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Okay, in which episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood does the scene(s) in gifs of the sidebar of this tumblr happen?

I ask because I linked my mom to a post from that tumblr, and I couldn't explain what was going on to my mom's satisfaction, and she's really worried about Riza.

Right now, I have too fantastic (and extensive) comment memes in open windows. So to keep track of the fics that I want to be able to easily re-read, I'm going to be compiling links for my favorites. Which means that my lucky flist gets quick access to some of the best. (FYI, if you visit this post in a week, there will be more fics than there are now.)

Animorphs:

There Is No Such Thing As Neutral (Rachel)
We Happy Few (Rachel)

Anne Of Green Gables:

Fairy Princess

Atonement:

My Hand Is Growing Weak (Briony)

Avatar:

As To Matters Of Dress (Sokka/Suki)

Batman:

Lick Your Eyes & Then Mine (Catwoman/Batman)

Beauty & The Beast:

Hold Me Down (Belle/Beast)
Learning Humanity (Belle/Beast)

Being Human:

You Said Your Soul Would Linger On (Annie)

Bones

One Year Later (Brennan)
Turn Around Again (Angela)
Bones Break (Brennan)
Trust Not The Coyote (Caroline)
Conceptual Art Is Bullshit (Angela)
A Reasonable Explanation (Brennan)
Spent So Long Waiting Here (Booth/Brennan)

Buffyverse:

American Girls (Buffy)
Plans (Faith)
Tired Of Being Cautious (Fred)
Travel It All (Faith)
Razor's Edge (Buffy)
But You've Got The Headstone All Ready (Buffy)
There Is No Prince (Buffy/Giles)

Casino Royale:

Juggernaut Heart (Vesper)

Castle:

Takedown (Beckett/Demming)

Carmen Sandiego:

The Catch Is You Stay & See What Becomes Of Us (Carmen/Waldo)

Castle:

Fatherhood (Alexis)
The Magnificent Seven (Martha)

Community:

Do Not Go Gentle (Annie)
It's My Heart, Not Me, Who Cannot Drive (Britta, Jaye)
Take The Wheel (Britta)
On Hiatus (Britta)
My Smile Can Distract You (Annie)
Like A Child (Annie)
With The Lights Out It's Less Dangerous (Annie/Jeff)
Come A Little Bit Closer (Jeff/Annie)
Hey, Hey, You, You (Annie/Jeff)
TV Marathon (Jeff, Abed, Jeff/Annie)
In Limbo Part One and Part Two (Britta)
Sawdust (Britta/Abed)
This Could Be A Brand New Start (Britta)
Temporary (Jeff/Annie)

Criminal Minds:

Close To Home (JJ)
They Are My Own (Haley)
My Heart Has Lost It's Wind Now (Emily)
When It Doesn't Rain It Pours (Emily)
Self-Esteem Is Good For You (Garcia)
I'll Sing You All The Lullabies (They Never Sung For Me) (Elle)
Wrong Number (Garcia/Morgan)
Friday Night Goddess (Garcia, Reid)

Dark Angel:

The Tenderest Touch Leaves The Darkest Marks (Max)
Songs For Fighters (Max/Alec)

Dexter:

A Lion-Hearted Fucking Woman (Deb)
After The Deluge (Deb)

Doctor Who

I Think To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure (Amy)
Climbing Back (Rose)
These Accidents of Faith and Nature (Amy)
Too Much Like A Fairy Tale (Amy)
The Good Wife (Martha)
We'll Be Their Storybook Heroes (Sally Sparrow)
Got A Sky Full of Stars (And Nothing Else) (Amelia Pond)
No Hero In Her Sky (Amelia)
First Run (River Song)
Lionesses (River Son/Liz X)

Dollhouse:

Painting The World You Want To See (Priya)

Dracula:

Phantom (Mina/Dracula)
Firefly:

Your Absence Has Gone Through Me (Inara/Nandi)
Meta (River)
Wolves (Zoe, Kaylee, River)

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Steadily (Riza)
There Goes My Gun (Riza & Rebecca)

Gilmore Girls:

A Perfect Haircut Every Day (Lane)

Glee:

Waegukin (Tina)
Inscrutable (Tina/Mike)
As If You'd Just Woke Up (Rachel/Jesse)
Fathers and Mothers (Rachel)
Linear Progression (Shelby)
Sweep The Room With A Glance (Emma)

The Good Wife

I Lost My Teeth On The Edge Of A Glass (Kalinda)
Something To Think About (Kalinda)

Gossip Girl:

Wants (Blair)
Snapshot of the Artist (Vanessa)
You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl)
Everything Marissa Cooper Could Have Been (Serena, Summer)

Harry Potter:

On the Nature Of Hatred & It's Uses (Hermione)
Human Behavior (Bellatrix)
When Choice Means Leaving Everything Behind (Hermione)
No Take-Backs (Narcissa)
You Counting On My Failure Make Me Live (Lily/James)
It's Not A Joke (Tonks)
Blow Me Blue-Bell Bubbles (Alice)

Hercules:

Heart & Heaven (Meg)

