Ways FMA Has Invaded Your Life

[piedpiperpluto]

Bringing back another thread from 2.0: how has FMA seeped its insidious shadow tentacles into your everyday existence?

1. Every time you pass a development in your town, you can't help but smile. The name of the development is "Hawkseye".

2. You wear a "Team Alchemist" T-shirt to chemistry whenever possible.

3. You have bonded with your chemistry teacher over said T-shirt.

4. While on a trip to France, you wake up on the bus in the middle of rolling hills dotted with grazing sheep. You immediately think of Resembool.

5. The Resembool-esque landscape has a billboard proclaiming that a museum in a nearby city is having an exhibit on rockets. Three guesses as to what you think of.

(guilty of all of the above)

[PuzzleChick]

6. You giggle when you see an ad on TV for the Hawkeye remote control flying camera thing.

[Mina Murray]

7. When you're watching MASH reruns with your folks and you hear that one of the characters names is Hawkeye you get all excited. Until you realize he's the comic relief of the show.

[lianjinshushi]

8. You are seriously considering stenciling in FMA quotes on your bedroom wall.

[neoeevee]

9. You almost cosplayed Edward Elric for the premiere of Harry Potter 7, forgot to, and now plan to cosplay when you go see it again but with your siblings (guilty. We were just leaving for school when I realized I forgot).

10. An electronic device of yours is named after a FMA character (My iPod's name is Roy).

11. You can no longer hear anyone claim they are not short without thinking of Ed.

12. You still snicker when a Nissan commericial comes on, or when you see one of the cars on the street (guiiiiltyyyy).

13. Your mind imploded when you realized that two/any numbers of the seiyuus that worked on the first anime are in Kingdom Hearts/another fandom. In addition, you can also recognize any FMA actor's voice, in either language, no matter where you hear them (guilty. I was up late on a Saturday and watched an anime called Kekaishi, or something. First thought? HELLO ED, HOW DISTRACTING TO HEAR YOUR VOICE COMING OUT OF THAT CHARACTER).

14. Music from either anime regularly gets onto your iTunes' Top 25 list (Period has been on there since I downloaded it).

15. You have an entire shelf dedicated to the manga (partially guilty. It takes up most of the shelf).

16. A good deal of your free time is spent working on FMA fanfiction (goodbye straight A's, hello next chapter of the Alchemists and Anarchy saga).

17. You know the characters well enough to write psychoanalysis reports on them (getting there. I'm having trouble with Ed and Al, and it's giving me problems with my fanfics...)

18. You have at least one character who is based on an FMA character in some form (Hikaru Kagi was originally intended to be Ed trapped in a miniature Terranort's body. Characterization Marches On, I guess).

[Mina Murray]

19. You've used one of Ed's short rants when someone made fun of your height. (Guilty!)
20.When you doodle you usually draw a Transmutation cicle. (Tried and failed. Looked like a fail pentacle.)
21.You've named a pet after a FMA character.(I had a cat named Roy when I was younger)
22.When you see a Team Edward shirt you instantly think about Ed Elric and not Edward Cullen.
23. You've bought a team Edward Shirt and underneath wrote Elric.(Tried that, damn paint peeled right off.)

[taranova]

24. Created Sims of the FMA characters and made them form polygamous relationships with each other for shits and giggles while drunk one night.

...Guilty.

[bespecledcow]

25. Though you were once a Harry Potter fangirl, you instead immediately think of Ed and Al when re-reading the first book.
26. You cannot help but picture Roy riding in a mustang car.

[PuzzleChick]

27. There's this song called Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy and in the song there's this line that goes: "riding up and down Broadway on my old stud, Leroy." But when you heard the song for the first time, you thought the singer said, "riding up and down Broadway on my old studly Roy." And then you got very weird mental images. And then your brain imploded. (Luckily, my brain got better.)

[Rainbow-Lord Crowmunculus]

28. You named your car (THIS lovely studmuffin of a vehicle) Fullmetal.

29. And within the first three months of buying him, the poor fucker hits a rock and busts the front left tire, among other damages equaling $2000 of repairs. Fullmetal was in the car hospital for two weeks, and still needs some more repairs, but is currently drivable.

...you find yourself wishing it had been the right tire, just for irony's sake. And, you're also surprised it took this long for something to go wrong, with the name Fullmetal.

30. You find yourself occasionally slipping into using personal pronouns for your car named Fullmetal...in front of other people. You say it to yourself all the time, and also talk to him, various nonsense about how good a car he is. Your greatest fear is that someone will overhear that, too.

31. You will soon buy vanity plates that read HAGAREN.

(You guys, I'm also going to buy a personalized frame for the plates, but I'm not sure what I'm going to put there. Here's my current ideas:

TEAM EDWARD ELRIC / BECAUSE REAL EDWARDS DON'T SPARKLE

TEAM EDWARD ELRIC / BECAUSE ALCHEMISTS DO IT BETTER

TEAM EDWARD ELRIC / KEEP YOUR CULLENS

Hey, I drive a Volvo in Twilightville. I need to plainly announce that Twilight had no bearings over my car choice :B)

Also you will print out a little flamel bumper sticker or something to go along with the plates. Shyeah.

32. You actually just spent all this time telling the internet your delusions about your fandom-tainted car. FUCK YEAH.

[maddalena]

33. You painted one of your favourite moments in FMA onto your wall. (the scene were father became a little blob and died. Yah.)

34. You named your iPod Edward and your computer Alfons and you giggle profusely when Edward enters Alfons oh my god my mind is so disgusting

35. You have changed people's numbers on your phone to names of FMA characters for the bants.

36. Now you own this:

[Mina Murray]

37.You've nicknamed a family members Mustang brand car "Roy."
38.While watching Peter Pan you mis-heard Wendy as Winry.
39. When you were driving through the South with your family you saw an advertisment for the Rock Belles. And smiled inwardly all day because of it.
40. You realize that you are the Ed(shortest) in your family and that your brother is the Al(tallest).

[Rainbow-Lord Crowmunculus]

MADSEH IZ THAT A POSTER

also I just realized that my desktop computer AND my iPod are named after Alfons - HeiDOS and A|fons respectively, from a fic. SELFCEST. But uh, when I finally merge my libraries, and sync up to my new computer...A|fons/Winry OTP???

[neoeevee]

41. Your brother is trained to react to being called short in the same way Ed does.
42. You begin to seriously advocate FMA as the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

AHAHAHA, SEE WHAT I DID THAR?

[PuzzleChick]

43. You heard a band called Love and Rockets today and immediately thought of EdHei. xD