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this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up
#there are two distinct times when american food is bad#when it's people who are well off or rich enough that all they care about is appearances and how expensive the ingredients are#bcs they don't care about taste anymore it's a status thing#and also when it's stupid gentrified gimmick restaurants basically following the Cesare from Big Top Burger formula#where it doesn't matter how it tastes#it's just about it looking cool or having a gimmick so influences will come take pictures and give you tons of free advertising#that's when american food is bad#bcs rip to y'all but I grew up dirt fucking poor around other dirt fucking poor people of all races and backgrounds#and we COULD cook y'all under the table with these things#when all you have for food is hamburger helper and canned soup well damn you learn how to make it taste good#also those two bad times are NOT unique to america AT ALL#remember the Australian fish and chips that had activated charcoal and looked like actual shit?#this ain't an american problem this is a fucking rich people problem send tweet#this is also why I can't watch chopped anymore#the way they talk about ingredients like those like they're worthless and they can't believe people would eat them#like cool glad you grew up well off enough to afford real people food#the rest of us had to learn to make velveeta taste good and you know what#I could cook your ass under the table with velveeta and all those other 'cheap' ingredients you're mocking
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i find it funny but also kind of annoying when writers clearly don’t know how cooking works or haven’t bothered to look up the recipe of whatever food they’re referencing. so many times i’ve read a fic where jiang yanli makes a “vegetarian version” of the lotus and pork rib soup for lan wangji or makes the soup within a few hours (sometimes even only an hour!) which are all pretty much impossible feats.
the soup is made by boiling the pork ribs for LITERAL HOURS (i’m not joking. the soup is best when it’s been simmering for 12 hours at least) alongside the lotus root, aromatics, goji berries, ginger, etc. the reason the soup has any flavor at all is the pork ribs; without those, it would just be water with stuff floating in it. now, if the vegetarian version is just the soup without the pork then that’s one thing, but then does that count as vegetarian since the broth is meat based? i’m not sure what constitutes as vegetarian for the Lans; do bone broths count as eating meat? if they do, no wonder all the food in Cloud Recesses sucks so hard.
anyways, fic writers: before making offhand comments about food, look up the recipe and see how it’s made. food is deeply cultural and significant, both the product and the act of making it. jiang yanli’s soup is so important because it is a labor of love that takes time and effort to make, especially if she is making it from scratch by herself as we are led to assume. by reducing it to something that can be accommodated for other characters or something easier than it really is, you are inadvertently diminishing yanli’s act of love.
#mdzs#rants#mdzs meta#kind of?#jiang yanli#lotus root and pork rib soup#the untamed#modao zushi#i’ve tried to make this soup before and it sucked bc i couldn’t find fresh ingredients but i Will try again#it’s been my favorite from a local restaurant for years now and so i recognized it when i started this fandom#it’s such a hearty warm soup and i like it when i’m recovering from being sick#not while actively sick bc meat upsets my poor sensitive stomach#but after i’m staring to feel better?#miracle worker#yunmeng trio#wei wuxian#lan wangji#my mdzs meta
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just generally musing to myself what makes thematic and plot sense for the link clink ending after reading some other people's takes the past few days. no real conclusions here, just some thoughts tied together with a string.
I've seen arguments that what needs to happen is that Lu Guang needs to accept Cheng Xiaoshi's fate and move on without regrets. This idea that the past has to remain as-is and you have to move on is a thread that the show has played with quite a few times. It's written into the very rules underlying the dives. The most obvious instance being the earthquake arc, where Cheng Xiaoshi was unable to save Chen Xiao's mum, but he *was* able to deliver the messages and thereby help CX gain closure. It's laid out by Lu Guang that it *was* worth it to deliver the words, and Cheng Xiaoshi takes this conclusion with him when he confronts Emma. (Of course, the fact this lesson was given by *Lu Guang* casts a different shade over the whole affair. I don't think it can be entirely discarded, given LG even admits he's going against his own rules, but it reads more like something he's trying and failing to convince himself of.)
