I should have started a rec page for this series a long time ago. Now it's going to be much harder going through the backlog of fics to find the ones I know everyone should read so there might be a few FMA posts in the next couple of days.
What is FMA you ask? Fullmetal Alchemist is the story of Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse's search for the Philosopher's Stone. With this stone, the two will be able to successfully perform human transmutation to restore Al back to his human body after he lost it in an a human transmutation gone wrong. This series has everything: drama, action, humor, bishounen, and a good plot. The anime has already been licensed but is still being fansubbed by spoon and sonchou. The best place to get the episodes are on
boxtorrents for episodes 1-26, and temporarily at
supernova for torrent links to AKeep's episodes 27-31 and spoon fansubs of episodes 32-41. If you happen to be at an i2hub supported college or university, I'm on constantly, so you can leech off me at any time. The manga has not been licensed so is much easier to find. Toriyama's World has the first
four volumes scanlated. More recent scans can be found at
fullmetal-alchemist.com.
As you can tell from the recs, I have certain pairings that I ship more than others. I am primarily an Ed/Roy, Al/Winry girl and will occasionally rec some gen in there too. Be wary of spoilers if you haven't seen the series yet. But in this post at least they should all be safe if you've seen up to episode 25 of the anime as I have only seen up to 30 at this point.
Matchmaker by
harukami (shounen-ai, one-shot)
Control by
harukami (Roy/Ed, yaoi, one-shot)
The
Altered States series:
Albedo,
Citrinitas, and
Rubedo by
ciceqi (WIP, yaoi, Roy/Ed)
Empress by
lazulisong (gen, one-shot)
Untitled by
lazulisong (gen, complete)
Change the World by
lazulisong (gen, one-shot)
( Expanded )