#thinking i like a noodle soup for this

[rgr-pop]

planning way ahead

for rosh hashanah i am hosting and we have a new family member (my labor commie meet cute friend is also a Bad Jew!) and he’s veg. not a problem for anything i’m making but matias may bring a brisket so i want to have a really good alternative. notes

- if matias brings a brisket then my oven is out of commission. stovetop recipes only

- i will be asking mara to bring a noodle kugel, otherwise i’ll be doing all the baking myself. traditionally i do at least two carrot dishes for this holiday because i’m a carrot zealot. this year i’m going to do a sushi restaurant style carrot ginger dressing salad

it’s going to obviously probably have to be a soup. my go to holiday stunner is borscht but i don’t want to do it this year because it takes like 8 hours of beet manipulation. SO i’m soliciting special soup recipes

- strongly leaning toward doing a chinese soup because that’s what ben and i like to cook and i would love to find a new go to recipe. most importantly, i would love to do a tofu soup. huge bonus for anything that leans sweet (for the holiday), is carrot (for the holiday), and doesn’t rely overly on coconut milk profile (which is not a special treat for veg people). laksa? the woks of life veg hot n sour? they also have a sour cabbage stew that looks promising… for obvious reasons i’d especially love a new yorker’s brainstorm here :)

lunar new year observers: is there an associated celebration soup in your area? this could be a fun appropriation

as a cook i’m not super comfortable with meat substitution materials otherwise, so i’d prefer a recipe that i can more or less remove the meat without missing it and just substitute a broth with some success. i would love love to do a nice and honorable tofu treatment!!

other potential angles:

- invent a carrot soup that’s like as good as the borscht

- could be a good time to try to do a plum stew that meets my childhood plum soup memories…

please keep me updated on interesting soups! sweet/sour/spicy, fruit and carrots, tofu especially

[puppyeared]

mmmonkey

[shorthaltsjester]

downfall has me thinking about the prime deities far more than is best for my mental health and so i’ve been rewatching c1 just because so many of the pcs have relationships with the gods — even percy and keyleth who hold lower opinions of the gods still have relationships with them — and good grief . you ever think about whitestone as this bastion of love that the gods still have for one another and the love that a party of idiots have for one another. that the centrepiece of the town is a tree from the dawnfather, one used for the builders of castle whitestone to take shelter from the tumultuous lands of the alabaster sierras. a mountain range that came about out of the conflict between the dawn father and the chained oblivion.

the fact that the family that whitestone’s lost son found and brought back with him amounted to two temples being erected, and how fitting that after defeating the briarwoods, the two gods that are given new houses of worship in whitestone are the gods of death and redemption, fate and compassion. do you ever think about how many of vox machina are champions but how much the ones who are not are still held in good faith by the gods, whether or not that is returned? do you ever think about the raven queen telling percy he is broken and reminding him that does not mean he is alone, that means he is mortal, as are all those whom he loves. do you ever think about percy’s death letter, read by vox machina in a tavern as he tells them that the raven queen calling him broken finally opened his eyes to the fact that he has chosen his life (and thus, he might choose better), writing “one the lie [that vengeance would bring my family back] was shattered, I scrambled to find a solution, to make a deal, to undo my mistakes and balance the scales. I now understand that there are no scales. There is no redemption, and no ledger that judges me good or evil. I am free to simply be myself and live with the terrible mistakes I’ve made. Tomorrow, I start upon a path beyond the gods and demons who have tormented me, and it’s your friendship that makes this possible. […] I will try and do my best for you all.” and signing it Percival, of Vox Machina - the family he found and chose, not the one he lost and buried himself in vengeance to avoid. and fucking, vex having just heard percy forgive ripley also hearing those words and having carved the word forgive on the weapon she carries who has a conversation with him to remind him (and herself) that committing to forgiveness over grudges and vengeance means also forgiving the person he’s been that prioritized vengeance. the fact that one of the main things they bond over is that they have similar dispositions to justice and a similar unwillingness to forgive but they both see that in themselves as something they wish to improve at, and that when they eventually marry, each time is by someone devoted to a god neither of them necessarily worship but each of which oversees a domain particularly relevant to that connection - keeper yennen is a worshipper of erathis, and thus the justice that both percy and vex care to honour; pike is a worshipper of raei, and thus the redemption that both vex and percy seek (and see in one another). do you get it.