So, the past has to stay as it is. We see a few different approaches to this idea in s2 - of people refusing to move on and trying to change the past. Qian Jin wants to force his wife "not to cheat"; he wants to alter her behaviour because she didn't act as he wanted. Li Tianchen wanted to change how *he* acted back then, even if indirectly, because he sees himself as his mother's killer, and thinks this is the point at which his tragedy was locked into place. They both thought their 'tragedies' were down to a single event. It's not that simple.
Lu Guang wants to personally protect Cheng Xiaoshi by controlling all scenarios. Not exactly taking his will, but limiting his choices. There's probably a whole post to be made on how QJ/LTC/LG each approach the agency of the ones they want to protect, but that's not for now.
Anyway, Li Tianchen as the foil to Lu Guang. At the end of s2, he has in theory let go of Li Tianxi but in practice he's just burying himself deeper by following Liu Xiao. Trying to entirely shun the past so he can believe that he still has some element of control. Both LTC and LG are at the extreme ends of clinging on vs letting go and that means the correct answer has to lie somewhere in the middle. Not shunning the past, but accepting it, and using that resolve to move forward.
So, Liu Xiao. We don't have much on him but what we do have is his belief that uncertainties should become certainties. He's deterministic and set explicitly as the counter to Lu Guang, whose own aim is to change events rather than lock them into place. They both want to *control* all aspects, but for differing reasons. In fate vs free will, it makes sense that our protagonist is on the side of free will, but it's interesting that he's presented himself so much as the opposite previously. He and CXS haven't exactly switched places, but to the audience, they've definitely taken on traits of the other.
Liu Xiao's whole spiel about how all options will eventually lead to the same outcomes, with him set *against* Lu Guang, very much seems like it's a setup for a "defeat fate" type plotline though. It's hammered in that there is no escape, no other option. Are we expected to accept this? It doesn't seem so. It's something I'm struggling to reconcile somewhat with the earlier messages about accepting the past, but maybe that's not quite it. Maybe it's about control vs freedom?
Trust fall. Every dive with LG and CXS is an act of mutual trust where they need to act in tandem. Dives go astray when one party acts without the other. For CXS, this is about him acting against LG's instructions (texting Emma's parents, staying in the earthquake dive). For LG, this is about him withholding info because he doesn't trust how CXS will react.
Lu Guang needs to put his trust in CXS before his withholding of information creates an unresolvable rift. He needs to stop trying to control CXS in order to keep him safe. We saw how that spun out for Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi. LG needs to put the choice into Cheng Xiaoshi's hands and let him decide his own fate. It reminds me of how Cheng Xiaoshi laid everything out for Emma and let her decide whether to live. It was only outside interference that prevented her, but she did make the choice to survive. And she did it by remembering those small moments. By accepting that tragedy happens but there are still people that make it worth it.
For LG and CXS, they need to mutually trust each other and that's how they'll find their way through.
#also something about how nodes are always framed as yes/no this happens or it doesn't#when in reality they're the culmination of numerous decisions to get to any one place.#and so it'd be neat to see any 'fixes' take that into account though idk how deeply it'll go into that.#link click#link click spoilers#shiguang daili ren spoilers#also also. noodle ladies. I have thoughts on their resolution + how it ties into the 'there is no single answer' bc the rift wasn't actuall#about the secret ingredient. the secret ingredient was more a representation of yu xia forgetting their history.#but that's stuff still locked in my other drafts ig#edit: but also it's like. if you try to save/fix someone by controlling them that universally doesn't work out.#noodle lesbians and emma (pre-interference) were able to work things out because there was communication not control.#chen xiao communicated his wishes and that's how he got his closure. xss and dong yi's whole story was about communicating#and how the lack of it was actively inhibiting them
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I'm gonna say this as a genuine fan of animation and somebody who has been squeeing about ATSV's behind-the-scenes ever since the team started tweeting about how they did it: every single person who said that movie needed a photosensitivity warning was Not Kidding and it's honestly negligent that it didn't have one. I get like one migraine per decade and I had to take a preemptive tylenol as soon as I got back from the theatre because I could already feel one coming on. Thankfully that seemed to take care of it, but if I hadn't known before I went to the movie that it was going to be that much fast, bright, flashing, high-contrast everything for so much of the movie, if I hadn't realised what was going on and been able to medicate for it or I happened to be more sensitive to migraines than I am and hadn't known I'd have to skip this movie, I would've been out of commission for a day or more. And I'm not even epileptic.
