Each time he has laid eyes on Riza Hawkeye’s tattoo, the course of Roy Mustang’s life has been permanently altered.

Rating: T

Word count: 2,260

From my OG blog.

Is this thing on?

I recently came back to Tumblr after a hiatus and found this blog's reach had been severely limited. As in almost nonexistent. Posts not showing in tags, comments / reblogs / messages disappearing when I refresh the page, etc. I have a ticket in with Tumblr Support but haven't heard back. Hopefully I'll have a fix soon.

I did make a secondary blog @the-blue-eyed-firebender but honestly missed this one and the history I've built here, so I'm trying to save it. Any advice is welcome. Otherwise, it's just a waiting game.

So this blog isn't abandoned, I'm still here, and if you're Tumblr Support reviewing my ticket PLEASE I PROMISE I'M A HUMAN.

Lady Death🖤 by xohikka [twitter]

dreaming in a dream world

THEY EVEN TOOK HIS QUEEN

More zutara 😬

if you ever wonder whether your ao3 comments make a difference know that i frequently go back and read old comments on my fics to get a dose of happy rainbow sunshine

Do you ever see something like this:

and think, "This'll be a fun little thing to read while I wait."

And then you read it and you're fundamentally changed as a person and you're left staring off into the middle distance as you contemplate life and love and connection and what it all means?

When your former horsegirl self accidentally uses horse terminology for a guy named Mustang, and spend the next ten minutes giggling to yourself before deciding to leave it in your story anyway

happy birthday Alphonse Elric

I like the "settle down, get married, have kids" ending for Ed in "Fullmetal Alchemist" because it suits the themes and the character arcs well. But also because there's still plenty of room for adventure beyond the joys of a simple life (it is fun to imagine Ed picking up a million homesteading-related hobbies with all his usual competitive spirit); Winry has a thriving career! She and Ed can travel around the country, visit people, and probably even visit Xing before kids or when their kids are old enough for travel.

But I also like it fine because I feel 100% certain that Edward Elric would not have children unless he was 100% certain that he wanted them and was ready to be a good dad. He would not bring life into this world recklessly. I feel like he would have asked himself, "Is there any chance I might be a deadbeat dad?" and that he was absolutely ruthless with his analysis of his character, like, to the degree that it quickly stopped being funny or embarrassing and started being sad. He'd try and get his own Riza Hawkeye about this: "If it ever looks like I'm being a shitty father or husband, I need you to kill me," he says, sleep-deprived and panicking, and Alphonse can only be like, "Brother... No..."

Also, I feel like we shouldn't leave Winry out of this. This woman is driven and successful and was orphaned because her parents left her for a good cause. She and Ed would sit their asses down and have an excruciatingly thorough and detailed conversation about parenthood and their future. I could buy an AU where they mutually decided to be childfree, sure, but I cannot be fully convinced that they as a team would be reckless about children and parenthood.

I'm sure they'd make mistakes, of course, as all parents do. (I also feel like they would try and make plans with the same focus as automail schematics and alchemic circles, which would often be immediately ruined upon contact with the "enemy". And that Uncle Alphonse would shamelessly and mischievously spoil his niblings against parental wishes whenever his brother's back was turned. Traitor.) But they're also one of those couples where I see them in the cliché "happily ever after" and I can genuinely be like, "Yeah, they're fine."

warmth.

No way this goober stopped being an edgelord after brotherhood

and you're the one i can't live without💞💐

(it's a redraw of a redraw! originals under the cut ^__^)

first redraw is from 2020 :] the original is from a studio bones artists' exhibition iirc! this time i wanted to give riza an outfit i like personally instead of drawing the same as the original ^__^

only way to shut his mouth

I'm (not) sorry but they EAT