Chapters: 5/11 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Riza Hawkeye/Roy Mustang, Alternate Riza Hawkeye/Alternate Roy Mustang Characters: Roy Mustang, Alternate Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, Alternate Riza Hawkeye, Alex Louis Armstrong, Edward Elric, Winry Rockbell, Grumman (Fullmetal Alchemist), Black Hayate (Fullmetal Alchemist) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Idiots in Love, Alternate Universe - Fullmetal Alchemist 2003/Brotherhood Fusion, Post-Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, Post-Promised Day, Body Swap, Royai - Freeform Summary:

One circle, one Roy Mustang on each side, one accidental transmutation, one occasion to be humbled and learn.

CHAPTER 5 IS GO !! 

fandom is like. we create things for each other and isn’t that love in its purest form? 

cinematographers need to stop being so afraid of lighting. like i get it your movie is grim and serious, but i promise it would be even more grim and serious if i could actually see what was happening

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This is my tribe. Many of us in our home countries live off selling handmade goods, especially the mochilas. Weaving is an important Wayuú tradition. Every pattern and assortment of colors tells a unique story, and it's important to our cultural identity. And right now with the crises in Venezuela and Colombia, a lot of us are struggling financially. Please always purchase directly from indigenous communities!

This is how you avoid cultural appropriation. Buying and promoting brands from the group. Learn about what you are buying! You are paying to participate in culture as you should.

Back when I was working at the factory (or really, "produce redistribution plant", but 'the factory' rolls off the tongue easier), there was only one female forklift operator in the whole plant. This story isn't about her, the point here is that it was a very male-dominated workplace.

Seeing them swoop by day in and day out, you got used to the forklifts, which were all more or less identical with each other save for some scrapes and bangs and signs of wear, except for one, which had a tiny, sparkling Hello Kitty -sticker on the side, scarcely larger than my thumb.

One night shift there were only two gatherers at work beside me, and only one forklift operator. On a particularly quiet moment of that particularly quiet night, the forklift driver and I were the only ones in the break room, and though we'd never really talked before, I remarked that he got the Hello Kitty one.

He, a sturdy man in his fifties, grinned in a way that made the ends of his moustache tilt up, made a pointed look around the obviously empty break room and leaned in towards me like men that age do when they've got a great and splendid secret to share.

He asked me, had I ever noticed that it was almost always him who is driving the Hello Kitty forklift? I had not, but that did not swing his glee about this to either direction. He nodded. That was his favourite forklift, it's the one that turns the smoothest, the one with the most even brakes and most comfortable seat. He had put the sticker on it, he had borrowed one from his granddaughter.

Ever since, even if he hadn't shown up to shift as the first guy on the job, his favourite was almost always still available. Like a magical, protective ward, the little sparkly sticker kept the other men away from his favourite machine.

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault

ellen bass / jenny slate / maggie stievater / casey mcquiston / céline sciamma / sade andria zabala / franny choi / kiersten white / patrick rothfuss

I just discovered a band I'd never heard of by finding two of their albums in a mysterious plastic bag in an abandoned school building. Finally, I'm at the start of a fantasy novel

To make things even weirder they're called Vampire Weekend and they appear to be some kind of weird One Direction knock off from 2008? If forced to describe their music I'd say maybe soft rock, but honestly I have no idea. They're kinda good though??

you guys CAN NOT tell me Vampire Weekend was actually popular this is so embarrassing I'm going to take the high dive off a cliff

I HATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH 😭

I'm going to kill myself for real

Please don't let me go down in Tumblr history as the guy who's never heard of Vampire Weekend 😭

You guys are tearing me apart for this one but what I hate is that you're actually being really funny about it

Tell me This is a joke omg

It's not a joke 😭

I actually didn't know about the band Vampire Weekend until yesterday when I found a couple of their CDs in an old abandoned school building my friends and I were exploring

PSA: Just a friendly reminder that whenever you start a creative project, you will invariably hit a phase where the Thing™️ appears horrendous and you start asking existential questions. But if you keep working, it invariably passes and starts to resemble something less like the devil’s vomit. Doesn’t matter if it’s art, writing, or what–this happens repeatedly. Carry on.

“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast

god employers really do be like: attach your cover letter here. now attach your resume here. now re-enter everything you just put on your resume but do it manually and with the least user friendly piece of shit software you've ever used in your life. now you'll never hear from us again. now fucking die ❤️

Brain: that celebrity is attractive.

Me: do not learn anything else about them.

Must I publish a chapter for it to be read? Must I finish the chapter? Is it not enough to have an incoherent Word document filled with half-written and twice-written scenes? Is it not enough to have the rest of the chapter in my head?

I will probably always be identified as this person. I will probably be Princess Leia till I’m 85 years old.