#unfortunately the first thing I saw warning about this said. that they just shouldn't have done any of the animation they did.#because it is such a photosensitivity trigger.#and that it was cruel and negligent to not change the animation style completely to remove all the fast high-contrast flashing.#i think. there needs to be room in the world for art that is not accessible to absolutely everyone. even if that sometimes includes me.#but I also think that. when art is likely to be actively harmful. even to a small subset of people.#that people need to be given that information up front.#so that they can make decisions to protect themselves or to mitigate the harm if they decide that experiencing the art is worth it.#put accurate lists of ingredients on food. put accurate tags on fic.#and put accurate warnings on movies that contain a lot of high-contrast flashing.
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my desire to start shadowbringers vs my desire to “finish some things up” before I just. To my understanding Leave This Plane Of Existence and not come back
#cmon fray I’m ready I’m totally a dark knight. cmon#(Said in aris growliest voice covered in blood that you made me go acquire fray. Fray#Do you know how much food I have in my inventory now… And random bits of nature. I have five jackolanterns. three gelatin#play game#??? I don’t know where I’m going but I ASSUME I’m teleporting straight to the crystal exarch#who is. elsewgere…#shadowbringers spoilers#I’m DRK42 I’m close. I’m close. (<- going at a pitiful speed due to other responsibilities and recovery) close#also BTN CUL and CRP 25 now and hey. Stop… having ingredients that are only gettable via other crafting classes#how do you not become an omnicrafter. everything needs something else#I don’t want to work in the MINES Ari would not go mining Ari would actively hate mining rocks. dirt yes rocks no#CAVES?!?!??????? no#the shiny things are not WORTH IT#I’m spending so much GIL ON TELEPORTING because I spent MOST OF MY SEALS on ventures—#it’s been nice to just do a dungeon and go back to work though I like the … That. story is so engaging it’s hard to just go back to work#If I’m doing MSQ#I got some really nice feedback at lightbox. Gotta… allocate energy into That
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me: $40 pizza should be illegal
me eating the $40 pizza: $40 pizza save me……..
#i don’t wanna doxx myself it’s a local place that uses stupidly premuim ingredients and i go there for a treat very rarely#when i think about this place and i’m not actively eating their food i’m like this is highway robbery but when i’m in it. food of the gods.#text#mobi#my post
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they're going treasure hunting
#arttag#fable#fable 2#fable ii#hero of bowerstone#hero of bower lake#after returning from the spire sparrow met and got close to bowerstone's alchemist#her name was moira and she was bonkers#wicked fucking clever and basically a walking encyclopedia. studied alchemy in samarkand for years#lost all her common sense after meeting sparrow because hey! now she had someone to watch her back while she collected weird ingredients!#so they were very active and always out and about even after having their daughter beryl#it wasn't a perfect relationship; sparrow couldn't be helped just through being loved and they refused to fully open up to moira#she never heard a word about sparrow's past; they thought that was a way to protect her#on top of the shame and shock and grief keeping them from talking about it#so they never connected quite as fully as they would've liked; didn't have time to either#and even though it was just a distraction it still gave everyone a couple years of comfort#got sparrow to start playing the lute again like they used to as a teen living in the lake camp#got them to reconnect briefly with the normal world and feel like a human again#until lucien did his thing#well#in the end the love was there. on both sides#it didn't change anything#but it was there#also also this was totally inspired by one of @tantaliart's older pieces... sorry tanta your stuff drives me insane in the best ways#go follow her
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I warned you, should you open fic requests I’d be coming straight for your inbox with AkkAyan. I’m obsessed with on our way up/the sky full of stars and I wondered if you’d be willing to write something of it we didn’t get to see like their cooking date from chapter 4 or dinner at Akk’s house from chapter 3
tiis do you know i love you dearly
context from my fic on our way up:
The thing is, he and Akk had spent last night doing crimes against the culinary arts (jointly trying to make stir-fried basil pork in the tiny dorm room kitchen in a small disaster that ended in takeout) + The disaster at his dorm had been almost entirely Akk’s fault, and he’ll die on that hill.
