#idk this is an old anime

[cloverandstuff]

I'm rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood cause it's been literally a decade since I've watched it.

So cheers, I have a reaction thread (because I'm a sentimental bitch)

Episode 1:

God, I've forgotten how it immediately just got to the action in the first episode. Like, it set up everything and gave a glimpse of nearly all important character.

Poor Isaac, was probably manipulated, but ultimately led himself to his own demise. Very bold though.

And god, I think I was too depressed at the time of watching it, but the Eldric brother's backstory was so painful with that small glimpse.

Episode 2:

I cannot for the life of me understand why this shit didn't affect me as much as it should've as a kid. It might've depression that numbed my emotions, but I guess we'll never know.

Anyway, my point is, this is is traumatizing, and that's me saying this as an adult. The backstory and the short glimpses of the mom, as well as the clear love and dedication they had for her? The way that Ed didn't even hesitate to try and find more truth? The way he dragged himself, bleeding leg and all, to the armor to shove it down, and connect his brothers soul to it???

And god, the way I just kept whisper-shouting when they came to recruit him, cause I didn't remember shit, going-

But man, as someone is is now so much older than Ed is in the anime, they make him act a kid. A very smart, powerful and purposeful kid, but a kid nonetheless. He's so young and you can just feel it in the little things he does. He does not have his shit together and is still figuring some shit out.

Episode 3:

I love the comedy this anime has. It has the funny little pauses and the interuption of what should be serious moments without ruining the actual serious moments.

It is exactly my cup of tea, with a silly joke that just poked fun at a kid or being, well. A kid. He's small, and that joke may remind He's small but I can also remind you that he is so much younger than his peers.

I am an atheist so I do have the same kinda mindset about God that Edward has. Rose has this sort of annoying mindset of God and his priests being this answer to all suffering and anyone who disagrees will suffer divine Punishment. It is frustrating at the start.

But I can fully understand where she's coming from by the end. She clung onto this hope, this prayer that someone she loved so much will eventually be revived. Rose then meets the brothers who lost someone they loved, and tried to being back as well. She saw the consequences and felt terrified. But she spent so long just clinging onto this hope that she desperately wants it to be true. So she argues, trying to convince herself that Cornella was telling the truth and she didn't waste so long praying for something that didn't exist.

People can find comfort in the idea of God(s). The idea that there is someone looking after everyone and offering guidance is reassuring for some.

That was not Rose's situation.

Rose's situation is more akin to having a loved one suffering from a terminal disease and convincing yourself that prayers and God will be able to do what science could not. You can not pray for the impossible. You can pray for hope, for guidance or for even a fast recovery. But you need to understand that even if you wish for something impossible, you cannot spend your life wasting away on these prayers and refuse to do anything else.

Rose needed to stop clinging in general because she was clinging on to something impossible that compelled her to try and attempt awful things. She needed to learn to stand on her own. Maybe she could one day find hope in God again, but it wouldn't be anytime soon.

Man, I went on a rant there.

Anyway, I just wanted to type all that put because my mind just felt like analysing for a bit.

I forgot what the philosopher stone even did until now. I remembered that it was powerful but I that was about it. Now I remember, it was shit about defying the rule of absolute equivalence.

I am kinda happy I forgot majority of the lore of this anime, it makes it fun to put all the pieces together again as an adult who can process things and analyse better.

Episode 4:

This hurts.

This hurts so much. They were so happy, and acting like actual kids. They played all sorts of games with Nina and Alexander. It was so bright. They were so bright.

But Tucker, the motherfucker, only saw what he was bound to lose instead of what he had. He tried to work his way through it, but eventually just gave up.

My heart sank when I heard him ask Nina to play the next day. It broke even more when heard Nina say, in that voice that doesn't belong to a kid, "onii-chan".

He sacrificed everything just to save his title pf State Alchemist. He gave up his wife and then his daughter and the respect of these kids.

God, I hate him. I understand him and his desperation and I hate him.

