#I want ramen now...

[turnaboutfix]

SO ABOUT THE BORGOR

Maya doesn't eat borgor in the Japanese version of Ace Attorney, but I think most of you knew that already.

Let's talk about it more in-depth!

Maya/Mayoi:

"Jya! Naruhodo-kun. Ikkou!"

"Well, then! Naruhodo-kun. Let's go!"

(English Localization: "Right! Okay, Nick, let's do it!")

Phoenix/Naruhodo:

"E, e....? Doko ni?"

"H-huh? To where?"

(EL: "Huh? Do… what?")

Maya/Mayoi:

"Kimatteru desho. Miso raamen."

"Isn't it obvious? [To get] miso ramen."

(EL: "Burgers, dummy! Burgers!")

And yes, every time she mentioned burgers in English, she talks about ramen in Japanese.

I'll first point out that ramen here is written in Katakana (ラーメン), the Japanese alphabet reserved for either emphasis or transcribing foreign words. In this case, it's used for transcribing.

The word Ramen is from "Lamian", a Northern Chinese wheat noodle. Japanese ramen, however, was more based on Southern Chinese noodle soups. That's why it's written in Katakana and why ramen bowls often have Chinese patterns and designs. (photo from Google)

Ramen became especially popular in Japan after World War II, when the US supplied Japan with grain when Japan was struggling to produce rice. They had an abundance of wheat, so they made things like bread and noodles, including the Chinese-inspired ramen noodles. So, ramen is a relatively recent thing in Japanese culinary history.

The kind of ramen Maya likes is Miso Ramen (Japanese source), which was conceived in Sapporo, Japan in the 50s and 60s. The broth is made from miso paste, animal stock and other seasoning. There is an authentic recipe here if you'd like to make it! I have! (my photo)

It's quite good!

As a bonus, in the Ace Attorney anime (which you can take or leave with regard to how "canon" it is, but Shu Takumi was the script supervisor and I feel like the extra stuff is fun either way), we got to see how Maya first enjoyed Miso Ramen.

Mia introduces Maya to Miso ramen when and takes her to see the ocean for the first time in the Season 2 episode "Hear the Waves of Turnabout".

I can't help but think that, given Kurain Village's relative seclusion both culturally and geographically, and keeping in mind that ramen is a dish with Chinese origins, if Miso Ramen was something novel for Maya--something that represented the broader world outside Kurain Village.

But with this addition from the anime, Miso Ramen also represents Maya's connection to her late sister.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Ok, for me, Erik is the one who does the housework.

Imagine him wearing a chef's apron (strictly magenta), rubber gloves for washing dishes and a headband to hold up his magnificent hair.

domestic erik save me.......

[duckmorganduck]

it's not podtober.........

okay FUN FACT!!!!! i headcanon that mariana has cerebral palsy. or ENVISION her with!! vise versa

so introducing some mariana art over the past few days ALLLL cerebral palsy themed 💙

I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A LIMIT FOR IMAGES we had just enough for the comic do not fear (we didn't have enough actually i combined some frames)

gee willikers this post is tall

BYE MARIANA ILY 💚

lyt reader ty for viewing :-)

[wolfchans]

BANG CHAN ♡ MIROH MUSIC BANK (190329)

[fisherrprince]

mmm… noodle….

[shimada-death]

do you see m y vision

[whennoodlesformwords]

One JoongDok Order (Crack Flavor) To Go

Only had one thought today, and it was that Joonghyuk's second half of his name sounds so much like the 'hawk-tuah' phrase that, imagine-

Kim Dokja, to spite Yoo Joonghyuk, saves his contact as

Yoo Joong Hyuk-Tuah

and it causes all sorts of misunderstandings

Yoo Sangah thinks he finally hooked up but is kinda concerned about the contact naming and what happened between kdj and possibly a very bad one night stand

Han Sooyoung thinks he's an idiot for actually naming someone that and thinks its a really bad spammer that kdj changed the contact to because the guy was so annoying and refuses to accept that the contact is a real person

Lee Hyungsung is torn between asking what it means and asking kdj who the person is when the phone rings at six o' nine every day

Jung Heewon is torn between laughing out loud or laughing out louder because kdj is just a dumbass and the fact that he knows what hawk-tuah means is hilarious by itself

Shin Yoosung and Lee Gilyoung are at a loss for words and absoultely confused (bless their little hearts, they only know to throw shade to some Yoo guy across the street who keeps bothering their hyung)

Only Lee Jihye and Kim Namwoon have an absolute mental breakdown figuring out that their senior may or may not know modern slang, and die a little inside every time kdj uses 'kid phrases nowadays' for them after they acted all shocked that he knew what 'hawk-tuah' was

*tbf im writing this with like half of the knowledge of the origin of hawk-tuah and only had it explained from a friend in small amounts, so idk how much weight this carries and if it is proportional to actual implications. I just like the chaos possible*

The best part? yjh knows absolutely nothing about this (or he knows everything and isn't paid enough for this and fumes internally and speeds up his rate to getting an ulcer from kimcom) and is just subjected to poorly executed sex jokes and the company betting pool's shenanigans

Relish the idea pls, imagine the possibilities, and think if it actually happened. this was begging to be let out so now I share with yall too

hope you enjoyed and have a good day~ make sure you eat enough and take care of yourselves too~!