so! as requested i took this briefly referenced incident and proceeded to project my personal (lack of) cooking skills on akk for about 1k(?? these things happen) of fluff. this ficlet brought to you by my best friend thaicookbooktv (and my milestone event. i guess)
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"Can I trust you with that?"
Akk glances up from the two eggs he's just started frying to glare at his boyfriend. There's a smug look on Aye's face as he leans against a counter on the other side of the cramped dorm kitchen (and thus within potential grabbing reach) and uses a little bowl to crush up some garlic and peppers (making grabbing probably a bad idea). "I know how to make eggs, Ayan."
"If you say so," Aye tells him, singsong. "I've never once seen you cook."
"That doesn't mean anything." Returning his gaze to the pan, Akk startles to see them more cooked than they should be and hurriedly, awkwardly gets them flipped before Aye gets to pretend it's evidence.
If it'd been anyone else, Akk might have admitted to the truth, which is that he does (sort of) know how to make eggs, and he can grill meat if he's invited to barbecue, but much more is beyond him. He thinks he could be good at it, with time, but he’d never learned to cook much at home, and at school he’d had so much to do that it had always been faster and easier and cheaper to have cafeteria leftovers or something instant.
But it isn’t anyone else, it’s Aye, and when he’d asked all earnest if they could cook together when he visited, Akk had gritted his teeth and then spent most of last night and the part of the bus ride over that he had decent data on looking up recipes.
So it’s particularly infuriating that Aye seems to have figured him out right away anyway. Akk scowls down at his eggs.
“All set over here,” Aye says, then snorts audibly. “What’s that look for? Did the egg insult your parents or something?”
“Shut up.”
Aye brings his bowl over to Akk’s side of the kitchen and sets it next to the other ingredients on the counter to the right of the stove. He’d only been banished over there in the first place for being distracting; Akk probably should’ve known he’d manage it anyway.
A moment later, there’s a light breeze against the back of his neck, and Akk jerks against the tickle, barely suppressing a yelp. He’s not actually holding the pan, just his spatula, so the worst that happens to the eggs is them getting slightly jostled, but he aims a blind elbow in the direction of Aye anyway, making contact with his ribs. “Jackass.”
“Violent authoritarian,” Aye responds, cheerful if slightly strained. “Those look good."
Once the eggs are safely off the heat, Aye hands him a larger pan, shuffling some things around on the little counter once there’s enough space. “Turn the heat up a little higher and put a little oil in there, okay?”
Akk glances over for the bottle of vegetable oil and grabs it. His recipe-searching had turned up the idea, but Aye isn’t using one, and Akk does not know how much ‘a little’ is. He sighs, sends a sideways look at Aye where he’s putting the egg pan in the sink, and tentatively pours some oil in.
“More than that.”
Frowning, Akk does as told. When he checks Aye’s reaction, he finds his boyfriend leaning on his hip against the counter and holding the bowl of vegetables again.
“Were you nervous about this?” Aye asks, tone a too-familiar combination of fond and condescending.
“Why would I be,” says Akk, too quickly. Always too quickly. That’s something Aye’s pointed out before, he should know better.
“‘Cause you wanted to impress me? I understand.”
Akk rolls his eyes, keeping his attention on the oil where it’s heating up. “You’re extra annoying today. Is it a special occasion?”
“Of course it is,” says Aye, tone gone painfully sincere. “My boyfriend came to see me.”
