I just think he’s a silly little guy

Promised day

She’s strange and off putting :)

…so I started watching the apothecary diaries

Happy Lunar New years!

I really love stylised art where the characters have really plain eyes. I tried to imitate the style this webcomic I really liked as a teen called ‘super secret’ with this with this.

would it be okay to quote one of your comics in a fanfic? i would link back to your strip at the end if its alright?

Yeah, of course!

I’ve seen some people ask why Ed doesn’t say Winry is his best friend.

Because he’s a tsundere.

Uhhh art nouveau has circles and so does fma…

… I was like halfway through making this before I realized there would probably only be like 8 people who know what ‘Hatoful Boyfriend’ is. I need to stop investing so much time into ideas I got while half asleep the night before…

A little clarification

I want to clarify why I tend to have an issue with Riza being characterized as 16 when her father died. To be clear, I’m not trying to say that that interpretation is non-canon compliant, I also don’t have an issue with people personally head-canoning her as that age. 

My problem is that people act like it’s canon, not even because I dislike the idea of Riza being 16 ten years ago. It’s actually because I don't like the assertion that she has to be 26 in the present. Shonen has an ageism problem, especially with female characters. I’ve noticed that there’s rarely a female character in Shonen over the age of 26. I think this is because 27 is when you stop being in your ‘mid-twenties’, and start being in your ‘late twenties’.

I think Riza’s character is less interesting if she’s only 26 because I feel like people use it to minimize her narrative autonomy. If she’s 16 when her father dies that shifts the narrative from ‘A naive woman chooses to have faith in the future of her country to ‘poor baby Riza is too pure for this world! She must be protected!’ Like I realize that 16-year-olds are capable of making their own decisions, and I’m aware that 17-19-year-olds are also young and dumb and make mistakes, but from a narrative perspective, people react differently to a character being 16, as opposed to a character being ‘in their late teens.’ I also feel like people don’t make this change because they want to explore any of the psychological ramifications of experiencing trauma at that age, but rather out of a desire to make her still young within the present story.

I’m not always great at articulating why I feel a certain way, but I thought it was important to clarify my feelings about this. It’s good and healthy to explore morally complicated situations through fiction! I’m actually a really big fan of Lolita and Chainsaw Man because they focus on the trauma of being a child who’s expected to act like an adult. I just wish people wouldn’t act as if their personal interpretation is canon, especially when I feel like it perpetuates the sexist tropes inherent to a lot of shonen.

He has such a black and white view of morality it’s so funny. Imagine trying to arrest your own self for war-crimes.

She’s in her Dostoyevsky era.

There was fire in those eyes

Riza misquotes Shakespeare at one point in the manga and it got me thinking about what kind of plays they’d like

Them

Happy Halloween