#mel alphabet soup

[neomel]

in honor of me finally acquiring the best video game i need to share the greatest ever tweet

[melblur]

well. in honor of the halloween spirit. i would like to formally reintroduce everyone to the only good tweet i ever made

(& CoolBoxArt posted a tribute to it a year later)

[animelga]

i deeply treasure tomohito oda's ability to draw his characters as absolute little creachers

[theoptimisticdaydreamer]

I propose

~**Historical Bake Off**~

Every recipe has to be at least 100 years old

Bonus points if it is in Latin

Bonus Bonus points if it is pre-English alphabet

Key points in said recipe are Old English and what-the-heck-is-this ingredients

Recipes also have to have historical significance

Round One- everyone gets the same recipe and the same ingredients and they make it

Mwahahaha… this includes the judges because the recipe predates them so they also have to bake.

The lovely hosts Mel and Sue and Noel then take the viewers to the historically significant location and meet with a food historian to learn about the history of the dish. The food historian then makes the dish with Mel and Sue and Noel.

All of these dishes are blind judged by the food historian with little jibes thrown in by Mel and Sue and Noel about *insert famous historical figure from the same year* would think of the dish.

Bonus bonus bonus if said historical figure is raised from the dead and deems Paul and Prue’s version complete garbage.

The cloth is unveiled on what the food historian baked and everyone goes around nibbling.

The next challenge is to take that recipe and what they learned from the food historian’s comments to put their own twist on that exact same dish. Home flavors, different presentation what have you.

Everyone gets two benches and two ovens per person but Paul and Prue share both a bench and an oven.

The technical in the middle of everything will be making a side to their showstopper which will teach them important skills that they will take home to use.

Everything will be served as one giant baking feast. The judges are food historians and actual historians and the ghost of peasants from said time period.

Throughout the competition, everyone is helping one another and the ghosts of historical bakers are giving hints to the bakers. Paul and Prue are avoided like the plague.

Mary Berry then awards special consideration to the baker with the best heartwarming vibes and they get a special secret Mary Berry recipe they can use to knock the socks off of all their friends and families (even the snobby ones)

Their bakes are offered up as offerings to the ghosts who inhabit all of these historical locations (that the bakers take a trip to too) and the one who has offended the ghosts gets covered in mosquito bites (it is always Paul) then they bake with the local communities for a Soup Kitchen- but make it bakes and tea-.

For every time Paul and Prue are condescending and rude, they have to donate their personal funds to charity. There is an ongoing tab that they are not aware of and the grand finale is how much they have to pay back to local communities.

Go around and discover the UK in an interactive, tangible way.

Complete with warm cozy bake off vibes, stunning videography and a shot of a beautiful bird or animal cutting off Paul and Prue whenever they open their mouth.

I’d watch it

[daemondaes]

“Hey, you! Get your damn hands off her!” (Bc I need Murray protecting her)

    Cherry Martini suffered from a condition known scientifically as small dog syndrome. Due to her diminutive stature, she tended to put on a face tougher than she felt, but sometimes the feeling was genuine, even when it wasn't warranted. She took pride in her athleticism and worked hard to cultivate her physique. She earnestly believed she could best anyone in a fight—especially now that she was actually practicing self-defense under the guidance of one Murray Bauman. Reality, however, still played by its own set of rules, and when a tipsy Cherry stumbled over the sidewalk's uneven pavement, the liquid courage coursing through her bloodstream would not aid her like Popeye's spinach and give her the strength to tear away from the man beside her.

    Earlier that evening, she experienced her first college party, invited by a friend, Mel, who'd graduated the year before her. If she were younger, it might have been a bigger deal, but if she hadn't messed up so early in her high school career, she would have been a college freshman by now. This was basically her birthright.

    As was typical, she flirted with more than a few people throughout the night, but it didn't mean anything. It was harmless fun, just conversation, and not everyone was receptive to her banter anyway. At least once, she'd made the mistake of coming on to someone who was already spoken for. One man, however, was more receptive than she'd expected. He had expectations of her. Even after she stepped away, he seemed to find himself in the same crowds as her, ostensibly by coincidence. It was turning her night into a real drag. No one liked a Clingy Carl or a Suffocating Sam. The only way to salvage the situation, she decided, was to cut her losses and leave regrettably early.

    She located Mel and thanked her before bidding her farewell. Mel offered to give her a ride home, but, not wanting to cut the party short for anyone else, Cherry assured her that she was fine on her own. She should have seen it coming when just minutes later, heavy footfalls echoed behind her, and the clown she was trying to shake caught up. He asked why she was leaving so soon, which only prompted her to quicken her pace. That was when she tripped. He caught her. She was grateful, if only for the fact that he prevented her total wipe out, but any goodwill she felt evaporated the instant he insisted on taking her home.

