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Happy pride month

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yes I prefer fma 03 because it's darker and sadder and full of loss and grief and tragic consequences and lost innocence, yes I vehemently refuse the idea that it's 'cynical' just because it's not fmab level everyone gets a perfect happily ever affer

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Behold! The Previously Referenced Angsty Fanart. This lil messy comic is my love letter to @wingsofescape ‘s fanfic.

Pls enjoy

This scene is my own imagined reunion between ed and al after the emotional separation they had in Ch 1 of the fic. Brother!!!!!!!

#myarts

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hey looks its me!

(come and see the angst)

#mariatalks #journal comic #my art

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love seeing text posts that are incredibly specific yet so clearly embody a specific character . anyways, thinking about 03 sloth <3

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Recently read the second light novel and this conversation really stuck out to me

#never read the light novels so thank you for highlighting them with your art op!

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#london ed loveeee

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jesus christ I like fullmetal alchemist such a normal amount

#yes.exactly.you get it.

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(Man this is so cool! This style for the Split is unlike anything I’ve seen before! I hope your art and act of creating helped you during those struggling times. Thank you for sharing)

Your FMA OC has always intrigued me 👀

From 2016, specifically from a period in time where I was off my antidepressants in conjunction with OCD treatment. The treatment itself was really effective, but in the aftermath I was really struggling as the adrenaline wore off.

#art being healing and fanart sometimes being even MORE healing! wow

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Thoughts on sloth and the elrics in 03 👀?

alright alright alright listen. what i think is so fascinating about the homunculi in 03 is that the line between "human" and "not human" is so goddamn blurred compared to bh.

By the end of the series, Al is a living Philosopher's stone, Ed is half automail and has absorbed untold amounts of red water, Archer is some weird general grievous abomination, and tucker is. well, whatever tucker is. The continuum of humanity is far more murky when it comes to someone that was born human and then altered- and this applies to the homunculi too!!

these homunculi don't just want to be human, they have human traits that they try their damndest to ignore!! the only thing wrath wants is a mother, though dante ties to beat it out of him over and over again. sloth keeps dealing with maternal feelings for him AND the elrics, and well, u know, she deals with those by trying to kill the elrics.

here's the thing from the elric end, and I saw something so similar with the shou tucker situation: ed starts to understand something's off with sloth really early. Like, really early. But he pushes it off and pushes it off, and when it finally comes to a head, ed's horrified, but he's not surprised. whereas, al is far more shocked by meeting the homunculi created by their failed human transmutation. The concept of something so horrible being allowed to exist- and what's more, being their fault- is something that takes ed a long, long time to grapple with, and he protects Al through it as much as possible. Until he can't anymore.

so then we have their confrontation, and i think sloth's final words to the boys are really the 03 homunculi thesis: "clean up after yourself; take care of each other." Ed is LITERALLY cleaning up after himself by killing sloth- he created her, and now he is destroying her. The homunculi are all results of crimes against nature, they all have to be "cleaned up", in a sense. And we know that the rest of 03 is about Ed facing the consequences of his actions and attempting to clean up after them. So we have this terribly grim first statement regarding the non-human nature of homunculi, followed by something far more human: take care of each other. Sloth is not human. But she retains human memories and human emotions and can look human, if she so chooses. and her last act before she dies (another human function!), is to tell the boys she remembers as her sons to look after one another. And fuck me if that isn't just the whole point of 03: to look after one another in the face of overwhelming tragedy and the seemingly chaotic apathy of the universe.

#meta

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Everyday occurence in Mustang's office

Links - twitter // tiktok

#exquisite

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#al not being alive is was not ever an option#that's not something that would ever change#but he learned plenty by the end of cos#that's why he was willing to leave his world again#al being alive and in a safe world with people he knows and trust was more important to ed than having that for himself#than having al for himself#of course al didn't agree but that's what's so interesting about their opposite growths in 03#fma#03

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I wonder why some folk believe Ed sacrificing himself for the chance to bring back Al is him “not learning his lesson”

Oh I would bet all the loose change I have that it’s not that cut and dry. Ed totally did retain everything he’d learned and made speeches about up to that point

I think that’s just one of FMA 03′s themes: the imperfection of human nature

Ed ain’t perfect, by any means. 03 tries very hard to hammer that fact home and I think this is the logical conclusion to that.

Ed knows what the “right” thing to do is, and knows why, but instead chooses to ignore all of that because he just. can’t. handle it.

He can’t lose Al. He can’t stand up and use his legs to walk forward.

I actually think it puts him in a great parallel to Rose back at the beginning. Choosing willful ignorance and blind faith because all you would have otherwise is nothing.

(which is great because Ed and Rose reflect one another so much in 03)

Anyway, this rant is going nowhere so I’ll stop, just wanted to vent some steam about this topic since it popped into my head. Feel free to add your own comments and perceptions.

#meta

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Izumi Curtis's husband in a "sun's out, gun's out " tank top?

added in izumi bc i love both of them so much and they deserve to have fitting tops (and i really wanted to draw a buff izumi)

plus YEAH CROP TOPS!!

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#unfffff yes

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I love ross' relationship w edward in 03 sm, shes so caring and sweet ;; let him be a kid sometimes dang it...

#blessed images

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It’s mentioned that Ed sees his mom crying after Hohenheim left

#agony