Recently I Have Been Watching Fullmetal Alchemist And I've Bumped Into Some Memes About The Best And

Recently I have been watching Fullmetal Alchemist and I've bumped into some memes about the best and worst dads in anime. How would you sort out the best and worst dads in the Animorphs universe?

Animorphs Dads From Best to Worst According to Me

Walter. He's so kind and goofy and supportive with Cassie. He's the ideal sort of dad who both gives his kid lots of space to grow up in her own way, but is also willing to talk about whatever might be bothering her.

Steve. We know he's very sweet and forgiving almost to a fault, patient with kids and bratty adults alike. Loses a point for responding to Tom's personality swap in #1 with "sooomebody's got a giiiiiirrrllfriiieend" because that is not the way to get your teenager to open up to you about dating or alien invasions.

Noorlin. We don't know much about him — he's got one scene in #8 — but he seems like he's doing his best to support Ax during that single Skype call. Loses a point for jumping instantly to "you know you gotta kill Visser Three" upon learning that one of his kids is dead and the other is marooned, but overall seems solid.

[space left intentionally blank to separate the good dads further from the crap ones, because tbh none of them are mediocre]

Elfangor. Look, I get that most of his separation from Tobias isn't his fault, but his interaction with his kid consists solely of recruiting said kid into a war that Elfangor himself accidentally started. Not a great look.

Peter. Only ranks above Dan because he eventually gets his shit together, but I'm also unwilling to excuse how long he takes to get his shit together. It's not his fault that he's dealing with major shit between Eva's "death" and meeting Nora, but he nevertheless needs to do a lot more parenting of Marco and a lot less getting parented by Marco. Also, "book-smart man who never bothered to learn how to cook or clean because he's always had a partner to do it for him" is even less of a good look in the 19damn90s.

Dan. There is some excellent social commentary in Rachel's parents' (ex-)marriage around Dan getting 50% of the credit for doing 0.1% of the work. The scene in #7 where Dan brings junk food for dinner to try and bribe his daughters while Naomi rushes home from her extremely challenging job to discover her ex is here to announce that he's fucking off to some other state and won't even be around for one weekend a month anymore... that just speaks volumes about their respective parenting. Dan's not obviously absent like Elfangor, but in many ways his half-assed parenting (including through putting tough emotional decisions on Rachel so he doesn't have to deal with them himself) is worse than accidental abandonment.

Thiam Playlist

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Songs True Love by P!nk (ft. Lily Allen) At the same time, I wanna hug you I wanna wrap my hands around your neck / You’re an asshole, but I love you / I really hate you, so much I think it must be true love Unhealthy Obsession by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra You’ve got those eyes that drive me crazy and I’ve got eyes to watch you sleep / you just don’t know it yet but you love me and I love you the same Do Me a Favour by Arctic Monkeys Do me a favour and break my nose / Do me a favour and ask if you need some help Hurricane by Bridget Mendler Boarding up the windows, locking up my heart / every time he smiles I let him in again I Found by Amber Run I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be, right in front of me Hot N Cold by Katy Perry And you, overthink, always speak critically. I should know that you’re no good for me / We fight we break up, we kiss we make up Nicotine by Panic! At the Disco I taste you on my lips and I can’t get rid of you, so I say damn your kiss and the awful things you do, yeah you’re worse than nicotine The Good, the Bad and the Dirty by Panic! At the Disco If you’re gonna start a fight, you better throw the first punch, make it a good one Mad Hatter by Melanie Martinez I’m nuts baby, I’m mad, the craziest friend you’ve ever had / You think I’m psycho, you think I’m gone, so what if I’m crazy? The best people are No Interruption by Hoodie Allen I’ll give it to you no interruption. In your home, in your home, on the phone, on the phone, all alone, all alone, I’ll give it to you no interruption Fools by Troy Sivan Only fools fall for you, only fools only fools do what I do, only fools fall Every Breath You Take by The Police Every step you take I’ll be watching you / oh can’t you see? You belong to me

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waterbxy

4 years ago

Actual sentences from my actual college professors over the years

“There’s no class today because they have dollar hot dogs in the cafeteria and I’m not giving that up.”

“I brought you guys coffee to cry in because it was cheaper than tissues.”

“I chained myself to a cattle guard last night and now my arms are sore.”

“Once upon a time Oceania was happy and then Europeans showed up and ruined everything.”

“… If the whole class wants to go drinking I’ll cancel class.”