    Their only connection was his hand around her wrist, but her disgust was so strong that she was prepared to gnaw her hand off if she had to. "I'm fine, I'm fine! I got it from here. Lemme go so I can go. I don't wanna honk your horn, bozo." She whipped her arm in toward herself, but his grip only tightened as he pulled her closer, like a game of human tug of war. Whatever he began to say was drowned out by her own voice, leaping in volume. "You the dumbest pencil in the box? Beat it, jerk!" Desperately, she willed her brain to recall something, anything, Murray might have taught her in order to use the weight of her opponent against her. She'd even settle for pressure points. Her mind was abandoned alphabet soup, scrambled and lukewarm. Maybe instead of chewing herself free, she'd bite him instead. Her mouth opened once more, but the sound came from just behind her, a voice she would recognize anywhere.

    "Hey, you! Get your damn hands off her!"

    She blinked, then squinted. Whether or not she was sober, whether or not she needed glasses, the image was unmistakably Murray. She couldn't begin to guess what he was doing so close by and at this hour, but her heart ignited with the same burn of vodka in her throat that she associated so closely with him. It was a good warmth, like the hearth in the cold of winter. Her face, however, felt uncomfortably hot, ashamed. If he was going to catch her in such an unfavorable situation, she at least wanted to show him how good a teacher he was. He didn't strike her as someone who cared what others thought of him, but maybe he relished the opportunity to show her his skill in the real world, beyond the makeshift dojo.

    "If you're gonna be a damn hero, hurry it up already!"

[avrablake]

Alphabet soup - M!

Thanks so much for asking!

Mel: from Beyond the Darkness. Mel is Nolan's second in command in the Military. She's fun-loving, sweet and caring, and doesn't like situations that are unfair. She doesn't like hurting people or seeing people suffer. She's maybe not the most ideal personality to be a soldier, but she's serious about her work and always performs her duties, even if they are distasteful. That doesn't stop her from skirting the rules in order to help out Gram and Nix.

Send me a letter of the alphabet A-Z, and if I have an OC starting with that letter, I'll tell about them.

[gardenerian]

What do you think right after 'holy fuck' and that kiss?

like what do i think when they do that? because what i think is: [white noise] like my brain goes blank with pure joy. or what do i think happens? hmm....

more kisses. and more kisses. kisses that bleed into sighs, into heavy breaths. ian rests his head against mickey's - they're touching and holding and feeling each other solid and real beneath their fingertips. ian pulls back a little, they look. they look. holy fuck, they look and they notice. what the fuck are you doing here and don't worry about that right now and are you okay, really and i am now. and they exist in the same space, breathe the same air, until they're shuffled out for a meal or something.

[batfam-big-bang]

Do you believe in coffee supremacy (wrong answers only)

is 'i don't like coffee' a wrong answer? - jess

sweet-spicy chili is the best - bri

i fill up all the baths of england with coffee - lucy

yes, coffee is the absolute best, supremacy forever (this is in fact the wrong answer) - mel

alphabet soup supremacy - shelby

[freedomhasfangsa]

PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER.

1. Alias / Name: Hannah! o/ 2. Birthday: 22nd March. Aries Squad represent! 5. Hobbies: Honestly, I don’t really have that many interesting hobbies. It’s just writing, read, crochet, gaming and netflix. Very much a homebody, me. B> 6. Favourite colour: I like pink and purple. 7. Favourite book: Beyond the Deepwoods. I can’t even begin to tell you how much I loved that book as a kid, and I still read it on occasion when I’m feeling down. It’s so very, very, very good. I suppose for more of an age appropriate one, I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men and True Grit. 8. Last played song: Beauty’s Wicked Wiles from FFXIV. I am obsessed. 9. Last film / show: ... I’m a sucker for really, really shit TV, I’ve been binge watching it for the past few days. Nyehehe. 10. Recent reads: The Sister’s Brothers. I’m trying to get it finished before the 17th so I can make a start on Butcher’s Crossing. 11. Inspiration: Honestly, I can draw inspiration from a multitude of places, some of which surprise me. It could be an image on pinterest of an outfit or a place and my brain goes 👌 good soup. A huge majority of the time my inspiration comes from music. And not just one genre either. Many. From country, to house, through to metal. It’s a trip, honestly. 12. Story behind URL: Mel and I were watching Westworld and Dolores told Maeve: You’re all copies of me. And I remember mentally shaking her like, FRIEND I HAVE AN IDEA. So now we’re matchy matchy and all is sweet and fabulous and I love it so much.13. Fun fact about me: Despite having grown up by the seaside, I can’t swim very well. I can do some semblance of a doggy paddle, but that’s about the most of it. Sometimes I like to line everything I have up when I’m stressed and then put it alphabetical order if it’s applicable. It makes me feel much, much better.

