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[scarwasright]

Part canon divergence AU, part character study, part SPITE, here’s my definitive contribution to this fandom. Last updated: 5 February 2026

Scar survives transmuting Liore, but now he’s stuck in the middle of the desert with no allies except his morally bankrupt undead sister in law. Lust evades recapture after abandoning the other homunculi, but now she’s stuck in the middle of the desert with no allies except a newly discovered brother in law who seems determined not to survive.

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[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[everylust-fma]

[scarwasright]

you know what. sure.

[we-have-black-marble-at-home]

my final act of love will have casualties

[scarwasright]

There is a really annoying symptom of fandoms generally disengaging from art made for adult audiences, and it's... analyzing YA protagonists as if they are real 16 year olds going to actual war and not tools of a genre being aimed at an audience similar to them in age.

YA puts its characters in "adult" situations because the Young Adults that the YA is actually made for like to be taken seriously. They are developing nuanced ideas and experiencing big, complicated emotions and understand that they are moving into a new role in society, and it's completely natural that art made with them in mind complements that. Young people like to read stories about young people who can exercise power and autonomy, because they are at an agonizing juncture where they feel ready to wield these things, but are denied them at most opportunities. That's why there are so many "child soldiers" in fiction, and analysis that wilfully ignores the target audience inevitably brings an unfounded outrage to the table that frequently misses the forest for the trees.

Lest we piss on the poor, I'll clarify that this isn't about art that is engaging with the idea of adultified children. In fact, YA often does both of these things, the fantasy of a young person and the oft horrific realism of the adult gaze. I would argue that the best YA frequently floats between these two states, because that, too, is representative of what it feels like to move toward adulthood. But developing an eye for when reality is being abstracted will save you from doing the same dead-end analysis every time there's a Special Kid in the Genre About Special Kids.

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[maxxie-or-smth]

maybe it's time to try religious psychosis

[farawaydoe]

Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 : episode 46

Lust appreciation post

[farawaydoe]

Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 : episode 49

Scenery appreciation post

[scarwasright]

just when I got to thinking I could change my blog title after like 7 years

[cubistemoji]

fandom loves to see a unique and interesting story and go ah this would be great in my little boxes that make everything the same

[f0xfire-den]

Never forget!

[scarwasright]

Idk if I've ever articulated this on this blog but the utter lack of variety in the world of fma03 fic is going to baffle and irritate me forever. Ensemble cast with messy interpersonal relationships of pretty much every stripe absolutely dripping with underexplored subtext and all we can do is ooc yaoi that's been stripped of all context and Here's How Edwin Can Still Win. How did we watch the same show.

[scarwasright]

Developing a filter button for "I've projected what's wrong with me onto Edward Elric and every other character will exist in service to this end"

[scarwasright]

Adjascent thought: 200X was such an unbelievably different cultural time and I don't think anyone who wasn't there believes me but it was just Presumed in the vast majority of fanwork that Envy and Lust were having extremely heteronormative sex. If Lust was in a fic at all, there was something going on with Envy. Imagine if Jesse and James yearned for missionary p in v and a picket fence. It was that but 2008 emo flavored. He would make himself taller and everything. Forgive me for blurring the line between presentstion and sex role but only fandom could put a power bottom and a bratty sub in an evil lair and conclude that they're doing it mormonstyle.

[scarwasright]

Idk if I've ever articulated this on this blog but the utter lack of variety in the world of fma03 fic is going to baffle and irritate me forever. Ensemble cast with messy interpersonal relationships of pretty much every stripe absolutely dripping with underexplored subtext and all we can do is ooc yaoi that's been stripped of all context and Here's How Edwin Can Still Win. How did we watch the same show.

[roseillith]

[redstonedust]

the thing that bothers me with 7 deadly sin based characters is when they cant decide if they embody the sin by suffering from it or by drawing it out of others. ie. if your gluttony demon is a guy who loves eating then your lust demon should be a gooner sex pest. and if your lust demon is a seductive girlboss then your gluttony demon should be a 5 star chef. does this make sense.