tired of toothy mimics. i want a mimic to just fucking deck me
an absolute U N I T
1st Edition has you covered.
Pulling-aggro’s art is excellent but yes this treasure chest with a fist is in fact the first illustration of a D&D mimic and therefore actually the first illustration of ANY mimic.
Can someone please tell me what it means when an owl LITERALLY fucking swims towards you and then stares you down??
Like look at it?? Literally flew past me and my my friend, it was so close that the wings touched our faces.
It’s reminding you to do your Duolingo practice
The real answer is that it really wants you to go away
That’s a fledgling great horned owl, they’re known for being generally ballsy and aggressive, and owls have been known to both climb trees and swim through still water in a pinch
Most likely full scenario: the bird was practicing flying, but it fell because it’s still a kid and they do that. It probably fell in/by the water. It then was like Oh Damn Oh Jesus and decided it was not in fact a duck and headed to shore, saw you, and was utterly offended but confused on what to do. So it decided to Square Up and face you like the hellbeast it is.
The pose it’s taking in the pic is one I affectionately call Full Orb. A fully orbed owl is 100% READY to FIGHT 1v1 no items final destination. You were probably its first up close encounter with a human, and since birds tend to associate larger animals with predators, it tried to make itself look as big as possible to make sure you know what’s up. It was staring you down because it was waiting to see you make the first move in the dual or flee in fear from its superior owl might.
rocketman was fucking amazing and taron egerton singing im still standing was beautiful and emotional especially within the context of when and where he sang it in the film but the whole time i was like you sang this in sing (2016) when you played the gorilla. i didnt forget. you sang this when you were monky, dude. i didnt forget
Anonymous: Best thing about FMA:B is that Nina is still remembered and a very defining part of a lot of their convictions towards people and alchemy. Al's conversation with Gracia highlights even some of the seemingly unimportant plot-related arcs from the very beginning still have large ripples through the FMA storyline. Because Nina originally felt like a lesson in human cruelty, but ended up being a lesson on humanitarianism.
This is also one of my absolute favorite little details. The biggest complaint I have about a lot of long-running, save-the-world type shows is that the characters will go through so many traumatic experiences that–for the sake of convenience–the writers just start to forget the early ones. There will be something so vital, so life-changing that happens in early episodes that just kinda gets…phased out. The writers are bored of it. The writers have decided bigger/cooler things need to happen instead. The writers just frigging forget, or change their minds, because that was still test-phase stuff for their characters and they want to renege on the characters caring so much about “early traumatic event”
Not Fullmetal Alchemist.
Not Nina.
The impact she has on the Elrics is lasting. It’s consistent. It’s real. It’s never. damn. forgotten.
The final chapter. Within the final 20 pages of the entire series, we get this
Here Al is trying to overhaul his and Ed’s entire life philosophy. He is attempting to reject the core ideas of alchemy. He’s trying to prove an entire different system of equivalence. Because he has not forgotten Nina. Because Ed has not forgotten. Because they refuse to forget.
Nina died in chapter 5.
And it is her memory that motivates the boys’ final actions in the final chapter: chapter 108
Because the consequences in this series are real, and the effects are lasting, and nothing is done just for shock, and nothing is thrown away
and nothing
is ever
forgotten
You are so…so right
This is Ed’s crowning moment in the entire series. This is his greatest break-through, his largest accomplishment, his most defining moment. Far more than beating Father! Far more than his transmutation! This is the culmination of everything Ed’s been though. This is Ed accepting humanity over power, and love over status, and family over his own most prized ability. That is everything Father refused to do, and the reason Father was punished. Ed was punished early on too for seeking the impossible, but Truth left open a window for redemption. Truth gave Ed the chance to do right. Truth gave Ed the opportunity to beat it, and win.
And Ed does.
And he does, in some fraction, because he’s refused to forget Nina. In his defining moments, in the transmutation that saves his little brother’s life, that lets him regain everything of value he’d lost, at the cost of his alchemy which he knows is worthless compared to all else–he is thinking of Nina.
Nina has been dead since chapter 5. That impact lasts through the most vital pieces of 108.
Anonymous: Best thing about FMA:B is that Nina is still remembered and a very defining part of a lot of their convictions towards people and alchemy. Al's conversation with Gracia highlights even some of the seemingly unimportant plot-related arcs from the very beginning still have large ripples through the FMA storyline. Because Nina originally felt like a lesson in human cruelty, but ended up being a lesson on humanitarianism.
