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Toby Fox: I need to get my game out more than any of you want to play it. I can feel it clawing its way out of me. I need to make a pseudo-ARG so people can start thinking about the themes and relationships early. I need to make shitposts to show off my sprites and music that I’ve had ready for years

Team Cherry: Guys making a game is so fun. Forget about dev updates and the outside world we are having fun in here

phantomrose96

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

fearsomeandwretched

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't

peachiime-deactivated20240731

wdym an average platonic bond cant be deep and meaningful do none of you remember the power of friendship

peachiime-deactivated20240731

i have trust in the people.

thedemonsurfer

worriedyourwingswouldmelt

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

Pokémon Uranium characters Pokémon Ranger's sprite style - Part One: The protagonists!

#pokemon uranium #pu victor #pu pluto #pu natalie #i think natalie came out the best #but her hat makes her kinda tall #oh yeah im back into pokemon uranium again

guilty-pleasures-abound

I want to KISS the person who made this display, that is AMAZING

It finally happened the other day.

I saw a piece of art, thought it looked good, and only realized after the fact that it was my art that I posted.

😊

#my post

spockvarietyhour

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if it's the same year as it was yesterday, 2024

dumbtrannybitch

this post has a very specific day you CANNOT reblog it on Jan. 1st 2025

so hey do you think one of the first things victim did is try and draw Mitsi back to life somehow since that's how Alan revived him.

#its got to have come across their mind at least once. right?#animator vs animation #ava 11 spoilers #ava victim #ava mitsi

Very amusing watching people trying cope with Mitsi's death and Chosen's part in it right now.

Meanwhile, I always thought that even if Chosen never intentionally harmed someone, there was no way that no one died during those years. It was the backstory for an OC I had. So my opinion of the guy literally hasn't changed at all.

#animator vs animation #ava the chosen one #ava 11 spoilers #to be clear: I love Chosen #I love them so much #they rotate in my head constantly along vic and dark #my little meow meow #they are baby and they are also an angel of death

Oh. Oh.

This scene: