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its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little
me: but the true genius of fma 03 is in how alchemy is first presented as an essential view od the world, but turns out to be a tool of imperialism and dehumanisation much like many early 20th sciences—which is why the amestrian military is directly paralleled to the nazi regime! alchemy's equivalent exchange is really an attempt to justify the systems in place and the cruelties inflicted upon others to maintain amestris's status and prolong dante's life, and alchemy quite literally consumes lives to function! amestrian society's little comforts rely on that dehumanisation, whether it be of racial minorities such as ishbalans and liorites or of groups created by alchemy that are immediately deemed subhuman, like homonculi and chimera and armour-bound souls! the homonculi truly believe they are denied humanity and dont have souls when really they are manipulated to be told they're nothing but empty vessels. which is why lust and sloth's parallel arcs are so important, they both find a point to their existence outside of being homonculi but come to opposite conclusions—because fundamentally homonculi are people!!! lust's reclamation of her identity as an ishbalan woman is particularly crucial as lust has been quite literally objectified and turned into nothing but a vessel of desire, stripped of her name much like scar was, and that's the parallel between the two. the genocide has killed them, they are ghosts walking in its aftermath trying to figure what it means to be ishbalan *now*. lust's answer is to reclaim her identity as a human and ishbalan both, and die as such. but she can only so so once scar has showed the same way, once he becomes the man who crippled the amestrian military and finally gave his people a chance to escape and live without the military on their back. his murder of soldiers is righteous for 03! he is not a terrorist or a monster or a stupid man seeking vengeance, he is 100% correct on his analysis of amestrian power and military might and he ends his life on his own terms, making peace with his brother and handing the stone to al, because al and himself recognized one another as the dehumanized younger brothers who lost their lives and identities and have been defined as less than by alchemy! so really fma 03's true genius is in proclaiming strongly that scar is right and always has been—
the casual fma brotherhood fan who just wanted to know if 03 is worth a watch:
okay so i finally watched chainsaw man, its absolutely gorgeous, sometimes even i get tired of my intolerable hipster taste in anime, and it seemed highly likely to be the new gen i would actually enjoy
verdict -- pretty good, okay for now, have the feeling (like utena) its a show that needs to be watched in its entirety to really show its hand
but holy shit are there utena references, in the first ep of csm denji gets stabbed just like utena and look at the animation
even look at the types of swords and positions of the characters...
both of these stories deal with CSA and its clear that directorial choices were made influenced and referencing utena
CW: for depictions of CSA in the read more
[ID: Sketch of Yoo Joonghyuk with his hand on his hip and holding a gun up. He's wearing a t shirt that says "I never learned gun safety (exempt from the south korean military draft) and I'm not about to start now" in pink sparkle font. He smirks. /end ID]
i dont care how bad the movie is i need to see live action yoo joonghyuk fumbling a gun NOW!!!
this has been said before but it is so funny that kim dokja spends 13 years reading about yoo joonghyuk and centers his life around him and spends every waking moment going god i wish i was yoo joonghyuk and then kim dokja meets yoo joonghyuk and immediately starts bullying the shit out of him
#kim dokja: yoo joonghyuk is quite literally my everything and i want to be him more than anything #in fact hes the only reason i can keep going on this useless fucking earth #kim dokja when he actually meets yoo joonghyuk: heh. bitch. #hes teasing him hes leading him around by the nose hes mocking his suicidal tendencies hes kidnapping his baby sister #and hes doing it all with a shit eating grin. who is doing it like him #hes just like us fr hes got that blorbo attack instinct #i know hed be on here talking about putting yoo joonghyuk in a washing machine
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stunned how yhk isn't just. the most popular ship in the fandom
