#poison soup

[soupyboiiiii]

update on the loom band killjoys, Party Poison has friends!!

unfortunately i have run out of black so i cannot make jet star until the new black loom bands i ordered arrive because u cant buy these things anywhere anymore in 2024

anyway heres kobra kid

and fun ghoul

and the girl

#loom bands #soup speaks #danger days #ttlotfk #kobra kid #fun ghoul #the girl danger days #party poison #my chemical romance #killjoys

[sarucane]

Ed Teach's Stories

From practically the moment we meet him, Ed's identity is unstable. We know who is he (Blackbeard) from context, from the story told by the the room around him, by Izzy and the flag his crew. But the thing is, Ed doesn't fit the story of the Mad Devil Blackbeard. Two of his first few words are "good" and "love" for crying out loud. He's called "Blackbeard," but his beard is grey.

This instability exists because Ed himself isn't sure what story he's telling--or wants to tell. "I shouldn't be bored, I'm fucking Blackbeard!" All through his early episodes Ed is in increasingly desperate tension with his own identity. He's trying to tell stories within stories, wanting all the stories to be true at the same time, yet aware of the reality that the world is constantly trying to wipe one or another of the stories away. And not really trusting that he can tell the whole story of who he is.

In the first season of OFMD, Stede wears a different outfit every episode. Yet Stede remains the same: despite his internal tensions (almost despite himself) there's a stability to his identity. But all through both seasons of OFMD, Ed putting on a new outfit means he's trying to tell a completely different story about himself.

And underneath this cacophony, there's Ed. And Ed is himself a chorus of stories, a living contradiction. A patricidal murderer who was protecting his mother; a paragon of masculinity who longs for softness and fluidity; a man renowned for violence and madness who has in fact carefully cultivated that reputation and is extremely careful with his violence; a killer who doesn't kill, yet who does kill all the time just at a bit of a remove; a half a dozen names and personas and yet always Ed; unloveable, yet deeply loved.

At the beginning of the show, Ed isn't actually good at telling his own story. He's good at listening to other people's stories, and conforming himself to them often without conscious effort. But when he tries to really tell his own story--asking Stede to run off to China, singing his break-up song song, going to become a fisherman--he fails. We don't understand in the first season why his judgement clouds, why he becomes weak when he tries to tell his story. But in the second season after spending half an episode in Ed's mind, a painful truth is undeniable: Ed, like Stede, doesn't think he's worthy of telling his own story.

So instead of telling his own story, Ed let other people tell his story. In the first season, Ed built off what Izzy told him he had to be. But he couldn't lose himself in Blackbeard, no matter how hard he tried. So in the second season, when Ed couldn't face living with his contradictions anymore, he wrote an ending worthy of Blackbeard.

All this, because Ed thinks he can only be "himself" by telling one, single story about himself. By denying his contradictions, rather than embracing them. Splitting himself in two to tell himself a story, rather than telling the story himself.

What Ed doesn't believe or trust is this: For Ed to really be himself, he has to be impossible. Two contradictory things, at the same time.

The second season of OFMD is about learning to embrace all these contradictions. In each episode of OFMD, character look at the same object or situation (a wanted poster, a unicorn, a velvety suit, a relationship, a past trauma) and they tell two completely different stories about it. Sometimes one of those stories turns out to be wrong, but more often than not both are true, and something else--something beautiful-- is born from the place where those contradictions meet. And the characters, Ed most of all, learn to accept and balance this dissonance.

Thematically speaking, I'd argue that's why the second season of OFMD is more fantastical than the first: fantasies are contradictions, real and not-real at the same time. And isn't that what transformation is, in the end? What you are and what you are not, meeting and becoming "you"?

Transformation isn't all good. At first, Ed's fantastic stories hide his pain or invoke despair

But later, the fantasies make their way into reality. The impossible begins to shape reality--and opens a way for hope.

In the last episode of S2, Ed emerges from the waves as the kraken--but there's 3 musical tracks playing, three themes: the kraken, Ed, and Blackbeard. Then he reads a love letter, and has a deeply romantic moment with his boyfriend. He puts on a new outfit to escape the British, yet his personality doesn't change at all. When Izzy first apologizes to him, Ed says "I'm the one who should be apologizing," but then Izzy changes his entire understanding of their relationship. Becomes the first family figure to offer Ed permission to be himself.

Contradictions galore, and yet Ed is still Ed. Both who he was formed into by other people (his father, Izzy, Pop Pop) and yet who he is.

