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[pinejay]

self care is forcing your way into an alternate dimension where u transform into an inexplicable large flying dragon snake to terrorize your horrible failure of a father figure until u destroy him and ultimately yourself

[crazyyyslots]

it's our world now

[crazyyyslots]

new / old memories

[runby2]

very specific situation that happens to me and my partners a lot

[hamstermarx-archived]

[snarkks]

the difference kills me

[budgebuttons]

idr how this came up but we were talking about how god-awful the third ED is and decided we should just replace Winry with Scar. I don't draw on model very often but it really was necessitated for The Bit. So here he is.

[paigemist]

[brigriv]

20th anniversary??! don't forget, fr

[weaverofink]

watching fma 2003 again :)

[ratgod-deactivated20211130]

this is how every man who calls himself a woke male feminists talks to women in DMs

[combustiblegarbage]

Every now and then I go and look up the “we did not know” scene from Judgment at Nuremberg and then go hm, I should post about this on my fma blog

[combustiblegarbage]

Judgement at Nuremberg: explicitly argues for the complicity of the entire German people, if not the entire world, in their willingness to Allow the Holocaust to grow and be carried out

FMA03: “there will never be a war that isn’t in some way caused by all of us”

03 haters: the Nazi parallel was so inappropriate and random and Bad!!!!!!

[scary-ass-ahh-painting]

dante

[afgunst]

I love FMA 2003 it’s always so cheerful and nothing ever hurts, not even this recap special : )

[phenomenallyextraordinary123]

Yeah. Your pal Wrath sealed her up.

[scarwasright]

tags from @stackslip

#i like that ed’s final bit of character development comes post sloth murder#which he committed to and truly believed was necessary while justifying it by dehumanizing the homonculi#but after sloth’s death and wrath’s visceral grief he can’t even pretend to believe it anymore#he takes lust’s death hard. he shows genuine empathy towards wrath.#and then this! gluttony is no longer a monster and neither was lust#lust was a person that ed failed and gluttony is another suffering person that ed has to take seriously#and that he isn’t going to mindlessly kill#and tbh neither can the audience see gluttony this way!#there’s nothing but deep pity and compassion there. an understanding that there were never monsters to begin with#all there ever was on that stage were humans doing human things#fma 2003

putting the romance back in necromancy

[scarwasright]

[cosalphonse]

i think that the two different takes on opening narration in fma unintentionally tell you so much

in 03, the narration happens before the opening on every episode - except episodes 1 and 51 - and it's mostly the same every time. al's voice gives a textbook definition of equivalent exchange before connecting it to his and ed's life, and it's said over music, with images of pictures of the boys as they grow up, which are slowly taken away by an encroaching fire. it's grounded and personal and becomes very familiar, then the show then changes this narration in the final season (in the dub they even change it to be ED narrating instead of al), adding more intense drums in the background, and adding a picture of ed and al as we currently know them at the end. it's a consistent repeating pattern that you can come to expect, so when it does change, like at the beginning of the final season or when the final episode cuts straight to the opening, you're like, oh shit! things are getting intense! and when the final episode wraps up with al quoting the exact thing he's been saying at the beginning of every episode, but this time coming to a different conclusion, it's such a nice bookend

brotherhood meanwhile has an opening narration by the unseen narrator giving a textbook definition of alchemy before stating that human transmutation is forbidden. it's cut with very literal imagery and a choir singing in the background. it's authoritative yet disconnected from the reality of the show -- these images we see are completely non-diagetic, with visuals of DNA strands, alchemy circles, and even pictures of ed and al just floating in space, whereas the 03 portraits (and voices) are characters and settings that we know. and worst of all, it only shows up during the first season and never again. it's not consistent enough to become familiar, and they never do anything interesting with it since it drops off before we ever even see the second opening, so it just leaves you wondering... what was the point of having it in the first place?

i know i'm totally biased but to me these are just smaller examples of a broader difference between the two; 03 is more intimate and subtle with its smaller details, while bh is bombastic and flashy but quickly loses its steam