Scar is back though. We love scar man. He's weird but core to the story and has every right to hate State Alchemists.

Again, when I was a kid, I didn't feel much. This episode never hit me as hard as it does now. Back then, I though the Eldric brothers were being dramatic about the whole thing.

Now it just strikes me so hard how fucked up it wad to be willing to experiment on your own kid for a stupid title. To mutate her into an existence that was nothing like her human one.

Brotherhood didn't make it blatantly, but it was mentioned time and again, just how painful it was to be a chimera in the original. Nina was in pain and Tucker knew this.

I fully understand why this hurt the Eldric brothers so much now. That was horrid. And to be able to even see a semblance of yourself in that was painful.

#fma brotherhood #fmab #reaction time #reaction thread #fma #maybe spoilers? #idk this is an old anime #this is on you if you haven't watched it yet but plan on it

[littlelightfish]

Them <3

#they're cutest thing ever #ive never seen mr. tansu smiling so wildli before... #arent kikikiki and kakakaka ways of laughing in japaneese old animes? i mean #in modern too #but its common in the older ones #idk #the best family around #mr. tansu #mrs. tansu #tansu folke #kiki folke #kaka folke #yarn folke #they're the best of the best of the best #look at them! #they look so proud of their baby kids... #you can tell kaka feels a bit proud too #this poor things #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #kiki dungeon meshi #kaka dungeon meshi #my shit

[qrowscant-art]

i wanted a machine guts sweater/shirt so here are some color tests

#robot #technology #computers #artists on tumblr #digital art #computers are a type of animal i think #thinking of making the square in the middle say something cute... 'be still my beeping heart'? is this anything #2nd one looks like old chease... ill have to do some research but i'd like to make a few of these to sell #im very autistic about the texture and quality of my clothes so idk about uploading these to a PoD site tbh #i got a sweater from my mom's workplace that's really nice so i might email their communications team and ask who their supplier is #mal-art

[bixels]

I've been making the transition these past few months, but I think I'm gonna just move back to Tumblr. My Twitter's follower-base has reached a point where I can't tweet anything casually opinion-related without it overflowing like a toilet. I post a short thread on my gripes with color design in anime and I'm getting QRT'd with "kill this guy with hammers" reaction gifs. Like, damn, this isn't fun anymore. It's not fun to talk about stuff on Twitter in general anymore. I wanted to post some ship dynamic doodles sometime there, but I know I'm gonna get weirdly aggressive takes and reactions. Monkey's paw curls, but I don't particularly like having that many followers.

#personal #delete later #like i'm generally good at not letting internet stuff get to me #it's dumb and inconsequential and i'm confident in who i am as a colorist #i faced some racist racist racist ass shit last month when some alt right weebs found an old post critting whitewashing #like i've gotten dms from people harrassing me about being taiwanese #but tumblr is so lowkey while twitter will blast qrts in your face going “this guy hates you for your basic ass anime opinion” #and i'm like hm. :/ #idk thanks for being chill in general guys. except with the miyazaki post that was a toilet overflow #best thing about tumblr is how easy it is to ignore weirdos or weirdly aggressive people #i'm still gonna post art there but really just art. it's more destructive than constructive to use twitter as a discussion space now

[miralyk]

one out of many impulsive thoughts i've had when trying to draw desmond lmao

#assassin's creed #desmond miles #doodles #sorry for no art even this spring break i'm still o|-< from animation industry news and working on art club stuff #so have an old doodle (which is kind of obvs telling this was Before i started trying subtly detailing lips for myself + desmond) #but yeah idk enjoy me being cringe on main w goofy doodles like these LMAO #protocreed #(given the edit cameoing alex under the cut)

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I've been watching the adventures of tintin 1991 with my sister and were watching the blue lotus part 2 and when Chang showed up I literally sat up in my chair and pointed at the screen like he was a famous actor. He has entered my brain forever, and I have you to thank for it.

for a character that popped up for only two adventures he left quite an impact on me too. I can imagine he'd make quite an impression when staying over in Belgium and making some appearances in the paper!

