#MR SOUP?????

[soup-hater0001]

may he be laid to rest in the same muck from whence he came >:(🚫

Lost in the sauce @frogayyyy

[mia-martian]

My immediate thoughts when I saw this little man

Also including a version without the underpainting here. Twas just playing around with effects I found online, but can't tell if it looks better or worse with it tbh.

[ratatatastic]

"im excited to be here [in Finland]" is the understatement of the century matthew ill be real

Primetime Panthers | 11.6.24 (x)

[girlstevebuscemi]

Steve Buscemi behind the scenes of Reservoir Dogs (1992)

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

head cannon that karl is part lycan so he likes eating raw meat and also another head cannon that ethan stopped eating meat after the events of re7 so ethan is living with some feral man who brings dead animals to his doorstep to try and woo him

(it does not work)

[sensitiveheartless]

Perhaps the real soup was the carrots we mangled along the way

[aberration-abbey]

mr soup man

bring me a soup

make it a cauldron of some kind of goop

we'll mix it up by melting a clover

but make sure that it doesn't boil over

soup man,

i need some goo

this geneing project is so overdue

i'll fill your cauldron up with shoes

so mr soup man give me some ooze

[sindevilslit]

[mrdarcysdadbod]

Still mulling over Anne with an E and I think I need to watch another adaptation or two of AOGG bc I want to criticize the... Misappropriation of narrative space, I suppose, but I suspect that's also just a side effect of the medium, you know? Because what I mean by this is that Anne of Green Gables as a book is very, very narrow in its scope, as it is purely and solely about Anne and, especially early on, she doesn't give other people's stories or perspectives much space in her narrative, and is somewhat ruthlessly self-interested at times in a way that actively constrains the scope of the narrative. To me that's an interesting and delightful aspect of the book as a childhood/coming of age novel, because especially at an age like nine or ten, children really are focused on their own internal world primarily and are still in the earlier-to-middling stages of being more conscious of those around them and their lives and perspectives. A side effect of this is that, for example, we have no clue what's going on with Gilbert other than a few comments from secondary characters and some of Anne's own accidental, quickly interrupted mentions. I find this deeply charming, especially the way that it hints at Anne having editorial sway over the narrative, because she clearly thinks about him far more than he comes up in the text, and I think it could be adapted in a cute and inventive way to the screen, but that's neither here nor there.

The way this relates to Anne With an E is that I think AWaE got too ambitious in widening the scope of the narrative. I'm not even necessarily against the idea of, say, exploring Anne's history and behavior with a modern understanding of trauma rather than an Edwardian children's novel that absolutely wasn't interested in or intending to tackle the emotional realities of traumatized children. And that's a place where it shined (the scene of her cheerfully telling her classmates about "the mouse in a man's pants" to their growing horror was painfully accurate to the experience of not understanding that your funny story is actually deeply worrying), even if it got awkward at times (unfortunately the Anne actress did not carry off the flashbacks well and they were just kind of corny). Unfortunately I do think that there's, I suppose, a maximum amount of gritty reimagining that any narrative can reasonably bear, and I think AWaE way overdid it.

(putting this under a cut bc it got long and wandered away from the point)

I think there's space in that narrative to explore something like, pick two: residential schools or early 20th century modes of queerness or some B plot about con-men that came out of nowhere and mainly served to undermine the notion of Green Gables and Avonlea as a fundamentally safe place - frankly I'm not even against the idea of undermining that notion, in a "challenging the narratives of settler-colonial pastoralism" way, but I think that the residential school plot should've been the thing to do that, as a way of emphasizing that the idyllic safety of Avonlea came not as a result of hardy white Protestant goodness but very much at the expense of displaced and oppressed First Nations people, but I think the way they chose to do the conman B plot was actually counterintuitive to that end, because it positioned the outsiders as the ones seeking to extract profit at the expense of the good hardworking white Protestants of Avonlea, who then became the victims of a thieving invader, when, like. Colonialism, y'know? I digress.

