Latest Posts by roboticspidergoblin - Page 3

oh ok. the dwarves in dungeon meshi live in a steampunk world. good to know. But i love the juxtaposition between elves using magic birds to communicate while the dwarves have straight up telephones

and the gnomes are hopelessly dependent on the orb

Opinions on fullmetal alchemist?

Brotherhood is the best anime ever made.

It's the most tightly-plotted slowburn mystery I've ever seen. Everything ties together. It makes more and more sense the more times I rewatch it, which in a mystery story is goddamn rare. In the very first episode, the filler villain at one point says "You don't understand the shape this country is in!" and that's a completely innocuous thing for this character to say except no it isn't

The magic system is a beautifully hard arrangement that never breaks its own rules, and it effortlessly explains everything you need to know to follow every alchemy-based twist just through the explanation of equivalent exchange and the question "what could equal the value of a human soul?" Alchemy follows equivalent exchange at all points and functions basically like Advanced Chemistry, and whenever it looks like the rules are being broken, it's just because somebody is burning human souls to do it.

The cast is massive, but never crowded. Everybody has a part to play. Even the seemingly-interchangeable minion characters all end up being unique contributers to the plot; there is truly no separation between Main Characters and Minor Characters because at any point anyone can turn out to be suddenly deeply important.

Contains a profound philosophical meditation on how even the most powerful person is not omnipotent, and the purposelessness of a power that can't be used to save the people they love, and this theme culminates in the only instance of the "extremely cool powerful badass sacrifices all their powers" trope that I actually 100% like.

Somehow this slowburn hard-magic mystery builds up to a massive anime confrontation about teenagers using the power of friendship to kill god and it never makes any buckwild leaps to get there. The resolution is emotionally satisfying and ridiculously kickass.

There are stories that I come back to more often, or hit me harder in the moment, or contain higher highs, or had more impact on their genres, but FMA:B is, pound for pound, the best anime ever made. 10s across the board.

kid in the library just said "a VILLAIN who lives in the MOON is after us" so keep an eye out for that today guys

SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF + CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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(in case you need a knife in the next two days for reasons unrelated to political assassinations)

The Owl House fandom is very funny bcos at one end you have the Lumity shippers but then at the other end you have the people who are obsessed with the Bone Pit

You can only reblog this today.

WHY DIDN’T I SEE THIS A WEEK AGO

I would like all Americans (and everyone else) who are excited for the Superbowl to know: Before the actual Superbowl there's a live tournament on TV, here in Germany, called "American Ice Football".

It is exactly what it sounds like: American Football but played on Ice, in shoes with entirely smooth soles.

It's a tournament with 4 teams and they are called Eastside Ossis, Westside Wessis, Northcoast Naughties and Southside Smoothies and it's just hilariously entertaining.

Here's a video to show you how stupid it looks:

ok so hear me out

Maybe it’s the goggles he had when he first showed up or maybe it’s the magic tattoos, but I, for one, think he’s incredibly cool.

I'm just saying erin has very memeable panels

Erin wants so bad to be cool and aloof but unfortunately he is too full of Love and Hubris

REPOSTOBER, DAY 7: Van Hohenheim

yet another drawing that I didn't post on tumblr (because I did not have a Tumblr account in 2014)!

I was OBSESSED with FMA when I was a kid!

don’t forget 

Happy FMA day!

Don’t forget 3 oct 11

The time of year where I listen to Burning Down the House for an hour straight

it's that time of year again!

everyone mark your calendars!! tomorrow is the annual “burn your childhood home down so you can never go back and leave on a long journey to get your brother’s body back because you committed the biggest taboo in alchemy and paid the price but all you really wanted was to see your mother again but now you realize dead people really can’t come back to life but there is still love and joy in the world” day!! :)

WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT ELIJAH WOOD WAS IN OVER THE GARDEN WALL?

I thought it was just a kind of spooky kids show, but for some reason my enjoyment skyrocketed when I realized it had Frodo in it.