#soup discourse

[waspsinyouryard]

Ok actually you know what

[wisteriagoesvroom]

so despite having multiple nicknames derived from soup due to name things tm I'm not a big soup person - however smoked chipotle & tomato soup WITH feta AND tortilla chips? how can i say no? -daniel

chipotle and TOMATO i'm SAT im LISTENING i am RECEIVING

[thegoldencowboyhat]

GUZZLING STRAIGHT CHICKEN BROTH. DOES THIS COUNT AS SOUP?

[waspsinyouryard]

@recovering-redditor

I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.

[waspsinyouryard]

Okay, okay, wait.

Truce?

We agree that it’s fine you don’t like soup, and you cease slandering Her good name, recant your patently false testimony regarding your grandmothers (I saw 2 lightning strikes! I was there!), agree that I probably shouldn’t have eaten your dog just for the crime of wanting soup, and you sit in your little corner with the wonder that is stews?

I maintain that there was only one bolt of lightning, although I must concede that it could have potentially happened like this:

In the end, though, does it really matter? Both of my grandmothers are dead and arguing details won't bring them back.

Either way I've talked way too much about soup today so I'm willing to agree to the truce.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

chicken noodle soup (german) OR indian chicken soup

my heart belongs to asian broths BUT i will make an exception for chicken noodle soup which is like a universal power adapter for immediate delight

[mystical-mew]

The disussion of if cereal is a soup can finally end as I have the answer! If it's made milk first its a soup as it is more liquid than solid, however if it is made cereal first its a salad due to a higher content of solids.

[waspsinyouryard]

@recovering-redditor

[whimprone]

Season 1: talk it through as a crew

Season 2: eat some soup as a group

[waspsinyouryard]

I've donned the most terrifying costume of all: a hastily drawn bee who loves soup!

[wisteriagoesvroom]

pistou soup!! but specifically the adapted one my family makes. the key steps: you need the chopped tomatoes and cannellini beans because they're the base. yes also pasta and assorted veggies and onion is too, but they are somewhat less important. then. most crucial step. you MAX out as much garlic and basil as possible. there is no such thing as too much garlic trust me. also add the garlic near the end to enhance the potency. then you need to blend it because textures. i am very passionate about soup but to me! this is the best

that literally sounds amazing omg i might try making it one day thanks mim. and simple !! but filling !! (my favourite type of recipe)

[rockatanskette]

Semi-related to my post on how human conservation practices, but I have a cold today, and it's got me thinking about biological altruism—the biological imperative to put other creatures ahead of yourself, to benefit the group.

When talking about possible interactions with other species, we talk a lot about humans being crazy and thrill-seeking and impossible to kill. Never use a warning shot as an incentive to keep humans out of a fight; it'll just make them angry. And that's true. But a valid criticism I've seen in the "Earth is a death world" community is that according to our understanding of evolution, every planet must be some form of death world. Competition fosters evolution—the wolf with sharper claws survives when its litter mates die. You can't reach space travel without some casualties along the way.

But the dog survives because it makes friends with the strange ape carrying a sharp stick. And the strange ape survives because it befriends the wolf. Underneath the death world is an inextricable and undeniable layer of the bond world; the love world; the world, together.

I imagine some worlds are not death worlds. They're peaceful and tranquil. I suspect there are worlds far more deadly than Earth, where the skies rain diamonds, harder than any substance we know with the species to match. And I imagine that they are united in their confusion at the duality of humankind.

Today is a great example: I have a cold, and I want someone to take care of me, but the people who would are immunocompromised, also sick, or live 8 hours away, respectfully. I also want no one within the walls of my apartment or I will eat them. I feel gross, I feel tired, and I don't want a single human being anywhere near me, even if they did bring soup.

In my constant scrolling through my phone today, I decided to look up why the hell I feel so bad—why everyone feels so bad when they're ill. And the answer surprised me. I always thought it was because your immune system is active, so it's using a lot of your energy. That is part of it. Another part is that your brain and body are communicating across the blood-brain barrier to fight the infection, which is rare and energetically expensive.

But that doesn't explain everything, and according to more current research, it could also be what's called the Eyam Hypothesis: that we feel so gross, so we instinctively isolate from other people. We're too tired to deal with others, and so we don't infect them. Misanthropy for the good of the species. Of course, it can also backfire: one of the criticisms of the Eyam Hypothesis is that humans also instinctively care for each other. If my brother has a headache, I drive to the store for Advil.

