymaes is so succulent. So juicy.

Yearning for a man who loves his wife and child so dearly, who likes to keep his work life so separate from his home life. Your love feels like it’s sacrilegious by tainting your interactions with his family and the fact you are so connected to his work.

Ugh sign me up roymaes just hits different especially if amestris in fics has period typical homophobia so there’s that added illicit nature to Roy’s feelings oooft the angst goes so hard sorry Roy

#roy mustang #maes hughes #roymaes #AUGHBSHHH #</3

oatmealaddiction

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.

#this!!!!#03 my beloved #i always tell ppl if they plan on watching both PLEASE watch 03 first #03 haters..why :(

ilovepannacotta

Envy the Jealous

He is my favorite Homunculus, I really love FMAB

#love this creature #the enby #envy fma

ilovepannacotta

Ling Yao vs. the daddy issues of the boy of his dreams.

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[start ID: a digital drawing of Ed and Ling standing next to each other from the chest up made to look like a screenshot from a movie, ed is wearing a black and red jacket, with a serious expression on his face. Ling is wearing an Argentina shirt with a nervous expression on his face, below them are subtitles which read:

Ed: if we're gonna date, you may have to defeat my seven evil father figures.

Ling: you seven evil-what? /End ID.]

#om screaming #edward elric #ling yao #edling #image description