“So I know I told you all to go to a restaurant to speak Hawaiian to the waitress there who also speaks it, what I didn’t tell you is that she got sick and wasn’t there last night so now there’s a very confused restaurant emailing me.”

“Good morning, my husband got arrested last night so I’ll be taking over his class for today. We’re gonna learn a song about numbers!”

“I have a court hearing tomorrow and I’ll let y’all know if it was a bitch of a trial or not.”

“Class is postponed because I have to drag my mother off a mountain.”

“Attendance is mandatory but if anyone jets off to Mauna Kea let me know because I wanna go too.”

“I think I broke my ass in the shower last night.”

“We’re gonna make fire and then we’re gonna burn down the white house!”

“The computer broke so I panicked and called the whole department to come fix it.” “That’s 22 people.” “I’m aware.”

“I got approved for my PhD but now that means I actually have to try and get my PhD.”

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waterbxy

5 years ago

so, post-canon…

Capheus wins the election, of course he does. He wins re-election, too…but probably not the one after that. It’s difficult, you see, to be the face of anti-corruption when your father-in-law is a drug lord.

He stays in politics, though. Zakia needs someone to drive her tour bus.

Wolfgang and Felix go with the India Plan, and the story is that, after the scare of Kala being shot, she and Rajan hired this scary-looking Germans as bodyguards. After a year or so, Kala’s parents suspect something but would rather not think about it and Rajan’s father is oblivious.

They’re all pretty good at keeping up the act - Felix is surprisingly fantastic at covering for the three of them - but now and then, someone will approach Rajan and suggest, sometimes genuinely sympathetically, that his wife might, just maybe, be…

Rajan is amazing at looking shocked and offended that you would even imply this about his beautiful wife. Of course she is perfectly honest, and their marriage has never been steadier! How dare you!

They have two daughters. The second is conspicuously light-skinned. People have almost given up commenting.

Lito has like two weeks in the middle of filming where he’s half-convinced that Hernando is going to leave him for Blake Huntington, because Blake can talk about Kant and metaphor and all those things that make Lito love Hernando so much but he Does Not understand. Hernando, of course, is stifling completely irrational spikes of rage every time he watches Lito kiss Blake, because…it never bothered him when it was women, you know, because he knew Lito wasn’t really interested. That it could never be real. But not only is Blake Huntington, well, Blake fucking Huntington, 3-time Academy Award winner, hot as a steaming griddle, and clever and educated to boot, but he’s male and Lito is out, and playing this role that is 50% his own story anyway, and here’s Blake being the love of his life… Meanwhile, Lito is off crying on a pillow somewhere because Hernando and Blake were talking about Proust…

Dani sorts this out by

a) shutting them in the bedroom until they talk to each other, and

b) sleeping with Blake Huntington and claiming dibs by right of First Bang.

she also, incidentally, prints cards for herself as an agent, and gets a lot of calls

The whole cluster, plus friends and family, flies to LA for the opening night of Iberian Dreams. Lito spends half of it full-on sobbing, at his own acting and more importantly because his dream is coming true.

The only one crying harder is Bug.

Nomi and Amanita stay in San Francisco, for the most part. They take a lot of romantic vacations to visit their family around the world, and take turns bringing each other coffee and pastries while they co-write a fictionalized, urban fantasy version of their story. Because even if the details need to stay secret, there are some things you need to say loud and proud.

Sun and Mun probably get married eventually, but they never have biological human children. They have a lot of dogs, and eventually Mun gets shot one too many times and she convinces him to quit the force and go work in a dojo. He loves it. Sun, meanwhile, is back at Bak, rebuilding her family name and doing finance by day and fistfights by night. The other fighters know her now, though. As do the kids Mun trains. It’s a really great extended family.

Will does not move to Iceland so much as move to Riley, and Riley’s home is Iceland but she cannot stay there, not always. Fortunately, there are clubs all over Europe that will open the doors and vive la resistance for Riley Blue.

In only a few years, she is pregnant again - though not with a child this time. With eight.

They go home for this. She has nightmares, of the car and the frozen hill and the empty church in equal parts.

It is nothing like that. They are on the beach, because it felt right, righter than her living room. Will holds her hands, as do Nomi, Lito, Sun, Capheus, Kala, Wolfgang. The sun is setting, but it is summer in Iceland; it is warm. Around the world, eight other people open their eyes and see the sunset as well, and their mother exhausted but smiling.

They will never be hunted.

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waterbxy

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