the point im trying to make here is arakawa doesnt demean her women characters or treat them as eyecandy/fanservice because shes a women who knows better and she knows she doesnt need to do that if she writes them well.
Feminist side of brain: agreement w/ everything above
Lesbian side of brain: ghhhh catRiza hot
for a minute there I forgot riza was the lady and thought the fire-finger guy got dressed up as a sexy cat
If you ever even think about making me visualize sexy cat Roy Mustang again I’m gonna lose it, I’m just gonna fucking snap istg
Why can I actually see that as something Roy would do? Like? Come on?
sexy cat roy is 20x more in-character than sexy cat riza and i hate it
*wakes up and turns on my giant complicated yet charming series of rube goldberg machines that make my breakfast but i mess up the combination and get scorching hot eggs tossed in my face*
Pretty fucked up to see people uncritically reblogging this when OP’s automated hedge-trimmer rendered all my topiaries cubist as well as slicing my belt in two, causing my pants to fall down and reveal a whimsically-patterned pair of boxer shorts
all these pop songs about “doing work” and “work work work” make me feel like i’m in some heavy-handed YA dystopian novel where the evil capitalist overlords keep the proletariat in line with brainwashing/propaganda in song form