#thats me. im soup.

[reenaki]

Something something.....

..infatuation....

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"And soda; runs off into the street..." "...and soda... is totally okay!"

[thesoupisburning]

im not an artisti but this fuckin game is making me wanna try

call it a draft right now, might go in and edit

anyways

[randomwords247]

Cooking and baking

A small pet peeve of mine with cooking and baking is when recipes say the container rather than the amount

Like, instead of saying "500ml of cream" you say "a pot of cream". Or "a whole can of corn". Like okay which kind of can??? What amount???? Corn comes in more than one size you can't just tell me a can. PLEASE i am begging you tell me the WEIGHT

This is especially a problem with recipes from different countries, for example America. Because your stick of butter is different to our butter. STOP SAYING STICK OF BUTTER TELL ME THE QUANTITY IN GRAMS PLEASE I HAVE A FAMILY

that being said I feel like I see this crop up in like american recipes in particular. Idk if I've ever seen a recipe in one of our cookbooks that does this....

anyway please just tell me the gosh darn weight I am dying here I have a family I JUST NEED TO KNOW THE WEIGHT

[plushie-lovey]

I shouldn't really be ordering anything buuut I had to get this adorable friend

They just arrived in the mail! They were only about $20 before fees, which was an amazing price given Green Earth Puppies usually cost anywhere from $60-100.

But now that they're here I can understand why. They're a bit dirty, especially on one foot, and their fur feels a little worn. They were definitely a loved friend. And now they'll be loved in their new home! But first, a bath :D

Also I really need help with name suggestions!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

honestly. half the fun of fantasy aus for me is the Food Descriptions

[moeblob]

So I saw a screenshot of Ralph without his hat (for his wedding outfit + I think a DLC outfit didn't have it?) and honestly. There's a reason he wears it. It's unfair if he doesn't. Olive Town really is just "hot bisexuals in your area" and they would thrive if they advertised it as such.

[heph]

Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol

Heya!

What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.

I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.

That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.

There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode

The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.

So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.

All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.

I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video

EDIT:

I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did

1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media

I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)

2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media

This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!

3. Interact with people

People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.

Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)

I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!

[ender1821]

my mind: man the soup group’s base really has some horizon zero dawn vibes if you think about it…wait…

me: oh. oh no.

so…i might have some soup group horizon zero dawn au thoughts…whoops

Gem

i can 100% see her being the Aloy/protagonist in this au

she’s the first one to find a focus from exploring caves left behind, later on, she gets modified headwear resembling antlers from hunting down her first grazer (the deer-like robots), which hides her focus, courtesy of Impulse

she gets outcast from her tribe for the same reasons as Aloy in the game, so basically for magically popping out of nowhere from a machine

Pearl

here’s the thing, i also had ideas for her as Aloy, but more for the machine taming (…and abandonment issues/j) aspect

she’s been abandoned and thrown out to the wild to fend for herself, leading her to finding some ancient structure ruins, in which she gets a focus and components for building the machine-overriding staff

she names the first machine she overrides, a watcher, Tilly <3

Impulse gifts her a shieldwing (basically a glider, but im thinking in this au it could be modified more to look like an elytra/moth wings)

Impulse

he’s the Rost (DONT WORRY HE DOESNT DIE ILL MAKE SURE OF IT)

he houses the two outcasts after having Gem handed to him from the tribe and finding Pearl in the wilds during a trade run

he’s more of a tinkerer though, and he uses the machine parts gathered by the other two/from trading with other wanderers to make his own contraptions and weaponry…to varying levels of success

those are like the bare bone ideas i have for now since this whole concept just popped up outta nowhere and i had to put this down somewhere, i might brainstorm the actual tribes in this (im thinking all the hermitcraft/hermitcraft adjacent smps could be the different tribes?), as well as other characters and details

for now though, this is just soup group saving the world from robot apocalypse in my head, because them >>>>>

[obsob]

ough im out of surgery!!! tits yeeted

[angeliteonfridgeduty]

UMMMMM FUCK FUCK FUCJFCKVKKF I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

THE WAY I UNLOCKED FRACTURE WAS RIDICULOUSLY WEIRD. LIKE I DID IT BY JUST. BY UH BY LIKE JUST FINDING THE F THE FUCKING APOCRITICA CRUSTY RUSTY ARM PLACE WITH BRICK SEALED ROAD STUFF BEHIND G. BEHIND GUARTANS ARENA THAT YEAH AND HAVING KRONOS KEYCARD AND THEN JUST RELOADIG MY LAPTOP SOMEWHERE THERE APPARENTLY?? IDK BUT MY LAPTOP CEASED FUNCTIONING SO I RESTARTED IT WITH SEKAIJU STILL OPEN AND THE SECOND THATS DONE AND I REJOIN AND LOOK AT ISLANDS. I HAD FRACTURE I DIDNT EVEN SAVE THERE (KEYCARD WAS GONE) IT DIDNT EVEN HAVE MY PROGRESS THERE SAVED I DON'T KNOW HOW IT DID THAT OR HOW IT REMEMBERED I TOUCHED ANYTHING FRACTURE RELATED SOMEHOW. BUT THAT IS HOW I UNLOCKED IT. I THEN TRIED TO FIGURE OUT THE LEGIT WAY FOR A COUPLE MINUTES OUT OF WANTING TO BE FAIR BUT FAILED SO I JUST DEALT WITH IT I SUPPOSE MORE SPECIFICALLY I JUST DECIDED "EH THAT PROBABLY MEANS YOU JUST NEED TO TOUCH THE FRACTURE PLACE BEHIND GUARTAN RIGHT?? LIKE TO UNLOCK THE FRACTURE?? AND THAT THE KEYCARD IS JUST FOR THE DOOR IN THERE AND FOR THE FUNNY MAC BASE STUFF THATS NOT RELATED?? RIGHT" WELL. WRONG. TURNS FUCKKING OUT THAT WAS NOT THE INTENDED UNLOCK. LIKE AT FUCKING ALL APPARENTLY, ACCORDING TO THE WIKI, TO UNLOCK FRACTURE YOU HAVE TO DO THIS:

THIS FUCKIG THIS WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THERE HOW DID I UNLOCK IT IN AN UTTERLY ABSURD IMPOSSIBLE WAY WAS THAT RELOAD I DID TO GET MY LAPTOP TO FUNCTION RESPONSIBLE DID THEY CHANGE THE ACCESS METHOD OR SOMETHING BY THE TIME THE WIKI THING GOT WRITTEN OR DID I ACTUALLY SKIP THE ENTIRETY OF THE INTENDED ACCESS METHOD THERE BY PURE FUCKING ACCIDENT WHAT DID I DO WHAT. HAPPENED. HOW THE FUCK WHY THE FUCK I AAA

[thesoupisburning]

susie deltarune walked so michael afton could run

[todayisafridaynight]

arakawa wouldve wanted this for me

[bunnihearted]

📓🖊️🌧️🌫️

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Ayo come get your Howdy soup while it’s…uncomfortably warm and acidic

prolongedslurpingsound.wav

[cleaverqueer]

so glad one of my fave meals is plain white rice with butter and salt