#soup magic

[friend-crow]

I am concocting so much broth potion in my crock pot cauldron.

[sevilemar]

Soup really is magical when you're sick. I just made myself some, with ginger and garlic and what I think is thyme but could be other herbs that look similar because I came across this post yesterday that said they're healing, and also a lot of other stuff because I need to have a bit more substance than just aromatics. And lo and behold, suddenly my throat doesn't feel as raw any more, and I feel a lot more stable temperature wise. Magic 🍜

One thing that's a little bit sad about improvising meals is that you can't recreate it when it tastes really good. I have probably already forgotten an ingredient or two, I don't know how much of it I put in, and even if I did, I cannot put down in a recipe 'that weird wrinkly orange bell pepper from the back of your fridge' or 'two jars of dodgy homemade broth from two years ago with no labels (probably beef)'. Ah wait, I can^^

First Day of Covid Soup

some ginger a clove of garlic

some parsley a bay leaf

half an onion some pepper

two sausages (Wiener) some coconut oil

that weird wrinkly orange bell pepper from the back of your fridge

two jars of dodgy homemade broth from two years ago with no labels (probably beef)

Roast the onion, the chopped bell pepper, the ginger and the garlic in the coconut oil until theres a bit of the tasty black stuff at the bottom. Put in the broth and let simmer for as long as it takes to clean up whatever dirty dishes you got lying around. Puree. Put in the bay leaf, the pepper, the probably thyme, the chopped wieners and the chopped carrot (oops, forgot to list it), and let simmer for 25 minutes. Put in the parsley, turn off the heat, and let rest for another 5-10 minutes.

[coveredinpaint]

Find me in the kitchen conjuring a roux

mmm soob

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Soup solves everything.

[justaz]

au where merlin doesn’t know balinor is his father and he and arthur are chilling in his cave and balinor mentions hunith and merlin Locks In as he subtly questions the random man and boom arthur and merlin are aware that the last dragonlord is his father.

[lightbulb-warning]

napscallions

[saydesole]

Pho🍜

[raplinenthusiasts]

💐 @cordiallyfuturedwight

{© namuspromised}

[eupheme]

“Never could stand it. Told 'em they all look fuckin' ridiculous, and now it doesn’t feel right not to wear it.”

His eyes don’t meet yours in the mirror. Where you stand - looking at the charred remnants on his lower half. Head cocked, as you consider - as he leans into the hand you rest on his shoulder.

“Well, maybe I could help you make a new one?”

logan promptober -> suit

[lovecolibri]

"I thought for a second, I was like, maybe Jammer's family's gonna to adopt me, for three months until I'm 18. Maybe you can squeeze a whole childhood into three months."

JESUS CHRIST, BRENNAN!

[tittydicktea]

havin thoughts.

au where grunkle stan has a prosthetic leg, he lost it in his 20s and has been using a range of (usually very bad and/or possibly stolen) prosthetics, and he never changes to better ones until the old one breaks beyond repair.

especially after taking over the mystery shack, because Stanford never lost a leg on record, so it'd be weird if Suddenly he had a decade old amputation randomly.

when the twins visit for the summer, they only find out after arriving. the Mr. Mystery persona hides his leg, after all, and sure, he walks around with the 8ball cane, but that's just for the persona, right?

wrong. Stan needs a cane, but only uses the 8ball one (it's not very good for him), and his leg is Old. it's like bordering on ten years old, and the foot is all worn out, plus the knee joint stops working randomly. so. he needs a new one.

Mabel and Dipper devise a plan. at first, their plan is to "fix" Stan's leg. regrow it or whatever. they end up almost doing some kind of witch deal, but it doesn't work out (and also they almost get eaten or smth)

stan explains to them that he's not looking to Regrow his leg. he's spent longer Without it then he ever did With it. he's spent like almost forty years with only one leg, he's used to it. they don't need to worry about him. and he ruffles their hair.

but Mabel and Dipper manage to convince him to at least get a new prosthetic and cane. ones that are actually good for him. Stan doesn't want to go to the doctor, but they find a way. probably mcgucket, he happily cobbles together a leg and cane. it might have lasers and Such in it, but he removes them when asked.

it's not perfect, but it's Leagues better than what stan had before, and the twins decorate it for him. stickers, some glitter. yknow.

very sweet I think. also this would slightly change Stan's usual outfit of his white tank top and his boxers, because he is hiding his leg from Gravity Falls, or at least trying to. the entire town probably knows already and just don't comment on it (it'd be rude if they did) he probably wears sweatpants or something.

also Ford Doesn't Know stan only has one leg. he's in for a shock. he's still mad about a lot of things, but like. cmon stan. that leg, while better than the others, isn't good. it's made of scrap metal stan. probably tries to get him an actual proper medical prosthetic. from a certified place. ford's gonna be short with him and grumpy but he's not gonna let stan screw himself over like this. also that hearing aid is just as bad. go to the doctor Stanley.

[friend-crow]

You don't know what you ask, traveler. My strongest broth would kill a dragon, let alone a man.

[sevilemar]

Since it worked so well yesterday, here's today's soup:

Second Day of Covid Soup

some ginger (I have so much ginger) a clove of garlic

the rest of the parsley some pepper

the other half of the onion another bay leaf

the rest of a salad (a bit wilted) one brokkoli

2 wiener sausages some coconut oil

thyme and majoran the last jar of dodgy homemade broth from two years ago (probably beef)

Roast the ginger, onion, and brokkoli stems in some coconut oil. Put the salad in and reduce. Put the broth in and let simmer. Remember the garlic, chop, put in, and let simmer some more. Puree. Put in the bay leaf, the pepper, the thyme and majoran, and the chopped wiener, let simmer for 15 minutes. Put in the good parts of the brokkoli, let simmer for another 15 minutes, put in the parsley, take off the heat and let rest for 5 minutes.

Not as yummy as yesterday's soup, but still good.

[itsdefinitely]

this would happen to simon petrikov i think

[kagekitsuneoflight]

It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.

Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.

He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.

He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).

He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.

And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.

He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.

There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.

His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.

There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”

Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.

As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”

[skaldish]

I think people tend to forget that magic largely works through mundane means.

If I were to cast a financial wealth spell, the money would come through whatever channel has the best money potential: It could be a gift from a relative, a bonus paycheck, or just finding some extra cash I stashed away at some point and forgot about.

The money doesn’t just pop into existence, because doing magic doesn’t produce magical results. It produces results.