[sometimesanequine]

Weirdest food you enjoy?

im not adventurous with food but i did put 4 chicken nuggets on whole wheat bread with mayo and mustard + seasoned salt + copious amounts of cayenne pepper a couple of days ago

i will say though my favorite meal is getting a can of tuna and a spicy cup noodle container and plopping the tuna into the cup noodles, and you gotta pair it with a blue powerade or gatorade

[tenebriism]

' They'll never know it's me. '

Walks into this FFXIV RP venue with my big ass Ignis Scientia character, thinking I'm being sneaky, despite ' Ignis' Biggest Fan and Wife ' basically being my government name at this point.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

that picture of cunty stance charles is so funny why does he look like he’s flipping his weave… he doesn’t HAVE a weave but he’s doing it better than any of us ever could

Charles xavier has time and time again proven he doesnt need a single follicle on his head to serve this will be a fact of the universe until the sun explodes

[ovaryacted]

Eating spicy buldak ramen with wingstop and raising cane’s mixed together is one of the most egregious things I’ve seen like. What do you mean you’re putting ranch and raising cane’s sauce on a chicken tender with ramen wrapped around it. That’s the kind of greed they talk about in the Bible.

[littleplantfreak]

why do i have sleepiest bitch in the world disease

[every-jiraiya]

[resuri-art]

I made ramen for dinner 😋

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

HELP your time travel shenanigans fic idea about toji being very much alive but still putting the fate of his two little ass kids in the hands of a bunch of 16-17 year olds even if he’s still breathing. if i was megumi then my abandonment issues would’ve gone crazy if that happened to me 😭. mamaguro is looking down from the pearly white gates IN ANGER at toji’s audacity i just know it.

but now i’m curious on other ideas (that you have) for fics about jjk that you may or may not get to after sea glass gardens.

see the sad thing is that letting a bunch of 16-17 year old bitchy disaster gays discover the magic of teen parenthood is actually a step up because he had already sold Megumi to the Zenin and feral wolverines would be a better alternative to them. This was the best parenting decision toji has ever made.

(Time travel!Megumi: look we don’t have any other options. Anything is better than the Zenin.

Gojo, in the distance: they’re what three? That’s old enough for a red bull

Geto: I will actually kill you over this satoru

Time travel!megumi: *deep breath*)

A loose catalogue of my jjk fics, which may or may not exist one day:

Sea glass gardens verse:

I am forever compelled by the siren call of expanding my fics into universes because one story is never enough for me. I’ve got threeish stories in this universe, with no promises of how many, if any, I’ll write.

1. The Teen Parenting Chronicles: Gojo, Nanami, and Shoko’s expert guide to raising children when you are, in fact, children. Featuring what the fuck happened with the Zenin the first time around.

2. Megumi’s pov of what just happened leading up to sea glass gardens: someone asked me if I’d ever write this and it has the highest chance of existing because I have. Sort of. Started writing it. I have impulse control issues.

3. Okkotsu Yuuta and the world’s longest distance panic attack: crack fic of Yuuta on his study abroad trip becoming increasingly more frantic at the other second year’s updates as to how His Boy’s first year as a jujutsu sorcerer is going. What do you mean sukunas there. What do you mean he doesn’t have a shirt. Well put one on him!

Time travel AU:

1. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Fucking Shit Up And Living Well: following another attempt on their lives by the higher ups, the first year gang is forced into a desperate, high stakes gamble with a time-centric curse that puts their very existences at stake. If they want to survive, they have to complete one task of their choosing in the past before the clock runs out. Their mission?

To punch fushiguros shitty bio dad in the face, something which will surely have no long term consequences on the timeline.

See this one has the most chance of actually existing one day because it is by far my FAVORITE jjk fic I have. It even beats out sea glass gardens. I desperately want to write it.

2. The 2006 Gang and the Art of a Good Union: following a confusing incident with the star plasma vessel and three unknown sorcerers, the 2006 Tokyo jujutsu high first and second year class inexplicably goes off the rails and retires from jujutsu sorcery, claiming that they’ve discovered the magic of teen parenthood and can in no way risk themselves in such a dangerous profession now that they have kids to think about. At least, not with the way things are run now.

No one knows where they got the children from.

3. Toji Fushiguro and the Dead Beat Dad Chronicles: in which toji fushiguro succeeds at being a dead beat baby daddy to two teenaged gay boys and their crew of bitchy lgbtq compadres, who in no way want him to be involved in their children’s lives.

Standalones:

1. “Fushiguro is unleashed in junpei’s school like an invasive superpredator” AU: I’ve talked about this one in way more detail in another post for an ask game, but the idea is that itadori discovers junpeis abuse at school and says Not On His Fucking Watch and escalates the matter to gojo, who decides the funniest possible solution while they try to draw out mahito is to unleash his all star delinquent son into junpeis high school to bully the bullies.