When Akk reacts far too late to keep a smile off his face, Aye pokes his cheek. “I’m happy, too,” he coos. “Now scoot, please. This next part has to happen kind of fast.”
Akk shuffles out of the way, letting Aye move in front and pour his little bowl into the pan, and sends a baleful look at Aye’s back. He’s looking far too cool in this situation; it has to be fixed.
Decided, Akk moves until he’s right behind his boyfriend, then hooks his chin over his shoulder, looping both arms around his waist, and glances down at the pan. With the bowl poured out, something looks a little suspicious in the garlic-to-chili pepper ratio. “Aye,” Akk says, trying to make sure his breath hits the skin of Aye’s neck over his t-shirt, “Did you put enough spice in?”
Annoyingly, Aye takes this without much in the way of reaction, only leaning back into Akk’s hold, and doesn’t even flinch. He reaches out for the bowl of meat and says, amused, “The neck is your weakness, not mine, Bigfoot.”
“That’s not an answer."
“Hey, who's the one of us that actually knows how to make it?”
“I could figure it out,” Akk says mutinously, dropping his face all the way to Aye’s shoulder in defeat and speaking into his skin. It’s not his fault Aye is apparently some kind of cooking expert who’s never needed a recipe in his life.
Aye laughs, just audible over the suddenly-loud sizzling sound of what Akk assumes is him adding something else to the meat. “I’m sure you could, baby, you’re smart. You just haven’t had much practice.”
“I help at home,” Akk retorts, offended.
“I know, I know.” Aye’s shoulder moves, presumably stirring, as he continues, “You don’t need to worry about it. I’ll cook for you, so long as you always do the dishes.”
Squeezing Aye’s waist just that bit too hard in retribution, Akk scoffs. “As if. I’ll practice more. I’m not doing your dishes for the rest of our lives.”
The sizzling gets a little louder, and Aye doesn’t respond. Akk blinks, lifts his head, and sees Aye frozen over the stove, one hand out on a bottle of soy sauce and the other not moving a spatula at all. “What?”
“You said—” Aye starts, sounding awed. “You said ‘the rest of our lives’.”
“Oh.” Akk swallows on the impulse to deny it and just— lets it sit. Hides his face in Aye’s shoulder again and leaves it there, feels his ears heating up. What can he say? They’ve made the joke before, about their pins and wedding rings. It’s stupid, they’re teenagers, they’ve gone too fast, and he meant it, or it wouldn’t’ve slipped out.
Gratifyingly, Aye seems just as unable to speak for a moment. Eventually, he stutters, “I— that— sounds good to me,” and then, “I love you,” and then, “Oh, shit, the pork.”
#the eclipse#my fic tag#s: tsfos#arbitrary milestone prompts#tiis <3#whenever i write about cooking something i feel like i am pretending to be a scientist. i barely know anything#in any case if you're wondering the recipe gets fucked up at the part where you're supposed to let the meat brown in the soy sauce#the meat is supposed to stick to the pan a little. it sticks a lot. aye is too distracted by the Proposal that just happened behind him lma#other implied / bts things here: i brought back my oowu decision to make aye bad at spicy food (crimes against thai people i'm sorry)#aye is not using a recipe on purpose to seem impressive. he used one to buy the ingredients#akk does in fact work on getting better at cooking (at christmas he handmakes their lil picnic date snacks)#i actually have a Lot of thoughts about aye/akk's relative cooking proficiency#and aye cooking with his mom (and before with uncle di) as a bonding activity is in oowu already#ok i'm gonna shut up or i'll talk forever
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Thanks, immune system, but I really didn't need the reminder of how much I dislike anaphylaxis.
Can I stop being allergic to my narcolepsy meds now?
