#Soup sounds nice

[aerisan-ace]

I wampt soup.

[silverskye13]

Remember when I said I would post the intermission chapter on Monday? Because I sure didn't.

[ineed-to-sleep]

*me immediately after going through a terrifying and traumatic experience* haha yeah I guess it was rough but I'm fine now like I'm totally chill. It was kinda funny actually if you think about it

[surreal-duck]

One of Midori's lines in vime is "I won't let you look anywhere else, just look at me"

Do what you will with that info o7

all i can imagine is that he had a hard time singing it with a straight face

though im picking up what youre putting down so i raise you

[agnesandhilda]

okay only three recipes for now! these definitely bias more asian and i am not sure how much the ingredients will cost in your area but here are my go tos. sorry for instagram reel recipes.

here's a slightly more effortful one (stir fry ?) i make pretty often; i tend to just not add the rice cakes and eat it with rice instead.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1_HZ4jMOEN/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==

this one is just an entire block of tofu with seasoning but it's pretty good and quick for if you have no energy:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Li72ZLq_L/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==

and then teriyaki chicken recipe.

yessss thank you!!

[abimee]

got my first BA run/clear after 4 years and we took pics out by where i got scared shitless by an ozma mount as a sprout for nostalgia <3

[gideonisms]

I swam today for the first time in 6 months because my mom has a membership to a pool and the whole time I was like wow it's just like I'm in the river....I'm literally just like harrow rn for real. ..I'm exactly like nona with her jellyfish too :) dramatically doing laps pretending I was in the metaphysical space between life & death

[befuddled-calico-whump]

i saw in the tags for one of your asks that you said sahota’s backstory is nsfwhump and omg???? he was…omg. Even I didn’t expect that (but now I can see why he doesn’t like to be touched 😥)

also i agree with other anon, we should definitely start a book club for sahota

(soup anon)

yeah, he's definitely had a rough go of it 😭

just adds more fun layers to his current stoic self

[transgaysex]

every day i choose kindness and i do it through gritted teeth

[searenbound]

Chronic illness is a bitch and I feel like shit. Still have to work though

Would really like to nap though

[theclearblue]

I need to go to class but all that's waiting for me is a cold barren wasteland and I'm so warm rn </3

[realwizardshit]

I'm generally a hater of "AI" but I do appreciate that it's pretty freely available to do one of the most soulless bullshit tasks in existence, which is customizing resumes and writing cover letters. Employers have been using algorithmic filtering of people's job applications for the last 15+ years and it's about time that the scales even out a little bit.

[kitkatcadillac]

ooough marinating chicken with olive oil/vinegar/splash of lemon juice/garlic/salt then oregano/pepper halfway thru cooking really good i think i can be friends with chicken again actually

[highwaydiamonds]

It was one of my nights to make dinner - and I hadn't done a good job planning ahead. Whipped out a jar of arrabiata sauce I had and i knew i had some leftover hamburger from earlier in the week.... Then looked around for pasta and did not find good pasta candidates for the most part... Gnocchi and Tortellini - that I knew other people might want to tap on their dinner nights... And then I remember boxes of lasagna noodles that had been sitting there for months - and they weren't no boil noodles. (lets be real - the person who bought those hates cooking and there's no way on god's green earth do i see her making any kind of lasagna from scratch - let alone boiling the noodles first ok? ) So I was like - YEP , you're mine, you orphan lasagna noodles!

Broke the noodles ehhhh into relatively similar size pieces and then for good measure tossed cream cheese into the sauce - do not come for me. authentic? hell no. creamy and a nice balance to the extra red pepper i added to make the sauce spicier? yes. Also since I had sauteed onions and a whole buncha minced garlic before cooking the meat and sauce - it was niiiice. at least niiiiice for very little forethought.

(and i had made paul's pumpkin bars - like pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert - that cake is life ok. and i hadn't had it since my mom passed. that one was for you out there mom- and whoever the heck paul was - mom got the recipe from someone at work or the newspaper back in the day)

ANYWAY - when we sat down to dinner, someone looked at the bowl of pasta and sauce and asked, " So.... What is this exactly?

My response to this semi-saltily delivered query was," FOOD."

After letting the resulting silence sit for a nice little moment or three I then added, "But if you feel you need a fancy name, consider it as 'Deconstructed Lasagna served in a Creamy Tomato and Beef Ragout to be followed by Pumpkin Bars ala Paul."

The peanut gallery let me have this one.

[keeps-ache]

i would love to sing as loud as i can physically manage right now but there are Conventions

[fragrantpines]

(Long rant below. Contains minor spoilers for upcoming food souls.)

One thing that constantly frustrates me is trying to translate chinese nicknames for the food men into English.

One of the most recent examples is Yusheng aka Shunde Raw Fish. As read from the name, the original dish is a fish dish so the name Yusheng (俞生：yú shēng) name is a play on the word chinese word fish (鱼: yú). You can see this in many current and upcoming food souls such as Taibai Duck (太白鸭���tài bái yā) aka Baiya (白琊: bái yá), Stuffed Carp aka （三鲜脱骨鱼：sān xiān tuō gǔ yú） aka Ah Yu (阿喻: ā yù）, Yangzhou Fried Rice (扬州炒饭：yáng zhōu chǎo fàn）aka Yangzhou （扬舟: yáng zhōu)

Directly translating these names isn't an issue unless the food soul's name has special meaning to it. For example, Meng Po Soup's "mortal name" is 无情 (wú qíng) which directly translates to "no emotions". He's called that because of the spirits who come and see him, all describing him as a heartless person who doesn't care about other people's feeling. His mother Meng Po doesn't like the origin of this name so she calls him 阿情 (ā qíng) as removing the 无 also removes the connotation of Meng Po Soup not having any feelings. It shows how much she adores him and loves him as a son... except both names would be hard to carry over to English while retaining their original meaning. Directly translating it to Wu Qing and Ah Qing will lose the name's meaning to global audience.

(That's part of the reason why in this fic, I translated 无情 to Heartless as it keeps the original meaning. By translating it to this, Meng Po can call him as Sweetheart to keep that sense of familial bond and endearment she has for him.)

Meaning is one thing, trying to keep the formality and closeness in a name is another thing. For example, Buddha's Temptation is often referred to as 福公 （fú gōng）in game and by fans alike. The 福 in his name means prosperity and 公 is used to refer to gentlemen with high status or look like nobility, giving off the impression that he is someone worthy of respect which he is. Other than translating it directly, one way to translate it is "Lord Prosperity" but that sounds way too formal. Another way is "Mister Prosperity" or "Sir Fu" but that doesn't give off the vibes as the original name hnggggg

Why is language so hard