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Animations, Websites, Pictures, and Things I Think Everyone Should Know About

Fullmetal Alchemist Links
Scanned and translated pages of Fullmetal Alchemist (one of the best mangas I've run across), up to Chapter 55 (which is like, ten volumes of manga). Free! :D
http://groups.msn.com/FullMetalAlchemist/fullmetalalchemistmanga.msnw

While I'm talking about FMA stuff, here's a great animation: FMA meets AOL. If you know the rudiments of FMA (like, have read the first two or three manga or watched a disc or two of the anime), you'll find it freaking hilarious:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/24939128/

Some links to some good FMA fics:
Abstentation By Asidian: "An assignment to snow country under Colonel Mustang is bad enough for the damper it puts on the Elrics' search for the Stone, but downed supply lines lead to cut rations, and Ed discovers that he can't take the deprivation as well as he'd like to pretend." Features a sort of hurt/comfort, plus explores a theory of Al's soul-seal.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2660116/1/

Shattered, By CaptainKase: A series of oneshots which features lots and lots of angst for Ed. I particularly like the first two. ^_^
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2612519/1/

Untitled fic, by tir-synni: Really, anything by this author is amazing. This is one of my favorite fics, mostly for its pseudo angst and cuteness. Plus a nice ending. :)
http://tir-synni.livejournal.com/69890.html


I have recently become enamored by the idea of Pride!Ed (as in, Ed becomes a homunculus), so here are some nice pieces of art featuring this phenomenon. If anyone finds some good Pride!Ed fics, please link me because I really want to read more of it.
http://photobucket.com/albums/b149/Manga-Raven/Edward%20Elric/?action=view¤t=bit_beat2004120718520771_big.jpg
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13755030/
http://photobucket.com/albums/b149/Manga-Raven/Edward%20Elric/?action=view¤t=bit_beat2004120718520771_big.jpg
http://photobucket.com/albums/b179/_i_luv_mcr_/Homunculus/?action=view¤t=200176mm.jpg
http://photobucket.com/albums/y198/strockdm/Fullmetal%20Alchemist/Bluebird%20Illusion/?action=view¤t=102.jpg (and if anybody can find the full-sized version of this picture, please tell me)
http://photobucket.com/albums/y198/strockdm/Fullmetal%20Alchemist/Bluebird%20Illusion/?action=view¤t=102.jpg
http://photobucket.com/albums/b149/Manga-Raven/Edward%20Elric/?action=view¤t=fasdfasfe.jpg
http://groups.msn.com/FullMetalAlchemist/bluebirdsillusion.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=8575
http://photobucket.com/albums/f369/ShadowAlchemist_123/FMA/?action=view¤t=Pride01-PSResize.jpg

Trigun!

This site has scanslations of the flashback sequences in Trigun Maximum Volume 6&7. Features the cutest little Vashes and Kniveses you've ever seen. ^_^ I own the actual volume, and have compared the translations; very accurate, as far as I can tell.
http://www.geocities.com/themom1907/index.htm

Good Trigun ficcage:

Misperception, by Themis56: some cute Millie/Vash interaction, in a platonic sort of way (Vash spends most of the fic sorta drugged and thinking that Vash is his dead sister Tessla - see above scanslations if one doesn't know what the heck a Tessla is)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2481579/1/

Under the Gun, by Heist: one of, if not THE best crossover I've ever run across (TrigunXCowboy Bebop). Really, you don't even need to know much about Cowboy Bebop to enjoy it, just that it's about a group of bounty hunters who live on Mars in the future. SUCH a good fic, and hopefully will update again soon...
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1890483/1/

Nowhere Man, by MissyThang: Yet another TrigunXCowboy Bebop crossover. Not as well written as Under The Gun, but very cool in that Vash acts very Vash-like (and talks to his brother in his mind while holding conversations with other people). Unfortunately hasn't been updated recently (and just as it was getting extremely good, too! :( )
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1002857/1/

How To Sleep Above the Sky, by Hibem: This is my absolute favorite Trigun fic of all time, no contest. It's an A/U, in which Vash and Knives were never taken from their bulbs, and so the Great Fall never happened. (Yay for Bulb!Vash!) Fast forward several decades - Wolfwood, a plant engineer on a spaceship containing some odd people (Alternate Gung-Ho Guns), is contacted by a cheerful prescence in his mind (Vash!), and... well, it's just awesome. Hints of Vash/Wolfwood, if you squint. Humourous at places, but in a way that fits in really well with the world (it's mostly the dialogue). This wonderous piece of writing makes me squee like a little fangirl every time I read it. I've posted an alternate link here just in case one doesn't work, because I know how much I hate it when I read a really good summary for a fic, only to find the link is broken.... Read it! *waves hand in jedi mind trick*
http://www.geocities.com/drmfshr/fic/How_To_Sleep2.htm
http://hibem.livejournal.com/3786.html