and god the entirety of the final arc of vox machina is truly some of the most interesting cr content for me just because you get the silliness and depth of vox machina in the face of these Beings On High and they all gaze at these idiots trying to save the world with fondness and the realization with downfall that in many ways those gods were just as much idiots trying to save the world makes that so, so interesting. and i wonder what might’ve happened if one of the gods they’d gone to see had been the lawbearer or the wildmother, what might have been made of percy and keyleth. i wonder if the lawbearer might have taken an interest in a calculating and curious man who loves to strike a deal and stick to it, even if manipulating the contents of the deal made to better suit his ends - especially given that percy was rejected by ioun for his propensity not to share his knowledge, and especially given that whitestone has a historical precedent for worship of the lawbearer. and i wonder what the wildmother would make of an angry girl who is fated to watch the people and places she loves be irrevocably changed and die, who wields her vestige, and who favours the world and it’s people over the gods and their rules — something i’m willing to bet melora would find some common ground with.

there’s also some beautiful symmetry between the relationships of the gods to which vox machina become champions and their own relationships with one another. and i’ve made my post about vax and vex vs. the matron of ravens and the dawn father, but i also think quite a lot about vex and scanlan vs. pelor and ioun. vex and scanlan who can be quite antagonistic to one another but also understand each other as few others do; scanlan who tells the dawn father that vex is not perfect but she is the most perfect among them, vex who hears the knowing mistress tell scanlan that his stories give vox machina strength and genuinely tells him it’s true and that he is very powerful, even when he tries to joke about it. ioun and pelor were the ones to take on tharizdun, ioun nearly perishing and having to hide away to recover. when vox machina asks pelor for her location he doesn’t know it. and fuckin. dalen’s closet. should be a silly little wedding oneshot ends with fuckin. vex glowing with the light of the dawnfather as her and percy, the living son of whitestone, are married by pike who is a cleric and is also the champion of the god of redemption, where the champion of ioun turns into a. dinosaur to walk his friend down the aisle and then grants a wish so that she can see her brother again and the champion of the matron of ravens comes to visit - something that is explicitly stated to be allowed by the matron of ravens. where a twin glowing like the dawn and a twin darkened by raven feather embrace. do you get it . do you see it. the fact that the first story we all heard in exandria was one of a family threatened by fate who could not beat it but did their best with it and that now downfall, the newest story but with parts of the oldest story in exandria’s timeline, is the same. a family who is doing the best with what they have, and what they have isn’t always great.

[glass-noodle]

Nooodleee! I don't want to pressure you but want to ask when there's more of your Merm-Comic? Or did I miss the end somehow? Need moooore! Pleeeease! Love your stuff!

Guess what’s dropping very soon 👀👀👀

[draw-your-self-ship]

Draw your F/O bringing your self insert a bowl of soup (or other light comfort food) while they’re not feeling well!

Do NOT Interact: Pro//ship, adults who ship with minors, and real people shippers.

[ragabonde]

whenever i get those mixed cut melon pieces at the store i always pretend I'm eating those multi-coloured food cubes in TOS

[witchofthesouls]

Cybertronians vs kudzu

Who would win. Aliens or very invasive plants?

Cybertronians will win the battle, but they'll lose the war.

It's one thing to comprehend that plants grow fast, it's another thing to witness it.

If Cybertron ever establishes a sister city or university on Earth, then many Cybertronians will flock over to study applied agricultural sciences because someone at some point had managed to successfully crossbreed a potato with a Cybertronian one that feeds on their planet's radiation.

Someone needs to save Cybertron's soul if a well-meaning idiot takes something like kudzu or mint and manages to get viable crossbreeds on the metal planet.

[supercantaloupe]

Lanzhou beef noodle cats

They mostly only have locations in NY but there’s this beef noodle place called Dun Huang where they make their noodles hand pulled in house. Highly recommend. I have dreams about their noodles sometimes

BEEF NOODLE CATS!! i love them so much. i would sample their wares with gusto.

[ask meme]

[ihamtmus]

it's weird how jhope is Right There and he's like the Most Talented Person but some armys just. don't see him. should be studied

[someiicecube]

Do you think Solomon likes soup? If so what kind?

idk what prompted this ask, but it's so out of left field I had to answer.

Lots of soup mentioned below the cut.

Firstly, we have to establish whether or not Solomon would eat soup.

