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Rating Rizas Wedding
Rating Riza’s Wedding
I don’t really believe that Riza and Roy would ever marry (sob), but I’m not here to discuss that. I must be a romantic at heart, because this is my second Royai wedding fic in a row.
Has anyone watched the TV show Four Weddings? It’s a program on TLC (The Learning Channel- where you mostly learn about hoarders or people with double digit numbers of children.) On Four Weddings, one of the less messy and less noisy shows, four women, who have just met, attend each others’ weddings and rate them. The couple with the highest rated wedding wins a honeymoon. Imagine that Riza and Roy decide to compete. Obviously, this is totally a crack fic.
Slightly foul language is within.
Roy and Riza are the last of the four couples to be wed, so she is Bride Number Four. I couldn’t (was too lazy to?) come up with a good way to give this a plot, so it’s just Roy’s and Riza’s and the other brides’ comments on the wedding.
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Bride Number One: I’m giving Riza’s wedding a six out of ten. The wedding really showed how much she and the groom love each other, but she really didn’t have a theme, and her decorations were just so-so. What I really didn’t like was that her dress made her seem older. She’s a beautiful girl- for her age- but her dress was so simple, and it covered too much. I would have liked to see her in something more modern and revealing. Something tight like a mermaid dress. And, what was that with such a high back? She looks like she’s in good shape. She should show some sex appeal.
Bride Number Two: I have to give Riza a three out of ten, because I was just scared shitless the entire time. First, a huge glowering Ishvalan man with a scar on his face was seated right behind me. Right across the aisle was a nearly bald even HUGER man who was crying. Then, the officiant, who was listed as Riza’s grandfather, wore a dress. At one point, a window accidentally slammed shut, and Riza pulled two guns out of her dress, and her groom pulled gloves out of his pockets and donned them. They swiftly turned so that they were back to back and surveyed the room. Meanwhile, four of their friends jumped up, also with guns drawn, and checked all of the windows and doors. Riza’s grandfather (?) just laughed. So did a young man with a blond braid. His even blonder date hit him with a wrench, so I got the idea that it might have been a prank of his. I just really wanted to get out of there. If I’d had a ride, I’d have skipped out on the reception.
Bride Number Three: Riza’s wedding was a hard ten! That wedding was as wild af. The ceremony was nuts.There was even a dog in the procession. But the reception… it was the best party I’ve ever been to. I loved it when the groom reached for the bride’s garter but kept pulling out guns and knives as the crowd cheered. She must have had a cache under that skirt. I didn’t get it at first. Was she trying to warn her groom away? Then, the dark-haired woman who was Riza’s attendant yelled, “So you’re travelling light today, Riz?” I wondered why she didn’t shoot the bouquet down after she tossed it! Apparently, Riza always carries several weapons for some reason. I know she was in the Army. She didn’t seem paranoid when we were hanging out at the other weddings. Someone said that she’s very protective of her groom.
And speaking of the groom, I wondered why he pulled gloves on during the ceremony. With Riza being so tough, I wondered if he was a shrinking violet. NOPE! The reception hall had very low lighting when we came in. The happy couple entered. After kissing Riza, he gloved up and snapped his fingers. With that snap, he lit all of the candles on all of the tables. Best of all,
He came around to make sure all of our platters were hot, and he warmed them up if needed. That guy is a hottie in more than one way.
I’m sorry. I’ve talked way too much. I hope I can get an uncut recording of those heckin’ nuptials.
Roy: I think we deserve to win, but I’m just relieved that she finally married me. I had a great time. Riza was so beautiful. Almost everything was perfect. I just knew that the window had something to do with Full… Edward. Riza said that I couldn’t flambe him on our wedding day, so I just had the servers keep bringing him glasses of milk.
Riza: It went surprisingly well, given the groom and the audience. I’d trained the participants as well as I could, but they’re all loose cannons. At least I’m finally married to this idiot. Why did I do that?
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Stars Make Firework Supplies!
The next time you see fireworks, take a moment to celebrate the cosmic pyrotechnics that made them possible. From the oxygen and potassium that help fireworks burn to the aluminum that makes sparklers sparkle, most of the elements in the universe wouldn’t be here without stars.
From the time the universe was only a few minutes old until it was about 400 million years old, the cosmos was made of just hydrogen, helium and a teensy bit of lithium. It took some stellar activity to produce the rest of the elements!
Stars are element factories
Even after more than 13 billion years, the hydrogen and helium that formed soon after the big bang still make up over 90 percent of the atoms in the cosmos. Most of the other elements come from stars.
