damnprecious · 1 year ago
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I love how some of my most used recipes are super vague and then every time I try to bake them I despair over simple things such as 'why hasn't anyone written down a baking time'
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goron-king-darunia · 4 years ago
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Annon-Guy: Here’s a tasty treat from BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle 😋.
Es: “Pudding.” (line from XBLAZE)
Would the 14 Symphonia Characters eat this kind of Pudding? 
I know it’s a Flan over here (Mai even called the Pudding a Flan in Episode Extra of BBTAG), but in Japan it’s know as Custard Pudding.
In XBLAZE, it looks like this 🍮 as it’s from the store. In BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, it looks the picture displayed here as it’s specifically made gourmet pudding that Valkenhayn makes (Rachel Alucard bought Es’ assistance in Episode BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY with a mountain of gourmet pudding). *~*~*~*~* I’m going to go off exclusively the “gourmet” version, or the one shown in the picture rather than the standard flan or custard pudding because those are kinda plain and I think a lot of the characters who would like the gourmet version wouldn’t really care for the plain one without fruits and other additions. Lloyd: The only preference I’m aware of for Lloyd is that he hates tomatoes so I’m pretty sure he’d eat it. XD Colette: Colette really likes fruits so 100% she would eat it and probably add even more fruits to it. Genis: Genis doesn’t seem too picky about sweets so I bet he’d eat it. Probably likes the whipped cream topping and cherries best. Raine: Would eat it but would also probably add weird things like nato or lemon since lemons are her favorite. Which I guess wouldn’t be too weird since the one above is served with a citrus that looks like either orange or tangerine. But still, straight lemon is kind of weird. Still, as a lemon-eater myself, Raine is 100% valid and also probably a raccoon since other than me and Raine, raccoons are the only other creature on the planet that will eat a lemon straight. Like. I eat the pith and rind too. Cut lemon into wedges, put them in a plastic bag, let them macerate in their own juices and get tender... then just... eat them. Tastes like Lemonade. So Raine and I are I guess the weird people sticking straight lemon on things. XD (I get it from my mom since mom eats her rice with lemon and Raine tried to make rice-stuffed lemons as a recipe and everyone in the party was disgusted. XD) Sheena: I think Sheena might think the texture of the pudding/flan itself is weird, but she would probably like it and would probably also like the plain version. Zelos: Not enough melon. He’d steal the melon off of Regal’s. Zelos would trade the whole dessert to anyone and everyone at the table in exchange for the melon pieces and probably wind up with at least half a melon. Speaking of which, I’m not familiar with the exact type of melon used here. It clearly has the skin of a cantaloupe but I’ve never had a green cantaloupe. Presumably it would taste like the melon gum I once got with the bill at a Japanese restaurant in which case I do not blame Zelos one bit for trading his flan for more melon. XD Apparently designer fruits are a big deal in Japan, so Zelos could probably afford that $27,000 melon experience. XD Regal: Finding out Regal doesn’t like coffee isn’t that surprising because coffee is bitter and does, in fact, taste like muddy water if you don’t add anything to it in my opinion. Too many tannins for me. But I checked and apparently Regal doesn’t like CUCUMBER OR MELON. Like, bruh, IDK what to tell you, but cucumber barely has any flavor, let alone anything objectionable! Cucumber vaguely tastes like “green” water. Like “Oh, this water had some sort of vegetable in it.” And while I don’t really like cantaloupe, I don’t HATE it. I’ve had bad cantaloupes before that were REALLY disappointing that I didn’t enjoy eating, but I’ve also had really good cantaloupe! So I guess he’d eat it if you took the melon off of it. Still, kind of a shame. Presea: Presea probably doesn’t have strong preferences so she would try it. I’m not sure she would like the plain one but I think she’s one of the few people in the cast that could eat just the pudding part with nothing added. (I still stand by my coffee opinion for her though, even though the game wants to hammer in that she just doesn’t care. Coffee is serious business and I guarantee she has a preference on that. It’s MY HEAD CANON AND I’M STICKING TO IT! XD) Kratos: Would probably eat it, both the plain and gourmet version. Probably not something he would set out to eat and would only eat it if it’s something he had to. Not a favorite, not something he hates. Something that’s just so unobtrusive that he literally forgets it’s a food for 100 years at a time because he just DOESN’T care because it’s not particularly remarkable. Emil: Would probably eat it but I’m not sure if he’d like the plain one better or not because the game doesn’t make it 100% clear whether he had an issue with Colette’s cooking because it was primarily fruit because he doesn’t like fruit or if it was just that he wanted MORE than fruit. Cooking for the party wasn’t as big a mechanic in DotNW as it was in Symphonia, so while Monsters had favored foods, all we know about Emil is that he doesn't like herbs, doesn’t like Colette only cooking fruits, and enjoys steak and loves fried chicken and that last one we only know from info outside of DotNW. Marta: Would eat the gourmet kind and probably not like the plain one. Probably prefers parfait.   Alice: Not only would she eat it, I bet she really likes it, especially the bouncy texture. But if you call her out for liking it, she’ll whip you.
