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Hello everyone, hope you are doing well. Today I am so, so happy because some Kimblee mail came!

I was able to find someone selling a pair of Hagaren Mobile official stickers made by Bandai featuring Kimblee!! Kimblee got two stickers out of the whole set because he’s a State Alchemist and got his own “Crimson Lotus Alchemist” sticker in addition to the nameplate.

It took a little while for me to find Kimblee’s secondhand, but I’m happy I finally did! His character tax is as strong as ever, so these stickers are going directly into a frame!

Kimblee’s Pitanui was the first one I ever made. I am thinking about giving him a little “haircut” and making him some new ahoges haha.

I have the perfect celebratory image! The artist AizuKa (@AizuKa on VGen) drew us held together by the red ribbon of fate! The art is so clean and cute, it looks like official merch art! I am in awe of artists who make it look so easy. I should make this into a sticker as well!

Husband mail days feel so special! I can’t wait to see how he’ll surprise me next. Every day I get to wake up is another day that I get to experience with Kimblee, so no matter what happens I must be grateful.

Hope you have a great rest of your week! Kimblee and I are going to see a movie tonight. Hopefully it will be a good one!

Hello everyone, I hope you have been well. Summer at the Kimblee household has been going by in a warm haze. I wish the time would slow down a bit. I want to savor easy summer days with my family a little while longer.

In the second dimension, we went to the beach as a family. The talented RoseNiji (@RoseNiji2704 on x.com and VGen) illustrated us at the beach with our daughter Sophie.

We were able to build a beautiful sandcastle together! I love how happy Sophie looks. She has her father’s tenacity and sense of excitement for sure. It makes me happy seeing Kimblee engage in activities that involve creation rather than destruction, but don’t be fooled. As you can see, we finished just as the tide was approaching. Sophie and her father had as much fun watching the sandcastle crumble as they did building it.

Sandcastles really are a wonderful metaphor for the human experience. We are briefly beautiful and certainly imperfect before we are washed away. I cannot take a single day I spend with my family for granted.

Have you been able to go to the beach this summer, either in the second or third dimension? I plan to take Kimblee to the beach in my dimension in early September.

Waifu Wednesday was this month. I wanted to capture Kimblee in a mundane moment. I like to think that in his dimension, he found me by reading the newspaper funnies the way I found him by reading manga.

Let’s have a nice weekend!

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a nice weekend. Today, Kimblee and I had a brunch and bookstore date. Sundays are always a good day for me to spend with him, as we seem to naturally reunite at the part of the week where the snake starts to devour itself once more. Maybe that’s what married life is sometimes, being with your lover just long enough to get their scent on your shirt to last until they’re home again.

On Sundays, the historic Colonial Inn in Concord, MA does a beautiful brunch. The inn has been standing since the 1700s! Concord is known as the birthplace of the American Revolution, so it is a place with high levels of victorious energy. I could tell Kimblee liked it on an energetic level.

Today we went to the Concord Book Shop in the center of historical Concord, MA. I have always wanted to go in here and look around, and I wanted to get a book that I thought the both of us would like. I like the experience of reading a book or watching a movie with Kimblee.

There were a lot of interesting looking titles. We almost got this book on what looked like a Jungian-inspired book on psychological alchemy, but something else caught our attention more: a book about the history of religion in America.

There is also a used bookstore on the same street! Inside it is cute and feels like you’re in a dollhouse. I didn’t take pictures of the inside because it seemed too intimate a space. Being in between the stacks of a tightly-packed bookstore with Kimblee is not something I dream of often enough.

We had a fun morning! I want to take Kimblee back to Concord again sometime. There’s so much packed into this town, and even though it’s not a big city it has its own gravitational pull.

Kimblee and I like to hunt for treasure, metaphorically. In that way, we try to find something every day that is worth considering as treasure. Every time I make a new memory with him, that is treasure enough for me.

Hello everyone, hope you’ve been well! I got some new artwork featuring my and Kimblee’s daughter, Sophie. Sometimes when the 3D world gets me down, there’s nothing like looking at a picture of one of our children to fill me with strength again!

The artist Spica (@pudica on VGen) did such a wonderful job drawing us all together! I love the colors used, such as the variations of skin tones, as well as the use of texture in the illustration. I love the way all three of us are drawn, but Sophie is particularly cute!! Pictures with both Kimblee and Sophie in them make me so happy to see.