my sister was studying the opium trade and its links with colonialism so we were watching the 1991 cartoon episodes for The Blue Lotus and The Crab with the Golden Claws. I remember a) cringing every time Mitsuhirato appeared b) cringing at the voice they decided to give Chang and c) my sister turning around and looking at me every time a Chinese Musical Sting™ would play (we're Chinese)

#asks #fanart #animation #2d animation #tintin #adventures of tintin #chang #snowy #milou #gif #gifset #idk how but the 1991 animated blue lotus somehow felt more racist than the original comic???? #they changed chang's design but for some reason kept mitsuhirato exactly the same????? #if they changed chang's design for no reason why not fix a racist caricature??? #why did they make chang's voice like that #they kept the same voice in tibet even though he's visibly older????? #he looks as old as tintin but tintin sounds like a man and chang sounds like a little kid???? #if they wanted him to be younger why not change his tibet design? #tbh i dont like any of the voices in the 1991 show other than calculus but calculus is always the best part of any tintin adaptation #i liked the voice cast in the bbc radio play adaptation of tintin in tibet #rant over sorry lol #racism cw

[zarla-s]

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

[patreon]

#pokemon #z art #radic #callima #parasect #man i haven't drawn a parasect in ages i forgot how fun it is #my crabshroom babies #i always get tempted to just delete all the links to my old art but people always tell me not to #they like seeing it?? which always baffles me but i'm trying to accept that there's something worthwhile about them lol #radic is blind so he's not using the switch he's just holding it #maybe for red? idk #there was this odd stretch where i was using dot eyes #then switched to big anime eyes #then smaller anime eyes #then back to dots again #time is a circle... #i also used to use ^_^ CONSTANTLY #thus the ^_^ by old radic there #i've seen a lot of old web trends get revived but not hit awards/kiribans #for some reason #hit counters sure webring sure affiliates sure awards and adoptables sure #but celebratory things for reaching a hit marker? haven't seen a lot of those lately

[meruz]

I remember how you looked back then

#eraserhead #present mic #shirakumo oboro #aizawa shota #yamada hizashi #my hero academia #am i insane for thinking that aizawa was in 15 yr old world ending love with shirakumo #i dont see ppl talk abt it but like he got so emotional i was shocked #uhh and mic was so like. affected by seeing aizawa cry IDK... #three idiots love triangle delusion leave me alone #meruzart #anime

[lattien]

made new kitty sprites for a web event!

old ones here!

#baroaso #barok van zieks #asougi kazuma #nyanzieks #nyasougi #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #dgs #tgaa #ace attorney #dgs2 spoilers #tgaa spoilers #my art #pixel art #sorry for the reupload!! tumblr made the gif way too small 😭 please work this time... #this was for the baroaso webonly 2 that happened today!! #sorry nyanzieks is a little wonky.. noticed it too late and had no time to fix him #idk how to animate i just sorta followed the template provided by the platform #webonly switched sites and the new one has much larger sprites than the old one so yay #i love the nyas always :]

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about the sniper duo

#tog #the old guard #siggy draws #quynh #nicolo di genova #the old gays #genuinely they're all i can think about this week #what are they running from / shooting at?? idk they probably fucked up sdfghfds #the headcanon is: when you put these two together they have a lot of fun but they're a DISASTER. #here's a story: some rich man saw quynh and immediately decided she was going to be his wife #and ofc quynh had issues with this and wanted to smack the shit out of this guy right away. #which she did. which escalated into a duel of sorts. nicolo is just there on the side like 'oh shit'. #either quynh was in disguise or she was forced to wear the dress. either way she is Not happy about it. #cue little brother who can lift his own weight and sprint to the rescue #maybe i should make this into a fic omg #can you fucking tell i started this by listening to anime osts ended it with disney songs

[raishifts]

posting it here as well cuz im happy w how it came out 🥰

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago fanart #ninjago cole #cole brookstone #my art #old tiktok trend cuz idk #ninjago animation #animation #my art <3

