*insert bo burnham quote here*

good news guys the federal no fly list just got cracked by an otherkin on twitter

this is how they broke the news BTW

I believe was confirmed in a tweet by Jeremy Crawford

new beginnings 

Edward Elric (2003) LAY𖣠UTS #★ [2] !

The witches cat getting training so it’s used to her casting spells.

HATES IT HATES IT

Harvest mouse on a dandelion by Dean Mason.

Oh to be a harvest mouse on a dandelion

your class based off of what tool you use to open a package

kitchen knife - cleric

cool knife from amazon - warlock

scissors held open to use one blade - wizard

hands - barbarian

key - sorcerer

cool knife from crafts fair - rogue

pen - paladin

swiss army knife (only uses normal blade) - monk

teeth - druid

box cutter - ranger

another person - bard

Another dragoncon line doodle, set in some alternate universe where ed has both his arm and his alchemy

library database dates

@regenerated-river-with-a-tardis

this fucking paper is gonna kill me

Ok roy's gotta have some sort of bizarre, innate sixth sense for knowing where the elric bros are. I'm only around episode 30 but this man has just driven up to them multiple times now and told them to hop in the car. Like there's only so many explanations. Did he drive around intentionally looking for them for like, 45 minutes, getting increasingly frustrated that they just wouldn't appear on the side of the road, and then when he finally finds them he hastens to act all cool and collected to hide the fact that he was having some violent road rage not even ten minutes ago? Is it some insane luck, where he doesn't intentionally look for them but always ends up seeing them when he's out driving, so he picks them up because why not? Or does he intentionally look, and he just has some bizarre instinct like "yeah I should probably turn left three blocks from now" and he does and sure enough, there they are??

Now a few times he did this I think was because plot fights were happening and a getaway was needed, but there has also been multiple times where the only seemingly discernable reason is because he wants to drop them off at home?? That's legit all he does in "the 520 cens promise". dude just pulls up and is like "get in". Forget any possible excuses of "I need to talk to you about confidential plot relevant info and it's safest to do that while constantly moving around in an enclosed space with just us". All I hear is "You're out past your curfew and you didn't text me where you were so I came to find you and make sure you got home okay". And if that isn't protective parent behavior then idk what is.

okay everybody, listen up, because I need to talk about Edward Elric. I've started watching fmab and I am losing my mind over this boy. There's so many incredible things about this kid; he's such an incredible protagonist.

the realism of Ed is so painfully wonderful- this is a fifteen year old child. Remember what you were like when you were fifteen? Yeah? Fifteen is so young. This is a child who's had to grow up WAY too fast and has been through so many unspeakable things, but he's still a kid and he actually ACTS like it. He gets irritable over small things and acts "childish" when he's excited and has that touch of arrogance a teen gets when they know they're important.

Ed gets scared. He's not like a lot of your "unshakable" shounen protagonists, who, when faced with something shocking in a fight, eyes only widen and mouth only frowns and they only worry a little and maybe ask for an explanation. No, Ed is a kid and he gets scared. Sometimes he handles fights well, but sometimes he freezes. When Scar found him and Al, when he hurt Al and tore out Ed's arm and pursued relentlessly in the rain, standing over Ed as Ed writhed on the ground, Ed screamed for his brother and froze in his fear and thought he was about to die then.

He's so fifteen in everything- in his anger and his arrogance, in his fear, in his trauma, in his reverence of life. Ed is at the age when your eyes truly start to open to reality and society, though given his past he probably started earlier. But he holds life so preciously, so closely, cradles it in his arms and declares over and over again that it is one thing he will not trample, will not hurt. That fifteen-year-old conviction and the leftover naivety from childhood, paired with the newer discovery of just how sacred, how beautiful and important life is.

He's fifteen in his love. You ever been around teenagers, especially today's teenagers, and you know they do everything fiercely, most things boldly, and Ed screams it in his love. In his protection of Al, his absolute dedication and protection to the one person he has left, can hold close. He's a teenager in their banter but such an eldest sibling in every way- in his drive to protect Al from anything, everything he can, in his leadership, in his fear of losing his sibling.

Ed is such a real person, such a real kid. He's incredibly mortal, unlike a lot of op shounen protagonists. He hits his head and it bleeds. He gets impaled and struggles to stand at all. Every time he's injured we see him recovering in the hospital after. He has nightmares from his fear of failure, about Al and his mother and Nina. He's smart but not indestructible. He's incredibly earnest about his convictions, earnest about the beauty of life, just like a teen.

Edward Elric is probably the most realistic anime teen I've ever seen, and I love him SO much