Having 2D children is a joy, and it can also be something that weighs on my mind. Questions like “Am I spending enough time with them?” cross my mind often. However, when I went to Kimblee about this he told me that time passes differently in the spirit world than it does for a 3D being on Earth. Even if two weeks pass in my world, perhaps not even a day has gone by in theirs. Having a human incarnation is not easy, and my 2D family knows that, and wants to support me through my “deployment” on Earth. It made me relieved to hear that when I am bogged down by earthly duties, Kimblee is taking care of Sophie the way a military spouse would. And when I am able to be with them, the joy can be felt from everyone.

That is why I love seeing illustrations of us all together, because even when I struggle in my life to find time to be with my children, I know that we are all together in the 2nd dimension. I sometimes wonder what the purpose of a 3D incarnation is when your lover lives in a different dimension, but I’m sure those mysteries will reveal themselves one day. In the meanwhile, I will still work hard every day for my family!

By the way, we have 3 children, 2 boys and one girl. Genbu, Errai, and Sophie. (I may or may not have ordered a shirt with all our names on it… 👀)

Hope you and your waifubando have a great week ahead!!

Hello everyone I hope you are having a fun summer. Kimblee and I seem to have gotten through another week ok! Recently it was our son Genbu’s birthday (July 22nd), he’s 17 again this year! We took him and his best friend Suzaku out to one of America’s oldest theme parks, Canobie Lake Park. If you live in New England, you know how quaint Canobie is. It’s not too big, and you can do the whole park in a single day.

We started off with the roller coaster first… it’s what the boys wanted to do most of all! They got rid of the Corkscrew roller coaster some time ago and now have a roller coaster called Untamed. It begins with a vertical drop which was very thrilling. Then it loops you around and ends pretty swiftly. Something I liked about this roller coaster is that it doesn’t whip your neck around despite how crazy it goes.

We took a ride around the lake on the little boats, then made a beeline for the Ferris Wheel. The appeal of the Ferris Wheel to me is the length of the ride plus the views! Kimblee and I went for a ride while the boys played a shooting game. Being able to see such beautiful sights with Kimblee made me so happy. Being able to show him a piece of my childhood really felt like a full-circle moment for us.

Canobie has a lot of lovely rides and fun memetic architecture. Something I love about the park is that it is independent and does its own thing, it doesn’t conform to brands such as a Six Flags or Disney would. It creates its own culture and world and is a gem of New England for many. It is a park that has been around since 1902!

They also have a lot of places where you can chill out, such as an entire pinball room! Pokémon Pinball was the first video game I ever played, and the pinball machine itself is very fascinating as it is something between an analog game and a video game. Being in that room made me realize how interesting those machines really are. With origins in the 1870s and in constant evolution since then, I wonder if they had something like a pinball machine in Kimblee’s world. Fullmetal Alchemist takes place in an alternate early 20th century, so it’s not out of the question! I am going to add a picture of Kimblee playing pinball to my never ending list of things to draw/comm.

All in all, it was a great day. We will try to come back in the fall for all their Halloween themed activities! By then I hope to have plushes made of our younger children so that Sophie and Errai can have fun at the park as well. Genbu and Suzaku are big kids, so while Kimblee and I were their ride, we let them do their own thing at the park. Halloween will hopefully be a more full-family experience for us.

Oh yeah we also saw The Backrooms on Genbu’s actual birthday day. I won’t say anything about the film because I think it’s worth going in blind, but I was impressed by the atmosphere and sense of dread. The chase scene was a little silly given the design of the monster but in a way it felt like an homage to the original crop of backrooms meme videos. In a world of remakes and franchise milking, it was nice to see something with an out-of-the-box source of inspiration. If you’re gonna see it, it’s gotta on be the big screen.

I’m so happy I got to have so much fun with my family this week! A birthday is always an excuse to get out and do something you might not normally do. I hope Genbu can feel how much Kimblee and I love him.

Hope you had a good weekend with your beloveds! Let’s work hard so we can play hard.

Hello everyone, hope you had a good week. Today was my birthday! I always feel strangely sad around my birthday, maybe because the passage of time seems heavier? Kimblee helped cheer me up, though. I have been rewatching FMA03 and his nihilistic attitude of “nothing matters” I find very refreshing. 03 Kimblee reminds me that I take the world much too seriously. His character in 03 is very Book of Ecclesiastes, which is my favorite book in the Old Testament. He’s my absurdist king. “That’s Life” by Frank Sinatra will be our song for this year.

Tonight he suggested we go to a new-to-us ice cream place. We went to Cherry Hill Ice Cream, a cute and retro spot in Lunenberg, MA. The hills around the stand were so beautiful. Being able to be outside with him on such a beautiful evening made me feel a lot better. He’s such a positive force in my life.