Trigun art! I've gone through my favorites and picked out the best:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21006588/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20962517/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/18412383/
http://trigun.studioplugnplay.com/gallery/image1.htm
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13099434/
http://trigun.studioplugnplay.com/gallery/image14.htm
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8868737/
http://www.geocities.jp/nirai21/angels.html
http://www.geocities.jp/nirai21/holy.html
http://www.deviantart.com/view/1988242/
http://community.livejournal.com/trigun_shots/4453.html
http://community.livejournal.com/60billion_man/181842.html
http://www.anime-palace.org/fanart/julewooster_trigun07.jpg
http://trigun.studioplugnplay.com/gallery/image10.htm

http://community.livejournal.com/v_x_w/14758.html


Random Links
The Shipper's Manifesto. This is an LJ in which people post articles about any fandom that takes their fancy, explaining why they think that their specified pairing is the One True Pairing. The second link is it's search engine, which makes it easier to find stuff.
http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/
http://memorylaneks.popullus.net/manifestos/index.html

Oh, and by the by, this site is for anybody studying Macbeth or other Shakespeare plays (they have links to more of his articles at the bottom. It's made by a pathologist, and explains aspects of the plays (the Macbeth one, for example), in gruesome detail, and in ways that can help in essays. I've found him rather amusing, plus some of the insight given helped me get over 85% on my Englsih Macbeth essay. :)
http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm



....Aaaaaand... that's enough for now. I'll probably periodically update this place as I discover stuff and become obsessed with new fandoms. Perhaps I'll put up some Inuyasha and Good Omens stuff next time... those folders need pruning... :D Enjoy, guys!

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Alright, more reccomendations! (for anyone who cares)

Full Metal Alchemist, this time....

Shattered by Captain Kase
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2612519/1/
A series of one shots put together with one thing in common; Ed angst.You like hurt comfort? This fic's just awesome for that. Poor, poor Ed....

Enjambement by Kaltia
http://www.scimitarsmile.com/alchemy/01fiction/01_kaltia_en01.php?title=Enjambement&author=Kaltia&list=01_kaltia
Set after the series ends, Ed and restored!Al fake their own deaths to avoid the civil war (which actually results in Roy becoming Furhur, but whatever). They are together (yes, Elricest, but the fic is so well written, please give it a try!), and are living in a small border town. Unfortunately, the town is close to another country with which Amestris is at war, so it's inevitable that the Furhur will deploy troops there. And they find out that Ed and Al are still alive. Awesome scene. :D Read it, if only just for the eventual revelations. Incomplete, but beautiful ficcage none the less.

Composition by Mikkeneko
http://www.scimitarsmile.com/alchemy/01fiction/01_mikken_comp.php?title=Composition&author=Mikkeneko&list=01_mikken
Crack, but cute little one-shot. Takes less than a minute to read, but well worth the time. :)

Episodes Summaries by Mikkeneko
http://www.scimitarsmile.com/alchemy/01fiction/01_mikken_qes.php?title=Full%20Metal%20Alchemist%20Quick%20Episode%20Summaries,%20Full%20Compliation&author=Mikkeneko&list=01_mikken
Awesomely funny extremely short episode summaries. To pique your interest:
Roze: You broke our cult!
Ed: Well, here. Start a new one and devote it to me. You still have legs, don't you? Unlike SOME OF US.

Tucker: Hi, boys and girls!
Audience: ...HOLY FUCK! DOESN'T ANYONE STAY DEAD IN THIS SHOW?
Hughes: Yes.

Now And Later by Applekid
http://community.livejournal.com/elricest/890.html
I just love this one for it's sheer sweetness factor. I just spent like half an hour going through this one fanfic website, mistakingly believing it was hosted there and that I'd forgotten to favorite it, when it was there the whole time on LJ. -_-; But it was well worth the time spent looking for it! Ed and armor!Al cuteness; Ed sleeps inside Al's amour. ^_^

And a cute fanart....
http://www.deviantart.com/view/6604014/
Meh, I'm tired; I'll post more later.