“I’ll take care of you." / "It’s rotten work." / "Not to me. Not if it’s you.” - Anne Carson (Fire Noodle #15)
Had a hard time with this one and others, been in an art slump.
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Ramen Review #2: Samyang Buldak Instant Noodles, Original
Another iconic instant noodle. Popularized during the "Fire Noodle" challenge days of 2010s YouTube.
Noodle Texture: 7/10. Nice and chewy, but not exactly top-of-the-line quality.
Flavor: 10/10. I might be biased though, I'm a huuuuge fan of spicy food.
Notes: Extremely spicy! There's a reason these noodles became more well-known because of their associated challenge. Best with a fried egg on top.
Recommended tips:
Fry up an egg while boiling your noodles! Get your pan and some oil on another burner after putting your noodles into the boiling water. These noodles take about 5 minutes to cook (not including time spent mixing the flavor packet into them afterwards), so your egg should be done right on time to slide on top.
For other toppings, you can also add some fried spam or dried seaweed. (Or anything really, if you like it :))
If you're cooking this on a non-nonstick pot (so a stick pot?), you need to be faaast with mixing in the sauce after draining the water. Stir continuously, or else your noodles will stick to the bottom of the pot. (This can also be avoided by adding a little bit of oil).
Don't reserve too much water in the pot after draining, or else your sauce will be too watery. But, if it ends up too watery, you can just cook off the excess as well.
As the packaging says, these are dry noodles! They're not very good as a soup imo, the noodles themselves get soggy very quickly.
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People reading Hunger Games as a pessimistic and misanthropic work makes me so mad. Ms Collins didn’t base a whole trilogy on the transformative power of kindness for y’all to disrespect her like that.
Like, I see it, THG is bleak as hell in places. But it’s also just about as far from ‘anti-humanity’ as one can get. Yeah, there’s bad people. That’s the point. We’ve all got the capacity to be bad but we can also be good. And that choice is what it’s all about imo - that it’ll always be worth it to do the human thing. Bury that tribute, smile to a child, give bread to your neighbour… it’s all the same and it’s all worth it. Not because of the circumstances but despite them.
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Zutara Month 2023 Day 26: How I Met Your Mother
Sneaking into Zutara Month at the last minute like what. I may go back and change the ending of this sometime, I’m not thrilled with it but wanted to finish it before Zutara Month was over.
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I'm dying for more Tiny Danger Noodle Zuko content. I can't decide which I wanna see more; someone accidentally hurting the noodle (resulting in dramatic Miette-esque "betrayed" looks on Zuko's part and lots of pampering and cuddles to beg forgiveness from the crew) or them hurting Zuko on purpose when they first meet him and immediately regretting it from the heartbreaking noises he makes and how scared of them he becomes 🤔
(Continued from this ficlet.)
Bato swore, which ended Hakoda’s good day.
“Fire Nation?” he asked.
“Who else,” his second-in-command said, lowering the spyglass.
“Ship?”
“Scout.”
“Shoot it down.”
* * *
Zuko landed on the mast. And sort of… wobbled, but his claws were sharp and the mast was wood, so. He clung on. And blinked hazily down. The dogs had brought him here, so… this was safe, right? He… he needed help. There was only so much that good-intentioned tongue licks could do for a burn wound.
The sails were blue.
The men had bows.
Zuko’s day got worse.
* * *
It was hard to see how big the scout was, between the sails. So Hakoda was not expecting how very small it was, when it hit the deck.
The hatchling dragged itself into something of a defensible position. It braced its legs and arched its neck and flared its wings, like a kitten-otter trying to scare off a predator. It bleed on his deck, much less intimidatingly.
“Hold your fire,” he ordered.
Which was just as well, given that the ocean took that moment to erupt all around them.
“Woof,” boomed a very disappointed isodog.
* * *
Healer Kustaa could feel the ground under his feet rumbling with growls as he stepped down onto the dog’s back.
“Easy, boy,” he said, and very carefully picked his way over the ridges of the isodog’s shell, towards where another dog’s big head was trying to lick something that was smaller than its tongue. Said thing was hissing.
The hissing increased exponentially as he drew closer. The little dragon’s size, on the other hand, seemed to shrink as it coiled more tightly around itself. There was a wash of red mixing with the water on the first dog’s shell, like watercolors diluted. The puddle had been much starker up on deck.
“Easy, boy,” Kustaa repeated, and set his bag down, hopefully out of immediate range of incineration. Unlike himself. “I’m a healer.”
The hissing continued.
“Can I take a look?”
The hissing did not abate.
“I know you’re scared—”
The hissing intensified.
“—And I’m sorry my chief is an idiot—”
A slight decrease.
“—But we’ve got to get that out and get it wrapped. And unlike your big friends here, I’ve got opposable thumbs.”
A scaly snout poked tentatively from the dragon’s coils, a little red tongue flickering in the air, like it could taste his sincerity.
A scaly snout with a pustulant burn wound.
“...We’ll take care of that, too.”
The head retreated back into the coils. The hissing resumed.
Kustaa sighed, and pulled out the most secret of healer techniques: a bulky wool blanket.
He carried the wrapped-up dragon back to the sickbay, hissing and wiggling.
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I got really upset that the Targaryens did fuck all to incorporate themselves into the imagery of the Seven, such as Balerion informing what the Stranger looks like.
So I drew @systlin's OP OC from her Mitraka Series as the Stranger with Balerion features
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