#Elemental Soup

[elementalsoup]

New Chapter's out~ One of my favorite updates

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a fancy-fantasy train, with elves, elementals, warriors, wizards.

No destination, no origin, just me, the train, and the delicious soup I ordered.

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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[markesto]

Melty child

[illusion-reality-steve]

googles “is pumpkin soup good when you’re sick”

googles “do people who love pumpkin pie also love pumpkin soup”

googles “how to craft pumpkin soup in minecraft”

googles “what do you mean there is no pumpkin soup in minecraft”

googles “how to file a formal complaint to mojang”

[gigamuffin]

also. i have no deep knowledge of regency era england first of all. but I feel it's very impressive that pob juggles with both naval warfare history and customs at the time history in his books

[chiropteracupola]

dress up nice (and don't get any blood on yourself this time, please)

[collaboration with @dxppercxdxver again. we are still going.]

[mustardyellowsunshine]

Hi there! Love your Inuyasha manga panel edits ^_^

I’m rewatching the Inuyasha anime and was curious as to your thoughts regarding the size of Kagome’s soul. During the 15th episode where Kikyo is revived, the characters comment about how large Kagome’s soul is - indeed, it’s massive when the ogress pulls it from her body. Why do you think her soul is so large? What does this signify? I’m wondering if it correlates to the strength of her spiritual powers or if it has something to do with Shintō that I’m unaware of.

Thanks for considering this question! 🫶🏼

Omg, thank you! 💖💖

So I sat on this ask for a long time because I wanted to give you a thoughtfully reasoned response, but the longer I thought about it, the more I realized that the answer is fairly simple from a story perspective: the size of Kagome's soul correlates with Kagome's power. I don't think it has anything to do with how often her soul was reincarnated, or the accumulated experiences of her reincarnated soul, or anything like that — it simply symbolizes Kagome's immense spiritual power.

I know very little about the Shinto religion, so take all this with an entire box of salt. But based on some internet searching, it doesn't seem like Shintoism espouses reincarnation the same way Buddhism does. "Shinto traditions lean heavily on the concepts of the presence of kami and not reincarnation. The spiritual energy, or kami, in everyone is released and recycled at the time of death. The spirits live in another world... where the spirits reside. They can connect and visit the present world when people correctly perform rituals and festivals" (x).

So in other words, souls are a kind of spiritual energy, which reside in other worlds after death. And in fiction we see souls being treated that way in the InuYasha series. After Kikyo is revived, for instance, she absorbs random souls to keep herself going; Kagome is able to call her soul back to her body after Urasue tries to steal it, as though she's calling on power or energy; when Kikyo is ultimately laid to rest, her soul flies off into the sky as though departing for that "other world" (note that her spirit does not return to Kagome, which certainly suggests that no part of Kagome's soul was left in Kikyo's resurrected body after the Urasue incident).

Obviously Rumiko Takahashi did incorporate Buddhist beliefs into the InuYasha story—the biggest example probably being Kagome's status as a reincarnation—but whenever the nature of "souls" is explicitly dealt with, they seem to be treated according to Shinto belief. I mean, the explanation for the Shikon no Tama itself—the Jewel of Four Souls—comes straight from Shinto belief/philosophy on the nature of soul.

All that to say: if the InuYasha series predominantly treats souls as a kind of spiritual energy, independent of reincarnation, and if Kagome's soul is repeatedly described as "large"... then I think her large soul indicates her level of spiritual power/energy. Her remarkable level of power is continually commented on throughout the series, which supports this.

Hope that wasn't too boring or rambling. ^^; Thanks for the ask!

[elementalsoup]

Did someone order a beatdown? Can we return it? No?

Dang.

[keter-class-anomaly]

I read your intro, which told me I have to do a drawing request. Here it is!: The self-ish dude using his four arms to eat soup, pet a cat, drive a car, and look up "magnolia" in the dictionary. Have a lovely day!

oh BOY

you really said" how can i make this as complicated as possible?"

i brought this upon myself.

HERE HE IS!

i thought the self-ish guy's car would be funky looking. :]

Thanks for the request!

[cocolacola]

finally, my raszageth visage design!

and some flat color / lineart for reference. :) really hoping we get an official design one day, but maybe this will satisfy me for now.

[goatpaste]

Anyone else love to associate random orginal world jojo character traits and design aspects to the reset world characters

Like you look at them, they're their own guy but your like

Theirs a lil recipe of some other bitches in there, fell in the soup while god restarted the world

[markesto]

Hot green fire

[mintytrifecta]

I've been thinking so hard about TLEs and strange weather phenomenon and combining it with my ninjago brainrot I'm thinking so hard about Jay's lightning and everything he could potentially do with it

[rastronomicals]

1:46 AM EDT October 11, 2023:

King Crimson -   "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum     (Bass And Drums Extract)" From the album The Elements (2021 Tour Box) (July 2021)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[newtafterdark]

Is it hot in here or is it just me~? 😈🔥

It took me a bit, but I finally finished the funny little pause screen for my Twitch channel!