How I Met Your Mother:

That Girl (Robin/Ted)

The Hunger Games:

REBELLION (KATNISS)

Trust (Rue)
Rise & Fall (Prim)

In Plain Sight

The Art Of Ninja Origami (Mary/Marshall)
Hard Hats (Mary & Eleanor)
Ice Cream (Mary/Marshall)

Iron Man:

The Sea Makes Your Eyes Strange (Natasha Romanova)
Dust Out The Demons (Tony/Pepper)
Fast, Thorough, & Sharp As A Tack (Pepper/Tony)
Brutality (Tony, Emma Frost, Pepper)

Labyrinth:

Missed You All Along (Sarah)
Dreams (Sarah)

Legally Blonde:

Sugar, We're Going Down (Elle)

Legend of the Seeker:

Immune To Pathos (Cara)
It Feels Like Being Broken (Cara/Kahlan)
Dress Code (Kahlan/Cara)
Contrast (Cara/Kahlan)
Life Comes With A Rush (Cara/Kahlan)
Been A Long Road To Get Here (Kahlan)
Where Goodness Used To Be (Cara)
A Friendly Assist (Cara/Kahlan)

Leverage:

I've Looked At Love (Sophie)
Kisses (Parker)
A Lie Will-Told Is Immortal (Sophie)
Translations For Broken & Breaking Out (Parker, Nate)

Life:

Pretty As A Diagram (Reese)

Merlin:

Under The Greenwood Tree (Morgana/Merlin)
Pennies In A Jar (Morgana)

Mulan:

My Story Is Not Like Yours (Mulan)

Mythology:

We Laugh Indoors (Lilith)
She Doesn't Wanna Be (Just A Little Light Turning The Key) (Lilith)

Narnia:

One of those Mink-Coated Ladies (Susan)
The Story Of An Umbrella (Susan)
Just Like The Edge Of The World (Lucy)

The OC:

Houses Out Of Cardboard Boxes (Julie)

Pirates Of The Caribean:

O The Blood And The Treasure And Losing It All (Elizabeth/Will)

Practical Magic:

Fine As A Bridesmaid (Gillian)

Push:

Drove Like Bandits On The Freeway (Nick/Cassie)
Seeing (Cassie/Nick)

Sunshine:

Story (Constance/Sunshine)

SG-1:
What I've Found (Vala)
Conflicting Mission Reports (Vala & Teyla)
5 Times Vala Threw Daniel A Birthday Party When It Wasn't His Birthday (Vala/Daniel)

Sherlock Holmes:

Play The Cards With Spades To Start (Irene)
"Damnation!" (Mary)

Star Trek:

Many Worlds (Naomi, Seven of Nine)
Lethal Poison Through The System (Uhura)
Maybe You Could've Been Something I'd Be Good At (Uhura/Gaila)

Speak:

I Cast My Face Towards The Pavement (Melinda)

Supernatural

And I Don't Owe You A Damn (Bela)
Money (Bela)
An Endangered Species (Ellen, Jo)
Ongoing Arguments (Anna, Castiel)
Fractured (Jo)
Better Find Your Ticket (Bela)
Hurricane (Bela)

Tortall:

Light Is Less (Alanna)
Risk-Taking (Alanna)

True Bood:

Lay Down Your Burden (Jessica)
Language (Jessica)
In The End I Possess My Birthplace (Tara)
Looking For Her Ordinary World (Jessica)
Remember Me When Noses Start To Bleed (Pam/Eric)
I Used To Be A Bad Girl Too (Faith/Jessica)
When Life Gives You Lemons (Tara/Franklin)

The Vampire Diaries:

Roaring Twenties (Anna)
Child Of Mine (Pearl, Anna)
Take The Safety Off (Bonnie)
Old Relations (Bonnie/Elena)
Evolution Is Corruption (Damon/Elena)

Veronica Mars:

Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics (Veronica)
Leave The Light On (Veronica/Logan)

Wimbleton:

That's How You Know (Lizzie)

White Collar:

Put Another Dime In (Diana)

List the 5 series (tv, book, or movies) that best kept their quality, from beginning to end.

This is a subject incredibly close to my heart. There is nothing I hate more than a show that I adore which the writers ruin through characterization or pacing fail. More shows have done that to me than I have fingers, frankly. (The reason it's so common, imho, is that the US television system is set up so that shows become most profitable once they reach 100 episodes and go into syndication, which results in shows that only have a 13 episode or 22 episode or 44 episode story being dragged out).

So, five shows that have kept there awesome all the way through or remained as good as they started are:

–Burn Notice. Three seasons in, and it's still awesome. Cross your fingers tomorrow's premier doesn't make me eat my words.

– (excluding the movie) Firefly.

–Legend of the Seeker. Cancelled before it could break my heart.

–(the original) Fullmetal Alchemist anime. Haters to the left.

–Princess Tutu

(Notice how two of these shows were cancelled and two are Japanese? Because I certainly did.)

Experimental Engineering by metisket

'“Havoc,” she said abruptly. “That’s right. You’re not using your legs, are you?”