Returning to my original point about the scope and space of the narrative, I may have the most issue with Gilbert's entire plotline. On the most basic level, it requires a significant reframing and rewriting of his and Anne's relationship at this point in their story, which I just... disagree with. I think it's a misstep to try and reimagine a deliberate erasure of him from the narrative via Anne's (somewhat petty) refusal to include him, even though he's very much present and the reader is regularly reminded of his presence in her life outside the text, as an opportunity to actually remove him from Avonlea and do some weird shit with him. Gilbert Blythe doesn't really need to go on a personal journey justifying his passion for medicine and wrestling with the realities and impacts of the Atlantic slave trade. (If I read that sentence after reading the book but before watching this show, I would find it completely bewildering.) It's not even that I don't think "Canada, as an English/French colonial project, has always benefited from and enabled the violence of slavery even if actual chattel slavery wasn't present there in nearly the same amount as it was in other parts of the empire" isn't worth exploring as an element of the showmakers' clear desire to interrogate and challenge AOGG as, unavoidably, a work of colonial fiction. I just don't think putting Gilbert on a boat achieves that. I'm not sure exactly how I'd achieve it - frankly I'm not well-versed enough in Canadian Black history to have a take - but, to me, deciding to literally import a character to make the point about Canada needing to wrestle with anti-Black racism as much as anyone is, like... I mean it's kind of decentering Black Canadians, isn't it? And the whole thing puts Gilbert in this really weird position of clumsily lampshading the white savior in relation to Bash, but also kind of a white savior by proxy in terms of Bash's relationship to the Black community in Charlottetown. I don't know, I'm not qualified to have much of a take on this, it was just all so bizarre and unnecessary to me.

Returning again to my original point, I ultimately just think that, while the text of AoGG leaves a lot unsaid and implied about what's going on with other characters in the novel, there's only so far you can stretch that and still be telling the same story, you know? And while the core of the book is Anne exploring her place in the world, and that can be expanded to include more serious questions about things like childhood trauma and various societal bigotries, I still don't quite know how I feel about the necessity of committing to, essentially, a change in genre for the sake of tackling some of these issues, because at the end of the day, for all it doesn't shy away from things like Ruby's or Matthew's deaths and the attending grief, AoGG is a children's book, and those challenging episodes still come with a resolution and catharsis, and that's... not really something you can achieve, if you're going to include residential schools as a B plot. Like, for a show set in 1890 or whatever, there's absolutely no way to have any sort of resolution or catharsis about a residential school without egregiously whitewashing the reality, especially in, what, 2019 this was airing? After several years of mass graves getting uncovered? I don't know, I think they were just too ambitious. It's not that the legacies of slavery and ongoing Native genocide don't deserve to be explored, but I'm not sure that an adaptation of a book that is firmly rooted in an idealized image of a rural Canadian childhood is the place for it. It's kind of weird to have the horrific violence of the residential schools sharing space with Anne putting liniment instead of vanilla in the cake, you know?

[studying-space-of-annie]

I have mocks next week! Ahh wish me luck yall I'm so nervous

[goblinerrant]

Don't mind me, just thinking about Mr. Soup and the little Suvi. "Soup" fitting into the wizard naming conventions. Little Suvi seeing this happy little spirit with a bowl and giving him a name that perhaps reminded her of home. Ame hearing it and accepting it as a fact, maybe even forgetting it was Suvi from whom the name came from. And of course, the spirit himself, the old guardian hearing this little girl calling him a name that smelt of rules and tall spires and deserts and magic bound and shaped and used to exact specification, but also of homesickness of love of parent's embrace. And instead of recoiling and shunning the title, accepting it as one of his own. "I am known by many names. And one of them is Mr. Soup." Because who would he be to refuse a gift so earnestly given?

[brekfastserial]

We love Mr. Soup in this house

[dallydaydream]

Me when Sinister is holding Nathan: "Hey put that baby down!"

Me when Sinsister puts Nathan down: "NOT THERE"

[ratatatastic]

YOU GET A MILESTONE. AND YOU GET A MILESTONE. YOU BOTH GET MILESTONES!!!

[ravers8fantasy]

Haiii new Punch Out fan here! (Well, I recently rejoined the fandom) This is gonna sound dumb but if one of the boxers came down with an illness, how would the other boxers help?

(Don Flamenco is the sick one bc may my favorite suffer lol🙃)

Dw its not dumb!!

Yall weather is getting colder so make sure to keep warm and stay hydrated!!! also sorry for any mistakes here I did this during the night zoomies....

How do boxers help eachother when sick? (don im looking at you specifically here...)

Glass Joe:

I think he makes some pretty good soup, and he gives it to the boxers whenever they are sick in a thermos so it stays warm for longer

Made Don a get well soon card, but forgot to sign it so poor Don was left wondering who tf gave him a card with cursive af hand writing

Von kaiser:

Takes rest very seriously, if he catches any of the boxers not resting whilst they are sick he will chase them and bolt them into bed.

He visited Don and instead of saying get well soon he lectured him on what he should and should not do (you should stay hydrated, dont move too much, get fresh air, dont smoke, etc etc)

Disco Kid:

Usually the first one on the scene if Kaiser hasnt beaten him. He helps make them feel better usually by just being a big massive positive ball of energy.