Stars began popping into the universe about 400 million years after the big bang. That sounds like a long time, but it’s only about 3% of the universe’s current age!
Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study the universe’s early days to help us learn more about how we went from a hot, soupy sea of atoms to the bigger cosmic structures we see today. We know hydrogen and helium atoms gravitated together to form stars, where atoms could fuse together to make new elements, but we're not sure when it began happening. Roman will help us find out.
The central parts of atoms, called nuclei, are super antisocial – it takes a lot of heat and pressure to force them close together. Strong gravity in the fiery cores of the first stars provided just the right conditions for hydrogen and helium atoms to combine to form more elements and generate energy. The same process continues today in stars like our Sun and provides some special firework supplies.
Carbon makes fireworks explode, helps launch them into the sky, and is even an ingredient in the “black snakes” that seem to grow out of tiny pellets. Fireworks glow pink with help from the element lithium. Both of these elements are created by average, Sun-like stars as they cycle from normal stars to red giants to white dwarfs.
Eventually stars release their elements into the cosmos, where they can be recycled into later generations of stars and planets. Sometimes they encounter cosmic rays, which are nuclei that have been boosted to high speed by the most energetic events in the universe. When cosmic rays collide with atoms, the impact can break them apart, forming simpler elements. That’s how we get boron, which can make fireworks green, and beryllium, which can make them silver or white!
Since massive stars have even stronger gravity in their cores, they can fuse more elements – all the way up to iron. (The process stops there because instead of producing energy, fusing iron is so hard to do that it uses up energy.)
That means the sodium that makes fireworks yellow, the aluminum that produces silver sparks (like in sparklers), and even the oxygen that helps fireworks ignite were all first made in stars, too! A lot of these more complex elements that we take for granted are actually pretty rare throughout the cosmos, adding up to less than 10 percent of the atoms in the universe combined!
Fusion in stars only got us through iron on the periodic table, so where do the rest of our elements come from? It’s what happens next in massive stars that produces some of the even more exotic elements.
Dying stars make elements too!
Once a star many times the Sun’s mass burns through its fuel, gravity is no longer held in check, and its core collapses under its own weight. There, atoms are crushed extremely close together – and they don’t like that! Eventually it reaches a breaking point and the star explodes as a brilliant supernova. Talk about fireworks! These exploding stars make elements like copper, which makes fireworks blue, and zinc, which creates a smoky effect.
Something similar can happen when a white dwarf star – the small, dense core left behind after a Sun-like star runs out of fuel – steals material from a neighboring star. These white dwarfs can explode as supernovae too, spewing elements like the calcium that makes fireworks orange into the cosmos.
When stars collide
White dwarfs aren’t the only “dead” stars that can shower their surroundings with new elements. Stars that are too massive to leave behind white dwarfs but not massive enough to create black holes end up as neutron stars.
If two of these extremely dense stellar skeletons collide, they can produce all kinds of elements, including the barium that makes fireworks bright green and the antimony that creates a glitter effect. Reading this on a phone or computer? You can thank crashing dead stars for some of the metals that make up your device, too!
As for most of the remaining elements we know of, we've only seen them in labs on Earth so far.
Sounds like we’ve got it all figured out, right? But there are still lots of open questions. Our Roman Space Telescope will help us learn more about how elements were created and distributed throughout galaxies. That’s important because the right materials had to come together to form the air we breathe, our bodies, the planet we live on, and yes – even fireworks!
So when you’re watching fireworks, think about their cosmic origins!
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It’s so close!
Fun detail: If you look closely at Riza's skirt slit, there are snaps or buttons along the hem. It's probably a tearaway made to look like a pencil skirt or something similar, but that can be ripped open to allow her quick access to her thigh holster. I wonder who her tailor is.
bold of you to assume riza and roy don’t have a standing stitch & bitch night where riza adjusts her clothes to accommodate a range of weapons while roy embroiders 37 pairs of gloves at a frankly upsetting speed and complains about every single thing that happened to him that week
FMA NEWS
If you haven't heard yet, Shonen Gangan has announced a Fullmetal Alchemist 20th anniversary broadcast on July 12, 8PM Japan Time which will feature voice actors, a recap on the series' past and "major new annoucements"!
You can watch the broadcast here on Square Enix Japan's Youtube Channel or on Shonen Gangan's official Twitter.
There is also a new Square Enix website specifically for the 20th Anniversary of FMA, but it currently only says "Coming Soon".
I'm guessing it will all be in Japanese until some kind soul translates it for us but I'm excited nevertheless!