In the final scenes, Ed begins to finally accept the tensions of his life. He tells Zheng that yes, he wants to kill Richie--but he doesn't go on a revenge quest. And while before his forays into being someone else meant changing his name, his clothes and mannerisms, his whole story, he doesn't act like that at all in the last scene of the ep.

And Ed's been able to do all this, to come this far, because of Stede. Stede, who Ed was drawn to because he was a "fancy man who leads a brigade of imbeciles," yet had won a fight with Izzy. Stede, who looked at Ed at his lowest moment, after Ed had admitted that the entire basis of their friendship had been in bad faith, and said, "I'm your friend." Stede who, even knowing Ed wouldn't want to hear from him, poured his heart into letters about how their bond was unbreakable.

Stede is everything he is, all at the same time. And when Ed was drowning in his own contradictions, (a rope tied around him that he could not undo and yet had put on himself) trapped somewhere "inevitable, yet impossible," Stede appeared as a fantastic, beautiful creature and brought him home.

Stede lets Ed be everything he is, and sees it all as true and worthy of love. Even when Ed fucks up, it's all right.

And sometimes, telling two different stories about something doesn't lead to a fragmented self, doesn't drive people apart.

Sometimes, it means understanding. Means acceptance, safety, connection.

From discordance (contradiction), harmony. A gentleman can be a pirate. A man can be a bird, or a unicorn. Izzy can have been one of the good ones and a fucking nightmare. And Ed can tell all his stories, they can all be true--and he can still be Ed.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #okay every single s2 ep has A HEAP OF things where there's one “reality” and multiple stories: Stede's letters; indigo dye... #...zheng the soup lady; a betrayal; wanted posters; a storm; soup in purgatory; life itself; anne and mary to others and themselves; #; pinata and wedding cake; unicorn parts; what happened to buttons; ed's speech; stede's captaining skills; the suit; Izzy's shark #ned lowe's record; ed's treasure and the whole poison/positivity thing; ned's execution; having sex; stede's infamy #that's off the top of my head IT'S EVERYWHERE these writers are unbelievable #long ass post #ofmd season 2 love

[beepborpdoodledorp]

CRK Twitter strikes yet again 

#ok but. what are they putting the pickles in #poison mushroom's stirring jelly soup and milky way has boba in the background... #i don't think pickles belong in either of those things in the first place #crk #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #stardust cookie #crk stardust cookie #space doughnut #poison mushroom cookie #crk poison mushroom cookie #milky way cookie #crk milky way cookie

[goozeghost]

i have contracted like 7 illnesses irl and it's making it harder to draw so this is all i got for now 😭🙏

#taleblr #johnny ghost #johnny toast #fred spooker soup #fred spooker #tryimg to draw a cool CoF thing but AIGJGJN POISON DAMAGE OUGB OUCH OW OOF

[apotelesmaa]

I think tsukasa is a normie sorry. He does not know memes or internet trends he’s too busy scouring the internet for bootleg theatre productions and practicing facial expressions in the mirror. Guy who could tell you everything you need to know about some obscure actor/play from 100 years ago but does not know a single modern celebrity if they’re not involved in acting. He’s adding new poses to his vast repertoire he is not making banger posts online. “Based? Based on what?” Type of guy.

#nene is the most internet poisoned wxs member and she is not sharing that info with tsukasa #rui is also somewhat online but I feel like he’d mostly be on Wikipedia clicking all the links on an article for a soup #<- also the kind of guy to be watching videos on the most obscure topics just for fun #emu is untainted by the sins of modern internet she is just watching funny pet videos online #i do however think rui would teach tsukasa memes so that tsukasa can misuse them on purpose to annoy nene #sliding scale of nene in middleschool getting into heated online discourse vs tsukasa going ‘that’s boring I’m logging off’ #would like to amend that actually I think tsukasa would see a bad take on one of his favorite actors and get into a 5 day long argument #online on some random barely used Internet forum until the mods were like ok we’re locking this thread every1 shut up #mine #project sekai

[writinggremlin]

Y'know how I like my soups? Here's a soup themed prompt!

Soup roulette.

Whumpee is presented with two bowls of soup. Whumper claims that one is tainted (drugged, poisoned, etc.), while the other is perfectly fine. Whatever was used in the tainted soup is colorless, odourless, and tasteless. Which one is which? Well...

That's for Whumpee to figure out.

#whump #whumpblr #whumpee #whumper #whump prompt #whump prompts #whump idea #whump ideas #drug whump #poison whump #good soup #...or is it?