He wasn’t sure whether to be pissed off about the way she’d put that or not. Not using them. Like he’d just woken up one day and decided he and his legs were quits.

On the other hand, there wasn’t a bit of pity there, which was nice. Well, there wouldn’t be, would there? Automail mechanic.

He let it go. He was lousy at being mad, anyway.

“Yeah, the legs are pretty useless,” he said.

She tipped her head to the side and peered into the car. “So how’s your car set up?”

Right. As far as she was concerned, his legs were irrelevant. Clearly the point here was how he’d fixed up his car.'

This is the first Winry/Havoc I've read with manga!characterization, and I really like the glimpses we get of Jean's life after getting paralyzed and how Jean being in a wheelchair isn't glossed over or treated as Oh My God The End of The World (it's kind of what I wished season 2 of Dark Angel had been).

metisket writes Winry excellently - she'd totally tsunadre without being a cliche, and I love the way that other relationships Winry has aren't forgotten. What metisket also writes excellently are men head-over-heels in love (if you haven't read her Soul/Maka, do that now) and this fic is no exception. Jean's adoration just shines though each word.

This meme is going around my flist again, so here are some of my unpopular multi-fandom opinions:

( Devil Was Your Angel )

So yesterday was Ala Lovelace Day.

So a (belated) picspam of some of my favorite technologically brilliant ladies:
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Avatar:

I Might Just Be The Fool You're Looking For (Sokka/Suki)
Getting High On My Mortality (Suki, Iroh)
Turbulent Moon-Ridden Girl (Katara)
Cat's In The Cradle (Sokka, gen)
Country Feedback (Zuko)
Or Else This Heat Might Turn To Frost (Zuko/Katara)
I'll Take You Where The Water's Deep (Katara/Zuko)
Our Worlds Collide (Sokka/Suki)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby (Jet/Mai)
Peace Demands (Katara)
She’s A Silhouette, Can’t You See? (Azula, Katara)
Scratch The Surface & What Do You Find? (Pakku/Kanna)
In True (Suki/Sokka)
Where No Roads Are Marked (Suki, gen)
Put Me On Display (Mai/Azula, Mai/Zuko)
In This Game You Either Bend Or Break (Suki, Sokka)
Primitive (The Way That I Treat You) (Suki/Sokka)
It's Never Just A Game (Zuko, gen)
Summer Solstice (Katara/Zuko)
Fireflies (Katara/Zuko)

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Home (Ed/Winry)

How I Met Your Mother:

Kinky Chopsticks (Barney Robin)

Naruto:

Gifts (Kakashi)
Red (Itachi)
Foolish Boys (Neji)
Perfect World (Kakashi)
Jester (Jiraiya/Tsunade)
You May Refer To Me As God (Tsunade, Kakashi/Sakura)
Some Rules Can't Be Broken (Ino/Sakura)
Winning Tastes Like (Sakura/Ino)
Nicely Please (Kakashi/Sakura)
Part My Hair With A Knife (Kakashi/Sakura)
Love Me Dead, Or, The Evening Copy Nin Kakashi Met A Real Life Vampire (Kakashi, unrequited Kakashi/Sakura)
Welcome Back (Gaara)
That Which Yields (Hinata/Neji)
No Brand Heroes (gen)
Bite (Karin/Suigetsu)
...And As For You (Jiraiya/Tsunade)
The Replacement Must Go (Sakura/Sai)
My Eyes Will See The Future (Kakashi/Sakura)
The Space Between Dreams & Reality (Itachi/Anko)
Our Distance & That Person (Sai/Sakura)
If I Could Make You Mine (Iruka/Anko)
The Real Me (Ino/Chouji)
What Pakkun & Sakura Chat About (Sakura/Kakashi)
Three Things Kakashi Has Forgotten About War (Kakashi/Sakura)
Socially Happy (Sai/Sakura)
Murmur (Neji/Hinata)
Moonlight (Sakura/Kakashi)
Treating Your Heaven Like A One-Night Stand (Sakura/Kakashi)
The Dangers Of Holiday Parties (Kakashi/Sakura)
Deadbeat (Jiraiya/Tsunade)
Atropine (gen, Sakura/Kakashi)
Practice Dates (Sakura/Sai)
Fear Me (Anko/Iruka)
Looking Glass (Ino/Karin)
random ficbits (Itachi, Tsunade, Sakura, Kakashi, Kankarou, Sasuke)

Saiyuki:

3 Hakkai x Yaone Sentences
Politely (gen)
Say It With Flowers! (Gojyo)
(Goddamned) Subtext (Dokugakuji)
Pain (Pippi/Goku)
Shumi (Nii)
In My Pocket (Yaone/Gojyo)
Future (Yaone)
Days For The Dead (Hakkai, Gojyo)

Multi-Fandom Drabbles here and here. (Avatar, Bones, Harry Potter, Firefly, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Saiyuki.)

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Title: Home
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Written for my cinco de mayo meme - and yeah, I do know it's September. For yukiwiththeawesome.
Characters: Ed x Winry
Summary: "Amestris didn’t have Christmas."

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