Tagged: @iniziare​ thank u friend B> Tagging: u guys. B>

[neomel]

Hi sorry I need to do some more Pokemon posting bc this is the funniest shit. the cute-looking Pokèmon TCG series is making "TM10" part of its branding. Like, TM10 from the games - its the TM for the move Hidden Power, thats cute! Its reflecting the main character discovering herself in the same way the move works in the game, what a cute little detail!

Except uh. Just one problem.

Game Freak in all their brilliance removed Hidden Power from the franchise four years ago in Generation 8* and its still not able to be used in Scarlet and Violet. Its not just that you cant teach it to Pokèmon anymore, you straight up cannot use the attack even if you trade in Pokèmon from older games who know it. Its like a banned technique.

So then that begs the question – if the TCG show is gonna be referencing TM10 this much, but TM10 *isn't* Hidden Power anymore, surely that means TM10 is another similarly inspiring attack - Stored Power, or Calm Mind, or Smart Strike?

Well, depending on if its Gen 8 or 9, I hope the kids will have fun Discovering Their Own Magical Leaf and/or Discovering Their Own Ice Fang. Truly inspiring words. love how well managed this franchise is

[melblur]

playing infinite craft and reinvented Dragon Balls powerscaling

[animelga]

reposting to keep this safe

[oneangrygamer]

Force Of Nature Trailer Featuring Mel Gibson Has SJWs Totally Colon Chaffed

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“Mad” Mel Gibson is one of the last straight white males still making movies for straight white males. While most of Hollywood is choking down the fluids from the dilated wound of the alphabet soup mutilation mutants, a few fringe indie studios are still concerned with entertaining fans and making money. Lionsgate is also one of the last distributors actually thinking about catering to an…

[neomel]

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[neomel]

Alrighty fellow insane sonic fans i have something very cool for you today: a WORLDBUILDING theory!! this is something that's been kicking around in my head for so long that i forget it isn't something I've shared with many others yet lol

[ This post primarily covers stuff from Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Advance, and ignores Sonic Chronicles and Sonic Pocket Adventure as they have been struck from canon (see: Encyclo-speed-ia) ]

[ It should also be noted that this theory is built on the idea that "the world" as depicted in Sonic Forces is not accurately depicting the entire globe, but rather depicting Eggman's takeover of just the island archipelago where the animal cast lives (South Island, West Side Island, Mirage Island, Northstar Islands, Angel Island) as to explain its geography and lack of human characters ]

Right! So, a big theme in the environmental design of the original Sonic Adventure was having the Sonic cast sort of "cross over" into the human world more - the wording on this was initially nebulous, but with updated translations and clearer official word recently, we now know that it means that the "human world" is moreso like a mainland populated by humans that exists separately from the animal-inhabited island archipelago of Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3&K and Superstars (see: Sonic Origins). My immediate first point of comparison - of all things - is something like the first Madagascar movie, where the lemurs are able to be a fully functioning society in a region completely isolated from humans.

Except it's not quite like that movie, is it? We see in Sonic Adventure (and further in Unleashed, 06) that animal characters like Sonic and c.o are able to exist just fine within the human world, to where Amy has flat-out moved into Station Square. Big and Tails, too, have settled down by the Mystic Ruins close to where Angel Island (sometimes) crashes down by, Rouge owns a club in Sonic Battle - you get the gist. Animal characters, the majority population of the islands as we see in Forces and the IDW series, are able to migrate into the "mainland" human societies, but it appears to still be a rarity, likely not even something everyone has the opportunity to do (Big might've been born on Angel Island, Tails and/or Sonic can fly any of Sonic's friends to wherever they want to go, etc.). The most contact humans have with the animal world is through the Mystic Ruins site, or Eggman using his excessive wealth to fly in and try and effectively colonize the islands as we see in Sonic 1, 2, Superstars, CD, 4.1 and 4.2 (for note: CD, 4.1 and 4.2 take place on the same island of Mirage Island)

Sonic Adventure 2's level select is obviously to be taken with a grain of salt as a stylized take on a world map, but it seems to infer the same thing that Origins' main menu and Angel Island's close proximity to the Mystic Ruins both corroborate - the island archipelago inhabited by the animal characters seems to be quite close to the mainland "United Nations" landmass, most evidently close to Rouge's Route 280 level. And given how often Eggman lays his sights on the islands as a primary target for his schemes (Heroes may well also be taking place on the islands, as Seaside Hill is confirmed to be near/on South Island), it would make sense from the United Nations' POV to try and make access to the islands more accessible. For example, to enable easier import and export of goods, help citizens evacuate from possible disaster (eg. how the Metal Virus in IDW described how it was impossible to evacuate to anywhere else but Angel Island), and so on - a way to connect the two societies more smoothly only makes sense.