Fushiguro resents this as a problem solving strategy.

2. The Zenin raise Megumi AU: also discussed in more detail in an ask game. In which people took Tsumiki’s little brother from her, but she’s trying to get him back, she promises.

Or, in which the Zenin take megumi, leave tsumiki, and they both spend every day after fighting to get back to the other.

3. Sort of a no curse AU: Itafushi romance story, in which local himbo Itadori Yuuji falls for delinquent Fushiguro Megumi when his grandpa is placed in the room next to Fushiguros comatose sister. Starts as a no curse AU… except there’s totally curses, Tsumikis mom just moved them to Sendai without telling anyone so the Zenin never found Megumi, and he’s just never told anyone about the curses he sees because he’s worried he’s schizophrenic. He thought the shikigami thing was a metaphor for self actualization or something.

4. Fushiguro Megumi and the World’s Most Inconvenient Custody Battle: pre JJK0, Geto decides to be a shithead magic terrorist at a local school that represents all the worst of monkey society: it’s known for a rampant bullying issue, which is a breeding ground for cursed spirits, and it contributes to the risk to jujutsu sorcerers by feeding a local legend of a haunted bridge that could explode into a serious curse any day.

What he didn’t count on? Finding the new Ten Shadows in the student body, who’s fully willing to kamikaze them both if it means saving his sister’s life.

And who doesn’t seem to be aware that he more than has the potential to take suguru in a fight.

In which Fushiguro just wanted to shut up, go to school, and go home, and instead finds himself in a binding vow to give cult life a whirl to save the lives of classmates he doesn’t even like all that much.

It involves oddly more parenting than he expected.

5. Fake Fiancés AU: prodigy and noble prize winning physicist Gojo Satoru, following a very ill advised fuck buddies arrangement with fushiguro toji, has settled down into domestic bliss with the two kids he took from the relationship despite them not, in any way, being related to him. The problem? His ex is back in town. The hot one. The one who broke up with him and started a cult. The one who he wants to convince he got over when he absolutely did not do that.

The solution? Tell everyone he’s happily engaged to Nanami Kento, who cannot express enough how much he does not want him to do that.

… until, all of a sudden, he needs a show of domestic bliss himself. His adoptive son’s older brother, sukuna, has crawled out of the woodwork and decided to make a play for custody himself. And Nanami does not know what Sukuna truly wants, but he knows it does not have Yuuji’s best interests at heart.

I share custody of this story with my best friend, who cocreated it with me over deranged text message. I may convince her to joint write it with me if I ever get her to publish her fanfic.

6. Todo Aoi and Schrodinger’s Boyfriend: Todo’s beloved brother, who is most assuredly a man, suffers some kind of terrible brain damage that leads him to confess he loves an assless boy. Todo cannot abide by this, until it’s pointed out to him that if Fushiguro’s type is his brother, that would make him the most interesting man alive. If it is not, he continues to be a boring and uninteresting boy.

Todo sets off on a mission with two goals: determine if fushiguro megumi is interesting, and get him to do some squats. because there’s simply no ass there.

Fushiguro wonders why his life is suddenly harder.

7. Choso and the Art of Being a Big Brother: choso discovers the truth of kenjaku early and does the only logical thing in response: he kills his father in his sleep, cuts out his brain, and delivers it in a jar to his new brother Itadori Yuuji as the first step in wooing him into domestic sibling love.

Megumi doesn’t know where these people come from. Or why all of them think itadori is their brother.

8. SatoSugu realizes their little boy is all grown up when he gets his first crush on a boy when he meets yuuji.

They do not fucking take it with grace.

Also co-written with my best friend via text message.

9. The instagram chronicles: crack fic in which the jujutsu sorcery personnel crisis gets worse, because nobara Kugisaki keeps trying to hard launch her instagram influencer career, and keeps accidentally making every jujutsu sorcerer instagram famous except for her

10. So I don’t actually ship Yuuta and Megumi, but I do really like the idea of low stakes relationships? Like, especially for teen romances. You tried it, decided you were better off as friends, and just went back to being friends. I just like the idea of fumbling around in relationships and getting a sense of boundaries and what you’re interested in without it being a big, world-shaking romance. It seems like a more realistic portrayal of high school relationships than every one of them being this world-defining mature love.

Pre season 1 but post JJK 0, Yuuta and Megumi dated for maybe a month and half, held hands maybe twice, and decided that they were better off as friends and parted on good terms. The issue?

No one realized they were dating. And when it is realized, everyone thinks their relationship was torpedoed because the second years kept inviting themselves onto their dates.

Cue the jjk high school students trying to amend old mistakes and get Yuuta and Megumi back together, who do not, in fact, want to be back together. Headlining Inumaki Toge, who is half in love with Yuuta and does not know why he’s helping get him together with someone else, and Itadori Yuuji, who is half in love with Megumi and also does not know why he’s helping get him together with someone else.

[strxnged]

thinking abt citizen sleeper & emphis