The simple answer? Yes, of course he would. If it was served to him at a fancy dinner as a side— yes, he would eat it. If you made it for him whilst he was sickly and bedridden? He would give the world back to you… or most likely he'd want to return the favor one day— huh, what do you mean you don't want him making anything? He feels better now! Hey, why are you pushing him out of the kitchen? :(

One cannot simply ask whether or not Solomon has a favorite soup or not.

Like any person, he has his preferences and whatnot. Solomon prefers the classic savory kinds of soup, as he sees the dish as more of a side or something simple you make when feeling under the weather. Sour and overtly spicy flavors are things he tends to avoid. And with his dislike of the ocean, he reads to me as someone who wouldn't be privy to having any fish or seafood in his soup. Meat or vegetable-based soups are preferred.

Though, the soup he's most caught eating would be those instant noodle packets (with an egg mixed in) that he's totally not making at three am cause he forgot to eat a while ago. Oops—

But what kind of soup specifically?

Something that reminds you of home, is a common answer. But, frankly speaking, that guy has a fucky memory, so what can he remember of home? Sure, he does remember that he did have a favorite soup in his youth, but the flavor of which was something that has been lost to time and his old man brain.

So, if Solomon no longer (or has since forgotten) a soup that reminds him of home, what could be put in place of that?

That would be something made by someone he loves dearly— now if you read that as being you or someone else in universe, I'll leave it up to reader interpretation.

Hey, if that man's childhood home is lost to time, that's life. Sure, it's a sad thing to witness, but it was bound to happen— that's just how human civilizations work, they're built up, people flourish, centuries pass by, and then a new one takes its place.

But back on the soup and Solomon calling you his new home— home is not always a place, it can be a person (actually it can be a place if you consider 'your heart' a valid location).

Something made by you (whether under duress; looking at Solomon's cooking here) is always something Solomon would like. Of course, he still takes in his own preferences, but he's lucky that you do as well.

Yes, he does tend to delegate soup to be a side dish, but at home he doesn't mind making it the main course. Perhaps it's just him, but there's just something about sharing a warm bowl of soup on a cold night and sharing that with your beloved that… strikes him, makes him feel soft in side, and has a smile spreading across his lips as he takes in the moment.

Maybe it's the homemade soup making him feel all warm inside. Maybe it's the private company he's sharing with meal with. He'll never know. What Solomon does know, however, is that, he doesn't mind having soup if it's made by you.

[amazinglyegg]

The wasteland seems like an introverts nightmare. You mean there's no self checkouts and I actually have to TRADE with shop owners?? Railroad HQ is just an open area everyone hangs out in?? People have to sleep in the same room in most settlements?? No fucking thanks I'm joining the Institute

[mango-sp1ce]

Hm….

trying to cross all my fandoms can be a little hard, but let’s think about it for a moment.

So wed definitely have Danny phantom, but not based in amity (or his dimension). Cause I just don’t like having the small town hero be in his small town.

now, to tackle Lmk and Batman. This could go either way. I really like the DCU universe, but the same can be said about the Lmk setting.

So we’d either end up with Mk (and probably a secondary, like Macaque or Wukong) in Gotham. Or the entire Batfam (I feel bad just picking one of em) in the setting of Lego Monkie Kid.

and Danny’s just there as well.

as I said, this can go a lot of ways. Mk vigilanting it out with Danny phantom in Gotham while also trying to not level the city because that’s an actual problem he has to keep proper track of now. And showing his face seems like it might be a no-go which is new cause usually no one really cares that he’s the monkie kid, but now that’s a problem.

Oh, and the batfam gets to deal with the two overwhelming powerful beings.

or

The batfam trying to get used to a world where no one gives a fuck if you’re both Batman and Bruce Wayne. A world with villains who don’t actually seek you out at your own home often, and it’s usually just straight silly if they do. Where normal people who fight bad guys don’t stay normal for long, weither that’s due to gods and sages or something else.

a world where a random delivery guy has the power to level a city, and no one’s even told him not to. They just expect it of him to know not to, and only get slightly annoyed when he accidently does. He’s powerful and reckless and emotional, and just everything that they’re all so used to making an absolute mess of a hero and yet here he still stands, as if this is all stable.

and his mentors, ugh, god don’t get the batfamily started on his mentors.

[sodacowboy]

frozen carrots acquired

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

psychic psoup

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various images of things

[lucky-clover-gazette]

even in what i think will be the darkest fic i write for this fandom, there's a very unambiguously hopeful ending that emphasizes themes of self determination and healing. not sure if i'll find a way to put pumpkin soup in there tho