FMA has a lot of subtle symbolism but the least subtle is probably the “Ed has a lot of issues with his father” symbolism. The FMA manga starts on the Leore arc and ends on the Promises Day arc so what I mean is Ed started and ended the series by pummeling the shit out of someone named “Father”
I love all the FMA arcs in fact
Father Cornello arc – bad dad tries to cultivate religious army. Ed punches.
Shou Tucker arc – bad dad is the worst dad. Ed punches.
Hughes dies arc – good dad is dead dad :(. Ed punches himself emotionally.
Greed arc – Greed dad bad dad.
Ling and Mei arc – These two share a bad dad. They fight about it.
Hohenheim returns arc – bad dad, source of all Ed’s bad dad problems, returns. Ed punches eventually.
King Bradley reveal arc – Bradley is bad dad. Ed doesn’t punch but he did fake-assassinate him once.
Ishval backstory arc – Riza’s dad is bad dad. Ed’s not available for punching.
Promised Day arc – Boy Does Ed Sure Punch This Bad Dad
Captain Buccaneer’s smirk and salute when Major General Olivier Armstrong rolls out of the elevator in a fucking tank is arguable one of the best scenes in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
me, waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night: the rockbells trained den to be a therapy/support dog for automail patients which is why pinako trusts den to watch ed and why den always follows ed around when he’s in resembool
It was my pleasure to be working with @fmatarot and many other amazing artists in this project 💖 Kickstarter opens on 1st Dec, please check them out for more info
This is a long post, but please bear with me! ♥ And PLEASE REBLOG to help to spread the word! ♥♥♥
By now, probably all of you have heard about the fact that this garbagefire of a website has finally started to collapse. In a lot of ways, I think it’s a good thing, but Tumblr had two things really had going for it:
it was one platform that different kinds of contributors could use for different kinds of content;
the vast majority of the fandom population used it as a home base.
This brings me to my primary fear: our ship’s amazing community may get scattered to the winds if everybody jumps ship in different directions.
This brings me to my suggested solution: I’m going to make a spreadsheet of alternate usernames and sites and accounts and destinations for members of the Roy/Ed fandom. This way, we can at least all see where our longtime fandom friends are sharing their work!
HOW DO YOU GET IN ON THIS? Easy peasy lemon thing!
Just copy and paste and then fill out the form below, with as few or as many accounts as you feel comfortable sharing. Message it to me here, or on Twitter, or wherever you feel like, and I’ll add you to a Google Spreadsheet that will be publicly accessible, to help the Roy/Ed fandom to find each other on other platforms.
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