Decus: 100% likes it just because Alice likes it. Richter: Doesn’t seem like a big custard fan, honestly. Would eat it if it was offered to him but also probably prefers a parfait. Probably hates the plain version because it just “tastes like sweet mush.” I don’t really see him enjoying the texture much either. Like, you could offer him mint jello and he’d probably like the flavor and hate the texture. Would eat the fruit and probably give the flan/pudding to someone else. Pontus the Polwigle: I know no one asked but Pontus would probably love it and this is my firm belief. Wiggly food for the wiggly boy. 
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thankskenpenders · 6 years ago
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So there’s this little cartoon you may have heard of...
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As I’ve said on this blog before, I’d never watched all of SatAM. This might be shocking to hear from someone who runs a blog dedicated to Archie Sonic and one of the top twenty Bunnie Rabbot fangirls in the world. But it’s true.
SatAM was very difficult to track down compared to other Sonic cartoons when I was a kid, and I just never got around to watching it as an adult. So for the longest time, I had only ever seen the first episode, which I found uploaded in parts on YouTube in 2007. As the one cartoon featuring the characters I liked from the comics, it became sort of this holy grail of Sonic media for me as a kid, especially with people online always talking it up as the best thing ever and petitioning for a revival. Hell, to this day, a lot of people hold it up as this masterpiece and act like the Archie comics were a complete mockery of it
Anyway so I finally got around to watching the whole series with my boyfriend these past couple weeks, and it was pretty good. So instead of covering a comic today, here are some thoughts on the cartoon that started it all
General Thoughts
SatAM is a pretty good show. It isn’t the greatest piece of Sonic media ever, unlike what some older fans will tell you. It might not even be the best Sonic cartoon (you could easily make a case for the Japanese version of Sonic X, or Sonic Boom if you’re looking for something more comedic). It hasn’t aged the most gracefully, in some ways. The animation’s cheap, the stories sometimes bland. But for a DiC-produced video game cartoon from the early ‘90s, it’s really solid
I think that in many ways, SatAM is carried by the strength of its ideas over its actual execution. The darker, more serious tone is a really cool idea, even if at times it can get a little dull, and even if the show actually gets silly as hell pretty often. (This is a show where Snively literally tortures a captive Antoine by preparing French cuisine improperly.) That opening scene of Robotropolis in the first episode actually sets the mood really well and feels like it came straight out of some cyberpunk anime from the ‘80s or ‘90s. The concept of Robotnik turning people into robot slaves is really cool, even if surprisingly little was done with this aside from Uncle Chuck’s storyline. And I think the Freedom Fighters make a great supporting cast for Sonic, even if the writers didn’t use them to their full potential
Interestingly, I’d often heard from fans that season one was the stronger of the two, when I’d say that the opposite is true. Season one episodes were pretty samey, usually involving low stakes missions to Robotropolis with no real continuity, and Sally ended up being a damsel in distress more than I’d like--hell, so did Bunnie in a few episodes. It wasn’t bad, but it was highly repetitive, and I got a little bored at times. Season two had a few real stinkers (the Antoine episodes) and Dulcy was an unwelcome addition, but I thought the heavier focus on continuity gave the season some real momentum and more emotional weight, which made it way more enjoyable overall
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Things I Liked
Sonic. I quite liked this version of Sonic, actually! Jaleel White is a great Sonic, and he was written pretty well. At times the extremely tubular ‘90s lingo was grating (I never wanna hear “Gotta juice!” again), but I was surprised to see that this version of Sonic had a lot of heart. He really cared about the well-being of his friends and Uncle Chuck, and they even let him cry a couple times. I thought they struck a good balance between snark and sincerity with him
Sally. I don’t think SatAM Sally was perfect, but I liked her. I’m still of the opinion that she should have been given more ways to defend herself physically (maybe some kind of power of her own) so that Sonic didn’t have to save her as much, but I liked the banter she and Sonic had. Unlike the early Archie comics, Sally doesn’t come off as the bossy girlfriend who ruins Sonic’s fun. Maybe it’s Jaleel White and Kath Soucie’s performances doing most of the work, but they had a fun back and forth dynamic, with Sally’s sarcasm keeping Sonic’s ego in check, but there still being clear chemistry between the two of them
I also liked the greatly reduced emphasis on her being a princess compared to much of Archie’s material. Like yeah, it’s there. Her dad’s the king, and left her some classified info via Nicole. But her status doesn’t really affect things much. They don’t talk about her having this grand destiny and being the next in line to rule. It’s clear that she’s in charge of the Freedom Fighters not because of her status, but because she’s smart, brave, and gets shit done. That’s the Sally I like.
