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THE LAZY FANPERSON'S MEME
HI EVERYBODY HERE AT LIVEJOURNAL, HOW Y'ALL DOING.Not going to spend a lot of time listing the new and improved methods of flaking out that I discovered during this most recent month, but needless to say yet again I am behind on KHR reviews, and this is mostly the fault of work, tumblr, and Skyward Sword (in that order). And to top it off I derped out on NaNoWriMo as well, though I did manage about 12,000 words of fic out of it, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately the fic in question is long enough that it's still like maybe halfway done, if that. But I'm gonna try to get that finished in December anyway because I feel really weird not having posted at least one (non-crack) fic during this whole year. AND HEY WHAT DO YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT OF SAID YEAR, WHAT IS EVEN UP WITH THAT ANYWAY.
But before that! I've been craving a good meme lately, but the thing about memes is that I keep derping out on them too. And I got to thinking that one of the main reasons for that is because when it comes to typical fandom memes, there are always parts of the meme that I LOVE, but also parts of the meme that FEEL LIKE HOMEWORK. Like for example, I will ramble on endlessly about my favorite characters, but with most fandoms I really do not have an OTP (because in a lot of fandoms I'm either PANSHIP...UAL, or I do have one or two favorite pairings but I'm not HARDCORE SHIP-IT-TILL-I-DIIEEEE enough to have any interesting insights or opinions regarding those ships), and I don't know enough about the online fandom to know what my unpopular opinion regarding the series is, and I don't remember enough about the canon to pick my favorite quote or top three scenes, etc.
So I was pondering all of this and then I thought WELL FUCK IT, THEN I'LL JUST MAKE UP MY OWN MEME. A MEME FILLED ONLY WITH QUESTIONS THAT I LIKE TO ANSWER! MANIACAL LAUGH, MANIACAL LAUGH.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE IS THAT MEME:
Comment with one of my favorite fandoms and I will tell you the following:
1. My favorite character.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
5. One of my favorite moments.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid 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.
HMM, that seems like enough questions, I should probably just STOP NOW ALREADY. So anyways, please post some fandoms if you are so inclined and I will GET TO ANSWERING over the next few days or so. :)
P.S. Since I still did not get to the HS question on my last long-since-died-who-am-I-even-trying-to-kid-anymore meme, for this meme HOMESTUCK IS A GIVEN. Meaning YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO ASK THAT, I am already typing out my Homestuck response to this meme as we speak, because lol THAT SHIT'S OVERDUE.
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FMA:
1. My favorite character.
Ed. PROBABLY THIS ISN'T MUCH OF A SURPRISE, given that he is yet another one of Gokudera's personality twins! What's this? A teenage genius with a tsundere personality and heaps and buckets of angst? WHY YES, I WILL SIGN UP FOR THIS NEWSLETTER. I am so weak for this kind of character, it's not even funny. XD
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
Alphonse! I love how sweet Al is, and yet how underneath that he is just amazingly rock-solid strong to the core. It's like. GEE WHIZ THIS KID SURE IS SURPRISINGLY WELL-ADJUSTED FOR HAVING HAD HIS BODY ALCHEMIED AWAY AND REPLACED BY A GIANT SUIT OF ARMOR. He's just like, yeah btw I have angst and a guilt complex too, it's only natural really seeing as my bro and I fucked with things that should not be fucked with and ended up bringing our mom back to life as a zombie body parts gorefest, and then on top of that my brother sacrificed two of his limbs and almost died just so he could save little old me, and now I am stuck in this giant suit of armor and I can't eat or sleep or do any of those normal things people take for granted, and also I kind of have my hands full taking care of my idiot brother who cares and feels way too much, BUT YOU KNOW. I'm not complaining or anything! Just. GOSH, AL. Of all the Jesuses out there he is ONE OF THE JESUSIEST, for sure.
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
In canon, it's Ed and Al, hands down. But in fandom I have a giant weakness for Parental!Roy/Ed, like to a really embarrassing extent. Because it is a fact that I will leap over metaphorical cliffs and swim across oceans to get my hands on some good, satisfying H/C fic, and if there is any relationship out there that delivers on this in spades, IT'S THIS ONE. Even if like 90% of it is OOC. That made-up statistic probably holds true for pretty much any pairing/relationship in any fandom, anyway.
When it is IC, though, let me tell you, it hits my kinks HARD. Because Ed has daddy issues to begin with, and for all his genius and bravado, he's still just a kid, and is ridiculously young to have been tossed into these circumstances where he and his brother are basically on their own and dealing with war and fucked-up alchemy experiments and batshit bloodthirsty maniacs and all sorts of other things that are bound to fuck up a pair of kids real nice. And while he does have other adults there who do help keep an eye on him (Hughes, Havoc, Izumi... sort of XD), his relationship with Roy is my favorite because Roy of course has a massive pile of issues himself. Plus they also have that awesome snarky this-is-how-we-express-our-feelings-for-each-other-BECAUSE-WE'RE-WINNERS bantering relationship with each other as well, which is also awesome. So yeah, I love it.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
The Tucker storyline. To this day, what happened to Nina Tucker remains one of if not THE single most fucked-up thing I've ever seen in a manga or anime. And it happened pretty early on in the series, too, like only a few episodes in. It was just like, WHAM. FMA: WE KNOW DRAMA, and it was just unbelievably horrifying and yet at the same time I was completely engrossed in everything that was happening. So that was the moment that really cemented it for me that holy shit this series is hardcore. Short of anything Clamp does ever, this is just about as angsty as anime/manga gets.
AND I FUCKING LOST THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST BECAUSE LJ DECIDED TO BE A GIANT WHORE, so I'll be back to finish up again tomorrow. XD
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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.
hi this is another person come to tell you that you're missing out on awesome
The manga is THE BEST THING EVER, you would love it. I say this totally unironically, because I really do think Hiromu Arakawa's story is perfect. If you have buttons, IT WILL HIT THEM.
One of the things I love most about it is (unlike the first anime, or so I hear) that if you don't give up, if you refuse to just let bad things slide and you refuse to hurt people, maybe things won't be perfect but you can be happy. Another thing is the large and diverse female cast! And the Ishvalan characters, and the people from Xing, whom I hear do not exist in the first anime. Boo.
I will leave you with a masterpost, two bits of the manga, and a picture of Major General Olivier Armstrong.
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And it became clear that while Ed is liable to do crazy things in a fit of rage, Al, cool, calm, and collected, is willing to do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING if it means saving his brother. ALPHONSE, YOU ARE ACTUALLY QUITE SCARY. I SALUTE YOU.
And the older Ed gets, the more he and Roy turn into bratty siblings. Brattier than Ed and Al ever were. It's AMAZING.
Ed: Stop having a fucking tantrum and burning everything. What is WRONG with you?
Roy: Get the hell out of my way or I'll burn YOU.
Ed: BRING IT!
Hawkeye: There is nothing to stop me from shooting you both.
:D :D :D
Thanks for the links to the AMVs! Especially that first one, because I found it once years(?) ago and then lost it and couldn't find it again, so YAY!