With ALL that context and preamble out of the way, this is my theory, and where Sonic Advance finally comes into the picture:

Radical Highway in Sonic Adventure 2, and later Neo Green Hill Zone from Sonic Advance, were together depicting a brief attempt to connect South Island to the United Nations mainland.

You may think this is a bit of a nutty conclusion to draw given how little of a story Sonic Advance actually has, but I think there's a lot we can glean from just the environmental design of Neo Green Hill Zone alone. Compared to the original Green Hill Zone, and most of the levels in the Classic Sonic games that aren't just flat-out urban cities/facilities seemingly built under Eggman's control (Star Light, Spring Yard, Chemical Plant), Neo Green Hill Zone's touches of human infrastructure are far more...friendly, for a lack of a better word. There's parasols and wooden scaffolding, a grind rail or two along paved sidewalks, yet the natural beauty of the area is left entirely in tact. Nothing about it appears like Eggman's work, yet it is quite evidently structured for human interests, for tourism and walking/biking rather than all the funky ways in which Sonic's animal cast are comfortable moving around. Then there's of course the name: NEO Green Hill Zone, as if it's reinvigorating the idea for a fresh new facelift, re-marketing it!

But how does all that connect to Radical Highway?

Radical Highway (and Mission Street by extension) have a quirk unique to them when compared to almost all other urban city levels in the series - as you can see in the image above, they're themed around still being under construction. Compared to a level like Lethal Highway from Shadow the Hedgehog (or the aforementioned Route 280 from SA2) the holes and gaps in Radical Highway are presented as being specifically because the winding roads are still under construction. You can see this on the level map above too - Route 280 and Route 101 appear to be part of a long, linear, already-finished stretch of road, wheras the area of Radical Highway and Mission Street is filled with gaps, inlets and breaks in the road. Route 101/Route 280 already appear to fill the function of letting people cross between the two city areas depicted on Adventure 2's world map...so then, what exactly is the construction and general wobblyness of Radical Highway for?

Well, let's look at Sonic Advance again: Specifically, the end of the Neo Green Hill Zone stage, and the way the game progresses immediately thereafter:

The natural beach environment of Neo Green Hill Zone Act 2 suddenly bows out before the Eggman boss fight to give way to something quite interesting: A red bridge extending out from the island's coast. The bridge's architecture doesn't quite match that of Radical Highway, most notably using tall suspension wires hooked up to some off-screen upper portion of the construction, but I think the idea alone is fascinating enough: This is drastically more modern architecture compared to the rickety wooden bridges otherwise seen in Green Hill Zone. We're still a bit unsure of if Advance 1 takes place before or after Sonic Adventure 2, but if it's before - it may also be possible that the work on this bridge began on the South Island end of things *before* the mainland Radical Highway-end were finished with their work, with the idea of joining the two bridges somewhere in the middle.

Let's again also consider where this bridge takes our characters in Advance - to Secret Base Zone, a shockingly urban facility which we still don't really know the location of. Sonic and c.o need to zip-line into its entrance, with a background that only features light and buildings far off into the distance - is it possible that the Secret Base exists sort of like an oil rig in the middle of the ocean, inbetween South Island and the mainland, as some sort of production facility for the UN? Regardless, it serves as a pit-stop in the Advance campaign - after it, we can pretty cleanly chart a roadmap for where the cast travels. Casino Paradise's ocean background seemingly depicts it as being part of the coastline (bottom left of the SA2 map), Ice Mountain is pretty clearly meant to be another area of Ice Cap Zone given how it leads to the Angel Island Zone - which is, in reality, a dilapidated Sky Sanctuary. Effectively, the campaign seems to go from South Island, to the bridge connecting South Island to the mainland, to a coastside Vegas-like casino wonderland built by Eggman, which is near the Mystic Ruins and thus near Angel Island by extension (it may be connected to Night Carnival from Sonic Rush?). And all of it connected thanks to the works of a bridge, seemingly set up in Adventure 2 with Radical Highway being under construction, possibly with the goals to connect the two core parts of Sonic's world.

Whew! That's pretty much all the words I have, and I've now reached the max cap of images per posts. I truly don't know how many Sonic fans care about these granular details and concepts about the environment of Sonics world in games from 20+ years ago, but I hope it got some gears turning - and if there is some merit to this, it may further get you wondering as to why the path connecting the two was seemingly cut off in the end? Given the cityscapes we see in Forces and IDW, it's possible that this mutual relation between the two worlds lasted for a fair while - what could've possibly led to that bond being broken? Maybe Unleashed breaking the world apart had something to do with it...

Thanks for reading this far if you did - and feel free to add your own ideas or things I might've missed in all of this!

[neomel]

have the newborn sonic fans on tumblr seen the sonic adventure 2 birthday pack or will i have to do the honors