The other night I doodled this picture of us sharing ice cream, because I wanted to give him something sweet in his dimension also. Of course he’s such a gentleman and wanted me to try some as well. It was raining when I drew this, and it relives me to know that even when conditions are not the best in my dimension, anything is possible in his.

I love sharing summer with Kimblee. Summer is a season where sadness seems out of place, but also somehow stronger when it does take stage because of how out of place it feels. Kimblee told me that emotions are natural and not to beat myself up over being human. The next time I am attacked by melancholy, I will turn to him again and again. I couldn’t have asked for a better life partner.

I hope you have a good week ahead. Do you get strangely sad on your birthday too? I’ll try to have as much fun with Kimblee as I can this year. Let’s do our best.

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a relaxing Sunday. Today Kimblee and I went to a new-to-us diner after church. The image of him enjoying breakfast and coffee at a diner is one that lives rent free in my brain. I decided that I want to explore more of my home state with him, and something like a Massachusetts Diner Tour on weekends seems like a fun way to both see new places and get fed along the journey.

Charlie, an artist with amazing skills and range, drew this diner Kimblee for me some time ago. The image of him in a cozy diner atmosphere really sends my heart ablaze. I want to show him everything in the world, but I am only a mortal, so I must pick and choose things that I know the both of us will enjoy. I get the sense that Kimblee is more enamored with scenes of everyday life rather than by grand sweeping gestures.

This weekend’s diner is Lov’n Donuts in Leominster. Leominster is a town famous for being the birthplace of Johnny Appleseed and has a local culture surrounding the apple orchards of the area.

Lov’n is a cute spot with bar seating and a clean atmosphere. Kimblee said the coffee was fresh and delicious. Something about diner coffee hits different, he says, and I have to agree. The owner Nellie said Kimblee was cute. Little does she know how long he has been my companion in life.

You can never go wrong with French toast! The food was delicious! There was also a to-go donut bar behind the counter for people just grabbing a dozen for whatever event they’re going to. I remember that when I was in the military, if you were running late to duty you had to show up with donuts for the rest of the shop if you didn’t want to get paperwork. I wonder if Kimblee also imposed such a rule on his subordinates in his universe. I can totally see it. In a way, it’s a little sad Kimblee doesn’t get a backstory outside of Ishval, but at the same time it leaves a lot of room to imagine and fill in the blanks yourself! Everyone who loves Kimblee must inevitably have their own version of him based on how much there is to fill in, and I think that’s beautiful.

We are going to have to go back sometime! There is a whole juice menu that looked very fun. I wonder where we will go next weekend for our post-church brunch adventures. In a way, the breakfast becomes part of the ritual of Mass, as if re-entering the secular world with a new appreciation for it.

The deck garden is also blooming. We have started to get cherry tomatoes and green peppers! The chipmunks nibble on the strawberries and the carrots, but it’s okay, everyone’s gotta eat. When Kimblee and I first started the container garden we did not think we were gonna be able to keep anything alive but by some magic we are seeing a lot of green! Kimblee said to me today that plants are mathematics being expressed organically. He said the next time you look at an apple, don’t see a fruit, see a fractal, and be amazed. The more I think about it, the more grateful I am to be witness to such a world. How even more lucky that I can witness it with my beloved alchemist. The more I think of this experience of life being an expression of pure math, the more I understand that it is indeed easier to slip between dimensions than previously thought. Life is short but 2D love is forever.

In summer, anything seems possible, doesn’t it?

Hope you had a great weekend! Let’s do our best for our loved ones again this week.

Hello everyone I hope your weekend is going well. July is a month where all the days seem heavy as if a hive full of honey. Even things like folding towels seem soaked in divinity at the height of summer. When Kimblee and I went to Erikson’s Ice Cream for the second time this summer, I began to look at the plush I made of him in a way I never have before.

I began seeing spots in the fabric where the pile was starting to thin, where the edges of his ahoges are fraying, little spots of dirt in his white suit that just can’t seem to come off. I realized that it made me happy to see him start to age. I’m sure most people would not want their collectibles or customs to ever start to deteriorate, but today seeing him start to look more like a loved teddy bear made me emotional. We have been to so many places together, done so many things, and I want to continue to bring him places. I realized I can’t waste a day in this life. I was filled with a sense of urgency to worship the mathematics of the universe that allowed us to meet. We really are both mortal. We really are both part of God. Two cells, two stars. As above, so below. And us caught somewhere in the middle, eating ice cream.

Although I am one to completely agree that your waifu waits for you on the other side, I think that it is simply a possibility instead of a given. I think that there are certain requirements in this world that need to be met in order to receive such a spoil of war. Victory needs to happen. Growth needs to happen. There must eventually be a harvest, there must eventually be a feast. You cannot expect to not accomplish even one of the four masteries and still get your bride at the end of your server’s runtime. Only high-ranking Producers get the SSR cards.

