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Hello I am Doc, I am a forty year old boring-ass lesbian who is here to have fun and delight and entertain! I may update this or change it as events warrant, but this pinned post is a really good guide to the blog in general for right now.

At the end of the day, this is my space, and I can do what I want with it, and...it is, in fact, an extremely unconstitutional monarchy. My rule is law.

More on this later, but first, where I am in with my most popular liveblogs, to help avoid spoiling me:

FMA 03: 31 #Doc watches Fullmetal Alchemist

FMAB/Manga: Have not started, FMAB comes available in April for sponsoring or draw. Tag will be #Doc watches Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

The Summer Hikaru Died: 5 #Doc watches The Summer Hikaru Died

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You don’t have to like me. You don’t have to like my opinions. You don’t have to like my way of doing things. In fact, I would say there’s a number of people who I would call my friends who do not like items two and three at least SOME of the time. But you have to be decent! I am an old woman with a baby and a mortgage and if you get wild I will just block you. I answer asks as much as I can on a scattershot schedule. If I have a problem with you, you'll know, I can get prickly but I rarely hold grudges, I just cannot be bothered.

FAQ:

What exactly is your degree in?

Double major in Literature and American History, specifically History of the American West.

Why aren't you talking about X?/What do you think about Y?

I am extremely politically active in my personal life, as well as volunteering for several organizations that actively try to improve my community. This is my getaway car where I play with my little dollies. I find online activism masturbatory at best most of the time. Go help organize! Remember to consider your own opinion and know that you do not have to agree 100% with everyone, and that the perfect is the enemy of the good! We can do great things if we work together!

Are you going to watch Brotherhood?

THis show is so much fun. Tell me if you enjoyed it! Also please tell @iscahwynn and join us next week on Wednesday for more!

If you really loved, your comments and reblogs fill me with joy!

All tips for the next two weeks are going to me taking Mike to Blind Camp! I found and we got him into an intensive for living with blindness, and I am taking him down there on the 12th. I would love for us to get a hotel, take him out to dinner, maybe for drinks, before he has to spend a month away from the family. As you might imagine, medical bills have been high and the future is uncertain. So, buy Mike a drink!

The smile on his face. God, he's such a prick. One thing the novel does that I think is really interesting is it DALLIES with, though insanely annoyingly backs off of to wrap everything up, the idea of this kind of dedication to revenge changing in you in such a way that it is as if you are avenging a dead man. This version seems to be taking it a step further with having Edmond genuinely (I guess?) become a fucking vampire-type thing, a series of words I thought I would never string together but here we are.

But this emphasis on how him pulling the strikes has separated him from humanity, in the manner of a god or a monster, makes me wonder if we ARE going to actually get into those ideas. In the time Dumas was writing, for a serial novel, I'm not sure you could have gotten away with "Anyway. Edmond has walked himself too far out into the sea and now he's a stranger even to himself and has no idea how to live for something good." Dickens only occasionally got away with it despite writing later and being THE novelist. Audiences would riot.

But a modern audience WILL take it, and so I'm intersted if they're going to leverage that at all.

I love the contrast of "violence is unseemly" with the overt threats of murder, teh brandishing of the knife, the sense that Franz lives in a different world and not only is he privileged by it, but bound by it as well. Not that I think Franz could go swinging in and save the day, but you get me.

Oh but that's the problem, isn't it? He is not at all messing with you. THis is a thing that is going to happen, or rather isn't but only because Edmond knows what you'll do. I mean, the show is making no small point of this, we are supposed to think that Edmond is behind it all, using Peppino for this is part of tipping the audience's hand (assuming they haven't read the book)

Looking at Mercedes' wedding picture with the literal fucking whirling galaxy stormcloud revenge literally on his head. Exceptional work.

And no one else is going to help, no one else gives a shit (and I was right that the gal is a pro, it seems)

AHAHAHAHHAAH what.

I love this, amazing. So Franz is, very understandably, crying because his father is dead, and as a child he thinks it was his fault, and so Albert THROWS ROCKS AT him and then has the audacity to cry when baby Franz goes, "Um, fuck off? My father just died. This is his literal funeral, i don't want to fucking play??" Albert bursts into tears.

On the one hand, hilarious. On the other hand, is this basically a MICROCOSM of what their relationship is like? I mean we might argue that the whole situation with the count and then getting kidnapped is another mess of Albert's that Franz has to clean up. I do not think that is God's most unfair read on the situation.

ULTIMATE MEET CUTE SITUATION

Yeah Franz is doing a lot more work here than in the original, unless I managed to completely block out his tragic anime backstory, which, I guess given its been a few years, could be.

"The last thing I need is to be able to reflect on both my daddy issues AND my potentially dead best friend while a woman is naked in my place!'

Delicious dinner! what nice guys, i'm sure.

Now, of course, fuck the solar winds. There may in fact be solar winds, but this has nothing to do with them, it has to do with the fact that Edmond needs you to absolutely need him, to be DESPERATE for his help.

And of course he's going to try, because whatever else, Franz does genuinely care about Albert. he's not going to let him die in the goddamn catacombs, and this is great, actually, because we see how much open contempt he has for Edmond. He, not incorrectly, thinks that Edmond is inhuman, that he plays with people's lives like games, BUT, there is going to be nowhere else to go with this. That's a lot of money in a very short period of time.

Oh you "regret it" I'm sure. So because I've read the book, I know pretty much how this plays out, though of course they could always decide to do some off the wall bullshit here, but this is how Edmond really ingratiates himself to Albert's family. It FEELS like we're going to have Franz have a more prominent role in the story, though admittedly that's just vibes and I have no proof of anything.

Oh brilliant, not only is he about to tell him his friend is being ransomed, but it's this fucking guy that they ended up saving by chance, which I do not think was chance, I think Edmond set it all up and this only cements that for me. But my god, just, heaping coals on Franz' head, who wanted to leave! Who did not want to participate!

Okay not only is he reflecting on his daddy issues but also reflecting on how his young self felt responsible for the death of his father and how, even now, knowing that cannot possibly be true, it's still something he feels just under the skin.

While he has a girl in the shower. Magnificent work, no notes.