[burquillos]

Carnival date🍓🫶

reference pic under the cut:

#diluven #venluc #diluc ragnvindr #genshin venti #venti the bard #idk why but i keep remembering old anime i used to watch back then

[m-kyunie]

marching forward through the Gates of Hell

#code geass #suzalulu #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #lelouch vi britannia #suzaku kururugi #lelouch lamperouge #god....tagging lelouch is literally so annoying #cg wld have been great if CLAMP said 'damn sunrise u comm us for our art style but cant animate for shit. hbu let us draw it instead #like deadass hwo u go out of ur way to ask CLAMP for designs then animate them AWFULLY BRO!!!! #i love love the character sheets they r beautifully done #all the offical art by CLAMP is stunning too but the anime is like. mf have nvr drawn in their lives I think.... #esp Lelouch like CLAMP's art of him its like ooh yeh ofc he gets bitches. then u watch the anime n ur like ain't no way... #whatever anyw this is inspired by a CLAMP illustration where they wear these suits. #i tried to use very desat colors but. idk. also they look wonky but idk call me Sunrise Animation I refuse to do lineart nowadays #listened to TONS of old Coldplay thats the vibe I'm going for... #i love toxic star crossed lovers....latina sterotype 1 : me 0

[royalarchivist]

Furby: Pose for the photo!

Rubius: What photo?!

Rubius: [Reluctantly] ✌️😟

#Rubius #Furby #IRL #??? Idk man I don't have other tags for this #His uncomfortable peace sign made me laugh though #I had a Furby as a kid too and apparently I hated that thing so much I buried it under a pile of clothes #I love stuffed animals but even kid me was like ''this thing sounds like a cop'' lmao #November 9 2023 #This is an old clip I just keep forgetting to upload things / don't have time #Q

[chewwypepsicola]

victim x king orange for an art trade i did over on twittah :3

#they are very silly i love old man yaoi #ene does art #avm #ava #victim ava #king orange avm #ko avm #animation vs minecraft #animation vs animator #victking #victim x ko #idk #shipping #i suppose #as a warning lmao

[pusangkambing]

Sorry for interrupting how everyone is talking about the current lore and launching back to some time ago but since ive read some twts about qroier and his condoning if cellbit is maybe doing the killings and how he hates the fed and all that and ive always wanted to highlight the difference of how both him and qjaiden saw the trip and few minutes they were given with bobby before he fully died

Qjaiden saw those few moments as mercy. They gave her more time with their son, to make last few happy memories with him to keep forever. And she drowned herself in these memories, it is literally how she coped afterwards. By building herself a home of those memories and isolating herself from everyone else. This affected how she saw cucurucho because cucurucho was the one to give her these final moments.

Qroier saw those few moments as cruelty. They dangled the possibility of him getting his son back right in his face, made him go through so much shit and for what? A few measly minutes? How cruel of them to mock him by giving him these last moments with his son knowing he could never have this ever again afterwards. It was vicious mockery is what he believes they gave him. It affected how he grieved too, barely ever touching his memories because it only serves as a cruel reminder of who's bot there anymore, barely going to the 3rd floor of his house, to bobby's castle, keeping himself away from what both he and bobny built, busy with building the city bobby wanted because that city will be a memory he builds alone and not with bobby. And thats why he hates the federation more than ever now.

Its just interesting...

#idk is this smt idk #this has been stewing in the brains for so long and i just wanted it out now bye bye #also i just wann add a little rant that when it comes to parrotduo i have A.LOT. to say about how most people characterize them only throug #other characters especially the ones they're with the most and rarely characterized or seen as a characters of their own #and sorry for the bias but i see this happen THE MOST to qjaiden of the two #but idkkk idkk whatever have this *throws post in the pit* #qsmp #paimon!speaks! #roier #jaiden animations #anyway sorry for old stuff analysis if im wrong about anytbing tell me #i just got reminded since roier cubito is on the spotlight once more