Plus! In the finale, Sally insisted upon going with Sonic for the final confrontation, and was a crucial part of the climax. Her powering up with Sonic and matching his speed and strength ruled. Compare that to the climactic defeat of Robotnik in Archie, where she was fucking dead
Robotnik. I don’t think much needs to be said here. Jim Cummings rules as Robotnik, like everyone has always said. He’s just so evil and so much fun to watch
Snively??? I’ve never cared for Snively as a character, but Charlie Adler rules and his over-the-top performance made the character way funnier than he should’ve been. Just something about all the little noises he makes, and the way he almost shifts into the Red Guy voice at times
Nicole. It was fun to see Nicole start to get more of a personality in season two, having some banter with Sonic and also picking up some slang from him. It makes the later decision to turn Sally’s computer into a full character (which would have happened in season three, and obviously eventually became a big subplot in the comics) make a lot of sense
King Acorn. While he was only around briefly, I liked that he wasn’t a huge dick, unlike Archie’s King Max
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Things I Didn’t Like
The misuse of the other Freedom Fighters. This is, by far, the show’s greatest crime.
I already write approximately 100k words a week on this blog about how I think Bunnie Rabbot is amazing and criminally underused, so I’ll keep this brief, but I was shocked to see how little she was used in this show. People tend to say Dulcy stole her screentime in season two, but she didn’t have much to do in the first season either! We somehow never got a single episode focusing on her. The one where she got temporarily deroboticized focused much more on Uncle Chuck. We never got to learn the story behind her roboticization, or delved into her feelings on the matter much. She mostly just served as a positive, lighthearted supporting member of the team who acts cute and gets some funny lines, but usually stays home
Antoine might have been even worse, honestly. Like, they used him so much! They had multiple episodes focusing entirely on him! And yet I’m not sure he ever really helped. Sonic and Sally kept taking him along, but every single time it felt like it would’ve been a wiser decision to bring Bunnie instead. The jokes about his broken English were just dumb, and god, the way he constantly hits on Sally and starts kissing her hand at the most inappropriate times is just SO fucking creepy. SatAM Antoine is just a horrible, one-dimensional stereotype. There’s a reason why readers of the Archie comics wanted him out of the series until later writers majorly rehabilitated him
Rotor also didn’t get much use, which was a shame, but it at least felt like he was used efficiently. I got the vibe that Rotor was much more bitter about the war with Robotnik than his friends, and it would’ve been interesting to see this explored more. At least we got that one fun episode where he went to space with Sonic
Dulcy. Oh my fucking god. I wanted to like Dulcy! I really did! But most of the time she was just a clutz used for comic relief, and they kept reusing the same joke where she crashed, bumped her head, got dizzy, and thought she was talking to her mom. This happened in almost every episode she was in.