When he visited Don with Tiger he danced at the foot of Dons bed whilst Tiger danced (they both got kicked out)

Piston Hondo

Makes really hearty meals for the boxers when they are sick, usually some form of protein with a heck ton of herbs

Literally forced Don to eat because he wasnt eating due to lack of appetite. Bro was not having any of it

Bear Hugger:

Brings boardgames around to cure good old boredom since you cant do alot when your like mega sick

Played a round of uno with Don and it ended up with Don having the sickest coughing fit ever (Bear revealed he was hiding all his cards under his suspenders and that fact disturbed Don)

Great tiger:

Usually brews up a nice hot herbal tea for the gang when they are sick. He has to warn everyone now not to drink it straight away after the amount times boxers have burnt their tounges

Like Don for example, he burnt his tounge on that tea but he still drank the whole lot cus that shit hit the spot (also kicked him out after he started hos 'supportive rapping' stunt with Disco)

Aran Ryan:

If its a cold then Aran doesnt take it too seriously, however if its like a proper fever then he might do something nice (only if he is feeling generous)

Gave Don a card but he didnt want to come across as too nice so he made it shoot out a shit ton of confetti. Afterwards, don found random confetti around of his room for like 3 months

Soda popinski:

Bro either pulls up to be useful or pulls up to be silly. Usually its the latter, I think Soda would try and get sick boxers to drink fizz but after that doesnt work he just tells them repeatedly to stay hydrated

Gave Don a 6 pack of knock of pepsi he found somewhere, after Don declined he was just like "oh... Your not going to be hydrated though?🤨" . Don also ended up kicking tf out of his place since he barley helped bless.

Bald bull:

I think he wouldnt really interact much with the other boxers. However when one of them is sick he suggests they go out and get some fresh air, mabye just sit outside and have a calm moment to yourself.

was going to tell don, but because he was roughing it out at the time of his visit bull decided to keep his mouth shut

Super macho man:

Gives gifts but the gifts are usually his own merch. He packages it all fancy as well which makes it even more weird

Gave Don a pair of macho 'glasses'. Don ignored him for a while, even after he got better from being ill

Sandman:

Like bull I also think Sandman doesnt interact with the others that much, however that doesnt necessarily mean he doesnt care. He gives cards to the boxers whenever they are sick (well to the ones he likes...)

Gave Don a card, it wasnt a fancy one just one of those you would find in the card section of a supermarket. However he wrote some pretty helpful tips on how to effectively rest which definitely helped alot.

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Waheyyy first headcanon post in a while!! Im starting to get back onto the grind so apologies for any spelling mistakes lmao. Hope you enjoyed and sorry if some of them are pretty vauge or repetitive😭

Byebye‼️

[coffinclownery]

Still working on the analysis of the beginning of tcoaal but I got sidetracked by dental hygiene and balburs bates…

But hey here’s a spoooooky treat for you - a concept I’ve drawn out while looking at the first twenty minutes that leads directly to how Andrew sees Ashley in burial vs. decay that I haven’t seen a lot of people discuss for you to chew on.

In response to Ashley begging for her mom to take her seriously when she said the wardens were starving them, Renee just says she shouldn’t have anything to complain about, because she has Andrew to “pacify” her.

To pacify. Not to care for, not to take seriously, not to listen to, not to love, not even really help, just to pacify. Ashley is not a fully-fledged being in her eyes, but just something to deal with. And Renee put the responsibility to deal with her directly on Andrew’s shoulders.

And you know what? For all the genuine affection Andrew has for Ashley (no not that kind) that her mom never gave her he kind of believes in this too. He’s learned this from his mom. That Ashley is just something he has to handle, a burden he has to bear. A creature he doesn’t know what to do with. He cares for Ashley, but he doesn’t trust her. And Ashley knows this.

Ashley might like she’s in control of the relationship, but it’s Andrew with the leash. And so long as he’s forced to hold her leash he’s guaranteed to stay right?

In Burial however Andrew denies this viewpoint and stops seeing Ashley as a burden but instead as an equal. He chooses to trust her. They’re partners working together, hand in bloody hand. And it weirds Ashley out because she’s so used to being looked down on, treated as an some feral chihuahua that needs to be leashed for everyone’s safety, someone who can’t be trusted to make her choices unless it’s something to blame her for later. Now he’s dropped the leash. She doesn’t know what they’ll be if he no longer sees the need to “pacify” her. If Andrew’s no longer obligated to handle her, why would he stay? It’s entirely new territory.

But in Decay this view that Ashley is not a person but just a creature to deal with is confirmed. That he’s “stuck” with Ashley and has to clean her messes. Not someone to love, but to tolerate. That ultimately the relationship between them is not as a brother or friend,

but as her handler.

Anyway back to getting whipped by a bdsm priest in a goblin camp for the second time because I forgot to save, toodles!