OR, I could just quickly half-ass the rest of this while trying to remember my answers from before. XDD
5. One of my favorite moments.
I love the flashback to when Ed and Al first started apprenticing under Izumi. HEY SOME KIDS WANT TO BE MY APPRENTICES... I KNOW, I'LL STRAND THEM ON AN ISLAND FOR A MONTH AND HAVE THEM TRY TO SOLVE CRYPTIC RIDDLES WHILE ALSO STRUGGLING TO JUST STAY ALIVE, LOL. Except that of course she was really looking out for them the whole time, and then later on when we found out about her own angsty past (FMA--everyone's got one!) all her reluctance to train these two kids suddenly made sense and looking back on it the whole thing just kind of makes me go T_T. As a bonus, I adore little!Ed and Al, so any scenes involving them are like automatically my favorite, heh.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
"Hollow" by Submersed, which is entirely the fault of this awesome, awesome fanvid.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
FMA is one of only a few series that I don't get embarrassed about reccing to non-anime fans. Really, the only other two I can think of are Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE GATEWAY DRUGS. |D
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
I've actually only seen the series one time, and it was the first anime only (never got around to reading the manga or watching Brotherhood, much to my shame as I hear tell from countless people that I am missing out on epicness), and that was about 6 or 7 years ago.
And! The thing about most of the fics that I've read is that the vast majority of them are set early-to-mid-series, possibly because the vast majority of fandom struggles with denial over Hughes's death. XD So, as a result of all of this, I have fairly clear memories of everything in the series right up until Hughes dies, and then afterwards my memory is like, "LALALALALA." Like I am so fuzzy on the later details of the story that it's pathetic. And it's not like I lost interest in the series after that point or anything; quite the opposite! But since I haven't seen the anime in so long, and I kind of marathoned the whole thing back when I did watch it, and virtually all of my later canon-reinforcing comes from the aforementioned fics... yeah. TO SUM UP, MAKESTE IS SENILE.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, fanvid, or piece of art that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
Sadly I've actually lost all my bookmarks to the glut of Roy/Ed genstuff I was rambling about earlier, so I'll just link to another videos. This is one of my favorite AMVs for any series, ever. So much love. <3
Anyway! HOPEFULLY LJ WILL ACTUALLY POST THIS THIS TIME. MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN.
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5. One of my favorite moments.
I love the flashback to when Ed and Al first started apprenticing under Izumi. HEY SOME KIDS WANT TO BE MY APPRENTICES... I KNOW, I'LL STRAND THEM ON AN ISLAND FOR A MONTH AND HAVE THEM TRY TO SOLVE CRYPTIC RIDDLES WHILE ALSO STRUGGLING TO JUST STAY ALIVE, LOL. Except that of course she was really looking out for them the whole time, and then later on when we found out about her own angsty past (FMA--everyone's got one!) all her reluctance to train these two kids suddenly made sense and looking back on it the whole thing just kind of makes me go T_T. As a bonus, I adore little!Ed and Al, so any scenes involving them are like automatically my favorite, heh.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
"Hollow" by Submersed, which is entirely the fault of this awesome, awesome fanvid.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
FMA is one of only a few series that I don't get embarrassed about reccing to non-anime fans. Really, the only other two I can think of are Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE GATEWAY DRUGS. |D
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
I've actually only seen the series one time, and it was the first anime only (never got around to reading the manga or watching Brotherhood, much to my shame as I hear tell from countless people that I am missing out on epicness), and that was about 6 or 7 years ago.
And! The thing about most of the fics that I've read is that the vast majority of them are set early-to-mid-series, possibly because the vast majority of fandom struggles with denial over Hughes's death. XD So, as a result of all of this, I have fairly clear memories of everything in the series right up until Hughes dies, and then afterwards my memory is like, "LALALALALA." Like I am so fuzzy on the later details of the story that it's pathetic. And it's not like I lost interest in the series after that point or anything; quite the opposite! But since I haven't seen the anime in so long, and I kind of marathoned the whole thing back when I did watch it, and virtually all of my later canon-reinforcing comes from the aforementioned fics... yeah. TO SUM UP, MAKESTE IS SENILE.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, fanvid, or piece of art that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
Sadly I've actually lost all my bookmarks to the glut of Roy/Ed genstuff I was rambling about earlier, so I'll just link to another videos. This is one of my favorite AMVs for any series, ever. So much love. <3
Anyway! HOPEFULLY LJ WILL ACTUALLY POST THIS THIS TIME. MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN.