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I really really like it when the character hates her old self so much like yes girl!!!! I love the way you want the old version of you dead and how you don't want to think about how she shaped you as the person you are now🥰🥰🥰
obsessed with the worldbuilding in fma 03. The philosopher's stone is not just an object but a concept, something people strive for, kill for, wage wars for. Wars creating more philosopher's stones, an inevitable consequence of alchemy. The way alchemy, imperialism, racism and death are so deeply tied together. Religion being used to sow infighting, pave the way for an army. The way alchemists claim to be scientists who disbelieve in god yet believe in Alchemy like a religion anyway, not knowing alchemy is literally being powered by death from the other side of the gate. Alchemy being used for more death and genocide in an endless cycle. Equivalent exchange being rejected out of hand because there's no equal trade for suffering. Amestris itself being built on top of a city of the dead. It's very foundation built of corpses piled high, it's citizens blind to this. They could see it too, if they just looked. Alchemists trying to undo death and suffering over and over and ending up making homunculi and chimeras instead. Creatures who suffer endlessly. Are they human, or are they not? Should we kill them, should we not? who decides that? And who else will they declare non-human along with them? The gate watches it all, unknowable, uncaring, merciless, and it always takes its tolls.
the way fma 03s female characters are such an interesting nuanced exploration of all kinds of gendered tropes like how sloth is a mother who feels forced into and constrained by that identity, lust is a sexy femme fatale but this identity is literally erasing her cultural roots and whitewashing her into dantes little pet, winry is the childhood friend on the sidelines who uses this as an opportunity to live her own life and build her own relationships and goals independent of the protagonists, izumis complicated relationship ,w motherhood and wrath and the elrics, dante as abusive matriarch/cult leader of the homunculi family who objectifies women of colour (rose, lust)
and I'm not even criticising mangahood itself here, but the subtlety and nuance does feel like a marked contrast to the kindve girl boss feminism a lot of fans spout when they talk about how fmabs female cast are some of the best in anime (because they're cool and beat people up and aren't fanservice fodder, which to be sure are good things but seriously feels like grading on a curve)
the weight this image holds
happy pride month everybody
Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 : episode 49
Scenery appreciation post
to me fullmetal alchemist is just about cycles.
hohenheim, 400 years ago, created the first homunculus trying to bring back his dead son. izumi curtis tried to bring back her own child. ed and al followed both their father and their mentor's footsteps and tried to bring back their mother. time and time again, it is always about love and grief, and you can never learn, because you can never stop loving. you can never stop fully giving yourself to someone and being willing to do anything to bring them back. maybe ed and al didn't know their mother would have lost something important, being brought back to life after death, but izumi and hohenheim must have, in the back of their minds, known, lost as they were to grief and uncaring for the consequences.
this show, to me, is a tragedy because it is driven by love. love turned to grief led ed and al to try and bring back a version of their mother. ed's unwavering love for al leads him across the country, leads him to doing whatever it takes to bring his brother's body back. love drives al to the same goal. this is the price we pay to love, and fma makes sure we know this, over and over. grief is the price of love. playing god, thinking you could outsmart unmovable forces, is the price we pay to love, to grieve love lost. after all, what made orpheus walk for days in the underworld only to turn back when he was within the sun's reach to make sure his lover was still there? what made him turn back, if not love? what made them all sacrifice everything, every painful part of them they had to give, simply to be able to hold the person they love again?
i just cannot wrap my head around this kind of fma 03 critique. so because you personally enjoy reading about “a world of badass people of steel,” you get “really uncomfortable” w/ people who enjoy something a little more nuanced? you get “really uncomfortable” with a show that has bad things happen to good people? a fourteen-year-old feeling hurt/betrayed when the people he loves hit him strips him of his agency?? deconstructing the implications of shōnen/wish-fulfillment fantasy (in 2003, by the way, nearly twenty fucking years ago) is cringe and bad?? what’s up?
All of the reasons that 03 is better than the second anime and IMO also the manga is specifically because of the elements it confronts and deconstructs from the original version, especially because those elements are often extremely incongruous with the nature of FMA as a series that tackles things like war and genocide and by treating them more seriously it makes the entire narrative more cohesive as a whole rather than just dropping random comedy into scenes that are made worse by their inclusion. This is more admittedly jarring in brotherhood than the manga even though both have these problems because the manga’s pacing works well for a comic and brotherhood adapts it unquestioningly even when the pacing of the joke utterly ruins the scene when it’s depicted in motion.
The enlightened fandomer: Agency is when you suffer no long lasting consequences, when you’re always badass, and when you never get upset about the horrific actions and circumstances you have done/have had done to you/have participated in against other people. Knowing that there are far reaching and often devastating consequences to my actions, beliefs, and experiences actually removes agency. Nuance <33333
Requested by: @alexmiscellany​      ↳Sloth from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
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Russell and Ed's first vs last interactions
the thing at the heart of fma 03 is the grief for something idealized and half remembered that you desperately, truly believe you can bring back if you try hard enough, but that thing is long gone and maybe it never existed in the first place, and you spent half your life chasing it instead of looking around you and loving what's in front of you. you clung so strongly to an ideal, a half remembered dream you were sure would fix everything, if you try a little harder and do a little more surely your effort will be rewarded and you'll get that idealized eternal thing. you're so deep into the sunk cost fallacy and the aim for that dream, what's one more attempt? so either you snap out of it and face the harsh reality, the cost of your ambitions, the bitter loss—and you accept it, along with the cost, and choose to build a better world with what's in front of you. or you keep running after it even if it means leaving bodies and broken people in your wake.
it's the brothers chasing after their dead mom and then their bodies. it's al chasing what should have been his childhood. it's dante, never satisfied and constantly rotting and believing she can stop it when she's only slowing it. it's mustang believing he can fix amestris's military from the inside. it's ed believing in equivalent exchange and the stone's power before his world sharters and he realizes what he's left in his wake. it's scar chasing divine retribution on himself and others before he realizes he must be that retribution. it's winry believing she can bring the boys home. it's scar's brother believing he can save his beloved and then ishbal. it's the homonculi chasing the ghost of their humanity. it's wrath chasing his mother. it's lust chasing a human death before realizing she was always a person. it's sloth chasing something that isn't being a mother. it's tucker chasing the ghost of the daughter he murdered. it's archer chasing war. it's that one asshole chasing the idealized woman he never knew. it's rose chasing her dead fiancé. it's envy chasing vengeance on their father. it's noah longing for shamballah. it's ed again wanting to go back home. it's al again wanting the years with his brother back.
you cant, it's over, it's all gone, it never really existed in the first place. there are things and people here in front of you who love and need you, even if this world isn't the one you wanted or believed in, it's the one you do exist in and you have a duty to it and to others. the dream is over, wake up
A quick sketch of my cherished <3
Fullmetal Alchemist
I love FMA 2003 it’s always so cheerful and nothing ever hurts, not even this recap special : )
