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So what’s with the soup in OFMD?

I’ve seen a few takes on what the soup symbolizes in OFMD S2 because it does come up a weird amount of times. I’ve seen takes that the soup is a lie and shouldn’t be trusted. Takes that the soup represents love and all that is good. I’ve seen takes that the soup isn’t anything at all, it’s just soup.

I don’t agree with those takes. But I do believe that the soup is more than just soup.

In my opinion, the soup represents community.

Community doesn’t necessarily mean love. A community can be arrayed against you as much as it can be with you. You can choose not to have a community, to break bread, with someone. But a community is something most of us desire and as Izzy notes in the trailer, being a pirate is about being part of something.

- Zheng Yi Sao makes damn good soup. Symbolically, I believe this is a reflection of how she runs a tight ship. How effective she is as pirate queen and in general as a leader of her community. People in her community are well treated. Her leadership style, like the broth of the soup, is balanced. Had Olu remained with her, he would have been well treated. She wasn’t being duplicitous with Stede and his crew. Her soup is great, her community is great, and they would have been well fed there had they stayed.

The soup isn’t a value judgement on anything beyond the quality of the community offered. Should they stay? What happens now that they didn’t? Not relevant to the soup metaphor. We’ll find out what happens when you reject Zheng’s amazing soup. At the very least, you just don’t get any more of it.

- Hornigold offers soup to Ed. Ed rejects it. He finds Hornigold’s community poisonous. He doesn’t trust it and he doesn’t want to join it.

It’s simple as that. The soup wasn’t necessarily literally poisoned. The more relevant metaphor is breaking bread with someone as a sign of trust. Ed wants nothing to do with Hornigold’s community.

Most likely where this is leading is a continued used of soup as a metaphor for Ed and Stede and the crew figuring out what kind of community they want to build together. Is the broth balanced? Is it poisoned? Is it too salty, too sweet? Who do we share it with? Who do we refuse to accept soup from? It’s all about community.

Happy birthday to one of my favorite artists of all time, @where-does-the-heart-lie ,thx for existing, it’s much appreciated. 🫶

Here are some past pieces I did for ya, here’s too more in the future 🫶✨

Genuinely, I admire your breakdowns and thought process for creating your pieces. You put so much thought and care into these guys and it doesn’t go unnoticed. You’re a very big inspiration to me and many others,, I appreciate your existence 🎁🎈🎉

Megapolis's hero

Have y'all seen this?? I am cracking upppp 😭 it's so good and the art is incredible

Historically accurate depiction of me being charmed by one piece.

I need to post more often lmao

Hyrulian Cookbook (Masterpost)

As a Hyrulian pc pagan and kitchen witch, I love love love making food from the Zelda games irl. However, it can be hard to find these recipes, and so I’ve put them all in one place to help anyone with the same predicament. These are great for offerings, or for Hyrulian holidays (if you celebrate them). NOTE: You obviously don’t have to be a Hyrulian pc pagan to use these recipes – feel free to get cooking even if you’re just a casual fan of the Zelda franchise!

MEALS:

Rock Sirloin

Dubious Food

Hearty Meat and Mushroom Skewers

Meaty Rice Balls

Goron Spice Curry

Spicy Pepper Steak

Goron Spice Meat Skewers

Hearty Salmon Meuniere

Prime Meat and Rice Bowl

Gourmet Meat Pies

Fried Egg and Rice

Hylian Crepes

SOUPS:

Elixir Soup

Grandma’s Elixir Soup (another version)

Yeto’s Superb Pumpkin and Goat Cheese Soup

Yeto’s Soup (another version)

Skyward Sword’s Pumpkin Soup (yet another version)

Pumpkin Soup from Skyward Sword (ANOTHER version)

Pumm’s Pumpkin Soup

DESSERT:

Chu Jelly

Star Fragment Candy

Monster Cake

Monster Cake (another version)

Baked Apples

Fried Mighty Bananas

Swift Carrot Cake

Fortified Pumpkin Pie

Rupee Cookies

DRINKS:

Chateau Romani

Chateau Romani (another version)

Lon Lon Milk (non-alcoholic)

Lon Lon Milk (alcoholic)

Lon Lon Milk (another version, alcoholic)

Hateno Milk

Red Potion

Green, Red and Blue Potions

Fireproof Elixir

Chilly Elixir

Spicy Elixir

I’m going to keep adding to this as I find recipes! I’ve tried my best to include as many recipes as possible, but I know that I can’t possibly find all the LoZ recipes in existence, so if you know of any that are missing from this list, feel free to send me a message and the link, so I can add it in.

a guy! In the works! I’ve not stopped thinking about this hotel since it came out,, so figured I’d post it here 🖖

All Straw Hats!

(New Images: Chopper, Franky, Brook, Jinbei)

This was ultimately quite fun and made me push my colors harder than I have in a very long while! This last batch was definitely my favorite.