Personally, I think it's a little bit of both: biological altruism. Either way, the majority live on. The first thought I had this morning when I woke up wasn't "I feel gross" it was "there's no way I'm going to work today." And while that might not be everyone's first thought, you don't even have to be a particularly altruistic person to not want to leave your home or your bed when you're sick. It's inborn.

And so when the human named Ismail comes down with a case of the interstellar common cold, his alien friend Dyos grows very concerned. Ismail is usually intensely social, almost off-puttingly so. Some crew members joke about how his quarters are for sleeping and prayer only; if he's home alone? You should be worried. But when Dyos demands an answer to the severity of Ismail's malady, the other humans just nod knowingly.

"Nah, he's okay, the medics already cleared him. It's not a severe infection."

"But there are so many...fluids. And his body has changed color."

There is a moment of confusion there until they remember that Dyos's species can see in the infrared color spectrum.

"Nah, that's just a low-grade fever. It should break in the next couple days."

"But he doesn’t want to play chess today," Dyos insists.

"Ohhhh," says human Claudia, finally understanding. "No, that's normal. Humans don't like being around other people when they're sick, it's supposed to be one of the major evolutionary advantages. Protect your community from your illness and the genes live on."

"So we're just going to leave him alone?" Dyos is troubled by this. He can go for weeks without speaking to another life form, but he has seen Ismail grow despondent when unable to participate in social gathering.

"Oh, no," human Claudia says, laughing. "We're going to employ one of the other most longstanding human evolutionary advantages."

There are many to choose from and Dyos settles on, "middle age?"

"Sort of," human Claudia opens up a small shipping container and holds up a brown paper bag tied with a colorful ribbon. It glows brightly in Dyos's vision, almost as brightly as human Claudia's smile. "His nanni's hot soup, express delivery."

[waspsinyouryard]

@recovering-redditor

[bonefall]

i saw one design where they gave her what this person described as "a hapsburg jaw, because incest lol" and the way i physically recoiled

I am keeping a personal folder of fucked up shit people have been saying about Moonpaw (with the names of posters removed). Some of the things I've seen and screenshotted include;

A person hoping that Moonpaw "dies of inbreeding complications to make the Erins face the consequences of their actions." As if she's a real person the writing team has no control over?? The ink on the page is going to die of incest???

Open calls and wishes for a "mass extinction event" in ThunderClan because "we need to kill them off" for being too genetically unhealthy

Delight and revelry in the fact that Moonpaw's chimerism probably comes from inbreeding, often paired with conflating chimerism with mosaicism

LOTS of jokes about "ugly, misshapen, deformed" Moonpaw, some saying she would be mentally impaired, even comparing her to unethically bred animals because her parents are "practically siblings."

So forgive me for having a hunch that these people don't actually give a shit about the victims of incestuous abuse. I've got a feeling they just want an acceptable target to make ableist comments about. Something tells me they might not think eugenics isn't all too bad if it's done against populations they think are "actually" undesirable.

These jokes and comments are not fucking funny and the fact that some of these are the very top of the Moonpaw tag makes me sick. I NEVER want to hear these ghouls complain about the tangled family tree ever again if your reason for it being bad isn't because of intense social control or authorial carelessness, but because it might produce ugly and/or disabled people. Wither and rot.

[ingravinoveritas]

Last night, I went to Night of Too Many Stars, a benefit for an autism organization in NYC. It was hosted by Jon Stewart (who did a fantastic job) and featured numerous stand-up comedy acts and celebrities interspersed with live auctions. One of the celebrities was Amy Schumer, who I can report is and continues to be painfully unfunny.

She made several "jokes" about autism (including about her husband, who is autistic) that didn't really land--such as how autism isn't a disability but a superpower--and it was just an uncomfortable set to sit through overall. Although in an interesting parallel to her Oscars hosting stint a few years ago, her set was then eclipsed by an off-the-cuff remark from Chris Rock about curing autism (he didn't do a set, but was there to present an award to a sponsor). I think at least a few other people besides me caught his appalling comment, and curiously, he was supposedly going to come back later in the show, but never did.

Also, I got to see Paul Rudd in the actual flesh with my own eyes, and he is utterly gorgeous and lovely to behold...

[koraesrambles]

You do not need to insult another character in order to tell someone why you like your fav. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INSULT ANOTHER CHARACTER TO TELL PEOPLE WHY YOU LOVE YOUR FAV.