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 356

More doodles! Reusing an old concept where she has vines that usually curl around her head. I was thinking that perhaps the vines grow plants or mushrooms depending on who she's with. With Gem she grows yellow flowers and cherry blossoms, with Grian she grows red mushrooms and moss, with Impulse she grows bluets and lilys of the valley

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #hermitcraft #mod morph #i want her to be more like #fluid? flexible? #like pearl doesnt have a definitive motif? kind of? #its pretty evident from all the different pearl designs we have #which is just wonderful #and i want that to reflect somewhat with mine #btw azure bluets and lilys of the valley give blindness and poison #when cooked into sus soup haha

[evilkaeya]

meursault arc good ending: the poison kicks in

#the way they're pulling uno reverse card on each other #I'm starting to think they forgot about the poison #look I don't want sigma to become soup #save my babygirl #imagine if the poison actually kicked in and killed them both tho #nikolai: well that was... unanticipated #chuuya somehow back to normal: two less rats the world is healing fr #sigma: can I please leave now PLEASE #dazai osamu #fyodor dostoevsky #chuuya nakahara #bsd sigma #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd manga

[speed-demon-doodler]

AND THEN JUST BEFORE GETTING TO BED

Knowing they were gonna die in a few days Orion might have started to pick up more bottles than usual..

And Wyll! 😭 Literally

Astarion was still fucking with us and we were a tad bit depressed but STILL :( :( :( in this house we LOVE wyll, but in an older brother kind of way! (I am, apparently, still terrible about social clues)

#catorcio is the guitar #wine soup #bg3 #act 2 #bdg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale #tav #orion #warlock #archfey #shadowlands #astarion #halsin #wyll #shadowheart #scratch #lae'zel #karlach #owlbear #romance #original patron #poor man's poison #hell's coming with me #catorcio

[heph]

Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol

Heya!

What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.

I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.

That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.

There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode

The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.

So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.

All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.

I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video

EDIT:

I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did

1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media

I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)

2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media

This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!

3. Interact with people

People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.

Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)

I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!

#people who are good at social media are good at marketing basically #theyre their own hype man who has something cool to show #and would like to show everyone that cool thing! #its not purely about art its also about charisma and trying to get people to be convinced that youre cool as well #thats why there are social media influencers #people who vlog and get popular because of the way they present themselves #me i am very much my own hype man #not really because im particularly good at art (im not) but because i have so many thoughts in my head that i want to share #and i need people to also be poisoned by these thoughts so i enthusiastically promote it #side eyes the blood soup comic i dedicated like 20 pages to #on my end it comes from the love of media and my desire to build upon the established canon #but i understand that not everyone is so intensely passionate about their own work... but yknow #you need to love your own art in order for it to succeed #just like you need to love yourself before you can grow as a person #its easy for me to say because i do have social media attention though #i remember so desperately chasing social media validation when i was 16 #so really i cant really say much regarding that haha #but do watch the video and hopefully it helps! #i wrote so many words... #heph answered

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

when it's cold outside but you have hot soup inside so your outsides are cold but your insides are hot and it feels like you have a fever and are dying of the plague. +fire damage

#'soup is my favorite' i say as i simultaneously shiver and sweat #e < typed by dropped phone. it should stay #soup so tasty but i feel Poisoned... too hot for sweater... too cold for no sweater... #it may be because i accidentally heated my soup to boiling... #this all felt important to share. for some reason. ahaha so relatable am i rite fellas #absolutely unprompted #no i will Not change my soup consuming ways #soup is like. if food was a nice hot shower

[philzokman]

i love sigma sm but also it’s so very funny to me that he had every option to come up with any name he wanted for himself only to choose sigma he is THE babygirl of all time whilst somehow choosing every single alpha grindset path known to man kind he’s so silly

#he’s so silly i want to make him soup and tuck him into bed #it’s quite funny bc if u told any other fandom a guy was called sigma and ran a casino #they’d be picturing a hardcore rise and grind mf downing raw eggs and poisoning the youths #but nono #it is the most neurodivergent. babygirl. silly guy. known to mankind #i lovr him:[[[ #bsd #bungo stray dogs #lea.txt #sobbing violently #bungou stray dogs #bsd sigma #bungo stray dogs sigma

[darlinjester]

at the cafe i always go to and their tomato soup is literally water today i dont pay this much in tuition to be attacked by the horrors

#killjoys #killjoys fanart #mcr #fun ghoul #kobra kid #party poison #the true lives of the fabulous killjoys #jet star #horrid #mcart #you guys know when tomato soup is bad #you know when it kind of ruins your day

[ancientorigins]

Even the tale of a chilled French soup conceals a vast catalog of historic tidbits. For legend has it that vichyssoise is served cold due to the curious custom of having royal food tasters sample anything consumed by members of the royal family.