The other miscellaneous Freedom Fighters. Like in the early Archie comics, none of the other miscellaneous Mobians they meet were as interesting as the core cast. They just always felt very bland and I was never as invested in them as the writers wanted me to be. Ari was boring, and that episode where they found the underground city and this other dude started hitting on Sally was a drag. Lupe’s cute though
Rings. This is a common problem in Sonic adaptations, but the fact that rings always serve as Sonic’s instant win button kind of sucks. Basically any time Sonic’s in a pinch, he pulls a ring out of his backpack, powers up, and wins. Not exactly a recipe for suspenseful action
Oh, also, I did kinda find it weird how much Sonic and Sally kissed? Like, all the time? Often while their friends just stand there and stare at them? Not something I’d expect from a Sonic cartoon
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Things Archie Did Better
I’ll limit this to the first 50 issues or so, since I don’t think it would be fair to compare two short seasons of SatAM to the highlights of nearly 500 issues of comics
Tails. Tails is okay in SatAM, Archie just used him as Sonic’s sidekick way more. He was barely even in the show. Poor little guy only gets to play dirt hockey all day
Bunnie. Again, Bunnie was underutilized in both series, but the Archie comics did her better. They actually showed the story of how she got roboticized (even if it was a silly story), and they got to flesh her out a bit more. Gallagher showing that she was a carrot farmer before her roboticization and saying she wanted to be a hairdresser was at least something. And as I keep harping on, Rich Koslowski’s backup story in #37 where we find out Bunnie has recurring nightmares about her robot parts taking over and making her a threat to her friends? This single backup story did more to flesh her out than all 26 episodes of SatAM combined
Antoine. Not hard to do better than SatAM here, really. He was really bad early on, serving as little more than Sonic’s punching bag, but eventually they started to set up a romance between him and Bunnie and explored his past a bit, saying that Antoine’s father (his personal role model) was a member of the royal guard who was roboticized in the war. While he still had a long way to go, these were important first steps towards him being a decent character. Hell, these days, being Bunnie’s love interest is one of Antoine’s defining characteristics! And it doesn’t come from the cartoon at all
Roboticization in general. I was surprised how little this came up in the cartoon! In the comics, it’s such a central element. We see more of the heroes’ loved ones turned into robots, and we even got some fun stories where characters like Sonic and Sally were roboticized temporarily. The Freedom Fighters’ efforts to reverse the process was a major part of the plot for quite a while. Bunnie’s fear of losing control is a pretty important part of her character (even if it was only touched on briefly), and after they’re rescued, the rest of the Mobians fear that the “Robians” (including Sonic’s entire family) will turn evil again. It comes up a lot! There are interesting things to discuss here! But SatAM only really talks about Uncle Chuck. We never even see what happened to everyone else
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Closing Thoughts
SatAM is not the best show in the world, but it is a solid and enjoyable one. It’s easy to see why people who grew up with it are fond of it, even if I think that it’s long past time certain fans quit acting like it’s the only valid take on the Sonic source material and petitioning for a third season. At the very least, the concepts and characters introduced here are strong ones, and it’s easy to see how they spawned over 20 years of comics exploring said ideas in greater detail. While I’m not sure I could recommend it to non-fans, I think it’s definitely worth checking out for Sonic fans who missed out on it (especially fans of the Archie comics)
Anyway I got to see Bunnie dropkick some Swatbots twice her height so I had fun
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n4r4nch4 · 8 years ago
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Colours. I love them. I have a very strong opinion on them. I colour-code everything; every colour has a meaning, every person has a colour, words have colours, letters, numbers, emotions, situations... I love saturated colours, full, deep. (not those half-ass pastel hues).
I love cooking. Grew up helping my mom around the kitchen a lot, and she taught me how to cook by feeling and intuition. I enjoy cooking because that's one of the ways my mind relaxes, like some sort of a meditation, as weird as that sounds. I love trying new recipes as much as I love making my own food and experimenting. I could spend hours chopping, cooking, baking, kneading... you name it, I probably love doing it. (also eating. I love eating too).
I love trying new food. *Especially* fruit I have never tried before. I am extremely taste-curious, and as long as it's not raw meat, I'll probably at least want to try it.
I love the Sea. I am fortunate enough to live in a very small country with an amazing coastline and I really can't imagine a summer vacation without at least a week spent by the seaside. There is nothing like swimming in the sea water, the sound of the waves, the salt in the air and that blue-green vastness once you jump in. Ever tried floating in the sea? The best feeling ever!
I enjoy hiking. That's my number one meditation. There's a hill I like to go to just north of my home town, and I often go alone and enjoy my time in the woods.
Three years ago I discovered a lovely thing called aerial dance. More specifically the thingy called aerial hoop (yes, yes, qoogle it. You know you want to). I am only doing it for recreation. It's hard, painful, but also indescribably fun (if you're not afraid of heights, that is). Once you survive the phase of bruises and calluses, it's pretty amazing.
I really, really love snow. That first morning after the full night of snowing, when you get out, and the streets are still white, and everything is soft and whisper-y like you're under a big, fluffy blanket, and that sound snow makes crunching under your boots...
My feet and hands are almost always freezing (unless it's above 30 degrees Celsius. In that case, my feet and hands are like on fire, of course). And yes, it means most of the nights I sleep wearing socks.
I am not exactly tone deaf, but my singing still pretty much sucks. Which is a shame, since I actually really love singing, but since I am extremely self-conscious about that, I'll never sing in front of other people. If I sing in front of you, you must be very special, because there are even close friends who have never heard me do it.
I am a very loyal friend. Life has taught me that family does not mean always to have someone to rely on. Friends, on the other hand, do. And I'd like to believe that I too am one of those friends you can always rely on when things get tough and you need a hand.
I have never actively been a part of any fandom like I am with Arrow. Basically, came in for the info on the show, stayed for friends and amazing stories.  
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