#this is the magic soup

[lawful-evil-novelist]

SHARE MAGIC CHICKEN SOUP RECIPE!!!! Please.

So here's the deal with the magic chicken soup: It's from Heroes' Feast aka the D&D cookbook.  It's labeled Everything Soup in the Halfling section but for everyone's sake I'm just going to explain how to make it with my own advice along the way:

So for Everything Soup you need the following:

6 tbsp butter

2 tsp fresh rosemary

2+ cloves of garlic, to taste

1 yellow onion

3 carrots-If you want more flavor try to find those rainbow carrots

1 red bell pepper

2 bay leaves

¾ tsp dried thyme

5 cups chicken broth

1 potato

4 ounces green beans

1 leek

¾ cup corn, canned or frozen

1 ½ cups or 8 oz shredded chicken (rotisserie is preferred but homemade is fine)

If you’re precooking the chicken you’re also going to need at least ¼ tsp of all of the following:

Salt

Paprika

Sugar

Onion Powder

Garlic Powder

This recipe has 3 parts: the rosemary garlic butter, the chicken, and the soup itself.  It doesn't strictly need the butter but the butter does elevate it.  If you don't want to include the butter, just remove 3 tbsp of butter, the rosemary, and the garlic.

Rosemary Garlic Butter:

Melt 3 tbsp of the butter in a pan, add the rosemary and the garlic and heat until fragrant, stirring frequently.

Set aside, work on your soup, the butter needs to infuse.

The Chicken:

If you need to precook the chicken, try not to overseason it here or it'll ruin the soup.  If you think it needs more than ¼ tsp of everything add more than ¼ tsp but if you aren’t sure, play it safe.  Nothing ruins magic faster than getting the ingredients wrong.

Rub your seasoning mixture on your chicken and let it sit for about 15 mins.

Bake or pan fry the chicken until it's 165°F or 74°C internally.

Shred, set aside.

The Soup:

Now you can make the soup.  Start by prepping your vegetables:

Chop your onion, it doesn't need to be pretty it just needs to be bite-sized.

Peel and cut your carrots into ~¾ inch pieces, diagonally looks nice but is unnecessary

Core and seed your bell pepper, then chop it up into ~¾ inch pieces

Peel and cut your potato into ~¾ inch pieces

Clean and stem your green beans, then cut them into 1-inch pieces

Cut off the really dark green pieces of your leek and cut the light green and white parts in half, clean them thoroughly and chop up both halves

Then Cook the Soup:

Over medium-high heat, melt the other 3 tbsp of butter in a dutch oven, then throw in the carrots, onions, and pepper with the thyme, bay leaves, and a little salt, cook and stir until the vegetables soften, ~5 mins.

Adjust heat to medium-low, cover, and leave it until the vegetables have a nice mini-bath of their own juices.  Should take like 8 minutes.

Add the broth and potato, raise the heat to medium-high until simmering, then turn it down to low, cover, and leave it for 5 minutes or until the potatoes are barely tender.

Add your green beans and repeat the medium-high simmer and low heat cover cycle from the potatoes, but only leave it for 3 minutes this time.

Add your leeks, corn, chicken, and salt and pepper to taste, then repeat the simmer and cover cycle, again leave it for 3 minutes, until the potatoes are soft and everything is cooked through.  Adjust seasoning here, and remove the bay leaves.

Reheat that rosemary butter you set aside and strain it, then top the soup with the butter.  You can also top each bowl with 1-2 teaspoons if you prefer.

And there we have it, magic. I know it seems like the only seasoning is on the chicken but trust me this soup is super flavorful and delicious.

[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

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[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.

[soup--champ]

day 2 prompt: fae/kiss

for @smallchaoscryptid’s spiderbit week

[mewguca]

"There once was an Ugly Scavenger. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."

uhhh dont question the mechanics behind this one too much

[felicitea-va]

this is my peak nothing else i make will ever be as great as this

[moldyselene]

WAITER

WAITER MORE YURI PLEASE

I need them injected directly into my veins

Your wish is my command🫵🔥🔥 Take a silly comic it was funnier in my head

(More info in cutoff)

KID was presented as a male at first with the first KID was a man yknow and she was pretending to be him so Kaito disguises herself with wigs and a bigger size suit to hide her physique

“Why don’t she just bind her chest” she is not jumping from buildings and going on heists in a binder sorry😭🤚

After a while she started to put more feminine touches to her kid suit, take the outfit post for reference , wearing ribbons then changing the pants and boots as well, adding her own touch into the KID outfit. (She does wear the og suit too sometimes for fun and to throw people off too) so the gender of Kaitou KID remains a mystery in that world lmao

[doomed-era]

yeah maybe i am obsessed with botw/totk link in regards to his (lack of) bodily autonomy. anyway do you think that if he got old and there was a crisis they'd use the anti-aging rune on him cause i think they would

[alchemisoul]

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- Carl Sagan, excerpt from the 11th epsidode of Cosmos ("The Persistence of Memory")

[mtg-cards-hourly]

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