While this could explain why it was cold when it reached the royal table, popular lore is unclear about which King Louis was on the throne when the dish was invented. There is nevertheless a consensus that vichyssoise has pedigree.

#soup #poison #food #taster #potato #recipe #Louis XIV

[soups-archive]

Thoughts on Purgatory Day 4:

God what a fun day, and yet funnily enough a much more relaxed one.

It's gonna be interesting to see what the ramifications of blue's logout strat are gonna be because it's definitely going to be banned, but, from my understanding, blue used this strat to prove a point: that red's strategy was unfair.

Which is true, or at least I think it was true.

Personally, I feel like it was mostly unfair due to how difficult it used to be to get to global, but I feel like the admins have pretty fairly counteracted that and balanced things with today's introduction of the spawn portals.

Because with red's strat players HAD to physically travel to global and turn in the contracts within at least the last 30 minutes of gameplay. The portals now easily allow other teams to show up and at least put up a good fight, and we actually got to see how effective they are today with cellbit and charlie's assist they pulled for roier. If they had been just slightly quicker, green might've been able to steal back the win.

Which I think brings me to the other potentially unfair part of red's strat that I've seen be brought up which is that it isn't fair for streamers in European timezones/streamers who play earlier. Which is a fair criticism, but honestly I haven't personally been able to think of a way for the admins to balance the contracts around that without either: A) completely changing how contracts work, or B) unfairly punishing later streamers.

I think it's complicated, and I feel like the main thing that's gonna result from today isn't going to be them banning turning in tasks late but instead banning logging out right in front of the global NPCs. Knowing the admins, they'll probably figure out something I hadn't thought of and make the whole thing more fair for everyone.

Competition and lore wise, tomorrow is gonna be really interesting as well. A small alliance might be blooming between red and green and that might have massive ramifications going forward. That and I think (???????) that players might be getting their eggs tomorrow (?????). I know they described a period in which they had to keep them alive and the actual event ends on the 10th so I'm guessing they're arriving tomorrow. If they are, that shit is going to be crazy.

(Side note: It was also a delight to see teams casually hanging out more together today. As much as I enjoy the competition, I missed them all just chilling)

Overall, congrats blue on the win! Cheesy as fuck and they knew it but it was absolutely deserved! They worked their asses off! And green put up a hell of a fight! I hope they get their chance to win as well tomorrow!

#qsmp #soup speaks #it could be perceived that way but this really isnt meant to be a discourse post #i just like thinking about strategy and gameplay balancing lol #this event has been so delightful for me i love disecting possible tactics and ways the admins can make things more fair #while still rewarding interesting and smart strategies #because red's strategy WAS smart #and with the addition of the portals its a lot more fair and opens up opportunities for some sick ass skirmishes over global tasks #i think it also opens up a lot of opportunities for teams to get creative #because all the teams DO have streamers who log in later #even if theyre not their pvp heavy ones #off the top of my head blue has tina missa and rivers #and green has bagi quackity and roier #and not all of those people are the best at pvp but thats where creativity and strategy come in #id love to see blue team come running in with a bunch of explosives or poisoned arrows or other ranged attack methods #to try and stop red team or green team without getting too close contact #like AHHH!!!! i wanna see teams get really creative with this!!! i love fun strategies!!!! #theres so much fun bullshit you can do in this scenario #like god i could sing red's praises so much theyre so tactical and think so strategically its fucking awesome #their cave base made specifically so that it would be less detectable using cave layers? and convincing people they still live at spawn? #delightful #and shoutout blue team for the way they've let people play to their strengths #they caught on to so many good strats early on like moving their base off island and tea being the best food source #and god the way green really came back together today was such a delight to watch #i hadn't caught much of their pov prior to today but i tuned in while they were grinding to fight blue and it was so much fun #i hope them and red actually commit to the little alliance they've formed and try to secure green the win tomorrow #god this event spawns such shit discourse but also im so delighted by it #sorry for the fucking essay in the tags i just have so much to gush about this event kudos to the admins this is sick #qsmp purgatory #really putting the blog back in tumblr blog with this one huh

[soupyboiiiii]

thoughts on Party's dress?

#the true lives of the loom band killjoys #party poison #soup speaks