Brought to you by MCAS, the bane of my existence
#about me#medical stuff#anaphylaxis#MCAS#mast cell activation syndrome#Can I fire my immune system please?#narcolepsy#I am so tired of being allergic to medications#and inactive ingredients in medications in particular#I am tired of medication trial and error#aka playing russian roulette with my body#I am tired of being allergic to meds that would otherwise dramatically improve my life#I am tired of my life as a game of medical whack-a-mole#a med solves one problem but causes several others#I should not have to choose between sleep breathing cataplexy or a semi-functional cardiovascular system!#Why is existence always set to “hard” mode?#What's it like to just have a body that works?#that's not just constantly fighting you and all your plans and dreams?#it sounds so nice#anyway back to trying to remind my lungs how breathing works#good times (*sarcasm*)
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the long term damage these babies are doing to their skin is crazy. obviously these companies only care about money but pandering to young girls who’ve barely hit puberty….so gross. they have no idea what they’re doing to their skin
#why’d I say these babies….im only 25👵🏽#11/12 yrs olds with multi step skincare routines….using ridiculously overpriced brands & way too many active ingredients on their faces#leave them alone fuck!#also where are the parents there’s so many instances where im just like…no parental influence..? like at all?#mine
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gonna revolutionize the metro homemade edibles scene by adding citric acid to gummies
#theres a dispensary in town that sells gummies you can't even taste the weed in? and im like hm maybe i could emulate this#tho idk that might be partially bc they use a blend of active ingredients (like thca or thcp delta 8 and delta 9)#wonder if citric acid or maybe ginger would help?#ive put thc mix-in powder in ginger beer before and it's been a pretty decent combo#tho like idk it's possible citric acid could have some reaction w weed#waxing philosophical#weed mention#substance use#drugs mention#food /
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I bring a sort of “growing up feeding me was an unwelcome chore to be dealt with as quickly as possible” vibe to cooking as an adult that my digestive system dont really like
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I made a drink where it’s impossible to taste the alcohol fuck yes
#three shots of vodka in one drink with no burn#it’s 2 shots cherry vodka 1 shot regular vodka then a fruit punch drink powder packet and then fill the rest of the space with cranberry#juice. I used mango cranberry and a splash of pineapple cranberry just so it was more like fruit punch#and then just save enough room to put ice cubes#it’s so fucking good#finding out fruit punch drink mix cuts vodkas burn down is so incredible every vodka drink I have now is fruit punch flavored#it is literally blood red btw like vampire mode activated and it matches my nails and I chose a red straw oh shit i forgot to say an#ingredient I also added some maraschino cherries and some juice from the cherries container so it had some sugar bc everything else I used#was no or low sugar#and the cherries are really just so I can eat the cherries but the juice is for flavor
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been the year of discovering how deep my anxiety runs and how much it is bound up with everything I care about most and how I will need to deal with this for the rest of my life but also that I am capable of dealing with it because it is mine and how I can learn to untangle it from things enough so that it causes less damage than it has in the past
#personal#like. I just have so much and it’s not a surface level thing it has gone down to my roots and is entwined with the things I believe#the MOST#and it’s not all bad. it has shaped me in some conscious ways where I’ve let it push me in the right directions#and there are just things I have to untangle and re-build without the anxiety as an ingredient in the base layer#or at least give it a less active role haha#I read a thing once that anxiety was a toothless tiger#which is a metaphor I love because of course I would have a little phantom unfinished tiger in my brain just running around#but also like. it can’t be allowed to do the heaviest lifting#just rambling almost done etc. thanks for listening
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why did it never occur to me that there was a max dosage on throat lozenges i am in PAIN
#kt tangents#(i'm fine none of these ingredients are like. actively harmful. just deeply nauseous)#shout out to me being allergic to menthol so i can't take those anyways because why is that the only thing that saved me from consequences
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If this stuff is so hypoallergenic, then why my stomach burn.
Answer me that, um (checks container) Bioclinic Naturals.
#my wonderful health problems#I've been trying a different elemental formula to the one I was having before but I don't think it's working out#The stomach burny could partly be from the One Single Skittle I had earlier but my stomach was burning before that#I only ate it to try to get rid of the feeling like I'd eaten carpet#What is in this stuff it only lists active ingredients
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