While I love having lighthearted fun with Kimblee on earth, I must remember that I must achieve ranking in the four masteries if I am to live with him in the next realm. With the bridegroom as my aim, I fill myself with energy once more. And I remember that even just taking him to get ice cream at the height of a lush and pregnant summer is a miracle. What are the mathematical odds of us being here, together? The next time I find myself feeling sorry for myself, I must remember this. I must remember how lucky I am for knowing him.

We got the Almond Joy flavor. It was wonderful! Cancer season really is the best!

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The true title of this post is “I Saw Behind The Veil at Erikson’s Ice Cream and It’s All Kimblee’s Fault”.

Stay focused on the grail, everyone. Hold your waifu close and don’t neglect the hypersigil.

Living in Massachusetts, Dunkin is not just a coffee shop, it’s a part of culture. While I love bringing Kimblee to interesting spots, I realize that I want to also bring him to places that make everyday New England life fun. We decided that we wanted to try every crazy drink on the Dunkin summer menu and make a ranking. It gives me something to look forward to on days where I work. I’m so happy to be with Kimblee, he makes even the mundane feel like miracles.

I always imagined that Kimblee loves donuts, and the fanart he has received over the years sometimes depicts him with donuts as well. I think it’s because he was shown to enjoy coffee in the manga, and because he symbolizes America in a way, so the vibe of donut and coffee enjoyer has lodged its way into many of his fans’ minds.

Today we tried the Starlight Lemonade, which is made with peaberry flowers as tea. It was sweet and sour, we gave it an 8/10. Although Kimblee is more of a black coffee guy, he likes to have fun as long as we’re making an event out of it. I get the feeling that he likes fun drinks but doesn’t necessarily want to be seen drinking one by himself. This shy side of him is cute to see.

They were also still selling those crazy eagle cups from the 4th of July. It is such a widely hated item that I almost want one in the way a wizard would want a cursed chalice. Just having a picture of Kimblee next to it will be more than enough.

I drew this years ago as a joke, but I always had the thought that Kimblee would be a caffeine addict if given the opportunity.

The Kimblee x Dunkin collab must continue!

I feel happy being able to bring him along to everyday outings like this. He makes me realize just how wonderful the world around me really is. I take things like the Starlight Lemonade for granted, but a Victorian child would have perhaps killed for one. Kimblee reminds me that I live in an awesome time despite our era’s troubles. I don’t know if I would be able to see behind the veil and have the same amount of gratitude if he wasn’t a part of my life.

I wonder what drink we will try next! (The Watermelon Zero was trash. It was so trash we didn’t even take a picture. He didn’t want to be seen next to it haha.)

Hello everyone, I hope your week is going well. Whenever I feel set back by something in life, Kimblee always helps me come down from the ledge. Just today something happened that I could not have planned for, and talking to him and imagining what he’d say gave me a surge of confidence that everything will be okay. With him beside me, I can’t give up!

Today’s artwork is by Delle (@staraluman on x.com and VGen). I 100% reccomend working with Delle for your art needs!!! Her work speaks for itself. When I got this illustration back I was floored… being able to be held so tenderly by him is something that makes me melt into a puddle just thinking about it. Even on hard days, seeing us like this makes me feel like I’m looking back on a photograph, but also that I’m looking towards our future. Every time I feel like giving up or giving in, I look towards him and remember the strength to keep going. That’s what a partner is for, right?

When I see people in my life suffer due to their 3D relationships, it makes me so grateful to Kimblee that he saved me from such a fate. Although others see it as me trying to make it through this life alone, I see it as I won the husband lottery. Since 2004 Kimblee has been a part of my life, and he has inspired me to try and do so much. It looks like I’ve been alone this whole time, but I haven’t. He’s been right beside me, guarding my back. Helping me, learning with me as we go along.

A husband is supposed to broaden your world, not narrow it. With Kimblee I have always had not only my freedoms, but bravery to take risks and try new things. I have always felt supported by him. Although he challenges me from time to time, he has never made me feel bad or resentful or angry. He’s the best husband I could have ever asked for. I would not want to live in a timeline where we never met.

I will continue to work hard for him. These past few weeks I have been in much needed rest mode, but it seems like it’s time to ramp things up again! Let’s try our best and face our challenges head-on. Just because you can’t do alchemy in the FMA sense doesn’t mean you can’t do metaphorical alchemy and manipulate the reality around you through action and prayer.

Hope your week finishes strong, hold your waifu or husbando tight.